I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
minifree.org/product/libreboot…
FUN FACT: Today it's December 9th. I'm making sure that orders ship before December 15th where possible - any orders nearer then will likely ship between December 15-18th.
If you want yours before December 25th, best order before December 15th.
Libreboot (free software BIOS/UEFI replacement) pre-installed offering many security benefits, with Debian Linux. I'm Libreboot's lead developer and founder. Sales fund the project.
🏆Bundespreis Ecodesign 2025
Yippie! Mit dem SHIFTphone 8 erhalten wir die höchste Auszeichnung für ökologisches Design.😍
shift.eco/bundespreis-ecodesig…
Die Jury würdigte unseren Beitrag zu echter Kreislaufwirtschaft – und ihr seid ein riesiger Teil davon. Gemeinsam verändern wir Technologie!💚
Fotocredit: Susanne Kühnapfel IDZ
#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #ecodesign #bundespreisecodesign
SHIFTphone 8 mit Bundespreis Ecodesign ausgzeichnet
Das SHIFTphone 8 ist mit dem Bundespreis Ecodesign ausgezeichnet wurden und gewinnt den Fokus Open Gold AwardLeon von Zepelin (SHIFT GmbH)
🧵 THANK YOU!! WOW! We hit our initial fundraising goal of $314,159.26 🌠 We're bursting with joy and hope- & we're not done yet!
Thanks to you, we’re rolling out two new goals:
400k (stretch)
512k (super stretchy!)
Can you help us hit our super stretchy goal? Read on ⬇️
Linkwarden má konečně oficiální mobilní aplikaci! 📱
✨ Co umí:
• Procházení a organizace odkazů (kolekce, tagy)
• Ukládání přes share sheet přímo z prohlížeče
• Offline čtení cachovaných článků
• Funguje s naší instancí link.oscloud.cz
• Podporuje iOS/Android telefony i tablety
📲 Stáhnout:
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/linkwarden/…
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
🔧 Nastavení:
1. Stáhni aplikaci
2. Při prvním spuštění zadej: link.oscloud.cz
3. Přihlaš se pomocí tokenu (návod brzy na Oscloud)
linkwarden.app/blog/releases/m…
#Linkwarden #OpenSource #SelfHosted #Oscloud
Linkwarden App - App Store
Download Linkwarden by Linkwarden on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Linkwarden.App Store
ICEBlock Creator Sues U.S. Government Over App’s Removal
The Department of Justice demanded Apple remove ICEBlock, which reports sightings of ICE officials, from its App Store. Now the creator is suing, saying the demand violated his First Amendment rights.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Are you busy on the #FOSDEM Sunday afternoon? The closing talk is mine. 17:00 - 17:50
Open Source Security in spite of AI
How Museums Quietly Shape What We See and Believe
Museum walls shape viewers’ perception through the art of display, building context and prioritizing certain artworks over others.
#Blind #Accessibility
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Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.
bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0d…
Elon Musk's X bans European Commission from making ads after €120m fine
The EU regulator had fined the social media platform over its "deceptive" blue tick badges.Laura Cress (BBC News)
Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/…
The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.Mastodon Blog
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If you care about digital sovereignty and want to see your government join the #fediverse, contact them to say that #ItsTimeToAbolishX.
Help us make a list of how to get in touch with a representative in your area under this post, and don’t forget to #hashtag so your neighbours can find it 👇🏽 we’ll start:
#EU: commission.europa.eu/about/con…
#USA: usa.gov/elected-officials
Representations in Member States | European Commission
Commission representations perform various functions such as liaising with local authorities and media, organising official visits, and providing political information and analysis.European Commission
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The #curl repo on GitHub surpassed 40K stars: github.com/curl/curl
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GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.
If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.
Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.
- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total
You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.
This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.
#SOSS
It's so depressing how orgs like #Mozilla squander volunteer goodwill for nothing. They'll never recover from this self-inflicted damage:
«Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets»
quippd.com/writing/2025/12/08/…
Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini.Youssuff Quips
RE: mathstodon.xyz/@antoinechamber…
Is the age of arXiv over? They've been making hostile-to-scientists changes for a while now, let me list a few:
+ (Here) Enforcing English submissions, when science is international and many cultures have traditions of serious work in their own language. By allowing auto-translation, they are advocating for *slop* over carefully written non-English work.
+ Moving to an enshittified cloud architecture and ending arXiv mirroring (something that many institutions were happy to contribute to).
