Host Richard (@richlitt) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (@federicomena) about GIMP (gimp.org/), GNOME’s (gnome.org/) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.
Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273
Host Richard chats with Federico about GIMP, GNOME’s history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.Sustain
If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.
🎉 FLEXIREADS BLOG POST 🎉
New feature alert!
We've made it even easier to add events in Fantastical by forwarding them directly from your email. 🤯
Find out how on the Flexireads blog!
flexibits.com/blog/2025/06/fea…
Fantastical and Cardhop: enjoyable calendar and contacts apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. Fantastical is also available on Windows.Flexibits
Announcing Premium Accounts, better devX for hookshot, and a mx CLI to help with automation.
That and more happened This Week In Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/06/13/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Ultimately I think it will be a bad look for entire Matrix ecosystem for its biggest server to basically commercialize the offering similar to how other commercial products do it.
There is a difference in how matrix.org is structured, being a non-profit and for example how commercial solution such as Discord is structured, but creatures don't really care about such difference, the point will be that both will have some kind of "better" offering for paid users and that kinda sucks.
I'm sticking to my opinion which I've already expressed in the past that instead of pouring more and more money into maintaining a single huge Matrix server (and the costs will continue to rise, maintaining a huge platform for social interactions is only getting worse the more it scales) it would be simply more efficient to focus on better UX and ecosystem experience to distribute the userbase across many public servers.
This move in a way may make some creatures decide to change servers, but that will be at the cost of Matrix reputation and is not a specific goal with which those premium accounts are created.
Matrix continues to be a massive undertaking, and while I see the value in matrix.org server, I worry that the funds going into its maintenance could be better utilized by Matrix foundation by focusing in other areas that would favor further decentralization of the network.
How to Find Vulnerabilities in Web Browsers (An Introduction to Web Browser Security Research) Ivan Fratrić, Google Project Zero 2025Google Docs
Anybody knows what I should do to enable push notifications on #monal? My ejabberd shows as compliant with XEP-0357: Push Notifications on compliance.conversations.im/ but the messages don't reach the phone when the app is closed
Please 
for reach
Pick and choose your Jabber server from a list of compatible servers or check if your current server supports all required features.compliance.conversations.im
curlmin
Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a #curl command while ensuring the response remains the same.
Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a curl command while ensuring the response remains the same. - noperator/curlminGitHub
A link in @simon's recent blog anniversary post led me to this post: simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/5/p… which contains this gem about using an LLM:
> It’s a programming activity that actually feels a lot more like spellcasting. It’s almost impossible to reason about: I imagine even the creators of GPT-3 could not explain to you why certain prompts produce great results while others do not.
I think that's no less true of today's LLMs.
I ran a Twitter poll the other day asking if people had tried GPT-3 and why or why not. The winning option, by quite a long way, was “No, I …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Privacy is Calling You, Will You Answer?—Looking for a smartphone and service that puts you in control of your data, privacy, and security?
Try the Librem 5 paired with Librem AweSIM, powered by PureOS—a fully open-source, non-Android, non-iOS operating system.
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Politicians around the world want to #backdoor #encryption. But #Signalgate 2.0 shows the danger would be HUGE.
We're saying #NoToBackdoors 💪
Read Hanna's opinion: Signalgate 2.0 proves it - there’s no such thing as a “Backdoor for the Good Guys Only”
👉 tuta.com/blog/opinion-signalga…
Sensitives data fell into the hands of criminals because US officials were using a non-encryption version of the popular chat app Signal.Tuta
@rdfrkian They keep pushing for this, just under a new name again and again. For now, we are fighting it: tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agai…
So far, successful. And we'll stay strong, you have our word on this.
New name, same problems: The EU now calls Chat Control "ProtectEU", but it comes with the same issues as before.Tuta
“Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past” newsletters.feedbinusercontent…
I think the issue with accessibility is really the lack of funds at the provincial level. The STM has a programme to improve accessibility, but it has to be put on hold as the CAQ aren’t interested in funding transit.
But I agree, I wish we could bring the system forward in time.
/cc @reecemartintransit
Akce pumpa na půl ukončena.
Ve středu jsem byl u našich a všechno ve studni rozebral. Potřeboval jsem koupit nový sací koš a zjistit, jestli mají v Sigmě skladem i těsnění se zpětnou klapkou pod přírubu.
