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#Mastodon #Oscloud #Update


Release v4.3.7 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Add Add delay to profile updates to debounce them (#34137 by @ClearlyClaire) Add support for paginating partial collections in SynchronizeFollowersService (#34272 and #34277 by @ClearlyC...
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#Mastodon #update #oscloud

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Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC.

More details about the impact for your on our blog.

matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix…


Matrix.org will migrate to MAS on Apr 7th 2025

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Quentin (matrix.org)
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chris

I administer my own home server. I've set up an upstream OIDC server (Authentik) in anticipation of the new MAS standard. What else do I need to do in order to have a smooth migration?

I've seen a lot of promotional material about the new MAS implementation, but not much about how it will break my instance or how my configuration will need to change.

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Remember the #curl distro meeting 2025 next week! github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…

To make #curl better in distros. To make distros ship better #curl. To make everyone happier and the world a little nicer.


curl distro discussion 2025

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...
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#curl

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#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.

Mark your calendars!

More details: akademy.kde.org/2025/

#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

Akademy 2025

Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE
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#linux #foss #KDE #techevent #akademy2025 #FOSSevent @Akademy

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The UK has introduced a requirement to have an electronic travel authorization on order to visit the country. I just thought I'd have a look at it and see what I'll have to do if I'm ever to visit my mother again, and I'm in a queue. A queue on a website. Never seen that before (but it does seem very British).

It doesn't accept any method of payment which I use. Well that's just great.

What's more, the only way to make payment to the British government is to sign up to a choice of American payment services which will send some slice of the payment to the US. Why on earth have they done that?

Oh, and if your use the app, which they really want you to do, then you're phone has to meet their requirements. So it may also cost you a new phone to visit the UK in future. And if my phone stops meeting their requirements after I pay for an autorisation which should last two years? Who knows.

Thanks Brexit, the curse which keeps on cursing.
#brexit #eta #unitedkingdom

Screenshot from gov.uk website telling me that I'm in a queue. On a website.
#brexit #unitedkingdom #eta
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If someone needs to belittle, berate, or break others to feel powerful, they’re not a genius—they’re a tyrant in a hoodie, a bully with a pitch deck, a tantrum in search of a title.

And we should stop fucking clapping.
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Stop Conflating Genius With Asshole

Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity.
Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)

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Imagine being the person who, 30+ years ago, solved the problem of moving the mouse diagonally to a submenu closing the submenu because the mouse passed over another element – just add a short timeout before switching to a different submenu – and then living to see every application on the planet reimplement menus without that behaviour.
A diagonal mouse movement from a menu to a submenu in Discord that will, incorrectly, cause the submenu to close.

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Noticed #MetaAI is now in #WhatsApp? 🫣 If this concerns you, you're not alone 💛

In our latest guide, we look at how you can get rid of Meta AI 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

Screenshots of Meta AI in WhatsApp. Welcome message: Ask Meta AI anything. Interacting with Meta AI: “How can I disable you?”, “Meta AI is integrated into this experience, so you can’t disable it completely”.

How to turn off Meta AI? You can’t, but... | Tuta

Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.
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#whatsapp #MetaAI

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Don't lose control of your data! A few days ago, we celebrated Document Freedom Day – championing open standards and free software. Here's a talk we gave with the Nepalese LibreOffice community: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Document Freedom Day banner, with trees on a hill and LibreOffice icons

Video: Document Freedom Day with the Nepalese LibreOffice community - The Document Foundation Blog

On March 26, we celebrated Document Freedom Day. Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, gave an online talk about the importance of open standards and free software: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTu…
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#foss #opensource

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Ich verstehe dass nicht so ganz. Die Gasspeicher sind so leer wie schon lange nicht mehr (ca. 30%), obwohl es letztes Jahr um diese Zeit deutlich besser aussah (fast 60%). Was ist da los? Ist das Absicht? bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Gasver…
Vergleich Füllstände Gasspeicher 2024 zu 2025. Die Kurve für 2024 bewegt sich am oberen Rand des Mehrjahresdurchschnitts, die Kurve für 2025 ist nah an der Untergrenze des Mehrjahresdurchschnitts.

Bundesnetzagentur - Aktuelle Lage Gasversorgung

Aktuelle Lage Gasversorgung
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Brave translate now available on all desktop and mobile devices, supporting 108 languages brave.com/blog/brave-translate…

Brave translate now available on all desktop and mobile devices, supporting 108 languages

We're excited to announce that we've expanded support for Brave Translate---our tool to translate websites privately and securely---to all desktop, Android, and iOS devices, and that we've added 93 languages, going from 15 supported languages to 108.
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If you are interested to help shaping #FDroid 's future on a governance side: please consider to apply for a board seat.

As current board member I highly welcome nominations of anyone committed to furthering the #softwarefreedom of computer users, particularly with regard to mobile devices.

f-droid.org/en/2025/03/30/boar…


F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2025 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Boardof Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for twoyears.You m...
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#fdroid #softwarefreedom

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V březnu jsem poprvé naběhal sto kilometrů měsíčně. Moc mě to chytlo, zejména díky třem věcem. První z nich jsou sportovní hodinky, mám rád data a motivují mě hýbat se pravidelně. Druhá věc je hudba, dlouho jsem se jí vyhýbal, bál jsem se, že mě bude odvádět od soustředění na běh, což se neděje. A třetí je běhání pomalu, v druhé tepové zóně, kde docela v pohodě uběhnu 10 km, aniž bych se pak cítil vyřízený. Těším se na sezónu! Venek je radost.
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Jiří Eischmann

Mám to podobně. Od pořízení hodinek loni v létě jsem si zlepšil VO2max o 4 body. Včera jsem po 11 letech uběhl víc než 10 km. Snažím se tempo držet pod 6 minut na km, což při takové vzdálenosti a kopcích znamená, že jsem vyřízený, ale už jsem překonal bariéru, za kterou už je pomalejší běh pohodička. Jdu si zaběhnout 6 km v tempu 6:30/km a ono už je to takové protáhnutí. Člověk má energii dívat se po krajině... Už to není jako dřív, kdy jsem od prvního km počítal metry do konce. 😅

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Three CPC candidates deemed not fit to run in #elxn45: ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/t… #cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

Third Conservatives candidate no longer running in federal election

Conservative candidate Lourence Singh for the New Westminster-Burnaby-Maillardville riding is no longer running in the federal election race, marking the third candidate exit in a single day.
Mina Kerr-Lazenby (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

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Thunderbird Pro/Thundermail codebases

Don't trust me, don't trust anyone. Look at the code and decide.

Appointment: github.com/thunderbird/appoint…

Send: github.com/thunderbird/send-su…

Our mail stack is built on: github.com/stalwartlabs/mail-s…

On Mail, we'll publish any additional bits that we develop around it.


GitHub - stalwartlabs/mail-server: Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP)

Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP) - stalwartlabs/mail-server
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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…


FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
#xiaofengwang
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Dan Goodin

Here's the latest on XiaoFeng Wang, the distinguished computer scientist who was summarily fired on Friday from his tenured position at Indiana University, where he had spent 20 years racking up accolades for his research in cryptography, privacy and cybersecurity. It comes from Alexander Tanford, president of the Bloomington chapter of the AAUP, the organization representing IU professors, and colleagues of Wang's.

In February, an anonymous person filed a complaint alleging research misconduct against Wang. "The charge seemed trivial -- that he had failed to properly disclose who was principal investigator on a grant application and had not fully listed all his co-authors on an article," Tanford told me.

On March 13 or 14, IU temporarily suspended Wang, banned him from his office and denied access to his computer, research and data while the investigation continued. This is permitted under IU's research misconduct policy. The reasons, though, aren't publicly known.

On March 28, Provost Rahul Shrivastav informed Wang he was being terminated immediately. Shrivastav provided no reason (he mentioned Wang taking a job at a university in Singapore, but this is permitted and not grounds for dismissal). What's more, policy ACA-52, approved by the IU Board of Trustees, prohibits summarily firing a tenured professor.

Also on March 28, homes that Wang owns in Bloomington and Carmel, Indiana, were raided by the FBI. The FBI says the raids were court approved, but so far no one has seen a warrant. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana will neither confirm nor deny an investigation.

Indiana University has steadfastly refused to provide any reason for the termination or its failure to follow its own policy. Students and fellow faculty remain in the dark. His PhD students are frantically scrambling to find new advisors. One such student learned of Wang's firing only a few weeks before his PhD defense.

I reached out to Wang's attorneys 24 hours ago, and still haven't heard back.

We really need answers here. IU is tarnishing its reputation for academic independence. The lack of transparency here, both by IU and the FBI, truly sucks.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…


FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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#RationalWiki is facing imminent legal peril from 5 separate defamation lawsuits from 5 #eugenics supporters. At least 2 of the lawsuits appear to be frivolous on their face. The 5 litigants are known to have acted in concert to take advantage of the weak #SLAPP protections within our state of incorporation and to bankrupt us. We need both monetary donations and legal representation (we are already aware of both the ACLU and the #EFF).

#law #FreeSpeech #NewMexico
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RationalWiki

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#eff #law #freespeech #slapp #eugenics #rationalwiki #newmexico

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Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4!
• Declarative Web Push
• Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps
• Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode
• Ogg Opus & Vorbis
• Image Capture API
• WebM support in MediaRecorder
• `view-transition-name: match-element`
• `::details-content`
• `sideways-rl` & `sideways-lr`
• `shape()`dialog.requestClose()
• JavaScript Iterators
• CHIPS
• new Web Extension APIs
• alpha & transparency in color picker

and a LOT more!

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WebKit Features in Safari 18.4

Safari 18.4 is here!
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serial2midi v1.1.1

Turn your serial port into a virtual midi device

🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster
🌱 Overhauled the sysex request
🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty
⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli
🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (./crates)
🧹 Updated dependencies

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#foss #midi #linux #audio #musicproduction #arduino

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v1.1.1 - obsoleszenz/serial2midi

# Changelog 🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster 🌱 Overhauled the sysex request 🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty ⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli 🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (.
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#linux #foss #audio #musicproduction #arduino #midi
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Chilling.

NEW: CTV has cancelled an election fact-checking segment on their morning show in response to political pressure from the Conservative Party.

Sebastian Skamski, a senior campaign official for Mr #Poilievre denounced CTV News, saying their guest was lying directly to viewers & suggested that CTV News is working to help elect Liberals.

Despite Mr Skamski offering no evidence to support his claims, the network folded & cancelled the segment.

#cdnpoli #elxn45

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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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#cdnpoli #poilievre #elxn45
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