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Making websites smaller has tangible effects on the environment.

“Shaving off a single kilobyte in a file that is being loaded on 2 million websites reduces CO2 emissions by an estimated 2950 kg per month.“

(thoughts welcome; the post is from 2020, are these reasonable assumptions today?)

dannyvankooten.com/blog/2020/w…


CO2 emissions on the web

Danny van Kooten
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#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Release 2.34.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 15 Fix crash reading unsupported pkpass files Improve pkpass support
GitHub
#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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Sylvia

@sihaha Apps targeting older Android versions tend to work fine on newer ones due to how backwards compatibility works on Android, but targeting newer Android versions has 2 clear benefits:
1. Google has one reason less to kick you off Google Play
2. There are generally slight security improvements (small hardenings here and there)

The downside is that it can take a lot of work because Google tends to change a lot every Android version.

Glad to hear you have good experiences so far :)

@Si (he/him)

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L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea.La mobilitazione pacifista per fermare il piano von der Leyen e rilanciare l'Europa sociale. Qui l'articolo di #ilmanifesto: ilmanifesto.it/lappello-stop-r…

Il sito della campagna è qui: stoprearm.org/ ma al momento è solo in inglese
#pace #StopReArm #pacifismo #Europa
@macfranc
@gubi
@lindasartini
@RFancio
@oKolobos
@Pare
@scuola

L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea Basta Spinelli La mobilitazione pacifista per fermare il piano von der Leyen e rilanciare l'Europa sociale «Ci opponiamo al piano dell’Unione europea di spendere 800 miliardi di euro in armi. Saranno 800 miliardi rubati. Rubati alle spese sociali, alla salute, all’educazione, al lavoro, alla costruzione della pace, alla cooperazione internazionale, alla transizione giusta e alla giustizia climatica. Saranno un beneficio solo per i produttori di armi in Europa, negli Stati uniti e in altri paesi. Renderanno la guerra più probabile, e il futuro più insicuro per tutti e tutte. Genereranno più debito, più austerità, più confini. Approfondiranno il razzismo. Alimenteranno il cambiamento climatico». Comincia con queste parole l’appello «Stop ReArm Europe» al quale da ieri è possibile aderire (tutti i riferimenti e gli aggiornamenti della campagna si trovano all’indirizzo www.stoprearm.org). Tra i primi supporter dell’iniziativa figurano Transnational Institute, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Attac Italia, Arci, Transform Europe, International Peace Bureau, Ferma il riarmo e Stop the war coalition.
STOP ReArm Europe welfare not warfare Let’s organize a European movement against ReArm Europe!

L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea | il manifesto

Crisi Ucraina (Politica) «Ci opponiamo al piano dell’Unione europea di spendere 800 miliardi di euro in armi. Saranno 800 miliardi rubati.
Giuliano Santoro (il manifesto)
#Europa #ilmanifesto #pace #stoprearm #pacifismo @Carlo Gubitosa @Guido Dotti @macfranc @Linda Sartini @Pare 🚲 🌞 @RFanciola @scuola group

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I've been using Skype to talk with my parents since I moved to Canada, that's the tool they know and switching to something else for them is gonna be super hard.
Now Skype is forcing them to switch to Teams, a buggy and bloated tool made to be a gateway to sell services.
It's Microsoft, so I'm not surprised at all, but still, disappointing.
Screenshot of Skype banner announcing the shutdown
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Steven D Rowe 🇨🇦🇬🇧

I'm in a similar situation but I'm going to try MyTello. You can set it up to dial a local number from the home phone to talk to someone with a number registered around the globe, or call via their app. I've only done one test call so far, but might be an option.

mytello.com/

Cheap international calls from Czech Republic - mytello.com

Cheap international calls from Czech Republic. Call worldwide to any country starting from 0,3 Kč per minute. Works with any landline or mobile phone ✓ No contract ✓ Free test ✓ 100% Money back guarantee ✓
mytello

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This week we did a working session in BOARC, Bidston Observatory, an amazing self-organised community center close to Liverpool, UK (with a radio station in the basement!).

We finalized and tested the first, experimental prototype of Toolkitty, an mobile and desktop app for collectives to share resources & spaces and organise events!

