I have no problem with it. if it means I will receive regular updates to the software, subscription away. This community is very small. Once you hit the saturation point, you stop making sales, which means you stop making money, which means you stop being able to justify continuing to update a product.
I don't think I've yet expressed enough yet how great the out of box experience of #Fedora #Linux on a new #Lenovo #ThinkPad has been. Don't get me wrong, Fedora runs great on my other hardware, too, but this pairing feels much more intentionally supported and it really shows in the experience.
ThinkPads have always been well supported. In the past it was mainly due to the community, but in the recent years the Linux engineering team in Lenovo has really stepped up its game. Too bad Dell is going the opposite direction. Introducing more and more hardware components that rely on out-of-tree kernel drivers. My last three work laptops have been been XPS 13, but my next one will most likely be a ThinkPad again.
@sesivany I've always only bought Lenovo precisely because of this. Although new technology takes awhile to get supported. My lunarlake laptop is still kinda sucks because I got a regression.
@dawn oh thanks for sharing. This is the first time I've run KDE in over 10 years so that's why I haven't seen it before. I was a daily MacOS user for a long time.
Přechod mezi telefony je na Androidu pořád hodně práce
Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je to pořád z nemalé části manuální proces.
Konečně je GrapheneOS dostupný také pro Pixel 10 a já na něj mohl konečně přejít. Jak jednoduchá byla migrace na nový telefon? GrapheneOS má nejpokročilejší zálohovací/migrační nástroj, jaký jsem na Androidu zkoušel, jak ale píšu v článku, i tak je t…
Heads up to our friends in the #UK - we're performing maintenance at the LHR site which should be completed in ~ another 4 hours. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
A PSA. An RTO (Return to the Office) policy isn't about collaboration nor productivity. It's about exerting control, and a mean to shed (the best) people from your workforce without having to pay severance....
Every year I think Apple can’t best their previous campaign for accessibility, and yet here we are. (An audio description is available from the video settings.)
Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...
Okay. So I can't decide for my portable lap 61 key keyboard if I should get a straight Midi controller or if I should get something with at least some onboard sounds. I have my Komplete but it's only a 49 meant to be played along with my hybrid acousticdigital piano. But I need a couch friend. Trying to decide between a 61 key midi keyboard or one of the cheap Rolands or Cassios that do have some sounds but connect to Midi. I just need something that sounds good that I can practice with. I can only sit at my real piano for an hour a day, if I'm lucky. Please help me pick my 61 key couch companion. My couch reclines so I can use thefootrest as well. I know I'm weird, going to put the pedal on the ootrest. I'm tired of my pain destroying my creativity. Still plan to learn Mac and integrate. But the Mac is in the piano room.
@LeonianUniverse Ah, I think I should have been clearer. I prefer Plug and Play and are more comfortable for ios and Braille right now than I am with my Mac. This keyboard is strictly going to be for my lap practice not connecting to a damned computer, where Windows can either update and fubar me, or Mac wscrew up because I don't know it well enough. I could get the 61 but for this purpose there's nothing to recommend it above others 61 key ones. I mean, I can get a keyboard with sounds for less than that. This is for me when I can't play with the miano. Thekomplete is going to be a passthrough for sounds forme to play on my acoustic piano with a silent system. This second keyboard is for me to work on my ear training, compose melodies, work on complicated rhythms. When I sit down at the piano because of my limited time I want to pllay the things I enjoy. I just want something that requires no computer. I just don't want to deal with the kinds of computer headaches I'v
If you want to play on your phone or Ipad, you still can with a 61-key keyboard like,, one from KK, there is a great app called Ableton Live that works as a stand-alone music production kit that has everything you need to compose music, and you can use a USB to USBC adapter to plug your keyboard in to your phone or Ipad.
@LeonianUniverse Cool. Ableton working on the phone now? i guess my ask is what would make this keyboard better than a controller or keyboard at alower price. Because a lot of the functions on the Komplete you can't use on ios.
@LeonianUniverse Ok hang on, Ableton doesn't make Live for iOS, however they do have Ableton Note which is sort of like a cut down version. You'd probably be better off with something that has some onboard sounds, maybe take a look at Roland's Go Keys or Go Piano if those are still being made, but I'm honestly not the best person to recommend stuff like this because I mainly do computer based production.
If I were you I would forget Komplete Kontrol for this use case. Practicing should be as frictionless as possible and you don't necessarily need a ton of sounds at your disposal just for that. I'd look at Yamaha's CK range. They have internal speakers, good onboard sounds and can even run on batteries.
@hub I keep telling myself that one day, when companies need to recruit again, they're going to offer WFM to edge out their competitors and the pendulum will swing the other way again.
Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...
You might think this is just another picture of a cat on a human.
But no!
This is a picture of our cat, Misti, who, for the first time since being adopted six months ago, stepped onto my lap completely of her own free will (as opposed to being bribed with treats) and sat there comfortably for about seven minutes.
The more I think and hear about it, the less I like Eloquence as a manditory subscription. I think CodeFactory should charge for major upgrades, or add a lifetime option, even if it's ten times the cost of the original Eloquence. I've already been burned more than once by Vocalizer randomly deciding I don't have a valid license anymore, forcing me to connect to the internet—which was pretty difficult when my phone refused to say anything except "Please register this copy of Vocalizer TTS." So I think I can be forgiven for not wanting that again. If there's no way to actually own a copy of this new Eloquence, I really hope someone cracks it. But I also know that if someone does crack it, many people will use the crack even if they can afford to pay for it. To be clear, I'll still pay for the subscription, because I want to support continued development of this stuff and no-one else is doing it. I don't even care if the subscription is $10/month. But if this gets abandoned the way everything else has, it will effectively die, and we won't have a leg to stand on because we paid for a month of usage, not perpetual usage. I have phones that still run the version of Eloquence I bought 10 years ago. If CodeFactory ever shuts this down, it'll be instantly gone. So mostly, I hope CodeFactory offers a one-time purchase option—even if it's expensive—so there's less of a need to do any of that. If that doesn't happen, and no one has worked out a way to bypass the activation entirely, I'll need to really think about whether I want my primary synthesizer to be in such a precarious position. @accessibleandroidmastodon.social/@accessibleand…
Public announcement from Code Factory: "Starting today, December 2, 2025, we are launching the public beta of Eloquence for Android. To ensure a smooth experience and gather valuable feedback, we’re releasing the beta in stages. This means we’ll be gradually inviting more users over time, starting with a limited group and expanding step by step. Join the beta from the following link: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Maybe that would be a good way to go. I don't currently use Android, but totally get your concerns given CF's track record. At the same time, I have read a lot of posts saying how developing for modern Android, and specifically how Google wants developers to keep their apps updated and built against the latest SDK's to avoid getting booted, I think I understand why they chose this monetisation path. I just hope, given there was a lot of hostility to this even before launch, that if everyone does jump on a cracked version if one gets released we won't end up with a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy where cf decides to stop supporting the app because noone was buying it, and no one was buying it because of the sub and CF's track record. So yeah, maybe a lifetime option isn't a horrible idea even if they price it high for a a lot of people.
@pitermach They essentially said they pulled it from the store because when it was cracked, sales dropped to virtually zero. That logic doesn't make sense to me, because that would mean sales would literally be zero if you pull it from the store, but there would definitely be higher chances of more purchases if it remained available. I'll take a wait and see approach for sure.
#Blind friends. It is long since time we took our responsibilities far more seriously and ensured our #sighted friends are more aware of where they are, where they are going and even where it is they hope to get. Next time an over eager person with sight approaches you, stop and ensure they know where it is they are, which direction they are traveling and even if they know what their destination is. when you encounter one who does congratulate them and see them on their way. #blindtravel #a11y
I'm surprised 2.2% of users using something counts as it being "barely used", given the size of curl's userbase. Is there a usage threshold that you look for, when considering cutting features, or do you consider features to cut on a case-by-case basis?
@mag well, only a tiny fraction of users respond to the survey and I always think people over-select. So yes, I think 2.2% is basically zero actual users.
We do this regularly but on case-by-case basis when someone brings some old sins out in the sunlight and we have a discussion.
@mag but also: we have this deprecation period to allow anyone and everyone to speak up and say something if we have misread the situation and we should reconsider
Totally random question: anyone know of a vendor that provides WiFi (802.11ac is fine, doesn't need to be newer) and BTLE IP (including the analogue bits) that we might not have spoken to?
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
DNS-PERSIST will be very welcome, although you can achieve a similar result with a webserver configuration that responds to ACME challenges automatically. It doesn't need to know what the challenge is to respond. Also works with a cluster of webservers then that don't have to know a challenge is coming and have the response ready
Of course it can't work if there will never be a webserver at the domain you're issuing the cert for
What's new people it's a Tuesday, work is super busy for the next 2 weeks before I and a lot of others take off the holidays. I plan to be off-work from December 19th to the end of the year. A well-deserved break, but until then, must dig my heals in.
Teen tästä vielä näin julkisenkin päivityksen: Pirkkalaiskirjailijoilla on pop up -myyjäiset ensi viikon torstaina, 11.12. klo 18-20 Pirkkalaisten tiloissa Sammonkadulla (se pieni sokeripalarakennus Sampolan "takapihalla").
Our security preview releases have provided the December 2025 security patches for the Android Open Source Project since September 2025. December 2025 security patches are now public and being integrated into our regular releases while our security previews have up to March 2026.
A bunch of the patches previously scheduled for December 2025 were made optional and deferred to future months so they're not listed in the public bulletin. That's why even our September 2025 security preview releases list CVEs which are still not public in December 2025.
The reason patches get deferred is because OEMs aren't capable of quickly integrating, testing and shipping patches. When issues are identified including an OEM having trouble with it, they'll often defer it to a future month. Our security previews can continue shipping these.
GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.
