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Good morning everyone!!! :)

I’ve had a long and crappy week especially with this horrible weather.

Always remember to be kind to each other and you matter so much. You deserve the best and most amazing moments.

Today we are gonna be talking about hyperbolic orbits

A hyperbolic orbit describes the path of an object that passes through a gravitational system only once and never returns. Unlike circular or elliptical orbits, a hyperbolic trajectory is open, meaning the object has enough speed to escape the gravity of the body it encounters. In our solar system, some comets and interstellar objects follow hyperbolic orbits, briefly swinging past the Sun before heading back into deep space. These paths have an eccentricity greater than one, a key mathematical signature of escape. Hyperbolic orbits are important because they reveal objects that originated elsewhere. A few examples include Oumuamua and 31/ATLAS.

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XMPP @ #FOSDEM

Talk:
Engineering #XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects - Jérôme Sautret & Timothée Jaussoin
Sun, 13:15, AW1.126

Visit the XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW Building, Level 1!

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #federation #messaging

The XMPP Logo
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #interoperability #messaging

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Today at #fosdem26 we listen to @benjaminbellamy the father of @Castopod presenting the project #podilibre to bring freedom and control at every step of the process when producing a podcast.

Check it out at podlibre.org/

Podlibre – Made for Podcasters

podlibre.org
#fosdem26 #podilibre @Castopod @Benjamin Bellamy
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Another NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof tune. Try this one for size:

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@Andre Louis

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Very nice talks at the #Decentralised #Communication room in @fosdem involving @matrix, and @EPFL is on the map! Join us at matrix.epfl.ch

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM26 #Matrix #Element #Sovereinty #EuropeanAlternatives

Matrix homeservers around Europe
Amandine & Matthew presenting Matrix State of the Union at #FOSDEM
#matrix #element #fosdem #communication #decentralised #europeanalternatives #fosdem26 #sovereinty @The Matrix.org Foundation @FOSDEM @EPFL
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I didn’t get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so I’ll ask it out-loud here :)

I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.

If you want to moderate interaction level content, then that’s things like “is this image problematic” or “is this person harassing someone else” and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there

But the collective level is something I’m curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be “harmless” or “not violating” at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?

Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem we’re trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)

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Hazel Weakly

@modulux A good example would be identifying a wave of spam from multiple individual accounts, each one being a “normal” amount of traffic, but the aggregate being a disproportionate amount of volume.

Another would be a group that targets a subset of a community with messages that, individually, do not break any rules but the combined result is that the targeted community members feel so unwelcome that they can’t participate safely in the space without harming their mental health.

When done severely enough and targeted enough, it can erode a community over time to the point where it collapses

@modulux

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#Politique

#IrèneMontero, ancienne #ministre #espagnole de l'Égalité :

« J'espère que la théorie du Grand Remplacement permettra de balayer les fascistes et les racistes de ce pays ».

Question :

Le #GrandRemplacement n'était pas une théorie #complotiste d'#ExtrêmeDroite ?

#Fascistes #Racistes

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#politique #extremedroite #irenemontero #ministre #espagnole #grandremplacement #complotiste #fascistes #racistes
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André Polykanine

Et ce qui est le plus incompréhensible pour moi que ces gens, ces Européens autochtones parlant un français (ou espagnol dans ce cas-ci) parfait ne comprennent pas que, si jamais leur grand remplacement favori aboutit, c'est *eux* qui ne seront plus utiles et eux aussi, ils seront remplacés. Ça commence déja, les politiciens les plus odieux comme Hassan (que tout le monde connaît) parlent déjà d'une « gauche trop blanche ».
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David Falkenberg 🎗️

@menelion

Le problème ne date pas d'hier.

Il y a des gens de gauche et d'extrême gauche qui se détestent parce qu'ils sont blancs. Ils essaient donc d'effacer, via le "multiculturalisme" et le "grand remplacement", une identité qu'ils détestent.

Ils détestent Noël, ils détestent l'histoire de France, pour eux l'histoire de France commence en 1789.

J'ai un ami sénégalais qui est député de gauche au Sénégal. Il me le dit souvent : "Vous avez la gauche la plus bête au monde."

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David Falkenberg 🎗️

@menelion

Cette vidéo confirme malheureusement mon analyse.

#MichelHouellebecq avait identifié très tôt dès le milieu des années 2000 une ligne de fracture idéologique majeure.

La question raciale a progressivement supplanté la question sociale. Le discours s’est déplacé vers une lecture du monde fondée sur la culpabilité collective.

Pour la gauche et l'extrême gauche l’« homme blanc » est érigé en figure du mal historique, moral et politique.

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#michelhouellebecq @André Polykanine
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David Falkenberg 🎗️

@menelion

Exactement.

D'ailleurs, le patron du #PCF (#PartiCommunisteFrançais), #FabienRoussel, a estimé que le #racisme #antiblanc existait.

Résultat ?

Plusieurs #insoumis lui ont reproché de « banaliser des notions venues de l’extrême droite ».

#racisme #pcf #particommunistefrancais #fabienroussel #antiblanc #insoumis @André Polykanine

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my knew favorite thing on the templates tab of @FastSM is this option, right here. Collapse usernames when more than (0 = disabled) I set mine to two and then when a billion people are in a mention, etc. I here something like, @munchkinbear and 2 more. Makes reading long winded mentions with a billion people so much smoother. lol.
@Munchkinbear @FastSM Client
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André Polykanine

@4zv4l I'm totally blind, people like me use special software called screen readers which convey the information for us in speech and/or Braille. Not every app or website is inherently ready for it. It is called digital accessibility, or simply #Accessibility. There are standards and (in several locations) laws enforcing it. The most prominent world standard everyone bases their local laws of is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG, most commonly read as "wick-cagg"). Unfortunately, I didn't find any Matrix client for Windows or web accessible for screen reader users.
#Accessibility @4zv4l
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Elena Brescacin

@menelion @4zv4l What? Elements.io is quite accessible both on app and on browser. I don't know about other apps though.
There should also be possibility to manage matrix and xmpp chats through thunderbird but I haven't used it.
What's quite weird in matrix is the identity verification method when you associate devices to account that asks you if emojis match. So you have to learn emoji by heart like the game "simon says" but for the rest, the Element web and mobile clients are pretty good.
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Element

@menelion We spend a lot of time on accessibility in Element Web/Desktop - it should work fairly well with NVDA and JAWS; we have several screenreader users in the community (as well as govt customers who require WCAG 2.2 AA) to keep us honest. We are *very* appreciative of screenreader bugs though, so if you're hitting problems please do let us know. @4zv4l @matrix
@The Matrix.org Foundation @4zv4l @André Polykanine
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Element

@menelion @4zv4l github.com/element-hq/element-… is the place to file issues for Element Web - you can see the a11y issues here: github.com/element-hq/element-… - 74 open, but 284 closed. And specifically github.com/element-hq/element-… for screenreader issues (9 open, 12 closed)

element-hq/element-web

A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web. Contribute to element-hq/element-web development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#XMPP Community

XMPP is listed at the ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DIDAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.

xmpp.org/2026/02/xmpp-listed-a…

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #messaging #europe #fosdem #whatsapp #di_day

The DI.DAY XMPP switch recipies handouts infront of the XMPP booth at the FOSDEM.

XMPP listed as Alternative Chat at DI.DAY Initiative | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and …
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#xmpp #opensource #whatsapp #Jabber #fosdem #interoperability #europe #messaging #di_day
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✨ Heute ist wieder Digital Independence Day! ✨

aka DI.Day / DUT – und zukünftig auch jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat.
👉 Schon im Kalender? Falls nicht: jetzt! 🗓️💥

Zum DI.Day öffnet bei uns der @cccp seine Türen:
📍 freiLand | Haus 5 | machBar
🕒 Sonntag, 01.02.2026 ab 15:00 Uhr
Fragen? Hürden? Komm vorbei! Wir helfen dir!

🚀 Wichtigster Schritt nach dem Wechsel: drüber reden!
Am besten mit einem DI.DAY Post Generator Bild: qznc.github.io/dot/diday.html

#dit #dut #ditit #dutgemacht

@CCC

Illustration zum „DI.Day“ (Digital Independence Day): Eine stilisierte Person in gelbem Raumanzug und Raumhelm auf dem "CCCP" steht, schwebt kopfüber vor grafischem Hintergrund, darüber der Schriftzug „DI.Day“ mit Mauszeiger. Darunter ein abgesetztes einfarbiges grafisches Feld in dem steht: "Der Macht der IT-Konzerne entfliehen und unabhängiger werden. Die Freiwilligen von MachBar Potsdam und dem Chaos Computer Club helfen dabei."

