Friendica @ Fosdem 2026
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/eventโฆ
Room: H.2215 (Ferrer)
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 18:00
End (UTC+1): 18:10
stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/h2215
We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
It's Roy Batty's birthday today!
Happy Birthday, Roy Batty!
Roy Batty
Roy Batty, model number N6MAA10816, a Nexus-6 combat model replicant, was the leader of a renegade replicant group that hijacked a shuttle and traveled to Earth to demand a longer lifespan.Contributors to Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki (Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki)
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Hello Fedi friends,
I'm thinking of making / ordering a custom sweatshirt for #FOSDEM. Graphic design has always been a passion of mine and I used to design t-shirts and sweatshirts back in the day (to promote the visibility of women in film).
Anyway, my top candidate for FOSDEM is a sweatshirt that reads:
libertรฉ
รฉgalitรฉ
souverainetรฉ
(numรฉrique)
numรฉrique in small size, making the 3 preceding words really stand out. What do you think?
- Yes go for it (69%, 101 votes)
- I don't like it (2%, 4 votes)
- I don't know what it means (27%, 40 votes)
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ยซ Ni bรปche, ni maรฎtre!ยป
ยซ Bรปcherons du monde entier, unissez-vous! ยป
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Je viens de faire un tour sur le site de Black Mosquito. J'aime leur style.
I so appreciate @sacha for being an inspiration, a beacon of politeness and thoughtfulness, and not just for the #emacs community. You've inspired me to blog more this year.
sachachua.com/blog/2025/12/j-aโฆ
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Merry Christmas!
Tree in the Grand Place, Brussels
๐ท Olympus AZ-200
๐๏ธ Agfa APX 400
Fever Dream
crotchetyman.blog/2025/12/21/fโฆ
Fever Dream
The stairway from a heavenly sleep โฆ The Third Age Trust runs a number of interest groups online (collectively known as the IGO groups). A new one was started about 3 months ago; itโs cโฆstoneyfish (Crotchety Man)
From McSweeeny's (via Kottke.org):
"The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?"
mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-maโฆ
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team โ Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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so, like...I NEVER played this game, but let me tell you, in childhood, I wanted to play this game, just because of that cover picture. like. how could this game not rival chess?
(I'm guessing the game is not nearly as impressive is chess in reality ~Chara)
@kris_of_pnictogen
Well, impressive and impressive... It's about the only commercially sold US-made boardgame worth playing.
It's pretty fun, still. If you want to try it, there's probably a computer version on your phone's app store. Or playable online with flash or something*.
@iju yeah my curiosity is renewed because my housemate Gravis told me that Mastermind (or at least the rules for it) turn up as a minigame in videogames. I had no idea
@kris_of_pnictogen
Hadn't thought of that, but your housemate is probably right! Well suitable for something like that. Also a very good simulation for electonic lockpicking.
Hadn't thought of that, but your housemate is probably right! Well suitable for something like that. Also a very good simulation for electonic lockpicking.
Emacs For Writers (Video Series)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6891969
If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
Emacs For Writers (Video Series)
If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
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Except now (28 years later) emacs can do all kinds of fancy things with fonts. Even display those emoji thingies.
New rant: It's okay to write fanfiction.
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Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
popularmechanics.com/science/aโฆ
50 Years Ago Today, Oregon Blew Up a Dead Whale. With Dynamite. On Live TV.
The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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@riggbeck "Don't blow up dead whales with dynamite" was one of the first things the internet taught me. I'm not sure if the lesson has served me well over years, but I've never blown up a dead whale with dynamite so it probably has served me
Falls jemand bis zum 23. November noch in Trier ist, kann ich die Sonderausstellung zu Marc Aurel dringend empfehlen.
as a belgian, qwerty, I really like you
Why do I only now discover that Control-0, Control-minus and Control-plus are next to eachother in the qwerty layout. Handy! qwerty, it's not just for easy access to []{} anymore!
By the way, altgr-weur (altgr-weur.eu/) for the win!
โWe are all talking constantly about billionaire behaviour (...) but remain too shy to ask whether billionaires should exist at all. (...) We rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad.โ
We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:
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Mastodon 4.5
Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.Mastodon Blog
Pretty amazed by my very old double sided, double density floppy
I saved my thesis way back in 1992 on one of these things. Turns out, the floppy is still readable! Not bad, 33 years.
