Politicians:
Terrified about citizens that might be sending private messages they cannot read on Signal -> Sudden panic about "protecting the children" 🙃

Also politicians:
Grok AI Chatbot collects data and asks for nudes from a 12-year old -> AI is innovation! We should invest billions in taxpayers money in it! 💰💰💰

cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla…

#NoAI #NoGrok #E2EE #ChatControl #ProtectTheChildrenForReal

I changed a lightbulb today!

And this makes me happy to be living in the future, because I think the last time I did this was 3-4 years ago.

When I was growing up, replacing bulbs was something that we did at least once a week.

When I moved into a shared house as a student, we were replacing at least one bulb a month. Around then, CFL subsidies came in and the cost of a CFL dropped to about the same price as one month's power consumption for an incandescent bulb, so we replaced all of them, and then didn't change a single bulb for the next two years I was in that house. The next house (which I lived in for around 5 years) also used CFLs and they would gradually have lower peak brightness so would get moved around to places that didn't need as much light.

We have LEDs here now, and they don't seem to fade. I think this is the first one to fail in 8 years (we did bring some older CFLs, which gradually died and were replaced). I'll see if this is a pattern (do they all fail after 8ish years, or was this an outlier?).

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Hello everyone!

Here's version 0.20.2 of #GoToSocial; it's another bugfix release!

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0 or v0.20.1, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.2 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

Release highlights:

• Roll back to using name property instead of summary for alt text (for now anyway), due to compatibility issues with *oma, *key, and Iceshrimp.
• Stub authorize_interaction to avoid surprising 404 when trying to do a remote interaction.
• Fix issue that was causing emojis not to download properly.
• Add optional build tags for reduced binary size.
• Fix some swagger docs issues.
• Various other fixes + performance tweaks.
• Dependency bumps.

Thanks for reading! Have a good week!

v0.20.0 Sinister Sloth 😈 - superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**. It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.

^Codeberg.org

🇪🇺 Unter dem Dach der #HeinleinGruppe haben wir gemeinsam mit unseren Schwestermarken @heinleinsupport, @OpenTalkMeeting und @OpenCloud sowie führenden Open-Source-Verbänden und -Unternehmen aus Europa die „Declaration of Digital Independence“ unterzeichnet.

Digitale Unabhängigkeit ist bereits heute möglich. Mehr dazu: heinlein.group/heinlein-gruppe…

#DigitaleSouveränität

Heinlein Gruppe unterzeichnet Erklärung zur digitalen Unabhängigkeit Europas - Heinlein Group

Am 18. November 2025 findet der deutsch-französische Gipfel zur digitalen Souveränität der EU statt. Aus diesem Anlass veröffentlichen europäische Open-Source-Verbände und -Unternehmen die „Declaration of Digital Independence".

^{Ivonne (Heinlein Group)}

Making a simple form in LibreOffice Base to do the equivalent of a minimal Google Form, but local instead of sending the data to Google.

Here's where I'm stuck: How do I rig up a button that saves the current record *and* starts a new one? Do I have to write a macro for this?

#LibreOffice #OpenOffice

Wow, just wow.

If only the security team at the Louvre had read the Tuta blog.
➡️ tuta.com/blog/best-password-ma…

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When I post here, I try to keep the political stuff out of it. Reason being is that this platform tends to skew heavily to the left, and I am not a leftist; however, I think there are aspects of this platform that I can enjoy despite the political differences that exist between myself and the majority of its users. However, what I’m about to show here has righteously pissed me off. Some idiot has stamped a $1 bill with all sorts of derogatory remarks about Trump. (1/2)

We just released our biggest (and most beautiful) update ever. The new version fully embraces Liquid Glass and comes with a ton of enhancements, fixes and meaningful changes.

The update is available now, and it’s so big that we couldn’t fit all the fixes and changes into the App Store’s text field. You can still find the full release notes on our website:

ulysses.app/release-notes/

Oh, and it’s really beautiful. Happy release day, everybody!

this is not your grandfather's twitter bootstrap framework.

finalizing design for #deltachat #chatmail system. by hackers for hackers.

I have already been asked how we intend to celebrate #curl's 30th anniversary next November (counted from httpget's birth)

But no, I have no idea. I'll think about that in about 11 months

😂

#PředvolebníSliby

Do you prefer a CLI over a GUI? With the hcloud CLI you can provision and manage not only Hetzner Cloud resources like servers, volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, but also our Storage Boxes, subaccounts and snapshots. It’s script-friendly (JSON output & stable exit codes), supports auto-completion, and ships as a Docker image for CI/CD.

github.com/hetznercloud/cli

Is there a mailing list service (as in “I want to send concert announcements to a few people”) that’s not objectionable, not predatory, and not run by vile people?

For years Mailchimp was the go-to, but I see them landing on boycott lists of late.

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

codeberg.org/bogomil/FOSSArt

#Foss

FOSSArt

artists who create under a free license @FOSDEM

^Codeberg.org