I changed a lightbulb today!

And this makes me happy to be living in the future, because I think the last time I did this was 3-4 years ago.

When I was growing up, replacing bulbs was something that we did at least once a week.

When I moved into a shared house as a student, we were replacing at least one bulb a month. Around then, CFL subsidies came in and the cost of a CFL dropped to about the same price as one month's power consumption for an incandescent bulb, so we replaced all of them, and then didn't change a single bulb for the next two years I was in that house. The next house (which I lived in for around 5 years) also used CFLs and they would gradually have lower peak brightness so would get moved around to places that didn't need as much light.

We have LEDs here now, and they don't seem to fade. I think this is the first one to fail in 8 years (we did bring some older CFLs, which gradually died and were replaced). I'll see if this is a pattern (do they all fail after 8ish years, or was this an outlier?).

This entry was edited (3 days ago)

reshared this

Hello everyone!

Here's version 0.20.2 of #GoToSocial; it's another bugfix release!

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0 or v0.20.1, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.2 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

Release highlights:

  • Roll back to using name property instead of summary for alt text (for now anyway), due to compatibility issues with *oma, *key, and Iceshrimp.
  • Stub authorize_interaction to avoid surprising 404 when trying to do a remote interaction.
  • Fix issue that was causing emojis not to download properly.
  • Add optional build tags for reduced binary size.
  • Fix some swagger docs issues.
  • Various other fixes + performance tweaks.
  • Dependency bumps.

Thanks for reading! Have a good week!

🇪🇺 Unter dem Dach der #HeinleinGruppe haben wir gemeinsam mit unseren Schwestermarken @heinleinsupport, @OpenTalkMeeting und @OpenCloud sowie führenden Open-Source-Verbänden und -Unternehmen aus Europa die „Declaration of Digital Independence“ unterzeichnet.

Digitale Unabhängigkeit ist bereits heute möglich. Mehr dazu: heinlein.group/heinlein-gruppe…

#DigitaleSouveränität

This entry was edited (3 days ago)

Wow, just wow.

If only the security team at the Louvre had read the Tuta blog.
➡️ tuta.com/blog/best-password-ma…

uspol

Sensitive content

in reply to Brandon Cross

uspol

Sensitive content

We just released our biggest (and most beautiful) update ever. The new version fully embraces Liquid Glass and comes with a ton of enhancements, fixes and meaningful changes.

The update is available now, and it’s so big that we couldn’t fit all the fixes and changes into the App Store’s text field. You can still find the full release notes on our website:

ulysses.app/release-notes/

Oh, and it’s really beautiful. Happy release day, everybody!

reshared this

If you, as an Android user, happen to have Airpods lurking around, a free Android app now lets your AirPods Pro play nice with Android phones by unlocking access to iOS-specific settings:
androidauthority.com/apple-air…

reshared this

Do you prefer a CLI over a GUI? With the hcloud CLI you can provision and manage not only Hetzner Cloud resources like servers, volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, but also our Storage Boxes, subaccounts and snapshots. It’s script-friendly (JSON output & stable exit codes), supports auto-completion, and ships as a Docker image for CI/CD.

github.com/hetznercloud/cli

Over the past year, I’ve really gotten into watching PDC Darts tournaments from the UK. The Grand Slam of Darts just wrapped up, and I had a blast watching all the matches this week. Thrilled to see Luke Littler take the title for the second year in a row—so impressive, especially at just 18. Looking forward to the Players Championship Finals next week and the World Championship next month!
#PDC #Darts #GrandSlamOfDarts
in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub
Intuit falls in the “non-predatory” category?

Their whole business model relies on lobbying to prevent the US government from setting up a free alternative to their services

Like most countries in Europe have for instance

Their for-profit “tax advice” service is totally parasitic and could disappear in an instant if the IRS just sent everyone the filled out forms They Already Have, like every civilized country

I didn’t ditch Mailchimp last mailing because I was too lazy

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

codeberg.org/bogomil/FOSSArt

#Foss

I genuinely love software, when it works. I've just configured some stuff in order to scrobble music I listen to basically everywhere, Windows Browser, Windows Foobar, any app on Android, and Spotify to last.fm again.

Also will use some cli programs to transfer my Spotify playlists over to Tidal to then download that music in best quality flac. It's monday but I finally feel a bit competent and productive again.

Excited to announce #IzzyOnDroid will be at #FOSDEM! Our stand request got approved! fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-1…

We'll be sharing a stand with @shiftphones and @BlissLabs, showing just what a great experience our little corner of #Android can be.

