It's been a while since I've used my Mastodon instance's web interface for posting. Cloudflare is busted, which seems to also mess up my preferred Windows client, but, go figure, all the stuff it connects to is still working fine.
Does Tweesecake just casually lock you out of your client if it can't phone home? I know it has an account system, but I didn't think it tried to get a token every single time it's run.
@simon If it's still running at the time, I think it will continue to. Mine wasn't running.
On two PC's, I get two different versions of broken. On one PC, all sessions are "unknown user". On the other PC, it just kind of sits there and hangs for a while, then eventually closes.
Still works on mine, I guess I'll find out whether it's borked if I restart in time. This seems like a good reminder to try out whatever the latest incarnation of that web interface is.
Yeah, if you're refering to Tweesecake, then yeah, that's bad design, as to be able to access Mastodon servers, the client should not need to connect to some other service, and if that service is not working it renders the client useless, that's bad Tweesecake, bad bad bad bad bad!
Mine is still in a crashing mood. I just tried a minute ago. This whole cloudflare thing is insane though. It would be like all the major ISP's going out in the 2000s. Yet more proof that the wild west internet was better than the echo chamber bee hive.
Why would anyone, at this point, use Firefox over Chrome?
Diehards like me are absolutely disgusted with the AI BS Mozilla is pushing down everyone's throats, to just mention one thing. We will find a fork, or eventually hopefully a new independent browser.
Anybody else doesn't give a fsck so why would they use a cheap Chrome knock-off Mozilla made Firefox into, if they can get the real deal for free?
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults and minors in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment plan that covers appointments and lab tests for people without good insurance.
Their program is great for people going stealth or living in unsafe environments, as they don't need referrals or anything else from your primary doctor. They send all lab orders to a LabCorp location of your choice, and prescriptions are sent to any pharmacy. (including mail-order pharmacies and chains like Walgreens and CVS that will ship your meds for a small fee.) If necessary, the entire process can be private and zero-contact except for the labs.
They work with transfem, transmasc, and non-binary people, and many of their staff are themselves trans! They follow WPATH SOC-8 and target modern (cis-equivalent) hormone levels, while still being flexible enough to work with whatever your personal goals are. In my experience, their target seems to be "whatever makes you feel best within safe limits". With me, they've been willing to explore non-standard doses, injection schedules, and hybrid approaches as long as I can provide research showing it's effective or at least safe.
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I can't speak to the transmasc experience, but I first started seeing them as a fem-aligned non-binary person who was already on oral Estradiol, Progesterone, and Spironolactone at mild doses. They had no issue with that, and later helped me increase those doses as I explored whether more "female" hormone balance would feel better. (still as part of a "non-binary" hormone plan!)
When I eventually realized I was binary transfem, they were just as understanding and helpful. They suggested changing Estrodiol forms to stabilize my levels at higher doses, and later helped me transition to injections when Spiro stopped working and other T blockers weren't an option for health reasons. (side note: they were actually willing to prescribe puberty blockers as an anti-androgen, but insurance wouldn't cover them and I couldn't afford the cost. I still think it's cool that they were forward-thinking enough to even offer that option, though!) I want to emphasize that I was not an easy patient for injections. I had severe needle-phobia, was clueless about the process, and proceeded to freak out many times over non-issues as I slowly learned how to inject. Through all that, they were patient, supportive, and never made me feel bad for panicking. Eventually I figured it out and even cured my needle phobia, for which they celebrated with me.
Now that I've finally achieved stable levels at the dose that feels best to me, they've let me transition to long-term HRT maintenance. This means 12-month prescriptions, infrequent tests, and minimal appointment requirements. This is something I was rather worried about, as my last provided never allowed long-term maintenance for various reasons. But with that, I'm now fully onboarded into the program and can speak to the whole experience. My overall opinion: QMed is the best HRT provider I've used, and the entire process has been smooth, flexible, and affirming. #HRT #Transgender #Trans #PSA #Advice #Transition #Gender #GenderAffirmingCare #QMed #QueerMed
Lol downdetector is down how ironic how will we know what's actually up or down now, oh no, guess the internet is moving into the Upside down then instead. It'll become good friends with demogorgon there.
Cloudflare outage under investigation as widespread internet outages spread — Twitter, Downdetector go down, company confirms Global Network issue: tomshardware.com/news/live/clo…
Cloud Flare goes down! But it goes up again! Brought Downdetector to the ground! So we go down! But we go up again! We're giving you the run-around Let's just stay down! #tubthumberButForRear-endedWebsitesEverywhere
@matt @jackf723 ahaha loved this. Also that it's not AI but true Karaoke, well done :D. what's funny is that for me, the mention of yours came through before Jack's original post. So like, it sent it backwards through the API, how odd.
Und mal wieder möchte ich zur schulischen Barrierefreiheit sagen: Das Problem ist meiner Meinung nach nicht, dass wir keine Hilfsmittel oder Optionen zur Verfügung hätten. Ich beobachte meinen Unterricht und kenne inzwischen selbst Produkte, die so eine tolle Ergänzung wären, und es enttäuscht mich, dass ich diese nie verwenden konnte. Es setzt einfach nur ein bisschen Willenskraft, Planung, Kommunikation und Kompetenz voraus. Alles Dinge, die deutsche Schulen nicht haben. Schade. \#Barrierefreiheit \#Schule
audiovault.net | 500: Internal server error. Whoops. Watch on the official streaming service if you can folks. Of course with AD that's sometimes a crapshoot, especially on international content.
@luiscarlosgonzalez oh weird Suno does work here. Udio nope. Suno I know uses AWS for their storage and EC2 hosting, not sure on Udio though. Wow I wonder what other sites are weirdly down then, hmm. Already starting out well as a day :D
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.
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On two PC's, I get two different versions of broken. On one PC, all sessions are "unknown user". On the other PC, it just kind of sits there and hangs for a while, then eventually closes.
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