Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member or volunteering for a youth association, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

Interested people may sign it using one of the two following links.

The petition in german language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

The petition in english language: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany

News article (German): https://www.heise.de/news/Petition-Open-Source-Arbeit-soll-als-Ehrenamt-gelten-11094436.html

News article (English): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Petition-Open-source-work-should-count-as-volunteer-activity-11095357.html

The petition is organized by @webvision.

If you're not a resident of Germany, go ahead and use this thread to organize similar initiatives in your country of residence.

#deutschland #foss #floss #volunteer #ehrenamt #freiwilligkeit #openSource #freeSoftware

@algernon gummy bears! (make you swallow a lot)

I had a particularly mind-numbing exchange with a chatbot today so decided to dedicate spare resources of one of my VPSs to #iocaine. I brought the domain online about an hour ago, and there are already dumb bots in the maze, continuously consuming my bandwidth and CPU.

/cc @algernon

@mattgodbolt @kouhai FTR it's https://xania.org/feed.atom

This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025

Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!

YT: https://youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: https://xania.org

libmicrovmi - A cross-platform unified Virtual Machine Introspection API library

https://github.com/Wenzel/libmicrovmi

https://github.com/the-P1neapple/WinJS-Microsoft-Account-Bypass

>you can skip the forced microsoft account during setup by accessing the hidden javascript console

@crcollins unfortunately part of the problem is that the independet stores UX was simply shit as if they didn't really want my money...

Every Sora AI vid. burns 1 kW hour & emits 466 grams of carbon. The Sora 2 platform alone emits nearly a quarter of the carbon of all Meta/Facebook.

👉🏻 https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/every-sora-ai-video-burns-1-kilowatt

The Algol68 compiler fronted has been merged in GCC and the very next gcc16 will ship it! Cant mention the author here, but good job Jose!

You can write '2' (0x32) anywhere in the filesystem of a Linux-based network switch. How do you get root?

That's basically what my talk at GreHack conference was about - enjoy!
https://youtu.be/F4CudbWHZ7Y?t=504 https://youtu.be/X-ZJH4d2tuE?t=1162

Some old buildings from the era of socialism in Hungary #Modernism
https://telex.hu/foto/2025/11/29/balaton-modern-epiteszet

It's 2025 and I tried to buy a book online:
- Had to register a new account
- Had to chat with a bot
- Had a card declined
- Fell back to rent instead of buy
- Got an OTP SMS
- Still can't download the book

I now have a pirated copy (took 2 clicks) and my refund is on the way.

@zhuowei calc was reworked to an uwp (?) thing that did cause some frustration! I usually aim for notepad (not for long with the copilot crap) or mspaint these days...

Look! I made a thing. Maybe it'll help you make something too!

I got tired of wiring up input pre-amps on every new project, so I made a breadboard compatible module with a nice quality audio OpAmp. So if you do #synthdiy or other DIY electronics, maybe this can save you time too!

https://lectronz.com/products/protosynth-preamp

@pancake You can generate the XML when you generate HTML, then there are RSS->Fedi bots that will bridge it to Fedi for you.

Pro-Tip, you can turn your crummy “consumer” SSD (mostly) into an enterprise drive by formatting it correctly.

You can easily get 10x endurance by giving up ~5% of space.

Crucial MX500 1TB: 0.2 DWPD
Micron 5300 PRO 960GB (same NAND!): 1.5 DWPD

my favorite thanksgiving tradition is the annual grill software update
https://bird.makeup/users/hardpass4/statuses/1463886150171566084