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!
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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.
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friendica.world/contact/blocke… 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/ignore… and friendica.world/contact/blocke… only work for accounts that are in my contacts.
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I ignored your account, which I don't follow, as a test. You then appear in the list of ignored contacts (here in German).
It works as expected here. The question is why it does not work as expected on your server?
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For the record, I added the account in question and clicked in channel settings to never show posts. In my friendica.world/network?channe… feed I clicked on the More button for the account in question and selected collapse. Friendica shows that the content of this account is collapsed.
friendica.world/contact/collap… however does not show the account.
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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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I loved Byte back in the day but Ted Nelson might disagree about 1975 being the dawn of the revolution.
Well, I was thinking more of the date than the parentage. Ted would probably place the date of the dawn a few years earlier with the founding of the People’s Computing Company.
Byte played an important role as a chronicle of the era, of course; but they arrived a little later than the dawn, it seems to me.
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A Wayne Green ism which quickly disappeared
with Helmers as editor.
Byte stayed Byte, Green started a new magazine called "Kilobyte" which became "Kilobaud"
I misread the first feature heading:
Which Microprocessor are you?
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In 1975 I was taking computer science and learning to program using routines saved on IBM punch cards.
In 1985 I had an Olivetti luggable 52 pound PC with 640K RAM and a 10MB hard drive running Lotus123 and WordPerfect on DOS 4.2. Fabulous.
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In 2025, I get the best performance and hasslefree productivity by disconnecting from the cloud and running 15yr old desktop software from those tech co’s that have all moved to #enshitification
I think i want to stay in 2010.
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I have fond memories of Byte mag. I discovered it in about 1980, when most computers were huge vastly expensive boxes in aircon rooms, but also we were just getting stuff like the ZX80 et al, that actual people could afford and play with. Byte helped people like me understand that we could do this stuff ourselves, and write our own programs. They published listings in BASIC, as all the new 'personal computers' had a BASIC interpreter.
Happy days.
Edit: I seem to recall that they also featured short fiction from Jerry Pournell? Good fun.
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This email could have been a daydream.
Followed by a nap. And a snack.
”What 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?“
— @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.
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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 don’t merely need to be ungovernable.
We need to become unoptimizable.
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During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperia…The Public Domain Review
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@njamster have you by any chance played Paranormasight?
It does exactly this but with a different setting. You literally save someone’s life by changing an in-game setting 😆
wait a minute... doesn't this usually just hide the blood, in videogames? So you'd be bleeding invisible blood?! 
Your version is a lot nicer and convenient 
lol
*turned off blood on day 1*
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David, i lost too much Co2... and Methan...
Arg, it will only hack my exposure..? Sorry..
That's so wrong. That's funny.
Reminds me of a film called Last Action Hero. Near the end, Arnold's character was bleeding a lot. Once he was able to return to his fantasy movie world, the loss of blood turned to a flesh wound and a minor scratch.
Ever hear of Toby Fox?
Worth a look.
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There's a webcomic called Order of the Stick about D&D characters that regularly talk about XP, going up levels, etc. The best of course was when the party needed a big diamond for something, so the thief character crawled out of the page, went to her own bio webpage on the same site, and 'stole' a diamond from her bio pic. After that her bio pic didn't have a diamond anymore.
As for video games, Metal Gear Solid did stuff like this, such as when one character you are fighting can easily block all your moves because he can 'read your thoughts'. The trick is to plug your controller in the other slot, then he finds that he can no longer read your mind. 😆
DO YOU LIKE TO PLAY CASTLEVANIA
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I haven't played it, no.
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Hey. These are good!
And you're on Mastodon? #Heresy
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:
📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Thanks to all who make Libreoffice such a great project and Product
Had a problem.
IT WAS VERY QUICKLY FIXED
Needed and set amd64 deb package translated user interface
German
Spanish
Seems something wrong as download was aarch64 thus not installable,
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In any module (Writer, Calc, ...) go to menu View -> User Interface...
