It attempts to fit solutions from potentially very different domains together with corrective code "epicycles" until it satisfies its context, the user, and tests. 4/7
YES YES YES!
#Gentoo is planning to ditch #GitHub in favor of #Codeberg.
They mention the continued attempts to force #Copilot into the workflows as a reason.
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.
IzzyOnDroid never was at Github. We started at GitLab, but our current home is codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid (with just a single repo remaining at GitLab, which we hope to "move over" soon as well 🤞)
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No prob (as it feels like 98% of everything is captured there by MS, as often also on the desktop, such things can happen far too easy).
Besides: not only am I AT Codeberg, I'm IN, being a Codeberg e.V. member. Actually, I almost was a founding member back then. Did you know the original name was TeaHub? 😉
So, we're working closely together. Codeberg also runs one of our mirrors 🤗
oh i will check on this mirror, and i didn't know it was teahub, but knowing it forgejo is based on Gitea before their hardfork, the name seem logic ^^
None of those apps ever where at IzzyOnDroid; most of them are beyond our per-app size limit. Unfortunately, we cannot cover everything – and yes, I get the disappointment (and do not take it as "bashing" 😉)…
A basic repo you mean? I have some old guides how I started IzzyOnDroid about 10 years ago. I'd have something else in mind instead, but it's not ready yet for "prime time" (you could say it's still WIP)…
If you're going to @fosdem be sure to find us in Building F AND be sure to check out @brendan 's talk! We can't wait to see everyone, and don't worry, we're bringing all the stickers.
Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.
Today I became a GNOME friend! It was my first donation to an open source project. The level of satisfaction this gave me is immeasurable. Thanks everyone at @gnome for the amazing software I use everyday with pleasure!
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).
PS: we had to roll back the Sefirah update, which was shortly visible, as it added several proprietary libraries (issue open and will hopefully be worked upon). Instead, the already pending DeJpeg update made it live…
@thunderbird Hey TB Team. I really never need HTML-formatting in event descriptions. How can I turn that off? It is really bugging me to see format options there.
Unfortunately this is something that can't be turned off right now. You could suggest a toggle switch at connect.mozilla.org, especially as we are working on refreshing our Calendar UI!
We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ❤
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission ...
Y a-t-il ici des spécialistes ou des passionnés par la phonétique française ? J'entends de plus en plus le mot « quand » avec un « t » prononcé avant une consonne : «quanT-le pays », par exemple. Est-ce une nouvelle tendance que j'ai pas remarquée ? #Langues #Français #Phonétique
I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility
In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API. The tree structure, an object attribu...
It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-…
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
I remember a while back there was a petition asking the Government of Canada to setup their own fediverse instance and the reply was really off topic. I have lost the link. Anyone remembers?
I’ve written several times trying to get someone—anyone— to show a little initiative on this file. Crickets so far. Undeterred, here we go again. I’ll let you guys know if I get a resoonse this time. #x #GROK
Perhaps the single most certain thing about generative AI is that developing "skill" with prompting AI has very little value as any sort of long term "investment".
* If the technology improves rapidly, any tricks you learn now will soon be irrelevant. * If the technology stagnates, it just won't be nearly as useful or important as the people preaching about it claim. (If it's even useful at all for the things you might want to use it for.)
*sigh* Hoopla's catalog system is broken. If I click on an audiobook narrator's link, only *some* of their titles appear, as an example. Same for authors. Unfortunately, Libby has a better catalog system but Hoopla has better audio quality. To fix this, download the Library Extension for your web browser and browse Audible. You will find titles neither system appears to have, but this extension finds them. libraryextension.com/ #Library #Libraries
Just wanted to install an #XMPP client to create an account to test something. I moved away to #Matrix years ago because I had no hope anymore for #XMPP, but now that I wanted to create an account, I am just shocked at how dead it is: #Fedora still has Gajim 1.7.3, when the last release is 2.4.1. #pkgsrc is a bit but noch much better with 2.1.1. #Tkabber is even worse: pkgsrc has 0.11.1, when 1.1.2 is the latest release that was released in 2015(!). It seems distributions keep XMPP clients around, but don’t update them because nobody is using them anymore. I had not expected for XMPP to be that dead. That’s shocking.
I also think if distributions cannot be bothered to update a package in over 10 years, they should just remove it…
The situation of @gajim in Fedora repositories is sad, but @dino is up to date there. flatpak is also an option to get the latest gajim, or run from source. I actually use a fedora laptop for work, maybe some day I'll look into what's missing for gajim to be up-to-date in fedora again...
