The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs
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Buried at the end of this year's installment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on…Web Performance Calendar
To celebrate the first official Digital Independence Day - with some help of other #opensource enthusiasts - we convinced someone from my family:
✅ to install #Linux on their Mac computer,
✅ created a #Mastodon account for them,
✅ and assisted them in the transition.
It worked out!
Thank you to the anonymous supporter! ;)
#unplugtrump #didit #diday #dutgemacht #foss
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A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.
We are again watching world media be willingly manipulated. Parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed. Normalising international criminality. Sane-washing what is patently not so, and ignoring globally irresponsible behaviour.
A case in point is watching them bend over backwards to try and make coherent the patently incoherent, contradictory rationale the Trump administration has given for its actions in Venezuela.
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Trump cannot think longterm, but those around him do. Giving tacit permission for China to invade Taiwan or Russia to take over Ukraine also paves the way for the US acquisition of the parts of the world they want. And an extreme rise in militarism which requires the suspension of all sorts of everyday rights that are taken for granted in stable democracies.
The US far right needs to be able to point at monstrous aggressive instability to force through their goals of a white, christian US.
It is hard to keep your eye on two games being played at the same time. But this is what has been happening all along. This is why the hard right white Christian nationalists in the US tolerate (and even embrace) Trump.
Not because he has the ability to agree with them ideologically, but because his flagrant global irresponsibility destabilises settled orders enough to make their goals possible.
Should you attend FOSDEM this year, make sure to drop by our stand – and maybe also listen to our talks 
I've just updated the news post at our OpenCollective with details for you, see opencollective.com/izzyondroid…
At our stand, you will find us (with stickers), @SylvieLorxu (the Cat Ima!) also with Catima stickers, @electrikjesus with Bliss goodies, and our friends from @shiftphones with their goodies.
Come to meet us all!
#IzzyOnDroid #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26
Our team will be present at FOSDEM again. And this time, we'll have a stand! We're excited to share a booth with our friends from...opencollective.com
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there's a certain day of the week every year, that allows you to calculate the day of the week for any date that year -- in your head!
for 3 years out of four, it's January 3
in the fourth, in leap year, it's January 4
so for 2026, this day, called Doomsday, is Saturday
The Doomsday Algorithm
rudy.ca/doomsday.html
the easiest part of the Doomsday algorithm is the even months
all of these Doomsdays are Saturdays in 2026 --
April (4th month) 4th
June (6th month) 6th
August (8th month) 8th
October (10th month) 10th
December (12th month) 12th
the other months are fairly easy too, and pretty soon you will be able to do any date this year
check out the 2026 Doomsday calendar below
you can also extend this to other years and even centuries, but it's a bit trickier
the Doomsday Algorithm was originally devised by John Horton Conway, a famous mathematician, who died of COVID in 2020
The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head)rudy.ca
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3D print lettering with Braille and profiled lettering; 3D-Druck-Beschriftung mit Braille- und Profilschrift [www.oskars.org](https://www.oskars.org)Codeberg.org
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Repositories that depend on github.com/curl/curl
According to GitHub there is one.
somehow they've ended up finding a go.mod file in the curl repo?! github.com/Pupibent/spire/blob… but that file doesn't exist, many added manually?
proxy.golang.org/github.com/cu… weird
They must have ran go get github.com/curl/curl and committed it
An attempt to create a webapp. Contribute to Pupibent/spire development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
feuer@social-feuerx-net:~$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda2 30G 7.9G 21G 28% /
You can do it
(I commented this on LinkedIn)
on the fourth day of the year and we have already disclosed 6 Hackerone reports against #curl
This can only end one way.
Techies have been told since middle school that we write "too short" and "not prosaic enough" and with "too many word repetitions".
Now we've invented a machine to take all that effective communication that comes naturally to us and instead make it more normie-approved.
... wat? that didn't solve all the world's problems?
:/
@loke
I mean, that's what we've all been taught though, right?
I had points deducted from papers with the comment "The text includes everything that is required, it was just too short" and a few weeks ago my 13yo came home with the same comment on a test ... :)
@loke
❌ New Year, New Me ❌
✅️ New DIDay, Better Privacy ✅️
For the first #DigitalIndependanceDay of this year: Share which of these Big Tech apps you replaced & with what!
#NewYearNewMe #PrivacyMatters #DIDay #DigitalIndependenceDay
#dobréRáno a pekný deň
@robert non-profit / social benefit status (Gemeinnützigkeit) are only granted to specific kinds of businesses (for example religious, sports, arts & culture and a few more). Open Source / free software development isn’t one of them.
That’s why Mastodon for example moved to the US.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.Mastodon Blog
I don't think that developing open source alone should be a sufficient criterium to obtain fiscal non-profit status. There are a bunch of examples of software that is open source but commercial and clearly profit-orientated at the same time, cf. debian (clearly non-profit) vs. ubuntu/canonical (clearly commercial and profit-orientated).
Also, we don't want to open new avenues for bigtech to avoid paying tayes. We don't want a way for companies to spin out their "open source but not free" software (cf. Tivo) development into subcompanies that are tax-exempt non profits.
A way to do this proberly could be to add a criterium like "strengthening of sovereignty in IT matters"
@robert I agree, but I also needed a word that fits into a Mastodon post. I can leave the legal definition to someone else.
It's normal that the lines around that get blurred. It's pretty common for organisations to have two arms. A for profit one and a non profit one.
In any case keeping software engineers in Germany instead of incentivicing them to move their business to the US is a net positive for the economy irregardless of moral opinions.
Announcing Jabboratory, a partner collective of @joinjabber
Jabboratory aims to be for the people who already have an XMPP account and want to help improve XMPP and the Jabber network.
We use the same CoC as JoinJabber and all the same governance documents. All of them being by Vojkruco codeberg.org/Vojkruco/Cooperat… and we are hosted under the Vojkruco umbrella.
Some of the things we do are:
- specifications (called XCSPs in Jabboratory),
- developer help/documentation and implementation collaboration
- improve XMPP/Jabber network socially (safer spaces, blocklists, outreach, organizing events, pushing for a better non-tech culture, etc.)
or anything else that includes improving XMPP and Jabber network as a whole.
We aim for diversity of ideas, include people directly in all aspects of decision making (protocol, implementations, social, etc.) and build a space where people feel safe to talk, ask for help, bring up any kind of ideas and work with others to implement said ideas. By the community for the community with inclusive decision making to serve the people affected.
you are welcome to join our lounge room here -> invite.joinjabber.org/#lounge@…
It is strictly non-tech because we aim for inclusivity, but we do of course have other channels some of them being tech related🙂
We already have some implementations, servers, and XMPP collectives involved (including JoinJabber) and we are all building a better XMPP and Jabber network together 🙂
#xmpp #jabber #xml #SecureMessaging #decentralization #privacy #security #federated #jabboratory
Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳
On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.
Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.
In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.
¹: tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?s…
#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay #JabberDay
Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).tech.slashdot.org
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@hisold Tuwunel sounds interesting. Thank you. To be honest I lost track after the fork of the fork got forked again.
I’ll have a lot more respect for Matrix once I can deploy that without running any soon to be rug pulled, VC funded Riot-New Vector-Element Inc code.
As far as I can tell, work on the standard has slowed down due to being more and more complete. This is good for projects implementing it.
I think the entire ecosystem is on a good path. It needs fair competition between companies and community projects. Let's wait another 2 years and see what we get.
Ganz fix noch – jetzt alles auch auf Deutsch
Mit diesem Blogpost ist die gesamte Website zweisprachig.
Working on a piece of #music and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Still in very rough early stages, partner says she loves it, others think it's alright but nothing special. Very different from my usual stuff.
Thoughts? Worth spending more time on?
Gibt nichts geileres als sich ausgiebig in der stillen Sauna zu unterhalten...in Gebärdensprache.
Und prompt trifft man andere Gehörlose. 😅
Die Blicke der anderen eh unbezahlbar. 🤭
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