You can also customise toolbars using menu Tools -> Customize, tab Toolbars. See also help.libreoffice.org/25.8/en-U…
Switching to LibreOffice may be jarring at first, but with a couple of tweaks, you can make it look like Microsoft Office.Anurag Singh (XDA)
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!
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No major changes from LibreWolf's end.
See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.… for upstream changes.
## 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! 😁
(codeberg.org/librewolf/setting… 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)
settings - All the settings files that form the core of LibreWolf.Codeberg.org
#CalvinAndHobbes play #chess.
October 10, 1989
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Blink and you’ll have never seen it in the first place 🫥
Age verification rules in the UK Online Safety Act are snapping parts of the Internet out of existence.
But it’s not what you think (porn)!
News on conflicts: GONE. Support for sexual health and smoking: GONE.
Watch as ORG’s @JamesBaker shows how censorship works ⬇️
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #reddit #ageverification #vpn #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression
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Teens are left in the dark when it comes to getting support or news online.
Adults have to stay in the soft play area unless they scatter their ID or biometrics across the Internet.
The UK Online Safety Act is a shoddy, dangerous law.
Tell your MP it’s gotta change ⬇️
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What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
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It's absolutely not shoddy, because it was never meant to protect children in the first place. So many experts have pointed this out. This is a willful censorship law, it should go completely.
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.
Peter Kyle is facing mounting criticism over Labour’s online safety crackdownMatthew Field (The Telegraph)
How's it going since the UK Online Safety Act slammed an age gate on the Internet?
Age verification providers with dodgy privacy policies, over-moderation of content, scammers scheming and sites closing down.
Here's a week in the life of an unworkable law ⬇️
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From Friday 25 July 2025 UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub.Open Rights Group
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Reddit, Grindr and Bluesky have chosen age verification providers based outside the UK with concerning privacy policies. Go figure.
❌ You can't choose provider
❌ Platforms don't need to pick certified providers
❌ Providers don't need to meet specific privacy or security standards
✅ Regulate the age verification industry now.
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression #censorship #netplurality
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Age verification goes way beyond porn, impacting everything from Reddit to Spotify to Xbox.
❌ Content is being age gated when it shouldn’t, including subreddits for sexual health like r/STD, for health like r/stopsmoking, or news like r/israelexposed and an X post featuring a speech about grooming gangs by Katie Lam MP.
✅ Limit the scope of the UK Online Safety Act.
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The Online Safety Act is technologically naive and ignorant to privacy risks, so people are finding ways around age verification. But...
❌ Teens could be pushed towards riskier things like the dark web, dodgy free VPNs or scams.
✅ Invest in a public information campaign to help people navigate online safety and learn about the privacy risks of age verification.
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #security #cybersecurity
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Plurality online is being wrecked.
The UK Online Safety Act imposes heavy burdens on small sites, including risk assessments for a broad range of content, the threat of fines or the cost of checking the age of every user.
❌ Many small sites are shutting down or blocking UK users entirely.
✅ Change the categorisation of sites, so small sites and instances are exempt.
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #netplurality
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The UK Online Safety Act is a hot mess 🥴
Drunk on boarding up more of the Internet than even the government's paedo test could justify.
Pushing people into riskier stuff online, enabling scammers and walking off with your ID.
Tell your MP to sort it out! ⬇️
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What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
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So UK 16 & 17 year olds are to get the vote, but are now blocked from informing themselves about issues that may concern them, even posts by MPs? And they can give consent, but not read about sexual health?
#OSA #PalestineAction #ukpol #STD
I work as a dev consultant and all my clients/work recently involves me being a sort of "digital janitor" cleaning up vibe coders/AI's mess. Number #1 clean up? security exploits. AI simply can't do it.
Just look at what happened with the Tea app. I wouldn't trust ANY of these verification providers as far as I could throw them.
