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Re Last Boost: from @miki:
Its good to hear perspective from the other side of the coin. We all ingest, and a lot of us do (myself included) the complaining, but perspective also should include all angles of a situation, and he covered the less exposed and talked about side quite well.
While I am not a CF user myself, unfortunately for the reasons of downtime being magnified, and my not wishing to be swept up in that, it does no less validate the points he made and touched on. The DDOS problem is so very very real, and my 40Gbps DDOS protection on a relatively low-traffic server I operate has actually not been enough on ocasion.
@miki
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I am thrilled to share the news that I joined @Mastodon's leadership team as Community Director alongside @mellifluousbox, our new Executive Director, and @renchap, our Technical Director.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

The Future is Ours to Build - Together

We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.
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Cloudflare seems to be having some kind of oopsie (it's probably DNS. It's always DNS) right now.

When you click on the link on their error page, it takes you to a page that says “Do you have a website? Anybody that runs a website should be on the Cloudflare network.”

Uh, read the room, #cloudflare. When people are trying to find out why your product has shit the bed, that's not really the time to make with the marketing copy about how they really really should be using it.

#cloudflare

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@gnome is cozy computing.

Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.

Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.

GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.

circle.gnome.org/

#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux


GNOME Circle

Applications and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.
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#linux #gnome #adwaita #cozy @GNOME

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I can't believe I have to say this once again, but not using AWS or Cloudflare doesn't mean your service won't go down as often.

It's just that nobody cares if the website of some little shoe manufacturer in Wyoming goes down, but everybody cares if all the websites go down *at once*. This is true even if, statistically speaking, CF / AWS go down less often than some little server located in a basement.

The old internet wasn't more resilient, your downtime on the old internet was just less corelated with everybody else's downtime, which made it less visible, and hence psychologically less of a problem.

Without CF (or somebody like them), there's no freedom of speech on the internet. If you say the wrong thing, your critics can just DeDoS you until you go away, and there's very little you can do about it. If you aren't rich enough to afford DeDoS protection, you have to be very careful when working against people who have more money than you do. This was a somewhat common occurrence back in the day, and the emergence of big social on one hand and CF on the other eliminated that problem entirely.

We should be really thankful for everything CF has done for the internet. Not every private company is as evil as people want you to think.

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Michał Dziwisz

Besides that, CF gives our server a certain level of protection. Sure, if someone is really determined, a free Cloudflare plan won’t stop them, but it will stop plenty of script kiddies — and in most cases that’s honestly enough. In my monthly CF report I see information about more than half a thousand attacks they managed to block. Combined with regular backups, it makes me much less worried that I’ll suddenly have to bring a broken server back to life, especially since server administration isn’t my day-to-day job. Setting everything up on your own teaches you a lot and can be fun, but only if you actually have the time for it.
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miki

@midzi Which is honestly why most people are much better off with a SaaS, even if they're technically competent and perfectly capable of managing their own server.

I know why this isn't the right approach for you (storage space, a different point on the time vs. money tradeoff than most commercial organizations), but that's an exception that proves the rule.

@Michał Dziwisz
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Robert Kingett

@matt For now, Nearly Free Speech, because at least they allow NSFW writing, so I can eventually put my Disability erotica on there, but am fully open to suggestions. Their dashboard is simple enough and even though I do everything via SFTP and Github actions, still, I am always on the hunt for other suggestions. I use Eleventy as a static site generator.
@Matt Campbell
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Why would anyone, at this point, use Firefox over Chrome?

Diehards like me are absolutely disgusted with the AI BS Mozilla is pushing down everyone's throats, to just mention one thing. We will find a fork, or eventually hopefully a new independent browser.

Anybody else doesn't give a fsck so why would they use a cheap Chrome knock-off Mozilla made Firefox into, if they can get the real deal for free?

Well done Mozilla. You outplayed yourself.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Mozilla is the browser vendor equivalent of centrist political parties.

> We can do whatever the fsck we want because who you gonna vote for, the actual far-right?

> Also, we need to try to out-far-right the far-right because that's where the voters are!

And then there's the inevitable surprised pikachu face when people just don't choose them.

Either because they vote for the actual far-right, not the cheap centrist knock-off; or because they refuse to make a choice between shit and crap.

