Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.
But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.
Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.
While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)
In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:
Generative AI is literally changing the whole process of online search and discovery, curating a new experience that experts are calling generative search. In
Half the internet is down. Many Lemmy instances are down, and many FOSS services. I guess that is an awakening that internet is as not decentralized as people thought.
Imagine running a trillion dollar company that bundles various open source components into your products, making billions of dollars of profit annually.
Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option... phoronix.com/news/systemd-musl…
A win, because generally speaking, better interoperability is good, and making software more portable is good, and if it can improve systemd, the world will be better for it.
A win, because getting to that point proves that musl is finally, at last, being taken seriously by one of the most reluctant players in the ecosystem, so it's a sign that musl is a real, believable alternative now, and it will push more people and projects to try it out.
But also a danger, because it now means that systemd actually sees musl systems as targets. Systems that opted for musl were safe from systemd so far; maintainers were not tempted to switch to it because it was not a technically sound proposition. Now that systemd officially supports musl, no distribution is safe, and the survival of the non-systemd ecosystem now only depends on the technical judgment of distribution maintainers. Which has been subverted before, as Debian has painfully and dishonorably shown.
I would like to say I am cautiously optimistic. But I am actually terrified.
systemd is not a disease, i never understood why people act like it is.
if you own your computer, you're still super flexible on what you use as a system manager, and it just gives people the *option* to use systemd on musl systems if they want to.
nobody ever wants to force people to use systemd, but we (and I) want people to accept that it is a viable option.
@fossdd I don't think people realize that 1. distributions have the last say over any dependency, including whether they should package something or not, which completely disqualifies any accusations of attempts to force people to use systemd; and 2. systemd isn't some project managed by a single company: it's comprised of individuals from different organizations.
@TheEvilSkeleton @fossdd Oh, distributions have a choice. They make policy decisions all the time. They choose what to include, and what not to include, all the time, and it's a perfectly conscious choice. Not always an easy one, but a choice nonetheless.
Distributions are not powerless. As the entities actually providing software to the majority of users, they hold a pretty good amount of power. And if Red Hat, at the time, was not pushing systemd with all their might, I don't know how you would call what they were doing.
The fact that systemd is developed by a group of individuals from different organizations does not change the end output. I did not describe intent, but practical behaviour, and when faced with that behaviour, intent really does not matter.
Any Iphone users know what's up with Voiceover restarting itself every thirty seconds or so while my phone's locked? Doesn't matter if I turn speech off or what, I still keep getting "Screen curtain on. Screen curtain on. Screen curtain on." First it only started doing that during updates. Now it's doing it all the time.
Yep, that is Apple. Great feature, isn't it? Experiencing this here on my iPhone 13 whenever I update. Usually it stops at some point, I assume it happens because stuff is working in the background, indexing and such after updating. At some point it'll return to normal. But until then, its probably best to silence it and leave it be.
@adam thinks it could be battery being below 80% health. Mine is 77% and only started happening very recently. The phone is nearly 6 years old - I had been intending to upgrade it this year but then changes to my finances put that one on the back burner for a while.
Recommends AI alternatives rather than putting an “X” (or something similar) to indicate that you don't support it, OR not having that column in the list at all.
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Just finished the icon design for my new Subreddit aimed at helping people get rid of META products in their home: https://www.reddit.
(Though I agree that Mozilla is taking a dark turn, so maybe Thunderbird is also on the endangered list and might be better swapped with something else.)
I admit, I never even heard of CryptPad, and don't recognize the icon. I've been using LO for years, very happily, and regularly recommend it. What's better about CryptPad?
Back when I tried to choose a (paid) #Nextcloud service, I got completely lost. What I need is a few hundred GBs of cloud storage, for photos and videos mostly, and any other stuff (documents, owned music backup, etc.). But it's so hard to figure out which host to trust. Any tips? (Anyone is free to answer)
Should you wonder about the number of apps available in the #IzzyOnDroid repo slightly decreasing with the next sync: your gardeners were quite active again. Find details at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… – and be welcome to join the Cinderella, there are still many items left on the list!
Some other good news: after 6 years, Metrodroid (the app to read public transport NFC smartcards) finally received another update, which will go live here with the next sync around 7 pm UTC.
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps:
* [x] [`ahmaabdo.readify.rss`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ahmaabdo.readify.
@voks Apart from the linked issue (and its 3 companions), not YET. We hope to have our metadata ready in a new git repo within the coming weeks (i.e. "this year"), then you can see it clearly in the commit history (assuming committers make proper commit messages, which I hope will be the case).
That would be better, but still not a solution for Otto-Normal-Verbraucher. I need someone to program an app checking the list of installed apps for abandonments, e.g. by testing for missing store/repo entries or your/f-droids list of removed apps. 🤔
@voks Be welcome to write one then 😉 You could diff the indexes for that. Hint: both, IzzyOnDroid as well as F-Droid use a binary transparency log such an app could parse for this.
You could of course also open issues at the fdroid clients' repos, to include such a functionality. Clients know what apps you've installed from which repo, and could watch for such removals when pulling index updates. That would be the best place to address this.
@ecosystems is there a definition somewhere for the terms you use? 1.9 million maintainers it says. What exactly is a maintainer according to ecosyste.ms?
at first I thought they meant unique committers, but they state 287m repos, 1.9m maintainers, that's 0.0066 maintainers per repo, something like 130 repos per maintainer on average? so maybe it's uniquely counting the author of the initial commit per repo as a maintainer or something.
maintainers are the accounts listed on package manager registries that have publish access, it’s not the best word for it but that’s the name of the table in packages.ecosyste.ms
Following our experimental releases, this is our first non-experimental release based on Android 16 QPR1, the first quarterly release of Android 16. Android 16 QPR1 was pushed to the Android Open Source Project on November 11 rather than September 3 as expected. This is a very large quarterly release with more prominent user-facing improvements than Android 16 provided compared to Android 15 QPR2.
Terminal (virtual machine management app): re-enable GUI support now that the surfaceflinger crashes are resolved upstream by Android 16 QPR1
adevtool: massive overhaul entirely replacing the small remnants of the Pixel device trees to fix several regressions introduced since Android 16 such as charging mode booting into the regular OS and to prepare for adding 10th gen Pixel devices via automated device support without any need for device trees to use as a reference
adevtool: switch to obtaining Android 16 QPR1 backports from the latest November releases for relevant Pixels (there are no security patches listed for the Android or Pixel bulletins and not all Pixels received the tiny release)
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
raise declared patch level to 2025-11-05 which has already been provided in GrapheneOS since our regular 2025090200 release (not a security preview) since the patches were included in the September security preview and were then pushed to AOSP despite not being listed in the bulletin along with there being no Pixel Update Bulletin patches for November 2025
Creating a security preview release on top of the new Android 16 QPR1 release is still in progress and will be available soon. For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.
So... @fedora has made a policy explicitly allowing AI code. So I have to change my home distro.
@gentoo and @netbsd both have specific policies against it, but I ain't about doing a Gentoo install (sorry, guys, I love you for this, but I need a binary first distro), and NetBSD ain't great for gaming AFAIK.
Just a public statement that says "No, we don't want that crap" would be plenty --- I understand the difficulty of enforcing the policy, but setting it as a community/commit standard would go a long way towards making a lot of us feel better.
Vielen meiner Schüler:innen geht es einfach dreckig. Wir reden hier über so wenig Geld, dass sie sich keinen neuen USB Stick oder Stift leisten können. So wenig Geld, dass sie sich zu Hause oft nicht trauen zu fragen, ob sie sich was für die Schule kaufen können.
Wie kann Lernen funktionieren, wenn ich als Kind Angst habe zu Hause nicht genug Essen zu bekommen?
Ein kaputtes Bett kann nicht ersetzt werden, Kino ist nicht drin, ein Urlaub auch nicht. 2,2 Millionen Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland sind armutsgefährdet. Ein Risikofaktor: Ein niedriger Bildungsabschluss der Eltern.
Quite the gap between theory and practice: while German federal states, armed forces and French gendarmerie rely on #OpenSource because they have understood that #digitalSovereignty is only achievable with open technology, the closing declaration for tomorrow‘s #DigitalSummit treats OS like a hobby. 1/4
Today I had to compose an email in Outlook. I did this on macOS, running whatever-the-one-before-Tahoe-is.
It was basically unusable. The constant autocorrect and text prediction were nothing short of horrendous. I was writing technical stuff and it changed it every. fucking. time.
And distracting! So distracting.
I finally found the settings to turn it all off. (System Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Sources, and the Edit menu in Outlook.) It had better fucking stay that way.
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It's apparently our fault that LTS distros ship extremely outdated versions of GNOME that may have bugs when interacting with actually up to date applications.
Nobody ever **demands** the distributions fix their shit, it's always GNOME that **has** to support LTS distributions. For free none the less.
said this before, but: free LTS distros have fucked the entire Linux ecosystem by shifting the costs to upstream, and convinced people that "support" for nothing is owed to a person just because they managed to finish the installation of the OS without signing a contract
@ebassi Honestly, given the state of things, if its easier to get past the character creation wizard in an RPG than it is to install a distro its no wonder these people will think they are entitled to everything afterwards.
tbh, the Windows 10 installer was basically a Linux distro installer without the partitioning side quest; I don't think Windows 11 improved anything in that regard. I am also an Old Person™, and I remember the Slackware installer of the mid '90s, so I am an outlier and should not be counted.
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recently delta chat introduced metadata protection regarding the "Date" header that is visible to providers but it seems some providers don't like the variance. So we will reduce the variance in the next releases. Note that chatmail relays (chatmail.at/relays) do not have this issue.
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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team. (1/13)
I’m humbled to be given this opportunity and want to tell you a bit more about myself and how I think about the future of Mastodon and the Fediverse. I have a business and finance background. I have worked for technology companies my whole career but have become increasingly tired of the extractive venture capital model of financing them, which only works for the rare outliers and seemingly never leads to the best product humans deserve. (2/13)
Mastodon and the Fediverse matter to me because they present a truly viable alternative to this model, by showing its users no advertisement, respecting users’ privacy, focussing on keeping users safe, and allowing them to connect to the Fediverse and beyond rather than putting them into a digital prison to extract as much metadata about them to please advertisers. (3/13)
My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators in the Fediverse. I’m thrilled to have @haubles as Community Director and @renchap as Technical Director on my side in making this vision a reality. (4/13)
My personal heroes and projects I admire are @signalapp @Mer__edith @torproject @gnome @thunderbird @ryanleesipes . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter. (5/13)
Thanks to amazing people like @jaz @iftas @swf @mallory @bjoernsta @j12t we can see through topics larger than us related to policy, regulation, protocol development as well as how to deal with spam attacks, how to design a safer product for everyone, and how to deal with occasional interpersonal conflicts in our beautiful part of the internet. (8/13)
I want to send my heartfelt thanks @karienbez @alshafei for their wisdom and emotional support during this crazy journey so far, to @codinghorror @biz for your visionary strategic & financial support without which this restructuring would not have been possible, and to the team of Paul Hastings for your pro-bono legal advice. (9/13)
Thanks @Gargron for allowing us to do this the pure non-profit and FOSS way by saying no to earlier offers, some of which would have given you more than 10x the payout. I have been inspired by your vision about this project from the moment I met you 5+ years ago. It takes a lot of courage and greatness to let this project go. Super excited for continuing to work with you! (10/13)
But Mastodon wouldn’t be where it is without so many more people than Eugen. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to work with the best team we’ve ever had. Each one of you brings so much value to the Mastodon project and I want to thank you for making our mission your day job while you could certainly earn double or triple at one of our for-profit competitors. (11/13)
We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona… (12/13)
Once upon a time I called a restaurant and asked if they were wheelchair accessible. I specifically asked about stairs. They said yes they were wheelchair accessible, there were no stairs at all. We arrived, excited to try their food, to find there were steps to get into the restaurant. I asked why they said it was accessible when I couldn't even get in the door. They said the restaurant is accessible once you get inside.
I think about this a lot. It's accessible once you get inside, but they don't offer you any way to get in there.
This is common. That restaurant wasn't the first place to be inaccessible while saying it is accessible, it's just the one that stuck with me most because the host was so sure they were accessible and could accommodate me. They were even happy about being able to have me there.
So how does this go so wrong? Can you tell me, because I don't know. How did they get so close and still fail?
Here's a funny one for you: There is a restaurant on Staten Island that has a really great ramp. It's obviously up to spec. The only problem is to use the door at the top of the ramp you have to go up the stairs, inside the restaurant, and ask someone to open the door at the top of the ramp. So close, right? Disabled people would never be out without a nondisabled person, so this is a smart decision. (This is not a smart decision. Disabled people do in fact go out alone or with other disabled people.)
