So now there’s official quote boosts on Mastodon I want to make it clear that the only valid use for this is “look at this great thing, here’s why I like it” and “I agree, here’s my yes-and”

Quote dunking is absolutely not allowed for anything; anyone doing that goes in the unfollow/block bin. Even if you’re right, you’re just boosting the reach of crap I don’t want to see, and dragging the tone down to those other places. Don’t do it.

Dear websites, please just stop with the AI chat bot rubbish. If I want to search through your published info for something, I'm probably better at it than your chatbot.

And when I close the chat and rate it "1 - Terrible"... Maybe don't respond with "Great! What went well?" Because that just reinforces why I don't want to use your crappy chat bot in the first place.....

I see a lot of reporting about the Louvre theft and that the French people are "relieved" that thieves got caught or that we feel "humiliated" that it happened in the first place.

Absolutely not. Nobody around me cares one bit about it. We care about the public service disappearing, we care about the rampant corruption in the political spheres, we care about the pensions they're trying to steal from us.

We're more than ready to trade stupid jewels for transparent democracy that works.

So I read that the 3 months it took to resolve the licence compliance issue is "unacceptable by Fedora" with strong implications that it should've been done faster and _immediately_. This is a bit sad that someone dug up another thing to criticise on.

Firstly, the fixes were deployed on most part within 1-1.5 month. The public announcement took longer due to various external factors like consulting lawyers. The date to drop EOL runtime and apps which didn't receive the fix is set in January 2026 because we wanted to give people enough time before dropping things left and right beneath their shoes.

Secondly, none of the changes I did was specifically "for Fedora". My motivation was to fix our own runtimes. I saw it as any other issue filed. So it probably doesn't matter to me whether it's acceptable or unacceptable to them. I don't really care.

Lastly, I'm not sure what is the expectation here but since everyone is a volunteer and we don't have an army (we barely have 5 or 6 people) working on this, large scale changes like this are going to take time and people just have to deal with it.

Adrian vovk and I iterated on how the licences should be installed multiple times over almost a month with several fixes and adjustments being done. We wanted to get the automation mostly correct and future-proof... so that we won't need to touch it every few days on a per element basis. That would've been just annoying to deal with.

This work was also exposed as a stable and public API by fdsdk which fdsdk's downstream junctions can depend on. Designing something that downstreams can depend on for the foreseeable future also takes time.

In parallel, at that time fdsdk was preparing for its yearly major release (25.08) that demanded a bunch of attention.

Then just backporting and rebuilding all branches of all the runtimes is going to take time as there is no unlimited supply of runners or infrastructure. Reviving EOL branches also takes significant time and effort.

These changes are huge as it involves rebuilding everything in the project. fdsdk for example takes close to 1200-1400 minutes for each rebuild.

Criticisms like this when the intention was to genuinely solve the issue properly and quickly and collaborate, leaves an odd sour taste.

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Two years ago we launched tuta.com 🥳

Here's why it's great:

⚡️️ Only 4 letters
⚡️️ Means "secure"
⚡️️ Brand name allows growth

Check out how the new domain helped Tuta become one of the most popular encrypted email providers! 💗 tuta.com/blog/two-years-tuta

NS has published the price list for 2026.
Interestingly, they charge (like in 2021) different surcharge for the first class during weekday (80 %) and weekends (40 %) in place of flat 70% surcharge.
This means that travelling first class in the weekend will get cheaper next year. That being said, the monthly surcharge for Weekend Vrij 1st class increases from € 10 to € 10,45. I fail to see the logic there.

ns.nl/klantenservice/betalen/t…

Auch heute leider wieder im Deutschlandfunk: „Das sogenannte Verbrennerverbot“. Nein, die Gegner einer Schadstofffreiheit nennen das so und ihr übernehmt Kampfbegriff.„Anders als Deutschland lehnen Frankreich und Spanien mehr Technologieoffenheit ab“. Nein, die EU-Verordnung ist maximal technologieoffen. Was die Verbrenner-Fans wollen: Ausnahmeregelungen für ihre veraltete Technologie, weil diese keine Schadstofffreiheit erreichen kann.

Sorry, aber Ihr müsst journalistisch sauberer arbeiten