Hi all, this is my first post on #fosstodon !
Let me present:
- i am an IT expert
- i was an European Digital Expert
- i co funded PC Soft in 1984
- i am retired now
What make my day:
- taking portraits
- hearing music
- install a new app on my mini server
- learning innovative technologies
- giving advices to startups
2026 on #fosstodon !
Screenshot of my dashboard for my mini server
AI Term of the Day: HALLUCINATION
When AI confidently makes up facts that aren't true.
Ask ChatGPT about a fake book title. It might describe the plot, author, and reviews for a book that doesn't exist.
Always fact-check important info. AI can be wrong with a straight face.
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Hab heute meinen persönlichen DIDAY gestartet und mich von allen Apple Diensten verabschiedet (hatte das fette One Abo). Nur die 2 TB iCloud behalte ich. Bin jetzt tatsächlich nach ganz langer Zeit wieder bei Spotify gelandet. Mein Sohn hat das Familienabo spendiert, weil ohne Premium geht das gar nicht.
Als Nächstes geht’s noch Google an den Kragen, allerdings werden YouTube und Gemini erstmal bleiben. Meine Mailkonten sind mittlerweile zu @mailbox_org umgezogen, bin da erstmal glücklich.
Der zukünftig größte Brocken wird aber der Umzug der 1.3 TB Daten die in der iCloud liegen und zusätzlich noch 600 Gb die im Google Drive geparkt sind. Dafür muss ich bestimmt Urlaub nehmen und ordentliches Gras besorgen um ruhig zu bleiben. 😂🤣🙃
Today's crazy idea:
I've always wanted to play Elite, the old procedurally-generated spaceflight sim for the BBC Micro. It, of course, is not and will never be accessible.
However the source code is available, very small, and highly annotated. There's a whole nerdy website with bunches and bunches of details, right down to guesses on and commentaries about the relative sizes of celestial objects, ships, etc.
Tempted to hand all of that to an LLM and have it try modernizing the game in Godot, adding audio cues, speech feedback, and whatever else would be needed to make it accessible.
May not be fully faithful to the original, least of all because of 3-D audio, but I almost don't care if it captures the feel.
We'll see if I actually do this, but now the bug is lodged in my brain.
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I just received the following email from Vispero
From: marketing@vispero.com <marketingus@vispero.com>
We’re excited to share an upcoming update designed to make choosing Vispero assistive technology even easier 😊
Based on your feedback, we heard that some of our existing product names created confusion during the buying process. To help simplify decisions and better reflect how our products are used today, we’re updating the names of several offerings—while keeping everything you know and trust exactly the same.
What’s changing
Over the coming weeks, you’ll begin to see these product name updates:
• Professional Edition → Work Edition
• Home Edition → Access Edition
• Home Annual Edition → Personal Edition
What’s not changing
Nothing about the products themselves is changing. The software, features, pricing, licensing, and support you rely on will remain exactly the same—only the names are being updated.
When you’ll see it
Customers and dealers will start to notice the new names appearing gradually across materials, systems, and communications between now and the end of February.
What’s coming in the February 11th release
We’re excited to share a preview of upcoming enhancements across JAWS, Fusion, and ZoomText—all designed to help customers stay productive, work more efficiently, and collaborate with confidence as technology continues to evolve.
Here’s a quick look at what’s coming and why it matters:
• Stay productive as apps evolve – As WhatsApp rolls out major updates, JAWS and Fusion are keeping customers confidently connected, reducing disruption and ensuring continued access to critical conversations.
• Work faster with less effort – Enhanced Split Braille support in Outlook lets users scan email lists and previews more efficiently, helping you manage inboxes with greater speed and independence.
• Share and collaborate with confidence – New ZoomText screen-sharing controls give customers the flexibility to present clearly or collaborate effectively, improving communication in meetings, trainings, and remote work.
These updates reflect our ongoing commitment to delivering accessible solutions that keep pace with modern workflows and real-world customer needs. More details will be shared as these enhancements become available.
