The third release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready!

It addresses UX concerns regarding quotes and post privacy, now warning when you quote someone in a followers-only post, and preventing quotes in Private Mentions.

It also includes a few other bugfixes.

We are planning to release the final 4.5.0 version tomorrow, so please test this release candidate if you can!

Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0-rc.3

#mastoadmin

The guy who predicted the 2008 economic crisis in The Big Short - played by Christian Bale in the movie - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-11-04-2025/card/michael-burry-is-back-with-two-big-shorts-palantir-and-nvidia-zQA6SOnar36KPg0BtGQS

A documentary featuring mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

If you're interested in the reform of #CouncilTax -- which you should be -- there's a current consultation you can respond to, and should. It isn't, of course, nearly radical enough -- it's an exercise in turd-polishing, not in seriously trying to address the problem. But the more people who say so, the more likely we are to get real change.

#ScotPol

https://www.gov.scot/publications/consultation-future-council-tax-scotland/

Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out now! Get it here 👉 https://ter.li/iu8ej5

#Tech #GenAI #AI

If ever you wanted to know how much capitalism warps our humanity, consider this: Around 800,000 people in the UK are so sick that they cannot work. And instead of being described as a health crisis, it's being called an economic crisis.

"For nearly 20 years, the [ #SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.

When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT rights, they faltered and kicked the can down the road"

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/

# "Upgrading our time recording system from Kimai v1 to Kimai v2"

Brief notes on upgrading one of the many amazing pieces of Free software that I use day to day: Kimai, a self-hostable, Free software, time tracking tool.

(Also here! @kimai)

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/upgrading-our-time-recording-system-from-kimai-v1-to-kimai-v2/

#FOSS #Linux #Kimai

An essay on the struggle of the industry and press to define use cases for early personal computers and convey their value, the rise of application software, and the role of software publishers. The rest of the site is great too.

https://technicshistory.com/2025/11/02/the-useful-personal-computer

#pc #retrocomputing

Rampeenee sostiene che, nella "SUA new york", ora ci sia il panico per il rischio della "caccia all'ebreo", che l'elezione di un sindaco propal potrebbe innescare. Al tempo stesso butta là il fatto che è Soros a finanziarlo - così, tanto per evocare congiure ataviche. Soros che però è ebreo. Quindi dicevamo paura tra jewish e dem moderati per il sindaco che è "estremista", sì, ma al tempo stesso "contattato da wall street". E in questo calderone di insinuazioni risentite spacciate per analisi politica, in cui vale tutto e il suo contrario, l'unico che non ha paura, sempre secondo John Rampo, è il caro leader CHRAMP, che anzi userà ny come "la vetrina degli errori" della sinistra. Che è come dire: all'agone politico conviene partecipare per perdere.
Dai, anche oggi, l'assegno da 6k staccato in via Solferino è ben meritato.

@colman @ALFA

Secondo me sono cose distinte. Problemi di driver WiFi su Linux oramai sono scomparsi tranne che per robaccia di sottomarca da 200€. La mancanza di porta ethernet più che altro è data dal fatto che permette di usare forme molto sottili e parte del pubblico cerca quello, molti si sono pure scordati dell esistenza di qualcosa di diverso dal WiFi (e poi non capiscono che le per quello che le loro reti domestiche fanno schifo nonostante le connessioni in fibra). Le marche di computer serie comunque la porta rj45 ce l hanno sempre tranne che sulle macchine pensate come ultrasottili o per essere usate principalmente tramite docking station

Les comparatifs d'assurance respectueux des données personnelles / vie privée : ça existe ?? Merci pour vos lumières...

Le partage soigne les ongles incarnés et les mycoses.

@electrocutie@plush.city @halcy@icosahedron.website Oh, sorry. You slipped into the low detail area of the sim.

#curl Windows 8.17.0 builds are available for download, now with #trurl included: https://curl.se/windows/ It's also possible to sponsor these builds now: https://github.com/curl/curl-for-win

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2_mPr9W8