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Denis
@rangelovd@mastodon.ml

It would be cool if websites had a way to tell browsers: "I have translations, and I can translate to this and that" so that people could use in-browser translation button to access human-written translation. I just had an interaction where I loaded an English website, immediately Firefox suggests auto-translating it, then I close the popup, and click the button on the website that opens a dialog with language selection.

Federico Mena Quintero
@federicomena@mstdn.mx

@vkc@linuxmom.net Middle-click paste is one of those "weird Unix" interaction things that really requires other "weird Unix" things to work well, namely focus-follows-mouse and the concept of an X11-like selection mechanism.

It broke when scrollwheels took over the middle button.

It broke when you slipped while bringing a window to the front, thus causing a selection in that other window, and thus losing the selection from the first one that you intended to middle-paste.

I loved it in 1996; not anymore.

Ars Technica
@arstechnica@mastodon.social

Cloudflare may pull servers out of Italy over order that it block pirate sites
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/cloudflare-may-pull-servers-out-of-italy-over-order-that-it-block-pirate-sites/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Gabriel
@gabriel@fedi.libresolutions.network

A country that arrests people for social media posts WILL make private communications illegal.

RE: https://qoto.org/users/reclaimthenet/statuses/115862318004334044

The Verge
@verge@mastodon.social

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source

Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

If you have a moment, file a complaint against X with the Apple App Store.

David Amador
@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. https://www.reuters.com/business/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-us-ipo-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-06/

Tommaso Gagliardoni
@tomgag@infosec.exchange

Commerzbank (one of the largest German banks) just banned GrapheneOS:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/28440-commerzbank-one-of-the-largest-german-banks-bans-grapheneos

ploum
@ploum@mamot.fr

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

Gianmarco Server Status
@gmgserverstatus@mastodon.world

The issue has been resolved and the server is back online.