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Mastodon's new server software (v4.5.0) brings a breakthrough for smaller servers:

No matter which server you are on, all replies to all discussion threads are automatically fetched as soon as you browse a discussion. It doesn't matter which server you are on or which server they are on, you will all see the same complete discussion. (Unless a user or server is banned of course.)

If you've previously held back, this is a great time to try smaller servers:

➡️ fedi.garden


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Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Love this quote by Hillary Ronen "What is the problem you're trying to solve? And why is AI the best way to solve this problem?"

I love her critique of government policymaking. Thanks to #themaybe for another interesting episode of #ComputerSaysMaybe

themaybe.org/podcast/local-law…

#Podcast #AI #GovTech


The Maybe

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#podcast #AI #govtech #themaybe #computersaysmaybe

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In general, I appreciate the many inspiring interactions we have here om Mastodon. But recently I have received at least 10 replies, that are all variations of the sentence "Trump should be killed".

I fully understand the resentment against a criminal person who is tearing a country apart, but I am a firm believer that the answer to his crimes is not more crimes, but instead more justice.

Trump must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Win the midterms decisively. Then impeach him.

in reply to el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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André Polykanine

@elCelio Actually, we can kill him if it's a military operation, but first, it's extremely hard, it seems (he's paranoid as hell with his own security and he has tons of money for it), and second, it's far better to make him sing, I'm sure we would know lots and lots of interesting things and hear lots of interesting names involved in those crimes. Respect for knowing the word we call him.
@el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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I get JS arrow function syntax. One thing I'm still slightly unclear on is the change to the this keyword, though. Arrow functions have access to the parent scope, but how far does that extend? If I define a success handler as an arrow function inside a function, then pass that handler to a different function that runs an AJAX request, which context will my success handler wind up with? I don't expect an answer, as this is confusingly written, but it's this kind of thing I'm still unsure of.

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I haven't interviewed any job candidates in the last few years since my role has changed, but a fun question (which had nothing to do with the actual interview) I would ask is "Do you know where the term Little Endian vs Big Endian originates from?" And of the dozens of people I've interviewed, zero of them know.

Spoiler alert: It's Gulliver's Travels. Which end of the egg do you break first?

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Einmal im Jahr spiele ich das Video hier in Dauerschleife, weil ich beim Basteln am halfnarp diesen Ohrwurm schlicht nicht loswerde.

Rocky Horror Picture Show The Time Warp: youtube.com/watch?v=YC1E8yVJIS…

Also … helft mir alle, mitzuarschzuwackeln und let's doooooo the halfnarp … AGAIN! halfnarp.events.ccc.de/

via events.ccc.de/2025/11/06/39c3-…

#39C3


39C3 — hat hier jemand halfnarp gesagt?

tl;dr: halfnarp.events.ccc.de In vorfreudiger Erwartung des 39C3 haben die dutzenden Kuratorinnen in den sechs Content-Teams sich in den letzten Wochen mächtig ins Zeug gelegt: Sie haben eingeladen, ausgewertet, angeschrieben, recherchiert, abgeglich…
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#39c3

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Keine Inflationsabgeltung für Handelsbeschäftigte aber 60 % mehr Gewinn bei Supermarkt-Riesen?

Heute ging die erste Lohnverhandlungsrunde für Handelsbeschäftigte ergebnislos zu Ende. Eine Inflationsabgeltung ist das absolute Minimum, nicht zuletzt, da die Gewinne von Supermarkt-Riesen weit über den Vorkrisen-Gewinnen liegen, sagt stv. Chefökonomin Barbara Schuster im Gespräch mit Puls24.

in reply to André Polykanine

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David Goldfield

@menelion No. I had an earlier vversion from a few months back that I couldn't figure out how to use. I saw a recommendation for it today on LinkedIn and decided to give it another chance. Downloaded and installed 0.5 and it was like night and day but so far I've only tried it with speech. One thing that I like about it is that it uses single letter hotkeys to move to elements in the file, such as headings and links, and it's very much like JAWS and NVDA in that respect. I did find one Epub file that it couldn't open which I was able to open and read with Biblos.
@André Polykanine

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What tool do you reach for when you want something with the core functionality of Syncthing, but you don' t want the whole Syncthing?

bidirectional syncing, latest copy of the file wins, I get to keep a local copy on my computer, doesn't need a full bloated app with a web interface?

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See what #LibreOffice's development and QA communities worked on in October: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #openSource
Bar chart of fixed bugs

QA/Dev Report: October 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.2 was announced on October 9 LibreOffice 25.2.7 was announced on October 30 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help pages for R1C1 Calc formula syntax and DOI citation recognition and improved and updated help on dimension…
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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I just read that FFMPEG supports lufs normalization. That with combination with luveler and MrsWatson allows for nice automatic normalization of recordings. I can use Reaper and tweak everithing, but there are people who just need to get their recordings to relative consistent levels.Luveler teragonaudio/MrsWatson: A command-line VST plugin host

LUveler

luveler.blogspot.com

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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.
#universeodon
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Ryan Wild

@Onj It's all good, in reality with the site being offline I didn't get the notification until I fixed things anyway so you were all good! Would always prefer someone ping me (If the site is down @wild1145@mastodon.social can be better because the odds of all my sites being down and mastodon.social being down all at once are pretty slim) in case I haven't been paged automatically or noticed an issue!
@Ryan Wild (Alt) @Onj 🎶

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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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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
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rabble.ca (@rabbleca@mastodon.social)

Mark Carney promised to increase military spending to two per cent of GDP, and he does so in his first budget. The cost to nearly everything else government does is considerable. https://rabble.
rabble.ca (Mastodon)
#cdnpoli #elbowsup #cdndefense
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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


Release v4.5.0 · mastodon/mastodon

For a user-focused highlight of these changes, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/ For changes of particular interest to application developers, see https://blog.joinmastodon.or...
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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…

A room full of people listening to a speaker who is off frame. The room is full, with only one empty chair remaining.

Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2026 Decentralised Communications Devroom

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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