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After my term at the GNOME Board of directors was finished last month, I finally managed to write a public retrospective: blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/… Hope some people find it useful. It was not easy to write, but I think it is something necessary.

Retrospective of my term as a Director for the GNOME Foundation

On the spring 2024 I presented my candidature, and eventually got elected for the Board of Directors at the GNOME Foundation. Directors are elected democratically by the GNOME Foundation members,...
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Switching to Linux, an analogy

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Google to require developer verification to install and sideload Android apps

Link: 9to5google.com/2025/08/25/andr…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

#android #google


Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading 

Google has announced that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices in 2026...
Abner Li (9to5Google)
#android #google

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Z Česka a Slovenska bude pozorovatelné úplné #zatmění Měsíce. Vidět okem bude i #Saturn

irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/v…

> Zatmění začne 7. září v 19.30 nízko nad východním obzorem, ale bude v té době velmi obtížně pozorovatelné, na východě budou podmínky lepší. V Česku bude potřeba počkat na větší tmu.

#Měsíc

Z Česka a Slovenska bude pozorovatelné úplné zatmění Měsíce. Vidět okem bude i Saturn

Ema Polívková (iROZHLAS.cz)
#saturn #zatmeni #mesic

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🏳️‍⚧️Hombres trans y personas no binarias transmasculinas se enfrentan a retos para ejercer plenamente su derecho a la salud en México.
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=120546🐝

#Personastrans #Nobinarias #ComunidadLGBT #Derechossexuales #LGBT #Trans #desigualdad #Sheinbaum #transnobinarie

Transmasculinidades y el laberinto del acceso a la salud en México - Avispa Midia

A pesar de las políticas de reconocimiento y los cambios en la legislación, la población transmasculina en México se enfrenta a retos para ejercer plenamente su derecho a la salud
Isabel Ortega (Avispa Midia)
#lgbt #trans #personastrans #nobinarias #comunidadlgbt #derechossexuales #desigualdad #sheinbaum #transnobinarie

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👀 Any tech executives based in Brno and around? Check the upcoming meetup of #TechExecs community!
👉 lu.ma/hsdp07io

Tech Execs Meetup Brno

🛳 Evening cruise, smart talk & afterparty! After a year, we’re heading back to Brno – and we’re doing it in style. Join us for a special edition of the Tech Execs Meetup: an evening cruise on the iconic Brněnská přehrada (a.k.a.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 2 added apps:

* Flicky: an FDroid client with a TV friendly UI 🛡️
* Reef: your ultimate productivity companion, designed to help you stay focused, manage app usage, and minimize distractions 🛡️

And this cleanup run is over, so no more apps removed.

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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compiled all my notes on the Omada controller porting process to FreeBSD

Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/08/oma…


Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD – Makefile.feld

I've been investigating switching from Unifi Wifi APs to TP-Link EAPs and the EAPs can be managed by a software controller called Omada. This software is architecturally similar to the Unifi controller: Java and MongoDB.
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Guido Kollerie

Interesting! Contemplating moving to TP-Link Omada Access Points myself. I know @ronnie_bonkers does a lot of work keeping the MongoDB FreeBSD port working for the purpose of being able to run the UniFi controller. Seeing all that effort I wonder if running a Linux VM in Bhyve wouldn't be easier, next to buying a OC220 controller. Having said that, it's not always about the easiest solution. Getting things working is also fun.
@Ronald Klop
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Alex Hall

@matt If I do, the first thing I'll have to sort out is isolation of the server from the rest of my network. I know it's doable--my server has a 4-port NIC, and my new router can absolutely do VLANs, traffic isolation, and other stuff. I just have to figure it all out. There are a few things I'd like to publicly host without having users first be on my Wireguard.
@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell

@dominic I'm not sure I would use Docker at all for GoToSocial. It's already a single statically linked binary, so I'd just drop that on the VPS and configure Caddy, or nginx or Apache or whatever you're running on your existing server, to reverse-proxy it.
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𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕔.𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕙

@matt thanks for your point of view. Tt this time, I use the Webuzo panel where I have some apps like WordPress for my blog and FreshRSS. This panel come with Softaculous that does note have GoToSocial for an installation in one click. I could install it manually, hoping that will not breaks things. I thought I'd create another VPS and install Yunohost, which I've tried in the past, to migrate my apps. But Docker attracted me...
@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell

@dominic Oh, got it. A VPS with a shared hosting control panel is a bit of a different situation. If it has an option for running Ruby or Node.js applications behind a reverse proxy, you could probably make that work for GoToSocial. Otherwise, yeah, set up a new VPS.
@𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕔.𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕙
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𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕔.𝕥𝕖𝕔𝕙

@matt in fact, I have a complete unmanaged VPS. When I've decided to leave the shared web hosting to got a VPS, I chose to install Webuzo, which best met my needs at the time (having like a shared hosting service but completely controlled by me).

So if I set up a new VPS, you have some suggestions for me ? Still using a thing like Yunohost (that supports GoToSocial installation in one click) or get a thing like Coolify to use Docker and Docker Compose ?

@Matt Campbell

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We recently merged an initial version of vector layers in #GIMP ! Very happy that we were able to update Hendrik Boom's 2006 project and finally get it across the finish line. :)

There's still plenty of UI/UX work to be done but I'm curious - what are some good "next steps" for vector layers in a raster editor?

I assume vector layer masks would be helpful, along with the long-requested shape tool.

#gimp

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TIL that #Mapycom is more than just a renderer on top of #OpenStreetMap. They actually import buildings from #Overture, which #OSM doesn't consider reliable enough for automatic imports.

From what I've seen, the results are mixed in Greece, with many buildings that don't exist in reality.

#openstreetmap #OSM #mapycom #overture

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Apple: spaceship 🛸
Microsoft: glass tower 🏢
Linux: basement... still runs the internet 🐧😎

Root access > real estate.

Pic source: reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/commen…

📸👇

#Linux #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #UserFreedom #Freedom #Tech #Technology #AI #OS #MacOS #Meme #TechMeme

Three images showing the headquarters of major operating systems. The top left shows Apple's massive circular "spaceship" HQ labeled "iOS". Top right shows Microsoft's sleek modern building labeled "Windows". Bottom image shows a man standing in a modest home office setup, labeled "Linux", humorously suggesting Linux has no official headquarters.
#linux #foss #opensource #privacy #technology #Windows #security #microsoft #AI #tech #Meme #cybersecurity #freedom #MACOS #userfreedom #desktop #os #technews #techmeme
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feld

None. Go ahead and make it completely illegal to run Bitcoin off fossil fuels worldwide. It wouldn't matter, they'll just switch to renewables. That's where it's going anyway because you want the cheapest source of electricity possible to mine Bitcoin or you can't be competitive, and renewables are undercutting fossil fuels all the time. This will cause a small ripple in the BTC price for a short period of time during the transition but that's all. It won't and can't kill Bitcoin.

And those coal plants? Many will just be converted to natural gas, not shutdown, because the cost of new transmission lines to large renewable deployments is prohibitive. That's the real kicker. We can build cheaper energy sources which are clean, but we can't transport it very far.

> New analysis finds 99 percent of existing U.S. coal plants are more expensive to run than replacement by local wind, solar, and energy storage resources.

energyinnovation.org/report/th…


The Coal Cost Crossover 3.0

99% of the U.S. coal fleet is now more expensive than replacement by local clean energy, which could generate $589 billion in new investment.
Greg Alvarez (Energy Innovation)

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

newatlas.com/infectious-diseas…


The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.
Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)

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oh I'll just run this tool in a FreeBSD jail where I can install openjdk24 easily:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: FreeBSD is not supported
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:192)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.getToolkit(Toolkit.java:220)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:274)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:154)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:652)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:672)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$0(LauncherImpl.java:197)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1447)
Weld SE container recaf shut down by shutdown hook

