Apologies #Universeodon folks especially, I'm having a pretty poor time getting everything up and running again and it's been a headache the entire time. I have swapped out the faulty component and done some re-wiring of the infrastructure to hopefully make things more resilient but everything on our server infrastructure is now not responding. I'm working as hard as I can to get things back up and running before I leave the DC.

There are two ways that servers on here can accept new members:

-Sign-ups where you join instantly

-Sign-ups where the server moderator has to manually approve your membership

Approval sign-ups make moderation much more effective, but some people seem to find them more difficult.

If you are someone who finds approval sign-ups more difficult, could you explain the main thing putting you off?

(By the way, this isn't meant to be judgmental, just want to find out what the main barriers are! 🙂 )

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Let's encrypt the entire web! 🔒

Tuta Mail is

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Encrypted email made with ❤️ in Germany!

➡️ Here's how to send an encrypted email in seconds: tuta.com/blog/email-encryption…

I’m actually in favour of increasing our military spending, mostly because I anticipate the US deciding at some to point to switch to military means to annex us if their economic measure aren’t successful.

What worries me is how much of this new spending is going to be directed right to the hostile country that’s threatening us.

We should be lessening our dependence on the US militarily just much as we should be should be lessening our dependence on them economically.

#CDNPoli #CDNDefense #ElbowsUp
mastodon.social/@rabbleca/1154…

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Rogers offered me a Pixel 10 pro XL for free, if I return it after 2 years. if I don't, it's $360 CAD (about $256 USD), which I can just pay $15 at a time over those 24 months. So, now I have one. Will it replace my OnePlus despite having half the CPU power? Not sure yet. But it's a nice phone. Looks weirdly similar to my iPhone 15 pro max, but with a camera bar. Charges with Magsafe / Qi 2, which means all my charging stations and my MagSafe battery pack support it.
At the very least, it's a free testing phone that will be kept up-to-date for a very long time.
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We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.

Announcement on our blog: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastoadmin

We're excited to coordinate the Decentralised Communications Devroom at FOSDEM!

🧑‍🏫 We invite you to propose talks about messaging/VoIP projects built on Matrix, @xmpp @delta, ActivityPub, ATProto, Automerge and more.

📆 The submission deadline is on November 30.

Find the full CfP on our blog!

matrix.org/blog/2025/11/fosdem…

Updated! The debloat Gist for LTSC I created, now has check and uncheck items for what we turn off and on. 6 checkboxes so people can decide what they want. Adding more of these over time. Like now. I did add a 7th option for search tweaks.
gist.github.com/tgeczy/2d847e2…
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We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀

The Sovereign Tech Fund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical open source infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS that power the web—to strengthen digital sovereignty. Now we're in a pivotal phase of growth and scaling, and we're looking for an experienced leader for this key role.

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Ich möchte eine Empfehlung aussprechen. Ich habe mit StreetComplete eine App gefunden, mit der man auf einfache und spielerische Art und Weise zu @openstreetmap beitragen kann. Die App zeigt dir um deinen Standort herum an, wo noch Daten fehlen und mit der Beantwortung von einfachen Fragen kannst du helfen, die Kartendaten zu vervollständigen. Sehr cool! Und total easy.

f-droid.org/de/packages/de.wes…

#openstreetmap #StreetComplete

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Also not everyone knows, but I have backups. Anytime one of these scripts nukes my system, a virus scan finds something, back to the clean set-up system image I go. Not everyone has or does this. But for me, squeezing my 30 GB fresh Windows install into a 13 GB back-up file with maximum compression works out.
terabyteunlimited.com/download…
What I did to run it and restore an image?
Simple! Copy your working folder of TeraByte from Program Files into a Windows 11 installation media that you know has audio. Then, shift+f10 into the command prompt of that booted image and run it. Restore your TBI file from the external or other drive. Simple, no fuss.
The file you need to run? Imagew64.exe. Sometimes the drive letter mounting can change, so just CD around until you find the folder you pasted at the drive root, and then run it. Trust me, it runs under WinPE fine without any dependency needs.
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So on a fresh Windows 11 install, I would need to now run at least 4 GitHub scripts just to make it behave and tamed down to the process plus ram usage of Windows 10. Unbelievable. I'm going to provide links here, you use these at your own risk. I'm also favoriting this post for myself so this is a bit for me, too.
All of these require that Defender's "realtime protection" and possibly "tampor protection" stay off. Defender is very yelly.

First thing I do: github.com/ShadowWhisperer/Rem…
This removes Microsoft Edge, and I use the WebView remover. If you use JAWS, this one might not be for you, since I believe JAWS relies on the webView.
2. Spicy: Remove defender. Not for everyone, but if you have a 3rd-party scanner and AV you use that's light, or just want to manually scan files and do daily quick scans with a tool of your choice, it's good. Using WSL will reinstall the hypervisor bits. It does a lot, so be cautious.
github.com/ionuttbara/windows-…
3. New to the list: github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind… - for getting rid of all AI features. Again, large script, read and consult carefully.
4. My own quick debloat Gist for LTSC: gist.github.com/tgeczy/2d847e2…
This does a lot more plumming removal, and disables your search box, so don't be surprised.
5. For search box: Open Menu: github.com/Open-Shell/Open-She… - works really well.
Bonus: github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloa…

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