#HappyNewYear Japan- Tokyo, South Korea, Palau, Indonesia- Jayapura, East Timor.
As the year is closing by, I thought I will donate to the FOSS projects I'm using regularly. I chose 10 non-commercial projects to which I donated 10$ (or 10€) each, here is the list with a brief explanation:
- @Mastodon
- @openstreetmap
- Obtanium (github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium) - manage apps on GrapheneOS
- @freshrss - self-hosted RSS feed aggregator
- Read You (github.com/ReadYouApp/ReadYou) - RSS reader for Android
- Finamp (github.com/jmshrv/finamp/), @chaphasilor specifically - amazing Android client for Jellyfin media library
- Aegis (github.com/beemdevelopment/aeg…) - 2FA auth app for Android
- RethinkDNS (github.com/celzero/rethink-app) - intelligent DNS manager, VPN and Firewall for Android
- Syncthing (github.com/syncthing) - file synchronization app
- ntfy (github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy) - push notifications service I can self-host
Additionally I sent 10€ to @oscloud. I don't use their services regularly, but I like what they do (and enjoyed this years @openalt_konference streaming through @vhsky).
Thank to all working on #FOSS and making this world a better place!
GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
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As I sit here listening to the coffee percolating it occurs to me that it’s already 2026 in #Australia and other places across the International Date Line. Happy #NewYear to everyone no matter where you are. May 2026 be a better year than 2025, which in many ways isn’t really a high bar to get over.
A long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.
Anyway, happy new year! Hopefully, next year will be better for you.
Going to FOSDEM? Matrix enthusiast? There will be plenty of opportunity to see us!
Between the Decentralised Comm Devroom, our booth, and our hackathon, we will be here in full force!
Reminder that if you start #doctorwho The End of Time Part One tonight at exactly 11:38:41 PM, the Master will shout “Dinnertime!” at midnight
Happy New Year Mastodon!
Pues para terminar bien el año con una muy buena noticia: ya tenemos disponible en la App Store para iPhone mi última aplicación para leer libros: Vox libri apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-libr…
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i'm sick and tired of things changing that I normally wouldn't care about. I don't wanna hear anything new about a ball drop or whatever, or my friends changing their plans last minute, or me not being able to do such and such or go wherever all the sudden even though I've planned for it to happen for a long period of time, I just want stuff to go as planned for five minutes I'm begging and pleading at this point I wanna finish my holiday break off at a good note and things aren't looking so good
#HappyNewYear Australia- Darwin, Alice Springs.
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my mom is helping me with my social media for my dj business advertising or whatever and I told her that I would prefer not to have an Instagram page because I don't agree with Instagram. we wanted to put emphasis on the fact that I'm blind so we can add some value for people hiring me and Instagram is a purely visual app and so I feel like it would be kind of counterproductive. so do you think that that's reasonable? because she told me that that's how I would get more advertising, and she knows what's best, and I need to expand outreach, but then again it's also my business that I'm running and I do not like Instagram as a platform
I think Instagram is kinda the Mastodon or Elten for Gen Z. It's difficult to describe, but yeah I think that a lot music-related stuff is also going on there, like artists connecting with their fans, posting stuff to their story, etc. People will probably check it more frequently or rather, specifically see your content if they follow you through the story rather than you know, dumb scrolling on TikTok or shorts. So I think for something like that IG might actually be useful, but I dislike Meta personally and have no account anymore. But there's the question whether you wanna stand with your values or try to gain attention. Since you guys use Meta anyway I guess go for it. I know several blind people using IG.
Last day of the year.
Am I the only one literally doing nothing on new Year’s Eve? like even considering just sleeping through like usual. The typical person spends this with their family, friends, or whatever sort of group, but honestly I'm not that kind of family person, my parents are going to friends but I don't see myself sitting around and eating for hours so well. Guess wasting my time nerding around in front of this computer, and recording some fireworks later. You know I'm actually bored of my own words at this point, I'm really not trying to make this sound like self-compassion all the time, but well, what can I say. It is how it is. I'm stuck in a weird state between hoping for 26, and not wanting to be naive and knowing stuff will probably stay the same.
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It's just another night. I don't do alcohol, am not big on people past a few who I already see daily, and like a quiet life. With respect, the only thing I would disagree with you on is that it's a bad thing. I'm sure many people love different ways of celebrating, and that's absolutely great, I'm all in favor of celebration/joy/pleasure. I hope everyone who enjoys partying does it for days and remembers it for decades. I'm overjoyed to see people happy doing that sort of thing. It just doesn't make me particularly happy to do it myself.
There's no point in going to bed in London because of the fireworks so I am staying up and will ring in the new year with some other bell ringers.
FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.
Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar
Problems showing CalDAV event series with a modification with THISANDFUTURE set (#1526) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab
Affected version: 41.2 on Linux Mint 22 (Wilma) Bug summary A calendar event with...GitLab
don't forget about gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint…
cc @linuxmint
Remove/replace links pointing to GNOME Calendar, and update branding (#1) · Issues · Linux Mint / pins / mint / gnome-calendar · GitLab
Being one of the core developers of GNOME Calendar, we do not support any of the versions provided and held back by Linux Mint. We would really appreciate...GitLab
#HappyNewYear Guam; Australia- Brisbane; Northern Mariana Islands.
@Piciok Schön, gell? Ich hab nun auch ein experimentelles MIDI Import Feature eingebaut. Muss ich in der ReadMe noch dokumentieren. Du hast ja vielleicht noch Files mit mono Nokia Töne liegen. Ich empfehle, mit zum Beispiel Quick Windows Sequenzer das Material vorzuschneiden und zu quantisieren.
@Piciok Wunder dich nicht: wenn du die Sequenzen mit der CPS abspielst, verschluckt die manchmal sehr kurze Töne. Wenn du den Code Plug dann aber aufs Gerät spielst, gibt dieses korrekt wieder.
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I'm searching for my boykisser pride flag that I forgot to remove on day 4. In the morning of day 5 it was already gone, and unfortunately L&F doesn't have it. It is marked with my name (bluemedia) and I would be thankful if it found its way back to me!
Boosts welcome 
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Kennt sich hier jemand mit GitHub Repositories aus? Ich habe eine Readme Datei für mein Projekt hochgeladen, bei welcher allerdings alle mit Markup formatierten Überschriften nicht angezeigt werden, lediglich die Steuerzeichen werden dem Text vorangestellt und die Formatierung nicht umgewandelt. Was mache ich denn da falsch? github.com/DO9RE/OpenGD77Melod…
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Ne, kein Blödsinn, das passiert.
Auf der Wikipediaseite kann man lesen, dass die Slashes Escape- Zeichen sind, die die Formatierung aufheben.
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I don't watch Linus Tech Tips. I'm not subscribed to their channel. I have, however, watched enough of their videos that the algorithm still sends me notifications about new videos.
Recently, there was something about a $2000 gaming PC. My first cynical thought was that it's just a short where Linus holds up a RAM stick, and it cuts to black.
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UNIFI, 3 hours ago, jt: WiFi Impersonation Detected , U6 Mesh detected a third-party AP broadcasting UniFi Wireless on channel 153 with a signal strength of 39.
Hey, fool, that's another UniFi access point. Come on, you should know better than that. It's on the same controller and everything. Figure out your crap!
The main reason I'm probably not going to get it at the moment is my primary use case would be to use it at my parents place and they use the same SSID as me. I probably need to migrate myself to a new SSID over here as it is more difficult for them to change.
Would love it if people expressing strong opinions about open source declared what project(s) they’ve maintained and for how long.
Would help weed out the uninformed.
Would help weed out the uninformed.
The age-old question has plagued the tribes of men since the dawn of time. Since the first fire was coaxed from stone and the first shadow learned to move without owner. What endures, and what is merely passing?
I stand once again at the threshold of a another new year, watching mortals perform their small rituals of hope. They raise glasses, kiss strangers, make promises they will forget before the snow melts. They count time as if it were a thing that belongs to them. For me, it is only weather.
I am the undying vampire, older than men, older than the trees, younger only than the bare rocks of the mountains. I have watched those rocks split and tumble, have seen forests rise where seas once slept. I feed on the blood of the innocent and renew myself eternally, while generations flare and fade like sparks.
In medieval Hungary I was Szmilágyi the Impaler, feared in whispers and prayers. In Imperial China I reigned for a century as Sma Li the Terrible, my name carved into history by trembling hands. In caveman days I hunted my human prey, saddled upon a sabre-toothed Smilodon, the stars colder then, the nights longer.
Each new year arrives the same way - loud, hopeful, fragile. Another turning of a wheel that will never carry me closer to an end. I watch the fireworks bloom and die, counting neither seconds nor years, only faces. They will all be gone soon enough.
I am the undying nightmare of humankind. The clocks move. The calendars change.
I do not.
#HappyNewYear Australia- Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Solomon Islands, Micronesia- Pohnpei, Vanuatu; Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), Norfolk Island (Kingston)- Australia, Antarctica- Dumont-d'Urville Station.
I got an Amazon delivery last night at around 10:00 PM. Another one this morning at 4:13 AM. I was not *quite* that desperate for the couple of cheap power supplies and a cheap Baofeng walkie talkie. I mean, it could have waited, really.
Over here you can actually pick a day when your stuff is going to be delivered. Isn't that a thing over there?
"I used Claude to make 200 pull requests last month."
That's 9 to 10 PRs per work day.
We keep hearing how it is stupid and irresponsible to take changes from a LLM without careful review by experienced developers.
You can't speak in absolutes, but generally: 9 per day is a reckless amount of PRs for one person to submit. If a project team is actually absorbing this amount of change from each developer on the team, they are rapidly paving a road to hell for themselves and their stakeholders.
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When people talk about how much they are getting done with LLM workflows, we really need to be inspecting these claims. As always: lines of code are not user or business value. What are you actually *delivering*?
