About that enhanced WebSocket support in the next curl release, e.g. next Wednesday:
#curl #websocket
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WebSocket has been supported by curl as a non-experimental feature since version 8.11.0 (November 6 2024). With the upcoming release of version 8.16.0, we are taking it a step further.icing's blog
Back-to-school seasoning may be winding down, but Thunderbird is seeing where we make the grade (and don’t) with accessibility. Learn about our recent a11y study and find how to help us make Thunderbird accessible to everyone!
#Thunderbird #Accessibility #OpenSource
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In our latest Office Hours, we're covering what's in (and out) of our latest Extended Support Release, Thunderbird 140.0 ESR "Eclipse"!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Have you ever thought about the phrase "earn a living"? About how messed up it is? The idea you need to "earn" your life and place in the world?
(I hadn't considered the dizzying toxicity of this phrase until it came up on We Can Do Hard Things - Abby Wambach's podcast that has absolutely nothing to do with soccer.)
The feeling behind the phrase "earn a living" - the idea that you have to do in order to be - is everywhere in our society. Including in open source.
relational-tech.com/blog/being…
For over a decade, I've been working to help open source newcomers make their first contribution. But what if just being there was contribution enough? And what if the pressure to contribute isn't just a barrier to newcomers, but to maintainers who a…Relational Tech
Open source contributors are not the only one who struggle under this pressure: open source maintainers have it even worse.
Unlike new contributors, who struggle to find things they can do, maintainers are often overwhelmed by things to do. But, though the reason they cannot do the tasks is different, it's the same fundamental problem.
Both the contributor and maintainer feel the pressure to do what they cannot do, rather than getting to simply be.
The new contributor feels like a failure and leaves the project. The maintainer feels like a failure, and burns out.
Even worse, this can become a self-reinforcing cycle. The maintainer blames themselves for not finding ways to help newcomers contribute. They didn't do enough to help the newcomer do things. The newcomer feels like even more of a burden to the maintainer. See how overwhelmed the maintainer seems? Maybe they'd be better off leaving.
But it doesn't have to be like this.
There was an interesting discussion in the SFWA discord and a tangential topic was men and reading.
So I’m curious. Men, of any age. Are you a reader?
I broke it down into
Avid - More than 20 books a year
Sometimes - Less than 20 a year
Don’t read - Self explanatory I hope.
Please share far and wide. 100% not scientific and feel free to reply with genres and any other color commentary you like in the replies.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #reading @reading
@ZBennoui I've been trying to recall if I read much in college (my 1.5 years of it) and think my reading dropped to zero then too. then just.... picked right back up.
It's so interesting that it's rarely a conscious decision, just a thing that happens.
Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit sales targets for EVs next year: sources
cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ev…
Let me get this. Those that don't want the EV mandate would be the one that would never vote for the PM party. (they got a pipeline with the previous PM)
Those that did? They can go fuck themselves.
and these liberal MP. They were able to conspire to force Trudeau to resign. So they can do it. If they really care.
(not the genocidal fuck for Montroyal. This is not his single issue)
Over the past ~2 months, we've opened hundreds of PRs, upstreaming #IzzyOnDroid metadata to the corresponding apps' repositories using Fastlane structures (gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…). Most of them have been merged already, about 100 are still open.
* if you received such PR and haven't merged it yet, please merge!
* if you didn't receive such PR for your app(s) hosted with us, please let us know!
Once all is settled, our consolidated metadata can finally be made public in a git repo 
The F-Droid compatible repo at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/GitLab
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Yo @ThePSF the vendor you use for the board election ballot is not screen reader accessible. Does that then mean that me and other blind people are unable to vote?
Choked to say the least here...
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Then why do they do it? Don't they have a syndicate[1] to protect their privileged condition?
[1] not a union.
Canada desperately needs to decouple from a self-inflicted dying empire.
The world is moving in one direction (EVs, PV energy and other clean energy) and the old is doubling down on Coal and Oil and protecting ICE vehicle manufacturers while gutting research and science programs.
**Stop protecting dying industries and read the financial and economic tea leaves neoliberals.**
Why, is Canada as a country lowering our standards and ambitions to appease an administration who is clearly not interested in leading the world anymore where the money and technology is obviously pointing.
We're not even talking about the moral and climate change aspects, so it's something even the most money motivated people can understand.
Rant over and we will now resume normal programming 😁
Canada is a failed petro-state. And that's what we need to get out of.
It's gonna be a long and hard journey. When you see the state violence unleashed on environmental activist, vs the velvet gloves used to remove insurrectionist... you know were the bar is.
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@FreakyFwoof that's literally all I use it for.
