Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache with after the next release (after today's 8.0.0, in March), per @bsdphk:

We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being offered a strictly limited, subject to their veto, permission for the FOSS project to use the “Varnish Cache” name.

We cannot live with that: We are independent FOSS project with our own name.

So we will change the name of the project.

The new association and the new project will be named “The Vinyl Cache Project”, and this release 8.0.0, will be the last under the “Varnish Cache” name. The next release, in March will be under the new name, and will include compatibility scripts, to make the transition as smooth as possible for everybody.

fosstodon.org/@bsdphk/11520890…

#VarnishCache #VinylCache

Here's our europick, featuring @Tutanota, @ecosia, @threemaapp, @nextcloud and @homeassistant!

You can create yours at europick.eu (thanks to our friends at @pixelunion), feel free to share below!

#europeanalternatives #europeantech #unplugtrump #unplugbigtech

As has been posted about a fair amount in recent days, and based at least partly on @micahflee's excellent reporting, I made the decision to break up with Proton. I'm moving to @Tutanota with as much speed as I can muster.

I wrote about my reasoning here: wrewtopia.com/read/2025-09-12

Breaking up with Proton

^{The Wrew: Core Dump}

If you think AI (chatbots) will solve anything I can tell you how many of the recruiting platform choked on the PDF of my resumé parsing the email address.... Ligatures, like they do not. That's something fixable.

So imagine dealing with a black box like a LLM chatbot.

We've got the latest updates on our Android and upcoming iOS apps! Take a sneak peak at the new Android account drawer, iOS account setup and upcoming monthly release schedule. Also, we explain why recent updates affected read/unread message readability and how we're fixing it in the short AND long term.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/m…

Mobile Progress Report - July/August 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

Mobile Progress Report is back with updates on the Android drawer and visual improvements, iOS mockups, and a new monthly release cadence

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}

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#OpenSource #Android #Sustainable @e_mydata @gael @rikviergever

Well done Channel 4. Now do Farage..

"More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

#Channel4 #Trump #Fascism
#UKPolitics

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

^{Michael Savage (The Guardian)}

Warum sind so viele wissenschaftliche Paper voller Fußnoten¹?

Na, ich habe das jetzt endlich rausgefunden: Die Artikel haben oft ein Seitenlimit, sagen wir mal 10 Seiten. Gesetzt wird mit dem Zeichensatz, den die Zeitung vorgibt. In der Regel muss man aber in einem Artikel so viel erklären, dass es nicht in die 10 Seiten passt. Also, was tun?

Footnotes come to rescue! Die sind in einem kleineren Zeichensatz mit kleinerem Zeilenabstand gesetzt. Also passt da maximal doppelt so viel Text auf eine Seite.

¹) Obwohl der Text in der Fußnote für das Verständnis nicht optional ist, sondern elementar wichtig!

Why Americans Don't Walk To School - youtube.com/watch?v=lShDhGn5e5…

this neighborhood he filmed looks so much like America-as-I-know-her that it hurts. When I was a child, I lived in a housing development, a separate loop from the main road, nothing but houses on both sides for the whole loop. Sounds safe for kids, right? I was utterly forbidden from crossing the street ever, for any reason. In the three years I lived there, two children I knew were flattened by cars. One was in a wheelchair for years, the other had permanent brain damage. And we were lucky to have a sidewalk the whole length of the loop - which would quickly disappear beyond its edge; walking anywhere else was impossible, it was an island in a sea of high-speed roads.

The next development we lived in, the school had a street-by-street map of who was and wasn't allowed to walk to school. It was in theory a 15 minute walk, but we were forbidden because 10 of that would be on a highway with absolutely no accommodations for walking alongside it. There was a secret path through the woods that some kids used. There was a shopping center about as far in the other direction with, again, absolutely no way to walk there (and no busses). I grew up trapped in lonely fortresses in a sea of concrete, and I am still not used to the freedom I have in Europe to just... go places and do things.

Why Americans Don't Walk to School Anymore

Come walk to school with me to find out why Americans don't do that anymore. Vlog channel https://youtube.com/EvanEdingerThank you so much for watching! Hope...

^YouTube

This meeting should have been a fistfight.

That would have made it a lot more interesting. It would also have accelerated the decision process.