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Und mal wieder möchte ich zur schulischen Barrierefreiheit sagen: Das Problem ist meiner Meinung nach nicht, dass wir keine Hilfsmittel oder Optionen zur Verfügung hätten. Ich beobachte meinen Unterricht und kenne inzwischen selbst Produkte, die so eine tolle Ergänzung wären, und es enttäuscht mich, dass ich diese nie verwenden konnte. Es setzt einfach nur ein bisschen Willenskraft, Planung, Kommunikation und Kompetenz voraus. Alles Dinge, die deutsche Schulen nicht haben. Schade.
\#Barrierefreiheit \#Schule
#barrierefreiheit #schule
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Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that.

But please remember, when the bubble bursts, it won't be those billionaires who suffer. It won't really be the buffoons. It'll be ordinary working class folk who happen to be employed by an organisation that will be hit. Doesn't even have to be an employer that works directly with AI. Could be a caterer whose biggest client is involved with the business. Could be a cleaning company that cleans offices for a business that supplies components that are used in data centres that host AI stuff. And so on.

Remember 2008, 2009. We all know whose fault that crash was, and we all know who suffered most as a result, and those two groups were quite separate.

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Der @sovtechfund hat einen nicht so ganz souveränen Cloudflare Error.

#digitalesouveränität ist schwer

Und bevor sich alle aufregen. Ich blicke gerade in meine digital souveränen Google Kalender.

Tipps? Irgendwas beyond

xda-developers.com/self-hosted…

Muss sich einfach syncen lassen.

Screenshot von https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/head-of-sovereign-tech-fund zeigt eine Cloudflare Fehlermeldung "Cloudflare Error"

4 self-hosted Google Calendar replacements I tried and recommend using instead

If you're looking to de-Google your life, these self-hosted calendar servers are great options that give you full control of your data.
João Carrasqueira (XDA)
#digitalesouveranitat @Sovereign Tech Agency

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While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

#cloudflare #freebsd #deltachat #chatmail @feld
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Sixteen Ramos has a an article out on Agenic Commerce, worth a read if you're interested in digital commerce.

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Staying Competitive in a Generative Search World As generative AI continues to change the way people search, shop, and decide, brands must shift their focus from optimizing for algorithms to optimizing for answers. Structured data, conversational context, and clear brand integration are now essential components of visibility in the digital marketplace. At the same time, concerns are growing about gatekeeping by major AI platforms. With a handful of models mediating discovery, questions arise about fairness, access, and who gets visibility in an AI-curated ecosystem. Adapting to the generative search era isn’t just a technological upgrade; it’s a strategic necessity. To remain visible and competitive, brands must ensure their data speaks fluently to both humans and machines, positioning themselves within the evolving landscape of conversational commerce.

From Search to Conversation: How Generative AI Is Crafting E-Commerce Experience - Boss Today

Generative AI is literally changing the whole process of online search and discovery, curating a new experience that experts are calling generative search. In
Sixteen Ramos (Miami Weekly)

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systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc

Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option...
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systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc

www.phoronix.com
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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

@fossdd I don't think people realize that 1. distributions have the last say over any dependency, including whether they should package something or not, which completely disqualifies any accusations of attempts to force people to use systemd; and 2. systemd isn't some project managed by a single company: it's comprised of individuals from different organizations.

@ska

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Laurent Bercot

@TheEvilSkeleton @fossdd Oh, distributions have a choice. They make policy decisions all the time. They choose what to include, and what not to include, all the time, and it's a perfectly conscious choice. Not always an easy one, but a choice nonetheless.

Distributions are not powerless. As the entities actually providing software to the majority of users, they hold a pretty good amount of power. And if Red Hat, at the time, was not pushing systemd with all their might, I don't know how you would call what they were doing.

The fact that systemd is developed by a group of individuals from different organizations does not change the end output. I did not describe intent, but practical behaviour, and when faced with that behaviour, intent really does not matter.

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Should you wonder about the number of apps available in the #IzzyOnDroid repo slightly decreasing with the next sync: your gardeners were quite active again. Find details at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… – and be welcome to join the Cinderella, there are still many items left on the list!

Some other good news: after 6 years, Metrodroid (the app to read public transport NFC smartcards) finally received another update, which will go live here with the next sync around 7 pm UTC.


metadata reorg subtask: deciding about miscellaneous dormant apps

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps: * [x] [`ahmaabdo.readify.rss`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ahmaabdo.readify.
Codeberg.org
#izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@voks Be welcome to write one then 😉 You could diff the indexes for that. Hint: both, IzzyOnDroid as well as F-Droid use a binary transparency log such an app could parse for this.

You could of course also open issues at the fdroid clients' repos, to include such a functionality. Clients know what apps you've installed from which repo, and could watch for such removals when pulling index updates. That would be the best place to address this.

@Markus Henn

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GrapheneOS version 2025111800 released

Following our experimental releases, this is our first non-experimental release based on Android 16 QPR1, the first quarterly release of Android 16. Android 16 QPR1 was pushed to the Android Open Source Project on November 11 rather than September 3 as expected. This is a very large quarterly release with more prominent user-facing improvements than Android 16 provided compared to Android 15 QPR2.

