Excited to announce #Catima is in the top 5% of most popular apps on #IzzyOnDroid, ranking place 62 of 1307.

Even more excited to see our new IzzyOnDroid download statistics, supported by #NLNet, land in #NeoStore!

Curious as to how it works? It's actually pretty simple! Server logs are fed, per server, into codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s… and the results are summarized using codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s…, creating easy to consume JSON files. Then, Neo Store consumes them :)

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We have a list of user agents of known clients on codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s…, so it's anything not matching those. Mostly web browsers, but may also include some crawlers or bots.
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Unity moves on common tracks. 🇺🇦🛤️🇪🇺

Ukraine’s first EU-gauge railway between Uzhhorod and Chop is now open, backed by €28.6 million from the EU’s Connecting Europe and Ukraine Facilities.

This means:

✅ Faster border crossing
✅ More trade
✅ Better links to 🇸🇰🇭🇺🇦🇹 – and beyond

Part of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes, this project will help bring Ukraine closer to the EU.

We #StandWithUkraine as it rolls forward towards 🇪🇺 🚆

More: europa.eu/!gypNxR

Anyone from Microsoft following me?

I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.

You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.

Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.

#github

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For the first time since September of 2019, FX Radio lives again!

What is FX Radio?

Basically, it's a stream with a stack of three media players shuffling through a huge collection of royalty free sound effects, music, and sometimes other odd things.

Essentially, it's audible streaming chaos, and a possible drug substitution if you are so inclined.

There are still some things to be tweaked, so it may randomly disappear from time to time, but we here at NoiseBox HQ are mostly happy with how it's working so far, streaming live from a computer under @BorrisInABox's mom's desk, and she has no idea it's there.

More features will be added in the coming days, hopefully.

There is no website or anything fun like that, just a stream URL.

stream.borris.me:8888/fx

Update: Borris's mom now knows that the box is under her desk, but not that it streams FX Radio.

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What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA
smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/w…
by @eric #webdev #webdevelopment #aria #a11y

Today's #AndroidAppRain at the #IzzyOnDroid repo will come with a special: Neo Store updated to v1.1.2, and now does provide our download statistics inline (see attached images) 🥳

You cannot only see how well your favorite apps perform, but also sort your listings by "popularity" (actually, download counts). And also which F-Droid client is favored by those using a given app.

Currently only available for apps provided via the IzzyOnDroid repo – until other repos pick up the stats generator.

in reply to 禿び

@kuroneko I guess the best place for that would be codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s… – it's definitely doable. Maybe you open an issue there to ask for it, so your question does not get lost? We'd then see what can be done.

Thanks, also for the suggestion – it's a good idea!

An article I read years ago about the "gig economy" lives rent free in my head. Its core thesis amounted to - in many companies particularly through the 20th century, it was at least possible for someone to come in at even a low entry level job and through hard work and effort and excellence, get promotion after promotion and make their way to senior management. You could get from factory worker to become foreman to become manager to become senior manager etc.

When you're an "independent contractor" with a megacorp as a monopsony over you, and your boss is an app, there's literally zero path from labor to management no matter how good you are.

And now with AI, that trend has entered a new stage. There's going to be that much fewer pathways from entry level AI wrangler to supervisor.

How good is AI.

IKEA order arrived with a damaged box. The return AI booked a replacement drop off and pickup scheduled for Friday. All good zero touch customer rep experience. Status updates telling us it’s on the way etc.

Except it never arrived.

Called IKEA this morning took 45m of waiting and dealing with humans to discover. The AI had hallucinated the whole thing. The schedule was too tight For the warehouse to load the goods. So the AI just faked the rest of the delivery updates.

Cust rep couldn’t fix it so just created two new deliveries, one for the replacement and one for the damaged part pickup.
So much time wasted and inconvenience to our family.

Grr.

Amazon CloudFront now supports IPv6 origins for end-to-end IPv6 delivery
by Sagar Desarda and Ravi Avula on 03 SEP 2025

aws.amazon.com/blogs/networkin…

#ipv6 #aws

#ipv6 #aws
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Our new night-active neighbor and my insomnia are deffo not compatible. Not even pills help. I can't believe our bad luck. One shitty neighbor getting replaced by even shittier ones. Or at this point, I believe this must be a curse.

How to un-curse ourselves?! Not even kidding, how does one do that!?

#LongCOVID #Insomnia #SleepDeprivation

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drug use, anxiety

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#хуйлостан

когда я работал в госкомпании со всяким министерским сбродом, я пришел к вводу что эти люди клинически ни на что не способны.

однако это ошибка. они абсолютно природно гениальны в том, чтобы что то ломать, ограничивать и запрещать.

From: @ashed
mastodon.ml/@ashed/11515614322…

Another great Checkpoint: youtu.be/ahA_RtG2TzI

I much appreciate the call-out on RuneScape cancelling their pride event. My RuneScape playing friends were so visibly hurt.

Checkpoint is the only game news show I follow as I can trust them to not pander to bigotry and call it out instead of trying to be "neutral" (which these days seems to mean "promoting hate", neutrality would be allowing queer people to exist).

Thank you @Graham_LRR and the rest of the team. You're amazing.

Dutch public broadcaster NOS made a WONDERFUL 10 minute segment on the EU #ChatControl proposal. Perhaps you can coax YouTube to provide you with English subtitles, I think this video could help sway/inform other countries as well: youtube.com/watch?v=_Ek9R4TXq7…

“The Rarest DX In The World” – A 33 RPM Journey Through 1960s Shortwave

swling.com/blog/2025/09/the-ra…

#DX #Recordings #TheRarestDXInTheWorld

in reply to feld

@feld You can't do that unless you know that you should. And, as I pointed out, when the code was full of outdated techniques, I wasn't getting any warnings. I know what's out of date and what isn't. That's how I got into this situation. But a junior developer who doesn't know these things, and leans more on the LLM, will not know when the LLM-supplied code is wrong. They won't know they need to prompt the LLM to do something more modern.

I'm not much focused on myself, because I have what it takes to avoid steering myself into a ditch. But I'm thinking about what happens to someone less experienced who thinks they can use LLMs to do something that they couldn't otherwise do.

@feld
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

Well, technically you are right of course, an XMPP address is not an email address, but for the purposes of compliance it may be easier to pretend that you are collecting email addresses rather than get Google to change policies so you can say you are collecting XMPP addresses (for conversation.im users at least).

At the same time, the privacy policy also claims XMPP messages are encrypted which is not always (or even usually?) the case.

Poslušně hlásím: vydělal jsem nula korun!

Byrokratický stát nutí naši zahrádkářskou kolonii utratit 40 tisíc korun ročně za účetní. Kdybychom si za to koupili motyky, můžeme okopat půl republiky. Před deseti lety, když jsem začal dělat předsedu, stačila na účetnictví paní s blokem a tužkou. Dnes? Nestačí ani jedna účetní. Musíme mít dvě: běžnou (20 tisíc ročně) a nově hledáme mzdovou (dalších 20 tisíc). Jen proto, že stát chce notifikace – sociálce, pojišťovnám, cizinecké správě. Abychom ušetřili, zkoušeli jsme účetní software rozchodit sami, ale ani po čtyřech víkendech jsme ty notifikace nedali. Má dáti – nedal.

blisty.cz/art/128474-poslusne-…

in reply to Jan Molič

Jo no, úřední zátěž furt stoupá. Sleduju to z pohledu našeho 16 členného bytové družstva. Pořád nové a nové zbytečné povinnosti, které nikdo nepotřebuje.
Příklad z poslední doby: Nově máme povinnost dálkově odečítat teplou vodu a teplo. Ok, no problem. Ale máme ho odečítat měsíčně!
Nikoho z nájemníků ten údaj nezajímá, ale nutí nás to platit firmu, která dálkové odečty měsíčně odečte a zpracuje. Nebo protože nám tenhle výdaj přijde absurdní chodíme každý měsíc s notebookem po chodbě a odečítáme to sami. Znovu, úplně zbytečně, nikoho to nezajímá.
A odečítáme jen teplou. Pitná voda je jedno. Takhle kreténský nařízení to je. Jo a z pera Pirátu btw. Moc děkujeme.
Každá takováhle blbost jen ztěžuje samosprávu, nikdo to pak nechce dělat a jen to skončí u nějaké správcovské firmy.
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan ono je to asi všude.. popravdě už mám v plánu s předsednictvím skončit, ať to zase chvíli dělá někdo jiný.. snažíme se držet poplatky při zemi, přesto lidi nadávají, až si člověk říká, že je pitomec, že to vůbec dělá..

ono to asi nemá jiné řešení než "restrukturalizaci" (= teprve když s tím seknou všichni, až se to úplně složí, tak se to bude moct postavit znovu a lépe.. nicméně tou dobou už budeme mít místo demokracie nějakou monarchii, nebo budeme Rusko, nebo další spolkovou republikou :-D )

in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan Obávám se, že tak to není. V nabídce jsou malé partaje, které tohle neprosazují a ani (zcela logicky) v minulosti neumožnily. Jenže stádo vybírá jen mezi těmi, koho nabídnou masmédia. Pár lidí, co nejsou stádo, si nakonec stejně rozdělí propagované partaje, protože hlasy pod limitní klauzulí si mezi sebou rozdělí mezi sebe. Takže nezkorumpované hlasy nemůžou zaznít během volebního období v Parlamentu, a vše je legálně "uklizeno" a zakonzerováno. To je podstata defektní demokracie.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Do toho květinářství chodíš nějak často. Já nevím, co tam kupuješ 😃.

Jinak, Biely kvet je písnička od Mekyho Žbirky. youtube.com/watch?v=S1W55JDE5L…

Slyšel jsem to poprvé před lety v nějakém tekno setu. Akorát to už nikde nemůžu najít.