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Und mal wieder möchte ich zur schulischen Barrierefreiheit sagen: Das Problem ist meiner Meinung nach nicht, dass wir keine Hilfsmittel oder Optionen zur Verfügung hätten. Ich beobachte meinen Unterricht und kenne inzwischen selbst Produkte, die so eine tolle Ergänzung wären, und es enttäuscht mich, dass ich diese nie verwenden konnte. Es setzt einfach nur ein bisschen Willenskraft, Planung, Kommunikation und Kompetenz voraus. Alles Dinge, die deutsche Schulen nicht haben. Schade.
\#Barrierefreiheit \#Schule
#barrierefreiheit #schule
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Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.

But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.

Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.

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Der @sovtechfund hat einen nicht so ganz souveränen Cloudflare Error.

#digitalesouveränität ist schwer

Und bevor sich alle aufregen. Ich blicke gerade in meine digital souveränen Google Kalender.

Tipps? Irgendwas beyond

xda-developers.com/self-hosted…

Muss sich einfach syncen lassen.

Screenshot von https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/head-of-sovereign-tech-fund zeigt eine Cloudflare Fehlermeldung "Cloudflare Error"

4 self-hosted Google Calendar replacements I tried and recommend using instead

If you're looking to de-Google your life, these self-hosted calendar servers are great options that give you full control of your data.
João Carrasqueira (XDA)
#digitalesouveranitat @Sovereign Tech Agency

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While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

#cloudflare #freebsd #deltachat #chatmail @feld
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Sixteen Ramos has a an article out on Agenic Commerce, worth a read if you're interested in digital commerce.

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Staying Competitive in a Generative Search World As generative AI continues to change the way people search, shop, and decide, brands must shift their focus from optimizing for algorithms to optimizing for answers. Structured data, conversational context, and clear brand integration are now essential components of visibility in the digital marketplace. At the same time, concerns are growing about gatekeeping by major AI platforms. With a handful of models mediating discovery, questions arise about fairness, access, and who gets visibility in an AI-curated ecosystem. Adapting to the generative search era isn’t just a technological upgrade; it’s a strategic necessity. To remain visible and competitive, brands must ensure their data speaks fluently to both humans and machines, positioning themselves within the evolving landscape of conversational commerce.

From Search to Conversation: How Generative AI Is Crafting E-Commerce Experience - Boss Today

Generative AI is literally changing the whole process of online search and discovery, curating a new experience that experts are calling generative search. In
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Evanscate

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Should you wonder about the number of apps available in the #IzzyOnDroid repo slightly decreasing with the next sync: your gardeners were quite active again. Find details at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… – and be welcome to join the Cinderella, there are still many items left on the list!

Some other good news: after 6 years, Metrodroid (the app to read public transport NFC smartcards) finally received another update, which will go live here with the next sync around 7 pm UTC.


metadata reorg subtask: deciding about miscellaneous dormant apps

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps: * [x] [`ahmaabdo.readify.rss`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ahmaabdo.readify.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@voks Be welcome to write one then 😉 You could diff the indexes for that. Hint: both, IzzyOnDroid as well as F-Droid use a binary transparency log such an app could parse for this.

You could of course also open issues at the fdroid clients' repos, to include such a functionality. Clients know what apps you've installed from which repo, and could watch for such removals when pulling index updates. That would be the best place to address this.

@Markus Henn

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So... @fedora has made a policy explicitly allowing AI code. So I have to change my home distro.

@gentoo and @netbsd both have specific policies against it, but I ain't about doing a Gentoo install (sorry, guys, I love you for this, but I need a binary first distro), and NetBSD ain't great for gaming AFAIK.

So... any other Distros wanna step up and do the right thing? @archlinux? @opensuse? @debian? #VoidLinux? @alpinelinux?

Just a public statement that says "No, we don't want that crap" would be plenty --- I understand the difficulty of enforcing the policy, but setting it as a community/commit standard would go a long way towards making a lot of us feel better.

(Boost for visibility, please?)

#AI #Linux #Distro #BSD

#linux #bsd #AI #distro #voidlinux @Debian @openSUSE Linux @Gentoo @Arch Linux @NetBSD Foundation 🚩 @Alpine Linux @Fedora Project

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Featuring @deconspray, @aardrian, @LFLegal, @SteveFaulkner, @TPGi, @a11ytalks, @db, @brucelawson, @pxlnv, @mgifford, and more.

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Emmanuele Bassi

tbh, the Windows 10 installer was basically a Linux distro installer without the partitioning side quest; I don't think Windows 11 improved anything in that regard. I am also an Old Person™, and I remember the Slackware installer of the mid '90s, so I am an outlier and should not be counted.
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