What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?
If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…
And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺
With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.Tuta
New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:
📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?
#Mozilla have taken a lot of criticism lately, but then they come out with something outstanding and important like this.
hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crli…
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...John Schanck (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
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Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.
Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.
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Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.
However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.
You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."
AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.
I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.
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@miki
The hate is coming from people who are losing their jobs. Trained professional, high-paying, white-collar jobs.
Computers have been shedding people's jobs since the 90s, and no one cared.
Factory automation has eliminated millions of regular jobs, and no one cared.
The time to care was when it was first noted that the proceeds of production belong to those who own the means of production.
We never fixed that problem.
It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).
Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.
Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.
#NTP
To honor and perpetuate Dave's legacy and efforts, with the blessings of his family, donations to the Mills-Spring Fund at Network Time Foundation are welcome and appreciated.www.nwtime.org
Woke up early. Spot-checking the PDF and ePub files before sending them out to people.
Discovered that all the underlined text is missing. 🤦♀️
The exporter converted it to <span class="underline">underlined text</span>
but it should have converted it to _underlined text_
ARRRGH. I should not have to be fucking with code to export my book using existing tools.
@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?
I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.
I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.
The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect.
In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.
With PHP 8.5 we get Connection, DNS and SSL Sessions sharing across requests with cURL.
I made a video showing how this works and discuss the performance potential youtube.com/watch?v=wr_Jnrc2ha… - a short @mnapoli cameo included
Try our PHP Profiler: https://tideways.com/profiler/features?utm_source=yt&utm_campaign=yt-curl-shareSubscribe to my newsletter for PHP performance content: ...YouTube
"Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single #curl installation somewhere in the world..."
(blog post from 2020)
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/08/20…
Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single curl installation somewhere in the world. Here's a picture of one to help you get an image in your head.daniel.haxx.se
Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"The seventh HTTP Workshop is on for 2026: 14-16 July in Basel, Switzerland."
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Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Air Canada strike fallout: 2 class-action lawsuits proposed in Montreal
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Two possible class-action lawsuits by Air Canada passengers affected by the airline’s flight attendant strike were submitted in court in Montreal Monday.Zachary Cheung (CityNews Montreal)
It's gonna take awhile for me to get used to seeing so many grocery prices in the US being consistently higher than they are here in Canada.
Like...AVOCADOS FFS they travel PAST 'Murica to get here and they're still a bit cheaper here?
Forum outage (bbs.archlinux.org) due to cloud node outage
A federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally sharing customer location data without consent, per a 2024 FCC ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
techmeme.com/250819/p1#a250819…
T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from @theverge.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Copilot #Microsoft #Tech #Technology
Microsoft Excel is testing a new “COPILOT” function that lets you use AI to generate summaries, tables, tags, and more based on a group of cells you specify.Emma Roth (The Verge)
In Touch provides information about the new pricing structure of the JAWS screen reader.BBC
I’m looking for freelance work!
Apart from being a quite senior software engineer with management experience, a specialisation in fintech and card networks, and a talent for reading hundreds of pages of standards and docs and being really pedantic about them - I’m a jack of all trades, with a silly broad range of experiences, and enjoy novelty and variety.
Want a photographer? Bartender? VJ for your party? Help organising an event? Need to win an argument about Mastercard rules?
Something else entirely, where a background in tech, music and/or events might come in handy? Hit me up and I’ll see what I can do.
(I’m happy to help out nonprofits, clubs and others doing good/interesting things, but who don’t have very deep pockets, for a more affordable price. I started out maintaining a WordPress site for my dad’s choir, and I’m happy to do it for yours too.)
We'll be at the Austin JavaScript Meetup tonight! 🎉 Come say hi, chat about open source, and connect with the community!
#Thunderbird #JavaScript #Austin
meetup.com/austin-js/events/31…
**Talk:** Building UIs for Everyone: Accessibility as a Frontend Responsibility **Speaker:** Kushal Kumar Nerella **Abstract:** Kushal will share some of tMeetup
Curious about our progress on Thunderbird Pro? Our latest update, direct from Managing Director Ryan Sipes, keeps you in the know - and lets you know how to stay updated:
#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdPro #OpenSource
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/t…
Our team is hard at work on Thunderbird Pro. Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send in our latest update.Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
great update, thank you! I didn't see any mentions about OS or platform availability though, did I miss them?
I'd love to hear details about how Android fits into these plans since many launches like this often tend to either exclude mobile platforms at launch or restrict the feature set. Is that the plan with Thundermail?
All except AI is welcome !
I'm not sure engineering and hosting are the same job for qn organisation, but why not. All the best!
2025 is the 100 year anniversary of sticky tape!
Masking tape, the 1st adhesive tape, was invented in 1925 by 3M employee Richard Gurley Drew who noticed frustrated auto painters using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars for painting then popular 2-tone paint jobs and stripes.
> auto painters using butcher’s paper and glue to mask cars
wow... found a photo of this in action! they used both butchers paper and newspaper
Hey, something that regularly bums me out is that #Lego continues to make Harry Potter products. Lego brings me a lot of comfort, but their complicity in JK Rowling's hate campaign sours that significantly.
As a trans person, it makes me feel kinda helpless and invisible.
So I'd appreciate it if y'all could help me boost this petition across the fediverse, and share it around with group chats, and other socials if you're on them!
Not necessarily because I expect Lego to listen to a change.org petition, but because it would give me a lot more hope and faith in people if the voices saying "Hey, it's really messed up that Lego is doing this" were a lot louder than they are now.
(Alt-text: a change.org petition called "LEGO: End your relationship with JK Rowling and the Harry Potter franchise.")
chng.it/mgvbH5qw5h
913 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?Hope Freeman (Change.org)
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
Nothing surprising.
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detainedRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
The "Conversations" screen (which shows a list of open chats) has always been the main screen of #Conversations_im, following the behavior of Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's Messages (SMS) app. However, after sign-up, users were taken to the "New Chat" screen (which lists all contacts and group chats) on the premise that they have no chats yet and would likely want to start one.
This may have confused first-time users about which screen is the main one.
2.19.3 has an empty chat screen instead.
“Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation,” she wrote.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/u…
#Directaction #Gaza #PalestineAction #solidarity #SallyRooney
PM’s office says it is a crime to fund a banned group after award-winning author promises to back pro-Palestine group.Al Jazeera
Plasticine Action is a group of like-minded artists and concerned citizens, who want to be vocal against the rise in AI generated animation and art, and raise awareness of how AI is being used in an increasingly authoritarian manner.
“Plasticine Action” t-shirts fundraiser plasticineaction.com/
Medical Aid for Palestinians
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Police Arrest “Plasticine Action” t-shirt wearing protester
theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
#Ai #Gaza #PalestineAction #PlasticineAction #Solidarity
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detainedRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Consultations?!?
Shouldn't it be a Crown inquiry into the #wagetheft and #exploitation of Canadians in the industry?
If the government is truly aware of the allegations, then they know the allegations go back AT LEAST as far as the Harper government... that means it spans decades... let's hear from every single one of them.
canada.ca/en/employment-social… #cdnpoli #polcan #unpaidwork #unpaidlabour #aircanada
Flight attendants play a critical role in keeping Canadian passengers and airline crew safe as they travel.Employment and Social Development Canada (Government of Canada)
(From last week)
Out-of-service OC Transpo bus gets stuck under shopping mall sign
cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/out-…
They went past a sign that say clearance is 2m.
oh god, They're Taking The Hobbits to Isengard is 20 today
Finally in HQ! Since all the versions of "They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard" here on Youtube are all rips from my medium quality original from my websit...YouTube
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