WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general-purpose chatbots from its platform. Meta said that the new chatbot use cases placed a lot of burden on its system with increased message volume and required a different kind of support, which the company wasn’t ready for. Really? I think that Meta just wants to force users to use Meta AI. techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/what…
Meta's rationale behind this move is that WhatsApp Business API is designed for businesses serving customers rather than acting as a platform for chatbot distribution.
I'd imagine they'll have sold pretty well, despite everything around Rowling lately. Part of me is really pleased that a new generation will be able to enjoy them in a different way, but I can't help but feel weird about the original voice that I heard for those hundred or so hours. Audible announced over a billion hours of play time about 3 years ago. Crazy.
@Bubu da kann ich keine qualifizierte Auskunft geben, weil ich diesen Ost-Döner versus West-Döner-Unterschied (den von Dir beschriebenen zähle ich mal beim Osten mit dazu) nie so recht durchdrungen habe.
Zu diesem Döner-Ding, das hier gerade so steil geht, habe ich vor einem Jahr schon mal was geschrieben...
Damit ihr gleich gewarnt seid: Ein klassischer „Wirtshaus-Explorer“ wird das nun Folgende nicht, ich schreibe über einen Döner-Imbiss und ein solcher hat ja, auch im weiteren Sinne, gemeinhin wenig mit [...]
Lustiger Artikel. :) Der dort beschriebene Nürnberger Döner ist glaube ich aber genau das was ich meine was es hier (Berlin + Umland) bei >=95% der Dönerläden gibt. Sicher nicht immer so gut, aber immer mit dieser Art knusprig gebackenem Fladenbrot. (Und nie mit cocktailsauce )
Alles andere ist dann irgendwie enttäuschend, wenn man das gewohnt ist. :)
einen random fact zu Berliner Dönern hab ich noch, dann höre ich auf, versprochen. 😅
Berlins international bekanntester Döner Imbiss (warum weiß eigentlich keiner so genau, der ist schon meistens gut, aber eigentlich nie die 30 min anstehen wert) Mustafas Gemüsekebab[1] hat eigentlich auch das "falsche" Brot. Trotzdem (oder deswegen?) ist er so beliebt. Vielleicht auch weil er dadurch anders ist, als die meisten anderen Berliner Döner. Wer weiß.
„Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap“ ist auf der ganzen Welt bekannt. Nun ist Schluss für die Bude in Kreuzberg – direkt gegenüber wird der Döner am neuen Standort verkauft. Geschieht der Umzug freiwillig?
Many experts caught up in the past crypto/decentralization discourse fail to recognize one key innovation area of #deltachat and #chatmail efforts:
A user interface (UI) and experience (UX) that mimicks and closely resembles Whatsapp and Telegram ... who both have a central cleartext database of identities, social graphs and, in the case of Telegram, also messages and media, of billions of users!
We prefer to ground every discussion in UX/UI terms and measure security by outcomes for users.
For those interested in reading some deep background and how "user experience" changed the last 500 years (short answer: surprisingly little) this text about the "manufactured normalcy field" may be of interest ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welc…
i love the #chatmail tag as it makes the technology immediately comfortable for the less tech savvy. But a little searching shows that ChatMail is a registered trademark of Myntex, Inc (whoever that is?). Are these related? Is there hope for us to be able to use the chatmail name/tag/label?
@kaleb there was an application to register a chatmail trademark in germany and it was rejected, reason being that the term is too generic and can not be trademarked.
The Harry Potter full cast audible first book is very interesting. It's narrated but there are sound effects and the dialogue is voiced by the characters. I've only listened to a little bit so far but I'm very impressed.
It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)
Today I discovered ntfy.sh, a really simple, elegant push notification service. There are quite a few services like this, but some of them are a bit pricey for very light usage or don't do desktop notifications. With ntfy.sh, it's dead easy to push a simple notification to your web browser (and/or phone) with a single curl command.
I've looked into this, though I don't yet know what I'll use it for. Names you use on ntfy.sh are public, but you can also host your own server if you want more privacy and control. I've considered putting that on a VPS and using it to monitor services, or setting one up at work to tell me when events happen that I need to know about.
I only started using that recently due to @cubic's UpSiteDown app which tells me if a particular site or service is down. I use it to keep an eye on things running on my Pi's.
@bill I suspect you might actually have more luck with the PWA. I get the impression the iOS app is very basic and probably not as well supported. But again, haven't tested it myself.
@bill Let me know if you find one that works with iOS notifications. I've been searching for something like this for the longest time. My current solution is Telegram which isn't great, since its iOS client is terrible from an accessibility perspective.
@bill @neurrone From what I've read, the ntfy web app (when added to home screen) correctly does push notifications and is more reliable than the native iOS app.
Well, I gave up on Dolphin Screen reader. Removing it was a whole different kettl of fish. Over 10 entries in the Windows add/remove view and then it left residual folders in absolutely any nook and cranny of my system. So yeah, same old experience that I had 10 years ago when I last tried that thing. Ah well, gonna love me some more NVDA With a side of JAWS and be happy.
This document defines extensions to core features of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that provide basic instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality in conformance with the requirements in RFC 2779.
Support for roster pre approval - even independently of 'easy onboarding' - would be great. I've had a client side version of that for a decade but obviously this is something that the server should do on my behalf.
Google creating a global centralized registration system for new Android apps is a bad idea for users, for developers, and competition. Google should nip it in the bud now. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/appl…
In the mist of shite political news from around the world, here's a good news story, the Danish Foreign Minister give the Egyptian Foreign Minister a Lego set of the Pyramids as a gift, just look at his face ;)
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen gifted Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty a LEGO model of the Great Pyramid of Khufu during their meeting in Cairo on Saturday, 1 November, during the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GE…
@crazyeddie as far as I can assess, it looks like a vast majority of this is automated/bot traffic. It's too much 301 responses and HTTP/1 for what browsers would generate.
Apple Shortcuts has had one known accessibility improvement in iOS 26.1. You can now easily edit Shortcuts with VoiceOver with the inclusion of a new action on the main Shortcuts list.
Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives
I'm glad indigenous rights are making some progress. I entered law school the year after the famous Mabo decision, and indigenous recognition has largely gone downhill since then.
Local restaurants...I beg you...maintain an actual Web Site...that isn't Facebook or Instagram...I am pleading with you...just a simple site, on the web...for me, your old pal Sadsquatch...
When a friend told me they were putting up a statue to Margaret Thatcher in her birthplace, my immediate response was, "Why, had there been a problem with the existing public toilets?"
We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.
Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.
• 80% of respondents would (very) likely go • so HackerTrain to FOSDEM 2026 is going to happen • it will be organized as a distributed affair on several routes to accommodate for the diverse geographical and temporal needs • most people would pay 100-120 € one way (we likely cannot affect that this year much)
does anybody know if #Yunohost management interface is accessible for screen reader users? // Est-ce que quelqu'un sait si l'interface de gestion de Yunohost est accessible aux utilisateurs de lecteurs d'écran ? Merci ! #Accessibility #Accessibilité
You can access a demo of both systems actually, though bear in mind Cloudron is going through a major new version so the demo on the site is for that version. i think new installs still default to version 8. Cloudron provides all the usual packages, I have a couple of LAMP instances running that host a couple of PHP websites as well as the Mastodon instance running here.
Calling all web hackers, engine developers, and browser enthusiasts! The Browser and Web Platform Devroom at #FOSDEM2026 is open for talk proposals - from Gecko to Blink, Servo to Ladybird, and everything in between. Submit by December 1, 2025: fosdem.org/submit #FOSDEM
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