The BEST thing the user can do right now is use VPN's. Mullvad, Proton, Self Host Wireguard, whatever. DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THESE PLACES YOUR ID.
@Intellectual_Resistance The idea of a VPN ban was suggested by Heidi Alexander MP, but downplayed by the Secretary of State, Peter Kyle MP. While a ban isn’t government policy atm, they’ve just threatened platforms with fines for promoting VPNs to UK under 18s. It’s a moving situation and this latest announcement does little to dampen rumours of a ban.
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The UK government has warned that online platforms which "deliberately target UK children and promote use" could now "face enforcement action, includingMark Jackson (ISPreview.co.uk)
I don’t even think a private company SHOULD be allowed to run an age-verification service!
Critical matters private personal information should be exclusively handled by the state, with independent security audits mandatory.
You hand that data over to the private sector once, it’s going to be hacked or sold and that’s it, and you can’t vote the fuckers out who fucked it up.
Lights are going out across the Net for UK users.
Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content.
In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best.
🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #ageverification #ageassurance #freedomofexpression #digitalrights #censorship #ukpol #ukpolitics
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@david_colquhoun Again, this won't protect children in the first place because it's trivial to circumvent. It will, however, give criminals a new opportunity to trick people into giving them sensitive information. I've already seen malicious replies on Mastodon telling people they need to verify their accounts.
Please: if you see one of these, don't take it at face value. Be similarly cautious if something like it pops up anywhere else.
@david_colquhoun Far-right conspiracy? You really have got it arse about face haven't you?
It's about SURVEILLANCE. Porn is just an 'Oh won't somebody think of the children' tag line, that The DM and it's brethren scream about, all the while showing a 'hot' woman in a skimpy garment, or sharing the details of a gay footballer's antics in a hotel room.
The far-right would like ALL internet traffic monitored and controlled. CCTV in the streets with facial recognition, allowing someone in a uniform with highly polished boots to march up to you and say 'Papers please!'
The porn has always been there - always will be.
We need parents to educate their children and take a bit of responsibility.
We need MSM to stop objectifying women and promoting people like Tate or programmes like Love Island.
We need people like you to wake up before you sleepwalk into a remake of 30's Germany.
and if you have a problem with this law the Technology Minister will call you a 'paedo'
The language of the Playground, how apt.
The Gift of Life
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Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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Alright, I've been thinking.
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?!
Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?!
I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down!
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The AI model is not your therapist and the company behind it can't necessarily keep it secret. Sam Altman thinks that's 'very screwed up.'Jon Reed (CNET)
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"Según artículos periodísticos, la maestría en derecho (LLM) está reemplazando a terapeutas, asesores, abogados e incluso médicos en algunos casos. Pero, ¿sabes qué? No se aplican las protecciones habituales. Si tu chat privado puede ser citado, no hay acuerdo de confidencialidad. No hay obligación legal ni ética. A los gobiernos les encanta esto. Algunos profesionales humanos no cederán tus datos y te protegerán, pero ¿cómo se supone que vas a protegerte de las codiciosas empresas de IA? Este es otro peligro. Así que ten cuidado con lo que compartes con estos chatbots."
AI seems to be intended to grow a two-tier society.
The 1% get real doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers and other expertise.
The 99% get AI bots, with a built-in 20% error rate, as doctors, lawyers, therapists, teachers instead.
The fossil fuel industry's obsession with investing in AI, when seen in the context of defunding public education, higher education, libraries, literacy & numeracy programs, research institutions, newspapers, & broadband can only be ...
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And this
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There are plenty of things this AI chatbot is good at, but it's not appropriate for everything.Nelson Aguilar (CNET)
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btw, what's the purpose of this:
docs.codeberg.org/security/ssh…
And, I am not able to get my [A] OpenPGP subkey verified.
📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does.
Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android.
Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality!
