it is no longer cybersecurity awareness month.
you are hereby ordered to stop being aware of cybersecurity.
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!
FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).
This uses FreeBSD jails to implement container isolation.GitHub
Alright. Restored my Time Machine backup to the new Mac Mini. It took HOURS. It was insane.
Installed and configured Bacula on it instead, just told it to backup /Users because that's all I really care about, and it ran in 90 seconds backing up 12GB (I'd already cleaned out tens of gigs of junk)
Tested restoring a couple files from the Mac to my FreeBSD laptop, and poof they appeared like magic whereas when they're in Time Machine it's impossible to read them out without a Mac
| bacula.i.feld.me JobId 1473: Elapsed time=00:01:30, Transfer rate=138.4 M Bytes/second |
That small joy when you unexpectedly come across a public bookcase that isn’t yet mapped in #OpenStreetMap .It's like a tiny treasure hunt for mappers 📚🗺️
With a few taps in an app, it’s now part of the OpenStreetMap database. The free global map of public bookcases just got a little bit better.
#OSM #PublicBookcase #Mapping #OpenData #Books
The self hoster's paradox...
Everything working well: "I'm bored, there's nothing to play with 🥱"
Something breaks: "This is not how I want to spend my Sunday night, why do I do this 😭"
#selfhosting #fediadmin #homelab
Michael J. Fox's real middle name is Andrew, but he didn't like "Michael A. Fox" as a stage name. By SAG rules, he had to use a name other than "Michael Fox" because there was already an actor with that name, so he just stuck a J in the middle.
In his hit movie "Back to the Future", his character's father, George, says he has to get home so he doesn't miss his favorite TV program, "Science Fiction Theatre". "Science Fiction Theatre" had only 8 episodes. Four starred the original Michael Fox!
Because of the complexity of its pronouns, the Vietnamese translation adds an extra layer of depth to the otherwise shallow dialogue of the Star Wars original trilogy, which I watched on TV in Vietnam.
People speak to droids with the pronouns used to speak to pets or farm animals. Droids address people as professional superiors.
Droids speak to each other like they are siblings.
Vader speaks to everyone (except the emperor and Tarkin) as an arrogant superior addressing an underling.
How does software deal with this?
In polish, translating a notification like "{username} has just sent you ${amount}" is problematic, because "sent" translates differently based on whether {username} refers to a male or a female, and that information might not be available.
@miki In Vietnamese, verbs don't conjugate. Tense, aspect, and other things are expressed by adding other words to the verb. It's sort of like how English indicates the future tense by adding "will" to the present tense. Vietnamese indicates all tenses by adding other words. Complex tenses can be formed by combining multiple tense words.
There are "friendly, but impersonal" pronouns used before getting to know more details about someone. Most software would address the user that way.
Damn, my stream's like two and a half minutes behind or something.
“pure css” is not a feature.
“no javascript” is not an aspiration.
Sure, I could turn a screw with a kitchen knife, or hammer a nail with a felling axe, but the whole point of tools is that they’re designed to do the thing they do.
@delta@chaos.social desktop Linux client installed from an official arch repo for some reason doesn't work on my Arch Linux with Wayland and Sway installed.
After the launching through wmenu nothing happens. When launching through a terminal emulator I got an error:
[28650:1101/162426.452376:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/x11/ozone_platform_x11.cc:250] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[28650:1101/162426.452426:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:257] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.deltachat-desktop --ozone-platform-hint=auto
You can also set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable globally or install Xwayland.
deltachat-desktop package does not do anything special, so it works like all other Electron apps:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayla…
If the default should be changed, it should be changed for Electron, not deltachat-desktop specifically.
Love LibreOffice? Join the project and help to make it even better – get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help th…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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We did it! 🎉 Tuta Mail won the Deutscher #FairnessPreis 2025 🥳❤️
In this nationwide survey, people were asked whether their email service:
✅ Listens to its users
✅ Offers good value for money
✅ Is reliable and trustworthy
This award shows that being ethical and fair can be a huge success and makes a great alternative. 🌱
Thank you! ❤️
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#EthicalTech #PrivacyMatters #EmailSecurity #TutaMail
We are proud to announce that Tuta Mail has won the “Deutscher Fairnesspreis” 2025 in the category “Green Email and Hosting Provider”!Tuta
@Tuta
Excellent news, and as a premium customer very happy to have migrated to you for my private emails
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.