DI.DAY Image Generator

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#dutgemacht #DUT #dit #ditit @CCC @Chaostreff Potsdam
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freiLand Potsdam

Eine weitere Einordnung: Das Bild findet man am Rechenzentrum in Potsdam. Es wurde von dem Künstler Fritz Eisel unter dem Titel "Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos" zwischen 1969-1971 dort angebracht. Das Rechenzentrum ist für uns in Potsdam ein wichtiger Ort. Zu DDR Zeiten war es das Datenverarbeitungszentrum des Bezirkes Potsdam und heute ist es ein Ort für über 300 Künstler:innen. Zum anderen ist das RZ der David gegen Goliath im Streit um den Wiederaufbau der Garnisonkirche.
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Знаете, мне кажется, мы иногда упускаем интересные эпизоды из жизни дикой природы. У охотников есть термин — чернотроп. Это период, когда зима ещё не наступила, а осень вступает в свою самую глубокую фазу. Серый пейзаж с сухой листвой, низкое тяжёлое небо. В этот момент дикие животные становятся столь же неброскими. Как эта лисица, которую я сфотографировал в декабре. Она была в процессе линьки, её окрас блеклый и потрёпанный, совсем не тот, что мы обычно видим на фото.

Я тогда гулял возле реки и, заметив движение, присел с камерой. На мне не было маскировки, но ожидание было недолгим. Через несколько минут появилась лисица. Она даже не взглянула в мою сторону и пробежала мимо. В период линьки животные теряют свою осторожность. Но, заметив меня, лисица сразу пустилась наутёк.

Теперь, когда зима в разгаре, все лисы снова в своих шубках, и ничего не напоминает об их облезлых нарядах чернотропа. А мне удалось запечатлеть одну из них в непривычном виде.
#natureblogru #лиса #mastoanimals

Лиса стоит среди сухой травы, в процессе линьки в бесснежном декабре.
#natureblogru #лиса #mastoanimals

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Heute ist wieder ein #DID oder #DUT oder #diday.

Wer nach einer Alternative für seinen #Messenger sucht, kann mal ein Blick in #XMPP werfen. Es gibt verschiedene Seiten, auf denen ihr euch informieren könnt.

XMPP ist ein dezentrales, offenes und somit Unabhängigkeit System zum chatten.

Hier mal ein paar Beispiele:

anoxinon.media/blog/xmpp1/

imday.de/de/

joinjabber.org/

freie-messenger.de/xmpp/

XMPP - Teil 1 - Messaging mal anders

Getting started mit XMPP, Messaging mal anders
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#xmpp #messenger #did #diday #DUT

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Okay, for any of you who have NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof installed, paste the following into it. One note sounds a tiny bit short to me, but nevertheless, some of you should definitely recognize this!

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ejabberd

Don't forget to visit the @xmpp booth and to attend the "Decentralized Communication" talks tomorrow:
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track…

Jérôme Sautret and Edhelas will be presenting together: "Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects"

@fosdem #FOSDEM #XMPP


FOSDEM 2026 - Decentralised Communication

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#xmpp #fosdem @FOSDEM @XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation

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Wir haben noch reichlich Flyer für XMPP zum DI.DAY! Kommt vorbei und nehmt einen Packen für euren Hackspace oder eure Bibliothek mit!

#FOSDEM Gebäude AW in der Realtime Lounge!

#XMPP #DIDay #DidIt #DID #DutGemacht #HackSpace #Jabber #Chat #Federation

Zwei Pakete mit Flyern in deutsch und englisch: Rezepte für XMPP
Weg in die Realtime Lounge in Gebäude AW
#xmpp #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #did #hackspace #dutgemacht #didit #diday
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Day 2 of FOSDEM! We've had our coffee and waffles, and we're in Building F to keep answering questions and sharing what's new (and stickers).

And be sure to watch @bogo talk about localizing Thunderbird in K.3.401 today at 14:50 CET!

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

#Thunderbird #fosdem

Wolf and Natalie talking to visitors to the Thunderbird stand at FOSDEM

FOSDEM 2026 - What translating Thunderbird taught me

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#thunderbird #fosdem @Bogomil Shopov - Бого #FOSDEM
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