KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps
KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.
Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.
KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner m…
On this day in 2006, 18 years ago, I started offering the Mozilla CA cert bundle as a PEM file for everyone to use. The service is still running, uninterrupted, ever since.
Today is **fifteen years** since I posted about the "null-prefix domino" - common problems in TLS server certificate verification functions in many projects, including #curl
Oyes, ¿recordáis cuando medio internet daba la matraca sobre como "estar sentado es el nuevo fumar" y como nos vendían los "standing decks" como la gran revolución en el mundo de la salud laboral y casi una obligación si no querías morir de un infarto en tu silla de trabajo?
Pues acaba de salir un estudio al respecto y adivinad qué: no solo no reducen la mortalidad sino que aumentan el riesgo de varices y trombosis venosa profunda.
AbstractBackground. Previous studies have indicated that standing may be beneficially associated with surrogate metabolic markers, whereas more time spent
Oh look, a setup video for your shiny new AOL Optimized PC. Wow ... I never even knew there was such a thing back in the day but here's the video nevertheless: youtube.com/watch?v=GLZqC3Mbj5…
Speaking of #MyAdoredDaughter this morning... I don't know if I ever posted this photo.
This is ... my daughter? This is how she looks like, exactly - a beautiful, young person with long legs, and wonderful hair. And she keeps telling me "OMG, we look so alike, we could be twins..."
... but no, this is not a photo of her, this is a selfie of me reflected in a window. When I saw myself reflected in that window, I had to take a selfie and send it to her and she was absolutely amazed at how similar we look now, really, like twins, everything, the form, hair, posture, arms, legs, ... only her face is slightly different (and way younger, obviously 🥰
Wow that is amazing! And fascinating. So, does your daughter resemble you more than she resembles your wife? Just curious.
Inheritance can be a funny thing. I resemble my dad in many ways. But in some respects, I take much more strongly after the men in my mom’s family, especially the body hair and the shape of the nose. Also, my hair has always been darker than my dad’s, although he and I definitely share the tendency for full hair even at advanced age, whereas the men in my mom’s family are almost all bald. It is wondrous how genes sometimes mix.
@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.
But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.
In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).
Oh I understand! Sorry for my premature assumption that your wife was your daughter’s biological mother. Then, it is even more interesting that you three look so alike.
Lets try that again. If you haven't tried it yet, the Google Notebook LLM is quite interesting. It can take any notes, documents, manuals, etc., and create an AI-generated podcast-style output. For example, I ran last month's AppleVis Newsletter for September through this service. It's pretty long to listen to, but I was amazed by what it produced. :)
The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please spread the word widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Up to four scholarships will be awarded: one in the amount of $3,000.00, 2 in the amount of $1,500.
I’ve always lived on the west coast so when east coast friends told me years ago that Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets I’d be like “what?! but every town has one!” and they’d say “yep”
Anyway, this sign is 100’ from Louisville’s Market St
A new version of the popular Rufus utility once again bypasses the strict hardware compatibility requirements for Windows 11 upgrades. Your move, Microsoft.
So this is a thing now. Adventures in Senior Dog Ownership. 🙄 The Old Pug is super weird about mealtimes now. She's ravenous. Then she won't eat. Then she tries to eat the Retriever's food. Now she will only eat her breakfast when it's next to the Retriever. Not her dinner though. She wants her dinner other side of the kitchen next to the water dish. Ah well. Whatever makes the old gal happy. 😄 #Pug #Pugs #DogsOfMastodon
In this article, you will learn how to install curl (and libcurl) on a Linux system and how to use curl in your daily computing work with practical examples.
I hadn't really thought of it in terms of a *bug*, but you know, it *is* awfully hard to see. I don't have time right now to grab the nightly and go through the proper bug reporting procedure, but if I get a chance to tomorrow, I'll let you know.
Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, an…
hej presne ja som sa tiež čudoval ale je to asi tou poslednou aktualizáciou čo zmenila aj vzhľad webového rozhrania. Nepáči sa mi to ale asi to prežijem.
