🧑‍🏫 This year again, we will have a massive presence at FOSDEM!

Between our hackathon on Friday, our booth during FOSDEM, and the Decentralised Comms Devroom on Sunday, you'll have plenty of opportunities to meet the team and get involved!

matrix.org/blog/2025/12/fosdem…

Find us at FOSDEM

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

Thursday.

Turning 38 yesterday was an odd experience. On my last birthday I left the house at 4 in the morning for a work thing. Yesterday my only appointment was a 45 minute chat after lunch. Paternity Leave is a wonderful thing.

Bertie is 2 months old today, although he was 8 weeks on Saturday, of course. He's being a bit refluxy and I'm getting through more bibs and cloths than I thought we actually owned. The GP asked about contraception during his 6-in-1, Rotavirus and MenB vaccinations. Contraception! Who has time for anything that might even seem to lead to the need for that, I ask?
Apart from that he's a happy and healthy baby And I am only going ever so slightly mad at not being able to do anything.
I'm hopeful I'll feel better when I've gotten all my Christmas shopping out of the way, which I aim to do before we fly off for a weekend in Malta this time next week.

A new Hackerone issue was submitted for #curl and I had it closed as not applicable within four minutes. A new personal record I believe.

(It will be disclosed asap.)

We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.

We materially have the resources to do so.

That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.

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Hitler called Jews “rats”.

Trump calls Somalians “garbage”.

The purpose is the same: To dehumanize a minority in order to justify violence against the minority.

Every Prime Minister and every President in the democratic world must condemn this. We know where this leads and we cannot accept this.

Never again.

youtu.be/veYM4-1PsSo?si=eIaHEg…

WATCH: Trump says he doesn't want Somali migrants in the U.S., calls people 'garbage'

Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.Si...

^YouTube

Drawing together two themes from recent discussions in my timeline, its worth re-emphasising that:

In-work & housing benefits are not (in the last instance) policies that help the poor rather they are a mechanism to funnel state fund into supporting profits for low-wage employers, and landlords (whose rents are higher than they would be without housing & other benefits being paid to the poor).

So when people talk about 'benefits cheats' you might want to point this out...

#benefits #politics

It is a popular mathematical experiment to try and work out just how fast Santa has to be to reach every house with a child in a single 24 hour period.

The calculations always end up with a significant fraction of the speed of light.

There then usually follow discussions about what the collateral damage from Santa's passing would be. And cargo limits, and so on.

All of these are wrong, and ignore another end-of-year tradition. The portrayal of the ending year as an old man.

Now that I've put these two traditions side-by-side, I think you can see what is really going on.

It is possible for one man to visit every house in a night, with no shock waves or any of that silliness. But it comes at a cost.

For that man, the night lasts many years, as he travels back in time after each visit. Even with time travel, he does not get much time to eat - so the snacks you leave out are essential to him surviving the night.

But he only just survives. By the end of the night he will have aged over forty years. And then he hands the reins of the time-travelling sleigh to a younger man, warning him of the cost.

Someone always answers the call, despite the cost, because there is always someone willing to sacrifice everything to bring joy and light, even just a little, even if only for a moment.

So leave the snacks, and, if you catch a glimpse of him, give him a bow of respect. He deserves it.

#SFF #SF #Christmas #Santa #microfiction #microfic #tootfic #IAmWriting

Rollstuhlfahrerin aus Darmstadt kämpft um Job: "Kostet sehr viel Kraft"
hessenschau.de/gesellschaft/ro…

'[...]"Sozialmedizinische Beurteilung" [...]sie sei nicht leistungsfähig, eine Teilnahme am Arbeitsmarkt sei ausgeschlossen.

"In dem ganzen Prozess hat nie jemand mit mir gesprochen, die haben allein nach Aktenlage entschieden", erklärt sie. Keine persönlichen Gespräche, keine Begutachtung durch eine Amtsärztin oder einen Amtsarzt.'

#Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht

Rollstuhlfahrerin aus Darmstadt kämpft um Job: "Kostet sehr viel Kraft"

Lea Mundry aus Darmstadt verliert ihren Job und will woanders weiterarbeiten. Doch die Agentur für Arbeit erklärt sie kurzum für arbeitsunfähig. Ein schwerer Schlag für die 33-Jährige, aber sie kämpft für ihr Recht auf Arbeit - mit Erfolg.

^{Julian Moering (hessenschau.de)}

Today December 4, at 18:00 CET I will talk tiny #curl. With a bird-themed slide set!

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Observando las normas sobre seguridad y salud laboral.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

Do you want to learn Docker by doing a simple fun and interactive exercises? This is the tool for beginners or developers who never build native Docker apps. Give it a try.

github.com/furkan/dockerlings

GitHub - furkan/dockerlings: learn docker in your terminal, with bite sized exercises

learn docker in your terminal, with bite sized exercises - furkan/dockerlings

^GitHub

I have been a long time user and promoter of @Tutanota for my email as part of my effort to #degoogle. However, I'm unfortunately at an impasse where they overcharged my credit card a ridiculous amount and are not responding to me at all. Definitely a deal breaker.

Does someone have alternative privacy centred email providers to recommend? Preferably ones that have support in case there's a billing error. To save me the hassle of doing credit card charge backs.

#tuta

Very pleased to learn that my Nearly Departed train app was discussed warmly on the #RNIB Tech Talk podcast.

I learned about this after getting an email from a new user who is visually impaired and installed the app after listening to the show.

My old grumpy self probably in 20 years:

"Is this organic free range software made without any artificial flavors added?"

If you're wondering what are we planning for the next year of Thunderbird on Android and iOS, here's a video of me talking through our planned roadmaps for 2026.
Made for humans by humans.

youtu.be/TB7XcRLVxFI?si=fesi1f…

State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap

As 2025 winds down, its time to start thinking of what we want to achieve for our Android AND iOS apps next year. Alessandro walks us through the 2026 mobile...

^YouTube

another upload on #Audiopub

This is a recording of me riding the old creepy elevator in our building. This elevator always gets stuck, but this time, luckily for me, it didn’t. Note that when you hear me inside, I did not tap my cane or make any sound. Every creak, groan, and clank you hear is coming purely from the elevator’s old mechanics. I stayed for a while on the top floor, rang their doorbell, and waited for someone to open the door, but there was no one there. So you will hear the ambience of the building, then you’ll hear me going down.
Microphone used is the Roland CS-10EM connected to my Zoom H1 Essential recorder. I hope you’ll enjoy this.

audiopub.site/listen/f4c53dc5-…

#FieldRecording #Sound #Audio #Zoom

GNOME lanza su campaña de donaciones de final del año. Llevamos casi 30 años con vosotros y ¡queremos hacer más!

¿Quieres ayudarnos a hacer más?

¡Ayudanos a conseguir 1500 donantes antes de final de año!

donate.gnome.org/

#FriendsOfGNOME #GNOME

Mods are asleep, post fediverse meta. Oh, and help us reach 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME 😆

donate.gnome.org

🐄 Have YOU ever sat on a cow?

• Yeah, hasn't everyone? (12%, 25 votes)
• No, never (50%, 100 votes)
• What are you on about?? (27%, 55 votes)
• I became a #FriendOfGNOME! (9%, 19 votes)

You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.

But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.

Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.

If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.

Privacy rights are a priority.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy