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Some countries are willing to stand up for what's right:

Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”.

"Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola

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#SouthAfrica #ICJ #GazaGenocideNotWar #USBullying #USAid #USPol .

South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ronald Lamola

'No Chance' - South Africa Remains Firm on ICJ Case despite Trump’s Actions - Palestine Chronicle

South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said there was “no chance” of withdrawing the ICJ case against Israel despite the US's actions. 
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#uspol #southafrica #icj #gazagenocidenotwar #USAID #usbullying

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I know I'm not the first or only one to wonder this, but how is Airdrop not an open standard by now? Maybe not Airdrop specifically, but it's baffling that the industry still lacks a common standard for wirelessly finding targets and sending files to them over local, peer-to-peer connections. I'm aware of all the apps and websites that exist to fill this gap, but none of them work with each other. We have standards, from HTTP to email to ActivityPub and tons more, but nothing for file transfer.
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Andrew Plotkin

I've added a "Lectrote-1.5.2-WinInstall.exe" download to github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/r… . Could you check it out and see if it's usable?

Release Lectrote 1.5.2 · erkyrath/lectrote

(From 1.5.0:) Universal transcript mode! A transcript is saved for every game you play. Select the "Browse Transcripts" menu option to see a list. Transcripts are displayed as rich text (the same G...
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I have a question for bilingual people. Do you feel like the other languages you speak, apart from your native one, feel more blank? I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it, but I’ll try to explain.
I used to think this was just a lack of practice or skill, but I haven’t noticed any changes over time. There are words in my native language that I find much more difficult to say than in English. The first things that come to mind are apologizing or saying "I love you." If it’s something serious, I find it much harder to express in my native language because those words have stronger associations and emotional connotations in my brain.
I wonder if it’s just me or if there’s an explanation for this.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

In a way, I feel that, but I also feel the opposite. I also feel like my native language is polite and formal, but not polite and too formal forced-ish like English always saying, please, sorry, love you, etc. It's as if the words, when said not out of habit of politeness or because you have to be formal, but because you mean them have more meaning to them somehow.

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Let's play a game.

Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...

Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.

#bigtech #DataSociety #academicchatter

#bigtech #academicchatter #datasociety

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I will speak at #fossnorth in Gothenburg in April 14-15:

What comes after world domination?

Open Source has in many ways already won. It is used in every product by every company, to very a large degree. But we are not done. We can improve: we can take this further, we can make our projects better, we can enhance our communities and make sure it is done sustainably. The future is ours.

foss-north.se/news/daniel-sten…

Daniel Stenberg to speak at foss-north 2025 - foss-north

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#fossnorth

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i joined verdi (one of the big unions in germany) (eventhough i don't really agree with them politically on many levels, they do some important stuff and there aren't many other options) and now I'm finding out they offer a lot of useful services to members that i didn't really know about before.

For example they have consulting on doing your taxes or on dealing with landlords, and help you with your communications with Jobcenter/Arbeitsagentur when you're unemployed.

I said "huh they really should advertize this stuff more" and then ellie told me that i should post about it so maybe others who don't know about this stuff can be helped by it so here we are

join a union, they're useful and good for you, and if you don't need the services then your money helps to provide them for those who do!

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You gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X

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MacRumors: “Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in November 2023 following controversial remarks made by its owner Elon Musk.”

Apple Resumes Advertising on X

Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in...
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@Tutanota There is a minor issue related to entering calendar entries that I'd like to report and suggest improvement. If I add an entry and set its time From and To, when I click the From or To to modify the timing, the list of hours always starts from 00:00, forcing users to scroll down. Instead, it should be centered at the initially entered time, making changes much quicker.
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Given recent events, I want to move my digital life out of the United States ASAP. I'm looking at @Tutanota as a replacement mail and calendar service. But I'm confused about whether I can import mail from Gmail or not:

tuta.com/support/general#mail-… says I can do it, and doesn't mention any restrictions.

tuta.com/support/paid#import says "Email import is not yet possible".

tuta.com/blog/tuta-release-upd… says I can import mail, but only on the plan that costs €8 a month (but I don't need 500GB of email storage; the €3/month plan is the one I'd go for).

What's the story? Can it be done, or not quite yet?