Jenže mezitím šla máma ven a táta to samozřejmě „rychle vyčistil a smontoval zpět“. Takže jsem neviděl, jak vypadá to velké těsnění. 🤦
Dneska tedy opět celá demontáž potrubí ve studni, nový sací koš nasazen – a jak jinak, teče to pod přírubou. Přesně tam, kde jsem to těsnění chtěl koupit. 😅
Takže zítra repete…
Lasst euch von Google, YouTube & Co. nicht einreden, Werbeblocker seien illegal. Das stimmt nicht. Adblocker sind kein Rechtsbruch, sondern eine bittere Notwendigkeit im heutigen Internet – als Selbstschutz vor Überwachung, Manipulation und aufdringlicher Kommerzialisierung. Dass Konzerne sie dämonisieren, zeigt nur, wie sehr sie auf Kosten der Nutzer profitieren wollen und wie kaputt ihr datengetriebenes Geschäftsmodell ist.
Werbeblocker: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
YouTube werbefrei: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit & Datenschutz aus Karlsruhewww.kuketz-blog.de
So today it is Friday the 13th and apparently I should have stayed in my bed.
Just spent way too much time troubleshooting why the curl requests I got from Firefox by using "copy request to cUrl" did not work. Turns out it is a Firefox bug. For unknown reason it adds a caret "^" before each parameter separator in the query string in the curl request, breaking everything. 😞
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
#firefox #curl #development #bug #fridaythe13th
ASSIGNED (hmanilla) in DevTools - Netmonitor. Last updated 2025-06-12.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Apologies to Matt, I had meant to share this back when it dropped and it slipped my mind.
I was a guest over on @thelinuxcast show to talk Wayland youtube.com/watch?v=5aUEKJn04s…
The boys are back! This time we're talking about the state of Wayland in 2025. Also we talk about how the transition is going. All with a very special guest!...YouTube
Die Entwicklung der #PeerTube #App ist unterstützenswert:
support.joinpeertube.org/en/
#OpenSource #Video #FediVerse
Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!support.joinpeertube.org
This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.
In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.
It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".
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Time for another trip in the TARDIS!Louise Griffin (Radio Times)
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden sat down with Robert Costa on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend to discuss a variety of subjects, most notably her May 8 firing by President Trump.Phil Morehart (I Love Libraries)
We’re excited to announce the release of version 1.5 for the Victor Reader Stream 3—packed with quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, and the return of some fan-favorite features!Natacha (HumanWare)
A single email can silently trigger Copilot to exfiltrate sensitive corporate data — no clicks, no warnings, no user action.Mastufa Ahmed (CSO Online)
The recall affects more than 1.1 million Powercore units sold in the US.Omar Gallaga (CNET)
Looking for lightweight, portable, easy reading on the go? Look no further than Neptune. A scan and read device, Neptune...Devon Price (American Printing House)
Počet vojáků, kteří zahynuli nebo byli zraněni na Ukrajině, překročil podle generálního štábu ukrajinských ozbrojených sil hranici milionu. Tvrzení o obětech na ruské straně se shodují i s odhady západních zpravodajů.
🔴 Dění sledujeme ONLINE: irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/online…
Je tu verze 1.5.0 skriptu pro Zprávobot.news:
• vylepšení zpracování obsahu
• vylepšení manipulace s URL
• pokročilá logika ořezávání
• lepší správa RSS
• opravy zmiňovaných domén
• optimalizace výkonu
• vylepšené mapování znaků
• zlepšení čitelnosti skriptu
Verze 1.5.0 je robustnější a efektivnější než předchozí 1.4.0.
github.com/DanielSnor/Zpravobo…
We are excited to release version 1.5.0 of the IFTTT webhook filter script, featuring significant enhancements in content processing, URL handling, and configuration flexibility. This update introd...GitHub
Nová verze skriptu Zprávobot.news - 1.5.1:
• Úplné odstranění zpracování RSS-as-Twitter
• Zjednodušená detekce citací Bluesky
• Nová detekce příspěvků s odpovědí
• Vylepšená kontrola komerčního obsahu
• Přidána kontrola příspěvků s odpovědí
• Opravena funkce contentHack()
• Zjednodušení funkce createDomainFixPatterns()
• Menší velikost kódu: -1647 znaků (-51 řádků)
v1.5.1 zjednodušuje, optimalizuje a zefektivňuje stávající kód.
github.com/DanielSnor/Zpravobo…
Main changes Features removed Complete removal of RSS-as-Twitter processing Simplified Bluesky quote detection Added features New reply post detection Improvements Enhanced commercial content ...GitHub
Simple tricks to make your social media and online content accessible to everyone, including visually impaired people. Find out more.Betty Dartois-Vanneck (A2i Transcription Services)
Great day yesterday at #Devconf . Many in-depth discussions after my talk at the @fsfe booth, most of the time together with @llas .
@sofiaritz and @Tobias had a full #FreeYourAndroid workshop, showing people how to flash their phones and the rest of the time had a busy time at the #FSFE booth as well.
Big thank you to all who attended my talk, and to those who joined us at the booth.
*turns on the news*
Okay then
With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...Abner Li (9to5Google)
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