In terms of using it where there's an actual cursor, though, you'd assume there's some sort of selection feature in your editor *MS word has extend selection with f8, for example).
VSCode has an expand selection thing, alt+shift+right? I don't quite remember sorry.
Never understood why you can't give go to line a range in these editors
My Google Pixel 9 Pro just got an update to Material Expressive, and it makes the dynamic colors in #Conversations_im way too intense for my taste.
Remember that you can turn off 'Colorful chat bubbles' in the interface settings.
I don't know - at this point, the 'primary and secondary surface' theme colors maybe aren't meant for things like chat bubbles anymore. Anyway, the setting to turn them off is already there. Or go back to the default (non-dynamic) theme.
was mir fehlen würde ist ein komplett schwarzes Theme.
Sonst ist es ein super client, aber total hell auf einem sonst komplett schwarzen android.
(der monocle fork liefert den code dafür) 😇
🚨 BREAKING: Google just got fined €325M for breaking privacy laws.
Let's celebrate this BIG WIN for #privacy 🔒
👉 tuta.com/blog/gmail-ads-annoyi…
But know this: You don't need ad-blockers to get an ad-free email. 😉
Google may have violated your privacy and is now facing the consequences: a 525 million euro fine.Tuta
WOW. So is this money actually reaching users's pockets whose privacy has been illegally breached? Don't think so.
I am afraid this is another legal bribing scenario. Hey Google, we received a complaint that you were illegally collecting data without user's consent. Ohh we are sorry EU. You can sue us and we pay you 325 million. Deal? Deal.
So today in the "how many sounds do you need" category, we have another Emoji ...
Now if you're using #NVDASr, it's a "shushing face". Not terribly bad as these things go, I guess.
But if you happen to have an iPhone ...
> "Face with single finger over mouth in shushing gesture"
That's 9 words.
If you have the emoji suffix on, it's 15 syllables.
Crazy, eh?
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Ahojte. Od pondělí moc nekomunikuji, protože teď máme mnohem důležitější věci k řešení. Tchán má zdravotní problémy a na "blbosti" prostě nezbývá čas, ale hlavně energie.
Omlouvám se tedy za případnou pomalost až neexistenci reakcí, snad se to v dohledné době zlepší.
major incident section added to the #curl vulnerability disclosure policy
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1848…
by @jimfuller
Moje asi vůbec první fotka Měsíce. Foceno včera jako taková zkouška možné nedělní výpravy za zatměním.
📷 Nikon Z6
🔭 Minolta RF Rokkor 500/8 + Komura Telemore95 II + crop 1,5 (celkem f=1500 mm)
#photography #astronomy #astrophotography #moon #nightphotpgraphy
Whenever you think @mozilla could not get lost any further, Hiob has got news for you:
#Firefox „now lets you access Microsoft #Copilot from the sidebar”
🤡🗑️🔥
ghacks.net/2025/09/05/firefox-…
Mozilla is testing a new feature in Firefox Nightly, which adds Microsoft Copilot to the sidebar. Cue the pitchforks! ADVERTISEMENT That gecko's up to something. Firefox already has 4 chatbots: Anthropic Claude, […]Ashwin (Ghacks Technology News)
I needed space on my bookshelf for "Rust Atomics and Locks" so I threw out my copy of "Perl in a Nutshell".
Consider it a statement of intent just as much as a recognition of reality.
🚀 Just published: Collabora Online @CollaboraOffice — Open-source document editing suite for secure collaboration
Powerful online document editor with Microsoft Office compatibility. Integrate into your infrastructure or use trusted hosting partners for secure team collaboration.
"Uh, do I really need to install this app to order food?"
"Yes. And also we'll need access to your contacts, location 24/7, your photos, microphone, and possibly your soul."
"…I just wanted a pizza."
"Cool. In exchange, here’s 6 push notifications a day, and targeted ads for gym memberships (because you're eating too much pizza)."
Let's look at App Tracking, why it's bad & how you can turn it off 👉 tuta.com/blog/app-tracking
Shops are following Google's and Facebook's example with their own tracking apps so we must say: "No, I'm not installing your app to order food!"Tuta
I've had Fedora as my main operating system for 4 years and couldn't be happier!
I only use Windows at work out of necessity, but at home it's 100% free software. LibreOffice has completely replaced Microsoft's Office suite, and honestly, I don't miss it at all.
Who else here made this transition? What was your experience like?
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A user said "hold on a sec, this cake doesn't taste quite right". They asked "what are the ingredients?"
Three days later, you've essentially responded with "JOIN OUR GROUP TO HELP US MAKE BETTER CAKE".
Annoying.
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