That's why we need Fediverse and alternative search engines.
Fediverse can replace data-greed social media (e.g. FB/IG/Twitter, and even YT), while proxy search engine or independent indexed one can replace google
How can you build modern, cross-platform applications that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica, etc.)?
Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform may be an interesting answer! Check out my blog post and stay tuned for more considerations stemming from my experience during the last 2 years maintaining the Raccoon apps.
The Fediverse represents the future of social media—decentralized, open, and user-controlled. As platforms like Mastodon, Friendica, and Lemmy gain momentum, developers face a crucial question: how do you build modern, cross-platform applications tha…
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).
It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard... tink.uk/advice-for-life/
Ok, the #Thunderbird chat interface for IRC and Matrix seems to have #a11y issues with #NVDA now. Sometimes NVDA completely freezes, especially when the interface is maximised, though not reliably in all channels. I filed a bug, appreciate anyone who can dig into what on earth is going on: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
I am very excited to announce that my full beginner to advanced Apple App Developer course will begin in mid September. The class will be held on Google Classroom, and registration is free. Use the Google Classroom link to join the class, and we will have announcements about the course as time goes on there. classroom.google.com/c/Nzg3MTA…
Less than 40 people and now this seems to magically not be a problem anymore?
Sorry, but toxic cultures don't go away if you speak to a tiny sample about them. [Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say | Men | The Guardian](theguardian.com/society/2025/j…)
In recent weeks I have had the privilege of starting to participate in the American Printing House for the Blind’s Monarch RISE project. This is a thoughtfully developed and very well organized effort to engage professionals in the blindness services field, blind professionals more generally, and people who are seeking competitive, integrated employment in improving this Braille and tactile graphics technology to meet the needs of those in higher education and workplace settings.
I think involving real users in a grant-funded project of this nature is a very effective way of discovering what works well, what further developments could be made, and how the technology can best be applied to solving problems of accessibility as experienced in practice. #MonarchRise #APH
Through Monarch RISE: Resources for Inclusion, Skills, and Employment 250 Monarchs will be distributed to employment and educational professionals and individuals seeking competitive integrated employment across the United States.
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.
Thank you LibreOffice! We urgently need a better integration with the Zotero reference manager. The main issue that keeps me using MS Office is that Zotero works reliably only in Windows, not MacOS.
@xenophyte Hi! You can submit enhancement requests here: bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍
In the Netherlands, we just experienced the warmest night on record, for this early in the year. With a low temperature of 19.1°C in De Bilt, it was just shy of the warmest June night, 24-25 June 2019 (low 19.5°C).
Until 1990, nights with a low of 20°C or more were rare here, once in a decade or so. Now, we have a few every year. Called 'tropical nights' here :) Graph runs through 2022. #globalwarming #ClimateChange
@mireeek Tak je to studna ve skále, hluboká 8 metrů, ale jak jsem tam dával žebřík, tak se písek na dně rozvířil a v kyblíku je kal, není to ještě propláchnutý. Voda je krásně čistá normálně.
gratulace. Ja po několika výletech do studny nebyl schopny roztočit čerpadlo. Myslím si ze po tech x desítkách let už má dost a povodně loni na podzim ho dodělaly. Bzučí bzučí, ale neotočí. Přemýšlím jestli chci sám celou soustavu tahat ven a zkoumat a nic nevykoumat. Nebo radši rovnou sehnat studnare co mi to demontuje, zhodnoti, vymění, zprovozní … vidim to na možnost B
jj je to presne jak rikas, uz nevim kolik let kazdy rok na zacatku sezony musime do studni "obouchat hridelku" aby se zaclo tocit. Proste pres zimu "zaroste" a ted po tom co bylo 100% pod vodou ... chce to nove. Ted hlavne premyslim jake a co s tim. Koukam na vysokotlaky ponorka co proste zavesim a tlaci kdyz je potreba a pak na domaci vodarny s nadrzi. Ted mame vodarnu s nadrzi. No uvidime ...
With REAPER 7.40, you might have noticed that playing your projects isn't possible anymore when you're in the OSARA Parameters dialogs. An OSARA update is ready with a fix. As a bonus, now you can play using Space when focus is on the sliders, you don't need to remember to use Control+Space to hear results anymore. Control+Space also works to play/pause in those dialogs now, pausing moves your edit cursor, useful if you want to cue up a different part of the project to hear the adjustments you're making in context.
Shout outs to Toni and Jamie for much help with many scary code.
Vosí dvojníci staří 33 milionů let obelstili i dávné ptáky Vědci z Katedry zoologie Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Karlovy objevili fosilii, která ukazuje, že přesná mimeze (tedy nápodoba) vos pestřenkami se vyvinula mnohem dříve, než se dosud předpokládalo – a nebyla formována…
Vědci z Katedry zoologie Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Karlovy objevili fosilii, která ukazuje, že přesná mimeze (tedy nápodoba) vos pestřenkami se vyvinula mnohem dříve, než se dosud pře…
👌 Jestli se něco Rusům nedá upřít, tak je to fakt, že umí vždycky překvapit. Například tím, že bitevník Su-25, o který včera přišli při údajné "nehodě", ve skutečnosti sestřelil jeho vlastní parťák neřízenými raketami určenými k ničení pozemních cílů. 💯 Rusku tímto gratulejeme a přejeme jim mnoho dalších takových pilotů, co už ráno sedají do kokpitu vylití jak vázy. pixelfed.cz/p/dnesnaukrajine/8…
It’s funny to watch how with time the collection of local LLMs on my computer shrank to two only: Gemma3:27B and nomic-embed-text. Llama3.2 is pretty much gone, both the text and the vision models. :) I might get a better embedding model if one comes along, but for now nomic-embed-text seems to be doing what I need. Rest is cloud-based.
This comment on the Lobsters discussion of the recent Ink & Switch article about malleable software: lobste.rs/c/mqixy2 expresses one of my misgivings about depending on generative AI as a tool in one's workflow, for coding or otherwise:
> if we all need heavy GPUs to run local LLMs, many of our old devices are rendered obsolete, and giving new life to old devices is another reason for malleable software.
Obviously depending on constant access to a remote LLM is also problematic.
CNN - Several dozen sidelined Voice of America staffers have suddenly been called back to work as the Israel-Iran conflict escalates. cnn.com/2025/06/13/media/voice…
A new image loading machinery, called glycin, has been in the works for a while. It is already used by GNOME’s default Image Viewer (Loupe), as well as by a bunch of other apps. Glycin provides...
🤔 #"ComputerScience major "has one of the highest unemployment rates." "Despite computer science being ranked as number one by the Princeton Review for #college majors, the #tech industry may not be living up to #graduates' expectations." "On the other hand, majors like nutrition sciences, construction services and civil engineering had some of the lowest unemployment rates, hovering between 1 percent to as low as 0.4 percent." #AInewsweek.com/computer-science-…
Still thinking about getting CS degree at North Eastern, actually almost done with applying, but with everything going on in AI I'm not so sure about it anymore.
If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many planes do not reach their destination. The US air traffic control organisation wants to put an end to this dreadful situation.
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in reply to Tuta • • •That's why we need Fediverse and alternative search engines.
Fediverse can replace data-greed social media (e.g. FB/IG/Twitter, and even YT), while proxy search engine or independent indexed one can replace google