As Bulgaria is joining the Eurozone tonight, the following changes have been applied in Liberapay.
- The Bulgarian lev (BGN) has disappeared from donation forms.
- All existing donations and scheduled payments in that currency have been converted to the Euro.
- All accounts which had the lev as their main currency have been switched to the Euro.
Congratulations to Bulgaria, and happy new year to everyone!
Aus meiner Sicht ist der #DIday von @marcuwekling eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, das #Fediverse für den Mainstream-Diskurs relevanter zu machen – und damit die Gesellschaft unabhängiger von X, Insta, TikTok etc.
Das ist aber kein Selbstläufer, sondern braucht Aktivismus. Ein sehr wichtiger Hebel sind naheliegenderweise Multiplikator:innen, z.B. Streamer oder Youtuber. Um diese fürs Fediverse zu gewinnen, könnte dedizierte Crowd-Lobby-Arbeit helfen, also z.B. Koordiniert Kommentare schreiben und hochvoten oder das Fediverse in den Commuity-Discord-Servern thematisieren.
Alleine macht das weder Sinn noch Spaß, darum habe ich mal eine Signal Gruppe gegründet. Wer mitmachen will ist herzlich willkommen.
signal.group/#CjQKIAbMYQ5sq9bz…
#39c3 #saveSocial #didit
Ich glaube wir brauchen unsere eigenen (PeerTube) streamer und video creator. Die Leute gehen dahin wo der (exklusive) content ist.
Ohne recommdation algorithm ist es aber extrem schwer sich hier eine audience aufzubauen und der wird teilweise auch aktiv abgelehnt.
gultsch.social/@daniel/1157628…
RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/115758…The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.
If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.
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Friendly reminder, a reverse chronological feed like Mastodon and Pixelfed use are technically algorithms.Mastodon
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We're preparing many exciting things for 2026. Stay tuned! 🚀
Meet us at FOSDEM in Brussels 🇧🇪:
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track…
Here's to a year of digital sovereignty, open source, and independent podcasting!
Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 2/5: Keerthana Krishnan on making friends with Chrome DevTools and transforming it into a powerful tool for deep understanding, debugging, and improving of real-world web performance
calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/c…
Most developers open Chrome DevTools, check a couple of network requests, maybe refresh the page once or twice — and that's it. I used to do the same. Over time, DevTools became something else entirely for me.Web Performance Calendar
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re proud to reflect on a remarkable year for the GNOME community, one defined by innovation, global collaboration, and meaningful contributions from around the world.
# Major Software Milestone:
Our releases represent six months of dedicated work by our vibrant community.
• GNOME LATAM 2025 Aguascalientes, Mexico: our LATAM community organised their annual conference. A space dedicated to collaboration, learning and discussion of Open Source in LATAM.
These gatherings fueled collaboration, nurtured new contributors, and helped shape the roadmap for future GNOME releases and initiatives.
# Thank You to Our Global Community
None of this progress would be possible without our contributors, volunteers, organizers, and users, including developers, designers, translators, mentors, and advocates.
Your passion and commitment to free software continue to drive GNOME forward.
Here’s to an even more innovative and inclusive 2026!
#GNOME #OpenSource #Community #GNOME49 #GUADEC2025 #GNOMEAsia #GNOMELatam #YearInReview
I tried to enable the #GNOME screen reader (aka orca) to test the #accessibility of some application.
I have little experience with screen readers, but the GNOME experience after enabling the screen reader appears to be super bad. I can barely understand the voice. The speech synthesis is horrible, I have heard better in the 90s.
Is this the expected state of free software screen readers? How can I get something usable?
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@menelion it really sounds like that you need to use commercial systems if you have to rely on a screen reader. In all honesty I had expected the situation to be better in the free software world. Not necessarily great, but at least somewhat usable.
As it stands out of the box you are basically lost. At best you need someone with vision and a lot of Linux administration experience to set something workable up for you. At least that's the impression I got.
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@menelion Thanks for the nice words. The article was very interesting. It even seems things have gotten worse in some areas.
To be honest, I can understand how especially screen reader accessibility is rather difficult for developers not currently affected by accessibility issues.
I have some experience with it from years ago, but not much. But I try to learn and improve.
Attached: 1 video @joojmachine@ursal.zone Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS! I can't believe my ears! :psyduck: I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for mos…Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (Mastodon)
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Question to screen reader users, just because I'm curious:
If I write using the occasional homophone, perhaps to make a pun, is that something that is completely lost to you, unless something clues you in to the fact that there might be spelling shenanigans going on?
For example, if I had posted the other day, "I can't wait to see Santa's slay!", would you just have assumed that that last word was "sleigh", and never noticed that it was "slay"? #accessibility #ScreenReaders
On this last day of the year, I want to congratulate France for its termination of the ARENH law 🥳
This law, in full "Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique" or "Regulated access to historic nuclear electricity" was a law that was introduced in 2010 by the then French government under president Sarkozy, that ostensibly aimed to introduce an "energy market" in France.
It worked like this: EDF was forced to make available 100 TWh annually to third party companies that could buy this for a mere 4 cents per kWh. These companies then sold it for "market prices" to consumers. You'd be correct to think that this was a massive forced subsidy by EDF to create its own competition.
To add insult to injury EDF was then forced to buy back the energy that these companies couldn't sell, 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴.
Over the period that this law was in effect, from July 2011 to today, EDF accrued tens of billions of debt. Now that this law is expiring EDF can finally raise their prices, from 4 to 7 cents per kWh, and start investing again in new nuclear builds and pay off that debt.
It is perhaps hard to ascertain the intent of the lawmakers back in 2010, but this type of law would be ideal if you wanted to kill the nuclear sector, which almost succeeded!
Fortunately, this nightmare is now over and we now live in a world where the French value their nuclear assets and are set to expand it by building up to 14 more large reactors in the coming years.
Adieu ARENH 👋
More info on this law:
cre.fr/electricite/marche-de-g…
Le dispositif de l’accès régulé à l’électricité nucléaire historique (ARENH) a été instauré par la loi n° 2010-1488 du 7 décembre 2010 portant nouvelle organisation du marché de l’électricité (dite loi « NOME »).CRE
The whole point of society - all of this - is so that we are all enriched together, that collectively our lives should be better. We invented farms so folks wouldn’t starve.
But a couple thousand years ago a few assholes decided that personal enrichment is the most important thing. For the most part, we’re still going along with that bullshit.
The only way we survive is if we move back to shared enrichment. This coming year, think carefully about how you’re spending your money and labor.
#microsoft just sent me an email telling me an alert in Microsoft Defender needed my attention.
The alert was that my pc is fine, but that I'm able to protect 4 more devices.
I have a question ... DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO GET HACKED? Don't throw false positives at users like that, the f*** is wrong with you? 
#adpocalypse
I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.
I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.
A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.Radek Sienkiewicz (VelvetShark)
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!
Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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!
Download Vox libri by Jonatan Chacon Barbero on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Vox libri.App Store
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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude • • •Me: "Hey Fedi. What is 1+2?"
Fedi: "You should use base ten!"
Fedi: "Don't trust numbers!"
Fedi: "Why not 2-1 eh? Why are you discriminating against the minus symbol?"
Fedi: "Well actually..."
Me: 😮💨
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