A "The Undeclared War" rerun
I really do enjoy this show! They show a command line and commands that make sense. No Visual Basic like they did in a show years and years ago. And only one pair of hands typing on a keyboard.
how do I unignore someone who's not in my contacts?
!Friendica Support, I am on friendica.world, it seems I'm able to ignore people from my local feed, but how do I unignore them? These people are not in my contacts.
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friendica.world/contact/blockeโฆ is empty too.
I saw an account on the local feed that posted way to many posts to my liking, so I clicked on the three dots to ignore them. That account was NOT in my contacts. It worked as a charm. I got curious and tried to find out where I could find all the accounts I ignored that way, but that functionality does not seem to exist. friendica.world/contact/ignoreโฆ and friendica.world/contact/blockeโฆ only work for accounts that are in my contacts.
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Oh wow, friendica.world/contact/ignoreโฆ works. I need to specify the relationship for this to work! Many thanks for comment!
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limiting the number of posts I see from someone whom I am not following
!Friendica Support how do I limit the number of posts I see from someone I'm not following? The poster is very active in my local community. Do I have to follow the poster to be able to limit the number of posts that I see?
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I'm using the local community channel: friendica.world/network?channeโฆ
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In the admin settings is a configuration called 'Posts per user on community page'. When this is set, it will restrict the number of posts per user.
Also the admin could restrict the number of posts that a user can create per hour/day/week.
Funny side note: I created these settings for exactly that user. That account had been on several other Friendica servers before and - I guess - annoyed tons of admins because of this flooding.
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Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
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One of my bosses in the 90s had a subscription. I loved going through them.
This visual history is also nice: byte.tsundoku.io/
This visual history is also nice: byte.tsundoku.io/
deze groep, ce groupe, diese Gruppe?
!belgium group Wordt deze groep eigenlijk gebruikt? Est-il rรฉellement utilisรฉ, ce groupe? Wird diese Gruppe tatsรคchlich verwendet? Is this group in use?
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Me: This meeting could have been an email.
Also me: (gets an email) Goddammit.
Also me: (gets an email) Goddammit.
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โWhat stands out to me about the conversations on the fediverse is how much focus is placed on the singular fediverse, and how its decentralised nature can be a powerful tool for dealing with government overreach. In contrast, very limited attention is given to the very real problem that this means that there are a large number of server operators who do have to make the challenging decision for themselves: do they comply with Mississippi's Age Assurance Law, block access to Mississippi IP addresses, or ignore it altogether?โ
โ @LaurensHof in this weeks' Connected Places
This absolutely nails the issues facing the fediverse, especially as we go more mainstream and have to deal with regulations with legal requirements around the globe, especially in countries and states where we have people accessing our services from.
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Reasons for Linux laptops?
- A Windows computer always has a higher price for the Windows license.
- Linux-Computers have been extensively tested for hardware compatibility. You can be sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will work in your system.
- By purchasing Linux laptops and desktops, Linux is indirectly supported. Higher sales indicate a demand for Linux products, and therefore more vendors may be inclined to offer Linux as the operating system of choice.
Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or specialize only in Linux systems.
public.quodari.com/public/memoโฆ
12 and more online-Stores to buy Linux Computers
Looking for Linux laptops? Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or sp...public.quodari.com
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To be free people, we donโt merely need to be ungovernable.
We need to become unoptimizable.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
doctorow.medium.com/https-plurโฆ
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"Mass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill."
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Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astorโs A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly โperfectโ future: publicdomainreview.org/essay/cโฆ
Colonizing the Cosmos: Astorโs Electrical Future
During Americaโs Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astorโs A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperiaโฆThe Public Domain Review
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Toren van Kasteel De Haar | Tower of De Haar Castle
Haarzuilens (Utrecht) 2023
(Van mijn blog | From my blog)
Tags: #architecture #architectuur #castle #foto #fotografie #kasteel #netherlands #photo #photography
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a.gup.pe
Am I the only one who finds a.gup.pe confusing? I'm interested in two groups but it seems there is no way to see old postings from those groups, no way to get an idea what those groups are actually about.
Iโve been saying when the #AI bubble pops, itโs going to be so disastrous it will make the dot com bust pale in comparison.
Almost every online platform and SAAS I use has gone all-in on โintegratingโ AI in some form.
futurism.com/ai-agents-failingโฆ
AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds
Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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Disagree. Lots of companies have largely paid lip-service to this fad. They have either deployed a shallow integration, such as a chatbot and called it "AI" or rebadged some non-generative technique that they were already doing.
