@stefano your blog post on SeaweedFS should come with a huge warning that some operations take FOREVER (I just spent 10 minutes wondering why I couldn't list/create s3 buckets -- kept getting RPC errors, restarted service, looked at logs, rinse and repeat)

and if you copy the toml.sample config files to .toml, it breaks things. You can't just use those config files as-is.

I needed patience. It needs to run for a minute or two before you can do anything which is kind of surprising/annoying

From Facebook. Mental illness isn't a choice.

No one chooses to be so depressed they can’t get out of bed.
No one chooses to be so anxious they have panic attacks every single day.
No one chooses a mental illness that makes life harder.

Mental illness isn’t weakness.
It isn’t laziness.
It isn’t attention-seeking.

It’s invisible pain.
It’s emotional exhaustion.
It’s fighting battles no one else can see.

Sometimes it’s smiling when you’re breaking inside.
Sometimes it’s pretending to be okay because you don’t want to be a burden.
Sometimes it’s waking up each morning and choosing to keep going—even when it hurts.

So if someone’s struggling, don’t ask why they’re like this.
Ask how you can stand beside them.

💜 Let’s make space for the battles we can’t see.
Let’s remind each other that healing takes time—and that it’s okay to not be okay.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* My Quran: a Quran reading app with a powerful search engine

RB status: 758 apps (59.9%)

3 rarely downloaded apps have been removed:

* K2A USB Keyboard: unmaintained since 2019, needs root
* firefly nightly: nothing for a year
* Open Squeeze: last release 2022

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

My parents raised me to... #Poll #Polls #parenting

  • Stand up for myself & fight for what I believed in (39%, 43 votes)
  • keep my head down & follow the rules (44%, 48 votes)
  • other (please comment) (16%, 18 votes)
109 voters. Poll end: in 6 days

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TLDR; Anyone looking for affordable #science #tutoring let me know.

👩‍🔬 <- My aunt is a wonderful human being. She is qualified as a #science teacher and over the last year has undergone quite an upheaval in life, relocating to a totally new area in the process. She’s now looking to get back to work via personal tutoring from the new year onwards.

She’s not in it for the money, preferring to help those less advantaged. If you know anyone in secondary education in the UK who wants/needs extra tuition let me know and I’ll put you in touch.

Ideally she’ll get some work local to her in the #Malvern area (#Worcestershire) that she can do in person, but she can also do a few slots per week remote tutoring via Jitsi or similar.

#PersonalTutor

EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally - techdirt.com/2025/12/04/eus-to… #cjeu has screwed up big time with this one... #gdpr

Wisst ihr, was lustig ist?

Der Staat fand die erste Beta von barrieren-gutachten.de selbst so unglaublich toll, dass sie ab nächste Woche ein eigenes Portal bereitstellen werden, um die Prüfergebnisse anzusehen.

Ich hab vorab Zugriff bekommen und grad mal durchgeklickt.

Es ist schlechter. Es fehlt jede Detailinfo. Es ist unübersichtlich wie sonstwas. Nachprüfungen werden nicht rausgestellt. Es ist langsam.

Und gekostet hat‘s ein Vielfaches. Es ist performative Transparenz — mehr nicht.

Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

Well, it's done. Dropped the CLI commands and REPL interface from acsh, keeping only FUSE, and renamed it to acfs. Also added support for properties and interfaces that were missing, and made the cleanup process more robust. The old repo link should redirect, but the canonical repository is now dev.thewordnerd.info/nolan/acf….

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Just updated the Audio Invaders game @ChanceyFleet and I made! Now with more beeps for easier alien tracking, more chaos in later rounds, updated high score system, and behind-the-scenes tweaks to ensure the game itself doesn't go Kaboom! We take no responsibility for the beeps appearing in your dreams later on. Go blast some aliens! marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

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Games for Blind Gamers Game Jam 5 is starting this feburary! As a community we've made over 100 accessible games, and I'm hoping you'll help make our 5th year anniversarry the most successful ever! Check out how Jam 4 went!

youtube.com/watch?v=KN0VVPbxR6…

I have been working on a question all year which can basically be boiled down to: "what rehumanizes?"