+ Subjecting scientific papers to a buggy and mostly non-working LaTeX->HTML conversion process that leads readers to click the HTML version, which is in nearly all cases of mathematical papers totally broken and full of errors. (It seems that they are now doing a better job of skipping this for papers where there is no hope, to be fair.) Let me be clear: translating LaTeX to HTML will always be a non-starter, even if you have a billion-LOC Perl program that claims to do it. You cannot translate a programming language to a markup language, period.
+ Subjecting established academics (e.g. associate professors) to outrageous submission-holds, requiring us to get endorsed by our own students, etc...
The only thing missing is “arXiv AI” — which I am sure is coming soon, as it seems the “AI Transformation” comes for all public goods...
Combine this with the shaky funding situation in the US, I am thinking it would be good to imagine a future without arXiv. And I am not talking about an arXiv replacement...
⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir (@antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz)
The new @arXiv policy is to impose an English version for all papers. They acknowledge: “We realize that many arXiv submitters may not have access to professional translation services; non-English paper versions that use automated translation are ac…⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir (Mathstodon)
Because age verification is really just there to:
- suppress queer information
- restrict abortion access
- gatekeep sexual education
- slurp up more personal data for marketing
"But think of the children!"
Maybe we should think about the corporations that prey on their attention-spans and self-esteem instead.
Sign stuff here:
stoponlineidchecks.org
Info on how to help here:
docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/6…
Today in Email Hegemony.
Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the @dnalounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story.
73.0% gmail.com
8.5% yahoo.com
7.1% icloud.com
2.6% hotmail.com
0.7% outlook.com
0.6% aol.com
0.5% comcast.net
0.5% me.com
0.4% sbcglobal.net
0.3% live.com
5.8% everything else
jwz: Today in Email Hegemony
Here are the 2025 top ten domains from orders placed on the DNA Lounge store. Remember this the next time someone uses email as an example of a federation success story. 73.0% gmail.com. 8.5% yahoo.com. 7.1% icloud.com. 2.6% hotmail.com. 0.jwz.org
»Jürgen Resch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der DUH, verlangt mehr konsequente Kontrollen, Bußgelder und sofortiges Abschleppen der Falschparker: „Solange die Städte ihrer Aufgabe nicht nachkommen, rufen wir alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger auf, Verstöße zu dokumentieren und zur Anzeige zu bringen.“«
Quelle: rnd.de/wirtschaft/illegales-ge…
Illegales Gehweg-Parken bleibt Problem: VCD fordert Kommunen zum Handeln auf
Der Verkehrsclub VCD hat deutschlandweit dazu aufgerufen, zugeparkte Gehwege zu melden. Das Ergebnis zeigt: Vier von fünf Autos parken dort illegal.Andrea Barthélémy (RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland)
Addressing Linux’s Missing PKI Infrastructure
"we’re starting the development of upki: a universal PKI tool. This project initially aims to close the revocation gap through the combination of a new system utility and eventual library support for common TLS/SSL libraries such as OpenSSL, GnuTLS and rustls"
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/address…
Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure
Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), but critically noted how even the available meas…Ubuntu Community Hub
Hmm, mirroring Mozilla, then depending on canonical. Does not sound very decentralized for a planet wide pki infrastructure to me.
Sites wanting short reaction times seem better served with short lived certificates and fallback ACME CAs.
But what do I know of this?💁🏻♂️
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…
Featuring @michaelharshbarger, @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @deconspray, @mgifford , @sarajw, @matuzo, @j9t, @mehm8128, @Jayhoffmann, @Meyerweb, @bkardell, @adactio, @slightlyoff, and more.
Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…
#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
thanks again Laura.
I would love thoughts on the color contrast tool. It is a functioning draft.
There is this one too exploring the difference mgifford.github.io/apca-wcag2/
Dec 7 had the earliest sunset of the year, even though the shortest day is on Dec 21.
This is because solar noon does not occur at clock time 12:00 p.m. Because of orbital eccentricity and axis inclination, it occurs earlier or later according to the Equation of Time.
E.g., for Philadelphia –
Dec 7: Sunrise 7:09 – Sunset 4:35 (9:26h), Solar noon 11:52
Dec 21: 7:18 – 4:38 (9:20h), 6m shorter, Solar noon 11:58, shifted by 6m
Sunset Dec 21 = 4:38 = 4:35 – 0:03 + 0:06
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Remember the AIxCC competition? After lots of research and triaging, the conclusion has landed: not a single *real* problem was found in #curl.
