Comitis Capital hat den Kauf von Threema vereinbart – final abgeschlossen ist das laut Mitteilung noch nicht (Closing im Jan. 2026 geplant).
Und ja: Threema bleibt weiterhin in der Schweiz (Sitz), aber „Schweizer Souveränität“ ist am Ende auch eine Frage von Eigentümerstruktur, Governance und Transparenz.
Apparently to renew a passport in Canada one has to pay a tax to Adobe, and Microsoft or Apple.
What kind of fucking elbows up is that?
How about you make a form in the web browser and if you need use to have the PDF generate the PDF as the result?
Requiring a single (American) vendor is already a violation of procurement rules. Why isn't it in the communication with citizen?
Non-withstanding that the software IS spyware.
I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.
I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.
But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.
What do I do?
What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.
We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.
Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883068…
fanbois call it Epic Yclic Code
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
RE: cyberplace.social/@Wuzzy/11588…
Good news, i hope to see other project do the same (if technically possible ... of course) @CachyOS @fedora @opensuse @ubuntu @archlinux @flathub @IzzyOnDroid @nixos_org
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.Wuzzy (Cyberplace)
perfect thanks for the clarification, you are right, my brain must have bugged 😂 👍
edit corrected the message :)
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 🤗
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.
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.
RE: social.abolivier.bzh/@brendan/…
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.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 18 updated and 1 added apps:
* Coffee: prevents your screen from dimming or locking 🛡️
RB status: 796 apps (61.9%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid 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
@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.
Thank you.
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) ❤
github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAIGitHub
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 ...YouTube
A Privacy Failure Waiting to HappenDaniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)
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
blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12…
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...blog.monotonous.org
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dear Fediverse,
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?
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.)
A fabulously gay blind author.sightlessscribbles.com
Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local librarywww.libraryextension.com
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…
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.
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…
#accessibility #a11y #blind # disability #eu #europe #inclusion #OpenSource
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Do you get this reference?
"Reelect Goldie Wilson, where progress is his middle name."
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.
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AMERICA’S LASTING GIFT TO GREENLAND!
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.
Promises are cheap. Cleanup is expensive.
Chris
in reply to Kuketz-Blog 🛡 • • •Tuteltud
in reply to Chris • • •maxmoon 🌱
in reply to Tuteltud • • •@roCKyJungE @BlackWolf
Habe nie verstanden warum XMPP nicht geblieben ist, weil in den 90ern hatte es jeder.
Meine Theorie ist, dass sie es nicht mehr Jabber genannt haben und kein Normie XMPP aussprechen konnte.
Tuteltud
in reply to maxmoon 🌱 • • •maxmoon 🌱
in reply to Tuteltud • • •@roCKyJungE @BlackWolf
Wie hast du deiner Familie und Freunden erklärt wie XMPP funktioniert?
Jedem, dem ich auch nur davon erzähle, ist ab dem Punkt komplett überfordert, wenn es darum geht, dass man seinen Server frei wählen kann und ich komme nicht mal an den Punkt, wo man sich seinen Klienten selbst auswählen kann.
Aber heutzutage sind Menschen von ihrer Freiheit irgendwie komplett überfordert und das in vielen Gebieten.
Bin für jeden Tipp dankbar, weil ich möchte gerne mehr Menschen zu XMPP bringen.