FreedomBox 25.16 is released! 🎉
This release allows Janus (WebRTC video conference) app to be installed once again.
There are more details on our forum:
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-25-16-released/4011
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Best Buy Lifts Outlook After Better-Than-Expected Results
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/best-buy-lifts-outlook-after-better-than-expected-results?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@CartyBoston Try Raspberry Pi with OpenCV for drone detection. Keeps it simple and cheap.
@rgo I have abandoned Pis after taking them seriously for years, now I buy old min-PCs on ebay, they are super flexible and have some horsepower.
But we'll raise VC money and use "money is no object" hardware, I am serious about the fun part.
Pm Milano, condannare Ferragni a un anno e 8 mesi - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/11/25/pm-milano-condannare-ferragni-a-un-anno-e-8-mesi_81ac1ab6-56d2-4417-b23a-12481d8d6415.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
@Floppy Kind of wondering if it would be easier to move to another technology ecosystem than to make a large scale fork of Rails. It's so integrated to the dependencies that it wouldn't be enough to fork Rails itself, as many of the 3rd party dependencies would also need to be forked.
I remember reading a good blog post about it a few months ago, where the overall conclusion was that it was less painful to switch programming languages than to distance away from Rails inside of the Ruby ecosystem.
@autiomaa yeah, that would be hard, and moving away slowly to something like Hanami is probably what I'll personally end up doing, but god, it's such a shame, and such a vast amount of work.
Conte, al via il cantiere M5s per il programma di governo - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/11/25/conte-al-via-il-cantiere-m5s-per-il-programma-di-governo_7061c52c-ef8c-4321-bfdc-8d2ba7734848.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
Ghosts are sci-fi.
As non-corporeal entities, there is nothing tethering them to the earth. The movement of the planet, from its rotation to its movement through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc., the Earth should be leaving a giant wake of spirits behind it in space.
If they have something.to be tethered but can still pass through walls, they should get sucked down to the center of the Earth's gravity well immediately.
So, if you see a ghost, it is a master of astrodynamics and should be feared.
@decryption I’d prefer not to mess up an Anaesthetists’ day with a risk of aspiration during a procedure, or a procedural deferral https://www.anzca.edu.au/getContentAsset/0f35028e-e371-4220-a49a-ddee877051c8/80feb437-d24d-46b8-a858-4a2a28b9b970/Clinical-Practice-Recommendations-Periprocedural-GLP-1RA-use-Apr-2025.pdf
@wendyg No—although I probably should consider it. (I can't absorb information from audio books *at all* so it's a non-consideration on my part, although the market has exploded in recent years.)
Does anyone else refer to their manager's manager as their grandmanager?
@yogthos Dont even need to read him to realize it.
Ive personally not read any theory (im not a fan of book reading at all, sue me) and i just started pondering one day "hey, so how come by renting you can make infinite money and still maintain ownership?"
And then you dig deeper and deeper and realize that theres 2 types of money makers, the labour for money, and the "just sit on yer arse and have others make it for you". I think rent as a concept is the simplest way to explain this to, well, anyone... The more you own, the less you work.
Its modern slavery disguised as freedom.
Anyway i wanna finish off by commenting that i find it severely impractical to yell at people to read theory (something i see nutjobs online do all day every day)
People arent gonna sit around and absorb 100 year old books to be proven right or wrong in their day to day...
This is a utopian fantasy. Stay practical people, bread and butter issues. Bread and butter.
Èxit!
@spla crec que aviat treuràn una nova versió, em sona rebre el correu de "feature freeze" (parar d'afegir millores) per poder actualitzar les traduccions, que normalment és el que es fa abans de treure la nova versió.
#LocalFirst is the future of app development!
10 more days to submit your proposal to the Local-First devroom at the upcoming @fosdem ! Deadline is 5th of December.
If you are into local first applications, frameworks, libraries and want to show your work, sync protocol, #crdt, now is the moment to apply.
You will be part of a great lineup with all leading actors in the field, gathering in Brussels on the 31 of January afternoon.
More info here:
https://openlocalfirst.org
share and boost!
@scy das Tusky Ding ist schade, ich bin deshalb zur offiziellen App gewechselt, die für mich ganz gut funktioniert. (Visibility UI bei Masto ist immer so ne Sache, bin da auch nicht 100% happy)
@tante Noch ist der Leidensdruck nicht groß genug um die App zu wechseln, weil ich mit Tusky eigentlich recht zufrieden bin und Diversität im Ökosystem gut finde, aber ja :\
Was diese Visibility-Geschichte angeht, muss ich mich wahrscheinlich jetzt echt mal ernsthaft in Userscripts und Grease-, Tamper- oder Wasauchimmermonkey einlesen, das kann so nicht bleiben.
Ich würde auch Keyboard-Shortcuts nehmen, aber die gibt's für den Teil des UIs ja auch nicht.
@tcrouzet L'anarchisme n'est-il pas la continuité idéal d'un communisme qui n'est lui idéalement que transitoire ?
@denissalem Le communisme a toujours combattu à mort l'anarchisme. Le communisme est étatique, autocratique… que des valeurs épouvantables
The rumours are a per-mile tax for electric cars (on top of VED suddenly being charged) but no idea how they implement that? Check the mileage during each MOT and send you a bill ?
@decryption Seriously, that’s some serious weight loss. Well done. 👊
I’ve been struggling to lose weight, and it’s reached the point where I need to consider pharmaceutical support - but can’t think about starting that until I have a colonoscopy and endoscopy due to age and family risk factors, and that pharmaceutical intervention in question poses a general anesthesia risk.
Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
@sundogplanets "We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."
In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day.
It is a very promising start -
#Ireland #TDOR #Trans #TransDayOfRememberance
Source: TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) on FB
⬆️ From Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden on BSky, this is the translation of the Irish language text in Catherine Connolly's message above, so I thought I'd share that too 🏳️⚧️
"I want to send my greatest respect and esteem to the trans community, your families, and friends, and to those gathering this evening for this year's TDOR.
...
We recognise again that for our own part, we need to do our utmost to create a society in which everyone can live free from fear, a society that embraces diversity, and where every life is respected wholly. May their souls rest in peace [lit: may their loyal souls be at God's right hand)."
Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/sandraduffy.bsky.social/post/3m6fj6scppk2h
The month is drawing to a close, which means we will play #fridaygeotrivia this Friday.
The question will be posted the same time as always: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11 am New York 🇺🇸
Full details / rules / prizes: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-november-2025
Hope to see you here on Friday!
