🔝 16 artists/groups — 2025 — daltux

1. Iron Maiden (311)
2. The Beatles (221)
3. Raul Seixas (212)
4. Zé Ramalho (176)
5. Titãs (133)
6. Led Zeppelin (177)
7. Garotos Podres (111)
8. Engenheiros do Hawaii (106)
9. Tim Maia (104)
10. Legião Urbana (101)
11. Elvis Presley (99)
12. The Doors (95)
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival (84)
14. Capital Inicial (74)
15. RelaxMyCat, Cat Music & Cat Music Dreams (65)
16. Pink Floyd (65)

#ListenBrainz #PanoScrobbler #yearInMusic #retrospectiva #2025 #music #música #IronMaiden #TheBeatles #RaulSeixas #TocaRaul #BrazilianMusic #BritishMusic #MusicBrainz

Lembrei-me deste que vim a conhecer recentemente, embora não em #2025, em 2024:

:cryptpad: CryptPad :agplv3:

Não digo que o indico como "alternativa" a algo indesejado, por preferir o pensamento contrário: sempre deixar em primeiro lugar o que preserva as liberdades essenciais a quem utiliza software, ou seja, software livre, e nem considerar digno de sugestão algo que, comunitária ou individualmente, priva as pessoas do controle da tecnologia — software privativo.

@CryptPad@xwiki.com, projeto liderado pela equipe da XWiki, pode ser descrito, em suma, como uma boa alternativa à maior parte de :nextcloud: Nextcloud — igualmente sob AGPLv3 — ou a vários sistemas de armazenamento, compartilhamento e edição coletiva de documentos de escritório em "nuvens". Inclusive formulários de pesquisa. Seu principal diferencial é manter os dados cifrados no servidor, além de realizar a maior parte do processamento no lado do cliente-navegador, evitando sobrecarga na infraestrutura quando há edições de documentos por várias pessoas ao mesmo tempo.

É possível utilizar imediatamente alguma das várias instâncias de CryptPad divulgadas ou pode, entre as consequências das quatro liberdades essenciais do software livre, hospedar a sua própria.

CC: @almino@ursal.zone @manualdousuario@mastodon.social @gnu@forum.ayom.media

#TerSoftware #CryptPad #softwareLivre #dicas #recomendo #criptografia #privacidade

The Rush at Oxford Circus

At the end of a day of street photography we took the train back to Liverpool Street Station from Oxford Circus. That of course calls for the obligatory long exposure shot of the train coming into the station.

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Letters from an American – November 10, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, November 10, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 10, 2025

Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S. history.

November 10, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson

Read on Substack

Seven Democrats and one Independent voted with all but one Republican to advance a measure that funds the government through January 30 of next year. It includes funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, and operations for the legislative branch, or Congress. Tucked within that last appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece.

The measure stops the administration’s firings of public employees during the shutdown, reinstating them with full pay. States will be reimbursed for monies they spent covering for federal shortfalls during the shutdown. This means air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay for more than a month, will get paid again.

The measure also funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), although it does not restore the cuts Republicans made to it in their budget reconciliation bill of July—the one they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

While the measure provides more funding for Indigenous health services, it does nothing to extend the premium tax credits for insurance purchased on the Affordable Care Act healthcare marketplace. Without those credits, millions will lose their healthcare insurance and millions more will face skyrocketing premiums. Republicans did not extend the premium tax credits in their July budget reconciliation bill, although they did extend tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

Senate Democrats said they would not advance a measure to end the shutdown without a deal to extend the premium tax credits, but seven of them, along with one Independent, have now done so. Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) has promised to bring to the Senate floor a bill to extend the premium tax credits before the end of the second week of December. It will be written by the Democrats.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: November 10, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

#2025 #america #democraticParty #democraticShutdownDeal #donaldTrump #education #heatherCoxRichardson #history #lettersFromAnAmerican #library #libraryOfCongress #opinion #politics #resistance #science #trump #trumpAdministration #uSFederalShutdown2025 #unitedStates

Birthday Inventory 2025

It’s become a ritual for me to take a personal inventory on my birthday. I’ve done it in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. I’m in Montreal today, at home with my son Stavro and wife Maj. (Daughter Amita June is on her way home from a Thanksgiving weekend with her boyfriend’s grandparents.) I have some time before we start our supper (Mon Ami Korean BBQ) and evening birthday celebration (Jardins de lumière at the Botanical Gardens followed by cake and presents). I don’t usually refer to previous years’ inventories before I write, so some of this might be dupes of long-lasting issues. Apologies for long-time readers! Anyway, here we go.

