We've just released Matrix spec v1.17 (hopefully our last release before v2.0!) including a few new MSCs and some exciting usability improvements for the spec website!
Read about it in the blog post: matrix.org/blog/2025/12/18/mat…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsRichard van der Hoff (matrix.org)
If you're on an osm-map (like ours) you can improve shop-information on streetcomplete.app , or mapcomplete.org or -if you have an account- on OSM.org
OSM maps are up to date because of nearly 1.6 million active people doing exactly these things.
#map #osm #osmdata #streetcomplete #mapcomplete
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
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I've been on mastodon a few times over the years but this is the first time I've created an account with the intent of actually interacting. And I'd like to start by making everyone here hate me by sharing a clearly unpopular opinion and say: I... Like using AI. And I hope I can win some of you over as well.
Now don't get me wrong, I see the damage, I hate the people causing it, but I would ask, if we gave up on every new piece of technology that wasn't immediately as good as its predecessor, where would we be? We would never have invested in electric cars, or hell, vehicles at all. We wouldn't dare to building anything for fear our initial prototype couldn't compete with a refined legacy standard.
Many of the people on this platform are the people who actually can affect change. We're programmers, hackers, network engineers, the ones who actually get to do something. But instead of finding solutions, trying to make things better, so many are burying their head in the sand and hoping the world doesn't change around them. And I hate to say it but it won't work.
The world is changing, technology is changing, but we have the ability and knowledge to build the alternative. We're the ones who can challege big AI, and implement solutions built by people, outside of data centers, and in the control of people. As a person who has to implement these solutions for businesses, open source, local and edge applications are where I want to see this technology, not in a datacenter thats destroying a community.
I've done a lot over the years to push for open source technology, more than most can say they have. I didn't sit in a bubble and wait for the world to adopt the tools I want them to use, I climbed the ranks as from an IT professional to a sysadmin, a network engineer, and finally someone who actually has a say. And then I deployed those technologies for people. I gave end users linux, I chose proxmox over esxi, I deployed open source office suites instead of just paying for microsoft office because "that's what you do", even when it made my job harder.
I look at the landscape today in tech and I see an opportunity for us as open source devs and builders to shape things before they take place. To take the place of big AI in communities and businesses before it gains a foothold. And it hurts a bit to see businesses and organizations I've loved and followed for so long digging themselves a grave and praying it will all go away while the people like me have to keep helping businesses use chatgpt and gemini trash without good alternatives. Thank you for your attention, I'll be taking hate mail in the comments below.
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Bei meinem Vortrag auf dem 38c3 habe ich gezeigt, dass die deutsche Zweigstelle der International Association of Accessibility Professionals peinliche & falsche Übersetzungen, die den Sinn einer Prüfungs-Aufgabe für eine Zertifizierung entstellen, veröffentlicht hat.
Sie haben danach noch sehr lange rumgeeiert und mich der Lüge bezichtigt, obwohl der Beweis direkt auf der Folie war und ich auch mehreren (!) IAAP-Mitgliedern gegenüber die entsprechende Quelle gezeigt habe.
Außerdem steht darin folgendes:
- Für die Prüfung sollten Sie nach Möglichkeit Ihren eigenen Laptop mitbringen, da nur so die
Nutzung Ihrer assistiven Technologien sichergestellt werden kann. Bitte beachten Sie, dass
die vor Ort bereitgestellten Computer keine assistiven Technologien oder sonstige Software
enthalten.
- Wenn Sie assistive Technologien mit Audioausgabe (z. B. Screenreader) verwenden, ist die
Nutzung von Kopfhörern zwingend erforderlich
Wie ists mit lauten Braillezeilen oder belüfteten Hilfsmitteln? Was, wenn ich auch eine Hörbehinderung habe, die die Nutzung von Kopfhörern unmöglich macht? Was ist, wenn ich Schaltersteuerungen benutzen muss oder Spracheingabe, und dadurch erheblich langsamer bin? Was, wenn ich ADHS oder Autismus habe und mich in einem Raum mit anderen Prüflingen nicht konzentrieren kann?
Tja, dann ist das Angebot der internationalen Vereinigung der Barrierefreiheitsspezialist*innen für dich unzugänglich.
Forscan as software for ford, mazda, etc?
WTF can imagine their cli/gui displaying errors from underneath curl… Yet cannot get how curl license/contact can be first thing rookies are able to access before theirs ??? !!!
I have no any FORScan product but have a question about it (last link ;)
forscan.org/support/start.php?…
Bei Rückführungen muss Frontex Grundrechte ebenso achten wie die Mitgliedstaaten. Der EuGH stellt klar: Die EU-Agentur trägt eigene Verantwortung.Legal Tribune Online
In a past life, I did an internet radio show, called "Things and Stuff", where much of my time was spent messing with buttons, sliders and knobs, talking about and demonstrating weird things, and playing music.
On December 23, 2017, I did one of only two pre-recorded shows in the 14 years that Things and Stuff existed, this being that year's Christmas-themed show.
Should you care to throw a bunch of Christmas things at your face, including a look back at recordings of somewhat incriminating Perdue family Christmases from every year between 1986 and 2017, except for 1997, as presented by me and another me (who doesn't talk to themselves every now and then), you can do so, at least until I get around to removing all the 2016 through 2019 archives from the place they are currently being hosted.
Now, if that's not incentive, I don't know what is.
We can't put enough gratitude in the character limit for everything our community has helped us do this year, so we wrote a recap blog. Thank you everyone who made this all happen! 💙 🙌
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/t…
No year-end judging of your music or video habits here. Just what Thunderbird donors, contributors, and team members made possible in 2025!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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I'm listening with the wife, but we're only half way through the first book so far. Finding time is hard with the baby.
It's weird how I've actually read well over 4 million words of fanfiction, but actually only read the original series 3 times (once as a first read, again for me to log on my goodreads, and a third time with my daughter. She's listened to all the audiobooks many times, but I read them all to her myself when she was younger.
She's looking forward to the new TV series next year.
I imagine these full cast recordings are bringing the stories to another generation, too.
Just tried getting a program to run that didn't want to.
"ooh I forgot I have that thing called a coding agent, let's see what it can do."
Two minutes (and a few really weird binary metadata inspection tricks) later, I have the command that makes the program run.
Not being very familiar with the environment, I'd be surprised if I could pull it off inside an hour if I had to do it all myself.
New #screenReader verbosity settings for messages are now widely available in #Slack, under the #accessibility category of preferences. You can now control which parts of messages are spoken and in what order.
As part of this change, you'll also find that recent replies in threads now have relative timestamps (e.g. "just now" or "2 minutes ago") instead of absolute ones. This update brings the screen reader experience in line with the visual interface, with absolute timestamps still being used outside of threads.
If you have suggestions or run into problems, please use the /feedback command and mention that you use a screen reader. Alternatively I'm also happy to pass along any issues if I can reproduce them.
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That is now the case in threads, mirroring the visual display that's had relative timestamps for years. In channels and DMs outside of threads, they'll still be absolute.
That change probably does mean you now have the new screen reader verbosity settings available though.
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dna.fr/culture-loisirs/2025/12…
À partir du 1er janvier 2026, l’inscription dans les bibliothèques et médiathèques du réseau Pass’relle deviendra gratuite pour tous. Votée le ...Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
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Na blogu @iurecz vyšel náš přistup k mobilům, technologiím a obrazovkám obecně. Zkusili jsme dát radu jak to udělat na Androidu pro někoho s non-IT backgroundem. Ty technikálie kolem de-googled Androidu atd nejsou ve skutečnosti to zásadní. Díky @hynekolog za spolupráci.
#digitalnispolecnost #rodicovstvi #digitalnisvobody #rodice #deti
blog.digitalnisvobody.cz/2025/…
Řada rodičů řeší, jak děti bezpečně doprovodit do digitálního světa. Pro někoho může být řešením oddálení koupě chytrého mobilu či pořízení tzv. hloupého mobilu. Lze ale také nastavit telefon do jakéhosi polochytrého módu.Hynek Trojánek (Blog digitálních svobod)
Thank you for your continued support!
Mona 7.1 is now available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
In addition to new alternate app icons and improvements based on first-day user feedback, starting in Mona 7.1, Mona Ultra (supports Family Sharing; works on iPhone/iPad/Mac) is also available to Mona Pro users for just 30 USD as a one-time purchase (limited-time offer).
If you have Mona Pro Max, you can also purchase Mona Ultra for just 20 USD (limited-time offer).
Mona is a highly customizable Mastodon app with VoiceOver optimization and native design. Available now on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.Mona for Mastodon
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Mein Gastbeitrag ist heute in der WELT (Debatte) erschienen:
„Eingliederungshilfe: Doch, wir müssen uns persönliche Assistenz auch künftig leisten!“
Ich schreibe das nicht als abstrakte Position, sondern aus der Praxis: Ich arbeite im Bundesarchiv, bin (kleiner) Unternehmer und ehrenamtlich engagiert. Das funktioniert nur, weil persönliche Assistenz mir die Handgriffe ersetzt, die mein Körper nicht leisten kann – 24/7 im Schichtsystem. Nicht als „Luxus“, sondern als Voraussetzung dafür, überhaupt Verantwortung zu übernehmen und produktiv Teil dieser Gesellschaft zu sein.
Im Text geht es u. a. um drei Punkte:
• warum 24/7-Assistenz in der Realität Sicherheit und Selbstständigkeit bedeutet – nicht Komfort
• warum die Alternative häufig Heim/Institution oder Überlastung von Angehörigen heißt (und oft teurer ist)
• warum die Bürokratie rund um mehrere Kostenträger, Nachweise und Verordnungen selbst ein Kosten- und Kraftfresser ist – und was man daran besser machen könnte, ohne Transparenz zu opfern
Ich freue mich über eine sachliche Diskussion – gern auch kontrovers, aber fair.
