Was having a problem with #openBSD -current where @thunderbird would cause the system to slow down before crashing the UI completely. I would have to SSH in from another box and reboot and this would take a while.
Seems that problem is now fixed. I’ve had Thunderbird running for two days with no issues.
Although - whenever I think I’m out of the woods….
Having said all this I still prefer #foss to being locked in with no privacy and having my data sold and being used to train LLM’s.
Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!
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Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who make the backbone of knowledge on the internet what it is today.Wikimedia Foundation
It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.
There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….
Wikipedia needs more women is our call for people like you to edit women’s stories, histories, and contexts onto Wikipedia.Wikimedia Foundation
There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
Non-binary isn’t a legally recognised gender in the UK. We urge the Government to legally recognise non-binary as a gender and people who identify as non-binary in the UK. This proposal would include an X marker on UK passports for non-binary people.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!
Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.
Check out the blog post at forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v1…
@Gusted yepp, that's what I meant: much more intuitive now. That's what makes it so easy to find one's own issues at Github (which for someone like me, is crucial, as one cannot have thousands of apps' issues in a tiny brain like mine).
It's wonderful, and will help (not only) us a lot! 🤗
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This is a fascinating game about a person becoming newly blind. It uses both visuals and audio to represent blindness, and has some very unique aspects to t...YouTube
This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....
The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.
The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
This is important to me. The Freedom Pass should be available to pensioners on all modes of transport in the UK.
I signed the petition:
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?Philip Clayton (Change.org)
Lamo. This shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible.
Normal links are too trustworthy. Make them creepy.
RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…
This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!
It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.
And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.
Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.
What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line…SourceForge
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