In a social media post this morning, President Trump stated that the Gaza Strip would be turned over to the US by Israel "at the conclusion of fighting" and the Palestinians "would have already been resettled" in the region.
It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
Operatives working for Elon Musk have gained unprecedented access to a swath of U.S. government departments — including agencies responsible for managing data on millions of federal employees and a system that handles $6 trillion in payments to Americans.
During the past two weeks, Musk’s group of representatives — a presidential advisory board within the Trump administration known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — have taken control of top federal departments and datasets, despite questions about their security clearances, their cybersecurity practices, and the legality of Musk’s activities.
Whether a feat or a coup (which depends entirely on your point of view), a small group of mostly young, private-sector employees from Musk’s businesses and associates — many with no prior government experience — can now view and, in some cases, control the federal government’s most sensitive data held on millions of Americans and the nation’s closest allies.
The access by Musk’s DOGE team represents the widest-known compromise of federal government-held data by a private group of individuals — and little has gotten in their way techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/the-…
@JustinMac84 Someone must have given them that access? I mean, you can't just walk into a govt building and gain access. I've been to a few of those and there is security all over the place. So, how did this exactly happen?
@vick21 I have no idea and it would be good to hear from federal employees on this, but my pure speculation is people rolled up going "Hi we're with the Department of Government Efficiency. We're here on the authority of the President. Feel free to call Special Government Employee Musk if you don't believe us...or just wait to be fired."
Huge thanks to Steven Scott and Shaun Preece for having me on @doubletap to talk about Tapestry and accessibility. It's an important aspect of our development work and it's always great to talk to these guys.
In this episode of Double Tap, hosts Steven Scott and Shaun Preece discuss the launch of Tapestry, a new app designed to consolidate social media feeds, podc...
While Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, still has her bio available on NASA's site, the linked "Honoring African Americans in Space," article for Black History Month is gone.
Hahaha, netter Versuch: "die Nachricht wurde von einem vertrauenswürdigen Absender gesendet." Glaube ich sofort. Der kennt nicht einmal meinen Namen, der vertrauenswürdige Absender.
Im Footer dann auch der übliche Hinweis: "Bitte beachten Sie: ADAC wird Sie niemals per E-Mail nach sensiblen Daten fragen." Da diese Mail allerdings genau das tut… Ihr wisst Bescheid, ja? 😉
Seid wachsam, Kreditkarten-Scam im Umlauf wie es scheint.
@unity Bei mir habe ich dafür einen Ordner. Der wird stündlich von einem Cron-Job abgegrast – und jede darin befindliche Mail an Razor, Pyzor & Co gefüttert. Anschließend gelöscht. Hilft dann nicht nur mir (für Folge-Mails) – sondern auch allen anderen, die diese Dinge z.B. via SpamAssassin prüfen lassen.
SpamAssassin. Das ist der "gute Assassin" (zu Deutsch: Killer, Mörder, Attentäter). Der meuchelt den Spam. Wüsste nicht, wie mein Postfach ohne den überleben sollte…
@unity Ist es auch. Hatte ich vor "Urzeiten" mal "zum Spaß" eingerichtet, bevor die "großen Spam-Orgien" starteten (muss so 20 Jahre oder mehr her sein). Kurz darauf ging es los – und was war ich froh, dass ich mir "den Spaß" gemacht hatte, als ich Zeit dafür hatte!
Und früher war alles … nein, nicht besser. Siehe Screenshots, 2025 vs 2020. Da hat sich schon was bewegt. 2017 und früher siehst Du die "Nutzmails" schon fast nicht mehr…
While the impact of this problem is potentially huge, we struggled with setting a severity combined with the knowledge that a user vulnerable to this is using an over twenty years old and vulnerable zlib and has practically "given up" all security. If there actually exist users vulnerable to this flaw in the world, they most likely already have worse problems than this to deal with.
Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version. This version contains several very long migrations so you will need to be patient when upgrading, and backup your database first!!
Thanks for reading!
Release highlights:
Status edit support: one of our most-requested features! You can now edit your own statuses, and see instance edit history from other accounts too (if your instance has them stored).
Push notifications: probably the second most-requested feature! GoToSocial can now send push notifications to clients via their configured push providers. You may need to uninstall / reinstall client applications, or log out and back in again, for this feature to work. (And if you're using Tusky, make sure you've got ntfy installed).
Global instance css customization: admins can now apply custom CSS across their entire instance via the settings panel.
Domain permission subscriptions: it's now possible to configure your instance to subscribe to CSV, JSON, or plaintext lists of domain permissions. Each night, your instance will fetch and automatically create domain permissions (or permission drafts) based on what it finds in a subscribed list. See the domain permission subscription documentation for more information.
Trusted-proxies helper: instances with improperly configured trusted-proxies settings will now show a warning on the homepage, so admins can make sure their instance is configured correctly.
Better outbox sorting: messages from GoToSocial are now delivered more quickly to people you mention, so conversations across instances should feel snappier.
Log in button: there's now a login button in the top right of the instance homepage, which leads to a helpful page about clients, with a link to the settings panel. Should make things less confusing for new users!
