#XSF Announcement

We are considering to participate the #Google Summer of Code 2026!

If you are interested as a contributor or mentoring #XMPP project start reading here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

#GSoC #ccc #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #operators #rtc

I cannot say this authoritatively, but I inquired about the scope of the gpg.fail vulnerabilities that affect GnuPG (and at least one also affecting Sequioa, a Rust PGP implementation) to see if any of these things are a concern for DeltaChat and the response was that they are all out of scope for how DeltaChat uses PGP.

also DeltaChat uses rpgp, not GnuPG or Sequioa, and rpgp has been audited a couple times.

Reminder: You better hurry!

@monocles and #Conversations_im are available for free on your Android device since Dec 24th and until the 31st on Google Play!

Get your friends and family and don’t miss out on the opportunity to install and onboard them in one (or both) of the most featureful #XMPP clients on Android!

Set them free from invasive, data harvesting, centralized IM communications networks!

#RunJBR #Privacy #Security #Decentralization #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #DigitalSovereignty #Jabber

J'aime bien faire des logos de "niche" de la lutte contre le fascisme.
Après le volleyball antifasciste voici les astronomes!

fait avec #Inkscape
#astronomy
#antifa
edit: correction facism -> fascim. Merci @zerotensor

If I put dishes in the dishwasher and unload it when it's done, I'm not "doing the dishes".

But when you do the same with the laundry using the washer and dryer you're "doing the laundry"

Manchmal wünschte ich, Leute gäben sich mehr Mühe zu lesen, was ich schreibe und nicht was sie lesen wollen.

Mela: "Jeder kann Politiker werden."

Menschen:
- "Aber ich habe in Partei X Erfahrung Y gemacht."
- "In den Parteien wird um jeden Posten geklügelt."
- "Bei der CDU wird man ohne Verbindungen nichts."
- "Ich bin wieder ausgetreten, weil …"
- "Für Menschen mit Sozialphobie geht das nicht."
- "etc etc"

Ich habe gesagt: Jeder kann Politiker werden.
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#MushroomMonday winter edition.

#mushrooms

No strcpy either.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29…

#curl

no strcpy either

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 22 updated and 2 added apps:

* Auto Sleep: save some juice by sending your device to airplane mode (and back) on schedule 🛡️
* Nope Remote: turn your smartphone into a powerful, universal IR remote control 🛡️

Noticable updates: MyLocation had a "foss release" again, and Tactile Clock an update after a year's break.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

I've been debating how to have VoiceOver read the data points for a new section I'm adding to Please Don't Rain for sun events.

I asked on @AppleVis and a couple of users suggesting a setting for more/less verbose.

I'm experimenting with adding it.

#accessibility #a11y #PleaseDontRain

it's crazy that we do this. Sometimes my dog refuses to eat her chicken until it has been washed again or set out for a while (as the chlorine will break down, faster with direct UV light). She must be able to smell it even when we can't.

makes you wonder how much chlorine Americans are ingesting every day
RT: mastodon.scot/users/alanferrie…

Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier@mastodon.scot)

Attached: 1 image When your Chicken Tikka Masala tastes a bit municipal swimming pool, you'll know it's the taste of #Brexit freedom.

^{Alan Ferrier (mastodon.scot)}

Welcome to the RB family, Interstellar 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/one.j…

Interstellar is a Fediverse client for Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed accounts. Having found the final culprit that kept it from being RB (after 6 months, and it was just a single thing to toggle! RBs can be bitches sometimes…), we finally succeeded

So raising the bar a little again, RB status is now at 774 apps (60.5%)

#ReproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Interstellar“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

An open source Mbin & Lemmy client, connecting you to the fediverse.

^{IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser}

You've all seen countless of pictures of cats squeezed into boxes too small to contain them, by their own doing.

This means that cats are able to use clever compression algorithms to reduce their size in that particular situation.

But which algorithm are they using?

#cat

• gzip - it is free and so was the box (28%, 17 votes)
• sit (stuffit) - i fit, i sit (21%, 13 votes)
• lzmaow (40%, 24 votes)
• 7zip - because cats have at least 7 lives (23%, 14 votes)

Pretty cool work from @sophie to see @gnome in numbers

blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/1…

#linux #gnome #data

GNOME in 2025: Some Numbers

As some of you know, I like aggregating data. So here are some random numbers about GNOME in 2025. This post is not about making any point with the numbers I’m sharing. It’s just for fun. So, what...

^{Sophie Herold (Sophie's Blog)}

OK, so I said this before, but sometimes I really hate being blind. On the flipside though, when I watch a show or movie with audio description and it's well done, I sometimes get more information than sighted people.

For example, when Apple TV+ released Hijack, many of the discussions I saw on Reddit were confused about which character was which. I personally found it really easy to follow the plot, because the AD writer was really good about keeping on top of all the fast paced action going on throughout. Also for shows like The Mandalorian or really any Marvel movie, it seems like the description company and studio worked together when creating the AD track. To me, they come across as higher quality and feel more like a part of the show / movie than other descriptive tracks I've heard.

I saw my aunt this weekend. I always admired her growing up: she was a dedicated dancer, bird watcher, traveler, and general arts-enjoyer. I took up ballet and piano because I wanted to be just like her.

I just found out that she started all of those hobbies after she got sober in her 40s, shortly before I was born. Her defining characteristics, in my eyes, have occupied less than half of her life.

It was a nice reminder that you can start a new chapter of your life whenever you’d like.

This launch video for @TIBtv is so well done. It has a bunch of heart, a bunch of charm, and I'm happy this channel exists.

(If you miss the glory days of MTV, watch this. Then tune into The Indie Beat TV.)

tv.gravitons.org/w/vwR6dLps9wR…

• Experiment and have fun with DSP. I want a better TTS engine. (40%, 9 votes)
• Get your arse back into gamedev! (27%, 6 votes)
• You're a musician - where's all your stuff? (4%, 1 vote)
• I want to see what cool new apps you can come up with. (4%, 1 vote)
• You've been saying you'll work on KeyOp V2 forever... (13%, 3 votes)
• I'll reply with something else. (9%, 2 votes)

I'm delaying that livestream for a few days- I have some end-of-the-year stuff to attend to, plus I really want to get my next scripted video out.

Doesn't help that we got snowed in yesterday so I've been tagged in for snow removal!