BorgBackup 1.4.3 was just released!

This is primarily a bugfix release, the Linux and FreeBSD binaries built on Github now have working FUSE support (borg mount).

Our CI testing now includes *BSD and Haiku OS!

github.com/borgbackup/borg/rel…

#borgbackup #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macos #haiku

Release Release 1.4.3 · borgbackup/borg

borgbackup 1.4.3 borg 1.4.x is kind of a refreshed 1.2 with mostly the same features and behavior, but a few bigger changes that could introduce issues and thus were not suitable for just releasing...

^GitHub

I finally started to use #NextCloud #CookBook app together with the android companion app.
Up until now I always searched internet for recepies, picked one, coocked one, done.
But using this app improves the workflow a lot.
1️⃣ You search the recipe once, and then you past the url to the app to download it.
2️⃣ You build a catalogue of favourite recipes which simplyfies decisions on what to cook. No idea what to cook? Just browse favourite recipes and pick something.
3️⃣ You can share recipes among family members
4️⃣ Your recipe is always with you. For example when you're shopping.
5️⃣ No ADS. Recipe pages are cluttered with banners and popups so much, that you can barely read the recipe on the phone. Cookbook just fetches the information from the web and leaves all ads behind.

Thanks for recommending it to me @tomteo

interesting. I think someone has quoted one of my toots. @Tusky cannot display a notification for this and needs me to contact the developer.

I am attempting to do so.

Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes macht eine Umfrage zu Erfahrungen mit Diskriminierung.
diskriminierung-umfrage.de

Ich habe sie ausgefüllt, und die angegebenen 30 Minuten sind realistisch, wenn man (mind.) eine Erfahrung genauer schildern will. Wenn man keine hat oder keine Details angeben möchte, ist die Teilnahme bestimmt auch wichtig.

Gerne Boost.

Die Umfrage zu Diskriminierung in Deutschland - Deine Erfahrung zählt!

Viele Menschen erleben im Alltag Situationen, in denen sie diskriminiert werden. Ob am Arbeitsplatz, in der Schule, in der Freizeit oder bei der Wohnungssuche

^{Umfrage zu Diskriminierung in Deutschland von der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes}

Ich habe IT-Sicherheit nie als großen Sprung erlebt, sondern als viele kleine Entscheidungen – ausgelöst durch alte Fehler, verlorene Daten und langsam wachsende Einsicht. Mein Weg raus aus Bequemlichkeit, Datensilos und Sicherheitsillusionen zeigt: Kontrolle gewinnt man Schritt für Schritt zurück. Vielleicht hilft meine Geschichte euch beim eigenen Anfang. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/it-sicherheit-i…

#security #sicherheit

IT-Sicherheit ist nie fertig – Ein persönlicher Weg über viele Jahre

Von »wird schon nichts passieren« zu echter Kontrolle: Mein persönlicher Weg zu mehr IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und digitaler Selbstbestimmung.

^{www.kuketz-blog.de}

• Whamageddon (0%, 0 votes)
• Advent of Cyber (0%, 0 votes)
• Obojí (0%, 0 votes)
• Co to sakra meleš ty vořechu 😁 (100%, 3 votes)

I hope the next plane hijackers don't have a spare $45 so they can board the plane after an inferior background check is run because it can't possibly be as good as a Real ID right?

We did this bullshit because of terrorism RIGHT?

Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:

1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE is out! Lots of good stuff in this one. I'm looking forward to spinning it up.

lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…

When you embed tweet or tiktok or instagram in an article, you are making sure the whole thing will be irrelevant in a whim, non-withstanding the privacy issues.

If you are a news outlet, it is a fault.

There's nothing more American than commercials on an plane, blasted through the PA system just after boarding.

The announcement asking passengers to ensure that kids can't see the adult content they're watching definitely comes close, though.

Flux version 1.0.2 is finally available for download!
Changelog below.

New in version 1.0.2
* Flux now respects your selected download path in settings.
* Added the promised sleep timer for premium users.
* Fixed tracebacks wwith dataview on Mac OS that prevented audio vault to work smoothly.
* Added the ability to view the changelog through the help menu.
* Upgrades YT-DLP, for this upgrade to function properly, Flux must download the Deno runtime to your computer.
* Downloading YouTube content will no longer error out if you do not have ffmpeg installed.
* It is now possible to load a direct YouTube URL.
* Significantly improved YouTube search. Video and channel searches now load noticeably quicker.
* Updated YouTube module to support direct streaming rather than downloading a temporary file, you should notice a slightly faster loading time when streaming videos.
* You can now see the channel author in search results.
* Flux now reloads volume properly when switching content or reloading from a saved volume state.
* Redesigned help system from scratch to present a viewable list of keyboard shortcuts rather than one big unreadable dialog.
* It is now possible to sort your radio stations in alphabetical order.
* Fixed hard crashes when re-enabling / disabling services in the UI.
* Updated keyboard shortcuts / help to properly reflect disabled services state.
* The position slider in the media player will now sync and move the playback position.
* Internet radio streams with updating metadata will no longer result in tracebacks if the media player was closed.
* Added the ability to export / import podcasts from OPML files.
* Enhanced VoiceOver compatibility on macOS so that status notifications are now delivered consistently across both Mac and Windows.
* Flux can now load m3u8 streams.