Providing our security preview patches is a lot of work for us. It requires a full time developer spending a significant fraction of their time on it. It's hard to understand why large companies can't keep up with these patches but what matters is that we can provide them early.
Android security preview patches are currently backports to Android 13, 14, 15 and 16. Since GrapheneOS is based on Android 16 QPR1, we need to forward port the patches from 16 to 16 QPR1. Our understanding is they're going to start backporting to some quarterly releases too.
Android 16 QPR2 appears to be the first quarterly release of Android which is going to be shipped by non-Pixel devices. If that's the case, they'll need to start providing security preview patches backported to it too. It's not clear if it will happen for every quarterly release.
Spending a significant amount of time on this is part of the reason GrapheneOS feature development has slowed down. Expanding our servers and now migrating away from OVH is another. We'll be hiring more people and improving our organization structure to get things moving better.
We would greatly prefer it if patches were disclosed to OEMs 1 week ahead instead of 2-4 months ahead so our security preview releases would only need to exist for a week and regular releases would get the patches much faster. OEMs should just hire far more people and do better.
Fixing old Android code, integrating with the upcoming Thunderbird Pro, and making a balanced iOS roadmap are all part of our mobile development goals in 2026.
@wojtek Thanks for the feedback, and we'll get this to the rest of the team. As we release more information about Bolt and development on Android, we'll be posting it on our UX mailing list, and we're always looking for thoughtful yet honest feedback from our community: thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…
I tried joining the topicbox but didn't get the confirmation email =,=
also another thing - I just noticed that you reworked sidebar and from previous, handy one with list of the accounts on the left span and then folders next to it you made it to single strip with account selector on the top which is slightly more annoying to use and requires more taps - previously it was just 2 (tap on the account and then select folder) and now it's 3 (tap on the dropdown, select account, select folder)… why do it? most people have only a bunch of accounts that would easily fit into the sidestrip…
@wojtek One of the things we're working on for the next iteration of the drawer is making it fewer clicks to switch between folders and accounts. This is already in the current beta, and we're definitely aware of user feedback and want to make this new account drawer efficient and easy to use. We're sorry if this update isn't quite there yet!
Nice! Well, if I'm honest, I'm unsure about the UI as I dont really care and would rather see time spent on other things, but the rest sounds good! For calendar, please integrate with the android calendar, don't redo you own thing!
@silmathoron Thanks for the honest feedback! If you aren't already subscribed, upcoming news and discussions about calendar exploration will be on our Mobile planning mailing list! thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…
New #PeerTube server can send post updates over activity pub. Many of my videos have updated title or description and peertube now federates it all. Sorry for the notification madness.
@vojta001 I don't know actually. Maybe they adapted and are now sending the same update activity as Mastodon does? The result is that on Mastodon I received many "post updated" notifications retrospectively.
Over November 2025, I've been able to contribute to @gnome, and it was a pleasure!
I focused on GNOME Clocks, with the goal of making it as good as possible for GNOME 50. I focused on #accessibility, #linuxmobile and all sorts of bug fixes and features, as well as issue and MR triaging.
I also fixed some tiny issues in #GTK and #libadwaita, and helped make gettext-pseudolocale as good as possible.
I hope to find more free time to make GNOME Clocks 50 dependable as a mobile clocks app.
Edit: Got it, thanks BlueLegend and Bri. Mentioning people I know have been contributing to this. In 2024, I made a project in NVGt called FlashFiles, which was quite interesting for my skills at that time. Sadly due to my weird nature back then I deleted it, and only have a few outdated sounds, binarys or a weird old source from april with the most major changes missing. Does anyone still have an old backup/repo clone of this somewhere and would be willing to send it over in DM? I wanna look back on it. And also sorry for deleting it with no comment back then, I don't understand myself from back then. I appreciate your time. And bevore you ask, yup the repo is sadly also long gone and I can't seem to recover it.
Nice, feel free to send it over anyway. BlueLegend send a quite up to date thing but it's always good to have more, especially a git repo would be fire lol.
🚨Starting Dec 16th, Meta AI will read your private messages - unless you opt out now! 🚨
Opting out is hilariously complex, but we've got you covered:
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I wonder about all that "AI photo generation / manipulation" tools reportedly "comming to Whatsapp". I guess when people feed their photos to AI to manipulate ... they stay on Meta servers 4 ever? Got deleted? Some trustworthy 3rd party controll it happens? XD And if someone (like me) think "why the hell would anybody feed their photos to Meta AI" ... then I'am thinking of "clever" ways like "grant permission to whole galery" - great "now would u like Meta AI to improve contrast"? 🙄
Právě jsem zjistil, že až se dostaví tramvaj do Malešic, bude mi jezdit přímej autobus od domu až před kancl. Teď to mám s jedním přestupem z busu na bus. Pořád budu jezdit do práce na kole. Ale už to asi nebude nejrychlejší volba. Nejzábavnější a nejekologičtější volbou zůstane dál. A až nasněží, bude se to hodit. pid.cz/wp-content/uploads/syst…
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