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there is a way to remove pre-installed applications, but you either have to root the phone, or remove them via Android Debug Bridge (adb).
Both of these approaches require technical knowledge, and for people to know of their existence, which most do not.
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I understand this shouldn't be the way to deal with this but here's a great guide for anyone looking to permanently remove apps that only allow disabling. You can also use an app like MalwareBytes to view system apps and get their names for removal.
neowin.net/guides/google-can-n…
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.David Uzondu (Neowin)
another issue with not being able to uninstall is that code stays there, with all its security flaws, indefinitely. It only gets patched/updates if it's enabled.
For the non-technical folks that means it might be able to allow someone who's gotten a toe hold on the device to then use that code to escalate privileges.
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it'll be fine they said
: Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US adminPaul Kunert (The Register)
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Based on Pepper&Carrot by @davidrevoy
I hear Pepper & Carrot will ending soon. So, I want to draw them before the story end (or just merged). Thanks to David for the tutorials and don't ever get bored provide us with more tutorials
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Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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couldn't read them all, will need a few more passes, but some suggestions are hilarious, well done 😆.
these 1 frame walls of text are killing me though, will need to just extract the thing…
edit: forgot we could show video controls on gifs, best thing ever.
strong-clap, great work!
Ah! I was lied to!
edit: oh no, the "alt" label now lands on top of the "gif" label in the image. 😆
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I paused on every single message because it's golden. That's what we get when we let corporations spoon-feed us whatever shit they want.
Out of curiosity I've loaded an open source LLM I have around, to see how it autocompletes from "fuck" onward, and even without "fuck" it's negative every single time.
What is crazy to me is that people is letting their data be constantly sent over the internet to who knows where, all to get a useless prediction.
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this is exactly what I felt after trying to write a bug report in the IntelliJ bug tracking tool this morning.
I'd love to hear from anyone who thinks this is a useful thing.
This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).
Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.
The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:
And below an Event Post:
If multiple people engaged with the post in a certain way you no longer have to click the count to see the list, it's a popover that appears on hover (active on touch devices). This is a lot cleaner and more consistent with how these are displayed on other social media platforms.
You'll also notice that the Main Menu missing icons are in place. This is a change that's coming in the next Friendica release anyway, but Bookface lets you have it right now:
Someone specifically asked whether the main navigation buttons could have labels on them:
I didn't turn it on by default, but nav button labels are now coded into Bookface and if you're using CSS variable customization they're easy to turn on:
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:root {
--show-navbar-labels: block;
}The label text is also customizable. Until now the only way to implement such customizations was either for a server admin to manually put them into the header or footer sitewide or for individual users to put them in a user content stylesheet just for your web browser. That's why I'm also releasing a new Friendica addon called "Bookface Custom" that, if your server admin installs it, allows you to customized every one of the Bookface CSS variables to your heart's content.
Get 'em while they're hot:
* Bookface 1.8
* Bookface User Styles 1.8
* Bookface Custom Addon 1.0
@Friendica Admins @Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
#Bookface #Friendica #themes #addons
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Oh, and it's a little thing, but if you did bother to go the trouble of self-verifying your account I restyled the "verified checkmark" in the profile aside 😉:
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Good work! I updated Bookface for Friendica.World.
One remark, when trying to write this comment, I tried clicking the 'comment' icon, moving the mouse from below. The new popup for the list of people that liked the post, blocked the comment button. I don't know if there's a solution for this..
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Main branch updated to 1.8.1 to fix "Notices" navbar label not using CSS variable. Not an issue for anyone who isn't using Navbar Labels, which are not enabled by default.
If you don't want to wait for the next release the Main branch should always be the most current as people point out things to me and I fix them on GitLab (which should automatically get mirrored to the GitHub repo).
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I agree that it does take up a lot of space, because I made the icons larger and added more white space for a cleaner, more modern look. Everything in Frio is too tiny and compact and cluttered. It doesn't help that Friendica just has a LOT of controls. Too many IMO. It's kind of overwhelming to new users.
