Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by the same folks behind Codeberg, and they're on the Fediverse too: @forgejo.

#GitHub #GitLab #Git #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft

Massive Angriffe auf Ukraine - Regierungsgebäude in Kiew brennt

Nach schweren Angriffen ist eines der wichtigsten Regierungsgebäude in Kiew in Brand geraten. Noch ist unklar, ob der Kreml gezielt den Sitz des Ministerkabinetts ins Visier genommen hat. Mindestens drei Menschen wurden getötet.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/a…

#Ukraine #Russland

Massive Angriffe auf Ukraine - Regierungsgebäude in Kiew brennt

^{tagesschau.de}

⛏️ Včera byl v Sokolově Den horníků.
Na kolotočích narváno už od pátku, všichni statečně bojují s drahotou – trdelník za 150, klobása za 200 a pivko za kilo 🍺.
Horníci pochodují v uniformě, mezi tím projede dodávka ANO s heslem, že „bude líp“ asi s Vildumetzovou nebo s kým 🤷
A večer hulákání pod okny až do půlnoci.

A fakt si nedovedu představit, jak by to vypadalo, kdyby nebyla ta „Fialova drahota“… 😅

it is interesting after one and half year of everyday beer drinking take a break.. I like it #dobréRáno

edit: prečo anglicky, radšej bez komentára 😄
edit1: actually I read a book before sleep!

How long has it been since you last gambled?

#EvanPoll #poll

• 1 year or less (20%, 69 votes)
• About 2 years (3%, 12 votes)
• About 3 years (3%, 12 votes)
• 4 years or more (72%, 248 votes)

#audiopub Just gained a big update! We finally now have a notifications system, so you’ll know imediately when something’s happening on audios you're interested in! You automatically get notifications for events related to your own uploads, but if there is an audio by someone else you're interested in, click the follow notifications button for that audio.
Notification badges will appear in the title and the notifications link if you have unread notifications. It will automatically update as you get more notifications, without the need to refresh the page! So if you just keep the site open you could just glance at it every now and then and stay completely up to date. Go check it out, and enjoy the peace of mind of not having to chase down your own comment threads anymore ❤️

audiopub.site/listen/739ea029-…

Tech accessibility question: do you know of a resource to help an adult use an ipad and browse the Internet safely for the very first time? Something pitched at an absolute first time computer toucher, like we used to see all the time in the 80s: instructions that assume you have never seen a home use computer before.

This person has had almost no exposure to any kind of computer, not even an ATM or a smart phone (think long term incarcerated, but not). They have never been on the Internet.

They need to use the basic functionality of a new ipad and generally stay safe online. They need to learn this very fast because they need to do urgent practical things online. They live overseas.

Edit: they are not able to leave their house at the moment. So a visit to a local library is not possible, but we're exploring local library resources.

#accessibility #accessibilityMatters

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Re: last boost (mindly.social/@Tamasg/11515970…), yes, it's a rant, but I'm amplifying it because if desktop Linux is going to be reliably accessible to blind people, there needs to be a solution to the kinds of problems reported in this post. To all of my followers from the free desktop community, please don't be defensive in your replies. This is an experience that a user had. We should figure out what to do about it.

Tamas G

2025-09-06 22:28:37

This Linux "what session owns what process" crap is, I swear, its biggest downfall. Oh, lightDM now owns your pipewire server socket because it started it first? Oh! No Orca for you then, sorry, it can't be started on a Bluetooth device, because then that Pipewire session grabbed the BlueZ service and poof it's now the one connecting to your headphones and its audio socket. Fuck Linux. Fuck it with a big, giant, wide, sharp cactus today.

Volvo (and Polestar) are in crisis mode as their flagship cars are plagued by software problems.

It’s said that car companies don’t “understand” software, but the larger issue is that they don’t *appreciate* software.

I mean, they don’t understand leather tanning or high-end speaker design either, but that doesn’t stop them from sourcing premium materials and great sound systems. But software is always bought from the lowest bidder (Infosys in the Volvo/Polestar case)

insideevs.com/news/770572/volv…

'Unacceptable For Customers': Volvo Is Racing To Fix Software Issues

Volvo's EVs, including its flagship EX90, are riddled with software bugs. Its CEO says the automakers is focusing on fixing these as quickly as possible.

^{Rob Stumpf (InsideEVs)}

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: github.com/samhenrigold/LidAng…

Well, that was a "productive" Saturday evening! I needed to combine some smart home data and made a mistake by asking the #AI to suggest some approaches. After two hours of going down blind alleys and being misled by the AI with things like old or completely made-up API endpoints, I finally studied the documentation and realised it was not the right path. I then did some old-school thinking and searching, found an open-source library on GitHub that did exactly what I needed, and solved the problem in 20 minutes.

Open source vs AI: 1–0

The full name is Trump's Department of War Crimes

theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pe…

Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians

A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.

^{Nick Turse (The Intercept)}

Biscuit – Eclipse Biscuit is an authorization token with decentralized verification, offline attenuation and strong security policy enforcement based on a logic language

Has anyone of you ever used @biscuitauth and implemented it in a web project? Can you omit this or should I stick to standards or use other alternatives?

🍪 biscuitsec.org

#webdev #authorisation #decentralization #biscuit #biscuitsec #itsec #websec #rust #decentralized #webapp #webapi #dev #web #rustlang #oauth #jwt

Biscuit

^{www.biscuitsec.org}

Business news are crazy today (well, as usual)…

Anthropic has settled its lawsuit with authors for 1.5B$. Which is 50% of their actual annual revenues (although the amount still have to be validated by a juge, and might be higher).

It’s 3000$ per book they stole, and represent only a fraction of of the number of books they stole.

That they are ready to pay this amount of money tells a lot.

Imagine if before every journey you had to give 48 hours notice to do it. That's the reality for disabled people across many countries. Wanna take a train? Gotta book the assistance 24-48 hours in advance. Relative gone into hospital and you need to go see them? Tough, should have planned in advance.

This is why I am so vocal about level access trains and working lifts. If we design accessibility into our infrastructure, it becomes more useful to more people.

cupoftea.social/@moof/11515640…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps:

* WiFi Audio Streaming: stream audio over your local network, Android 2 Android and even desktop 🛡️
* Open Notes: a simple and intuitive note-taking app 🛡️
* BikeBridge: a companion for your e-bike and components 🛡️

And of course Neo Store now with integrated download stats 😃

RB status: 703 apps (53.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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}

Where Europe is dumping its problematic waste
correctiv.org/en/europe/2025/0…

Europe reveals that waste disposal companies from Germany, Austria and Italy continue to export old tyres and other waste – in some cases toxic – to the Czech Republic.

Over the past two decades, millions of tonnes of waste have been dumped in Mydlovary – including significant volumes from neighbouring Germany, a country championed for its waste separation and recycling systems. According to the managing director of one German waste disposal company, Mydlovary is ‘the biggest hole in Europe’ for rubbish dumping.

#europe #czech #garbage

Where Europe is dumping its problematic waste

How European companies dump old tyres and hazardous waste in the Czech Republic to cover radioactive sludge from the nuclear industry’s past

^{Marius Münstermann (CORRECTIV)}

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 :)