Hello Fedi friends!

A routine reminder that Open Source Conference Luxembourg @oscl has a new track about "Decentralized Technologies for Digital Sovereignty".

⌛ You have until Sunday to apply for a talk. Areas of interest:

- Federated technologies in the public sector
- Decentralized platforms for video, chat, communications, code...
- Self-hosted solutions
- Interoperability for resilience

Apply here:

🔗 : https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/cfp

And join @Gina @paolo & me in Belval on October 7th 🚀

17 palestinesi morti nelle ultime ventiquattr’ore https://www.articolo21.org/2026/08/17-palestinesi-morti-nelle-ultime-ventiquattrore/ #Articoli

Same person whom I helped with the XBox + new card thing had another problem: they have that Google Family Link thing on their kids' devices, and when the kids want to buy stuff from the play store, or in-game, they need approval from the parent.

So far so good, this worked fine for a good while, but in recent months, the approval stopped appearing at its usual place. They went to the parent's Google Play, notifications had nothing, and the "Budget & History" page showed past approvals, but did not show the requests.

Parents have Google accounts, tied to a GMail address, so it's not even a case of "lol, your accoun't ain't real google, fuck off".

After much trial and error, we discovered the problem: notifications were blocked for Google Play & Google Play Services on parent's phones. Once we unblocked those, the approval requests came in: both as push notifications, and when viewing "Budget & History" from the web, there too.

And I have questions1. Why do you need to enable notifications on a phone device to see approval requests in a desktop browser?

1. I still don't, I know the answer. ↩︎

Ah sì, il contrasto maglietta puntarella con la pioggia varesina. Un classico.

Ma io non ho ancora capito la “A” è la “A” degli anarchici?

#Akkoma #Statistics 2026-08-21 13:00 CEST
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#Fediverse

Mild bout of depression in my 40s, went to a counsellor. She listened to my recounting of my childhood and teen years quietly and then burst out crying. I consoled her as best I could and left, never went back and never been depressed since.

@lritter i think it worked because every generation experienced the same events and history timeline ...but now that changed imho

@researchfairy Once they destroy the paper books, leaving the text only in digital form, they can modify history in whatever way they choose. There are no accidents. #AI

Jour 16
Un jour, un article... un mois pour voyager au cœur de la plateforme collective visionscarto.net

Où est la France ?
https://www.visionscarto.net/ou-est-la-france
par Vincent Capdepuy

Une réflexion utile sur les relations troubles entre la France métropolitaine et ses territoires plus ou moins lointains...

#cartographie #colonialisme #impérialisme #frontières #OutreMer #visionscarto

@Edent I was told by one of my former colleagues that an issue I raised in 2019 was fixed after more than 6 years — more than 5 years after I left and three jobs (and one pandemic) later:

https://gitlab.developers.cam.ac.uk/uis/devops/devhub/docs/-/work_items/12

[Q:] if you were going to stream retro game play through at a European tech conference in Sept, what games would you like to see?

Age Verification schemes come with a wealth of privacy, security, and access issues. ZKP’s aren’t going to solve any of them, they just kick the problem down the road. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/zkps-arent-age-verification-silver-bullets

…We don’t have time to care so we’re engineering exponentials of not caring

World-class art in every room in the museum, outshone by sunlight and shadows on the walls. The art of architecture as art.

#FensterFreitag
#WindowFriday
#Aarhus

#fedihire #hiring #python #django #aws

UK based only - Senior Developer for The Electoral Commission // £70,000 // fully remote possible, hybrid at UK hubs also fine if your preference.

Fancy working with interesting data problems, and services that need to scale to millions of voters? You'll help bring a major voter-information service in-house and shape what comes next.

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU! We all need you. Plz.

Interested? I'm sole recruiter for this > thayer@team-prime.com CVs pls!

"The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown"

#Rewilding #Drought #Wetlands

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/somerset-rewilding-holnicote-estate-wetlands-rivers-resilience

À #Ceuta les mineurs migrants dans l’impasse https://www.dw.com/fr/espagne-ceuta-migrants-mineurs-maroc/a-78442592