For smaller displays when you get below 768 pixels wide it engages the mobile interface. There's some overlap between desktop and tablet landscape making it impossible to discern which it is, and for most tablets in portrait I chose to display a compact version of the desktop bars to keep the position of controls consistent if you change tablet orientation.
It is technically possible to merge the two bars into one (actually make them 50% screen width and positioned seamlessly side-by-side) for really wide screens, but there's just too much stuff there to do that for a smaller screen. And the sub-section words in the second toolbar can be really short in some languages or really long in others.
You could try zooming in until the mobile interface kicks in. Though it doesn't really save that much space as there are still two toolbars, they just aren't both at the top.
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Just sharing a quick doodle of Debby I created as part of my Debian project.
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General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
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thanks for putty
it is essential software literally everywhere I've been
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very goob software we love you
@saxnot yes, with hindsight it was a mistake not to grab putty.org at the earliest opportunity, before some other opportunist did. But then PuTTY never *aimed* to become widely known. Its fame grew gradually by word of mouth, so it was never quite clear when it would be a good idea to get the most obvious domain – until it was too late.
The chiark URL is of a type that was very common in the 90s, especially for software published by someone who didn't yet know whether it would have more than a dozen users – which was exactly the situation when I started!
@ArneBab At this point, it would be absolutely the right thing to get the domain back, one way or another.
(Probably register the trademark first if that isn't too expensive, then ask nicely, and then get out the lawyers)
@Sobex @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social I'd like nothing better, but I think I'd have to _start_ with a lawyer, just to get any idea at all of where to begin. I did try contacting one once, but they never replied to my query.
For example, I have no idea whether it _is_ the right strategy to start by registering the trademark, or how to do that, or even which country to do it in. (I'm guessing the USA, because it's .org and not .org.[country] – but _I'm_ not in the USA, so can I register a trademark there at all?)
@Gargron @Sobex One potential obstacle I can see right away is that "putty" is something of a generic term which might make it untrademarkable. Also, "Silly Putty" is a registered trademark (owned by Crayola) and you very well might run into a roadblock there.
You might have to modify the name of the project to something that a Trademark office might consider unique enough to trademark.
But yeah as Gargron as noted, there are services available to help with this process.
@Sobex to be fair, it could be worse. they link to your site at the top and then also a couple other products which they make clear are not yours.
(unless I am missing a lot of ads because I block 'em.)
I think you should absolutely lawyer up and file a WIPO Domain Name Dispute Resolution complaint. wipo.int/amc/en/domains/
"When your brand is misused to deceive consumers online (also known as “cybersquatting”), WIPO – the global leader in domain name dispute resolution – can help you reclaim the infringing domain name using an online enforcement tool called the UDRP or a national “ccTLD” variant."
Avoid court proceedings by using the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center's domain name dispute resolution services.www.wipo.int
Typically if brand name is registered after domain, there is no chance getting a domain other than buying it from owner. Unless you can prove your unregistered trade mark is well known and that current domain owner is referencing to your brand and not some similar.
In short, always register domain and then registered trade mark/name afterwards before getting your brand public 
In that case it is more than possible to get the domain
@jeffmcneill the project history went through three phases:
1. no idea yet whether this is going to be a widely used tool
2. domain names cost money and admin faff, search engines can find our website anyway, on balance doesn't seem worth it
3. too late
@jeffmcneill firstly, thanks for making Putty! I love it.
Secondly, perhaps putty.some-other-tld is still available?
even before Github was owned by MS, I didn't like the look of it.
Partly because it's not itself free software: unlike Gitlab, if you want to export your project with all its metadata like the bug database, you can't make a compatible instance to move it to. If you can see the vendor lock-in coming _before_ you're already committed, avoid it.
