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Danish head of government IT (left) hands over the first "microsoft-free" computer to the head of Danish Traffic control, December 2025. They are testing Linux as the primary OS, with open source alternatives for stuff like office, on peoples work computers in government agencies. Traffic control gets to be our first test subject. This is gonna be put in the hands of somewhat tech-illiterate people.
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The EU is slowly becoming tech independent from *big tech* :)

In this picture we see, Danish head of government IT (left) hands over the first "microsoft-free" computer to the head of Danish Traffic control, December 2025. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pohupu/danish_head_of_government_it_left_hands_over_the/
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Gagagoogle

A possible New Years Resolution for You 🎁:
No more Shit Talking through Ads Disguised as Information (maps and lists). Focus on the task at hand: Security, Integrity and keeping Big Data at bay.

Acknowledge Proton Mail and maybe even cooperate against Big Data and Foul Legislation in all off Europe.🔒️

The trust from the Core of the Community will then slowly be building up. When that trust trickles down to the oblivious now becoming aware, you will indeed Live Long and Prosper ❤️.

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André Polykanine

@graham I'll describe approximately, if you want, I'll record a voice message. first you pronounce the "beau" like "boh" but without the final w component, so like "law" but the sound is more closed, closer to "oo". then, you drop the H (it's not read in French), you pronounce "ar" like the verb "are". then, you pronounce "nwah", so it's N, then W, then A as in Father. Boh-Ar-Nwah.
@Graham Pearce
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Simon Jaeger

@menelion @graham This actually makes a ton of sense especially as I took some French up to early high school. It was that transition from “eau” to the silent “h” that was tripping me up. Sure, if you’ve got the motivation to record a voice message, I’d be curious, but if not, I imagine the internet has recordings. I was just exceptionally lazy, and more amused that the first name I had trouble with was right here in my home country. On the west coast there are about seven languages that are vastly more common than French, so it’s not as emphasized in the education system as it would be in Ontario and other neighbouring provinces.
@André Polykanine @Graham Pearce
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Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏

The number of times I've asked for something like a key that needs to go into a DNS record and received a screenshot in a word document in response is ludicrous. This is the sort of stuff that's error prone when manually transcribed (especially in the case where I receive a 6MB *photograph* of the web page.)

If only there was a way to select, copy and paste text information directly into an email...

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Não basta postar o vídeo, dizendo que o contexto muda tudo. O que as pessoas entenderam da citação dele, não mudaria consoante o contexto - mas, não surpreendentemente, o vídeo só confirma o que já se pensava: é totalmente elitista e preconceituoso. Dizer o contrário é gaslighting.

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So @sovtechfund published the report on their experiment with Fellowships program.

And I love it. I love it because the results are so frigging good and align with the model of open source maintainers I keep pushing forward.

And it gives me a bit of hope. At least we have some support for the model of the problem. And possible solutions.

Let's make it better for everyone!

Thanks you @soverin

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Sovereign Tech Fellowship 2025 Evaluation Report | Sovereign Tech…

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@Sovereign Tech Agency @Soverin

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So Eloquence for Android has finally been released to the public on Google Play Store. I don't know how I feel about this. I just hope that Code Factory doesn't abandoning the product as quickly as they're releasing this thing. play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#Android #TTS #blind #accessibility

Eloquence Text To Speech - Apps on Google Play

Eloquence is the Android version of the popular ETI-Eloquence voice synthesizer.
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#Accessibility #android #blind #tts

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hmmm.... the UK is expected to announce tomorrow that it has rejoined the Erasmus student exchange scheme.

the Q. will be how much the UK will be contributing to the scheme to have closed the deal - anyone thinking that the UK has beaten the EU down much from their original request has not been following the various negotiations with the EU since Brexit.

But no doubt Keir Starmer will trumpet this as part of reset that Britain has 'won'!

#Brexit #ersamus

#brexit #ersamus
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

So, the cost of rejoining the Erasmus scheme is £570m for 2027; almost double the scheme contribution when we were members of the EU.

While its good to see the scheme back for university students, its difficult to see how this can be anything other than (another) aspect of the costs of Brexit.

What we once had is now nearly twice as expensive after five years. Keir Starmer may say its a win for the 'reset', but once again we're worse of than we were!

