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If, like me, you absolutely hate the recently introduced sidebar-like overlay "side-panel" that opens up when you click tickets in #GitLab, I finally found the obscure place where you can turn it off.

It's not in your user preferences or kebab menu, it's… tucked in that little "Display options" icon-only button between the tickets searchbar and the sorting order combobox:

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

i want 2020s software with 1990s efficiency running on 2010s hardware

This is wild: Jason Clinton is the deputy CISO of Anthropic. Also a mod of a queer gamers Discord. Clinton forced a version of Anthropic's AI on the server, despite the community's wishes, and it's killed the server. AI was reading messages it shouldn't be too
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

https://medium.com/nightingale/writing-alt-text-for-data-visualization-2a218ef43f81

The new laptop keyboards have an amazing haptic feedback option

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

incident management software is something that we, in the open source community, can and should be building.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

bro is not fast and private

iRobot apparently just declared bankruptcy, so if you have an internet connected one and want to retain control if the cloud platform vanishes, take a look at https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980#how-to-get-your-usernameblid-and-password and stash that information somewhere safe (and note that it changes if you ever factory reset the device, so try not to do that)

stealing to alt text

🎙️ In our very timely new podcast episode 46 "Summer Events Special" that we are totally releasing just a few days after it was recorded, @RannyBergamotte, @ollieparanoid, @z3ntu and @linmob talk about Linux Mobile action at #defcon33, #why2025 and #froscon2025, all which took place between August 7 and 17 this year.

We get into how DEF CON in Las Vegas compares to the European events, what it's like to be at a hacker camp, plenty of Linux Mobile talks at FrOSCon, and a lot more!

Special thanks to @tgm for editing (first time editing a postmarketOS podcast episode)! ❤️

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/46-Summer-events-special/

#linuxmobile #podcast #mobilelinux #phosh

How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#democracy #dictators #leadership

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115716905758059408

I expect BSDisms to be dropped at some point.
The newer FreeBSD pkgbase is slowly getting to being able to upgrade the whole system, so the mess with many tools is solved. It's catching up, really.

Just put all binaries under /usr/bin and have everything else symlink to it, such as /bin, /sbin, /usr/local/bin or whatever. It has been done before.

This whole thing is mostly legacy from when we had very limited storage. Nowadays, we have terabytes on NVMe SSDs, not few kilobytes.

Oh holy moly

Google translate has moved from translating words to predictive text translation

It now gives me redacted texts, in which all the interesting bits have been strained out

Also, numbers are translated as random numbers. A two might be a twelve. They’re both numbers, right?

Yesterday’s version sped me up. Today I’ll have to revert to the slower but at least factually accurate read-it-myself-in-the-original

Sigh.

#Enshittification #AI #IntrusiveRedaction

I recently heard of https://gaza-verified.org/

When I went to the "Donate" page, I can't help but see how much money was raised for all these people who are victim of israel's genocide. It's so heartwarming to see that. <3

Free Palestine

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.