And we launched it's website! 🥳

toolkitty.org

A group of seven people standing in front of a building, the sun is already low, in the background one can see the sky and another part of the building, an observation tower
A large communal room with a kitchen inside, there's laptops on the table and 3 people working with them

Toolkitty

Toolkitty is a coordination app for collectives, organisers and venues. You can organise events, share resources and spaces in a collaborative calendar.
toolkitty.org

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New in GNOME 48 is the necessary support for keyboard handling by the Orca screen reader in Wayland sessions. As I reported on the Orca mailing list recently, I have updated my system, and this support is so far working as intended. You need Mutter 48 and the latest AT-SPI installed.

Thanks are owed to the software developers responsible for this work.
#gnome #accessibility #Linux #Wayland

#Accessibility #linux #gnome #Wayland

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Peter Vágner

@Jason J.G. White Yes it's amazing @GNOME #a11y is moving into the right direction but I'm afraid it's at very slow pace.
Within Gnome 48 we do have reworked keyboard input handling.
Now we need mouse emulation
and in the future we'd like to have touch screen gestures and related screen reader features.
The interaction between gnome developers and screen reader users is one direction only.
New features are being added, some bugs which we can tolerate are introduced along the way and we do need to wait at least some 6 months until these are addressed at a platform level in an upcoming release.
#a11y @GNOME @Jason J.G. White

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exercise, soliciting advice

on days when i have no time, I prioritize push-ups for upper body with arm/chest focus or squats for lower body with quad focus.

What is a good single upper body exercise for maximum back engagement that requires only dumbbells or bands? I’m currently partial to renegade rows or wide-grip push-ups.

Edit: for context, here are my current workouts: seirdy.one/about/workouts/#leg…


My workouts

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.
Seirdy’s Home
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We are happy to announce that 56 teams and individuals will receive funding to support their work on improving the core technologies of the internet.

We'd like to congratulate them and thank them for making the internet better for us all.

Come and take a look at the projects to see the marvellous work being done to upgrade the open internet architecture.
nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250321-ca…
#FOSS #NGI0 #NGI

NLnet; 56 Projects Receive Grants for Improving Core Technological Building Blocks

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#foss #ngi0 #ngi

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Amazon flags Surface Laptop 7 as a frequently returned item — warns buyers to check reviews first
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Amazon flags Surface Laptop 7 as a frequently returned item — warns buyers to check reviews first

Some configurations of Surface Laptop 7 on Amazon in the US are being flagged with a warning that says the product has a high return rate, encouraging buyers to research the device before purchasing.
Zac Bowden (Windows Central)

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📄 NEW: "The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure"

Many don't realize that Substack's purpose is to advance 'The Network State' concept. Here's what creators + readers need to know.
america2.news/the-substack-dil…


The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure

Creators have flocked to Substack because of its ease of use — but that simplicity comes at a steep price.
Dave Troy (America 2.0)

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President Donald Trump, according to the White House, has revoked security clearances for former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, two former secretaries of state (Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken) and others. whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals – The White House

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES  SUBJECT:    Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from
The White House

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Creating more copyrights won’t get artists paid for the same reason that giving your bullied kid extra lunch money won’t get them lunch.
--Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

The answer to AI abuses is not stronger copyright, but stronger labor and privacy laws.

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How To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@Cory Doctorow

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@archos , já myslel zes měl včera burger, ne hrachovku 😉

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Karlovarský kraj zasáhlo mírné zemětřesení

Na hranicích Chebska a Sokolovska se v sobotu nad ránem otřásala země. Zemětřesení bylo mírné. Nejsilnější otřesy byly po 06:00 a dosahovaly úrovně dva stupně. Epicentrum bylo východně od Lubů u Chebu.
ČTK (Novinky)
@Archos

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Das Komoot an private equity verkauft wird ist wirklich schade. Komoot war immer mein goto tool zur Routenplanung fürs Wandern und Radfahren. 😢

Nach außen wirkte die Firma eigentlich immer ganz cool. Ich hab da sogar 1-2 mal in die Stellenausschreibungen geguckt weil ich mir vorstellen konnte da zu arbeiten.

