There’s a GNOME hacker currently in an unsafe living situation. Unfortunately I can’t commit to hosting someone at my place, but can any of my friends out there provide a safe temporary living situation within the continental US?

Please contact @deobald (or reply privately here and I can connect you).

fantastic.earth/@deobald/11480…

Steven Deobald

2025-07-05 18:09:11

this week’s @gnome foundation report is out:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…

there’s a small appeal at the end for some help for a hacker who is currently in an unsafe situation in the usa. if you can help, please contact me.

#gnome

2025-07-05 Foundation Update

## The Cat's Out Of The Bag Since some of you are bound to see this Reddit comment, and my reply, it's probably useful for me to address it in a more public forum, even if it violates my "No...

^{Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)}

To my fellow Monarch users.
in this video concerning the 1.3 firmware release of the Monarch, it mentions that the WingIt drawing iOS app is now available, just wondering if its only in the US iOS App Store as I can't locate it as yet down here in Australia?

share.synthesia.io/92e56c19-3a…

Monarch Version 1.3 Introduction

Watch the AI video "Monarch Version 1.3 Introduction" generated with Synthesia.

^synthesia.io

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future…

Shit. SHIT!
#Klimakatstrophe

Meldung von Met4Cast:

"We’re going to need a bigger scale..

The exceptional mediterranean heatwave continues with anomalies close to 8°C above average.

This is around 9 standard deviations above normal. 5 is considered an exceptional, once in a several thousand year event. This is EXTREME."

Wer's überprüfen will:

apps.socib.es/subregmed-indica…

The #XMPP Newsletter for June 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

xmpp.org/2025/07/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation

Rozpada sa nam stat:

"#Slovensko má zanedbané verejné investície a ľudia si to nemôžu nevšimnúť. Padajúce omietky v nemocnici, odrieknuté a meškajúce vlaky či chátrajúce budovy sú výsledkom toho, že štát nevie šetriť a čo zarobí, minie na bežné výdavky.

Verejné investície sú na Slovensku najmenšie v regióne strednej a východnej Európy, sú také nízke, že stačia iba na nevyhnutnú obnovu…"

🔒e.dennikn.sk/4733651/graf-dna-…

Graf dňa: Nečudo, že padajú omietky, Slovensko nevie šetriť a má najmenšie verejné investície v regióne

Kým okolité štáty vedia zo sto eur príjmov 2 až 5 eur ušetriť a použiť na investície, Slovensko všetko minie. Dôvodom nie sú nízke príjmy štátu, ale to, že veľa dáva na sociálnu politiku, zdravotníctvo a vnútornú obranu.

^{Martina Kláseková (Denník N)}

„Priatelia, prajem nám, aby sme tu žili v rešpekte a porozumení, pretože tu žijeme všetci, rovní sme si v srdci a nezmení to ani žiadna zlá vôľa.“ Po týchto slovách zahral [Michal Noga] s kapelou pieseň Poniže Raslavíc, ktorá tiež nesie melódiu štátnej hymny."

🔒dennikn.sk/4732313/vychodna-je…

Východná je viac ako vypískanie Šimkovičovej. Je to hrdosť na hymnu, oslava rozmanitosti, spontánne tance aj protest song

Žijeme tu všetci, rovní sme si v srdci a nič na tom nezmení zlá vôľa. Reportáž z festivalu vo Východnej.

^{Nina Janešíková (Denník N)}

"Nebojím, nebojím sa pána!"

youtu.be/VOxyiWoZnmQ

p.s.: Resp. bojim. Pankovia ukradli stat a vedia aj chcu ho pouzit kludne aj proti mne. Takze som si vedomi, ze vystrcenie hlavy z davu je riziko. A tak o.i. dufam, ze tu hlavu spolu so mnou vystrcia aj ini. Par ju vystrcilo uz predo mnou => velka vdaka + zavazok vystrcit tiez.

edit: plus toto: beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/11…

Nebojím, nebojím sa pána!