Když jsem stavěl dům, tak mi stavař neřekl jednu podstatnou věc: Kanál v garáži má být pod každým autem, ne uprostřed. Protože jak steče sníh, tak se zrovna já "brodím" ve vodě. Žena to vyhrála
my to máme pod autem, ale nemáme tam žádný spád, takže nám tam nic neteče. Stavbyvedoucí nám na to řekl, že to je jenom servisní odtok a vyspádovaná podlaha v garáži se nedělá. 🤷🙂 Každou zimu na to nadávám.
"I don't believe this was a fair test of my command abilities." Saavik- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Stardate: 8130.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekFilm #IDIC #Quote
Sent my feedback on public initiative for European commission and open source. Placed my name - I am proud and active on what I'm doing, talked as a blind european citizen. Every european relying on accessibility should talk now.
Ask your pressing questions live or in advance and get clear answers on adopting Nextcloud as a Microsoft 365 alternative, including demos and real-world migration insights.
Anybody still shopping at Target? I haven't in a year.
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
Hi all. So, we are back at square one. Magnesium cream has now decided to stop working. Sleep meds don't let me sleep. I'm just trying to get through as best I can, thanks to the amazingly kind people who asked how I'm really doing. It's looking like I might have to go into a hospice for a few days to see if they can stabilize me. Ho hum, I'll just look it in the teeth and dare it to kick me! Lol!
While they promise new airports, here is the infrastructure they already gave us: 10,000+ rusting oil drums at Bluie East Two. Left for 80 years. Leaking into the soil. Who pays for the cleanup? NOT THE USA.
#Friendica just dropped an important update that pre-generates the content of channels - considering that the home feed is itself a channel (and can easily take over a minute to load sometimes) this might well make Friendica finally becomes properly usable in #SelfHosting hardware. Time to test! #Friendica
Mac TweeseCake eaters, how do you get TweeseCake to appear in the list of apps that are allowed to use the microphone? This is on a fairly old Mac OS, Ventura I think. Can't send voice messages yet, the record button does nothing, the person I'm trying to help doesn't get any system prompts to allow access and when we went to System Settings, Privacy and Security, Microphone, there's not a button to add an app there, only a list of apps that have requested access. Any advice welcome.
it is with an extremely heavy heart that i inform you all that Ralph Giles aka @rillian at many places died suddenly of a heart attack over the weekend. i will miss him so much.
Small hypothesis: I bet people like AI chat interfaces in some part because they are “clean” – simple text, easy to process, consistent visuals, no ads, no pop-ups, etc.
To use a cliche example: Even if it wasn’t in any way “smarter,” it’d still be nicer to ask ChatGPT for a recipe than go to a webpage to read that recipe. Its interface is a natural “reader mode.”
I think it very well might, because of the difference in their nature.
Recipe webpages are strictly transactional. Their main purpose is to squeeze as much juice out of you *on this visit* as they can, and they compete in an extremely brutal, low-margin economy against other pages which have the same content and are attempting the same thing. There's 0 brand loyalty, there are no switching costs, if the page falls down in SEO rankings, they'll have 0 revenue after a week. This means that if they already have a customer "hooked", they need to shove as many ads in their face as they can. Next week, that customer won't remember whether the awful domain was online-recipes[.]com or recipesonline[.]us anyway.
Chatbots are different, as most people only use one. That means there's value in keeping the customer hooked, and giving them access to useful info when nobody else will is a great way to do this.
In an AI chatbot, the goals of squeezing as much money out of that customer and keeping that customer for themselves are at odds with eachother, and both of these goals are important.
I don't think they'll stay as pleasant to use as they are, but I also don't think they'll ever get anywhere near as bad as recipe websites.
Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.
I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase. 1/7
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Codeberg.orgLΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •perfect thanks for the clarification, you are right, my brain must have bugged 😂 👍
edit corrected the message :)
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in reply to LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 • • •No prob (as it feels like 98% of everything is captured there by MS, as often also on the desktop, such things can happen far too easy).
Besides: not only am I AT Codeberg, I'm IN, being a Codeberg e.V. member. Actually, I almost was a founding member back then. Did you know the original name was TeaHub? 😉
So, we're working closely together. Codeberg also runs one of our mirrors 🤗
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •but sadly the only apps, i would have used izzy on droid where removed due to their author demand or are not here :
- Bitwarden
- Molly
- Steam apk
- Cromite (webrowser)
it's not bashing i understand you respect author decision, just find it sad :)
May try to ind a simple way to make a fdroid repo (without their app), and host them myself.
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •any recommendation on how to start up a basec one ?
because their doc, are confusing, and their "use the flatpak" don't work as the flatpak don't even start.
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