Tuta update: Say hello to security, productivity, and ease of use! | Tuta

It’s only six weeks into 2025, and Tuta’s team has released some amazing new features, with more exciting ones coming soon. Let’s take a look!
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At FOSDEM we could showcase our work, drown in enthusiasm, gather in smaller committee to discuss what works or what should work differently.

Here's our wrap up post, and if you couldn't make it to Brussels you can still catch up with the talks in the thread below

matrix.org/blog/2025/02/fosdem…

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FOSDEM 2025 Wrap Up

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 The Whys and Hows of MatrixRTC

In this conversation, the community talks with Florian, manager of the VoIP team at Element. How does matrixRTC works, will we get SIP bridges, and what does the future hold?

youtube.com/watch?v=7U2Djae7at…


Fringe Event 25 — matrixRTC

A casual conversation with Florian (Element VoIP team manager) and Robin (Element VoIP team) around MatrixRTC
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 Encryption is hard and my users don't care

Here David from Workadventure explains what his use case is for E2EE, and why it can get in the way. A great conversation about whether he should use E2EE in the first plain ensues.

youtu.be/Y8u2RECmKx4


Fringe Event 25 – Encryption

In this conversation, David from Workadventure tells us about the friction caused by E2EE and how it works against his project.Hugh and Rich from the Encrypt...
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 The Matrix State of The Union

Our traditional devroom opening talk to get everyone to speed.

youtube.com/watch?v=1NQeE_Rm6a…


FOSDEM25 — Matrix State of The Union

A quick update on all the latest progress on core Matrix development from the project founders. Areas of focus include:* State Resolution improvements* Matri...
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 The road to mainstream Matrix

Matthew discusses where Matrix shines and where it falls short. Buckle up for a history session from the early days to present and beyond

youtube.com/watch?v=lkCKhP1jxd…


FOSDEM 2025 - The Road To Mainstream Matrix

Matthew's Main Track Talk in Janson at FOSDEM 2025: The Road To Mainstream Matrix.(This Week in) Matrix🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix🤝 https://www.l...
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📹 Getting the Rust SDK running on Wasm

The Rust programming language is often hailed as a perfect companion to Wasm, leading many to wonder: why aren’t matrix clients like Element Web fully leveraging the Rust SDK? Why does the JavaScript SDK remain the optimal choice for building Matrix-based webapps?

youtube.com/watch?v=NuqD_Xz06c…


FOSDEM25 – Getting the Rust SDK running on webassembly

The Rust programming language is often hailed as a perfect companion to WebAssembly (Wasm), leading many to wonder: why aren’t matrix clients like Element We...
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 Demystifying Federation in Matrix

Step into the TARDIS as we go on a deep-dive to explain how federation in Matrix works. We'll cover the protocol, its robustness qualities and how it relates to CRDTs, all whilst operating safely in Byzantine environments far larger than consensus-based blockchains.

To aid in our journey, interactive visualisations backed by real homeservers are used to explain core concepts via TARDIS and other tooling.

youtube.com/watch?v=qeUP-uNKpn…


FOSDEM25 – Demystifying Federation in Matrix

Step into the TARDIS as we go on a deep-dive to explain how federation in Matrix works. We'll cover the protocol, its robustness qualities and how it relates...
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 State of Synapse: where we're at, Matrix 2.0, and the future

A dive into the state of Synapse, including what we've been up to, what Synapse even is and who it's for, and the challenges we're facing. We'll also talk about the recent efforts to support Matrix 2.0 and pushing the Matrix protocol further, how we're using Rust to fix performance bottlenecks, and where we're going in the future.

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FOSDEM25 – State of Synapse: where we're at, Matrix 2.0, and the future

A dive into the state of Synapse, including what we've been up to, what Synapse even is and who it's for, and the challenges we're facing. We'll also talk ab...
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📹 How Ubuntu Entered the Matrix

Ubuntu has recently adopted Matrix for instant messaging. This talk explains how we went through the process of moving from many different messaging platforms to Matrix, and how we ensure our users have the best experience on Matrix.

youtu.be/7V0v7O8LDCs


FOSDEM25 – How Ubuntu Entered the Matrix

Ubuntu has recently adopted Matrix for instant messaging. This talk explains how we went through the process of moving from many different messaging platform...
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📹 Robrix: a pure Rust multi-platform Matrix Client and more

Robrix is a new up-and-coming Matrix client for power users, written from scratch in Rust to demonstrate and drive the featureset of Project Robius, a multi-platform app dev framework.

