The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
Software engineer here. It was pretty obvious the volume of spam calls was going to go through the roof with AI being ubiquitous. So I always try some prompt injection when they call me. Proudest achievement was a 3 minute recital of the digits of pi.
Several of our teams will be at #fosdem26 ... we'll introduce our PQC and Reliable Deletion ("forward secrecy") efforts, and give an overview over multi-relay #chatmail architectures. Or catch us on the booth or some sunny place outside :)
invite link for public fosdem26 group attention: consider joining with a dedicated conference chat profile because large public groups can attract trolls. Your private profiles are safe/unaffected then.
I just saw the most cringe game description ever. I am not naming the game or the developer, but I have never in my life been put off a game just by what's on the cover. Do better.
A password manager is an easy tool to increase the security of your digital identity. In this guide, we take a look at the best three password managers and why you should start using one.
what about @keepassxc ? Thats a good one that I felt should have been on the list, sure its a little more setup but once you have it up and running and combined with syncthing for syncing and its pretty good
I love how many times #Drupal has been called out at the EU Open Source Summit this year. We're half-way through this great @openforumeurope.org tradition, but in so many ways the Drupal community's governance model is an important one for #DigitalSovereignty & #OpenSource #EUpolicy #FOSDEM
moments of terror: I went to put the rog to charge, it was at 21%. NVDA says something like charging 21% and stops talking. Keyboard, unresponsive. Control buttons, nothing. Pressing the off button, nothing happened. I held it for a while, no response, no vibration, no sound, no nothing. Take off the headphone, nothing. I held the button to force the shutdown, I read the screen with seeng AI, just the rog text, standard from Asus. After a few tries, he woke up. Every blind man's nightmare.
I'm about to buy an used Pixel 6 Pro for 60€, new battery and only a few scratches, and throw GrapheneJOS on there. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
Už je s tím trapnej. Nezná nic jiného než cla. 🚘 Tys mě nepustil na přechodu, uvalím na tebe 100% cla. ♟️ Porazils mě v člověče nezlob se, cla! 🍽️ Cože? Dneska mám vyndat nádobí z myčky já? Cla! 💃Smím prosit? Ne? Cla! 🚋 Koukej mě pustit sednout. Jinak, cla! 🍞 Splesnivěl mi chleba, cla! 🎓 Dostal jsem kouli z matiky, cla! #Trump
Prezident USA Donald Trump oznámil, že hodlá uvalit cla ve výši 50 procent na veškeré letouny dovážené z Kanady, dokud Ottawa necertifikuje americká letadla Gulfstream.
TalkTalk salesman just knocked on my door. 8:30pm. I think he got the message that I didn't want to talk by the look on my face, so he just fist bumped me, laughed and walked away. I didn't say a single word.
The Prize for Excellence in Open Source … goes to…
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow at the The #Linux Foundation!
We could think of no one more deserving of this Award than Greg - who has ensured through maintaining of different kernel subsystems and the Linux kernel stable releases that thousands of devices function seamlessly and securely.
The Prize for Excellence was presented by the European Open Source Academy, @bagder
Frank Feldman of @SUSE takes the stage as the first sponsor keynote. "It cannot take another 30 years to build the next SUSE!" Frank identifies the creation of a self-sustaining European software ecosystem as a key policy priority to enable Europe's digital future.
To support this, the European public sector needs to not only give priority to open source when procuring, but also be an active customer and partner to open source companies.
Fabrizia Benini (@EUCommission) starts off the new panel by explaining her work on the Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy. "The main objective is to foster the growth of open source communities in Europe, as they are fundamental in fostering tech sovereignty in Europe."
Responding to a rise in MadeInEurope narratives, Baddy Breidert points to the global cooperation that builds open source: “Open source shouldn’t have to choose its home, we are all involved in open source projects!” European open source companies, like Drupal, shine thanks to a vibrant international community.
Deborah Bryant of @opensource reflects on key lessons from the open source movement. She suggests avoiding the creation of new, less open licenses that may restrict the important qualities of openness.
Code and financial contributions of private companies are a critical backbone of the open source community, while companies benefit substantially from fostering a culture of participation among their employees.
In her final remarks, @suehle of @TheASF emphasises collaboration as a key driver of open source. It both builds and relies on collaboration across companies, communities and geopolitical borders.
"There is no borders in an open source project!" @bagder encourages focus on the sustainability of open source products, beyond technical specifications and borders.