And partly _because_ it was trying so hard to make itself the One True Place. There shouldn't _be_ a One True Place. As soon as there is, someone can buy it out and monetise / enshittify / generally do bad things with it.
I'd rather contribute to the Internet being distributed, than contribute to it being centralised. That's why I'm on Mastodon and was never on the birdsite, and it's why I don't use Github (except for sending patches to projects that are already hosted there).
The internet in particular, and the worldwide adoption of new technology in general, are well broken at this point. Yours is a perfect example of this.
Perhaps we need a TLD where you don't even have to apply for a name: you become automatically associated with an address by implication, and become free to use it as needed.
There are a huge number of imitators (mostly malicious) of popular piracy site "fitgirl", and likewise everything you get from there has the right URL plastered over it in all possible places.
Clearly you should agree with her that she'll mention the PuTTY URL and you'll tell people where to yarr games. 😀
I'm assuming this site also isn't you folks?
the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0…
I've found them because they provide versions for older versions of Windows, but wasn't sure if it was related, because of the username.
The TLD .org once had rules that would have prevented this.
Now a local butcher has a .org address for his shop. 🙁
This seems like a self inflicted issue. And it seriously points to the project and it's leaders in poor decision making. Especially after what, 26 years?
Not sure why you are even bothering with this at this point as it appears you will ignore all the sound advice of the community.
It should be absolutely no surprise to anybody that <keyword>.tld ranks higher than some extremely deep URL nobody can remember.
I'd suggest buying putty.something and moving the website there instead, that should fix the problem.
Well... PuTTY more or less belongs on the "WHO Essential Medicines List" for (windows) computing now...
It's partly due to stuff like these:
stackoverflow.com/a/31137173/3…
stackoverflow.com/a/33270560/3…
stackoverflow.com/a/57087567/3…
That's just some of the results from the 2 StackExchange sites that I checked. There are several other StackExchanges which are ripe candidates for people hyperlinking (or mentioning) putty.org and StackExchange does tend to carry weight with search engines.
@helioloureiroBR with all due respect, I never understood why don’t you just register something like puttyterminal.net and go with it, it would quickly surpass the bogus website on search engines
If a tutorial tells a user to download Putty and they google it, they will for sure think the official URL is a scam.
"On July 13, 2025, Bitvise was contacted by a political interrogator posing as a journalist."
then links to an exchange for asking the domain to be transferred to the actual authorts of putty
lmao
@bigbird
Up for me.
The website has a bunch of disclaimers that they're not affiliated with the PuTTY project. Could they have taken the website down for maintenance and added those disclaimers just now, in response to this toot?
Does this make the situation any clearer? putty.org/20250713-MiraiF-Emai…
As putty hasn't died, it must have "become controlled by large corporations and political entities."
For security reasons, PuTTY has replaced the previously provided SSH Secure Shell for Windows as the supported method of remote access. PuTTY is a free… (READ MORE)George Mason University
Something similar happened when a predator falsely registered Linux as a service mark, was sued and had to give it back. Resulted in formation of the Linux Foundation. Misleading use of your established service mark, registered or not, is an IP infringement.
If Putty isn't a profit centre for you, I suggest you contact Clifford Chance to give them an opportunity to sharpen the teeth of a young lawyer doing pro bono work, for which they have a useful budget. They did some pro bono work for my community initiative service mark (LETSystem Trust) a while back.
to be fair, this reads like an Onion article. How long has PuTTY been around, and been awesome, for it not to have its own actual domain for a few bucks per year?
putty-term.org? putty.org.uk? Just anything other than someone's tilde account on an obscure subdomain!
> Many search engines list putty.org above chiark.
Of course they do! That's how SEO works.
Nice to know... 😱
And thanks for PuTTY!
Interesting new chat client from the twitter guy. It's called bitchat and connects solely via bluetooth LE
So kinda like Briar can except missing internet connection.
It's iOS only though 🤷
bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes. Contribute to jackjackbits/bitchat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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