Download at ims-productions.com/flux

Made some progress on prototyping a #RP2040 based #USB Audio interface. I got a PIO program to output a good looking TDM signal for 4 channels of 32-bit samples.

Now I can start prototyping the receiving end of the transaction, DMAing samples into RAM and packing them into isochronous USB packets.

#Hardware #PiPico #RaspberryPi #EmbeddedC #Audio #Microcontroller

"2025Q4 Fonts Quarterly": What I worked on so far this quarter: HarfBust solution, #HarfBuzz changes, logos, etc.

docs.google.com/document/d/1o9…

Thanks Google Fonts for financially supporting my work.

2025Q4 Fonts Quarterly

2025Q4 Fonts Quarterly behdadDecember 1, 2025 HarfBust HarfBuzz Sanitizer change Disable kern table for most shapers Backtrack/lookahead per-syllable matcher changes Mega-var-font drawing speedups HarfRust GoogleSansFlex / Roboto-Delta drawing perf …

^{Google Docs}

We've all heard the tale of how to own a Nazi bar, i'm fairly sure.

I was drumming up interest in a local board game group i really enjoy, on my local queer Discord server. I got some interest.

Someone on the board games group's server asked "why did you make a point about us being queer friendly?" Not rudely, just curious.

"Because a lot of community groups are invisibly closed to us. We daren't reveal ourselves because of antipathy to queer folk. This place doesn't do that, at all. So i tell people it's safe, and they feel more comfy coming along."

Someone said, "Oh, so it's like the Nazi bar story, only good." I thought for a moment, and they're right. Sort of. Because unlike Nazis, queer folk aren't an invasive species. We don't push people out. Assholes just self-select choosing not to be associated with a bar that's queer-friendly.

Which is fine, system working as designed.

So...how do we tell the tale of the Queer-friendly bar, and the positive feedback loop that can occur when a business is explicitly friendly to queer folk?

Cause I think that could be a simple, true, and effective point about the great difference between choosing to be nice to Nazis instead of queer folk. Or vice versa, being nice to queers and bum-rushing the Nazis.

The Nazi Bar story is one we all know. Anyone got a proposal for how to do a good tale of how the bar got so lively? "Oh, I bought a drink for this gay fella once, and soon there were loads. But they're great guys, and if ya tell them no, they stop bugging ya, which is giving me weird feelings about how I treat women. And we get a lot fewer assholes, too."

Someone? Got a seed for the good story lurking here? I wanna make us some rippin' good properganda.

According to a headline: "ChatGPT is Going to Start Showing Me Ads..."

No it is not, because I don't use it. Go away.

Enjoy your hallucinated ads for nouns that don't exist, though. That should be fun.

The year is 2050. The collapsed ruins of civilization lie around you. The STM announces that they've finished their implementation of using your phone as a payment system only 1 decade after every other city went to free transit, which was already 10 years too late for humanity.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/0…

Virtual OPUS cards could come to Montreal transit network in 2026

Montreal transit riders will soon be able to swap their plastic OPUS cards for a digital version as the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) advances its overhaul of the region’s fare system.

^{News Staff (CityNews Montreal)}

With modern kernels and mature desktop environments (GNOME/KDE), is X11 finally dead for your daily Linux workflow in 2026?

#linux #wayland #x11 #opensource #gnome #kde #fedora #debian #ubuntu #blender #linuxgaming #software #gaming #gamedev #gamingonlinux #games

• Full Wayland (It just works flawlessly) (71%, 160 votes)
• X11 Only (Due to NVIDIA/Gaming issues) (6%, 14 votes)
• X11 Only (Due to Workflow/Legacy apps) (12%, 28 votes)
• Still Switching (No clear preference) (8%, 19 votes)
• What is X11? (I'm new) 👶 (1%, 3 votes)

from a random community chat: "#Telegram secret chats exist so you can share your #deltachat QR/link to get off Telegram 😇"

In related news, Arte published a well-done documentary film about "Telegram, the dark empire of Pawel Durov" up (german audio only) arte.tv/de/videos/122721-000-A… -- it's a dive into various TG happenings during the last decades, biographical origins of telegram development, the durov brothers etc..

Telegram - Das dunkle Imperium von Pawel Durow - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Letzte Bastion der Meinungsfreiheit oder Spielwiese für Extremisten und Kriminelle? Am Messenger-Dienst Telegram scheiden sich die Geister. Genau wie an seinem mysteriösen Gründer, dem Tech-Milliardär Pawel Durow.

^ARTE