This week Semios/Almanac laid off an estimated 10% of headcount, including yours truly just today.

It wasn't a surprise, but that doesn't make it suck less.

Which is to say: I'm now 100% available for full time, contract, paid speaking, board, advisory positions. #OpenSource, #BusinessStrategy, #BizOps, #Standards, #Leadership, etc.

CV: vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf

#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I'm a bit confused on the localisation front, because here you say that you use weblate, but currently Thunderbird's only project on weblate seems to be Thunderbird for Android, wheras Thunderbird Desktop and thunderbird.net are on pontoon. I'm wondering where we might expect future project's localisation to be based from (like the Thunderbird Pro stuff).

Hello Jamers! 😍

Missed Dev Update #12?

No worries, we’ve got you covered with all the highlights! ⬇️

Catch up now and stay in the loop.

Read our Dev update 12: jami.net/de/dev-update-12/

#Jami #OpenSource #P2P #PrivacyFirst #AppUpdate

Stop hacking accessible pedestrian signals you fucking sociopaths. I swear, if I die because I'm trying to cross a street but the signal's been hacked because one of you thought it would be cute I'm coming back and haunting you for the rest of your life. lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/

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Really glad to see @Mastodon working on quote #QuotePosts, and they're doing it in a really considerate way that will hopefully cut down on the downsides of quoted posts on other platforms. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

BBC Radio 4 pays tribute to ‘Peggy Woolley’ with special Archers prequel marking VE Day 80th anniversary bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc…

Unlike git-blame, which can tell you who wrote a line of code, git-who tells you the people responsible for entire components or subsystems in a codebase. You can think of git-who sort of like git-blame but for file trees rather than individual files.

🔗 github.com/sinclairtarget/git-…

"By choosing platforms like Mastodon, we champion community-driven technology over profit-driven manipulation" in other words, we, the workers, seize the means of production? phillipjreese.com/the-social-n…
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Sharing some professional news: I've joined Mastodon full-time as Head of Communications! After freelancing with the project since 2023, I'm excited to bring my experience in open source and community to help tell the story of the Fediverse. Read more on my blog.

andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/15/com…

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I'm trying to get the biggest vendors to sponsor the LVFS. The Linux Foundation is kindly paying for all the hosting costs out of their IT budget, and Red Hat pays for all my time -- but as LVFS grows and grows that's going to be less and less sustainable longer term. I'm trying to find funding to hire a part time "me replacement" so that I can go on holiday for a week without stressing about internet and email.

What do you do when your lucrative patent expires? In the case of MP3s, the patent owner tried to migrate everyone to another tech that was still under patent. At least that scam didn't work. #RetroComputing dfarq.homeip.net/mp3-is-dead-l…

Nvidia Ignites a Modern Gold Rush with AI Boom and $500B U.S. Investment Plan

#Nvidia #AIInfrastructure #Semiconductors #NVDA #TechStocks #AIRevolution #JensenHuang #Investing #StockMarket #WallStreet #AITech #BlackwellChips #NvidiaStock

Read Full Article here :-
techi.com/nvidia-stocks-still-…

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Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

wow! Congrats to the team of @Tutanota for getting rid of Google’s push notification services :biceps:

tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…

#deGoogling

Nominations Open – International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing 2025 inclusivepublishing.org/news-a…

Aira Tech Tips & Troubleshooting with a Visual Interpreter aira.io/aira-tech-tips/

#Segen oder Werkzeug zur #Manipulation? #Hallow bezeichnet sich selbst als »erfolgreichste Gebets-App der Welt«. Unter den Unterstützern und Investoren der vermeintlich christlichen #App finden sich viele #Trump- Unterstützer. #Datenschutz- Lücken könnten für dessen #Wahlkampf genutzt worden sein:

Gebets-App "Hallow": Segen ode...

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Wo Gwen #Stefani zum täglichen Beten einlädt: #Hallow ist eine Art individualisierte Content-Plattform für römisch-katholisches Leben. In die #App haben laut @businessinsider.com Peter #Thiel und JD #Vance investiert. Ein #Medienethik​er sieht die App als Vehikel für die post-liberalen #USA:

Hallow: US-App, auf der Gwen S...

Is your teenager on Instagram? 🙈 And are they using a Meta Teen's account? 🤔

If so, you should read this 👉 tuta.com/blog/instagram-teen-a…

#Meta #MetaTeens #InstagramTeens #DataPrivacy

The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity that coordinates the @libreoffice project and community. Here's what we did last year: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware