I was just thinking to myself "It would be good if #Mastodon let you follow someone's original posts without seeing all the stuff they boost, which is not relevant to me".

Then it occurred to me to look and see if it does ... and it does! Click on the person's username, then click the three-dots menu near top right of their profile, then choose "Hide boosts from …"

This is a game-changer!

Daughter reports she has been blocked from Wikipedia due to the UK online safety bill.

She is 24.

She like literally everyone is just using VPN to circumnavigate the issues.

You all know about Stirling-PDF, don't you?

https://stirlingpdf.io/

A superb, FOSS, toolbox full of PDF manipulation, signing etc. tools.

This link is to the hosted version, so you can have a play but you can, of course, self-host your own version should you wish.

I haven't got "signing a PDF with a .p12 cert" working yet, but other than that, it is very convenient, even from a phone's web browser.

#FOSS #PDF #selfhosting

You're on a ship hurtling through space and your crew's best engineers report that critical sub-systems - from water filtration, through to HVAC and food pods - are all failing. Evidence of sabotage. What do you do?

World's governments:

"Governments failed to reach a consensus [...] Many were forced to leave the talks early to catch flights, and negotiations were suspended at 8.30am when fewer than half of the countries were present"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/03/cop16-ends-in-disarry-and-indecision-despite-biodiversity-breakthroughs

#biodiversity

“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/

Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading