@adz and @tbernard will be talking about @modal , Reflection and @p2panda : Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop, at
@fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!

They'll introduce you to Modal, a collective focused on bringing local-first principles to Linux Desktop and Mobile. He'll also showcase Reflection, the GTK-based text editor, and p2panda, the underlying peer-to-peer stack.

Come listen to them and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00.

It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#8-p2panda-modal-reflection

Too many things to do, too little time

😐🫸 "is it free software?"

😎👉 "does it free people?"

> Be in your hometown
> Wonder if electronics store that used to be there ~15 years ago still exists
> It still exists and is apparently doing relatively well
> It's a time-capsule, tiny store full of electronic goodness
> Kinda like a miniature version of Radio Center in Akihabara
> You can get just about anything for hobbyist electronic projects (just like in childhood)
> Buy 10x 22kOhm and 10x 56kOhm resistors for SuzyQ/Cereal cables
> Pay 2PLN (47 cents), so single resistor costs 2,35 cents

Man, I miss having a store like that nearby. It's the only redeeming quality of this town.

Also.. is there an option to force enable hardware acceleration in Firefox with 0 checks and nothing? Like a toggle that always enables it, like always always without thinking?

If not, then I can't debug any issues with Firefox :) and would have to auto close all of them.

The distance between #Dublin and #London is only 464 km (288 miles), #asthecrowflies. The two capital cities are in a Common Travel Area.

But as #GretaThunberg showed today, it's about a million miles in politics.

In Dublin, #PresidentConnolly regards the #genocide in #Gaza as a horror. But in London, the #CityOfLondonPolice treat opposition to genocide as #Terrorism. So #Greta went from a presidential welcome in #Ireland to arrest in #England / #UK.

#aTaleOfTwoCities #iepol #ukpol

The year is coming to a close and while you might be unwrapping other gifts shortly, we have just wrapped up the latest postmarketOS release for you. 🎁

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-release/

Big thanks to everybody who contributed to postmarketOS, to @alpinelinux or any of the numerous upstream components we use. Without you this would not be possible! ❤️

We would also like to thank @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release!

#linuxmobile #phosh #plasmamobile #sxmo #gnome #postmarketos

Software projects using GitHub because they are "too tied to their services", e.g. CI, CLI, or just the workflow in general, have fallen into Microsoft's trap. Same as Windows: make the user depend on too many niche features that no other product has and then when they can't leave, squeeze them for all they have. Its the same with all big tech, but Microsoft is the most obvious. The worst part is when project leads don't even notice it and assume anybody raising alarms are just paranoid.

I'm so glad NVDA, Narrator, Orca, VoiceOver, TDSR, and Fenrir exist. I'm so, so glad JAWS is not the only desktop screen reader, and that FS did not persue JAWS for Mac.

I'm so glad that NVDA not only supports addons, but shows them off with the addon store! I'm so glad that NVDA is so inescapably popular that even big corporations support them, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office and countless others that say in their documentation that NVDA is supported.

#accessibility #blind #nvdasr #nvda #technology

we stay silly
#plasmamobile #postmarketos

still can’t believe we’re getting gifts from our DNS server. “you can’t get that in stores with BIND!”

btw if you ever appear on the "google open source peer bonus" and supposedly receive some money from them, this is in practice more of a punishment than anything else

first they make you sign up for this "payoneer" thing, which has a bunch of verifications (of course, involving uploading your government documents, especially fun if your deadname hasn't changed yet) and later attempting to re-verify with a new name results in them wanting documents that your government potentially does not issue

the whole thing is entirely obnoxious, and contacting a human is a chore (they make you go through a particularly hellish AI assistant and then if you manage to reach a form to contact a human, it only works in chrome and makes you pick like 3 categories each with subitems none of which really matches what you want)

they supposedly sent me a payment card, which i never received, which then got blocked, which resulted in the entire balance getting blocked, which then resulted in me having to go through this, in order to possibly withdraw the money and close the damn thing

it's not worth it for 250 bucks, stay *away*

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115752573933914452

The oldest Unix written in C was successfully recovered from tape this weekend -- and here it is running on IRIX.

The amazing bit is the contents of the big window in the middle, for children under 50, *not* the windows themselves.

Excerpt from a book I'm reading, Slow Poison, by Mahmood Mamdani, father of Zorhan Mamdani.

"FBI agents knocked on
my door...they asked what I thought of Marx. I said I had
never met him. Not surprisingly, this Ugandan Muyindi had never heard of Karl
Marx. “He’s dead.”

I said, “I'm sorry, what happened?”

“No, he died long ago.”

I wondered why, then, the question. “Why, then, are you asking me?”
Later, I would remind myself: the FBI introduced me to Karl Marx! "
#books #bookstodon #book

The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX:

Nobody:

Kids that grew up with Windows 7: It is my mission to make a perfect selection box around this

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