RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117172222073531706

A must-read for anyone who uses LibreOffice and cares about the possibility of continuing to use it. Note:

“Advertising-supported software is funded by attention; subscription-based software is funded by the ability to revoke access; and data-driven software is funded by surveillance. TDF has ruled out all three of these options, leaving only the possibility of donations.”

And if you use LibreOffice at work, get your company to buy it. It’s the right thing to do, in the best interest of the company.

I know lots of folks like to say that EVs are like smartphones, and that after a few years their batteries will be useless.

Well, after three years and 30,000 miles, our 2024 BMW iX is routinely delivering upwards of 350 miles on a charge. For the record, that's 40+ MORE than the EPA rating.

It's not all good news (this thing eats tires like they're going out of style), but we decided to put a ring on this thing after our lease was up.

https://insideevs.com/reviews/806194/bmw-ix-ownership-lease-buyout/

New blog post: Proposal for a dedicated archive site for #Wikipedia

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/08/28/proposal-for-a-dedicated-archive-site-for-wikipedia.html

In February when English Wikipedia banned usage of archive.today there was a bit of a crisis in needing to find alternative archives.

As far as I know, no solution has actually materialized, so I thought I'd at least write down my idea.

In short, I think the social and legal parts of this are far harder to get right; in comparison the technology seems pretty straightforward.

@jorges no, Liberapay and PayPal are gone, our bank account is at heavy risk. We will communicate when we'll have a secure channel to receive money.

Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.

Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.

@marcoarment @martimw Do you use the free plan or did you upgrade to the paid ones?

New entry has been added to the capability registry https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/915/files

Name: RFC-9421 signatures using the ml-dsa-44 algorithm
ID: https://c2sp.org/httpsig-pq@v1.0.0#ml-dsa-44

New entry has been added to the capability registry https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/915/files

Name: RFC-9421 signatures using the ml-dsa-44 algorithm
ID: https://c2sp.org/httpsig-pq@v1.0.0#ml-dsa-44

New entry has been added to the capability registry https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/915/files

Name: RFC-9421 signatures using the ml-dsa-44 algorithm
ID: https://c2sp.org/httpsig-pq@v1.0.0#ml-dsa-44

New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/six-problems-with-talking-about-the-ethical-or/

w/ @deccamuldowney

Marre des aperçus IA dans Google, mais vous voulez rester sur ce moteur ? Voici comment faire dans Firefox :

1. Rendez-vous dans Paramètres > Recherche > Ajouter un moteur de recherche
2. Renseignez en nom “Google Web” et en URL “https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s”
3. Enregistrez le moteur de recherche et définissez-le par défaut

Source : https://www.lesnumeriques.com/intelligence-artificielle/desactivez-les-reponses-ia-de-google-en-une-minute-sur-chrome-firefox-et-safari-n259612.html (qui propose la même chose pour Chrome et Safari).

Qui utilise un autre moteur sans IA et veut partager son expérience ?

@Lyle One fun thing to do in Richmond is to go to the Edgar Allen Poe museum in Richmond, which is as much a monument to a collective act of an obsessive fan subculture as it is of Poe himself, and remember that the Poe "shrine" was being built and the museum's extensive collection assembled around the same time that the monuments were being put in.

I got nothing written to associate the two but it's hard not to see it as "the earliest modern goths saw what was happening on Monument Ave. and said nuh huh we're gonna stan our own legend."

Gajim 2.6.0 has been released! 🎉

Gajim now adapts responsively to window size changes. 🪟
This release comes with many small improvements and bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

https://gajim.org/posts/2026-08-27-gajim-2.6.0-released/

@fartnuggets @carstenfranke This should sort you out for Android Auto:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1954v7e/setting_up_android_auto/

hey @steve @joe this guy at apple is covering up incredibly obvious string parsing vulns in fontconfig

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/f478a15206a27a130215f13d5cc1edab2ce9e229

he only reopened the issue after:

Perhaps it would be better if I bring this up as an issue on the fontconfig gitlab page instead.

• the "fix" which introduced several vulns at once was here
• the issue that justified the "fix" with all the vulns
• the "out of memory error" message is hardcoded to occur infinitely often including normal application errors
• the original patch adding ~/ glob support is also obviously full of the vulns it introduced

i do not think apple users should be incorporating this library into the system at all since the same user who created all these issues continues to commit several times a day and jeremy hu is pulling it in to xquartz. and its whining about out of memory errors sounds like something that will make your job harder too

on linux we don't have shame we have to build our own stuff but this shouldn't be happening at a corporation whose marketing is synonymous with security and privacy

thx hope you have a great friday. not gonna harrass either of you about it just hoping it gets fixed

"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jilliancyork told @reasonmagazine. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

Reviewing a paper, and I'm pleased to see that they cite me. Less pleased to see it's a paper that I never wrote.

Chatgpt is ruining science.

A quick recap of @atproto.nyc@bsky.brid.gy community day! Shoutout to @marisa.blacksky.team@bsky.brid.gy and @jdot.blacksky.team@bsky.brid.gy for giving an amazing talk and engaging workshop!

@sjvn The revolution devours its own children