• Health. The last year has been pretty rough on my health. After my car accident in Jun 2024, I’ve had a pretty straightforward recovery, but some parts of me are just never going to be the same. I’ve taken a long time to recover my level of exercise, though, and it shows in my weight. I’m carrying more weight than I have in the last 15 years — it’s starting to feel like a lot to carry. What I’ve previously done to lose this kind of weight — an hour or more of exercise per day, plus tightening up my alcohol and food intake — seems really hard to imagine. On the plus side, Stavro and I just started lifting weights again, four nights a week, after several months away from the gym. It’s great to spend time with him, and crush some iron together.
  • Teeth. I think I talk about my teeth in these inventories sometimes? Regardless: teeth are great. I had some fillings replaced this summer that had been slowly breaking down in the back of my mouth for 45 years. They’re now brand new and set to get me through the age of 102, I guess.
• Family. I think I mentioned my time working out with my son Stavro; I also have been getting time in with him while he practices driving. It’s been a good year of engagement. My daughter Amita is a little more distant; she’s been out of the house for about a year and a half now, in her own apartment. But she still sends us a good night on our family group chat almost every night, which is sweet. She just started at McGill this year, which was a really good compromise between our duelling goals: I wanted her to get a window to a wider world, and she wanted to stay here in Montreal. I have fingers crossed that she’ll be doing a semester abroad next year.
  • Relationship. It’s great. We’re probably more in sync than we have been in a long time. We are very close, talk a lot, and purposefully spend time together. Maj has her own work and her own life, but we seem to be relating really well.
  • Extended family. It’s OK; I’ve been doing calls with my parents and brothers and their families less frequently than in previous years, but we still connect about once per month. My uncles, aunts and cousins are harder; they’re usually on Facebook and Instagram, but I didn’t get down to New Jersey or out to California this year to see them. I’m realising recently that my generation is the one to deal with family issues like deaths or crisis; it’s hard coming to the understanding that we’re the adults in the room for now.
• Work. For the first time in a few years, “work” and “life’s purpose” are aligned in my inventory. Last year, just before my birthday, I finished my book about the distributed social networking protocol I helped create, ActivityPub. It’s been doing pretty well in sales, and I’ve done some events to promote it this year. I also co-founded a non-profit to promote the use of the protocol, the Social Web Foundation. I’ve been working on projects for the SWF for the full year, including further developments of the protocol, promoting its use at conferences, and writing reports about legal, technical or social issues with the protocol. It’s been exciting and fun. Maybe best of all, the efforts I put into standardisation at the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group are now part of my work at the SWF, so it doesn’t feel like I’m spending all my nights and weekends on a side effort.
  • I continue to do my work for the Open Earth Foundation as Director of Open Technology, leading a team of 10 (!) developers building software to help cities fight climate change. I’ve been working here for 3-1/2 years, which might be a record for me. In the last year, we’ve used the software to provide emissions inventories, risk assessments and climate action plans for 50 Brazilian cities, and we’re working on expanding that effort to all 5500 municipalities in the country. It feels like we have traction and product-market fit, which is really powerful and exciting. Over the summer, I promoted two technical leads to become engineering managers, so that I currently only have 4 direct reports, not 9. It’s relaxed a lot of my efforts, giving me a chance to concentrate on more strategic technology work and deep process engineering.
  • I’ve been working less on CoSocial than I did in previous years, but that’s a sign of the project’s strength. CoSocial is the cooperative social media service for Canadians that I helped get started a couple of years ago. Last year, I was re-elected to the board, but wasn’t chosen as President. I’ve done work in the Trust and Safety Working Group, and I still go to board meetings, but I really like seeing things take off at the org.
  • I also got asked to join the board at the North American Native Plant Society this year. Native plants have been an obsession of mine for a few years, and it’s great to get a chance to focus on them in a formal setting.
• School. I continue my remote Master’s degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. It’s been an amazing experience — I’ve loved the work in databases, software architecture, software engineering and computer networking. I know that after 35 years in the profession, I shouldn’t have anything more to learn, but the classes I’ve been taking have been really enriching and engaging, and they’ve really helped with my professional work. I am taking one class per semester, on top of my 1.5 jobs and other responsibilities, so it feels like a lot, but I really am enjoying it. I haven’t done the credits math lately, but I think I’m on the back half of the program, and should have a degree in a year or two. And, yes, I’m seriously considering applying for Ph.D. programs. Why not keep the party going?
• Home. Our house in Montreal was starting to feel crowded over the last few years, with four adults in a small townhouse footprint, but Amita June moving out has alleviated some of that pressure. On top of which, Stavro has been much more active in the world, working on music and playing in two bands. I often get the house to myself during the day, and some evenings I even eat on my own. The house is 100+ years old, and there’s way too many repairs that need doing for me to ever put time into, but it still feels like a home we can go into empty nester mode with.
  • Our country home is a source of a lot of joy. Located in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, it has rooms for everyone, plus dedicated offices for me and Maj, plus a basement and other usable spaces. The big back yard is full of native plants that are really coming into their own; I germinated some perennials inside this spring, and they’ve done pretty well when they were transplanted. The vineyard has bounced back from a year of neglect, with a lot of wood building up on the trunks. I think it should be ready to make wine next year (year 5).
• Travel. Travel has mostly been for OEF and SWF work — I’ve gone to Brussels for FOSDEM, Austin for South by Southwest, Brazil for our OEF all-hands, Vancouver for Fedicon, and New York for HOPE. I have more travel for work this fall. It’s been nice to see places I haven’t gone before, but I do feel a little over-stretched.
• Hobbies. My hobbies have suffered this year, as so much of my “spare” time is taken up with my second job and my master’s degree. But as mentioned above, I’ve taken time for gardening, winemaking, cooking, and making jams. One of my big hobbies, my daily Minecraft habit, has been put aside since BDS asked us to boycott it. Instead, I’ve been playing Stardew Valley on my phone. It’s a fun game, too, but a little more closed-world than Minecraft. I’ve also been to see a lot more live music this year than in previous years; Stereolab and the Mutek festival are two highlights.
• Friendships. They’ve been OK! I’ve spent more time with friends than in previous years. One thing that has been nice is having a number of visits by friends from the US or other parts of Canada or Europe who stayed at our house. I love showing people around, having meals out, and letting people get to know my family and friends here in Montreal. If you’re a friend who’s considered coming to Montreal, please reach out. I still need to put more time into friendships
• State of the world. The genocide in Gaza has been a constant concern for me this year. I’ve been participating in protests, BDS, and online groups as well as pressuring my political representatives here in Canada and in the USA. This very week marks the second tenuous ceasefire, with a halt to the bombings, an exchange of hostages, and a release of much-needed humanitarian aid. I want to keep up the pressure to make sure the killing doesn’t start again like it did last time.
  • Other politics have been eclipsed by Gaza. I have found it a reasonable litmus test to see if politicians share my values and concerns for the world we are in or are thinking about the world that will come after. I haven’t been as active in US politics, and the contributions that I’ve made have been filtered through that Gaza lens.
  • Working in the climate change space has made it, coincidentally, less of a focus in my political interests. But it is still the most important issue facing humankind today, and I am very worried by regressions in climate action, big and small.

