The first release candidate of #Mastodon 4.3 is ready! We expect this to very soon become the stable release, but if you encounter anything unexpected, please open a GitHub issue! This is also the last opportunity to submit translations for new and changed strings in CrowdIn.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

Release v4.3.0-rc.1 · mastodon/mastodon

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will ...

^GitHub

It's the end of the month, time for another Pachli release, so #Pachli 2.8.2 is now available.

You can now save media to subfolders named after the sending or receiving account, and choose the behaviour when tapping a tab. And your reading position is remembered if posts don't fit on the screen.

See pachli.app/pachli/2024/09/30/2… for details.

Thanks to @bee8bit and @andreas_heitmann for suggestions, and to Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin and josé m for translations.

#AndroidDev

Pachli 2.8.2 released

Pachli 2.8.2 is now available. This release saves your reading position in more situations, allows you to put downloaded media in sub-folders, and adds an experimental preference to control what happens when you tap a tab.

^Pachli

We just released Mastodon 4.2.13 and 4.1.20. They contain a few bug fixes, a security fix (high severity, only impacting Ruby <= 3.2) and a critical security in a dependency is you use SAML authentication (CVE-2024-45409).

Release notes and upgrade instructions are available on our GitHub Releases page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastoadmin

Releases · mastodon/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodon

^GitHub

Um eine demokratische digitale Zukunft aufzubauen, muss die Macht der Tech-Konzerne begrenzt werden. Das fordern wir gemeinsam mit über 70 Organisationen in einem neuen Manifest.

Die Politik muss dafür:
✅ Big Tech zerschlagen.
✅ Ein offenes, vielfältiges digitales Ökosystem fördern.
✅ Den Menschen echte Freiheit und Wahlmöglichkeiten ermöglichen.

Hier das ganze Manifest lesen:
lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digi…

#BeyondBigTech #BreakOpenBigTech #BigTechMussWeg

Big Tech muss weg! – Ein Manifest für eine neue digitale Wirtschaft | LobbyControl

Um eine demokratische digitale Zukunft aufzubauen, müssen die mächtigen Tech-Konzerne zerschlagen werden, fordern wir gemeinsam mit über 70 Organisationen in einem neuen Manifest.

^{Felix Duffy (LobbyControl)}

It doesn’t start with Kristallnacht.
It doesn’t start with gas chambers.
It doesn’t start with concentration camps.

It starts with saying immigrants eat your pets.

🗣️ September 30th is #InternationalTranslationDay, and we want to celebrate the Language Leaders. They are helping us build an open-source, privacy-focused voice assistant that anyone can run.

Thanks to all your hard work helping us over the Year of Voice and beyond! 🍻🙏🏻

#OpenHome #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #SmartHome

Heather Cox Richardson reports that late Friday, Tennessee House Republican Caucus chair Jeremy Faison posted a statement online that President Biden had "finally" approved emergency funding for Tennessee after Helene hit. He made it seem that Biden had delayed approving emergency funding.

#Republicans #hurricane #Helene #Tennessee #lies #disinformation
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

September 29, 2024

Late Friday night, Tennessee House Republican Caucus chair Jeremy Faison posted “President Biden has finally approved [Tennessee governor Bill Lee’s] state of emergency request,” making it sound as if the delay in federal support for the state during…

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

@ai6yr Another fallout and an uncovering of lack of business continuity planning - Ingles pharmacies have all their prescription processing systems in #asheville so NO ONE can fill a Rx with them right now. We missed one when checking before the storm.

Pharmacist said if something is important and you can’t get hold of the provider, to go to an urgent care place and get them to write a new Rx.

Other systems like Walgreen’s and CVS can’t help.

Even when you plan, things go awry.

#helene

ChatGPTですか。ChatGPTのことはマリアさんに聞いてみないと

Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI macrumors.com/2024/09/30/apple…

#Apple #news #bot

Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

Apple has reportedly exited negotiations to invest in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, according to The Wall Street...

^{Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)}

The launch of Hub 9 was an amazing success! 🎉

Didn't catch all the details, new features, collaborative partnerships and performance increases?

🗨️ Federated Talk video calls
⚙️ Nextcloud Flow automations
🖌️ New Nextcloud Whiteboard
🎯 ... much more!

youtube.com/watch?v=EnT_OVfE4n…

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform!

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform!Key features in this release include:🦸🏾‍♀️ Supercharged federation fea...

^YouTube

The September newsletter is out and this month we celebrated @homeassistant's 11th anniversary! The project continues to age like fine wine with the community helping us move the Open Home forward.

Read on to learn about events we attended and more: 👇🏼 newsletter.openhomefoundation.…

#OpenHome #Newsletter #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

Home Assistant turns 11 years old

Welcome to the September edition of the Open Home Foundation newsletter, the place to learn about the latest and greatest things for your smart home that improve its privacy, choice, and sustainability.

^{Paulus Schoutsen (Building the Open Home)}

Die Idee eines #Versuchsballon:s:

Last uns bitte alle - und daher muss dies auch möglichst in alle Sozialen Medien verbreitet werden - die 45. Kalenderwoche eine Woche ohne Nachrichten über #AfD, #BSW, #Faschismus und diesem ganzen #rechtsextrem:en Kram machen.

Die Woche orientiert sich in ihrer Zahl an 1945 und enthält den 9.11. - zwei wichtige Zahlen/Daten in #Deutschland. Es sind Erinnerungen, dass Faschismus und Autokraten in Deutschland keinen Platz haben.

#KW45 #MachtMit #NazisRaus

🔥 Die neue FragDenStaat-Kunstedition ist da 🔥

Auf Anfrage beim Innenministerium in Sachsen erreichte uns die Akte „Umsetzung des Transparenzgesetz" fast vollständig geschwärzt.

Lediglich unsere Anfrage, die Teil der Akte wurde, ist ungeschwärzt – bezeichnend für die Transparenz in Sachsen.

25 Seiten der Dokumente bilden nun unsere neue Kunstedition.

🖼️Ihr wollt eine der 50 limitierten "Sachsen"-Editionen?
Hier geht's lang: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/eigene…

📢 3 years after our complaint the German antitrust agency (Bundeskartellamt) has decided that, yes, Microsoft is a big tech gate keeper.

Next step - they are going to supervise them. Maybe some day investigate.

Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to block competition. Even big tech firms like Google and Salesforce complained - and, interestingly, their complaints did result in relatively swift action from the European antitrust agencies.

nextcloud.com/blog/germany-rec…

Germany recognises Microsoft as tech giant - Nextcloud

3 years after a formal antitrust complaint by Nextcloud and 30 other European tech companies the German antitrust authorities (“Bundeskartellamt”) have announced that Microsoft is now “subject to extended abuse control” as they are determined to be o…

^{Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)}