I use Font Awesome icons on my presentation cover slides to link to my website and email. It would be great if we could also use them for Jabber/XMPP addresses!

#XMPP is currently the second most requested icon on Font Awesome, and it’s close to reaching the top spot. You can support the request here:

github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Aw…

#xmpp

Starting to write up a series of articles about the Linux kernel CVE work that has happened in the past 2 years, starting with some "back to basics" information about how Linux kernels are numbered as many people/companies really don't know how we do this, and it matters a lot in tracking bugfixes and how to determine "vulnerable" and "fixed" kernel releases:
kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/08/…
and
kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/09/…

Experimental GrapheneOS Release Based On AOSP 16 QPR2 Now Available For Testing


An experimental release of GrapheneOS (2025120800) based on Android 16 QPR2 is available for testing via sideloading. It won't be pushed out via Alpha. You can join our testing chat room if you want to help with testing (grapheneos.org/contact#communi…). No security preview variant yet.

GrapheneOS Based On AOSP 16 QPR2 Releasing Soon


Android 16 QPR2 experimental releases will be available soon. We're dealing with a lot of attacks on the project branching off from the smear campaign in France. We'd appreciate if our community would debunk this nonsense across platforms for us so we can focus on QPR2. Thanks.

If you see the fake story about someone claiming to be charged with premeditated murder because GrapheneOS supposedly didn't protect their data, see nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1… for a thorough debunking. Their story keeps changing and clearly isn't real. They may be a career criminal but this is fake.

RE: floss.social/@CleoMenezesJr/11…

To vypadá hodně dobře 👍👍👍


Guys, MosaicWM is becoming more and more stable, so I would like to start having people testing it.

github.com/CleoMenezesJr/Mosai…

#GNOME


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Ponniendo en conocimiento de mis superiores o de los órganos competentes las propuestas que considero adecuadas para mejorar el desarrollo de las funciones de la unidad en la que estoy destinado. A estos efectos se puede prever la creación de la instancia adecuada competente para centralizar la recepción de mis propuestas para mejorar la eficacia en el servicio.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

This holiday season I'd like to make someone I think is very important a bit of joy, however I need your help with it.

National bank of slovakia is issuing so called commemorative and collector euro 2 coins to celebrate historic memories, anniversaries and other special events. A friend of mine is collecting these coins with her dad whenever it's possible.

I have found out this is not specific to our country as european central bank has standardised this process and all the countries that have accepted euro can issue such commemorative coins.

Now the part I'd need some help with.

Can you please check with the national bank where you live if you can acquire some of the commemorative euro 2 coins, make me an offer and send these to me through ordinary post / mail service please?

Thanks for your understanding and possible help you can provide. #fediHelp #fediPower #boostsWelcome

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One week after we kicked off our year-end fundraiser, we’ve reached 800 #FriendsOfGNOME!

Our goal is a bit more ambitious, though: 1,500 by December 31. Help us out by joining today: donate.gnome.org

If you’ve already joined or are unable to right now, you can still help by sharing this post with friends and colleagues: blogs.gnome.org/foundation/202…

Let's secure the future of GNOME together and enable us to do even more great work next year.

#GNOME #GNOMEFoundation #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS

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📚️ Join us for a collaborative hackathon before FOSDEM!

Our team of scientists created tools to help us fight Big Silo. But we need your help to unlock the crate they have sent us!

Come learn, mentor, and contribute to our hackathon and earn (sur)prizes!

📆 Jan 30
🗺️ HSBXL, Brussels

matrix.org/blog/2025/12/fosdem…

Evropa nemá strategii.
Čím víc bude Rusko vítězit, tím to bude pro Evropu dražší.
To jsme vážně takoví idioti, že to chceme vysedět?

visegradsky-jezdec.cz/norove-s…

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

EMAIL WRAPPED 2025

This year, you received too fucking much email!

Number of emails that found you well: zero

Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero

Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person answering your email: all of the times

Your favorite email was: none of them

Next year, you are considering: are there any countries where email is illegal, and what are their immigration laws?

Máte s tím někdo zkušenost? V chatu jsou zmiňované i alternativy jako Nextcloud a Matrix. Nějaký názor?
#opensource #chats #jsemlama

@neil mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/…


Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is all about XMPP.

Snikket (snikket.org/) is an easy-to-install, and easy-to-administer, XMPP server. It is designed for families and other small groups. The apps for Android and iOS (based on Conversations, I think) are great.