For me, the context is tech, but of course, tech needs to learn from everywhere else in order to see its own deficits.

Taking as a given that we are all existing in broken, cumulatively damaging cultures, I really want to move beyond sitting in that grief and move toward us being able to notice and recognize and ultimately protect repair

in reply to Cat Hicks

I think if all we have to offer a struggling junior career person is "bosses are terrible," we are offering them a world in which they can never be ok because they need to have a job. And we know they need to have a job, and it's self-indulgent for us to screech at them about capitalism when we could be sharing tactics.

So offer, "here is one thing that helps manage a terrible boss," at least

Are there any #mastodon clients which are (in other of importance)

- keyboard driven with Vim like key bindings,
- has nice UI (doesn't matter if it is TUI or GUI),
- display images,
- has native Linux version (I'll survive even Electron),
- remembers position in timeline?

Features like multi column would be great, but after trying many, I'm becoming more modest with my expectations :)

Thanks for tips and boosts.

Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

science.nasa.gov/multimedia/sc…

#nasa

#nasa
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if replies were by default Unlisted (Quiet Public), and if this also meant they didn't get published to your followers, it would be possible to follow e.g., the GrapheneOS account to get their news posts without receiving an infinite timeline of them arguing with every loser on the internet about the security of the OS

we have reached the point where under the right circumstances, your fridge can send you to a mental health facility. because it can show you ads.

eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/115…

I have missed the subway twice because of Face ID. I went to swipe my phone to get through the turnstiles, and found it had been awakening itself and searching for my face unsuccessfully in my pocket. The train closed its doors and drove away as I stood there clumsily entering my passcode using Voiceover, with which it is impossible to type anything efficiently. But hey, at least I always know exactly where my phone is at every single second I’m in public now. Because if I don’t, literally anyone could pick it up, point it at my face without me knowing, and walk away with my unlocked phone. I don’t have to be looking at them either because Apple’s only solution to the fact that blind people can’t look directly at the camera is to turn off the requirement to look directly at the camera. Man I miss Touch ID. And the headphone jack. And buttons… #Blind #Apple #iPhone #Disability

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Seit #Loops föderiert, hab ich begonnen ein wenig in meinen Videos aufzuräumen 😌
Das eine oder andere landet nun auf diesem Loops Account:

@vexplorer@loops.video
Dem sollte man von jedem gängigen #FeidVerse Dienst folgen können 👆
Nichts Besonderes, ab und an Beobachtungen am Wegesrand 🙃
#Video #FediVideo #Shorts #noReel

This year we delivered new Digital Wellbeing features for GNOME including Screen Time history and limits, break reminders for movement and eye health, and improved parental controls with Screen Time integration.

This work was coordinated by the GNOME Foundation thanks to a grant from Endless, and implemented by valued community developers @pwithnall and @ignapk with support from design team member @snwh.

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalWellbeing #FOSS #friendsOfGNOME

прекрасная, поучительная история. хотя конечно же идиотов, которых сотни тысяч, она ни чему не научит… я даже не могу понять, жалко его или не жалко… просто если слущить с чела всю его русскость, аполитичность и вопросы типа а че там такого, да все там норм. кровавый режим гы-гы-гы… то жалко. а если навесить обратно - то выходит редкий случай рандомной справедливости.

кста у меня одна знакомая такая же точно в бельгии жила. гнездо у них там чтоли…

meduza.io/feature/2025/12/04/r…

The Australia under 16, social media ban? It doesn't include Mastadon.

Will there be a bump in young Australians not exposed to highly manipulated insular social media?

Or will
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X (Twitter)
YouTube
Reddit
Twitch
Kick
Threads

work to discredit Mastadon and have it included in the ban?

theguardian.com/media/2025/dec…

🎉 OpenUK Awards 2025 Ceremony has arrived, celebrating the very best in open technology. Tonight, we gather for the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the House of Commons, hosted by Dame Chi Onwurah MP – a spotlight for all things open source. Who will take home the awards? 🏆 Stay tuned as we celebrate the visionaries of open source. openuk.uk/awards/ #openukawards #opensource