Repairable devices, a FOSS #AOSP ROM and an "app store" (or repository if you prefer) for all the privacy and user respecting apps you could want to run on it :)

Of course the teamwork doesn't end there, we'll love to tell you more at the stand :)

This entry was edited (3 days ago)

IzzyOnDroid ✅ reshared this.

Guiding organizations in adopting, implementing, and transforming sustainable software practices across entire operations

greensoftware.foundation/artic…

#greensoftware #greensoftwarefoundation

The State of Django 2025, by @wsvincent.bsky.social (@jetbrains.com):

blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/202…

#surveys #metrics #django

🇪🇨 El pueblo ecuatoriano rechaza modificar su Constitución e instalar bases de EEUU.

Se refrendan así la Constitución y defensa de la soberanía nacional que hizo Revolución Ciudadana con el Gobierno de Rafael Correa.

¡Enhorabuena! 🎉👏🏻

lavanguardia.com/internacional…

Тоталитуризм :blobcateyes:

Как нам тут одно время рекламировали туры по Северной Корее, так и мы теоретически могли бы показать, как "весело" живётся в условиях, когда пол-интернета перебанено. А это вполне себе новые впечатления!

Вдохновлено тредом @a1ba: suya.place/objects/664d04d7-4d…

#словотворчество

¿Ya has podido explorar la base de datos con algoritmos y sistemas de IA en la sanidad pública que acabamos de publicar?

Es la primera vez que esta información está disponible, y además en un único buscador en el que puedes filtrar por comunidad autónoma, especialidad o naturaleza de su creación (pública, privada, mixta o desconocida).

Échale un vistazo para conocer qué algoritmos hay en la sanidad de tu comunidad y en qué fase de implantación están:

🔗 civio.es/sanidad/2025/11/06/al…

Thanks to WINE, Proton, and Valve's hardware, a significant milestone has been achieved with 90% of Windows games running on Linux, making nine out of ten Windows games accessible on a new Linux installation. Users are flocking to other platforms during the transition from the Windows 10 to 11 eras. Thank you Microsoft once again for enabling the age of Linux gaming, you are our biggest marketing partner 😉

boilingsteam.com/windows-games…

So, @anildash wrote an interesting reflection on "AI" and Firefox a few days ago: anildash.com/2025/11/14/wantin…

He argues that the number of people who want Mozilla to just stop with the AI development and focus on a more traditional browser is small (probably true) and that people are so used to using AI in their everyday lives that it's Firefox's/Mozilla's job to make that as secure and "less big tech dependy" as possible.

I think that's not an unreasonable argument. I do think that the actual question is more about _what Mozilla is for_ and not "AI" (or other tech hypes).

From my reading the people who don't want AI in Firefox are often AI critical, sure. But it's also about resources and narrative. The idea of Mozilla was to have something that would work for the good of the open web, that would fight for users through participating in standards development but that would also argue based on what is right. Mozilla's sales pitch was a moral one - at least that is how many in the community on Mastodon for example interpreted it.

So when Mozilla cuts down on policy work, cuts work on technologies like Servo or Rust that were supposed to materially improve the security of browsers and people online while setting a lot of developer hours on fire in order to integrate fundamentally insecure (and some would say fundamentally anti-"open web") systems "just because people use them", it feels like an organization having lost their mission or the drive to push their values.

I think "AI" is just the latest (and probably biggest) event that illustrates a sentiment that has been brewing for a while: That Mozilla's mission or goals have shifted in a way that their original supporters no longer feel aligned with.

This entry was edited (4 days ago)

reshared this

in reply to tante

Here's another project to add to the list for anyone who cares about the Fediverse.

Almost a year ago, Mozilla shut down its Mastodon instance: techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozi…

Mozilla /could/ have chosen to redirect its AI resources towards Fediverse projects.

That could have come in the form of development support for Fedi projects.

Just imagine what a project like Friendica or GtS or Lemmy could accomplish with even one or two full-time paid staff funded by Mozilla.

Mozilla /could/ have built user friendly client apps for Fediverse platforms.

Mozilla /could/ have built Fediverse-integrated features (bookmark sharing?) or plugins for Firefox.

Mozilla /could/ have offered managed Fediverse server hosting.

It chose not to.

in reply to tante

Ah the silent majority. I must have missed this survey of what #firefox users actually want? AFAICT they seem dead set against it, can't remember a single 'I am a firefox user and love the new AI stuff' toot. The number of firefox users has dwindled massively over the past few years, almost negligible now. I used to use firefox because they were very user focused, that and the alternative was IE lol. 🦊