Wow! I'm making #Bandwagon -- an open source, community-focused alternative to #Bandcamp that anyone can self-host.
As of this morning, there are 99 #Musicians and #Bands who have set up #Fediverse profiles on bandwagon.fm -- and half of those already indexable on search engines.
So I'm humbled by the number of people who are giving it a go. There's obviously lots of people out there looking for something new.
I promise to do my best to give y'all the tools you deserve.
I hope so too. #Accessibility is important -- especially for an app based on music
I've talked to a couple of screen reader users, who have bravely volunteered to test out early versions of this code
They've told me that it works well (mostly) and I'm still running through their feedback to make things better
So I won't say Bandwagon is 100% WCAG compliant, but please try it out and let me know if you have any trouble. I jump on accessibility issues as quick as possible
I have been looking for a simple but comprehensive self-hosted alternative to Bandcamp, and I have to say this is very nice so far.
I also love the Emissary default template, everything so far works great with screen reading software and it's lightweight to run on a Raspberry Pi. Thank you
Really? It runs on a Rasberry Pi??Thats awesome. You made my day!
If you’re self-hosting, lots of things are changing rapidly with Bandwagon, so we should connect somewhere (email, Mastodon, GitHub) so I can make sure I don’t break your site.
Thank you very much for the offer. At the moment there are a few missing things, such as embeddable tracks or possibly some sort of payment processor support, so I'm holding off on hosting it in production for now, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on how things will end up. Even without Fedi support, there is nothing out there which is as simple to set up and use as Bandwagon, so that's a plus as well.
I also really like the way Emissary works, it's quite inspiring and refreshing to see high quality software being contributed back to the open source community.
On this day (or near it) in 2015, I joined the Mozilla project by starting work as a full-time employee of Mozilla Corporation. I’m two hardware refreshes in (I was bad for doing them on time, leaving my 2017 refresh until 2018 and my 2020 refresh until 2022! (though, admittedly, the 2020 refresh was actually pushed to the end of 2021 by a policy change in early 2020 moving from 2-year to 3-year refreshes)) and facing a third in February. Organizationally, I’m three CEOs and sixty reorgs in.
I’m still working on Data, same as last year. And I’m still trying to move Firefox Desktop to use solely Glean for its data collection system. Some of my predictions from last year’s moziversary post came true: I continued working on client code in Firefox Desktop, I hardly blogged at all, we continue to support collections in all of Legacy Telemetry’s systems (though we’ve excitingly just removed some big APIs), Glean has continued to gain ground in Firefox Desktop (we’re up to 4134 metrics at time of writing), and “FOG Migration” has continued to not happen (I suppose it was one missed prediction that top-down guidance would change — it hasn’t, but interpretations of it sure have), and I’m publishing this moziversary blog post a little ahead of my moziversary instead of after it.
My biggest missed prediction was “We will quietly stop talking about AI so much, in the same way most firms have stopped talking about Web3 this year”. Mozilla, both Corporation and Foundation, seem unable to stop talking about AI (a phrase here meaning “large generative models built on extractive data mining which use chatbot UI”). Which, I mean, fair: it’s consuming basically all the oxygen and money in the industry at the moment. We have to have a position on it, and it’s appropriating “Open” language that Mozilla has a vested interest in protecting (though you’d be excused for forgetting that given how little we’ve tried to work with the FSF and assorted other orgs trying to shepherd the ideas and values of Open Source in the recent past). But we’ve for some reason been building products around these chatbots without interrogating whether that’s a good thing.
And you’d think with all our worry about what a definition of Open Source might mean, we’d make certain to only release products that are Open Source. Butno.
I understand why we’re diving into products and trying to release innovative things in product shape… but Mozilla is famously terrible at building products. We’re okay at building services (I’m a fan of both Monitor and Relay). But where we seem to truly excel is in building platforms and infrastructure.
