It seems like yesterday we released Thunderbird for Android. See how fast our first mobile app is growing up.
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/vβ¦
Thunderbird for Android has just turned one! Join our retrospective for what we've accomplished this year and take a peek at what's ahead!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
We want everyone to benefit from digital sovereignty. π€²
Thatβs why Nextcloud will invest β¬250 million by 2030 in open source solutions that put people back in control of their data.
Get the full story π nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-cβ¦
Discover how Nextcloud will grow the digital sovereignty movement, investing in people, open source, and community.Christoph Weissthaner (Nextcloud)
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Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist who studies the creation (and manipulation) of memory, a truly sci-fi level of neuroscience, has written a book! I can only imagine this may be of interest to the type of folks who follow me:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardβ¦
A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of todayβs leading pioneers in the fieldpress.princeton.edu
People who have been to #FOSDEM before: do projects sell t-shirts there?
I am in need of some new geeky t-shirts, but I could wait a couple of months if there is likely to be a selection there.
I played with GUI for #Linux Desktop Migration Tool today. It is still rough around the edges, but it looks promising. Some operations such as selecting applications to reinstall can be done much more easily in GUI than in CLI.
#GTK #libadwaita #linuxdesktop
The matrix.org room dir is ready for business; the future of room lists in Element Web; opening rooms more quickly in EX Android - all this and more happened This Week in Matrix!
Grab the report and learn how to start your local Matrix SΜ΅tΜ΅aΜ΅mΜ΅mΜ΅tΜ΅iΜ΅sΜ΅cΜ΅hΜ΅ user group! matrix.org/blog/2025/11/14/thiβ¦
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsHarHarLinks (matrix.org)
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Please consider nominating GrapheneOS and Accrescent (submit the form once for each) for the 2025 Proton Lifetime Fundraiser.
Direct link to form: form.typeform.com/to/XixQrG8Q
Learn more about the fundraiser: proton.me/blog/lifetime-fundraβ¦
#grapheneOS #opensource #accrescent #android
Join Protonβs 2025 Lifetime Fundraiser and help decide which organizations receive grants supporting privacy, free speech, and human rights.Irina Marcopol (Proton)
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@accrescent You're welcome! I enjoyed your recent blog post. It's always interesting getting a peek βbehind the curtainsβ.
For anyone interested in reading those posts - blog.accrescent.app/
@accrescent I hope you win.ππΌ I answered every question ππΌ
"Thank you for your support! Each suggestion will be thoroughly considered. We will announce the chosen organizations on the Proton blog and on our social channels. Stay tuned for the start of the fundraiser on 16 December, 2025!"π€
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
βBig tech has made their choiceβ
404media.co/google-has-chosen-β¦
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Suggestions for SSD erasure/destruction?
The tiny local credit union had to replace their Windows 10 PCs. Their local IT provider got acquired by a regional IT company and no longer offers disk wiping/destruction.
What are the best options to wipe or destroy (if required) about 5 SSDs that would satisfy a bank auditor?
I don't know if these are self encrypting drives. If they were spinning disks, I've used DBAN in the past, but SSDs have additional logic for wear leveling and trimming, so I don't know what additional steps are needed to ensure the data is all gone.
A quick check for physical disk destruction devices seems a bit pricey at this low volume, but a handy sledge hammer might not be enough for an auditor.
In the past, a disk random write/wipe plus drilling a hole through the platters was accepable for spinning drives.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030716.txt.pdf
Mark Epstein asks his brother Jeffrey to ask Steve Bannon if Putin still has the photos of Trump giving Bubba (Bill Clinton) a blowjob.
πͺπΊ "I am surprised and concerned that the GDPR is being reopened and weakened at its core [β¦]"
π¬ Read the full article, including comments from Max Schrems and MarkΓ©ta GregorovΓ‘, who is a European Parliament negotiator on the issue π brusselstimes.com/1835654/secrβ¦
According to leaked documents, the EU is proposing changes which take aim at every element of GDPR that could limit AI usage.www.brusselstimes.com
So last night, I tried Fedora 43. Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso. The installer is now web based, making it really nice to use, even with just Tab and Shift + Tab. I was able to install it with no problem.
Now, first time setup had just one big issue, the timezone selector. It's keyboard accessible, and works like this: you start typing a city name, like Chicago, and then down arrow through suggestions and press Enter on the one you want. But Orca doesn't speak that there are suggestions available, and does not read which suggestion you select until you press Enter.
Other than that, Gnome desktop looks pretty good these days! The settings are much better, and that's about all I had time to test so far. Orca starts if you hit Alt Windows S at the installer and first setup, then starts after first setup is complete. The overview panel where you type to search doesn't read when it opens, but basically you just hit the Windows key and start typing what you want, and Orca reads what you hand on, and you can arrow through results. Notifications read too, and I'm thankful Gnome supports notifications.
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Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/aiβ¦
AI Window is a user-controlled space weβre building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world
MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...
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Do you enjoy using Suno? Have ideas on how we can make it even better? Want early access to new features and the chance to shape our future? If your answer is yes, you're in the right place! By filling out this form, you'll be applying to join Suno'sβ¦Google Docs
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My T-Mobile #RayHunter device just went red again this morning over by the Colorado Springs airport. The web UI still shows no warnings.
New recording uploaded: hardenedbsd.org/~shawn/rayhuntβ¦
#EFF
Still struggling to find a secondary hosting provider in the UK who meets the following criteria:
1. Dedicated hosting (i.e. a server to ourselves)
2. Managed hosting (OS-level security updates, monitoring for disk use, failure etc.)
3. Enough members of staff to be resilient (not a one-person business)
4. Front-line staff who answer tickets know what they're talking about
5. Small enough to care about fellow SMEs
6. Not Mythic Beasts (because they're the primary provider)
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Added a simple example to how --limit-rate and --max-time could be used together for controlled transfer windowGitHub
RE: mastodon.social/@chris22smith/β¦
Definitely agree with @chris22smith here!
Just learned about public.monster from @dk that lets you make websites like it's the 90s again. (With a few quality-of-life improvements.)
I think that signing up for @piccalilli@front-end.social's emails has been one of the best things I've done this year. High quality, human curated content that interests me is underrated and hard to come by. https://piccalil.li/the-index/Chris Smith (Mastodon)
Neat but the article was at least partially written by AI too.
> We didnβt just replace a model. We replaced a process.
That phrasing ... π«
The only important take-away from Anthropic's hype piece about an "AI-orchestrated" cyber attack:
Tech company valued at over $180 billion still can't make their product not do things they don't want it to do.
> They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing.
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@miki the fact is LLMs are not better nor more useful than humans, research shows. We just keep falling for the hype.
> After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%
arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-wβ¦
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied.arXiv.org
SantΓ© QuΓ©bec IT project derailed by series of mistakes, government audit finds
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/saβ¦
1. water is wet
2. the same crooks that did SAAQClic.
Google is starting to retreat on its "developer government ID verification" plan, thank goodness.
But the devil will be in the detail, and Google's positioning that wanting to install software on your own device makes you a "power user" is concerning.
The notion that you need to be an "experienced user" to use @fdroidorg, for instance, is nonsense.
But still: keeping up the pressure appears to be working. A little.
android-developers.googleblog.β¦
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.Android Developers Blog
I learned on this trip that a little pouch full of SMA antenna adapters looks like a baggie of bullets to TSA - they got flagged both coming and goingπ
Killing time at the airport in Milwaukee now - have a bit of time before my actual flight
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edit: nohy mΓ‘m viete kde? cΓtim ich cΓtim
my week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/danielβ¦
Feature window, RTMP, MQTTS, 1000 vs 1024, CVE, IBB, integers, strict torture, FOSDEM talk, Polhem Prize
Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 Tahoe. Miss it? Hereβs how to restore Launchpad using Terminal, plus the pros and cons of ditching the new Spotlight.Ravi Teja KNTS (iGeeksBlog)
Das Tilo Jung Interview mit Jimmy Wales (MitgrΓΌnder von Wikipedia) ist wirklich Peak Jung & Naiv.
Absolut sehenswert. Aber unbedingt Zeit mitbringen!
youtube.com/watch?v=uswRbWyt_pβ¦
Please support our work βΊ http://www.paypal.me/JungNaivJoin our forum βΊ http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/Our guest in the studio: Jimmy Wales, American internet e...YouTube
Last year the Geospatial devroom only had half a day at FOSDEM, and we still ended up with a packed room and a queue down the corridor.
This year we have the whole of Saturday to ourselves, so if you have something geo-flavoured to share, whether it is maps, data, tools, clever hacks, fieldwork tech, city projects, OSM magic, climate work or anything else, now is the moment to submit a proposal.
The CfP is open until 1 December:
lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosβ¦
#FOSDEM #Geospatial #GIS #OpenStreetMap #OpenData #Cartography #GeoTech #OSM #FOSS4G #Maps #Devroom #OSGeo
I have a really good strategy for this I think: just make it free.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd679xβ¦
Dedicated fare evasion teams in stations would help reduce evasion on TfL services, Conservatives claim.Harry Low (BBC News)
I want an AI Window and all this other AI crap in my browser as much as I want cesium-137 in my shrimp.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/aiβ¦
[ποΈ Web Archive]
AI Window is a user-controlled space weβre building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
Pre State of The Map EU nature walk route
strava.com/activities/16446212β¦
@SK53 @ultrazool @zverik @millerdl @gregorymarler
View Philip Barnes's hike on November 13, 2025 | StravaStrava
Lastly @trigpoint mapped most of the benches we saw.
A plea to all #OpenStreetMap folk: please map benches. Knowing where they are can help people like me with COPD and other breathing conditions. Benches make all the difference as to whether a walk is pleasant or not, and sometimes whether one is possible at all.
I find hat still being able to walk 8-9 km walk sustain nmy mental health. Any infrastructure which helps is invaluable.
10/10
@ultrazool @zverik @millerdl @gregorymarler
And adding pictures to benches also helps! (Can be done with @MapComplete for example)
mapcomplete.org/benches
"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.
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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.
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