heise.de/news/Wander-App-Komoo… (@heiseonline)


"Geschockte" Mitarbeiter: Komoot wird verkauft

Die in Potsdam gegründete Firma hinter der App Komoot wird verkauft: Die italienische Firma Bending Spoons übernimmt die Wander-App.
Daniel Herbig (heise online)
@heise online

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Přemýšlím, že bych si postavil vlastní domácí NAS server (asi Owncloud Infinite Scale + Immich v dockeru na mini PC). Jenže nemám veřejnou IP (router je za NATem). ⚠️ Jak nejlépe a levně zajistit konektivitu na takový domácí server? 🛜 Levná VPS jen na WireGuard tunel nebo je nějaké lepší řešení? 💡 Nebo se na to vyprdnout a dál platit Google Disk? 💰
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Jiří Eischmann

Je nějaký důvod, proč to chceš mít doma? Nextcloud jako službu s 1 TB dnes seženeš za pár korun. Když bys nad tím chtěl mít větší kontrolu, tak si můžeš rozjet levnou VPS a k tomu S3 object storage.
Já mám vedle Nextcloudu doma ještě Synology a je to celkem mizerie. Stejně pro to musím mít zálohu někde mimo domov a přístup z venku je pomalý kvůli pomalému uploadu.
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Jiří Eischmann

@WoundClad @stooovie Getting it for free? Certainly not with the amount of data they have.
I didn't mean Nextcloud installations on their premise. I do it for myself, but I don't think it's good every one, actually it isn't for most. By "setting up a Nextcloud service" I mean picking something like Hetzner Storage Share and setting it up the way it works for them like the old solution.
@Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping
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jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

Looks first of all like a troet.cafe specific circunstance @bitpickup, what code is troet running?

The combination of two audio files might be problematic in general. Actually it's not possible over here to upload more than one video or audio and the replay of any of the two files displayed with timer might not work.

@milan
@utopiarte

Screnn from social.tchncs.de Both embeeded files, the mp3 and the mp4 are displayed as such. The first intent to play the audio file failed and the display stalled.
@Milan @mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup @utopiArte

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CBS News - Trump administration will be revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of Latin American and Haitian migrants welcomed into the US under a Biden-era sponsorship process, urging them to self-deport or face arrest and removal. cbsnews.com/news/u-s-to-revoke…

U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport

A total of 532,000 migrants from from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela entered the U.S. under the CHNV policy.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)

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Today’s lawsuit filed by my colleagues alleges the U.S. government’s action to shut down the Voice of America is unlawful and unconstitutional, violates our freedom of speech and usurps Congressional control of the coffers. substack.com/home/post/p-15958…

Lawsuit demands an immediate halt to VOA’s dissolution and the prompt reinstatement of its employees.

VOA’s silenced White House bureau chief is the lead plaintiff in the federal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York
Steve Herman (The Newsguy -- Steve Herman)

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Getting started with XMPP/Jabber and PGP for federated, encrypted messaging

This is a short thread where I explain how I started using the XMPP protocol and PGP encryption for secure messaging. I am not a security expert, but I am a mathematician and I am confortable with the Linux command line. This guide is for people who want to use PGP for secure messaging easily. You will need to be okay with typing commands into the Linux command line in order to do this, but I will tell you exactly what to enter.

Part 1: XMPP

Mastodon is like email, but for social media. You sign up for an account with a server, and then you can talk with any other accounts that are signed up on other servers, as long as your servers are getting along. (No one wants emails from the sketchy spam server, and we want to be able to choose between Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the same thing for text messaging.

Just like signing up for an email/Mastodon account, you need to sign up for an account. You can find a list of servers at list.jabber.at/ and will probably at least need to provide an email addess when making an account.

Once you have made an account, you need a client. On Linux, I've been having a good time using Dino (dino.im/). You can then enter your account name and password to log into your XMPP account and start chatting! There are both public rooms and you can also message directly with your friends.

#security #PGP #XMPP #FOSS #Jabber #Dino #MonoclesChat

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Dino. Communicating happiness.

A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
dino.im
#xmpp #foss #security #Jabber #dino #pgp #monocleschat
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