IMO very few comapnies are doing any serious work with LLMs b/c they just aren't that useful for most of the data processing that companies and customers actually want to do.
What I'm more concerned about is the overvaluation of the stock market b/c of correlation between a few companies like Nvidia and the wider tech sector.
I do think a price correction is going to happen, perhaps relatively soon, but as always: "The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent"
@kittylyst
I'm most concerned about the impact on the real-estate market. A lot of pension funds mix different risk profiles and so will have some tech stocks as high-risk, high-return things, but they'll also have a load of real-estate funds as low-risk, stable-return things. Unfortunately, a lot of the AI spending has been on datacenter leases, which are being used by the owners to underwrite other investments, so a lot of the low-risk things will also drop sharply in value. That's likely to have a big impact beyond the stock market.
I'm most concerned about the impact on the real-estate market. A lot of pension funds mix different risk profiles and so will have some tech stocks as high-risk, high-return things, but they'll also have a load of real-estate funds as low-risk, stable-return things. Unfortunately, a lot of the AI spending has been on datacenter leases, which are being used by the owners to underwrite other investments, so a lot of the low-risk things will also drop sharply in value. That's likely to have a big impact beyond the stock market.
@david_chisnall Yes, this is a concern. But I don't know how big of a one it is - although "not as bad as 2008" is a pretty low bar to clear.
I guess we'll see what happens as and when the CoreWeave (aka "WeWork for Nvidia chips") domino falls. Nothing good, I expect!
@kittylyst
I did the maths about a week ago. If the tech bubble drops in value (proprtionately) as much as as it did when the .com bubble crashed, the US stock markets will lose about as much of their total value as the NYSE did on the first two days of the Wall Street Crash. The secondary effects from margin calls are likely to have a similar effect.
I did the maths about a week ago. If the tech bubble drops in value (proprtionately) as much as as it did when the .com bubble crashed, the US stock markets will lose about as much of their total value as the NYSE did on the first two days of the Wall Street Crash. The secondary effects from margin calls are likely to have a similar effect.
my previous employer is really hyping up their AI adoption.
Iโm not a particularly vengeful person, but I would love it if they stayed true to form and held on to their AI strategy long after everyone else has realised it is a massive folly.
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There's no artist credit on the border of this one (unlike say the amphora of great intelligence).
Is that normal ?
New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:
๐ Navigator improvements in Writer
๐ Many new spreadsheet functions
๐ Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/blโฆ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable - The Document Foundation Blog
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 โ The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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I've always just downloaded the latest version from the website. On Ubuntu, you have to wait for it to make it onto the repositories and it can take a while (months, even).
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Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?
#LibreWolf v142.0-1 is now available!
codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/rโฆ
No major changes from LibreWolf's end.
See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.โฆ for upstream changes.
142.0-1 - librewolf/bsys6
## LibreWolf bsys6 Release v142.0-1 - Upstream release, see the [Firefox 142.0 Release Notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/) (Built on GitLab by pipeline [1993020832](https://gitlab.Codeberg.org
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@soop We try! ๐
(codeberg.org/librewolf/settingโฆ for the most recent stuff.
Things that are still in "progressive rollout" state don't get enabled in LibreWolf anyway, but as soon as they veer towards a full rollout, we disable them)
explicitly disable ml smart tab group feature ยท a642ca7659
settings - All the settings files that form the core of LibreWolf.Codeberg.org
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Blink and youโll have never seen it in the first place ๐ซฅ
Age verification rules in the UK Online Safety Act are snapping parts of the Internet out of existence.
But itโs not what you think (porn)!
News on conflicts: GONE. Support for sexual health and smoking: GONE.
Watch as ORGโs @JamesBaker shows how censorship works โฌ๏ธ
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #reddit #ageverification #vpn #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression
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Inability or unwillingness? What would it profit a Parliamentarian who had invested substantial political capital in the project to look behind the label on the tin and discover a can of worms? There was no shortage of people pointing out the design defects in the Bill.
And when it all goes horribly wrong, blame the platforms, blame the regulator; then claim that this was only ever a trial run and we always knew we would need OSA v2.
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@Heidentweet @jim And, of course, blame the previous government even though the Bill had full cross-Parliamentary support: the only complaint from Labour was that it didnโt go far enough. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/โฆ (ยฃ)
Tech Secretary Peter Kyle under fire as Online Safety Act faces mounting backlash
Peter Kyle is facing mounting criticism over Labourโs online safety crackdownMatthew Field (The Telegraph)
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