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
The name of the main station in Brussels is already complicated enough, being called Zuid or Midi based on which language you speak. Yet #NS decided to complicate it even further and invented two more names: Brüssel-Süd and Brussels South, accompanied by Rotterdam Hauptbahnhof, while the station in Antwerp kept its Central name 🙄
This week we're discussing how we've changed both as a couple and individually. It's hard to see change when you've been together for a long time, but when we actually sat down and talked about it, we did notice some things that we were surprised to realise. Change is so gradual when you live with someone else, that it may not always be glaringly obvious that it's even occurring at all.
Welcome to episode 72.This week we're discussing how we've changed both as a couple and individually. It's hard to see change when you've been together for a...
Did you noticed that there is a new Social Media App called "upscrolled"?
It turns out that there are a lot of anti-Semitic and Islamist people hanging around there, and some hateful, anti-Semitic texts have already been deleted. Somehow, it was clear to me that various artists, for example from Bluesky, can now be found there.
I think it would be cool to have a server for Jewish artists. Everywhere you go as an artist, you encounter boycott, exclusion and hostility. You have to constantly justify yourself. People who give commissions tend towards zero because they don't want to be associated with you as an artist.
What's the preferred alt tag for a profile picture on a website? Just the name of the person? A description such as "picture of Mike Bowler"? #accessibility #WebAccessibility
Just "Mike bowler". Screen readers identify elements, so it would sound like "Mike bowler, image" or (JAWS, it's an old tradition) "Mike bowler, graphic". That's self-explanatory. Thanks for caring!
My friend @MissA94 is having problems with H-capcha when trying to make a steam account. I got through it but forgot how I did it. Can someone help us out? #Blind
The Hackathon is making progress, people have formed teams! Integrations, Spec, Custom Emojis, Encrypted Search... there are plenty of ideas flying around!
Lidé z #Fediverse v #Czech co kdybychom se společně podíleli na překladu stránky fedidevs.com/starter-packs/ jako jsme to spolu udělali s vstupdofediverse.cz? Vzal bych anglický překlad a hodil ho někam do cryptpadu nebo někam kde lze udělat kolaboraci a pak bych udělal pull-request s českou lokalizací. Líbí se mi možnost vytvořit starter-packy pro českou komunitu a tohle je první krok. Co vy na to?
Oxford Street should be permanently pedestrianised. It's the most famous shopping street in the UK but it's pavements are way too narrow for the crowds. There's plenty of streets in London for cars, line this one with trees and make it a dedicated pedestrian shopping street.
Guten Morgen Welt! Ich bemerke, wie meine Timeline hier zunehmend twitteresk, voller Aktionismus und Politik, wird. Manche werden das begrüßen, ich wollte das nicht. Das #Fediverse zeichnet sich für mich durch Maker*innen und Kreative aus. Ich habe auch andere Accounts, die anders aussehen, deswegen sollte ich hier meine Followings wohl ein wenig überarbeiten.
Manchmal fühle ich mich bei so Sachen an die 90iger erinnert. Ein Großteil derer, die in den Jahren davor im Osten für eine andere Gesellschaft eingetreten sind, wurden durch eine Mehrheit mit anderen Zielen quasi überrannt... Da ist bei mir etwas Ernüchterung, nat. auch Enttäuschung, geblieben.
Technik löst solche menschlichen Probleme wohl nicht, trotzdem versuche ich mir mit Technik zu behelfen. 😆 Schon in Twitterzeiten hab ich #Listen intensiv genutzt, später auch bei Mastodon und seit ein paar Jahren mit Sharkey.
Die normale Timeline checke ich nur sporadisch, aber auch nur die der Follower. Die allg. Timeline betrachte ich so gut wie nie.
Und in den Listen habe ich überwiegend ReToots ausgeschaltet.
Baue ich mir damit eine heile Welt?
Ich denke, man muss sich darüber Gedanken machen, welche Ziele man verfolgt, und abwägen, was man leisten kann und möchte, auch Kräftemäßig.
Vielleicht ist dann eine positive Begegnung mit Einzelnen durchaus auch weitreichender.
Ich nehme den Vers aus dem Evangelium Wo zwei oder drei.. immer seltener als Entschuldigung für die Wenigen, als vielmehr als Ermutigung für die Kraft der Wenigen wahr ...
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