You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.
None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.
A fabulously gay blind author.sightlessscribbles.com
Are there actually blind people who think vibe-coding a screen reader would be a good idea? The only post I've ever seen on that subject merely posed it as a hypothetical while being quick to note that it wouldn't be a good idea.
And of course, there's a difference between using an LLM to vibe-code a screen reader and engineering a screen reader that makes careful use of an LLM. It's too bad that what you described was clearly not the latter.
Umfrage zu Rechenzentren: Die Mehrheit folgt dem Hype nicht
netzpolitik.org/2025/umfrage-z…
Vielleicht sollte sich die Politik mit ihren Wünschen mehr an ihren Bürgern orientieren - und Prioritäten an Bedarf und Sinnhaftigkeit statt Hype?
Die Bundesregierung will Deutschland zurnetzpolitik.org
Öffi NG - The emperor of the public transit tangle! Solving the mother of Gordian knots. - santawho/oeffi-ngGitHub
@chris_ theoretisch ja. Praktisch würden wir vorher gern wissen, woraus die APK erstellt wird – da scheint es im Repo zwei Bäume zu geben. An der Basis fehlt die gradle-wrapper Konfiguration. Die gibt es zwar im androidstudio Verzeichnis, aber dort ist wiederum kein Code. Außerdem finde ich im Repo auch keine Metadaten (Beschreibung, Screenshots etc.).
Wenn die Punkte gelöst sind, schauen wir uns das gern nochmal an.
#OpenAlt2025 was the first conference I took my six-year-old daughter to. She really enjoyed it. She wasn't interested in the talks, but she loved the swag at the booths. She'll grow into them, though. You have to start early to raise a new generation of open-source enthusiasts. 🙂
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#223 Spooky Updates
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
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Something to brighten your weekend maybe.
Particularly yesterday I did see a lot of anger about the fact that some people cannot get access to the new JAWS feature, Page Explorer. This provides guidance in terms of how to navigate a page with JAWS, and it can be used to summarise the content and ask questions.
I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.
Anyone who has been trained by me through the use of my AI training courses will have known about this for quite a while. But if you use Microsoft Edge, there is a feature called, Summarise with CoPilot.
If you focus upon a piece of static text on a page, not a link, you can activate the Context Menu and select Summarise with CoPilot.
Within a few seconds, that will summarise the page for you. You can then ask questions about that content if you wanted to.
A question that may be asked is:
Describe some good strategies I can use when navigating this page with JAWS for Windows, or whatever your screen-reader of choice is.
You type it into the edit field and press Enter.
You could submit other prompts such as, describe the images on this page. Describe if the device has any buttons and provide the button layout from left to right.
The primary advantage here is that it is very fast and will display the summary or answers to questions in a few seconds with well-structured heading navigation. Start at the bottom of the page and work up with Shift+H.
The disadvantage of course is that it's not going to give you guidance on screen-reader strategies unless you ask it, and the guidance may not be of the quality given by Page Explorer, because that has been coached to do a very specific job.
But you may not want guidance anyway. You may want to go straight to the summary. Take the case of a page on Audible. If you activate Summarise with CoPilot on a book title page, it is going to give you the relevant points including a book summary and similar books.
So if you don't have Page Explorer, there are other choices. As I say, it's good at what it does but it's not the only option. You could even ask an AI tool such as ChatGPT to summarise a page for you if the prompt was well constructed, but that approach does have some significant limitations. It would not for example work on all pages.
Flux Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces? If so, Flux was made for you. Flux brings your audio and media experieIMS Productions
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So if anyone is interested, I just announced the categories for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge :)
It's a nonfiction reading challenge that has been running for 11 years. This year, long-time participants have submitted topics, and the final list was decided by random draw.
And for the first time, in 2026 you can find and join the challenge on StoryGraph too:
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_…
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in reply to Matthew J • • •If she can afford Apple, those will last. Mine from late 2020 (bought early 2021) still feels fine on almost all fronts, despite heavy daily use.
Not sure what her needs are and what her technical sophistication is, but those have an added advantage of being much harder to infect with malware (due to a smaller amount of users if nothing else.)
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in reply to Matthew J • • •🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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