Kim Possible 
Happy #worldbookday2026
If you were going to recommend your top ten fiction and top ten nonfiction reads of all time, what would they be? Yes, it's hard to narrow it down.
Mishari (EN)
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FOSSASIAWe’re hosting the Digital Safety for Young Users Hackathon, powered by ExpressVPN on 10 March at #FOSSASIA Summit 2026. featuring a grand prize of 29,999 THB (~1,000 USD) plus additional prizes.
👉 Register here: https://next.eventyay.com/fossasia/hackathon2026/
👉 Register here: https://next.eventyay.com/fossasia/hackathon2026/
Juan Carlos MuñozAfter 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojjE
Vil until I at 39C3 [☎️59866]Quote from study on reCaptchas on university during 13 months:
There have been at least 512 billion reCAPTCHAv2 sessions, taking 819 million hours, which translates into at least $6.1 billion USD in free wages. Traffic resulting from reCAPTCHAv2 consumed 134 Petabytes of bandwidth, which translates into about 7.5 million kWhs of energy, corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2 pollution.
Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2
Since about 2003, captchas have been widely used as a barrier against bots, while simultaneously annoying great multitudes of users worldwide. As their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass captchas kept improving, while captchas themselves evolved in terms of sophistication and diversity, becoming increasingly difficult to solve for both bots and humans. Given this long-standing and still-ongoing arms race, it is important to investigate usability, solving performance, and user perceptions of modern captchas. In this work, we do so via a large-scale (over 3, 600 distinct users) 13-month real-world user study and post-study survey. The study, conducted at a large public university, was based on a live account creation and password recovery service with currently prevalent captcha type: reCAPTCHAv2. Results show that, with more attempts, users improve in solving checkbox challenges. For website developers and user study designers, results indicate that the website context directly influences (with statistically significant differences) solving time between password recovery and account creation. We consider the impact of participants' major and education level, showing that certain majors exhibit better performance, while, in general, education level has a direct impact on solving time. Unsurprisingly, we discover that participants find image challenges to be annoying, while checkbox challenges are perceived as easy. We also show that, rated via System Usability Scale (SUS), image tasks are viewed as "OK", while checkbox tasks are viewed as "good". We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study's results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated.
The CounterforceOn the heels of @demo_fest we are announcing another project:
January 2026 is Fediverse Punk Month!!
We encourage all hardcore punk underground DIY adherents to try spending January on the Fediverse with us. If you've been dabbling, try doubling-down. If you are already confident here, then spread the word and bring your friends. Let's get some collective momentum going!
https://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com has the pitch, info, and physical and digital flyers to share.
Sharing this around the Fediverse is great, but we really hope you will share this with people off the Fediverse! Post on other social media, and/or print out the physical flyers and distribute to local punks.
Scientists claim to have unlocked ‘secret sauce’ needed for fine chocolate | Food science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/18/scientists-claim-to-have-unlocked-secret-sauce-needed-for-fine-chocolate-cocoa
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/18/scientists-claim-to-have-unlocked-secret-sauce-needed-for-fine-chocolate-cocoa
Ever since I was introduced to Octalysis, thinking a lot about how Gamification can be used to improve the experience of contributing to open source as well as the community experience.
Aurélien GâteauDo you like birds? Do you own an Android phone?
Then you should enjoy whoBIRD (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whobird/) by woheller69.
This wonderful open-source app identifies birds from their chirps. It's fully offline (needs to download a 55 MB model on first use) and works really well. I enjoy walking down the streets of my village while this app is running and learning to recognize birds around me.
Augustine CorreaThank you, @fossasia , Hong Phuc Dong, @mariobehling , @mishari et al for an awesome #FOSSAsiaSummit. Grateful to all who attended my sessions and the folks who interacted with me across the 3 days. Will cherish our conversations.🙏
TuxPhones 
Really cool project from the French (and German) government: "La Suite Numerique", an open-source, collaborative editor and replacement for #Notion and alike
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
#foss #opensource #office