(Artikel ist WELTplus)
welt.de/debatte/plus6942916111…
#Eingliederungshilfe #PersönlicheAssistenz #Inklusion #Teilhabe #Sozialstaat #Leistung #Bürokratieabbau #Barrierefreiheit #Behindertenpolitik #Pflege
Bitte teilen und auf Welt kommentieren und liken!
Eine persönliche Assistenz für Behinderte ist kein Luxus, den sich der Sozialstaat nicht mehr leisten kann – sagt unser Gastautor, dessen Arbeitsalltag ohne Unterstützung „24/7“ nicht möglich wäre.DIE WELT
Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for personal productivity in office environments on Windows, MacOS and Linux, is now available from the download page.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Thank you all for such a great office suite.
I use the flatpack on Linux Mint, and it updated automatically. There are dozens of little things like this that make both Linux & LibreOffice so convenient and hassle free.
You folks rock!
RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/115740595660…
This post is a good example of why truth and factuality same thing. This is the most viscerally true thing I’ve read in a long while, but the degree to which it’s factual or not is largely irrelevant. It feels like a kick in the gut nonetheless
(It is tagged as ‘non-fiction, so it probably is factual)
“The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles” https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ > The Tech Bros haven't invented the term, but they have automated the process.Baldur Bjarnason (Toot Café)
RE: someplace.social/@jonathan859/…
Guess what, btw, I haven't been contacted regarding my work time tomorrow until now. My taxi isn't informed yet, and I have now proactively messaged the responsible person. I'd love to just stay at home if I don't get an answer, but sadly this is my fucking job and I don't need even more trouble.
My vocational school class is going to the cinema next Friday, actually, not even just the class, several other classes from the school. Our English teacher was (apparently) able to select a movie from the catalog. But, guess what, oh no how sad, the film has no audio description, but but, we even asked the cinema, so sorry, we need to find an alternative for you. The alternative is that while my classmates to whom I already am separated thanks to several other factors of my disability enjoy themselves next Friday, I'll be sitting at the office (being given the time to work on school stuff), and of course I don't have to stay the full time. You know I'm not even angry, this was totally no surprise to me but it's so fucking ridiculous.
Every time there's news from Mozilla we see a lot of takes around here along the lines of: they're clueless, their heads are in the sand, they don't know their userbase.
Alternative interpretation: We're looking at another case very much like Bluesky - a corporation with somewhat-openwashed branding which knows exactly who their userbase is, hates it, and wants a different one.
The rationale is clear enough; the browser is just a massive opportunity for datamining. The "AI" startups can only dream of controlling a browser with even the marketshare of Firefox. In that light, it's no use having a userbase of technically competent, privacy-aware dissidents who can work around the extractive dark patterns. Let's face it people, we're not profitable to surveillance capitalism
Fedora's elections are now open until Wednesday, 7th January!
I'm applying for a seat at FESCo [1] as I want to represent the interests of users, developers and maintainers of what we call Atomic, Bootable Container, Image Based or Immutable variants of Fedora (CoreOS, Atomic Desktops, IoT, bootc, etc.).
You can find my full interview at communityblog.fedoraproject.or…
And vote at elections.fedoraproject.org/
[1] docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/f…
#Fedora #CoreOS #AtomicDesktops #BootableContainers #bootc
The F43 FESCo Elections are open until 7 January 2026. Read this interview with candidate Timothée Ravier (siosm/travier).Justin Wheeler (Fedora Project)
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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September 2025: There are lots of rainbow arches and pavements around Iceland, but this has to be my favourite.
The LGBTQ+ pride colours changing to transgender pride and back again at the far end is a clever idea.
The location of many happy marriages, I'm sure, this pavement can be found at Ísafjörður in the Westfjords of #Iceland.
#TravelThursday #Iceland2025 #Photography
Das Vitamin C haltige Mark schmeckt schön fruchtig.
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in reply to Beb0p • • •Local AI wastes more power than AI that runs in a datacenter.
For LLMs to be as economical and power-efficient as possible, you need to keep your GPUs as highly utilized as you can, preferrably during all hours of the day. For big models, you also want to have as many of those GPUs as you can in one cluster, within limits of course.
THe thing about LLMs is that, unlike let's say Netflix, they require very little bandwidth and are relatively tolerant of latency. This means that there's little disadvantage (beyond the political implications) of running your model at the other end of the world. Unless you're a global organization with offices everywhere, if you buy your own GPUs, those GPUs will likely sit idle beyond 9-to-5. This won't be the case if you rent capacity from a global provider, as that provider can rent the same GPUs to somebody located in a different timezone when you're not using them.
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in reply to Beb0p • • •You don't realize how much not a cost bandwidth is when it comes to AI. One Netflix movie (despite all the layers of CDNs) will probably offset your Chat GPT use for a year (napkin math).
I think you have a point re: community impact, but due to how much of a non-concern bandwidth is, we have a really great opportunity to build AI datacenters very close to green energy sources (or build green energy sources closer to AI datacenters). THis includes things like geothermal. If eveybody is running their own AI, they'll use whatever power they have.
This is one of a very few industries that a) uses insane amounts of energy, and b) the energy can be used at the other end of the world from where the product user is, with 0 loss to the user experience.
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