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May need to be checked about this pulsatile tinnitus problem that's resurfacing badly since my medicine change. I've had it since a child, because when I was 7, I chased my dog down the basement outside and fell, cracking my head open on the top. Don't feel sorry for me, I did this 3 times, to the point that I now have a small scar because the skin there was opened too many times and could never re-heal.
One of the falls, I nearly snapped my neck, for a full week after the Pulsatile Tinnitus was so bad I could barely hear other sounds around me just the wooshing noise and weird 15.625 kHZ noise. It went away eventually but returned when I was sick. When on Prozac, it was also queltched, but not on this new medicine - it's far far worse and if I'm not actively focusing my mind on something I hear it louder and louder. Most likely not something I can look into until I get back from my New York trip at the end of the week.
If anyone else experienced or experiences pulsatile tinnitus, would be interested to know how hard the treatment was! Ultimately I need to fix it considering I've lived with it on and off for almost 30 years.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Me, always, but I have learned to ignore it. I try not to live in silence too. I had two car accidents and then I fell like a few times down the stairs, one of them resulted in a feint. Full on blackout. When I was about 2 or 3 to about 5, maybe. Tinitus is a nice company when there's silence, but is almost annoying. I also have a more opened up ear kanal, which makes me a party pooper, because I hate loud music, it physically hurts, then the tinitus gets worse. I am sorry you're going again through it.
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Tamas G

@tardis oof wow! Sorry to hear about those! Yeah, interesting how trauma can really bring this out - wouldn't be surprised if most people who have a form of tinnitus whent through something horrific. I know musicians would develop it after hearing loud concerts and band music, so even that is considered trauma when you think of the ear itself. But yeah, when there's silence it isn't bad, but annoying. With louder areas, when it pulses, there's a brief moment where sounds actually get louder with the woosh and pulse,, so it can get disorienting when you're hearing almost like someone dialing a volume knob up and down on everythinng around you with it.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

I also have dissociation because of all that crap, then comes more trauma, but that's not that physical anymore. I don't have emotional memories with it, so I can talk about it and it still won't face me. If I trust the people I talk o, though. Maybe you can ask Erion about all that stuff, I know he has it too, he's somehow dealing with it better than even I do. Without meds, because someone decided that health here is the third wheel, so you deal with stuff on your own. Wow.
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Tamas G

@tardis absolutely yes. Like those CRT ones from the 90s, and just the other day I played it in my house off a Youtube video, it was funny, I could still clearly hear it, my partner couldn't as well only when close. So maybe it offers a weird protection against losing that frequency, man that would be a crazy scientific research to one day find out if that curse might have some advantage to it underneath.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Tamas G

ahahaha oh gosh don't even get me started with misophonia :D now I cannot even listen to the dog drink water. Which is a bit sad. It never bothered me. But if I'm in the same room it really feels like her tongue will come out right there and just lap me up instead. Not sure. It's like, part of it is that the sound gets to sound extremely close, maybe in your mind, not sure. It's why I wear noise canceling headphones and can at least put on the cancelation mode when she starts to drink water or something else, but it's a less direct way to deal with it for sure.
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@linuxfoundation If you could talk to sched.com about providing better support for #Mastodon that would be great. #OSSummit

Sched - The Best Event Management Software in 2025

Looking for the best event management software in 2025? Sched offers powerful tools for in-person, virtual, & hybrid events—simplify event management today!
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#Mastodon #OSSummit @The Linux Foundation
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Tamas G

@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 oh yeah it sounds very folk with that horn. To me it's not a tune I even recognize, considerinng I come from that region, ha. Very catchy though nonetheless! Wonder what something like Shazam would give you if you ran it through, my favorite thing is when it gives you other songs that are not the song you played as the result, haha, cracks me up what it chooses
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Tamas G

@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 at least it's not an AI playing that horn and instruments, but real people. Wow how times have changed when you can actually appreciate that though and slight timing inconsistencies or tonal changes done by humans playing. Or that sound creaking when they run the pick across the fret board to change to a new note. All that is kinda gone with AI stuff.
@Jayson Smith @Patrick Perdue
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CommunityBelonging