That’s about all I can think of for now, and it’s time to go get supper, so I’m going to hit Publish and go eat. Thanks for reading this far!

#2025 #birthday #inventory

Birthday Inventory 2025

It’s become a ritual for me to take a personal inventory on my birthday. I’ve done it in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. I’m in Montreal today, at home with my son Stavro and wife Maj. (Daughter Amita June is on her way home from a Thanksgiving weekend with her boyfriend’s grandparents.) I have some time before we start our supper (Mon Ami Korean BBQ) and evening birthday celebration (Jardins de lumière at the Botanical Gardens followed by cake and presents). I don’t usually refer to previous years’ inventories before I write, so some of this might be dupes of long-lasting issues. Apologies for long-time readers! Anyway, here we go.

• Health. The last year has been pretty rough on my health. After my car accident in Jun 2024, I’ve had a pretty straightforward recovery, but some parts of me are just never going to be the same. I’ve taken a long time to recover my level of exercise, though, and it shows in my weight. I’m carrying more weight than I have in the last 15 years — it’s starting to feel like a lot to carry. What I’ve previously done to lose this kind of weight — an hour or more of exercise per day, plus tightening up my alcohol and food intake — seems really hard to imagine. On the plus side, Stavro and I just started lifting weights again, four nights a week, after several months away from the gym. It’s great to spend time with him, and crush some iron together.
  • Teeth. I think I talk about my teeth in these inventories sometimes? Regardless: teeth are great. I had some fillings replaced this summer that had been slowly breaking down in the back of my mouth for 45 years. They’re now brand new and set to get me through the age of 102, I guess.
• Family. I think I mentioned my time working out with my son Stavro; I also have been getting time in with him while he practices driving. It’s been a good year of engagement. My daughter Amita is a little more distant; she’s been out of the house for about a year and a half now, in her own apartment. But she still sends us a good night on our family group chat almost every night, which is sweet. She just started at McGill this year, which was a really good compromise between our duelling goals: I wanted her to get a window to a wider world, and she wanted to stay here in Montreal. I have fingers crossed that she’ll be doing a semester abroad next year.
  • Relationship. It’s great. We’re probably more in sync than we have been in a long time. We are very close, talk a lot, and purposefully spend time together. Maj has her own work and her own life, but we seem to be relating really well.
  • Extended family. It’s OK; I’ve been doing calls with my parents and brothers and their families less frequently than in previous years, but we still connect about once per month. My uncles, aunts and cousins are harder; they’re usually on Facebook and Instagram, but I didn’t get down to New Jersey or out to California this year to see them. I’m realising recently that my generation is the one to deal with family issues like deaths or crisis; it’s hard coming to the understanding that we’re the adults in the room for now.
• Work. For the first time in a few years, “work” and “life’s purpose” are aligned in my inventory. Last year, just before my birthday, I finished my book about the distributed social networking protocol I helped create, ActivityPub. It’s been doing pretty well in sales, and I’ve done some events to promote it this year. I also co-founded a non-profit to promote the use of the protocol, the Social Web Foundation. I’ve been working on projects for the SWF for the full year, including further developments of the protocol, promoting its use at conferences, and writing reports about legal, technical or social issues with the protocol. It’s been exciting and fun. Maybe best of all, the efforts I put into standardisation at the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group are now part of my work at the SWF, so it doesn’t feel like I’m spending all my nights and weekends on a side effort.
  • I continue to do my work for the Open Earth Foundation as Director of Open Technology, leading a team of 10 (!) developers building software to help cities fight climate change. I’ve been working here for 3-1/2 years, which might be a record for me. In the last year, we’ve used the software to provide emissions inventories, risk assessments and climate action plans for 50 Brazilian cities, and we’re working on expanding that effort to all 5500 municipalities in the country. It feels like we have traction and product-market fit, which is really powerful and exciting. Over the summer, I promoted two technical leads to become engineering managers, so that I currently only have 4 direct reports, not 9. It’s relaxed a lot of my efforts, giving me a chance to concentrate on more strategic technology work and deep process engineering.
  • I’ve been working less on CoSocial than I did in previous years, but that’s a sign of the project’s strength. CoSocial is the cooperative social media service for Canadians that I helped get started a couple of years ago. Last year, I was re-elected to the board, but wasn’t chosen as President. I’ve done work in the Trust and Safety Working Group, and I still go to board meetings, but I really like seeing things take off at the org.
  • I also got asked to join the board at the North American Native Plant Society this year. Native plants have been an obsession of mine for a few years, and it’s great to get a chance to focus on them in a formal setting.
