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Fabrice Desré

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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Perilous bike ride today
2 signs by the side of a road: one reads “pets must be on a leash “ and the other one “caution tarantula crossing”
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@davidchavalarias cc @robin pour Eurosky
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
@ploum Aucune mention de la communauté Blacksky et des raisons pour lesquelles elle a choisi ATProto parce que le fediverse était un environnement hostile. Ignorance ou parti pris ?
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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 · 20/07/2026
@gabrielesvelto memshrink is back?
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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 · 15/06/2026
@number6 @jrconlin Do you seriously think that the switch from xul/xpcom extensions to web extensions is the reason of the market slip? (ignoring that the xpcom/xul model was a security nightmare).
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
@paul_denton Pas en retard, et surtout très bonne compréhension des enjeux. Il faut suivre @robin ici ou sur BlueSky où il est plus actif pour se plonger plus encore dans le sujet. Il intervient régulièrement comme expert dans les commissions parlementaires FR et EU.
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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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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026
@gabrielesvelto I bet it's actually cheap for Google. They have network caches (or used to at least for YT) very close to the ISPs, and this kind of payload is very cache friendly.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
@captaincalliope.blue uncomfortable truth: Claude actually read the docs at least
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
@timbray or not... blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-securit…
blog.mozilla.org
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
@mauve what if your custom element extends HTMLButtonElement ?
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
[flashing GIF] @mconley I see, very nice!
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
@mconley can you not do that already with your template string just being "@import url(my_real_css_file.css)" ?
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026
@gabrielesvelto Mostly agree about "software quality and optimization". We are suffering from insane complexity, which is in part warranted (eg. the security expectations have changed), and a lot of self-inflicted pain: piles of dependencies, useless abstractions causing a rising tech debt we […]
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026
@bagder Not that bad for the hobby of some guy! 😃
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
@jernej__s @whitequark please open issues for that kind of problems. It’s super useful
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
@hongminhee Fair points overall, but it's not just administrative fragility that comes with grants funding: it's constant overhead for builders, burning out, things that never even start.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
@hongminhee None of these funding models are healthy actually. Applying for grants every year or so is very fragile, and VC money comes with shackles. But you have to recognize that there is a lot more built on the ATProto side currently than on AP/Mastodon.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
@n1k0 "Equipe Dacia" :) J'imagine le script du support...
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
@gabrielesvelto very offensive for the people actually named Claude!
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
@gabrielesvelto Bring them this guy: www.youtube.com/shorts/eukHg0Ek3TY
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026
@dale The "trained on open data" bit made me search for the training corpus. It seems to be paracrawl.eu/index.php ? I can't find a clear indication of what is being crawled, and if the crawler respects the licenses of content any better than the current AI companies.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
@dale man, bad communication is happening all the time at MoCo with the same excuse. And if MoCo execs think that a second class citizen product will be in a good position when all the commercial OSes are baking AI into their foundations, they are not very competent.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
@dale tbh, that quote was just a little bit too easy to misunderstand and too tempting to dunk on for some people. Is no-one proof reading interviews at MoCo?
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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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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025
@delta About "support for multiple chat profiles/identities" : that looks awesome, but I can't find how to create a second identity in the app. Feel free to send me RTFM :)
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025
@yatil Maybe they complain there is so much *useless* Javascript. I don't think they advocated for the framework abominations...
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
Much better now with a fresh new layer of PTM 7950 😄
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025
Time for new thermal paste I guess…
An open framework laptop showing internal components
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025
@gabrielesvelto Sometimes I have mixed (pun intended) feelings. But it can be a way to get the sound that was intended by the artist given how we listen to music today.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
@paul_denton Et il n'y a personne dans la gauche française avec le 10ème du charisme et de la clarté de Mamdani.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
@sillyz.computer Check peergos.org . Great tech, but they are not so good at tooting their horn!
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Peergos
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
Pretty cool project: www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open…
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Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
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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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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025
@hsivonen I see it #18 on the front page right now
Hacker News screenshot showing gem.coop being in position 18
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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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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025
@bagder Probably any brand supporting CarPlay and/or Android Auto should be on the list
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025
@dale I still have a 6a (the "compact" pixel line) as a backup and it's a nice form factor.
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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 · 19/06/2025
@delta It's not a question of having implementations in different languages. Looks at browsers, on some OSes you can switch from Firefox/Chrome/Webkit if one is compromised, even though they are all mostly gigantic C++ codebases. Ideally there would be another independent implementation of the […]
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025
@delta Do you agree that having a single implementation is a weakness of deltachat, not a strength? Any 0 day means that 100% of users are vulnerable.
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Fabrice Desré @fabrice.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025
@simon Perfectly unbiased source, sure.
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