Hey folks, so I’ve put it off as long as I could, but, sadly, my main machine is dying, so I need to raise some funds to replace it and some other old ass electronics that are on their last legs.

I tend to buy all refurbished stuff and it’s been a minute since I’ve upgraded my gear (I can’t install the latest anything on my current set up. Yeah, that OLD), so I can get what I need for around 3k.

The easiest way to contribute is to use the long term GoFundMe I have or my Kofi to make one offs. Either one is cool. I know most folks don’t like Paypal for obvious reasons, but if you want to use that, just send me a DM and I’ll give you that info.

In any event, thanks in advance for the help so I can continue development on my projects and working with others to push this independent social media thing forward.

It’s an exciting time in social media right now and I’m itching to do more, so it would be nice to have a computer that works when I need it to LOL!

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…
ko-fi.com/are0h

Support Ro

^Ko-fi

What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…

VIDEO: Conversation View

We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Hey, you like samples? Here's a free (well, pay-what-you-want) small pack I made a few years ago that'll let you infuse a little Ether vibe into your work!

etherdiver.gumroad.com/l/IdpCA…

If you want to throw me a few $$$ for this, use my ko-fi to pay (ko-fi.com/etherdiver), not gumroad. Their payout system sucks. Just DL the pack for free from Gumroad and then ko-fi me a few $$$ if you want to.

Ether Diver Sample Lab One

A sampling of the sample library of the Ether Diver. No melodies, no drum loops and very few recognizable tones, but plenty of grit, distortion, saturation and glitch. Uncomfortable atmospheres, grinding buzzes and otherworldly weirdness to spare.

^Gumroad

"It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your night sky and, clearly, breaking into pieces. That’s if you haven’t seen such a thing already. There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day, according to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. His acclaimed website Jonathan’s Space Report is widely regarded as the definitive source on spacecraft that go up … and come down. When we asked him about the deluge of Starlink satellite breakups that have recently been flooding social media, he pointed us to his graph showing Starlink reentries over time.

There are more than 8,000 Starlink satellites overhead at this moment. They’re a product of the space transportation company SpaceX. And that number is growing. Plus there are other companies and countries also deploying more and more satellites, adding to the number of satellites in Earth orbit. Many of these are in low-Earth orbits, which extend up to an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 km) above our planet. And the lifespan of low-Earth orbit satellites, such as Starlink, is only about 5 to 7 years. Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day."

earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-…

#StarLink #Satellites #SpaceTrash #Musk #China

Help us get through these difficult days

We never imagined to live tough days like these days. We never imagined to lose our home and live in a tent. We never imagined to live all the day trying only to survive. We never imagined to ask for help. Asking for help is the most difficult thing I ever lived, but I have no options.

In the previous four months, your donations made a real difference to our life.

We still need your help. Please donate and share 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…

#gaza

Urgent help for Ahmed's family

"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.

^Chuffed

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This is why they call them comics.

#Batman

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo today brought you 19 updated apps (1 update had to be rolled back: Melotune added a load of proprietary libs) – while our gardener removed 7 no longer maintained and rarely downloaded apps:

- Expenses: the budget app was not updated since 2018, and had no installs recently
- Viscerion: the Wireguard client was declared EOL in 2020
- Translation Recorder wasn't updated since 2019, and declared deprecated in 2023

(1/2)

#IzzyOnDroid

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}

lmao

-5K challenge (5 km run)

Automatic translation?

-Défi de 5000$

In the future, everyone will be French Prime Minister for 15 minutes....

lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2…

French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet

The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.

^{Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)}

my mother died four years ago, and her cel phone has been sitting, locked, on my dresser ever since. i made four bad pin attempts at it years ago then decided not to push my luck any further.

this morning, while making coffee, it suddenly dawned on me what it would be and, behold, it was.

here is the lesson: write down your important passwords. put them in a sealed envelope and give them to someone you trust, or the executor of your will or your lawyer. do it today.

If any developer of any software I use to write/review code announced they were going to put logic in that software to extract/send/train on my code - **even if it was opt-in/disabled by default** - that software would be uninstalled and that developer blacklisted from any system I had any control over for the rest of time.

Without hesitation or delay. Even with the best of intentions and security practice I could simply never trust that piece of software again.

Hello Masto-peeps who use screen readers!

I just learned that I need to put alt text on URLs for more accessible PDFs, but -- what should it say?

I am formatting academic citations that include a URL, so all the information about where that link will take you is in the text. I don't want it to read the URL to you and I don't want to just repeat the same information you just heard. What do you find most helpful in this situation?

Pls boost for reach!

#accessibility #AltText #ScreenReader

Anyone using the Blade Player for Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/v.bla…

It wasn't updated since 12/2023, but still sees more than 100 installs per month here. In its issue tracker, there are reports of crashes, and Spotify being broken. Does it still work for you? Or should we rather remove it?

EDIT: as it seems entirely broken, it has now been removed. Thanks to all who checked!

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

„Blade Player“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

music player that plays from local library, Spotify, Deezer or SoundCloud

^{IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser}