I give a fiver each month to the wonderful FOSS-type things below:
- Signal (killing Meta's WhatsApp)
- Libre Office (slaying Microsoft's 365)
- GrapheneOS (kicking Google Stock Android in the goolies)
If you use any of these - and you can afford to - why not set up a monthly dontation to the wonderful organisations above.
#Signal #LibreOffice #GrapheneOS #Meta #Microsoft #Google #WhatsApp #Android
In 2025 we already have more PRs merged than in the whole of 2024!
2024 PRs: 1,771
2025 PRs: 1,983*
*At the last count of the data this month.
Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations either.
I would really appreciate some donations. Your support would enable me to continue working on accessibility throughout @gnome and writing educational and informative articles.
You can donate to me via: Liberapay (preferred), Ko-fi, and GitHub Sponsors.
Boosts welcome and very much appreciated.
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Well, was going to try out @Tutanota for email.
Nope. Stuck in "24 hour mayyyyyybe we'll review you, or not haha".
Still aint paying proton any more. Hey and DHH is straight up posting white nationalist propaganda.
Was hoping.
Nope. I abandoned it.
Was going to try it as free, and migrate up to pay if it worked in my workflow.
When my personal residential IP shows up as "potentially abusive", im not going to fight.
Thanks though.
@techsinger @matt Our sighted people are ridiculous. Things behind other things, or not in a colour they're expecting, or from a brand they don't know, rubbish.
we moved in together as a totally blind couple and had no useful eyes around the place for 4 years without needing help. Became a right pain to remember to use lights, though.
Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄
It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)
Match tiles and clear the board – Single-player tile-matching game, commonly known as Mahjong solitaire. Tiles are stacked on the board at the start of the game. The goal is to remove all the tiles in as little time...apps.gnome.org
Welcome to the age verification era! 🔞 🔍
Here's why you should be concerned
❌ Risks your privacy & security
❌ Threatens anonymity & freedom of speech
❌ It's often ineffective
We explore in today's article 👉 tuta.com/blog/age-verification…
#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #surveillance
Age verification laws like the UK’s Online Safety Act are meant to protect children from harmful content, but they also increase the risks of surveillance and an internet that’s not anonymous.Tuta
Does age verification really have to rely on face scans, document uploads, or other invasive methods? 🔍 Isn't there a way to do it that respects user privacy? 🛡️
I have an idea that - while it would need some adjustments - seems reasonable to me, especially when we're talking about such a sensitive topic. In my country, Poland, ID cards have an NFC chip 📲 that contains encrypted data, including the date of birth. Access to this data requires a PIN 🔐 that is set at the government office.
Wouldn't it be possible to create an app that reads this data from the ID when first launched, and then requires the PIN each time to decrypt the date of birth? The app could communicate with the browser locally and simply send a yes or no answer ✅❌ about whether the user meets the required age - without revealing any personal data.
Of course I know not every country has such ID cards, but if they truly care about protecting children 👶, they should first make sure to create proper, secure solutions - ones that respect human rights 🧭 and don't violate citizens' privacy.
That's my opinion - but I'm open to other perspectives if there's something wrong with this approach 💬
#Privacy #Freedom #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #Surveillance #HumanRights
The problem with #chatcontrol is deep and extremely significant. It would be a paradigm shift that implies state and corporate control of app developers and users, i.e. what you can install on "your" devices. It would empower Google, Apple and Microsoft to increase enclosure even more.
Just as with the p2p wealth of good tools two decades ago, e2e tooling would remain available only to small specialist circles.
Given authoritarian threats everywhere, #chatcontrol is an exceptionally bad idea.
A stunning example of volcanic lightning, created when colliding particles of volcanic ash generate massive amounts of static electricity, captured by photographer Sergio Tapiro.