@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 ugh, not anymore. I have a subscription to Suno for the purpose of 1, resparking my creativity, not so much anymore, and 2, seeing the modle's latest... more so that now. and well they're emulating more things than they ever have before. To remind myself that I can, in fact, still make music, and do things AI *can't* no matter how badly it wants to, I've taken to playing cords on fluffy patches no computer alone could copy, and I have plans to start taking the lyrics I've given to suno (more like sundown) and making my own, spirit-filled (and not in the religious sense) version of each of the things I saw it try to guess at. This does mean learning to rap. and you now what, I'm fine with this
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Tamas G

@matt @BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 lol part of me wonders the oldest OS you could run it on. Windows 95? 98? Not sure. May spin up a VM one of these nnights to check it. Surely it doesn't use many modern system calls and for sure nothing to the newer Windows OneCore API, so it should be doable but I doubt on Win 3.1, would still need a 32-bit OS underneath. Though who knows! :D
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Patrick Perdue

I don't know what the dependencies are. I only know that much because Red and I were discussing the fact that all his audio devices were in use, otherwise he would render it on a Raspberry Pi using dosbox, because that apparently was a thing. That's actually why I created that wave file. He wanted to hear it but couldn't render it himself at the time.
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Libervia CLI tip 4:

If you see an XMPP powered blog like those made with Libervia or Movim, you can use directly the `https:` URL to retrieve the XMPP blog or one of its posts.

For instance, to get my blog at goffi.org with Libervia CLI, you can do:
`li blog get -u goffi.org`

This works with all pubsub related commands, so if you have the right, you can also edit or publish like that.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#Libervia #Movim #XMPP #CLI #blog #tips #li

common arguments — Libervia Backend documentation

libervia.org
#xmpp #blog #libervia #movim #CLI #tips #li

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As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader!

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Orca #ScreenReader #ScreenReaders #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

A screenshot of the screen reader section, with a "Screen Reader" switch row and "Configure" button

ua-seeing-page: Add button for launching Orca preferences (!3215) · Merge requests · GNOME / Settings · GitLab

...
GitLab
#FreeSoftware #a11y #Accessibility #linux #foss #opensource #gnome #screenreader #screenreaders #orca

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Sigh. Another person complaining about "Linux doesn't support laptops," which is completely, 1000%, backwards. This irks me to no end.

If your laptop doesn't work well with Linux, point the finger at the laptop vendor -- not "Linux". I get that it's frustrating to want to use Linux and find that this or that piece of hardware doesn't work.

You know why it works w/Windows and not Linux? *Because the _vendor_ hasn't gone to the trouble of supporting Linux.*

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Im very impressed with Slidge whatsapp bridge on my Prosody server. It is far more stable and reliable than I ever expected, and means I do not need any Facebook owned apps on my personal phone, as whatsapp is installed on my work phone only and slidge is linked to that ( my workplace use it, because free and “everyone has it” heh.)

My family have refused to move over to xmpp after the matrix server we used shut down, even after I ran a few different test servers on both prosody and ejabberd and tested reliability of the platforms and mobile notifications. (Both work great, but at the time I decided on Prosody.) My family’s reasoning was that they already use whatsapp and I’m just being weird.

The slow creep of rights and privacy erosion is disturbing to me, and the small amount I can do like running my own fedi instance and chat server at least helps me keep my sense of sanity in this crazier and crazier world of surveillance and data harvesting.

A bridge to the chat platform at least means it isn’t on my phone that is with me everywhere, and doesn’t inconvenience my family from me being the “weird extremist”.

We do what we can.

#xmpp #prosody #ejabberd #slidge #whatsapp

#xmpp #whatsapp #prosody #ejabberd #Slidge
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Something small again today. My brother sent me this photo of a Microlino electric car which he saw in Prague recently. The Microlino, a design that has clearly been inspired by the 1950s Isetta bubble cars, is made in Italy but the company is Swiss. Vitae appears to be a small Czech company specialising in lighting technology, by the way (just looked it up).

#davidsdailycar #Microlino #WeirdCarMastodon

Orange Microlino electric bubble car on cobbled Prague street
#davidsdailycar #Microlino #weirdcarmastodon
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