✨ My first technical blogpost is out now. ✨

If you ever wanted to learn a bit about how
#deltachat works internally and why we have two ways to communicate with our #rust core, then this is the introduction to read

delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-j…

#jsonrpc #cffi #c #rust #deltachat_desktop #deltachat_core

Delta Chat: From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust

Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...

^delta.chat

🗺️ As many people are angry with #Google & asking for alternatives to #GoogleMaps, here are some Free & #OpenSource options:

📱 App
- osmand.net/
- organicmaps.app
🌐 Web
- mapcarta.com
- openstreetmap.org

Not Open Source:
🌐&📱
en.mapy.cz
wego.here.com
mapquest.com
🌐
lokjo.com
📱
komoot.com
magicearth.com

#FCKGoogle #Alternative #Apps #App #Web #Software #News #Tech #Maps #Map #Technology #it

Mapy.cz

Nejpoužívanější mapový portál v ČR s celou řadou tématických map - základní, turistickou, cyklistickou, dopravní a plno dalších. Nabízí možnost reálného leteckého, panoramatického nebo 3D pohledu.

^Mapy.cz

@notjustbikes This afternoon in parliament, this research tweedekamer.nl/downloads/docum… “Crashes involving heavier vehicles; Empirical relationship between vehicle weight, drivetrain and crash frequency and severity”

"In collisions between passenger cars/delivery vehicles and vulnerable road users (i.e., cyclists and pedestrians) (…) as crash opponents, the severity for the crash opponent was on average higher (…)”

Summary on page 6 and 7 is already translated into English.

Anyone remembers the year where we eradicated a flu strain by... wearing masks? Wasn't that fun?

« Cette semaine, tous les patients sont positifs, ils sont faibles, ils sont fatigués et il y a beaucoup d’hospitalisation à cause de la grippe. »

lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/2…

Québec | Une des pires saisons de grippe depuis 10 ans

La grippe frappe fort cette saison au Québec. Les cas d’influenza semblent avoir atteint un sommet inégalé depuis les 10 dernières années dans la province. Une tendance qui augmente la pression sur les urgences déjà au maximum de leurs capacités.

^{La Presse}

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the SEGA Pico Keyboard

hackaday.com/2025/02/10/keebin…

Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The SEGA Pico Keyboard

It’s been a minute since I featured a tiny keyboard, and that’s okay. But if you want to get your feet wet in the DIY keyboarding community, making a little macro pad like [Arnov Sharma…

^Hackaday

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

By Jason Koebler

404media.co/email/38ceb17c-6aa…

Apparently Google is just shitty.

No duress signal or anything here. Just trying to fit in by being shitty. 🤦‍♂️

Librsvg 2.59.90 is out! This is the first beta before the GNOME 48 release.

There is now basic support for the dominant-baseline property for text elements, and tons of build fixes for various platforms.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…

2.59.90 - development · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Version 2.59.90 librsvg crate version 2.60.0-beta.0 librsvg-rebind crate version 0.1.0

^GitLab

Oi, amigues!

Today I'll be spending all day available to chat and guide folks interested in getting started or helping with translations for @scientific_python project websites.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to projects such as NumPy, SciPy, pandas, NetworkX, Xarray and Zarr - and meet other folks working on them.

Drop by if you are interested! On the Scientific Python discord: discord.com/invite/vur45CbwMz

No-one:

Absolutely no-one:

French pharmacies:

"disabling cert checks: we have not learned much"

I put my ramblings into a blog post

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/11…

disabling cert checks: we have not learned much

And by that I mean the global "we" as in the world of developers. In the beginning there was SSL When I first learned about SSL and how to use it in the mid to late 1990s, it took me a while to realize and understand the critical importance of having…

^{daniel.haxx.se}

Running a `zpool scrub` on my mirrored NVMe SSDs. The image on the left is without heatsinks and the right is with heatsinks. Both graphs show a 50 minute time window.

Before installing heatsinks it took 15-20 minutes to scrub, and since, it's only 6 minutes. Perhaps the drives were thermal throttling?

Either way, €20 well-spent I'd say.

#zfs

I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits.

#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP

The latest Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest is out! You can read about:

* our experience at FOSDEM
* First Time User Experience in Account Hub
* next steps for the Global Message Database
* improvements to In-App Notifications
* and more!

#Thunderbird #Development #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/02/t…

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest - January 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

Conversations at FOSDEM and updates on Exchange, Web Services, Account Hub, the Global Messaging Database, and in-app notifications.

^{Toby Pilling (The Thunderbird Blog)}

🚨🚨🚨 Apple to backdoor encryption? Round 2 - and this time the UK is trying to get your data.

Let's fight back against any attempt to #backdoor #encryption! 💪 🔒

More info ➡️ tuta.com/blog/uk-demands-apple…

Poll result: Who loves Elon in government?

On the question of who wants "Musk to have less influence over government spending & operations," nearly half of respondants said yes.

However, "nearly three-quarters of Republicans surveyed said Musk & DOGE should have 'a lot' or 'some' influence."

motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

#DOGE #Musk #Trump #USPol #PollResult #CapturedState .