• School. I continue my remote Master’s degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. It’s been an amazing experience — I’ve loved the work in databases, software architecture, software engineering and computer networking. I know that after 35 years in the profession, I shouldn’t have anything more to learn, but the classes I’ve been taking have been really enriching and engaging, and they’ve really helped with my professional work. I am taking one class per semester, on top of my 1.5 jobs and other responsibilities, so it feels like a lot, but I really am enjoying it. I haven’t done the credits math lately, but I think I’m on the back half of the program, and should have a degree in a year or two. And, yes, I’m seriously considering applying for Ph.D. programs. Why not keep the party going?
• Home. Our house in Montreal was starting to feel crowded over the last few years, with four adults in a small townhouse footprint, but Amita June moving out has alleviated some of that pressure. On top of which, Stavro has been much more active in the world, working on music and playing in two bands. I often get the house to myself during the day, and some evenings I even eat on my own. The house is 100+ years old, and there’s way too many repairs that need doing for me to ever put time into, but it still feels like a home we can go into empty nester mode with.
  • Our country home is a source of a lot of joy. Located in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, it has rooms for everyone, plus dedicated offices for me and Maj, plus a basement and other usable spaces. The big back yard is full of native plants that are really coming into their own; I germinated some perennials inside this spring, and they’ve done pretty well when they were transplanted. The vineyard has bounced back from a year of neglect, with a lot of wood building up on the trunks. I think it should be ready to make wine next year (year 5).
• Travel. Travel has mostly been for OEF and SWF work — I’ve gone to Brussels for FOSDEM, Austin for South by Southwest, Brazil for our OEF all-hands, Vancouver for Fedicon, and New York for HOPE. I have more travel for work this fall. It’s been nice to see places I haven’t gone before, but I do feel a little over-stretched.
• Hobbies. My hobbies have suffered this year, as so much of my “spare” time is taken up with my second job and my master’s degree. But as mentioned above, I’ve taken time for gardening, winemaking, cooking, and making jams. One of my big hobbies, my daily Minecraft habit, has been put aside since BDS asked us to boycott it. Instead, I’ve been playing Stardew Valley on my phone. It’s a fun game, too, but a little more closed-world than Minecraft. I’ve also been to see a lot more live music this year than in previous years; Stereolab and the Mutek festival are two highlights.
• Friendships. They’ve been OK! I’ve spent more time with friends than in previous years. One thing that has been nice is having a number of visits by friends from the US or other parts of Canada or Europe who stayed at our house. I love showing people around, having meals out, and letting people get to know my family and friends here in Montreal. If you’re a friend who’s considered coming to Montreal, please reach out. I still need to put more time into friendships
• State of the world. The genocide in Gaza has been a constant concern for me this year. I’ve been participating in protests, BDS, and online groups as well as pressuring my political representatives here in Canada and in the USA. This very week marks the second tenuous ceasefire, with a halt to the bombings, an exchange of hostages, and a release of much-needed humanitarian aid. I want to keep up the pressure to make sure the killing doesn’t start again like it did last time.
  • Other politics have been eclipsed by Gaza. I have found it a reasonable litmus test to see if politicians share my values and concerns for the world we are in or are thinking about the world that will come after. I haven’t been as active in US politics, and the contributions that I’ve made have been filtered through that Gaza lens.
  • Working in the climate change space has made it, coincidentally, less of a focus in my political interests. But it is still the most important issue facing humankind today, and I am very worried by regressions in climate action, big and small.

That’s about all I can think of for now, and it’s time to go get supper, so I’m going to hit Publish and go eat. Thanks for reading this far!

#2025 #birthday #inventory

Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.

#2025 #dystopia #Cloudflare #AI #human #web #tech #dev

Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.

#2025 #dystopia #Cloudflare #AI #human #web #tech #dev

Anche quest’anno, in occasione del suo X convegno, l’Associazione italiana per la promozione della scienza aperta premierà le migliori tesi di dottorato e di specializzazione o di laurea magistrale dedicate alla scienza aperta e presentate negli anni 2023, 2024 e 2025.

Le indicazioni sulle modalità di partecipazione al concorso, il cui bando scade il 15 settembre 2025, sono consultabili a […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/premio-per-tesi-sulla-scienza-aperta-bando-2025/

Anche quest’anno, in occasione del suo X convegno, l’Associazione italiana per la promozione della scienza aperta premierà le migliori tesi di dottorato e di specializzazione o di laurea magistrale dedicate alla scienza aperta e presentate negli anni 2023, 2024 e 2025.

Le indicazioni sulle modalità di partecipazione al concorso, il cui bando scade il 15 settembre 2025, sono consultabili a […]

https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/premio-per-tesi-sulla-scienza-aperta-bando-2025/