Friday.
My personal email has an outage. i'm not particularly bothred inasmuch as I think messages won't be lost, but it's the first one that's actually impacted me during the day time since I moved to my current mail provider over 11 years ago.
Work is ticking on, I am hopping between Slack, Jira and OBS like a particularly well-caffeinated accessibility specialist. I do wish I could use Jira on the CLI, though.
Weekend is nearly here, in fact I only have 2 more hours to go today.
next week is a shorter workweek as our annual holiday entitlements reset in April and I had hours left over, so booked Thursday and Friday for the next fortnight off. One of these has turned into a shopping trip for the daughter, who happens to be off school at the same time. Another will be a book in bed day with the new Peter Cawdron.

To kick off the weekend, said daughter and I intend on watching The Electric State.

Mozilla is warning Firefox users to update their browsers to the latest version to avoid facing disruption and security risks caused by the upcoming expiration of one of the company's root certificates.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft…

#Canada should immediately cancel all 88 of our F-35 fighter plane orders, as they should be considered compromised computers-on-wings that can be disabled as soon as our friends decide to invade us.

We should join the EU, buy a couple of Typhoons and get involved in co-developing the FCAS NGF for starters.

Then, stealth noodles.
This video provides the recipe to rebuild both our advanced aerospace industry AND food industry, by designing our own interceptor #noodles:
youtube.com/watch?v=wyztgCVxSH…

We have revolutionized the cup noodle

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosnianapesociety/The year is 1977. The Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau has been the symbol of Soviet dominance in av...

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19K commits on pie day

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/03/14…

19000 curl commits

It has been 387 days since I announced having done 18k commits. This is commit number 19,000. Looking at the graph below that is showing my curl commits and everyone else's over time, it seems to imply that while I have kept my pace pretty consistent…

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“What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.” — GitLab CFO Brian Robins

Okay, that’s an easy one off the list.

archive.is/okSlz

I really like the backup function in #GrapheneOS based on #Seedvault. I know it doesn't work 100%, some apps don't support it etc. But in my case >90% of apps get backed up and restored.

This is what all Androids should have. I understand #Google doesn't want to do it because for them #Android is just a gateway to their services and when you have all your data in their cloud, you don't need such backups. But other Android vendors should have it.

A quick PipeWire 1.4.1 bugfix is released. More details here:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

To use Siri on macOS, there's a requirement to send Apple your contacts. Here's how to avoid handing that data over to Apple.

appleinsider.com/inside/macos-…

How to turn on Siri on macOS without sending your Contacts to Apple

To use Siri on macOS, there's a requirement to send Apple your contacts. Here's how to avoid handing that data over to Apple.

^{Chip Loder (AppleInsider)}

Did you know that YOU can sponsor this year's #curl up? curl up is the annual curl developers meetup, this year taking place in May in Prague.

You can have your company name associated with the event while at the same time funding critical Internet infrastructure and one of the world's most widely used software components.

Just saying.

🚀 Only 2 days left to submit your talk for GUADEC 2025!
Don’t miss your chance to be part of our amazing event in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29! ✨

📅 Deadline: March 16
📝 Submit here: events.gnome.org/event/259/abs…

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.

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Arbitrator prohibits Meta / Facebook whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

cnbc.com/2025/03/12/arbitrator…

#TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #WealthTax #StopZuckerberg #StopFascism #NoOligarchs

This saturday, I'll host the GNOME Internship Preparatory Bootcamp.

It will be an online event for those who are planning to apply for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy internships. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the programs, hear from past participants, and join Q&A sessions with mentors and organizers.

📅 March 15th (Saturday)
⏰ 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM UTC
📍 Join here: meet.gnome.org/rooms/tl3-fsa-g…

Please help me share this so we can reach as many aspiring interns as we can :)

Yay I’m listening to my second favourite #WarMaster box set, “Killing Time” - i know that sounds like a backhanded compliment but #MasterOfCallous is practically a whole level to itself in excellence - my favourite aspect is the interplay with Calantha, but the guest appearances of Jo and Nyssa also work incredibly well. It doesn’t feel like the overplayed #BigFinish tactic of chucking random characters together.

I’ve said it before (I’ll definitely say it again) but I do love me the misery of the war master being a fiendish, machiavellan, magnificent bastard. #DoctorWho

Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component is running faster as time goes on.

404media.co/super-nintendo-har…

Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages

Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

Internet Archive has a lot of recordings of sound effects records from the 78 rpm era:

archive.org/search?query=colum…

I didn't find the legendary Columbia YB-20, but I'm sure it's around

#InternetArchive #SoundEffects

Here are a few highlights from yesterday at #fossasia
Looking forward to the show today as we have a couple new demos.

Also want to give a shout out to @IzzyOnDroid for being part of every demo BlissLabs gave yesterday without even realizing it. We're going to have to bring some stickers for your project next year

The PHP project has put out the call for release manager volunteers for PHP 8.5!

Candidates should be confident about merging pull requests without breaking BC, doing bug triage, liaising with previous RMs, and getting the branch in good shape. At least one candidate should be a core dev who can assess more technical PR's. Others do not need to have deep knowledge of internals but should understand above mentioned points.

Reply on the mailing list to volunteer.

news-web.php.net/php.internals…

#PHP

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Was looking forward to reading this article by @bemyeyes and, lo and behold, there is no heading markup for the title, no landmarks, no nothing to make it easy to get to the actual article. The first heading is some bottom menu thing and the only landmark is the navigation bar. Come on, guys. Your company literally exists to help with accessibility. Headings are as basic as it gets, at least for screenreader users.Do better.

bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-e…

Be My Eyes Enters New Industry Sector with Major Customer Wins

‍Be My Eyes announced today at CSUN 2025, a number of new customer wins and expansion into a new industry sector.

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🚨 New blog posts 🚨

No more slidge: nicoco.fr/blog/2025/03/13/no-m…

Slidge has a new home: slidge.im/blog/2025/03/13/new-…

#xmpp

#p2p audio and video over #iroh? Check out what @Frando has been up to! We have a demo of working A/V!

youtu.be/K3qqyu1mmGQ

preview! audio & video streaming with iroh

A quick tour of some of the streaming media work we're cooking uphttps://github.com/n0-computer/callmehttps://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-roqhttps://github.c...

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