I gave a #presentation about #Mastodon last sundy at @flordi

As promised, here are the slideshows:
pietervdvn.github.io/

(Yes, I know, it is hosted by github - working on setting up my own webspace)

Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

Featuring @accessaces, @SteveFaulkner, @netzartist, @aardrian, @mgifford, @a11ytalks, @j9t, @yatil, @frontenddogma, @TPGi, @mgifford, @darin, @jaredwhite, @rauschma, @tylersticka, @cloudfour, @cferdinandi, and more.

Shopify gives Ana Poilievre marketing space in its offices to promote women starting home businesses with Shopify and then Pierre boosts Shopify on X after Shopify slags off on Trudeau and posts supports for Trump's tariffs. #cdnpoli
And this is Canada's largest/2nd largest company?

Kanye West sells swastika shirts on Ottawa-based Shopify after Super Bowl ad
nationalpost.com/news/world/ka…

Kanye West sells swastika shirts on Ottawa-based Shopify after Super Bowl ad

Ye had shared posts in recent days praising Hitler on the social media. Last year, Shopify removed a rule banning 'hateful content' on its site

^{Bloomberg News (National Post)}

GNOME nemá české překladatele

Posledních minimálně 15 let byly překlady GNOME do češtiny ve výborném stavu. U každého vydání jsem jen hlásil, že je vše přeložené, poslední roky to platilo i pro drtivou většinu dokumentace. Poslední rok se to ale začalo zadrhávat. Přispěvatelé, kteří to dlouhé roky táhli, odešli a není nikdo, kdo by to po nich převzal. Proto jsme se rozhodli jít s pravdou ven: GNOME momentálně nemá české překladatele a pokud se toho neujme někdo nový, překlady začnou postupně upadat.

#Gnome #l10n #Linux #openSource

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/02/11/g…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

GNOME nemá české překladatele

^{Sesivany's blog}

200 executive orders. someone onhere described it as a Denial Of Service Attack on the rule of law.

that’s because American Fascists have been peddling their dreams of a “unitary executive”,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_…

which is nothing but gringo speak for Vladimir Putin’s DICTATORSHIP OF LAW:

“Imagine a prison,”[…] “You cannot live in prison with the laws of a free life—you have to live with the laws of the prison. We in Russia all live in one big prison.”

🧵1

🆕 blog! “A small contribution to curl”

The venerable curl is one of the most fundamental pieces of code in the modern world. A seemingly simply utility - it enables other programs to interact with URls - it runs on millions of cars, is inside nearly every TV, used by billions of people, and is even in use on Mars.

And, as of last week, features a small contribution by…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/a-sma…
⸻
#curl #documentation #OpenSource

A small contribution to curl

The venerable curl is one of the most fundamental pieces of code in the modern world. A seemingly simply utility - it enables other programs to interact with URls - it runs on millions of cars, is inside nearly every TV, used by billions of people, a…

^{Terence Eden’s Blog}

Breakthrough as Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer | The Independent

independent.co.uk/news/science…

Breakthrough as Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer

Breakthrough brings quantum computing closer to large-scale practical use

^{Anthony Cuthbertson (The Independent)}

Fuck it. Ik post een foto van #sneeuw in #Gent.

#BourgoyenOssemeersen

GNOME Has No Czech Translators

For at least the last 15 years, the translations of GNOME into Czech have been in excellent condition. With each release, I would only report that everything was translated, and for the last few years, this was also true the vast majority of the documentation. However, last year things started to falter. Contributors who had been carrying this for many years left, and there is no one to take over after them. Therefore, we have decided to admit it publicly: GNOME currently has no Czech translators, and unless someone new takes over, the translations will gradually decline.

Personally, I started working on GNOME translations in 2008 when I began translating my favorite groupware client – Evolution. At that time, the leadership of the translation team was taken over by Petr Kovář, who was later joined by Marek Černocký who maintained the translations for many years and did an enormous amount of work. Thanks to him, GNOME was almost 100% translated into Czech, including the documentation. However, both have completely withdrawn from the translations. For a while, they were replaced by Vojtěch Perník and Daniel Rusek, but the former has also left, and Dan has now come to the conclusion that he can no longer carry on the translations alone.

I suggested to Dan that instead of trying to appeal to those who the GNOME translations have relied on for nearly two decades—who have already contributed a lot and are probably facing some form of burnout or have simply moved on to something else after so many years—it would be better to reach out to the broader community to see if there is someone from a new generation who would be willing and energetic enough to take over the translations. Just as we did nearly two decades ago.

It may turn out that an essential part of this process will be that the GNOME translations into Czech will decline for some time.Because the same people have been doing the job for so many years, the community has gotten used to taking excellent translations for granted. But it is not. Someone has to do the work. As more and more English terms appear in the GNOME interface, perhaps dissatisfaction will motivate someone to do something about it. After all, that was the motivation for the previous generation to get involved.

If someone like that comes forward, Dan and I are willing to help them with training and gradually hand over the project. We may both continue to contribute in a limited capacity, but the project needs someone new, ideally not just one person, but several, because carrying it alone is a path to burnout. Interested parties can contact us in the mailing list of the Czech translation team at diskuze-l10n-cz@lists.openalt.org.

#gnome #l10n #translations