🎉 New Changelog interview!

We're joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and can now deliver packages (up to 8 lbs) directly to your door. They've solved a lot of gnarly technical and regulatory challenges along the way. We go deep with Keenan. We hope you'l...

💫 changelog.fm/670 #podcast

Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip featuring Keenan Wyrobek, Cofounder & CTO of Zipline (Changelog Interviews #670)

We're joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and ca…

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From January 20th, 2026, #books released through #Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) without #DRM will be downloadable as #EPUB or #PDF for users who have purchased them. It will also be possible for no-DRM status to be toggled for existing #ebooks.

It remains to be seen how many #authors and publishers will take advantage of this, whether the files will be watermarked, and if the feature will be available for non-KDP titles.

kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New…

@Friendica Support hello, may i pls get some help on this query about #Circles ?

i have sub-divided my list of follows & followers into several Circles. one of these is for all my followed #newsbots. i have found to my chagrin that a basic design feature of #Friendica is working against me here. atm, if i read a particular newsbot's post whilst in my "Bot" circle, then decide to quote-boost / quote-share it, with some pertinent commentary by me, it's a complete waste of time... the default Friendica permissions / visibility feature makes my resultant post "Locked", ie visible only to members of this circle, ie, a heap of bots. no actual human will ever see it.

[how] can i avoid this? how can i manually allow any/all posts / replies / boosts / shares that i do from this circle, be visible across all the fediverse?

when circles comprise actual human accounts, this baked-in Friendica privacy concept makes sense. it is however actively unhelpful, indeed plain obstructive, for the specific case of a bot circle.

thx.

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Unregulated #AI is worse than useless, part infinity: "Google AI gave false tsunami information after Aomori quake"

asahi.com/ajw/articles/1621411…

#Japan #Earthquake #Tsunami #NoAI

@thunderbird I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.

You gotta find a better way.

Just seen somewhere on the internet:

Person 1: I want to use OpenVPN.

persons 2, 3 and 4: You *really* should use Wireguard. It's more secure, way faster, and easier to deploy. Pretty much everyone has dropped it in favor of Wireguard. Here are a bunch of valid reasons why you shouldn't use OpenVPN in favor of Wireguard, with resources explaining things in great detail in ways that are easy to understand.

Person 1: Yeah, cool. But I'm going to deploy OpenVPN anyway.

Sometime later, in a completely differenct place:

Person 1: I have just deployed a new self-hosted OpenVPN. Wow, this is really slow and kind of annoying to deal with.

Persons 5, 6 and 7: You should have used Wireguard.

in speaking with my colleagues at @delta i began to test multi-transport (multi-relay) functionality.

early testing looks very good on android, just now we wait until all client engineers bring core library into parity.

we are close to being unstoppable.

now is an amazing time to try #deltachat

interested in running #chatmail relay?

chatmail.at/ github.com/chatmail/relay

or contact me. i run several and am happy to help you onboard!

Everything Trump does is a metaphor. He knows only how to destroy, not to build.

Destroy the East Wing with no new design or blueprint.
Destroy US healthcare without having a replacement.
Destroy the US economy without having a fix.
Destroy FEMA with no plan for emergency response.
Destroy environmental regulations without any new protections.

axios.com/2025/12/10/white-hou…

Me: how do I get this text off of this FreeBSD 4.11 VM ? It's too old for me to ssh to it, it doesn't have netcat, and I can't install any software very easily at the moment

*lightbulb*

command > /root/.plan

enable fingerd

finger root@server

haha holy shit it worked

Het is vandaag #GivingTuesday. Dat wist ik eerlijk gezegd ook niet, totdat een advertentie van de Mozilla Foundation me erop wees.

Zoek je nog een goed doel om te steunen? Denk dan eens aan de open source projecten die jouw digitale werkplek mogelijk maken.

Hier zijn enkele suggesties:
- @kde (kde.org/donate/)
- @libreoffice (libreoffice.org/donate/)
- @thunderbird (thunderbird.net/nl/donate/)
- @mozilla (mozillafoundation.org/en/donat…)
- @keepassxc (keepassxc.org/donate/)

Donate and support KDE

Help us create software that gives you full freedom and protects your privacy, and be a part of a great community

^{Donate and support KDE}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 9 updated and 1 added apps:

* SeekPrivacy: "hides" selected files in plain sight by encrypting them transparently 🛡️

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

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}

"What's it like?"
"Death?"
"It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans."

#RedDwarf #RedDwarfReference

The most *chef's kiss* part of this story is when Instacart says it's the stores that set the prices and then the stores point the finger right back at Instacart and say they don't set the prices on the platform.

truthout.org/articles/instacar…

Instacart Reportedly Using Secret AI-Powered Dynamic Pricing to Jack Up Prices

In an experiment, investigators found that the same grocery basket at a Seattle store cost between $114 and $124.

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

1941: fraktur banned for being "jewish"

2025: calibri banned for being "woke"