Was having a problem with #openBSD -current where @thunderbird would cause the system to slow down before crashing the UI completely. I would have to SSH in from another box and reboot and this would take a while.
Seems that problem is now fixed. I’ve had Thunderbird running for two days with no issues.
Although - whenever I think I’m out of the woods….
Having said all this I still prefer #foss to being locked in with no privacy and having my data sold and being used to train LLM’s.
How to create a Thunderbird performance profile to find causes of high CPU load or slowness.support.mozilla.org
Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!
wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…
Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who make the backbone of knowledge on the internet what it is today.Wikimedia Foundation
It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.
There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….
Wikipedia needs more women is our call for people like you to edit women’s stories, histories, and contexts onto Wikipedia.Wikimedia Foundation
There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
Non-binary isn’t a legally recognised gender in the UK. We urge the Government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender and people who identify as non-binary in the UK. This proposal would include an X marker on UK passports for non-binary people.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!
Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.
Check out the blog post at forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v1…
@Gusted yepp, that's what I meant: much more intuitive now. That's what makes it so easy to find one's own issues at Github (which for someone like me, is crucial, as one cannot have thousands of apps' issues in a tiny brain like mine).
It's wonderful, and will help (not only) us a lot! 🤗
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This is a fascinating game about a person becoming newly blind. It uses both visuals and audio to represent blindness, and has some very unique aspects to t...YouTube
This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....
The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.
The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
This is important to me. The Freedom Pass should be available to pensioners on all modes of transport in the UK.
I signed the petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?Philip Clayton (Change.org)
Lamo. This shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.
Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.
RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…
This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!
It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.
And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.
Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.
What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line…SourceForge
99% of smart home crap just feels like
why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates
why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet
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A nice long list of the "trusted" partners #Dropbox shares your personal data with. 🤨
❌ Amazon
❌ OpenAI
.... & many more.
In today's guide we take a look at how secure and private the cloud storage platform actually is: tuta.com/blog/is-dropbox-secur…
Dropbox is a popular cloud storage provider used by millions, but this doesn’t mean it’s the safest or best cloud storage for privacy.Tuta
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. 
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. 
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
Hey #GitLab – it's sad you stopped sending me notification mails 2 weeks ago (but understandable, as our mail server had a hickup then).
It's sadder you didn't pick up even 2 weeks after the issue was solved, and not even when I changed my email address in your setup.
But it's plainly incomprehensible that, not having a paid subscription, I can't even find a way to reach out to you and inform you or ask your help with this.
Can you please fix that?
@linarphy Thanks! Your wish was granted! 🥳
For those falling into the same trap: it's not enough to change your email in the "profile" section of settings. You also need to do that under "Notifications", in the "Global notification email" drop-down.
Not that intuitive I'd say: if (in profile) you replaced exactly that address, you probably want the new one being used INSTEAD – and not just have it "verified"…
First notification email just arrived 🙌 Still: support? 🤔
I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.
I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at first—but I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movie—since she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).
Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).
But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.
Hear me out. Cat Café x Coworking. Like a classic coworking space but with cats laying around.
I have my own homegrown cat for day use, but I would be willing to go to your in prem meeting if I could at least pet some support cats during your whatever slides.
Give me the money, YC here I come.
Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"
Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.
heise.de/hintergrund/Interview…
#Datenschutz #DSGVO #EU #Grundrechte #Journal #Netzpolitik #Wirtschaft #news
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“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
– Mozilla
🤣
… "dumbfucks"? 🙊 💨
Oh, sorry, confused that with the other alliance. Not web browser, something something "social" web and zuck…
Threema von Comitis Capital GmbH übernommen
borncity.com/blog/2026/01/13/c…
Zum 12. Januar 2026 wurde bekannt, dass der Schweizer Anbieter eines Instant-Messengers, Threema, durch die Investmentfirma Comitis Capital GmbH übernommen…Günter Born (Borns IT- und Windows-Blog)
you can get in contact with me in Delta Chat: arcanechat.me/#contact
there is also an anonymous Forum/social network inside Delta Chat I can invite you to
besides that, you can actually have a LOT of fun alone in Delta Chat! you have a "Saved Messages" chat that you can use for saved notes across as many devices as you want, it also has in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, time-tracking, etc. that you can send in Saved Messages, they will sync across devices
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