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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

The Mozilla leadership keeps going strong with their twice a year mind blowing decision: this time they felt going back to the nazi bar was the best move. Given how serious Musk is about destroying democracy in Europe, I don't see how any EU employee can stay at MoCo. You're not gonna change […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

With @mozilla VPN running on Mullvad infrastructure, can we know what they think about Mullvad's CEO being a fascist? Will they change providers? I'm a satisfied customer currently, but I will not continue if there is no change.

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Nice bicycle ride today. Always something to see at the San Gregorio general store!

A photo of the San Gregorio general store, with a harley davidson and an old alpha romeo parked in front. Also parked there, my blue bike.

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

What's the recommended alternative to Bitwarden these days? Ideally usable as a browser extension and self hostable.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

little teaser from yesterday's prototyping with @theawesomerandomness

it's a rough prototype of mnt reform touch, a currently thicc 7 inch oshw tablet

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 24/10/2025

Believe it or not: #deltachat is growing audio/video calls starting with the currently rolling 2.22 releases ... A few people already had two hour long stable calls :) Calls are an experimental option while we continue to work on reliability, UX/UI revisions, and configuration of TURN servers […]

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 10/10/2025

What an announcement from #Telegram owner Pawel Durov! To provide just a few critical notes, he - makes believe he is just a commoner, and not the billionaire owner of one of the largest message, media and metadata *cleartext* databases on earth - skips over […] [Original post on chaos.social]

screenshot of Telegram-owner Pavel Durov's message:
< Pavel Durov @ : 10.7M subscribers *

I'm turning 41, but | don't feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the
free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange
of information is being turned into the ultimate
tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian
measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age
checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private
messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares

to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is
imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is
criminally investigating tech leaders who defend
freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast —
while we're asleep. Our generation risks going
down in history as the last one that had freedoms
— and allowed them to be taken away.

We've been fed a lie.

We've been made to believe that the greatest fight
of our generation is to destroy everything our
forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty,
the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we've
set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction

— moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately
biological.

So no, I'm not going to celebrate today. I'm
running out of time. We are running out of time.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It's uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Image of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for a new book deal.
The text of the Deal Report reads: "REWILD THE INTERNET By Maria Farrell Imprint: One Signal, Continuum Irish tech writer and speaker Maria Farrell's REWILD THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESIST BIG TECH showing how to resist today’s toxic tech monoculture and grow a flourishing, competitive internet ecosystem where we can live better, freer lives, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal at auction by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA) on behalf of Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. UK & Comm rights to Octavia Stocker and Tomasz Hoskins at Bloomsbury Continuum by Antony Topping.
Translation: krizzo@greeneheaton.co.uk

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Dale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Is there seriously not a single web client that works for mastodon + bluesky? Openvibe seems like a decent enough client on android although I can't get it working for bluesky, but no web version? It feels a bit surreal that everyone seems to agree that the world is becoming ever increasingly […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Vu que Gandi ce n'est plus possible, quel est le meilleur registre de noms de domaines actuellement ? Bonus si Européen.

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Agregore Browser @agregore.mastodon.mauve.moe.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

If you're interested in helping out an #OpenSource project and use a desktop OS, try out these OS native window tabbing options and let us know whether they're fun to use and work with Agregore. github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-bro…

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

Just installed @elementary on an aging i3 with 4GB of RAM that was so slow running Windows. Night and day user experience

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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 11/07/2025

Good news! Our developments are back into full swing with major new releases expected throughout 2025 🥳 After the shock February dry-up of funding grants we recently secured substantial private donations, substantially helping to hit the ground running 🧡 #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Interesting that LLM/AI proponents are pushing so hard on that energy topic recently, while at the same time ignoring ethical issues and the fact that models seem to reach a quality plateau. "We're destroying the web but not the planet!" is not a great flex.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

i'm very happy to say we officially secured a second @nlnet grant this year, this one is for the development of "MNT Reform Touch", which is currently planned as a 7-inch modular, upgradable OSHW tablet powered by a Qualcomm SoC (probably QCS6490 initially, but will have compat to other MNT […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025

Malheureusement je ne crois pas que la gauche progressiste française ait dans ses rangs un duo de la qualité d'AOC & Bernie Sanders. On en aurait bien besoin pourtant...

Un poster de présentation de la tournée de réunions publiques d'AOC et Bernie Sanders

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

People on BlueSky think BlueSky is great, and people on Mastodon think Mastodon is great. It's not like you're forced to use one or the other, so what's the problem?

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2024

Can someone explain to me why nazis are good at rockets?

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Dale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2024

I had to go out to buy a specific version of the iPad in order for my kids to be able to do their homework. Educational policies aside, it was a sad reminder of what we are losing when we let the web be displaced by propietary apps.

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2024

The comments section in www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1f4s… about @drewdevault idea to write a Linux compatible kernel in Rust instead of fighting the clown-shoes maintainers is mostly a garbage fire. Let's hope this will motivate a few […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2024

Yet another reason why @organicmaps should be a PWA. Last time they got banned from a store, people answered me "But there is F-Droid"... Own your distribution, use the super power of the web which is to allow people to simply exchange links as a discovery mechanism! […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2024

Pretty interesting talk about Nostr, how it could evolve, with some comparisons with other social platforms: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU I don't think I agree with everything in this talk, but it's very level-headed.

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2024

And that's why Organic Maps should be a PWA, not a "native" app. fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/11297630…

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2024

Ha génial france.tv qui bloque l'accès au replays quand on utilise un VPN mullvad :(

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

@markhughes @lewiscowles1986 @josemurilo Yes we're all making assumptions :) Anyway, I'm curious to see how that will turn out!

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

@markhughes @heapwolf @lewiscowles1986 @josemurilo Sorry, but that's just wishful thinking and that didn't work for decentralized storage platforms so far. Hardware doesn't last forever, you will face costs to just replace existing storage and that doesn't seem to be part of your ideal world […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

@markhughes @heapwolf @lewiscowles1986 @josemurilo From the docs I've read you only pay once when publishing content to be stored on the network. I don't understand how you can guarantee "storage for ever" with that model. Am I missing something?

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2024

I finally read Mozilla's blog post about the acquisition of Anonym. - The solution relies on a "highly secure environment, ensuring advertisers, publishers, and Anonym don’t access any user level data". Coming from a company founded by ex-Meta people, confidence level here is zero. - It's sad […]

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2024

Has anyone taken a close enough look at these emerging decentralized platforms to compare them? - Autonomi (autonomi.com), formerly MaidSafe - Veilid (veilid.com) - Freenet in its new clothes (freenet.org) #dweb #decentralized #privacy

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2024

As a French expat on the US west coast, these days every morning is a mix of 🍿and 😱. Which is a change from the usual 💩 learning about the latest crap from the government.

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