If you have any questions or need support during this transition, your Vispero representative is always happy to help. Thank you for your continued partnership and for helping us improve the Vispero experience.
Warm regards,
The Vispero Team
Vispero. All rights reserved., 17757 US 19 North, Suite 200, Clearwater, FL 33764, USA, (877) 775-9474
Are you going to be at FOSDEM next week? I am apparently giving 3 talks there, so there you go, you have 3 reasons to go now, too! 
Hope to see you there:
This is a great piece on how SpaceX's rockets and their Starlink satelites put passenger planes at risk. It's yet another example on why #SpaceX is cancer and needs to die already.
propublica.org/article/spacex-…
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.lucas.waldron@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Americký prezident ve švýcarském Davosu vystoupil před světovými byznysovými i politickými lídry. V hodinovém projevu ale při několika příležitostech poměrně laxně pracoval s fakty.
Přinášíme ověření jeho klíčových výroků 👇 irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/gronsk…
Přinášíme výběr ověřených výroků z projevu amerického prezidenta v Davosu. Trump například chválil své úspěchy na domácí půdě a mylně naznačil, že USA v minulosti vlastnily Grónsko.Vojtěch Dvořáček (iROZHLAS.cz)
RE: mamot.fr/@ploum/11593879477897…
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source." https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html #geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.ploum (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)
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@sesivany, there exist and also capability of digital sovereighn in the EU. It's not the lack of capability but the lack of political will-
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.European Alternatives
And even if they are running EU clouds - if the US CDNs cut them off, or black hole their DNS, or ...
Basically, the US internet could recover from severing international connections. Every other country would just be fucked.
Some answers to FAQ from a life long Oklahoman
-why is everyone freaking out over the forecasted snow storm?
Our state has very little of the infrastructure needed to deal with a large amount of snow or extended cold weather.
-why are the grocery stores empty?
Everyone is scared they will be stuck at home with no power, no water, and no hope that the government will be willing to help.
-why all the milk and bread?
I honestly do not know. Me and mine have 2 weeks of shelf stable things to munch on but we have the privilege to be prepared, most of the state are unable to afford their basic needs day to day and cannot adequately prepare for things like this.
- why does your government suck?
"Rugged individualim for some, gut wrenching poverty for most." Is the motto of the GOP whom have a super majority in our legislature. They are currently actively campaigning to defund libraries, public schools, and county services because "it's not nice to make rich people pay taxes" or something.
- you seem angry.
That's not a question.
As stupid shit posts of a repo goes this might be the best I've made in a long time.
Presenting the Self Deleting Repo.
When opened in vs code or zed it immediately deletes its self. (at least if you have the rust plug in installed)
I've also added agent instructions that might make the agent delete it but I don't have any of the ai tools installed to see if that part actually works.
github.com/emilyselwood/self_d…
A repo that deletes it self when it opens in an editor. - emilyselwood/self_deleting_repoGitHub
Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu/publications/you…
New brain rot successfully unlocked by using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. Over many millennia evolution helped you develop critical thinking skills and you are giving that all away chasing some fools' dreams who think you can do better things in life without money or work. At the end of the day, you will have neither.
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …MIT Media Lab
BlueBubbles is a clever way to bring iMessage to almost any device. Tailscale makes it far more simple to hook it all up.Kevin Purdy (tailscale.com)
Configuring a Raspberry Pi to relay an ethernet-connected device over wifi to a Tailscale exit node - README.mdGist
Simple set of programs to restart NVDA running on a remote machine. - trypsynth/kill-nvda-remotelyGitHub
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Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine:
runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-…
Local girl failed the coding interview:
I don't think they've got a job for me anymore now that I got their repos deleted⁉️
Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine.runjak.codes
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Here I discuss how to validate a document against standards: either Open Document Format (ODF) or MS Office Open XML (OOXML).Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
Me suena una canción que decía algo así como: "Triki triki tri triki triki tri mon amour !!!"
