RE: cyberplace.social/@Wuzzy/11588…
Good news, i hope to see other project do the same (if technically possible ... of course) @CachyOS @fedora @opensuse @ubuntu @archlinux @flathub @IzzyOnDroid @nixos_org
YES YES YES! #Gentoo is planning to ditch #GitHub in favor of #Codeberg. They mention the continued attempts to force #Copilot into the workflows as a reason. https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.Wuzzy (Cyberplace)
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If you're going to @fosdem be sure to find us in Building F AND be sure to check out @brendan 's talk! We can't wait to see everyone, and don't worry, we're bringing all the stickers.
Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 18 updated and 1 added apps:
* Coffee: prevents your screen from dimming or locking 🛡️
RB status: 796 apps (61.9%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
@thunderbird Hey TB Team. I really never need HTML-formatting in event descriptions. How can I turn that off? It is really bugging me to see format options there.
Thank you.
We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ❤
github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAIGitHub
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission ...YouTube
A Privacy Failure Waiting to HappenDaniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)
I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility
blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12…
In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API. The tree structure, an object attribu...blog.monotonous.org
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dear Fediverse,
I remember a while back there was a petition asking the Government of Canada to setup their own fediverse instance and the reply was really off topic. I have lost the link. Anyone remembers?
Perhaps the single most certain thing about generative AI is that developing "skill" with prompting AI has very little value as any sort of long term "investment".
* If the technology improves rapidly, any tricks you learn now will soon be irrelevant.
* If the technology stagnates, it just won't be nearly as useful or important as the people preaching about it claim. (If it's even useful at all for the things you might want to use it for.)
A fabulously gay blind author.sightlessscribbles.com
Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local librarywww.libraryextension.com
Just wanted to install an #XMPP client to create an account to test something. I moved away to #Matrix years ago because I had no hope anymore for #XMPP, but now that I wanted to create an account, I am just shocked at how dead it is: #Fedora still has Gajim 1.7.3, when the last release is 2.4.1. #pkgsrc is a bit but noch much better with 2.1.1. #Tkabber is even worse: pkgsrc has 0.11.1, when 1.1.2 is the latest release that was released in 2015(!). It seems distributions keep XMPP clients around, but don’t update them because nobody is using them anymore. I had not expected for XMPP to be that dead. That’s shocking.
I also think if distributions cannot be bothered to update a package in over 10 years, they should just remove it…
Sent my feedback on public initiative for European commission and open source. Placed my name - I am proud and active on what I'm doing, talked as a blind european citizen.
Every european relying on accessibility should talk now.
ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…
#accessibility #a11y #blind # disability #eu #europe #inclusion #OpenSource
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Do you get this reference?
"Reelect Goldie Wilson, where progress is his middle name."
Anybody still shopping at Target? I haven't in a year.
Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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AMERICA’S LASTING GIFT TO GREENLAND!
While they promise new airports, here is the infrastructure they already gave us: 10,000+ rusting oil drums at Bluie East Two. Left for 80 years. Leaking into the soil. Who pays for the cleanup? NOT THE USA.
Promises are cheap. Cleanup is expensive.
Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” users can now upgrade their installations to the Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” release. Here's how!Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
Small hypothesis: I bet people like AI chat interfaces in some part because they are “clean” – simple text, easy to process, consistent visuals, no ads, no pop-ups, etc.
To use a cliche example: Even if it wasn’t in any way “smarter,” it’d still be nicer to ask ChatGPT for a recipe than go to a webpage to read that recipe. Its interface is a natural “reader mode.”
But… that’s not going to last.
I think it very well might, because of the difference in their nature.
Recipe webpages are strictly transactional. Their main purpose is to squeeze as much juice out of you *on this visit* as they can, and they compete in an extremely brutal, low-margin economy against other pages which have the same content and are attempting the same thing. There's 0 brand loyalty, there are no switching costs, if the page falls down in SEO rankings, they'll have 0 revenue after a week. This means that if they already have a customer "hooked", they need to shove as many ads in their face as they can. Next week, that customer won't remember whether the awful domain was online-recipes[.]com or recipesonline[.]us anyway.
Chatbots are different, as most people only use one. That means there's value in keeping the customer hooked, and giving them access to useful info when nobody else will is a great way to do this.
In an AI chatbot, the goals of squeezing as much money out of that customer and keeping that customer for themselves are at odds with eachother, and both of these goals are important.
I don't think they'll stay as pleasant to use as they are, but I also don't think they'll ever get anywhere near as bad as recipe websites.
Apple and Google have left X in their app stores, despite its AI-generated images that violate their own rules. There are no principles left in Silicon Valley.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067…
I like this, but I somehow fear someone will start a company called, like, Ptolemaic Systems or something.
I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
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in reply to LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 • • •IzzyOnDroid
Codeberg.orgLΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •perfect thanks for the clarification, you are right, my brain must have bugged 😂 👍
edit corrected the message :)
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in reply to LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 • • •No prob (as it feels like 98% of everything is captured there by MS, as often also on the desktop, such things can happen far too easy).
Besides: not only am I AT Codeberg, I'm IN, being a Codeberg e.V. member. Actually, I almost was a founding member back then. Did you know the original name was TeaHub? 😉
So, we're working closely together. Codeberg also runs one of our mirrors 🤗
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •but sadly the only apps, i would have used izzy on droid where removed due to their author demand or are not here :
- Bitwarden
- Molly
- Steam apk
- Cromite (webrowser)
it's not bashing i understand you respect author decision, just find it sad :)
May try to ind a simple way to make a fdroid repo (without their app), and host them myself.
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in reply to LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 • • •LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •any recommendation on how to start up a basec one ?
because their doc, are confusing, and their "use the flatpak" don't work as the flatpak don't even start.
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