My previous write-up on the rather lame injected problems they found:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/22…
AIxCC curl details
At the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33 earlier this year, teams competed against each other to find vulnerabilities in provided Open Source projects by using (their own) AI powered tools.daniel.haxx.se
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Will you be there? #bruxconference2026 #fosdem #fosdem26
Brux Conference 2026 - Rebuilding Europe's Sovereignty
Brux Conference 2026 - Rebuilding Europe's Sovereignty
After “The Perfect Storm” (last year’s theme), it is now time to REBUILD Europe - January 28th 2026, Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Hotel, Brussels.Brux Conference 2026
Je o mně známo, že bytostně nesnáším lháře, křiváky, komunisty, StBáky a vůbec jakékoliv šmejdy.
A dnes se podruhé v mém dosavadním životě stává premiérem tohoto státu jedna z nejodpornějších postav podnikání a politiky. Spolu s dalšími přisluhovači a mafiány povede také jednu z nejhorších polistopadových vlád.
Když jsem se koncem roku 1989 na chvíli jako mladý "revolucionář" zapojil do demokratizačního procesu v naší okresní vesnici, neměl jsem tenkrát samozřejmě tušení, že za plus třicet let se do různých pozic politiky opět dostanou lidé bez morálky.
Inu, skutečná demokracie jest křehká květina. Pečovat o ni se musí v pravdě a lásce. Doufejme tedy, že těch pár let strádání přežije a v mezičase vyrostou nové mladé výhonky, které do politiky vrátí slušnost, poctivost a řád.
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Deutsche Bahn zwingt mich, mein Login-Passwort zu ändern: Es hat 24 Zeichen, ist zufällig, beinhaltet Groß-/Kleinbuchstaben und Zahlen und hat eine Entropie über 110 Bit. Aber weil kein Sonderzeichen drin ist, gilt es als unsicher. Sicherheitsrichtlinien von 2005 lassen grüßen. 🙄
/kuk
Glücklich wer dies im Regal stehen hat. 😀 IBM hat dies als Handbuch bei OS/2 Warp 4 mitgeliefert für die damals gebräuchlichen 101 bzw. 102 Tasten. Daraus die wichtigste Seite:
Oh, Warp 4 – those were the days! (we're getting old, yeah…) Meine letzte war allerdings 4.5.2 🙈
Sagen wir mal so: "not everything that is _doable_ is also _feasible_ 😉 Nicht jeder hat so ein Buch im Regal – und nicht immer ist ein "Zweitcomputer" zur Hand (ja ja, Smartphone etc) – aber ehrlich, warum sich das Leben unnötig schwer machen? Dafür haben wir doch Politiker & Gouvernance 🙊 💨
Huge Victory: #ChatControl no longer forces us to break #encryption. 🎉
🚨But: It now wants #AgeVerification.
The Trilogue starts today 🗓️
You've helped us stop #backdoors: tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…
Now, help us stop #AgeVerification! 👇️
fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-t…
Huge Victory: Chat Control no longer forces us to break encryption! But: It now wants age verification. | Tuta
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!Tuta
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The time for age verification, if it was gonna happen, was 1998.
This bird has flown.
Give parents the ability to control content locally.
Age verification in 2025 is an excuse to identify and track people of all ages.
This is the new version of hip hop and video games corrupting children, but with longer lasting consequences.
Wenn privilegierte Personen #Rassismus nicht verstehen:
Ich betreue eine Person auf Intensivstation. Sie gehört der Volksgruppe der Szinti und Roma an und ist aus der Ukraine geflüchtet. Die Familie ist in heller Aufregung. Ein paar von den jüngeren Männer sprechen ausreichend englisch um sich halbwegs zu verständigen, die Frauen fallen vor uns auf die Knie.
Sie sind furchtbar besorgt wie jede Familie die einen 1/
wenn die Angehörigen da sind ist nicht hilfreich - denn es bestätigt das was sich befürchten: Da ist keiner der sich kümmert während in den anderen Zimmer die Leute ein und aus gehen.
Ich versuche dies eine*r Kolleg*in zu vermitteln.
Die Antwort: Ja ok, aber dann entscheide ich mich irgendwann zu vertrauen oder ich nehme meinen Angehörigen mit nach Hause.
Sorry - priveligierte weiße Person: So funktioniert das nicht 7/
I use Font Awesome icons on my presentation cover slides to link to my website and email. It would be great if we could also use them for Jabber/XMPP addresses!
#XMPP is currently the second most requested icon on Font Awesome, and it’s close to reaching the top spot. You can support the request here:
github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Aw…
Brand Request: XMPP (formerly named Jabber) · FortAwesome Font-Awesome · Discussion #21069
🏷️ What brand are you requesting? XMPP 🌐 Official website http://xmpp.org/ 📘 Brand assets or guidelines (optional) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XMPP_logo_(without_text).svg 🔍 Request che...GitHub
Ani ty holubi nebudou 😄
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