Granular stats controls: with the instance-stats-mode setting, admins can now choose if and how their instance serves stats via the nodeinfo endpoints. Existing behavior from v0.17.0 is the default.
Maintenance router will now be used while your instance is starting up / running migrations. It serves a nice status page informing visitors to wait while migrations complete. Less admin anxiety! Stuff is working!
Here's the first release candidate of GoToSocial v0.18.0!
Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version. This version contains several very long migra...
Here's version 0.18.0-rc2 of GoToSocial.
Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version.
For instructions to update to this release candidate from vers...
Oh no! I guess they who write bugs now need to write more bugs. ;) 🤗 🦥 ☕️ 💙 I am just kidding. But I am not kidding about this next one. Keep up the good work! You're awesome!
I've been using Buffer a lot when I start typing up a long social media post or chat message. It's super useful to have a place to draft & refine your ideas quickly without needing to leave files lingering when you're done.
✉️ Mail-hosting na vlastní doméně obvykle stojí nějaké peníze, dá se sehnat ale i za symbolickou cenu (zkouším základní verzi u #Forpsi, kde nabízejí celkem 5 schránek, každá jen 1 Gb místa).
Ale že #Seznam_cz nabízí *neomezený* profi mail-hosting na vlastní doméně zcela *zdarma*, je krajně podezřelé. Kde je háček? Důvěřovali byste tomu? #mailhosting #webhosting emailprofi.cz/
Hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub. They discuss how Ed began working in accessibility, some of the lat...
Dear @Andre Louis this sounds fantastic. I couldn't resist I've shared it with Michal from livingbraille.eu and he likes it too. Would you like to submit it also to their braille200@livingbraille.eu via email? I think it it's appropriate for this as well.
@pvagner If you would be so kind as to submit it, I'd be grateful. I had fun making it, but proper attribution has to go to @BorrisInABox who actually did the sampling of the Brailler to begin with.
@Andre Louis @Patrick Perdue So I'm finally looking at the process of posting this little piece as a so called #braille200 entry. However it also includes a bit of burreaucracy. They at #EBU wish to receive this along with so called Copyright Transfer Agreement. I was about to write short text mentioning Braille's friendship with Gabriel Gauthier more than 200 years ago, highlighting the fact he were able to make fun at that time, and now we can do the same using different tools and technologies and braille still remains one of inspiring points in today's blind artists creations. Please @Andre Louis @Patrick Perdue kindly look at their article, skim the part of the submission process and let me know if you are still fine with that. livingbraille.eu/invitation-to…
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My mom has been making these #amigurumi #KDE #konqui for a while, we bring them to events and people exchange them for donations to the project. According to her logs she has made 161 of them, which means people have donated around 2000 euros to KDE thanks to her. It's also her birthday, so happy birthday mom!
The newest Zenfone borrows cool features from the Asus ROG gaming phone line like fast charging and wired headphone support -- but it's not coming to the US.
Amazon is set to host a product event in New York City on February 26th, where the company is expected to unveil a significantly updated version of its Alexa digital assistant powered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
⚖️El líder de Desokupa, Daniel Esteve, denunciado por incitación al odio.
La asociación Acción Contra el Odio presenta ante la Fiscalía de València una denuncia por los bulos racistas, noticias falsas y amenazas contra las personas migrantes difundidas por Esteve.
As we welcome February, it is important we recognize this month as both Low Vision Awareness Month and Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Month;
At a time when visual content drives engagement and shapes brand identity, accessibility often becomes an afterthought. Yet, for millions of users who rely on image information and assistive technologies, accessible content is a necessity.
PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...
The new major release provides many user interface and accessibility improvements, plus the usual interoperability features Berlin, 6 February 2025 – LibreOffice 25.
@Gegenwind We have no plans to put any AI inside LibreOffice. But for people who want such functionality, the community is working on (purely optional!) third-party extensions, such as: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
#LibreOffice #foss #opensource #freesoftware I have a serious question. Will LibreOffice ever be a product with batteries included regarding grammar and spell check on a high level? I know that we have a very good spell checking, but I was wondering if there's ever something planned to have a really working grammar and style checking tool like languagetool out of the box.
@devSJR Hi! You can submit an enhancement request: bugs.documentfoundation.org/ – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. If you'd like a better grammar checker, please consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you!
@the5thColumnist Hi! You didn't say anything about your setup (eg the operating system you're using) but on Windows, in-app updating was recently added.
hello, just updated to 25.2, can't find the option to change comment color. Is it per comment, or per user? Where is it? Even used kde's global menu's search, and can't find it.
Hi, maybe it has something to do with theming support, but on MacOS I can’t set a fully bright UI style. While the icons and so on are light the background around the page stays dark gray. Can’t do a screenshot right now….
Friedrich Merz (CDU) will Kanzler werden – dafür rührt er nicht nur die Werbetrommel, sondern muss sich auch zu eher fachfremden Themen äußern. Er fordert eine dringende Reform des Sozialstaates, zu der auch das Gesundheitswesen gehört.
Managing files on Linux isn't just about adding or deleting them. Sometimes, you need to control who can access, modify, or execute those files—or identify who owns them. I will show you different tools and
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