We build Firefox, the only independent browser, a train that runs on the rails of the Web. We build Common Voice, a community and platform for getting underserved languages (where which languages are used is determined by the community) the support they need. We built Rust, a memory-safe systems language that is now succeeding without Mozilla’s help. We built Hubs, a platform for bringing people together in virtual space with nothing but a web browser.
We’re just so much better at platforms and infrastructure. Why we don’t lean more into that, I don’t know.
How can Mozilla make money if our search deal becomes illegal? Maintaining a browser is expensive. Hosting services is expensive. Keeping the tech giants on their toes and compelling them to be better is expensive. We need money, and we’ve learned that there is no world where donations will be enough to fund even just the necessary work let alone any innovations we might try.
How do you monetize a platform? How do you monetize infrastructure?
Governments do it through taxation and funding. But Mozilla Corporation isn’t a government agency. It’s a conventional Silicon Valley private capital corporation (its relationship to Mozilla Foundation is unconventional, true, but I argue that’s irrelevant to how MoCo organizes itself these days). And the only process by which Silicon Valley seems to understand how to extract money to pay off their venture capitalists is products and consumers.
Now, Mozilla Corporation doesn’t have venture capital. You can read in the State of Mozilla that we operate at a profit each and every year with net assets valued at over a billion USD. But the environment in which MoCo operates — the place from which we hire our C-Suite, the place where the people writing the checks live — is saturated in venture capital and the ways of thinking it encourages.
This means Mozilla Corporation acts like its Bay Area peers, even though it’s special. Even though it doesn’t have to.
This means it does layoffs even when it doesn’t need to. Even when there’s no shareholders or fund managers to impress.
This means it increasingly speaks in terms of products and customers instead of projects and users.
This means it quickly loses sight of anything specifically Mozilla-ish about Mozilla (like the community that underpins specific systems crucial to us continuing to exist (support and l10n for two examples) as well as the general systems of word-of-mouth and keeping Mozilla and Firefox relevant enough that tech press keep writing about us and grandpas keep installing us) because it doesn’t fit the patterns of thought that developed while directing leveraged capital.
(( Which I don’t like, if my tone isn’t coming across clearly enough for you to have guessed. ))
Okay, that’s more than enough editorial for a Moziversary post. Let’s get to the predictions for the next year:
I still won’t blog as much as I’d like,
“FOG Migration” might actually happen! We’ve finally managed to convince Firefox folks just how great Glean is and they might actually commit official resources! I predict that we’re still sending Legacy Telemetry by the end of next year, but only bits and pieces. A weak shadow of what we send today.
There’ll be an All Hands, but depending on the result of the US federal election in November I might not attend because its location has been announced as Washington DC and I don’t know if the United States will be in a state next year to be trusted to keep me safe,
We will stop putting AI in everything and hoping to accidentally make a product that’ll somehow make money and instead focus on finding problems Mozilla can solve and only then interrogating whether AI will help
The search for the new CEO will not have completed by next October so I’ll still be three CEOs in, instead of four
I will execute on my hardware refresh on time this February, and maybe also get a new monitor so I’m not using my personal one for work.
At the end of my post for my seven-year moziversary, I made some predictions about what was to be and now has been the next year of work. And I got them pretty spot-on: Predictions for the next yea…
Marco Zehe
in reply to imdat celeste [witchzard] • • •Wow that is amazing! And fascinating. So, does your daughter resemble you more than she resembles your wife? Just curious.
Inheritance can be a funny thing. I resemble my dad in many ways. But in some respects, I take much more strongly after the men in my mom’s family, especially the body hair and the shape of the nose. Also, my hair has always been darker than my dad’s, although he and I definitely share the tendency for full hair even at advanced age, whereas the men in my mom’s family are almost all bald. It is wondrous how genes sometimes mix.
imdat celeste [witchzard]
in reply to Marco Zehe • • •@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.
But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.
In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).
Marco Zehe
in reply to imdat celeste [witchzard] • • •