I didn’t expect this post to make it to the front page of HN, but Helix sure is pleasant to use 🧬

When people call for “censorship resistance” in social networks, I’m not sure they realise how unpleasant a social network without filtering and takedowns would be

I would rather die than create an account to continue

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

I just received my @jetkvm.bsky.social! I’m 6 years old and it is Christmas! #selfHosting #kvm

I used to think Kubernetes was complex machinery solving scalability problems I would never have. I was wrong. Kubernetes has less moving parts than my handmade deployments and is sturdier than my hand written playbooks. ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... #kubernetes #selfHosting #homelab

Guess who got their @astro.build order in the mail today? Top notch quality, this guy is happy!

I wanted to move my services from a costly VPS to a Raspberry Pi in my living room. But when moving the first 2.8 GB the Raspberry Pi announced a migration time in hundreds of days! Follow me as I investigate why and if I can do anything about it. ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... #raspberrypi

I didn't think I would ever find a useful personal growth book, but Deep Work was different. I expected a grind mindset book, and I've found one that makes a case for undistracted work, backed by science. A helpful tool in my quest to reclaim focus! ergaster.org/posts/2025/0...

Mes collègues anglophones disent que "la marée montante soulève tous les bateaux". Parce que l'information sauve et unit face à la propagande, parce que @blast-info.fr produit des émissions accessibles et publiques, et parce qu'on ne s'en sortira qu'ensemble, j'ai augmenté ma cotisation mensuelle.

We annoyingly shouted down NFT people and NFTs died. We annoyingly shouted down ai people and their stranglehold is beginning to crumble. I’m not going to ignore the crooks and the creeps to benefit your sense of “peace.”

Sarah being a real thought leader here

A day walking in Paris. Brass bands, children on swings, and chess players. I love public parks. #photography #parks #outdoors

Montrouge is pretty #photography #flowers #architecture

You can't do anything without your phone or laptop, and your phone wouldn't run without American companies. But the current American administration is going wild. The EU can do something about it.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

I’m sorry. You can all be mad at journalists for this or whatever. And maybe in some cases it’s deserved. But this is a high-risk profession that’s dying. There’s little support for most working journalists who still have jobs. When you blame “the media,” blame executives. Not workers.

I took the radical decision to own my music, like we used to when iPods were fashionable. You can too. ergaster.org/posts/2025/0...

"Et maintenant, on fait quoi ?" C'est la question qui revient le plus souvent depuis 3 mois et l'élection de Trump. Pour arrêter la posture défensive et construire ensemble, nous avons listé 20 actions pour passer à l'offensive. A partager massivement svp ! 🙌 bonpote.com/sortir-de-la...

- Exercising makes you feel better - Tell people you love them - People are kinder in-person - Get offline regularly - Networking is often the best way to get a job - Your self-worth is not correlated to your production - Unions are worth it even if everything is going well at work

We're super excited to gather the Matrix community at FOSDEM and share what we have been up to! https://matrix.org/blog/2024/11/matrix-fosdem-full-force/ All details on our blog, and in the thread below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do

"Mental Health and Resilience for Tech Workers with a Soul" Someone write this, please...

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

Starting 2025 on the right foot by trying to get a healthier relationship with my phone. TIL that iOS has a downtime mode to limit screen time, and it seems pretty useful to me. ergaster.org/til/ios-down...

I've finally put words over how as a long time (happy) Apple Watch user I've decided to replace it with a simple, not so dumb, watch. All reviews are on https://ergaster.org/gear, specific posts below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What if I want my books to be mine, not allow anyone to spy on me, but I also don't want to give up on modern convenience either? The Kobo Clara 2E matches my needs, but it takes some fiddling. Here's how I prevented it from reporting everything to Google.

I've always struggled to find hardware that matches my need. I want to strike the right balance between durable and expandable, I want portable equipment that I can carry with me, and I want my gear to play nicely with each other. I've started reviewing my gear at

Steady progress on the list of gear I use or have used. I have a markdown file per item, with some information in the frontmatter, and a review in the body. The consistency of the data is enforced by @astro.build 's content API. It is so much fun to use, I love this framework.

The Light Phone III checks many boxes on my wish list for a better companion device that actually respects its owner, but has show-stoppers. And if there's one thing I've learned with the Librem 5 it's that with pre-orders you need to keep your expectations low. www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

them: "i want a vehicle that doesn't have any telemetry, doesn't sell my data, and is simple enough that a regular person can repair and maintain it" me:

Open source is all about collaboration. Rockstars are all about personal gratification and domination. They’re one of the worst things that can happen to an open source community.

As we head into the holiday season, it is a great time to revisit this great advice: Have no more than two drinks at a party. My own advice: Have a glass of water in between them, and then switch to seltzer with lime. I do not always follow my own advice, and when I do not, I always regret it.

“Live each day as if it’s your last” is not great advice, actually? There’s so much you have to work on to support others slowly over time that you wouldn’t do in this model. “Live each day as if it counts towards a cumulative future that can impact many people” doesn’t sound as good though.

We’re excited to announce two job openings: 1️⃣ Digital Wellbeing/Parental Controls 2️⃣ Flathub Payments Looking for individuals to help with GNOME Desktop-wide web/network filtering and Flathub program management. 1. discourse.gnome.org/t/request-fo... 2. discourse.flathub.org/t/request-fo...

Reading @edzitron.com’s rational anger outbursts about tech is really cathartic

2 more features for overlays: - analog stick control type (WIP, I may want to tweak the hitbox) - decorations (stick base octagon and the C buttons label)

On ne dit pas assez que c'est souvent bien plus rapide de se déplacer à vélo qu'en voiture en ville. C'est bon pour la santé, pour l'environnement, pour faire des économies, mais le gain de temps c'est vraiment sous côté

Computer Weekly highlights the irony of UK OSA and EU Chat Control pushing for E2EE backdoors... ...while the US urges people into E2EE apps because #SaltTyphoon has exploited backdoors to compromise the US' entire public telephone network. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666169...

Half of my brain wants to self-host all the things because I'm a nerd and it's fun, and the other half wrote this a while ago ergaster.org/posts/2023/0... #selfhosting #homelab

US senators urge @deptofdefense.bsky.social to expand the use of the @matrix.org open standard in light of the #SaltTyphoon attack on the US telephone network.

If you recently migrated from Twitter and are looking for Matrix news, I've created a starter pack with all the people and orgs I know who are working on @matrix.org go.bsky.app/ATwDSwi

I hated Windows Aero UI with all my heart, but nostalgia is a strong moving force

I haven't come out as a #dog person here, so I can't resist sharing this picture of my good old goofy Gigi. Have you seen that cute face? Have you seen it?

Me: with #photography as a hobby I’ll be outside all day, it’ll do wonders to my back! 
Also me: *spends entire evenings on the computer triaging and processing pictures*

BlueSky has just got me thinking about so many social media habits that I never really questioned on Twitter because, well, that's just the internet. In fact, it doesn't have to be. We don't all have to be snarky, disingenuous, bad-faith, better-than-thee assholes. Nor do we have to accept it.

Happy last day of #fosdem CfP to anyone who celebrates!

This is what computers were created for