This talk covers the general architecture and features of Robrix, the author's experience developing apps in Rust and the challenges encountered, and how Robrix's needs have driven the development of ecosystem components.

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FOSDEM25 – Robrix: a pure Rust multi-platform Matrix Client and more

Robrix is a new up-and-coming Matrix client for power users, written from scratch in Rust to demonstrate and drive the featureset of Project Robius, a multi-...
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The Matrix.org Foundation

📹 MatrixRTC: Building Real-Time Applications on Matrix

MatrixRTC is poised to become the foundation for real-time applications built on the Matrix protocol, unlocking new possibilities for secure, extensible communication. This session dives into the latest developments in MatrixRTC, focusing on the final pieces of its proposed specification and showcasing how it enables a broad range of real-time applications.

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FOSDEM25 – MatrixRTC: Building Real-Time Applications on Matrix

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Woefdram

Please consider hosting videos on other places than just #YouTube.

#Google is making it increasingly difficult to view their videos in ways that don't make you choke on their surveillance, ads and cookies. I will *never* load a video directly from YouTube, and I know I'm not the only one.

Please consider posting them on #PeerTube and sync that to YT for the people who still don't understand how evil Google is.

#BigTech

#google #peertube #youtube #bigtech

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Calling all front-end devs!

I need to hire a javascript developer for a one-off job helping me with a custom integration between a hosted node.js widget and a self-hosted Wordpress site.

The job is limited in scope and should take hours or at most days.

Timescale: relatively urgent, ideally I'd like the work done as soon as possible.

Happy to pay your usual contracting rate.

Spread the word!

#FediHired #GetFediHired #freelance #frontend #javascript #nodejs #wordpress

#wordpress #javascript #freelance #nodejs #fedihired #getfedihired #frontend

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As Europe and Ukraine grapple with the stark reality that Trump has abandoned them, this is a good time to read this interview I gave in early January. Everything I outlined is coming to pass.
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Elon Musk Wants a New World Order

European governments are becoming increasingly alarmed at Elon Musk's interference in their internal affairs. Is Musk's plan for world domination likely to succeed, or make him into a global pariah?
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We saw Kerberos and thought "oh shit this sucks" and then made auth worse on the web. I do love to make 7 API calls in order to get my ticket granting ticket ticketed JWT that expires in 12 seconds and you need a valid redirect URL which means you have to run a publicly-accessible service and all I wanna do is update 1 field with 1 api call... and now I gotta write 600 LOC, import 27 dependencies, and require Kubernetes for some reason.

Infosec needs to put down the keyboard.

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Folks who break the DRM on their #Kindle books, this is going to make that a lot harder: nsinteger.com/@zacwest/1139915…

This is fine for those of us who don't buy from Amazon anymore, but if you have a standing library with them, make sure you get it all downloaded so you can break it. It's frustrating because you can't bulk download - I keep finding titles I own but missed grabbing somehow - but you have until Feb 26th to get them all.

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#books #bookstodon #DRM #Calibre

Zac West

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Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
Starting February 26, 2025, the "Download & Transfer via USB" option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the "Deliver or Remove from Device" option. Learn more about managing downloads

#books #DRM #calibre #bookstodon #kindle
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Aral Balkan

Here’s what the assholes attacking Codeberg to try and make it unsuable don’t understand:

It doesn’t matter.

I can’t push to Codeberg right now? So fucking what?

You think I’m going to go running back to Github because you’ve temporarily inconvenienced me?

You think I give a couple of hundred euros to Codeberg every year to demand perfect service?

I support them by hosting my code there and by donating to them because I believe in what they do and because I want to see them succeed and to support alternatives to the likes of toxic trillion-dollar corporations like Microsoft.

So go ahead, take them off the web for as long as you can. When you’re bored, or out of money, or whatever, I’ll still be there, on Codeberg, happily supporting a local and ethical alternative to your US/Silicon Valley/Big Tech bullshit.

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