#Brexit #Erasmus #universities
h/t FT

#brexit #universities #Erasmus

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Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.

Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The more upset, the harder they cough that vowel out, and the longer the micropause between the word and the vowel.

"It's not fair'a!"

"They won't let me play with my toys'a!"

"She said I smell like a dog'a!"

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I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.

With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.

#Firefox #Mozilla #Browsers #Vivaldi

#firefox #mozilla #browsers #vivaldi @Vivaldi Browser
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Joe Brockmeier

@thibaultmol I'm quite familiar with that post.

But it's been four years since it was published. They've had four years to assess whether being closed is accomplishing their goals, and a lot has changed with Mozilla in that time as well.

If I were at Vivaldi, I'd be arguing that the benefit of going fully open and welcoming Firefox users who are unhappy outweighs the benefits of being closed. Yes, people could fork the UI bits - but I've seen some pretty snazzy Firefox forks since that post that have really done wonders with the UI. I don't think the value of preventing forks is as high as they seem to believe. (Of course they don't have to provide their branding/trademarks in any source.)

Especially since AIUI Vivaldi has already struck a stance that is less AI-happy than Mozilla, I think they have an opportunity to win over some hearts and minds, as it were. They could also become the default browser and ship with distributions like Fedora and Debian, which won't ship it now as closed-source...

But, that's just, like, my opinion.

@Thibaultmol 🌈

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For anyone using Parallels Desktop on Mac OS:
What's the secret for disabling all these annoying and unnecessary shortcut keys, like command+q=alt+f4, command+b=CTRL+B, etc? I found them in a nice list in preferences > keyboard > Windows 11, I think, but every single one of these checkboxes is permanently checked, and can't be unchecked. I want all these stupid things to get out of my life.

Edit: Figured it out, I think. I changed the keyboard profile from "Windows" to "Generic". That seems to have done it.

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Možná jste to nevěděli, ale reader mode ve Firefoxu umí číst články. Jakože nahlas. Přečte text jako audio. Ale zní to prehistoricky a čeština je to vtipná. Kdyby zrovna do tohodle vrazili AI a vylepšili to, neuráželo by mně to.

Myslím, že jsou věci, které jsou AI a jsou pro lidi užitečné, ale je otázka, jestli to jsou zrovna ty, které si produkťáci vycucali z prstu, a jestli jich je tolik, kolik se nám snaží aktuální trh naznačit.

#ai #firefox #mozilla #readermode #tts

#firefox #mozilla #AI #tts #readermode
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nixCraft 🐧

For a long time, Mozilla has mismanaged Firefox while its CEO and other C-suites have taken massive salaries. Yesterday’s news must have hit them hard, as social media users expressed their anger toward turning Firefox into an "AI browser." But here is the thing, they are not going to back down (at least that is what I think). These executives don't understand open source or who their users actually are. It is still not too late for Mozilla to stop this madness and return to its roots.
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nixCraft 🐧

LibreWolf is another option. It is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom with all bad bits (like LLM/AI, No trackers/telemetry, enhanced privacy etc) removed.

* Repo codeberg.org/librewolf

* Home page librewolf.net


LibreWolf

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. Please report issues to https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues.
Codeberg.org

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Silly idea that has probably been done before:

In the United States, amateur radio operators can apply for special event 1x1 callsigns, which are good for 15 days. They start with K, N or W, with a number (0-9) and a letter (A-Z, excluding X).

So, I dare someone to do a personal special event, called Naps on the Air, reserving the call N4P, using FT8 in fully automated mode, and working as many stations as possible while sleeping... or not.

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#Wedos (tedy dnes Vedos 🤦 - pitomý rebranding) jde úplně do kopru.
Už 9 měsíců mám u jednoho webu připravený upgrade na aktuální #Drupal 11. Ten už tu s námi je rok a 4 měsíce. Ale nasadit ho nemůžu.
Vedos totiž nabízel max PHP 8.2. Verze 8.3 kterou potřebuju vyšla už před dvěma roky, a než ji nasadili přechází do režimu security maintenance.
OK, nasadili i PHP 8.4 - tak web upravuju a testuju, aby fungoval i na PHP 8.4.
Jenže teď jsem zjistil, že mají jen MariaDB 10.4. Ta dostala poslední update v květnu 2024, už není supportovaná a i Drupal vyžaduje minimálně 10.6.

Co je to za hosting, kde nelze nasadit aktuální verzi CMS? A podpora mlčí. Na opakovanou otázku, jaký mají plán upgradu, a kdy se ho dočkáme, odpoví: Ano máme outdated verze, nevíme.

Wedos si pamatuju jako progresivní firmu pyšnící se serverama v oleji, aktuálními verzemi, super supportem a skvělou cenou. Dnes? 👎️

Asi to prostě naházím na nějaké levné VPS v Dockeru a bude pokoj.

#drupal #wedos
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miki

Ja kiedyś dostałem na bardzo podobnej zasadzie maila z Githuba, tam (jeśli dobrze pamiętam) wykorzystany został mechanizm powiadamiania mailem o issues, w których użytkownik jest wspomniany. W ten sposób w mailu można zawrzeć dosłownie wszystko, bo treść issue staje się częścią maila. Tam zabawa była dość prosta, chodziło o odebranie nagrody od Githuba za kontrybucje do open source, coś w stylu phishingowej wersji hacktoberfest. Oczywiście odebranie wymagało potwierdzenia autentyczności konta, "w celu ochrony przed robotami", potwierdzenie miało postać "depozytu" w kryptowalutach.

Co jak co, ale scam dość kreatywny.

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@tayfonay

Uh-oh (for you). Just came across an old post and have there-fore realised it is your BIRTHDAY coming up soon! Please can everyone remember it's Tays birthday at the end of this month and see who can send the most unhinged psychotic birthday card. I realise as I type this I mean like an alligator in a tutu on a skateboard juggling, not like a crazed photo of her front door while she's sleeping. Get the vibe right, peeps. X

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Bendolph T. Red-Nosed-Reindeer (@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party)

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT, POWERFUL, INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE, IRREPRESSIBLE UNASSAILABLE, EMPRESARIO.....
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@TayFoNay, Sigh-D
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Dennis

@svenja .Wenn die Wahl nicht aus freien Stücken passiert, ist das fatal. Allerdings gibt es schon sehr viele gute Gründe, in eine Beamtenlaufbahn einzusteigen. Einer davon ist tatsächlich die Vielfalt des öffentlichen Diensts. Jemand, der lieber handwerklich unterwegs ist, könnte eine Laufbahn im technischen Dienst in Betracht ziehen. Ich lese aus dem Beitrag viel Negatives. Mit Abstand das Wichtigste ist es, herauszufinden, was der Sohn sich wünscht und welche Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten es dafür gibt.
@Svenja📞7852

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Happy to share, that my #FOSDEM talk for 2026 has been accepted!

Join me on Saturday, 31st January 2026 in Brussels (Belgium) to hear the latest mainline kernel status for Fairphones! Lots of things to talk about!

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There's also so many more exciting talks scheduled for the FOSS on Mobile devroom, so you probably want to see them all!

#Fairphone #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #postmarketOS


FOSDEM 2026 - Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update

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#fosdem #postmarketos #fairphone #MobileLinux #linuxmobile

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When you‘re low on RAM, I recommend using a recent #curl for your internet transfers.

It can shuffle gigabytes back and forth using a few MB of your memory (mostly used by openssl).

If you develop an application, you can use #libcurl to gain its benefits.

Need to shape your traffic? For example bc you run a streaming service? #libcurl does that for you for all HTTP versions.

#curl #libcurl

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Five years ago I started getting these emails about #curl from NASA. Months later we learned this probably was related to them using curl in the Mars Helicopter mission.

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curl supports NASA

Not everyone understands how open source is made. I received the following email from NASA a while ago. Subject: Curl Country of Origin and NDAA Compliance Hello, my name is [deleted] and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Analyst at NASA.
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#curl
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Jiří Eischmann

Já se ho zatím držím i kvůli tomu, že ho můj tým podporuje ve Fedoře a RHELu. Dokud ty věci půjdou vypnout, jsem s tím ještě OK. Ale mám v záloze připravené Vivaldi. UX mi nepřijde tak dobré jako Firefox, ale hodnotami máme shodu prakticky 100 %. Duch staré dobré Opery. Možná je načase se vrátit domů. Operu jsem používal mezi lety 2004 a 2014.
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