Es una canción superar vieja de un tipo como con pelo largo.
Nunca supe que significaba triki triki tri ni como se llamaba la canción.
Demis Roussos - Velvet Mornings (Triki Triki 1973)Velvet mornings will come every new day Golden sunrise and the scent of rain Whisper softly a melody of lov...YouTube
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Most of these subsidies go to the traditional (and expensive) air carriers. Ryanair, which is the low cost king, is very famously anti-subsidy. Sure, there's some subsidization for airports and specific routes that governments care a lot about, but it's not like rail isn't subsidized either.
Rail is so inefficient that even cars are often cheaper. If you have 2 or more people in a group, especially if they're on a normal ticket, it's often cheaper to go by car than by train. A car can seat five, a train can seat hundreds and runs on efficient tracks instead of inefficient roads. It's all just utterly ridiculous.
What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work).
#Discord #Teams #MSTeams #Slack #Zulip #AcademicChatter (but not only)
I thought I was going crazy since #Today I can't find any obvious mention of #Dovecot and #ChatMail servers.
BUT, here it is: github.com/chatmail/relay/tree…
Based on the kinda snippy text there in the readme, I guess the #DeltaChat folks decided they want to down-play the dovecot dependency in case they decided to do something else in future.
Also, "custom builds" might make some folks ... itchy.
chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
it is a custom build because of this one patch that upstream for some reason hasn't merged. Dovecot sleeps for 500ms before actually delivering a mail to the client because of some ancient race condition they couldn't figure out, it's really dumb
github.com/dovecot/core/pull/2…
This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands. 500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS was added i...GitHub
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Electric [an electric chair]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/751606 "Acoustic [a wooden chair]
Electric [an electric chair]")
Parlament v utorok prijal návrhy na zlepšenie dostupnosti a dodávok základných liekov v EÚ. Má za cieľ zabezpečiť vysokú úroveň ochrany verejného zdravia pre občanov EÚ znížením závislosti EÚ od iných krajín a zvýšením konkurencieschopnosti jej farmaceutického sektora.
Poslanci Európskeho parlamentu podporujú vytváranie priemyselných „strategických projektov“ v EÚ s cieľom vytvoriť, modernizovať a zlepšiť výrobné kapacity. Chcú, aby národné vlády a EÚ uprednostnili finančnú podporu strategických projektov v súčasnom rozpočte a v nasledujúcom viacročnom finančnom rámci EÚ. Spoločnosti, ktoré využívajú verejnú finančnú podporu, musia spĺňať jasné povinnosti vrátane uprednostňovania dodávok na trh EÚ.
Podľa ich návrhov by verejní obstarávatelia v EÚ museli uplatňovať požiadavky na obstarávanie, ktoré uprednostňujú výrobcov vyrábajúcich významnú časť týchto kritických liekov v EÚ. Správa tiež zdôrazňuje výhody dobrovoľného cezhraničného obstarávania s cieľom zlepšiť dodávky, najmä liekov na zriedkavé choroby, antimikrobiálnych látok a iných inovatívnych, nákladných alebo špecializovaných liečebných postupov. Poslanci Európskeho parlamentu chcú znížiť počet krajín, ktoré sa môžu zapojiť do spoločných postupov obstarávania, na najmenej päť
S cieľom lepšie predvídať a riadiť nedostatky poslanci Európskeho parlamentu vyzývajú na vytvorenie koordinačného mechanizmu EÚ pre národné zásoby a pohotovostné zásoby kritických liekov. Chcú tiež, aby Komisia mala právomoc rozhodnúť o prerozdelení liekov z jednej národnej zásoby do jednej alebo viacerých iných krajín ako o poslednej možnosti v prípadoch, keď sa zistí nedostatok alebo prerušenie dodávok.
People don’t realise just how big Greenland really is.
Its landmass area is large enough to cover 99% of the Epstein Files!
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