social.pollux.casa

as foretold for many months, now that v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial is released, we have removed our mirror of the code from Github, and removed all our other archived repositories from there as well

all development has been taking place solely on @Codeberg for months now, we just didn't want to remove our repo from Github immediately when we switched, since people might have been relying on it; so if you hadn't moved whatever mirrors / build systems etc to our codeberg repo yet, you ought to do it

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' Released https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/2054218/ubuntu-2510-questing-quokka-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before!

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

https://writes.casa from @adele is such a lovely idea. It’s been out there for just over 1 month. You can submit posts to a weekly theme that are <= 1,000 characters, in English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese.

I hope more take up the invitation 😃

https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K429VH0XW3HF0R5HZM4ZFT2E

Rewrote Planify's markdown editor from scratch.

The old one was too bloated for what we actually needed - it was built for long-form writing, not quick task notes. This new version is way more practical.

**Bold**, *italic*, lists, links, `code` - all the essentials without the fluff. Faster, cleaner, and actually fits how people use a task manager.

Sometimes less really is more.

#planify #productivity #markdown #opensource #gtk #vala

Celebrating 15 Years of F‑Droid!

September 29th marks the anniversary of the open‑source app repository we all love.

Why it matters: F‑Droid’s mission aligns well with CoMaps—both champion Free/Libre Open‑Source Software (FLOSS) and community‑driven innovation.

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/04/twif.html
Post from 2010: https://f-droid.org/en//2010/09/29/f-droid-is-here.html

Let’s keep building a freer tech ecosystem together!

#FDroid #OpenSource #FLOSS

How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:

1. Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.
2. Test your site with no consent for user tracking.
3. Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.
4. Remove them.
5. Remove the cookie banner.

This month in Servo…

📐🖼️ inline SVG rendering
↔️🖋️ OpenType variable fonts
🃏🎛️ CSS.registerProperty()
🔣🤖 TextEncoderStream
🫗⏳ Iterator map(), filter(), flatMap()

https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/25/this-month-in-servo/

hello, does anyone knows how to enable #xmpp and #ip #collaborative tools/addon on #abiword ?

dont hesitate to PM me ;)

thanks:)

Lads lads lads lads!

Here's the first release candidate for v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial! If you're feeling bold, you can try this release candidate and help us find any lingering bugs before we release v0.20.0 proper!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc1

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version.

The migrations in this release are quite long (can take several hours, even!), as we had to rethread the entire statuses table to handle the new way we cache status threads (and to improve timeline performance). Please plan downtime accordingly, and most importantly hang in there and don't be tempted to interrupt the migration process!

Please also pay particular attention to the metrics changes, as we've significantly changed the way that metrics exposure is configured, so you will likely have to adjust your setup if you use GtS Prometheus metrics. For more information on the new way of doing things, look through this document: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/

Release highlights

• Big refactor of timeline code to use less memory and be (hopefully!) more responsive and less error prone.
• Support for scheduled statuses!
• Support for the focal point property on the frontend + over federation, so you can set focal point on your media and have it work properly!
• Notifications when a status you've interacted with has been edited.
• ListenBrainz widget on the frontend, so you can show off the music you've been listening to (https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#profile-fields)
• Instance info panel in the settings, so that non-admins on the instance can see which domains are blocked and explicitly allowed, and the reason why.
• Bunch of new themes for profile views!
• Config option to expose emoji endpoints without authentication -- useful for compatibility with some clients. Default value still requires authentication.
• Footnotes in markdown!
• Configurable thumbnail dimensions.
• Federation of avatar + header image descriptions is handled now, both in + out of GtS.
• The new hidesToPublicFromUnauthedWeb and hidesCcPublicFromUnauthedWeb are federated in and out now, allowing your instance and other instances that support these properties to transmit + respect preferences for the visibility of posts to render on the unauthenticated (public) web view of threads.
• Support for avif file format.
• JSON logging format, for easier log ingestion.
• Atom and JSON feed support for RSS (not just xml).
• Reworked metrics format, more + better metrics, and an importable example grafana dashboard.
• Domain permission subscription retractions are now handled properly.
• Probably a lot more! See below!

Thanks for reading!

Me in 2002: Dillo looks nice, and is way faster than Mozilla, but I don't think I can ever use it as my main browser.

Me in 2025: Dillo go brrrrr! XD

#No_JS_No_Problem! XD

#Dillo #DilloBrowser #NoScript #NoJS

You are kidding me!

This is the coolest way to view markdown files I've ever discovered:

lowdown -stman somefile.md |man -l -

#markdown #man #mandoc

@kkremitzki

That's right, I also use lowdown to convert my blog into gemini: gemini://tilde.pink/~rldane/gemlog

It's not a perfect conversion by far, but it gets the job (mostly) done. ;)

@rl_dane Very cool! Just to share for others, from `apt show lowdown`, "Lowdown is a Markdown translator producing HTML5, roff documents in the ms and man formats, LaTeX, gemini, and terminal output."

🗓️Get your #order in! 10% off my Beautiful Abandoned Places Calendar 2026

📷 Each month a full-page A4 photograph, enjoy the unusual beauty of lost places.
🔎 A short caption with history or the story
✍️The lower half has plenty of room for your notes/plans
📨 Calendars shipping now!

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/shop/calendars/beautiful-abandoned-places-calendar-2026/

#Photographer #Support #Calendar #Photography
#SupportSmallBusiness #Christmas #ChristmasGift #Calendar2026

🤦‍♂️ Why didn't I know about Masto-FE (🦥 flavour) before?

I've been searching for weeks for a good web client for my #GoToSocial instance – and then I finally actually read the text on the login page. 🙄

Classic case of missing the obvious! 🌳

So I quickly set up a new container with #MastoFE in #Proxmox and... nice! 🚀

Really like it! It's the familiar Mastodon web client (which is pretty good), but fully optimized for #GTS.

Running #selfhosted from my #homelab as usual - #privacy matters too much to trust anybody else.