Sergio's website: galeria.sergiotapiro.com
Compra fotos, decora tu casa con naturaleza y volcanes del fotógrafo Sergio Tapiro, uno de los mejores fotógrafos mexicanos. Encuentra fotos de autor, arte, impresiones y fotografías para adornar tu oficina, hotel o empresa.Sergio Tapiro Fotos de volcanes y Naturaleza | Prints
It's official - `django.tasks` exists! Coming soon to @django 6.0. 585 days later, the first step (of many) in Django's background tasks journey is finally complete! 🥳
theorangeone.net/posts/django-…
As of today (well, technically yesterday), django.tasks is officially released upon the world! Mostly. Note that django.tasks and django-tasks are in fact different, albeit by a single character. Take care when reading.TheOrangeOne
Thoughts on Drew DeVault's take on the latest npm malware? drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/202…
I use npm some, and cargo a lot more. I'm eager to learn my lesson and change course. But I'm not in a position to make any significant change alone.
The "trusted publisher" system used by PyPI would make some of the ways this worm spread more difficult: docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishe…
There is no authentication token on my machine that would allow publishing to all PyPI packages I own. Instead I've indicated that releases will be made by a particular CI workflow running on Github. That workflow can prove it's identity to the package registry and publish the package.
There's still the possibility that a dependency could infect the builds uploaded to PyPI, but it won't be able to infect all of the author's packages in one step.
As for the argument that distro packaging solves the problem, I'm not totally convinced on that. It can help, but I've seen enough cases where the distro packager just trusts changes from the upstream. We got awfully close to the xz backdoor being widely deployed.
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i diagnose the root problem as corporate open source, where there's a fuckin shitload of money except for maintenance or for the coders doing the work.
npm is a terminal expression of corporate desire for code without paying coders. so anyone can contribute! preferably under a permissive license.
the job is to supply free code for companies and npm is the minimum structure to do this job.
that it ends up full of exploding surprises is the sort of thing we should expect, point and laugh.
i don't think it's fixable because that's not what npm is for.
in conclusion, AGPL everything. or, as I think of it, the "I believe I just did, Bob" license.
Type: Feature Request Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users Subtitle Eliminate the static Accessible View in favor of an integrated, scrollable, copyable cha...accesswatch (GitHub)
It's release day today! 🎉 Are you looking forward to Evolution 3.58? It features even faster search. You get results instantly, even in folders with tens of thousands of messages. It also introduces calendar previews in invitation messages. All that to make you even more productive.
The new version has already hit the beta channel on 
#Flathub; the stable channel will follow soon.
Da ich das selbst über Mastodon überhaupt mitbekommen und frech angefragt habe ... hab ich nun auch total schöne Sticker bekommen. Die werde ich jetzt erstmal unter meinen Mitmenschen die #conversations im Einsatz haben verteilen. Ganz herzlichen Dank dafür!
Und weil es sowieso immer vor hatte, hab ich jetzt direkt eine Spende via #liberapay an liberapay.com/iNPUTmice/ vorgenommen. Danke für dieses tolle Stück Software.
Hi, I’m Daniel 🤝 I’ve been a freelance software developer for 15+ years. My main interests are in open standards and communication protocols (Instant Messaging, E-mail, …Liberapay
Heute ist wieder OSM-AT-Online-Stammtisch!
Egal ob Profi oder Einsteiger – alle sind herzlich willkommen. Wir tauschen uns aus über Projekte, Tools und alles rund um OpenStreetMap.
Infos & Anmeldung: osmcal.org/event/3440/ (Anmeldung hilfreich, aber nicht notwendig – einfach vorbeischauen geht auch!)
Wir treffen uns online zum Austausch rund um OpenStreetMap. Alle sind herzlich willkommen – egal ob du schon lange mappst, gerade erst anfängst oder einfach nur Fragen zu OSM hast.OpenStreetMap Calendar
A video mocking Donald #Trump and his relationship with the late paedophile Jeffrey #Epstein is being projected on to the side of Windsor Castle, including Photographs of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein and Ghislaine #Maxwell and a handwritten note of Trump to Epstein. 👇🏻
Brits are the best! 🧡
(Source: Skynews)
Opet jsem mel prilezitost plne se ponorit do meho oblibeneho fetishe. Sledovat bohate lidi naprosto odtrzene od reality s neprekonatelnou touhou svetu neco sdelit.