The longer I think about this the more convinced I am that use of LLMs for software development is just offshoring 3.0.
Businesses are making a poorly-considered decision that if you can do things fast enough quality doesn't matter. The theory goes that you can ship crap as long as you can ship it fast, and you can ship fixes fast.
The problem is, when you ship crap, you *can't* ship fixes fast. That's literally what makes the product crap.
Is there a migration guide from Proton to @Tutanota somewhere?
On the last day of the year we want to say ♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ for all your support for DAVx⁵! It's been an awesome year and 2026 will be no less for sure 😃 . Thank you for donating to our project, spreading the word and most importantly for using DAVx⁵!
(And if you already donated through our in-app badges function [only available in the Google Play version] you can now consume badges to buy the badges again if you like 🎉😁 ).
See you all in 2026!
Yllätin itseni sillä, ettei GtS:ssä ole enempää käyttöliittymää kuin ehdoton, adminointiin vaadittava minimi, ja se nojaa enemmän mastodon-yhteensopivaan apiin ja sille tehtyihin sovelluksiin.
Joten luulen, että oon nyt kiinnostunut mastodon-ios-sovelluksista joissa on päällä merkintä siitä, että toimivat myös macbookilla.
Monasta oon tykännyt molemmilla alustoilla käytettynä. GTS:n push-ilmoituksia en tosin oo saanut sen kanssa toimimaan, toisella clientillä (Feditext) kyllä pelaavat.
#HappyNewYear Nauru, Tuvalu (while it is not completely under water), Marshall Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati- Tarawa, Antarctica- Casey Station.
I still find it a bit odd that Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) stormed off the stage at #39C3 with ~20 minutes left in their slot without answering any questions. I always think of Chaos events as being among equals, and a Q&A after your presentation is just part of that. But I guess if you are earning close to $1 million a year, you are a bit more equal than others.
I’m wondering if this was prearranged with the organizers and/or the Herold in that session.
I bumped into Meredith twice after the talk and did a small, unplanned talk with her once. She was very approachable. I asked a question to her and got a selfie!
@pietervdvn
Congress is also much bigger than it appears, I have met some people only on the third day when both me and they have been on congress almost the whole day for two days already.
Congress is also much bigger than it appears, I have met some people only on the third day when both me and they have been on congress almost the whole day for two days already.
It's true, I did think we were over time, when in fact we were not over time. But we definitely didn't storm off! We stayed around by the stage for about 15 minutes talking to nice people and answering questions. Then we hung out until late, and again the next day. Hope that helps!
Let's kick off #2026 with #NoBigTech
We've come across this nice SubReddit. Check it out 👉reddit.com/r/NoBigTech/
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I generally compare you to Proton which remains decent but you've surpassed, not Gmail or outlook which are garbage but nonetheless you deserve a congratulations for this.
worst vibe coded website ever. oh sorry, most normal website that vibe coded. (the ratings source site)
❄️ Už to nechci! 😠
@archos co mi chybělo, byly čiré brýle, které někde zmizely, tak v tom sněžení nebylo úplně příjemný. @OttovonWenkoff
If you use a Mac computer with MacOS 14 (Sonoma), 15 (Sequoia) or 26 (Tahoe), you can maybe help me test Gajim (a cool XMPP client) for MacOS!
You can follow instructions on this page and then tell me if it's working (or not):
lithio.fr/gajim/
For now I can only build a x86_64 (Intel) dmg.
Boost can help understanding if a version built on MacOS 14 also work on MacOS 15 and 26 :D
Thanks for your help!
#HappyNewYear New Zealand- Wellington, Tokelau, Fiji, Antarctica-South Pole, McMurdo, Skott stations (all 12 of you); Kiribati- Phoenix Islands.
RE: journa.host/@tferrer/113747058…
Hay historias que me gusta contar todos los años. Esta noche es Nochevieja, así que aquí va la de hoy.
Thiago Ferrer Morini (@tferrer@journa.host)
Este 31 de diciembre, a las 18.20 hora de Moscú, la primera cadena original (#Rusia🇷🇺 tiene dos primeras cadenas. Tiene sentido, pero ahora no importa) de la #televisión📺 rusa va a retransmitir, como todos los años, la misma película.Thiago Ferrer Morini (Journa.host)
He ido a mirar y, para mi sorpresa, este año NO se emite 'Ironía del Destino'. En su lugar pondrán 'Moscú no cree en las lágrimas', una de las tres películas soviéticas ganadoras del Oscar y la única que no es de época. Probablemente en homenaje a su protagonista, Vera Alentova, que falleció la semana pasada.
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Por cierto, ahora en Rusia 1 están poniendo la versión soviética de 'El perro del hortelano', de la que alguna vez he hablado aquí (y da fe de lo popular que sigue siendo) youtube.com/watch?v=tDt1GbUy00…
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#HappyNewYear Chatham Islands- New Zealand. You and your odd timezone and your roughly 701 people. I know someone who was born there. The odds of that must be astronomically low
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