I wonder if the rest of the Canadian fediverse realize that a Quebec mastodon server (Qlub.social) now has more active users than mstdn.ca

Wild. Qlub was featured on TVA and the Journal de Montreal (most popular medias in Quebec)

Not sure if it will last but will be fascinating to see how that will change the fediverse as the profile of users is quite different.

#qlub #mstdnca #fediquebec

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"Stoppons les crimes", really? 🤔

I imagine it's fine in casual conversation or in France. but is he going out of his way to pick translations that would piss off the OQLF?

I get asked all the time why I made the choice more than 30 years ago to run Linux (Unix before that) instead of Windows. Here's reason number 1,000,001 that I am absolutely positive that I made the right choice all those years ago.

infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114…

Will Dormann (@wdormann@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Upcoming Windows 11 builds won't have the ability to to install without internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account. https://blogs.windows.

^{Infosec Exchange}

Servo Report Week 12 2025

Highlights from last week:

- Support align attribute on HTMLParagraphElement interface
- Implement declarative shadow DOM
- Implement the `fit-content()` sizing function
- Added --enable-experimental-web-platform-features command line argument

You can help support Servo, an independent web browser engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: github.com/sponsors/servo
Open Collective: opencollective.com/servo

Sponsor @servo on GitHub Sponsors

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

^GitHub

Deine Daten. Deine Regeln. Deine digitale Zukunft.

monocles startet heute seine Crowdfunding Kampagne auf StartNext! 🎉

monocles bietet die Lösung für eine europäische Unabhängigkeit von Big Tech. Sei es der Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselte Chat, der sichere E-Maildienst oder die privatsphärefreundlichen Smartphones mit unserem eigenen Betriebssystem. monocles schafft ein dezentrales, faires und ethisches digitales Ökosystem für alle.

Seid dabei!

startnext.com/monocles

#privacy #monocles #xmpp

Dear fans of messenger comparison sports,

How does it factor in that on #deltachat there are many apps that can be used in a chat without requiring a login or even a privacy policy ... And the apps all work like cryptpad but automatically and without requiring any server side hosting?

Editing documents and checklists and calendars are all safely end-to-end encrypted without a server and anyone can write new #webxdc apps permission free.

Which other cross-platform messenger offers this?

#OpenStreetMap #wheelchair #accessibility The "grab rails" proposal is open for voting: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pr…

Please, add your vote!

You are all invited to #curl up 2025 in Prague. The annual curl event. For curl enthusiasts, users, developers and maintainers.

This is my favorite event of the year.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/03/29…

curl up 2025

Soon, in the first weekend of May 2025, we are gathering curl enthusiasts in a room in the wonderful city Prague and we talk curl related topics over two full days. We call it curl up 2025. curl up is our annual curl event and physical meetup.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

I added a bunch of CLI options to shape the sound of my MP3 glitching script! Here's a demo of some of the possibilities:

github.com/reillypascal/mp3gli…

#Python #Programming #Coding #MP3 #Audio #Glitch #NoiseMusic #GlitchMusic #ExperimentalMusic #SoundDesign

Daniel's week lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…

vacation, reverted response space, rc3, mbedTLS, normalizing URLs, HTTP/3, curl up, base64, porting

ejabberd 25.03 has been released with:

- Matrix Gateway support for rooms
- Security improvement with ability to store multiple simultaneous password types
- Ability to execute API commands from an XMPP client

and more !

This is a major release and you can check the details for the release on ProcessOne blog:

process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-…

ejabberd 25.03

We are pleased to announce ejabberd 25.03, a big release with new features and many improvements, as it comes three months and 180 commits after ejabberd 24.12.

^{Jérôme Sautret (ProcessOne)}

“Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction valuing xAI at $80B and X at $33B”

Yes, these companies are totally worth this much money.

If something really bad is a 5 alarm fire, this is a 5² or perhaps even a 5! alarm fire.

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11424…

Paul Cantrell

2025-03-28 16:44:59

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s…

Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!

(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
working on moving old friendica sites from a shared hosting to a VPS, I ran into the following problem I can't find a solution for. This actually happens with one 2021.04 instance but not with another (anymore), so I'm crosschecking all the settings but can't find how to solve this. Both sites were installed as 2012.04 from the start:

not working version wrote:

This is Friendica, version 2021.04 that is running at the web location sub.domain.com/var/www/subdomaincom. The database version is 1413/1413, the post update version is 1400/1400.

working version wrote:

This is Friendica, version 2021.04 that is running at the web location sub.domain.com. The database version is 1413/1413, the post update version is 1400/1400.

As visible in the screen, the site also displays the following path on top of the page, and of course calls that URL:
sub.domain.com/var/www/subdomaincom

Different intents to fix this by changing or deleting the following settings from the console didn't work out:

system.basepath => /var/www/domaincom
system.urlpath => /var/www/domaincom/

Even more astonishing, sending the following setting with the console:
/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com
.. the site is displayed and works as it should be for a few minutes, and than falls back into the wrong behavior, like if the worker changes something when ever the cron kicks in. In that time span I can log in and even go thru the admin settings but this setting is not available.

Intents to modify the following specifications in local.config.php didn't work out either:

'system.basepath' => '',
'url.basepath' => '',
'system.urlpath'=> '',

'config' => [
        ],
'system' => [
        ],

I found this conversation by @Hypolite Petovan on github:

Table config, cat = "system" AND key = "basepath"

and it actually looks like this is exactly te problem but I have no experience at all with mysql over CLI SSH and don't know what commands to use to delete the apparently wrong setting in the DB.

Is there a way to delete entries with bin/console?
I did manage to change some settings from there but couldn't find any hint how to "delete" an entry entirely from there:

bin/console config system basepath /
system.basepath <= /