Tags:

  • 2025111800 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025110800 release:

  • rebased onto BP3A.250905.014 Android Open Source Project release (Android 16 QPR1)
  • Terminal (virtual machine management app): re-enable GUI support now that the surfaceflinger crashes are resolved upstream by Android 16 QPR1
  • adevtool: massive overhaul entirely replacing the small remnants of the Pixel device trees to fix several regressions introduced since Android 16 such as charging mode booting into the regular OS and to prepare for adding 10th gen Pixel devices via automated device support without any need for device trees to use as a reference
  • adevtool: switch to obtaining Android 16 QPR1 backports from the latest November releases for relevant Pixels (there are no security patches listed for the Android or Pixel bulletins and not all Pixels received the tiny release)
  • kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
  • raise declared patch level to 2025-11-05 which has already been provided in GrapheneOS since our regular 2025090200 release (not a security preview) since the patches were included in the September security preview and were then pushed to AOSP despite not being listed in the bulletin along with there being no Pixel Update Bulletin patches for November 2025
  • Vanadium: update to version 142.0.7444.158.0

Creating a security preview release on top of the new Android 16 QPR1 release is still in progress and will be available soon. For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.


GrapheneOS security preview releases - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#grapheneos

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So... @fedora has made a policy explicitly allowing AI code. So I have to change my home distro.

@gentoo and @netbsd both have specific policies against it, but I ain't about doing a Gentoo install (sorry, guys, I love you for this, but I need a binary first distro), and NetBSD ain't great for gaming AFAIK.

So... any other Distros wanna step up and do the right thing? @archlinux? @opensuse? @debian? #VoidLinux? @alpinelinux?

Just a public statement that says "No, we don't want that crap" would be plenty --- I understand the difficulty of enforcing the policy, but setting it as a community/commit standard would go a long way towards making a lot of us feel better.

(Boost for visibility, please?)

#AI #Linux #Distro #BSD

#linux #bsd #AI #distro #voidlinux @Debian @openSUSE Linux @Gentoo @Arch Linux @NetBSD Foundation 🚩 @Alpine Linux @Fedora Project (F43 is OUT)

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Vielen meiner Schüler:innen geht es einfach dreckig. Wir reden hier über so wenig Geld, dass sie sich keinen neuen USB Stick oder Stift leisten können. So wenig Geld, dass sie sich zu Hause oft nicht trauen zu fragen, ob sie sich was für die Schule kaufen können.

Wie kann Lernen funktionieren, wenn ich als Kind Angst habe zu Hause nicht genug Essen zu bekommen?

Kommt in der gymnasial geprägten Bildungsdebatte thematisch leider noch nicht so oft vor. tagesschau.de/inland/armutsgef…


Mehr als jedes siebte Kind in Deutschland laut Statistischem Bundesamt armutsgefährdet

Ein kaputtes Bett kann nicht ersetzt werden, Kino ist nicht drin, ein Urlaub auch nicht. 2,2 Millionen Kinder und Jugendliche in Deutschland sind armutsgefährdet. Ein Risikofaktor: Ein niedriger Bildungsabschluss der Eltern.
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Quite the gap between theory and practice: while German federal states, armed forces and French gendarmerie rely on #OpenSource because they have understood that #digitalSovereignty is only achievable with open technology, the closing declaration for tomorrow‘s #DigitalSummit treats OS like a hobby. 1/4
#opensource #digitalsovereignty #digitalsummit

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Today I had to compose an email in Outlook. I did this on macOS, running whatever-the-one-before-Tahoe-is.

It was basically unusable. The constant autocorrect and text prediction were nothing short of horrendous. I was writing technical stuff and it changed it every. fucking. time.

And distracting! So distracting.

I finally found the settings to turn it all off. (System Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Sources, and the Edit menu in Outlook.) It had better fucking stay that way.

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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Featuring @deconspray, @aardrian, @LFLegal, @SteveFaulkner, @TPGi, @a11ytalks, @db, @brucelawson, @pxlnv, @mgifford, and more.

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
www.d.umn.edu
@Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Pixel Envy @Steve Faulkner @Lainey Feingold @Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @A11yTalks @deconspray @TPGi, a Vispero Company @David Bushell 📅

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Socialize the costs, privatize the gains.

It's apparently our fault that LTS distros ship extremely outdated versions of GNOME that may have bugs when interacting with actually up to date applications.

Nobody ever **demands** the distributions fix their shit, it's always GNOME that **has** to support LTS distributions. For free none the less.

Fuck this. Fuck this attitude.

Gitlab comment reading: "So, the GNOME 49 runtime introduces a bug like this for every Flatpak application on LTS distros and you're just ok with that?"
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Delta Chat

recently delta chat introduced metadata protection regarding the "Date" header that is visible to providers but it seems some providers don't like the variance. So we will reduce the variance in the next releases. Note that chatmail relays (chatmail.at/relays) do not have this issue.

Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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@Eugen Rochko
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Felix Hlatky

My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators in the Fediverse. I’m thrilled to have @haubles as Community Director and @renchap as Technical Director on my side in making this vision a reality.
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@Renaud Chaput @hannah aubry
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Felix Hlatky

My personal heroes and projects I admire are @signalapp @Mer__edith @torproject @gnome @thunderbird @ryanleesipes . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter.
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@Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 @The Tor Project @GNOME @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Signal @Meredith Whittaker

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Felix Hlatky

I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like @cwebber @evan (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like @dansup bringing photo & video to it, new projects like @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @saskia @bonfire @ivan @mayel orgs like @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and @rileytestut @altstore for trying out completely new things.
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@Matthias Pfefferle @dansup @Bonfire @Riley Testut @Evan Prodromou @AltStore @Flipboard @Mike McCue @Christine Lemmer-Webber @John O'Nolan @Ghost @ivan @ActivityPub for WordPress @Mayel @Newsmast Foundation @Michael Foster @Freddie Johnson @Saskia
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Felix Hlatky

Thanks to amazing people like
@jaz @iftas @swf @mallory @bjoernsta @j12t we can see through topics larger than us related to policy, regulation, protocol development as well as how to deal with spam attacks, how to design a safer product for everyone, and how to deal with occasional interpersonal conflicts in our beautiful part of the internet.
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@jaz @Mallory Knodel @IFTAS @Björn Staschen @Johannes Ernst @Social Web Foundation
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Felix Hlatky

I want to send my heartfelt thanks @karienbez @alshafei for their wisdom and emotional support during this crazy journey so far, to @codinghorror @biz for your visionary strategic & financial support without which this restructuring would not have been possible, and to the team of Paul Hastings for your pro-bono legal advice.
(9/13)
@Biz Stone @Jeff Atwood @Esra'a @karienbez
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Felix Hlatky

Thanks @Gargron for allowing us to do this the pure non-profit and FOSS way by saying no to earlier offers, some of which would have given you more than 10x the payout. I have been inspired by your vision about this project from the moment I met you 5+ years ago. It takes a lot of courage and greatness to let this project go. Super excited for continuing to work with you!
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@Eugen Rochko
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Felix Hlatky

But Mastodon wouldn’t be where it is without so many more people than Eugen. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to work with the best team we’ve ever had. Each one of you brings so much value to the Mastodon project and I want to thank you for making our mission your day job while you could certainly earn double or triple at one of our for-profit competitors.
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Felix Hlatky

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona…
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Donate to Mastodon

Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!
joinmastodon.org

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Luxchat, the Matrix-based instant messaging solution for the public and private sectors, is holding a Hackathon during the Luxembourg Internet Days 2025. We're shipping our guardian Matthew Hodgson there to contribute!

📆 November 18 & 19
📌 Chambre de Commerce (salle F01), Luxembourg

Come and say hi if you're around!

digitalskills.lu/fr/event/matr…

« MATRIX meets Luxchat » – Hackathon – Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Luxembourg

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One thing that frustrates me about Mastodon is that you can do everything, engage with different people over different servers, have awesome, caring instance admins, etc. But still, half the data you can fetch is literally months outdated or incomplete. I see accounts in follower lists which instances are dead since God knows how long. From the 40 followers someone has, my client only displays 2. I love the concept and all that, but it is so unpredictable, not to say unstable, but I don't know a better word to describe it. And it's not my instance, I've tried on 2 different instances, with different profiles, some on the instance itself, some not.
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Adam MacLeod

I totally agree with your observations about how Mastodon seems qerky in a lot of ways. Some rather fundamental. I definitely have noticed inconsisitencies of data fetched at any given time.
Fortunately, The latest FetchAllReplies framework they have released in 4.5 will hopefully start to resolve a lot of this inconsistent state stuff.
It will be actively making connections and fetches of data from any remote instances mentioned in any given post as it is requested via the API or the web interface.
It will add some performance penalty to the transaction, as well as potentially require larger instance admins to scale their resources differently, or in some cases reevaluate their entire resource distribution plan and rework. But from a user perspective, it will transparently appear that all posts and threads are consistent, no matter what instance they have been requested from.

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Dieses Signal bashing geht mir langsam auf den Sack. Wenn die Leute doch meinen das mit einem dezentralisierten Protokoll wie XMPP oder Matrix ALLES in Sachen Instant Messaging besser wird und die Leute hinter Signal einfach nur blöd sind weil Sie Dienste wie AWS und Co benutzen, dann sollen Sie doch einfach aufhören Signal zu nutzen.
Versteht mich nicht falsch, ich finde Dezentralisierung super. Das heißt aber nicht das man auf andere die dieses Konzept nicht nutzen dauernd rumhacken muss.

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Let me be cheeky and preempt @pid_eins's systemd 259 posts:

In systemd 259, I'm making it possible to run commands that need privileges as your current user instead of as root. With "run0 --empower", you'll get a session as your current user in which you can do anything that root would be able to do, without actually being root.

This is very useful when you need to run something with privileges but still want all created files and directories to be owned by your current user.

#systemd259

#systemd259 @Lennart Poettering
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Today is seven years ago since I quit #Mozilla: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/11/18…

I’m leaving Mozilla

It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet…
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