The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 22 May, 2026

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Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit […]

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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional […]

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@[email protected] I’m eager to try the latest changes; I’m waiting for the update to appear in the FediLab repository. Congratulations on the outstanding work — I’m confident the app will enjoy great success soon. A little more patience, and be sure to prepare a timely sharing campaign and an attractive presentation to showcase Holos.

Discover Holos: https://holos.social

#Holos #Fediverse #FediLab #Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenSource #Privacy #Decentralisation #Android #FOSS #Linux #macOS
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#Holos 1.6.0 is available!

This release introduces desktop support with Electron on macOS and Linux. Syncs now use a sequenced bloom filter with WebSocket filtering that will avoid timeouts when starting the app.
The media viewer should be smoother, with instant thumbnails and a transition from the thumbnail position.

Full release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.6.0

#HolosSocial

Release 1.6.0 - tom79/Holos-App

## New - Desktop support with Electron - External translator support on Android (#118) - Translate button on posts (default disabled) (#122) - Sequenced bloom sync and WebSocket filtering - Dark mode splash screen (#123) ## Improved - Media viewer shows thumbnail instantly, loads full im...

Codeberg.org

The fundraiser for a new computer is still ongoing.

https://ko-fi.com/tom79

This machine is what keeps #HolosSocial, #Fedilab, #Castlab and #Fediplan moving forward on Android, iOS, and soon #Holos on macOS, Windows and Linux, from a single codebase. The current setup is reaching its limits.

Full story:
https://ko-fi.com/post/A-new-computer-to-keep-building-for-every-platform-B0B61ZONP2

Every contribution helps, and sharing helps too :). Thank you.

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Change of plans for this week, and I apologise for moving things around. I was supposed to get back to #Fedilab mid week for the 3.40.2 release, but I will postpone it. I am very focused on #HolosSocial at the moment, and stopping now to come back a few days later would cost too much in context switching, both in time and in concentration. Fedilab 3.40.2 will follow right after the next #Holos milestone (end of the week). (1/5)

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116586404387483213

Tom has already given us so much, and asked for so little. It would be a crime against the Fediverse if this didn't get way overfunded. #Fedilab has been one of the best Android Fediverse clients for years and #Holos is such an innovative idea that can truly help the Fediverse decentralize in a way that makes #Selfhosting easy and practical for virtually anyone. And that's just the start...

Please, go throw Tom some coins if you're able, boost and help someone already making the Fediverse better and better every day!

I've started exploring a desktop version of #Holos, and early tests are promising. It will be available soon for Windows, Linux and macOS

I will also work on the relay so it accepts several devices linked to a single account. Each device recovers its keys locally from the encrypted backup using the passphrase, and stays in sync through the relay. The relay only routes encrypted blobs, it cannot read the keys, followers or posts. Of course, it would remain up to users to decide.

#HolosSocial

#Mastodon #FAIL #ЕбанулисьНаОтличненько

Пользователь #Holos цитирует пост из #Friendica

...Слонопотамник тем временем ждет от кого-то какого-то «подтверждения»

P.S. «Цитаты» — зло.

P.P.S. На 3-й картинке то, что открывается по ссылке во френдике 😕

Looks like quoting posts and reposting might be a bit iffy on #Holos.

Quoting only shows my responses, but not what I’m responding to.

Reposting doesn’t seem to show up in other clients (Mona, Mastodon official).