F-droid themselves gave an update in April:

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/04/03/twif.html

If you’ve been holding off updating Syncthing-Fork we have two pieces of news for you. First, the original dev continues to collaborate still, we know this was a pain point back then. Second, we’ve just added BasicSync, A simple app for running Syncthing, which just controls Syncthing’s running behaviour as hands off as possible, while the original service hums in the background.

So it seems since the handover things have settled but there is also a new fork which takes a more bare-bones approach.

Braincup is great!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.inspiredandroid.braincup

Train your brain with fun mini games that challenge your memory, focus, logic and math skills. Braincup offers 15 brain training exercises designed to sharpen your mind and improve concentration.

Have you tried stomach massage? It can help. If he’s spending time sitting on the toilet anyway maybe try a massage instead. Might also help diffuse any mental anxiety/pressure about toileting by adding something new. Could take time and effort to have an effect so approach with patience.

Also I assume your paediatrician has mentioned the usual things that can help: hydration, walking, fiber. Small changes can add up.

First time I’ve heard of that, this video seems to back it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw

Depending on the fan 50cm or more from the window is about right for max flow

A shame one of the alternatives mentioned in the article is down but available via wayback machine. They wrote their own reply after being linked to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250905155850/https://belkadan.com/blog/2023/11/GitMounter/

A few days ago Julia Evans posted this:

has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit?

the idea is that you could just run cd COMMIT_ID and poke around instead of checking out the commit

and maybe the branches could be symbolic links to the commit folders?

And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing with FUSE! But I never put it up anywhere cause it had an annoying build process, and didn’t seem to add much, and—

Well, in any case, Evans asked to see it, so here it is, cleaned up to be a plain old SwiftPM package. It should work on macOS and on Linux as long as you have FUSE (macFUSE or libfuse-dev), libgit2, pkg-config, and Swift installed; on Linux you’ll have to create the mount directory first. (If you run the command and it fails it’ll tell you what path it tried to use.)

% swift run mount-git /path/to/checkout

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By the way, if you don’t know who Julia Evans is, they make blog posts and zines exploring all sorts of software in a way accessible to newbies and veterans alike, all with a lovely sense of discovery and enjoyment. This follow-up post to the original prompt really underscores their approach:

guys this is such a fun idea I cannot believe people are in the replies trying to explain to me why they think it is impractical

the whole point of computers is to do impractical things and see what happens

You should definitely follow them and/or subscribe to their newsfeed. :-)

There is also 24 hour cool-off period on installing APKs I didn’t see mentioned:

https://dev.to/alanwest/how-to-handle-androids-new-24-hour-sideloading-delay-in-your-apk-distribution-16i4

Combine that with a new capatcha that requires Google Play:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/

…and it’s clear which way things are headed.

Same experience as quoted - I used to use it. Once you have it ‘trained’ it’s good to know the bad stuff is not getting through but it’s a pain to maintain and for every new site you visit it takes experimentation to get the right setup.

You really want to share the pain of setup with other privacy people which is how ublock works with its lists I think.

Thanks for that info. I did some more digging but could find no definitive statement that Disconnect the extension is completely redundant in FF. In fact with FF’s ‘enhanced tracking protection’ on I can see that the Disconnect extension STILL reports it is blocking domains that presumably FF has missed. The mystery continues.

Grateful the SFC has got users’ backs!

404 Media seem to be doing a great job, support independent media!

…[the group] has claimed responsibility for similar DDoS attacks on the likes of eBay’s Japan and US divisions, as well as BlueSky in just the past month alone.

Why the group is targeting London-based Canonical remains unclear and no reason was given via its Telegram channel. It is presumably because Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distros.

This is the meat of the headline:

For example, the Anthropic-claimed 181 Firefox exploits ran with the browser sandbox turned off and the FreeBSD exploit transcript “shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy.”

Additionally, the “‘thousands of severe vulnerabilities’ extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos,” Devansh said.

Another researcher, Davi Ottenheimer, pointed out that the security section (Section 3, pages 47-53) of Anthropic’s 244-page documentation “contains no count of zero-days at all. With no CVE list, no CVSS distribution, no severity bucket, no disclosure timeline, no vendor-confirmed-novel table, no false-positive rate.”

Ottenheimer likens it to “the ending of the Wizard of Oz, a sorry disappointment about a model weaponizing two bugs that a different model found, in software the vendor had already patched, in a test environment with the browser sandbox and defense-in-depth mitigations stripped out.”

He’s talking about a physical object, something you have on your desk that you can pick up and prove your identity to the person on the other end of the video call.

Reminds me of the ‘totems’ in Inception, except they were to prove to yourself you were not in a dream.

From the github if you were wondering:

Free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Catalog clothes, build outfits, PWA. Docker one-liner deploy.

I think all these measures are designed to slow the flow, spread the storage of the rain across more places so it can cope with the larger downfall in the short-term, buying time for it all to flow away once it has passed.

There are similar ideas in UK with reintroduction of beavers who transform land into spongey floodplains that can tolerate much more rainfall before spilling over.

On the positive side the PMOS device wiki for Fairphone 4 is accurate to what he discovered i.e. audio, battery and calls not yet fully working:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp4)

I mention https://lemmy.ca/c/linuxphones in case you’ve not found it already. It’s not like an authoritive, central forum where everyone goes but maybe it’s a start.

The bloom visual at around 1m24s is so helpful

I assume they hope that their added license condition of an ‘obligation to retain the original product logo’ is a ‘reasonable…author attribution’ (AGPL section 7b). Hmm.

They invite the FSF to judge:

If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative. However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options.

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/interview-with-lev-bannov-ceo-at-onlyoffice-on-the-euro-office-situation