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The blast radius of a toxic contributor in an open source project is mostly invisible.

If you're a community leader you need to understand that for every prominent developer loudly driven out there were hundreds, maybe thousands of people who could have done great work, who could have been your next generation, looking at how your people treat people, at the bar your community has set for decency or dignity, silently taking their talents elsewhere, that you didn't see.

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With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog.

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Passing the torch on Asahi Linux - Asahi Linux

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Last weekend the Open Film Database (ofdb.cc) received another update, which included the migration from #WordPress (Blog) and #DokuWiki (Wiki) to #Drupal, front-end improvements for TV shows, improved cast editing, and more!

The #OFDb is a database for movies and TV shows with its data published under an open license (Open Database License). Everyone can participate and add more titles. The more the merrier!

#film #TV #movies #cinema #OpenData #database


Hello there! [Open Film Database]

The Open Film Database (OFDb) is a free and open database for movies and TV shows. She is maintained by the community and published under an open license.
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#wordpress #film #movies #cinema #opendata #tv #database #drupal #dokuwiki #OFDb

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Biometrics are a convenient and secure way to authenticate our devices. Many of us use and trust the biometrics of our devices without much thought, but are they really secure? With so many options, which ones are the best?

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#Privacy #Biometrics #Security #PrivacyGuides #Article


Biometrics Explained

Privacy Guides is the most popular & trustworthy non-profit privacy resource to find privacy tools and learn about protecting your digital life.
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Someone should refresh these benchmarks and test a modern #pycurl against python requests.

"PyCurl is much faster than Requests (or other HTTP client libraries), generally completing smaller requests 2-3x as fast, and requires 3-10x less CPU time" (nine years ago)

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GitHub - svanoort/python-client-benchmarks: Microbenchmark of different python HTTP clients

Microbenchmark of different python HTTP clients. Contribute to svanoort/python-client-benchmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.
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The BlindShell 2 talking cell phone is in stock and ready to ship. Announcing a brand new BlindShell. Designed for the blind from the ground up.
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25 years ago, on February 13, 2000 the final "Peanuts" comic strip was released. It followed the death of Charles M. Schulz the day before, as he passed away only a few hours before its publication, serving as his final farewell to his readers.

#Peanuts #Comics #CharlesSchulz #comic #ComicStrip #ComicStrips #OTD #Snoopy

A comic strip showing Charlie Brown answering the phone, responding to someone who is seemingly asking for Snoopy, telling them "No, I think he's writing..", on the next panel Snoopy is shown to be sitting on top of his red house outside, writing on his typewriter, and the words "Dear Friends..." appearing above him. At the bottom panel there are several instances showing different Peanuts characters in some of the most characteristic scenes of the comic strip, along with the words: Dear Friends, I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost fifty years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain the schedule demanded by a daily comic strip. My family does not wish "Peanuts" to be continued by anyone else, therefore I am announcing my retirement. I have been grateful over the years for the loyalty of our editors and the wonderful support and love expressed to me by fans of the comic strip. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, …how can I ever forget them… — Charles M. Schulz
#comics #comic #otd #comicstrip #peanuts #snoopy #charlesschulz #comicstrips

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I think today's dose of Doctorow (or @pluralistic , if you prefer) may well be more relevant than most.

We MUST make informed decisions and harbour informed opinions. If we go about uninformed, we end up with both our feet in our mouths.

Which is something the left has been doing a LOT in what concerns the internet as a whole.

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Pluralistic: Premature Internet Activists (13 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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I figured it out!
A lot of reports of alarms on iOS not sounding for people have emerged (as far back as even last May, phonearena.com/news/annoying-i…, and then early this year: nypost.com/2025/01/14/tech/iph…)
I know why now. If you set multiple alarms, iPhone will only sound them for 10 minutes. Should your alarms not be turned off and this 10-minute time is up (say, because you slept through it), the first alarm is stuck waiting in queue, and subsequently scheduled alarms will never sound but go off.
The moment you dismiss that first alarm, all of those others will magically begin sounding every 10 minutes as you dismiss them in horror, realizing that Apple's operating system is not able to properly queue alarms.
And yes, this is in iOS 18.3. I've been struggling with this pattern all week, it has made me late to my first meeting Monday because I woke up too late and scrambled too long to get ready, ETC. Not good.

A supremely annoying iPhone alarm bug is spreading like wildfire... again

For at least the third time in the last year or so, iPhone users are complaining on social media that their alarms are not working properly, with Apple once again promising to deliver a fix for ...
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I bet if someone tested that, you could pretty reliably repro the bug after. Just create multiple alarms, about 15 minutes apart (or 10 minutes +), don't snooze or dismiss the first alarm. See if any subsequent alarms go off, and I can almost bet that they will not. My best guess is that alarms are all run on a single thread, so until that thread has returned as finished with the first alarm, the others after just can't execute properly.
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Tamas G

A good solid workaround: Go into the options for each alarm, and uncheck the "snooze" toggle. This will mean that (A) you will not have a snooze option when it goes off, but more importantly, (B) it will continue sounding through 10 minutes. Still not ideal, especially as what I'll often do is set different tones and vibrations to gradually make them more annoying through each alarm, but what else can I do, I guess. This way there's hope I could dismiss that first one and the others after it would sound, even if on a delay from me sleeping off the firrst 10 minutes. Sigh.
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UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Design

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FOSDEM 2025 - Thunderbird: Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable Open-Source Design System

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Unsere #Matrix #Bridges sind jetzt offiziell aus der Beta-Phase raus! 🚀

Neben Telegram, Signal und WhatsApp haben wir ab sofort auch eine Bridge zu Discord im Angebot.

Vielen lieben Dank an unsere Beta-Kunden! Wir melden uns in Kürze bei euch 🙂

Mehr Infos zu unserem Matrix-Hosting und anderen Open-Source-Lösungen findet ihr auf unserer Website:

ossrox.org/store/matrix

Genauere Infos zu den Bridges findet ihr hier:
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#OpenSource #Messaging #Privacy #Hosting

Ein KI-generiertes Bild, das eine Datenautobahn symbolisiert, Aufschrift: #Bridges

Bridges | Ossrox Wiki

Matrix Bridges sind letztlich Dienste, die eine Verbindung zwischen dem Matrix-Ökosystem und anderen Messaging-Plattformen wie Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp und vielen weiteren herstellen.
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#Fractal 10 had a couple regressions. We didn’t want our users to wait until Fractal 11 to get the fixes in their favorite #GNOME #Matrix client, so here is Fractal 10.1:

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Fractal 10.1 released

Due to a couple of unfortunate but important regressions in Fractal 10, we are releasing Fractal 10.1 so our users don’t have to wait too long for them to be addressed.
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"The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us" via @verge.

Indeed, the UK's actions imperil security across the globe.

It's worth highlighting that open source comms tools, like @matrix and @signalapp, empower researchers and users: you'll _see_ if a backdoor is added.

Not so with proprietary tools. Do you really trust Meta, Apple, or Google not to roll over on you?

theverge.com/policy/612136/uk-…

#FOSS #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Security #Privacy #Encryption


The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

The UK is using its Investigatory Powers Act to demand backdoor access to iCloud users’ encrypted backups worldwide.
Gaby Del Valle (The Verge)
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated (4 RB) and 2 added apps today:

* TDX: explore and monitor your favorite artists and their latest releases 🛡️
* Private DNS Quick Setting: Toggle Private DNS from Quick Settings 🛡️

RB status: 446 apps (35.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Rozhovor: Přijmout dítě s autismem znamená vydat se na nečekaná dobrodružství

📌*Jak začlenit dítě s poruchou autistického spektra do běžné školky? *


O své zkušenosti a rady se s námi podělila Mgr. Sylva Kočí z neziskové organizace Jdeme Autistům Naproti z. s.


Rozhovor: Přijmout dítě s autismem znamená vydat se na nečekaná dobrodružství | Twigsee

Jak začlenit dítě s poruchou autistického spektra do běžné školky? Zeptali jsme se Mgr. Sylva Kočí z neziskové organizace Jdeme Autistům Naproti z. s.
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Ľuboš Moščovič

"Paní učitelky mají někdy z příchodu dítěte s autismem obavy."

Tak toto je, žiaľ, totálny eufemizmus. Naše škôlky, až pričasto, neakceptujú žiadnu formu inakosti a na Slovensku k tomu majú riaditeľky ešte aj kladivo na čarodejnice, keďže deti najskôr prijímajú na tzv. adaptačný pobyt, takže ktokoľvek "by im narušoval vyučovanie" ostáva mimo systém.

Môžete mať aj 4 papiere s odporúčaním odborníkov na integrovanie v štandardnom kolektíve, poprípade s asistentom, budú vás tlačiť do outu - "a nebolo by mu lepšie v špeciálnej škôlke"?

No nebolo - tá v našom meste rieši iba ťažké prípady, s pridruženou retardáciou alebo úplne neverbálnych, no a taká špecializovaná na nejakú "ľahšiu" diagnózu, napr. NKS, tak tá je jedna v kraji (ak vôbec), takže good luck...

Naš predprimárny systém má deti so znevýhodnením tam kde slnko nesvieti, česť výnimkám, ale viem o tom viac než by som chcel.

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Adrien Plazas

It reminds me of Framasoft's illustrations, courtesy of David Revoy, they are excellent! framasoft.org/ We can have a cheerful, colorful and fun brand without having a foot as a logo.

Framasoft

Framasoft, c’est une association d’éducation populaire, un groupe d’ami·es convaincu·es qu’un monde numérique émancipateur est possible, persuadé·es qu’il adviendra grâce à des actions concrètes sur le terrain et en ligne avec vous et pour vous !
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@cassidy @nekohayo @KekunPlazas @federicomena @ebassi Meanwhile, I was walking by a shop window tonight and saw this grumpy turtle plush gnome.

Gnomes come in all shapes and sizes!

Anyone dressing up could put a bit of a spin and combine the gnome outfit with others. Doctor gnome, pirate gnome, astronaut gnome, and even a grumpy turtle gnome, apparently.

A plush doll of a very grumpy looking tan color turtle, dressed as a gnome with a red hat, fuzzy beard, and blue shirt. There is a plush smiling raindrop next to the turtle. Below the turtle is a plus red love bug with wings in the shape of a heart.
@Federico Mena Quintero @Emmanuele Bassi @Adrien Plazas @Cassidy James @Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
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@federicomena I think we can get to that point eventually, but so far every time I’ve brought it up to Foundation employees or members of the board, it’s been largely dismissive. Not maliciously so, but more like, “oh yeah that’ll never happen, you’ll never get everyone to agree,” and/or “trademarks are expensive, not worth it.”

So I shifted the approach to try to build some amount of consensus on a potential way forward. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be working, either.

@Federico Mena Quintero

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Despite not having a lot of money we are yearly subscribed to give 300eur to the #foss #forgejo platform of @Codeberg who are currently suffering sustained network and abuse attacks social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/1…

Some of our #webxdc developments takes place on Codeberg. Thanks for persevering! #hugops

Codeberg.org (@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de)

We are currently suffering from a network-level DDoS attack. Or maybe just a single actor. Anyway, our downlink is jammed.
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No coins, no chains, no big machinery but plain, efficient and scalable decentralization, leveraging the largest open internet messaging network ever created by humans ... made safe, fast and resource efficient with #chatmail servers using strong and audited #interoperable #cryptography. It just works (tm) in many places where Signal and WhatsApp fail today. It's time to reclaim "decentralization" from techbros, insist on real-life #resilience and trust this cute figure from @Xeniax :)
A photograph of a small blue figure with a mask, holding a little "decentralized" handwritten banner with "d" being the delta logo symbol. Background of the photo is a forest and a lake in early spring.
#cryptography #interoperable #resilience #chatmail @xeniax ⏚

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Now that we have three different #AI Music generators, I wanted to give them a tricky test and compare the results. I'm totally not musical, so hopefully one of my followers will chime in to this thread with some musical theory criticism.

The prompt we'll be using today: "A comic operetta in the style of Victorian satirical comic operettas making fun of President Donald J Trump." We'll be leaving all other settings as default.

The things I'm looking for:
1. Does the song refer to recent events?
2. Can it follow my strong style instructions? I'm wanting something in the style of gilbert and Sullivan. But if I mention them directly, the AI's either refuse on copyright grounds, or generate endless bad versions of A Model of A Modern Major General.

Let's start with riffusion.com. It gave me a song called "Why won't they let me edit?" It's apparently about how Donald Trump wants to edit his wikipedia page. I'm not aware of this being a thing that happened, but it's possible I missed that? It starts off enough like an opera for my taste, but it quickly devolves into a kind of 2000's pop musical style. I give it 8/10 for topicality, and 5/10 for style. Link: www.riffusion.com/riff/40bbc4f8-c557-4bb4-9a95-1bbcb66c38de#riffusion



Why Won't They Let Me Edit? by fastfinge

Comic operetta, Gilbert & Sullivan style, orchestral, Victorian parlor music
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We have a #DebConf25 logo, thanks to Juliana Camargo and all other participants! bits.debian.org/2025/02/debcon… #debian

DebConf25 Logo Contest Results

Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to...
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Marcan steps away from Asahi. What a damn heartbreaking thing this is. Even if you think his approach to handling people sucks, he was willing to do some important work that nobody else was willing to touch, and his technical knowledge was unparalleled.

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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii.
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This is a sad development for user freedom. Transitioning from individual to collective leadership is great, and it is a monumental achievement that Marcan built an org that will persist. Those of us who have aging Apple Silicon hardware are probably going to owe this team a real debt of gratitude for avoiding the e-waste-ification of those devices in the coming years. But it makes me sad that the fuckups in leadership on Linux will not understand what a loss this is.

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Asahi Linux (@AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems)

With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog. https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
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Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

@matt I understand that POV, but I don't think proprietary software guarantees this either - a subscription model with friction is better (e.g. Red Hat) IMO, but there's lots of other issues too. People see $10 a month for a subscription as too much, but $10 for a beer at the stadium? Fine. $6 coffee every day? Fine. $60 a year for a distribution? Too much.
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