Fedora Linux 42 released ( fedoramagazine.org )
What’s new?...
Wayland has a bright future ahead: The move from Xorg to Wayland had a rough start, but things have improved, and there is an exciting roadmap for the future. ( thelibre.news )
Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days ( support.google.com )
How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped ( www.abc.net.au )
With nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopedia in the world....
Microsoft’s Recall AI Tool Is Making an Unwelcome Return ( www.wired.com )
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data ( text.npr.org )
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board....
4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. ( old.reddit.com )
musk.sucks is up for auction ( sedo.com )
Domain is up for auction, would make a nice domain for a fedi instance
Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)?
Hi there,...
Civil society files Digital Services Act (DSA) complaint against Meta for toxic feeds. ( edri.org )
Civil society organisations Bits of Freedom, Convocation Design + Research, European Digital Rights (EDRi), and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) are filing a complaint against Meta for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Fediverse equivalent of fable?
Its like a book/tvshow club app where you can make groups to read books together and discuss them, see what others are reading, etc. would be cool for an app like that to encompass comics, manga, etc. as well. Seems perfect for the fediverse and they have some annoying monetization starting to show signs of ruining their app....
Japan orders Google to cease alleged antitrust violation ( www.france24.com )
https://www.jftc.go.jp/en/pressreleases/yearly-2025/April/250415.html
Does My Code Kill Palestinians? ( hasanibraheem.substack.com )
Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners ( electrek.co )
Tesla (TSLA) has to replace the ‘self-driving’ computer inside about 4 million vehicles or likely compensate the owners of those vehicles....
Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel! ( github.com )
As the title says, conduwuit has been forked as Tuwunnel which is labelled as the "successor with stable governance"....
Cats or dogs?
Cats. I feel very strongly about this.
China admits to being behind Volt Typhoon cyber activity targeting US ( www.cyberdaily.au )
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The Rise of Slopsquatting: How AI Hallucinations Are Fueling a New Class of Supply Chain Attacks ( socket.dev )
What FOSS applications do you use for habits, tasks, and notes?
I’m writing my PhD and sometimes feel like I’m losing my mind trying to balance home and work tasks, thesis tasks, personal and household habits, and potential connecting these to notes. I really struggle if everything isn’t in one place I can’t keep track of it....
RepRap - Open Source 3D Printer which can Self-Replicate ( reprap.org )
The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files ( youtu.be )
YSK you can use custom keyboard symbols(keys), so you can easily enter symbols like αβγδ, or swap : -> ; and ; -> :
Many people might already be knowing this, for example people who use custom keyboard layouts, or people using different keyboard layouts, other than US, which most manufacturers and operating system and desktop environmnets use as default....
Any suggestions for a self-hosted CI that can also be run locally?
I left Github a while ago and have been relying on simple pre-push scripts in my workflow, but would like to be able to test PRs from others without putting my machine at risk. Besides codeberg and radicle (neither of which have reliable CI), I also have a build machine, where I could run CI jobs, however it is important that...