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FreedomBox 26.4 has been released. Here are the highlights: - backups: Enable key-based SSH authentication for remote backups - oidc: New app to implement OpenID Connect Provider - apache: Implement protecting apps using OpenID Connect - wireguard: Improve server section user experience flow […]

America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

Firefox on Android has a weird bug where it randomly stops loading any web page. No error message, just a blank page.

I've uploaded new versions of the Shaarli package (bookmarks app) in Debian with a security fix. The package versions with the fix: - 0.16.1+dfsg-1 in testing and unstable - 0.14.0+dfsg-2+deb13u1 in stable-security - 0.12.1+dfsg-8+deb12u2 in oldstable-security More information about the issue: […]

Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, is married to a U.S. citizen, has no criminal record, owns a business and holds a valid work permit as part of an application for a green card. Yet he's been in detention in Texas for nearly five months. The Irish Times […]

Talking about election security would be a lot more productive if more people understood two things: - The existence of a vulnerability is concerning, but does not by itself prove that an election was hacked or compromised. - Losing an election, even one that you expected to win, is […]

Today is the 10th anniversary of Liberapay's launch! In its first decade, Liberapay processed donations worth a total of around 5 million euros, from more than 40k donors in more than 110 countries to more than 3500 recipients in more than 80 countries. Thank you all. To keep making the world […]

#meta has begun blocking access to ICE list, a publicly available wiki containing information on ICE staff. The oligarchs are serving their masters, but the fediverse stays uncensored. The list can be found here: https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Main_Page […]

FreedomBox 26.3 has been released. Here are the highlights: - ui: Use HTMX to eliminate full page reloads - wireguard: Add ‘Start Server’ button to help with client setup See the full list of changes: https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-26-3-released/4084 #freedombox #freedomboxrelease

Debian's FreedomBox Blend promises an easier home cloud https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/debians_freedombox_blend/ There are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more <- by me on @theregister

Collabora ports Debian to OpenWrt One https://www.heise.de/en/news/Collabora-ports-Debian-to-OpenWrt-One-11150805.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into heise online in English @heise-online-in-english-heiseonline

:phosh: tooted out most of the news over the year here but we hope you still find some interesting bits in our _the year in Phosh 2025 Edition_ : https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-2025-in-retrospect/ #phosh #linuxmobile #2025retro #gtk #linux #mobile

I was recently reminded of this. A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical lock, which I published in IEEE Security and […]

The Math(s) Quanta Magazine 2025 Breakthroughs video is available. And it melted part of my brain. 20-minute video: https://youtu.be/hRpcWpAeWng #math #maths #reviewoftheyear #quantamagazine

Last night's #boardgames included The Quest for El Dorado. It was described as "a deckbuilding race game", and that plus the player aid was almost all I needed to understand it. Easy to learn, some planning required, and a close race at the end. Apparently it […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

They really do seem to be trying to kill us. House defense bill adds a provision to allow military to disable their civilian transponders (a basic anti-collision safeguard) when flying around DC. (You know, the place where a military helicopter collided with an civilian airplane in January.) […]

🇬🇧 ANNOUNCEMENT I am happy to announce that XMPP/AP Bridge is fully published now! Chat between the Fediverse and XMPP from your usual account and application! Nothing to install, nothing to configure, it just works... Full documentation in 7 languages […]

This morning I was thinking about game development, and wondering if the entity-component-system model could be combined with the actor model. Which led me to finding this article: https://aimlessanalysis.com/projects/actor_component_system/ Does it seem like a good avenue to explore? […]

With 500+ survivor-likes on Steam, what better way to cap off season 3 of the pod with one of the best? Halls of Torment takes a more coherent and serious approach to the Vampire Survivors formula in a great Diablo 1 aesthetic. https://grogpod.zone/2025-12-03-halls-of-torment/ #HallsOfTorment […]

Looks like business world is finally waking up to what we’ve know for a long time: the companies are astroturfing the job market with fake job openings. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/ghost-job-postings-add-another-layer-of-uncertainty-to-stalled-jobs-picture.html

In case you missed it, here are some of the recent announcements on the FreedomBox forum: Tiny Tiny RSS app is no longer available, please migrate https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/tiny-tiny-rss-app-is-no-longer-available-please-migrate/3986 Debian 13 Trixie release information for FreedomBox […]

FreedomBox 25.14 has been released ❗ This release includes an important fix for uploading files to FreedomBox. https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-25-14-released/3974 #freedombox #freedomboxrelease

The keynote and demo recordings, as well as session notes, from FediForum October 2025 are now online. Checkout our website https://fediforum.org, which also has links to our PeerTube and YouTube channels.

The ActivityPub Fuzzer. Probably important if you're a fediverse app dev or other redirect person. It seems interesting. #activitypub #fediverse #fuzzer https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10/01/introducing-the-asml-activitypub-fuzzer-improving-testing-in-the-fediverse/

In today's hack call, we discussed: 1. Providing LXC and Docker container images. 2. Building new stable images with backports enabled, and smaller image file sizes. 3. Implementing OpenID Connect, and migrating from LDAP to systemd-homed. Notes […]

We're excited to announce that @altstore has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web. We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous […]

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

I received an email this morning requesting donations to the #guix foundation. Ive only been using it a couple months but its already very important because it makes my router work. Once I'm up and about I'll be adding a $10/mo donation through OpenCollective. The software is more niche than […]

How did a Toronto suburb reach high bus ridership? Through boring, effective rate and quality increases and not getting distracted with shiny big rail projects until the bus service was high quality […]

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

A picture is worth a thousand words: https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ Here's another nice website: https://burningtree.github.io/bsky-dominance/ I am happy that I don't need to waste my time anymore debunking the "decentralization" of Bluesky. @ricci

Read @swordsjew.bsky.social on the legacy of James Dobson, namely thousands & thousands of permanently traumatized people & a sick, death-worshiping evangelical cult that is dragging this country into the toilet.

I was interviewed by Protesilaos Stavrou for his "Prot Asks" series! You can watch it here: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-08-17-prot-asks-erik-emacs-1990s-portland-oregon-podcasting/ #emacs #pdx #1990s #programming #lisp #golang

DO NOT travel to the US. New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal | The Guardian #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspol https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb

"Embrace AI or get out" Welcome to the out club.

Workaround for Gnome Calculator freezing on Debian bookworm: dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/refresh-interval 0

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

Ngā mihi harikoa ki a koutou, mo te rā whakatā ā-ture o Matariki. Happy Matariki public holiday everyone. In Te Reo Māori, #matariki is the name of a star cluster known in English as the Seven Sisters. Subaru to the Japanese. Pleiades to astronomers, and ancient Greeks and Romans. For Māori […]

🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language? We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release! No coding needed — just a love of words. 🔥 Join here […]

Someone discovered FreedomBox through the new Blends selection feature in Debian Installer, and made a video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sbqUq67WY #freedombox #debian #video #technology #tech #youtube

On this Friday the 13th, let us not forget the sacred lesson that Salt ‘N Peppa, the grand visionary of DevOps, taught us so many years ago: “push it! Push it real good!“