Dnesni tema je myslenka genocidy jako hnaciho motoru transformace spolecnosti z nejchudsi zeme sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze na ... wait for it ... nejchudsi zemi sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze a kvotami na zeny v parlamentu.
#dnes #mi #to #asi #cele #doklaplo
Na komentare se tesim.
linkedin.com/posts/ivanatykac_…
Dnes mi to asi celé doklaplo. Ve Rwandě. Jsem tu na skok na expedici našeho think tanku Solvo, sbíráme materiál společně s profesorem Miroslav Barta. Zkoumáme tu totiž společnost, kterou řídí ženy. Mají 60 % křesel v parlamentu.Ivana Tykač (www.linkedin.com)
Casual observation: in scifi - books, TV or movies - I don't recall ever seeing a user searching for information by visiting vastly different services (aka: web sites).
The user will have a single unified interface (visual or voice).
Did it predict all content would be scooped into private corps?
We are destroying software by no longer taking complexity into account when adding features or optimizing some dimension.
We are destroying software with complex build systems.
We are destroying software with an absurd chain of dependencies, making everything bloated and fragile.
We are destroying software telling new programmers: “Don’t reinvent the wheel!”. But, reinventing the wheel is how you learn how things work, and is the first step to make new, different wheels.
We are destroying software by no longer caring about backward APIs compatibility.
We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.
We are destroying software by jumping on every new language, paradigm, and framework.
We are destroying software by always underestimating how hard it is to work with existing complex libraries VS creating our stuff.
We are destroying software by always thinking that the de-facto standard for XYZ is better than what we can do, tailored specifically for our use case.
We are destroying software claiming that code comments are useless.
We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.
We are destroying software by making systems that no longer scale down: simple things should be simple to accomplish, in any system.
We are destroying software trying to produce code as fast as possible, not as well designed as possible.
We are destroying software, and what will be left will no longer give us the joy of hacking.
— @antirez
Suno generated musical version: infosec.exchange/@alphaville/1…
@antirez@mastodon.social — we are destroying software song: https://suno.com/song/bd044da7-f962-4a74-8c16-983327e1f221 #software #dystopiaa//:🐙 (Infosec Exchange)
Echobox player is an elegant, privacy‑minded audio player built for everyday listening. It respects your library, keeps folders as folders, and adds smart features that make long‑form audio a joy—chapters, effects, transcripts, and more—without gett…App Store
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Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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Heute in zwei Wochen haben wir bei der AG #OpenSource bei @D64eV niemand geringeren als @leonido zu Gast und unterhalten uns mit ihm über das Thema "OpenSource und Gemeinnützigkeit". Darauf freue ich mich sehr.
Hier alle Details zu unserem #OpenSourceTalk inkl. Link zur Veranstaltung:
d-64.org/veranstaltungen/open-…
Gerne boosten!
Talk mit Prof. Leonhard Dobusch über Open Source und Gemeinnützigkeit. Wir diskutieren staatliche Fördermaßnahmen für gemeinnützige Open-Source-Initiativen und deren gesellschaftlichen Nutzen. 1. Oktober 2025, 20:00-21:30 Uhr.D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt e.V.
Time to drop support for Kerberos5 FTP in #curl
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1857…
It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439, shipped since 8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported, indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos. Krb...GitHub
Me: Oh, huh, that sounds kind of cool tho
Also me: Have I ever used it? Uh…
Also also me: have I ever done a damned thing to maintain it? Uh….
Me: yeah I’ll hush now
Update cacert.pem using latest from https://curl.se/docs/caextract.htmlGitHub
The Mozilla CA bundle extracted and converted to PEM. This repository functions as a backup to the automated service on the curl web site. - update: the 2025-09-09 change · bagder/ca-bundle@6598d7fGitHub
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Dune 1965
We are excited to bring you the latest in multiline Braille displays. Dot Pad X is a braille display that can display both braille and graphics on its display. It's designed to work with your screen reader including JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.A. T. Guys
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