Nondisabled people do not understand disability or disabled people. Not at all. They think they do, but they view everything through their own biases and fail to truly know us as separate human beings. That's a problem, not that they realize it.
Luxchat, the Matrix-based instant messaging solution for the public and private sectors, is holding a Hackathon during the Luxembourg Internet Days 2025. We're shipping our guardian Matthew Hodgson there to contribute!
📆 November 18 & 19 📌 Chambre de Commerce (salle F01), Luxembourg
One thing that frustrates me about Mastodon is that you can do everything, engage with different people over different servers, have awesome, caring instance admins, etc. But still, half the data you can fetch is literally months outdated or incomplete. I see accounts in follower lists which instances are dead since God knows how long. From the 40 followers someone has, my client only displays 2. I love the concept and all that, but it is so unpredictable, not to say unstable, but I don't know a better word to describe it. And it's not my instance, I've tried on 2 different instances, with different profiles, some on the instance itself, some not.
I totally agree with your observations about how Mastodon seems qerky in a lot of ways. Some rather fundamental. I definitely have noticed inconsisitencies of data fetched at any given time. Fortunately, The latest FetchAllReplies framework they have released in 4.5 will hopefully start to resolve a lot of this inconsistent state stuff. It will be actively making connections and fetches of data from any remote instances mentioned in any given post as it is requested via the API or the web interface. It will add some performance penalty to the transaction, as well as potentially require larger instance admins to scale their resources differently, or in some cases reevaluate their entire resource distribution plan and rework. But from a user perspective, it will transparently appear that all posts and threads are consistent, no matter what instance they have been requested from.
Dieses Signal bashing geht mir langsam auf den Sack. Wenn die Leute doch meinen das mit einem dezentralisierten Protokoll wie XMPP oder Matrix ALLES in Sachen Instant Messaging besser wird und die Leute hinter Signal einfach nur blöd sind weil Sie Dienste wie AWS und Co benutzen, dann sollen Sie doch einfach aufhören Signal zu nutzen. Versteht mich nicht falsch, ich finde Dezentralisierung super. Das heißt aber nicht das man auf andere die dieses Konzept nicht nutzen dauernd rumhacken muss.
Joah, hauptsache kein WhatsApp hätt ich mal gesagt. Da gibt's ja in Deutschland noch genug Arbeit zu tun :P Leider ist aber WhatsApp eben immer noch das Barrierefreiheste das mir bekannt wäre. Wenn ich Signal bashe, dann wegen der Drecks-Desktop-App.
Let me be cheeky and preempt @pid_eins's systemd 259 posts:
In systemd 259, I'm making it possible to run commands that need privileges as your current user instead of as root. With "run0 --empower", you'll get a session as your current user in which you can do anything that root would be able to do, without actually being root.
This is very useful when you need to run something with privileges but still want all created files and directories to be owned by your current user.
It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet…
and you just made me realize that 2018 was seven years ago... it feels weird, I still remember a lot of things that happened "a few years ago" .. like maybe three or four max but not seven!
Los 18 de noviembre celebramos el orgullo LGTBIQA+ en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (eso del #STEM). ¿Por qué esta fecha tan raruna? Por un lado porque noviembre suele ser un mes de la ciencia (yo mismo he estado montando más de 30 años celebraciones en estas fechas para llevar la ciencia a la calle). Pero también por Frank Kameny, astrónomo y activista estadounidense represaliado por las leyes discriminatorias del terror lavanda, que un día como hoy llevó su despido al Tribuna Supremo de los EEUU. Perdió, pero eso le animó a dedicarse al activismo en la Matachine Society. Creó, por cierto, eso de "Gay is Good". Otros años, desde el @pamplonetario solíamos hacer actividades que visibilizaran la ciencia LGTBIQA+, la situación de discriminación, la necesidad de seguir apoyando a este colectivo... Hoy lo dejo en un toot y os felicito a todo el mundo que vivís la diferencia y lucháis por una sociedad inclusiva.
This change increases the minimum stack cookie for the AmigaOS build of the curl tool.
In testing, the older stack size of 16384 was causing curl to crash on heavy TLS loads
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