Provided to YouTube by Repost NetworkNebojím, nebojím sa pána! · MUZIČKA · NOGABAND · Miloš Bobáň · MUZIČKA · Mária BrdárskaNebojím, nebojím sa pána!℗ MUZIČK...

^YouTube

I was nerd-sniped by @bagder (mastodon.social/@bagder/114810…) into looking at how rustls-ffi stacks up against OpenSSL on memory allocations/peak heap usage when plugged in as a curl vTLS backend.

Headlines:
* with rustls-ffi 0.15.0: 2,176 allocations. peak heap of 394kB.
* with openssl 3.4.1: 308,132 allocations (!). peak heap of 2.1MB

Tested on Linux, with curl 8.14.1 and OpenSSL 3.4.1 (latest in nixpkgs) vs rustls-ffi 0.15.0

Full disclosure: bagder's measurements w/ the newer OpenSSL 3.5.1 show an improvement. It"only" performs 54,000 allocations....

daniel:// stenberg://

2025-07-07 08:25:10

1.Download curl.se using #curl built to use OpenSSL (that is over HTTPS in case Mastodon hides the scheme for you)
2. count number of allocations made with heaptrack
3. pause for gasping
4. double-check that curl only does 134 allocs itself, independently of the downloaded size
5. check the heaptrack number again

54,000

hm

curl

^curl.se

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* Torrent Search: search and download torrents from multiple providers 🛡️

RB status: 640 apps (48.4%)

(Bill once said something like "640 should be enough for everybody, but we of course won't stop there)

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

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}

justice.gov/video-files/video1…

why are they being so proactive with the coverup suddenly, why not just let it fade away?

#WenkoffRetro No. 237 🎶❤️
#retromusic

PPP [pondělí plné pohody] s hudebním kalendářem!

*Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen* (1949) je 🇺🇸 rockový zpěvák, kytarista a autor, jehož není třeba dlouze představovat.

Průkopník tzv. *heartland rocku* se na hudební scéně pohybuje neuvěřitelných 60 let. Dosud vydal 21 studiových alb s prodejem přes 140 milionů ks a je držitelem 20 cen Grammy.

Jeho 7. album *Born In The U.S.A* dosáhlo 7.7.1984 vrcholu 🇺🇸 Album Chart a vydrželo v žebříčku 139 týdnů! 😎👇

Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.

Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.

Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.

holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-f…

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) has been live since last week, what you've missed:

* More categories and a Client bugfix WiP
* More appid and key changes
* #DAVx5 now with #UnifiedPush support
* #FennecFDroid search engine shenanigans, check your settings now!
* 15 years on #OSMAnd and better navigation
+ 4 new apps
& 131 more updates

Get up to speed: f-droid.org/2025/07/03/twif.ht…

Bugs, fixes and a push for the better | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Jul 2025, Week 27F-Droid coreUnattended updates spoiled us all, updates come and go, no need to ever open th...

^f-droid.org

I really wish more politicians understood that giving people benefits stimulates the economy. It's not some black hole the money disappears into. But it drives growth. Part of the reason the UK economy is so lackluster, is that the amount we provide to those most in need is so punitively low. If we doubled benefits, increased the eligibility, it would be a massive boost to the economy, and to society.

And above all. It would be more humane than the current approach.

youtu.be/m14VXvel3l4

The economics of benefits: why paying them makes us richer

Politicians keep telling us that benefits are a black hole draining the economy. The truth? They’re one of the best ways to grow it. In this video, I explain...

^YouTube

#mastobada - vent

Faun - Mit dem Wind

Lass uns ziehn mit dem Wind
Denn wohin er uns bringt
Werden Zweifelzu Rauch
Weil du hier bist
Lass uns gehn und wir sind
Endlich frei wie der Wind
Wie die Vögel ziehn wir
Weit übers Meer

youtube.com/watch?v=_0Co2vT6qX…

Mit dem Wind

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupMit dem Wind · FaunVon den Elben℗ 2013 Valicon Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG, under exclusive license to WE LOVE MU...

^YouTube

Woo, the new @matrix Conference website is out, and I'm very happy with the result 🥳

conference.matrix.org