Dino (dino.im/) is my desktop XMPP client of choice.

Profanity (profanity-im.github.io/) is a terminal / console XMPP client, which is incredibly convenient.

Why not have a fun festive project of setting up an XMPP-based chat server for you and your family and friends?

#XMPP #FOSS #SelfHosting


in reply to Milan Hubáček

Snikket jsem chvíli používal, je to klasický XMPP server, instalace na pár kliknutí. Je to dělaný pro rodinu, či menší komunitu.
Nextcloud i Matrix máme na Oscloud není problém používat.
🧩 Nextcloud

Nextcloud je vlastní cloud pro soubory, fotky, kalendáře a dokumenty.
Místo Google/Dropboxu máš všechno u sebe, bez reklamy a bez sledování.
Sdílení, zálohy, Office online, poznámky – prostě kompletní osobní cloud, ale nezávislý na big-techu.

💬 MXChat

MXChat je náš vlastní Matrix chat server – bezpečný messenger pro komunitu.
Něco jako WhatsApp/Discord, ale open-source, decentralizovaný a s kontrolou nad daty.
Můžeš psát, volat, sdílet soubory a používat různé klienty (Element, Hydrogen), vše bez reklam a centralizace.
@neil

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I'm the kind of guy who would probably call up WFDD (local public radio station in North Carolina where I grew up) and ask if anyone who currently works there remembers that very specific instrumental version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer you played on December 17, 1989, because I wanna hear it again, and I only ever heard it once in my life.

I'm not actually going to do it, but those numbers are accurate, and I do kinda want to know what version it was for absolutely no reason.

Thanks for bringing that nearly 36-year-old memory to mind, you weird brain.

For fun: partially implementing the Moisac Windows concept by @tbernard.

blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/…

#GNOME

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The mosaic saga 🪟

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Guys, MosaicWM is becoming more and more stable, so I would like to start having people testing it.

github.com/CleoMenezesJr/Mosai…

#GNOME

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Any time, and this is no an exaggeration, any time I stumble upon a piece of code, a translated string, a design, or a text that looks "off" I always ask the author "did you use any sort of LLM to make this?" and the answer is always "yes".

This shit is wrong, it produces wrong things, it gives the illusion of efficiency and productivity but it's just wrong.

Today is day 8 of 25 Christmas Songs in 25 Days. The year is 1963. The artist is Johnny Cash. The album is The Christmas Spirit. The label is Columbia, although my copy is a European release on the DOL label.

As much as I love this album and want everyone to hear it at least once, I’m enough of a realist to know that it is definitely not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. There are two reasons for this. For one, this is by no means your cheery Christmas album with bouncy songs. For another, this album leans heavily on the religious aspects of the holiday. However, if that’s your thing, and you somehow haven’t heard this album yet, I totally recommend it.

Track List

A1

The Christmas Spirit
Written-By – J. Cash*
A2

I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Arranged By, Adapted By – Johnny Cash
Written-By – H. W. Longfellow*, J. B. Calkin*
A3

Blue Christmas
Written-By – B. Hayes*, J. Johnson*
A4

The Gifts They Gave
Arranged By – J. Cash*
A5

Here Was A Man
Written-By – J. Bond*, T. Ritter*
A6

Christmas As I Knew It
Written-By – J. Howard*, J. Carter*
B1

Silent Night
Arranged By, Adapted By – J. Cash*
B2

The Little Drummer Boy
Written-By – B. Simeone*, H. Onarati*, K. K. Davis*
B3

Ringing The Bells For Jim
Written-By – J. Howard*, J. Carter*
B4

We Are The Shepherds
Written-By – J. Cash*
B5

Who Kept The Sheep
Written-By – E. J. Carter*, J. Cash*
B6

The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
Written-By – E. St. Vicent

Windows 10 and 11 can automatically reboot for updates when you're not at your computer, and sometimes this can come at an inconvenient time. If you want to be able to see exactly when the reboot is about to occur, you can go to run, type in "cmd" without the quotes, and then hit ctrl+shift+enter to launch it with administrator privileges (this is necessary for this to work). Next, type "powercfg /waketimers" without the quotes, and it will tell you the time the system will wake up to install updates, or if the system is already on, the time at which the restart will occur. As there can be more than one thing listed here, the one you want to look at is "Reboot AC" on Windows 10, or "Schedule Wake To Work" on Windows 11. To help you locate these, these will have Microsoft Windows Update Orchestrator listed before them.

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