This holiday season I'd like to make someone I think is very important a bit of joy, however I need your help with it.

National bank of slovakia is issuing so called commemorative and collector euro 2 coins to celebrate historic memories, anniversaries and other special events. A friend of mine is collecting these coins with her dad whenever it's possible.

I have found out this is not specific to our country as european central bank has standardised this process and all the countries that have accepted euro can issue such commemorative coins.

Now the part I'd need some help with.

Can you please check with the national bank where you live if you can acquire some of the commemorative euro 2 coins, make me an offer and send these to me through ordinary post / mail service please?

Thanks for your understanding and possible help you can provide. #fediHelp #fediPower #boostsWelcome

#AskFedi: Do any of you know of acceptable #EyeTracking solutions using just plain old cameras (or maybe the IR stuff that comes in iDevices)?
I want to play around with something really quickly, and just need something that kind of works, ideally without requiring additional components (though I have IR LEDs and some small camera modules lying around).
If you are curious, it is about this: plush.city/@hadley/11372975948…

#BoostsWelcome #DIY

I've been looking at @Seirdy's /meta/ page and it was so cool I was inspired to follow suite.

In fact, I realized I love reading about people talking about their personal sites themselves and wished more people do it, so I made a post about it which lists some other examples I've found:

"Add a Meta page to your personal website"
home.hedy.dev/posts/meta-pages…

personal sites are really cool, would love to see more meta pages out there -- #BoostsWelcome

Add a Meta page to your personal website

Why we should have more /meta (or similar) pages on our personal sites, and examples in the wild.

^{~hedy's home}

Any experienced C developers among my followers? #BoostsWelcome.

Expat, arguably the world's most popular #XML parser, is understaffed and without funding. As #xz has shown, situations like this are dangerous.

Last month, maintainer Sebastian Pipping put up a plea for help at github.com/libexpat/libexpat/b…

(I would help myself, but my C skills barely surpass "Hello, World".)

Found via @timbray - cosocial.ca/@timbray/112203547…

#libexpat
#SoftwareSupplyChainSecurity #OpenSource #OpenSourceMaintainer
#C

libexpat/expat/Changes at R_2_6_2 · libexpat/libexpat

:herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub - libexpat/libexpat

^GitHub

Tim Bray

2024-04-02 20:37:47

I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.

So, here’s my proposal, called “OSQI”, aimed at starting a how-to discussion: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…

OSQI

^{ongoing by Tim Bray}

After several months of hard work, it's a good feeling to be able to say our @fdroidorg board of directors is officially chartered and running, and finally with an official legal entity through Dutch stichting (foundation) Commons Conservancy.

💚 Very humbled to be able to serve in this inaugural group of talented volunteers, and even more excited about helping #FDroid into the future.

f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…

#boostsWelcome #Android #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...

^f-droid.org

🇪🇸 Contributor Invite! 🇪🇸

🔎 Task: proof-read the Spanish version of my webcomic #ContraChrome

💪 Skills Req.: Proficiency in Spanish, experience with translating/proof-reading would be great.

🏅 Payment: Self-exploiting activist here, so all I can offer is your name in the credits and the good feeling of having brought this #comic and its message to the Spanish-speaking world.

Let me know if you or someone you know could help out!

#BoostsWelcome

contrachrome.com

✨️ I made a thing! 🎉️

Check out my brandnew webcomic, "Contra Chrome":

👉️ contrachrome.com

Subtitle: How #Google‘s browser became a threat to #privacy and #democracy.

Featuring Shoshana Zuboff, vegan Piranhas, and everything you ever wanted to know about #Chrome but were afraid to ask!

Read and download for free – hope you like it! 😊

And if you do, please spread the word!

#BoostsWelcome
#comic #comics