Was having a problem with #openBSD -current where @thunderbird would cause the system to slow down before crashing the UI completely. I would have to SSH in from another box and reboot and this would take a while.

Seems that problem is now fixed. I’ve had Thunderbird running for two days with no issues.

Although - whenever I think I’m out of the woods….

Having said all this I still prefer #foss to being locked in with no privacy and having my data sold and being used to train LLM’s.

in reply to Jez Caudle

We're glad things are going better, but sorry that things were sluggish for a bit! A good tool to have when this happens is profiling performance, and we've got a useful article here. Hopefully this doesn't happen again, though! support.mozilla.org/kb/profili…

Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!

wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…

#wikipedia #Wikipedia25Years

in reply to Stefan Bohacek

It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.

There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….

#wikipedia

There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.

The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.

Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.

Sign 👇

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse

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#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!

Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.

Check out the blog post at forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v1…

#forgejorelease

My morning dose of supreme irony. Just came across a trailer for a video game called Blind Touch, which I thought sounded like one of the many accessible audio games out there, so I clicked. Nope, not that. Just a game where sighted people simulate being blind. Don’t know how that works because you have to see to play the game. But the trailer had no video description so I had to ask my sighted wife what was going on.

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in reply to Sy Hoekstra

@FreakyFwoof If you want to see what the actual game is about, Jessy Anderson did a video on it. He's a visually impaired game accessibility consultant who also considers accessibility for totally blind gamers in his videos. Haven't watched the whole video but it sounds like this game tries, but has issues. youtube.com/watch?v=Z-baSDu6et…

This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....

The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.

The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.

#archaeohistories