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hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.

Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-…

TL;dr Google/Apple increasingly wield their world-wide #appcontrol in the political interests of various governments, and not in the interest of user security or privacy. The article lays out three areas of fighting back ...


Einen #Desktop #PC habe ich mir vor ein paar Jahren zusammengebaut. Vielleicht hatte ich keine glückliche Hand bei der Auswahl von #CPU, #RAM und #Motherboard und das Zusammenspiel ist nicht optimal?

Er läuft sehr gut - bis auf unvermittelte Totalabstürtze ohne Logeinträge, die mir weiterhelfen konnten.

Irgendwann stolperte ich über ein #Gnome AdOn zur leichten Ampassung der CPU Leistung. Nach der Begrenzung der max. Frequenz via Multimedia-Mode lief er stabil.

Unter #ubuntu 24 funktioniert das AdOn nicht mehr und ich habe mir nun ein Script eingerichtet, welches nach dem Start die max. Frequenz begrenzt:

for cpu in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*; do
    cpufreq-set -c "${cpu##*/cpu}" -u 4490000
done
Schrittweise habe ich die Frequenz von ca. 4,3 GHZ nach jedem Neustart erhöht, und habe so die Stufe herausbekommen, bis der er ohne Absturtz läuft.

Interessanteweise stürtze er nicht bei Operationen ab, bei denen man es erwartet hätte, z.B. der Transkodierung von #Video. Das letzte Mal rauschte er in die Tiefe, als ich lediglich mit #Firefox #GitHub aufgerufen hatte ... was auch immer da die Frequenz nach oben getrieben hat?

Es handlet sich um einen Intel® Core™ i7-9700. Dass ich die 4,7 GHz nicht zur Verfügung habe stört mich übrigens gar nicht. Jedenfalls bemerke ich keine langsamere Arbeitsumgebung durch die Begrenzung ... und Gnome ist offenbar seit den neuen Versionen stark optimiert worden, was die Geschwindigkeit angeht...

#Hardware #DIY #OpenSource


I usually use either #ChatGPT (for everyday tasks) or #Claude (for coding), but I found #GitHub #Copilot extremely useful when a CI job fails. There is a button that opens a menu, and one of the items is "Explain the error". It spawns a chat with a premade prompt, so no need to frentically sift through logs, first finding the failing job with a screen reader, then trying to find the error in question. It can be done of course, but afterwards, if Copilot's explanations are not good enough. #AI #AITip #Accessibility


#Catima 2.39.2's release on #GooglePlay has been delayed due to the regular incompetent review program blocking the update due to "lack of provided login credentials for testing".

I've filed an appeal, stating that Catima is fully offline and has no accounts. We will see.

If you're a Google Play user, to be honest, please just use Catima from #IzzyOnDroid, #GitHub or #FDroid. The more people not on Google Play, the less power Google has on blocking updates :)


#Catima 2.39.2 is out!

Sorry end-users, this is a very boring release for you, not a single new feature or visible change.

However, it does modernize the codebase a bit: a lot of Java code was rewritten to Kotlin to more closely follow modern Android guidelines. Catima is now almost 20% Kotlin :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay


I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs made with copilot".

Meanwhile, there's a grand total of zero requests for "plz put copilot in more stuff".

This should be significative of the attitude of veteran coders towards #LLM creep.


You can kind of tell that #github has started the migration to #Azure.



#Catima 2.39.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release targets Android 16 and fixes a crash. Sadly, Google removed support for controlling screen orientation, so this functionality had to be removed.

Catima now also includes ACRA in the FOSS release for crash reporting. If a crash occurs, a dialog will appear to ask you to report the crash. Reports are never sent automatically and you can always review it.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


#Rustlang people, how would you react if a project you use or contribute to migrated from #Github to #Codeberg?

Boosts welcome, let's collect some opinions.

  • I would only welcome such a move (81%, 52 votes)
  • It would be annoying but I'll live with it (7%, 5 votes)
  • I won't touch or interact with it any more (1%, 1 vote)
  • I could not care less (9%, 6 votes)
64 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago


We are pleased to announce we have rolled out a new, more intuitive issue template for reporting bugs or requesting features in NVDA. The form is still on GitHub & still requires the same information as previously, but now uses individual fields rather than one long edit box with comments. You can explore here (Note it IS live so if you submit an issue, it will be submitted as an actual issue): github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #GitHub #Accessibility #Issue #Bugs #BugTracker


#GitHub tip: go to your profile => settings => passwords and authentication and in there, make sure to disable SMS for 2FA as it might otherwise have remained enabled.


Recently we've been thinking about how we share code (and other design files) for our #OpenSource projects and products.

@amcewen has written about the flaws in centralized options like Github and Gitlab, and why self-hosting isn't the answer.

Maybe we need some #CodeCommons?

mcqn.com/posts/code,-sharing-a…

#OSHW #git #Github #commons #weeknotes


#Catima 2.38.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.

Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


#gitHub pull requests view has become atrociously inaccessible. that's such a pity I can't tell you.


I'd like a #GitHub feature that extracts/offers the text from images/screenshots (so that we can replace the images) to improve issues and bug reports where people ANNOYINGLY insist on using images for text.


Loudly shouting at #Microsoft to stop forcing "AI" on #GitHub users might lead to some sort of success. Until the next shiny thing comes along.

I took stock, understood what is really happening, that you are accepting to be locked in to a walled garden that you do not control.

So I silently packed up my stuff a while ago and moved to a place and community that accepts, respects and defends my freedom. My repos have moved to #codeberg, I am running my own #forgejo instance and build runners.


#Catima 2.37.0 is out!

This release features a redesigned logo, kindly contributed by il-Luca (github.com/il-Luca) and Aeven-Dev (github.com/aeven-dev).

The redesign was kept very close to the original design from TangentFoxy (github.com/TangentFoxy), to try to not affect people's ability to recognize the app in their app drawer.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #Fdroid #GooglePlay




Just moved al my #git repos from #GitHub to my own #Forgejo instance.
I did complete setup with #sso (single sign on) using #KeyCloak and with in-docker runner.

Up until today's morning I was going to install gitlab, but I was persuaded by being presented as lightweight, fully selfhostable, 100% open and with federating features on the way.

Looking forward to try some federation stuff.
git.skorpil.cz/explore/repos


We should now all leave #github for #codeberg. Codeberg is free, open source and works great!

Lets go! Leave fascist colaborators behind!


Last week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO says embrace AI or leave the profession."

This week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO is leaving."

Next week, "Oh no, GitHub..."

Let's channel this angst into a more productive alternative: join.codeberg.org/

#Codeberg #GitHub


#Catima 2.36.0 is out!

In this release we added a card list widget, one of the most requested features since the project was started!

We hope to extend the widget in the future to allow you to choose which cards you want to show and how you want them sorted.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay #OpenSource #Android


I am having a consistent problem where I am unable to clone everything from this repository into my local machine. Every time I clone using the command line, none of the documentation shows up. only one folder seems to show up and that appears to be the GitHub folder. Does anyone know what the cause of this could possibly be and how to rectify the issue? github.com/buttondown/docs #OpenSource #Git #GitHub #CLI


100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️

Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!

Very cool :)


#curl survey 2025 respondents are not fans of #GitHub, but also not terribly against it...

(piece of the full analysis that I'm working on)


In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot.

Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization.

Could we please just fucking not ?! Not even mentioning the fact that the Github organization didn't enabled this, there is no data policy to be found in sight. I have no clue what Copilot does with the data after it "reviewed" the code and I could potentially be breaking the signed NDA.

#AI #Github #Copilot


#Catima 2.35.1 is out! This is a very boring release, just containing some dependency and translation updates. It also adds 1 new community-contributed language: Persian.

If your favourite language is not (completely) supported, consider contributing on hosted.weblate.org/projects/ca… (no AI or "Google Translate" translations please, nobody is helped by low-quality translations filled with errors).

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


This will render #github completely useless. Time to move to alternatives like @Codeberg !



#Catima 2.35.0 is out!

This release lets you further tweak the barcode size in the fullscreen view and slightly improves barcode finding reliability when scanning or loading a barcode from an image or PDF file. It also fixes a crash when trying to load a pkpass file without a barcode in it.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Android #OpenSource #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub


In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle



Prompting GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility
github.blog/developer-skills/g…
#a11y #ai #github #copilot


Three years ago I got my second #GitHub contribution matrix in steel:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/04/09…

Yeps, those are the two i have. Nothing since.


#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay