Brendan Abolivier
@brendan.abolivier.bzh
He/him. Making computers go beep and servers go boop. Currently working on @thunderbird.net at @mozilla.org, previously @matrix.org, @cozy.io. Ranting about FOSS and human rights. Proud Breton. EN/FR
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Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
blog.thunderbird.net
We did it! After over 20y, Thunderbird just spawned support for a new email protocol 🎉
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Ayant encore un compte X inactif, j'ai pu vérifié le négationisme dont fait preuve l'IA Grok. x.com/grok/status/...
Car j'y croyais pas. Et c'est vrai. On signale sur Pharos. EN MASSE.
bsky.app/profile/maza...
Car j'y croyais pas. Et c'est vrai. On signale sur Pharos. EN MASSE.
bsky.app/profile/maza...
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ayant encore un compte X inactif, j'ai pu vérifié le négationisme dont fait preuve l'IA Grok. x.com/grok/status/...
Car j'y croyais pas. Et c'est vrai. On signale sur Pharos. EN MASSE.
bsky.app/profile/maza...
Car j'y croyais pas. Et c'est vrai. On signale sur Pharos. EN MASSE.
bsky.app/profile/maza...
We did it! After over 20y, Thunderbird just spawned support for a new email protocol 🎉
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
blog.thunderbird.net
November 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We did it! After over 20y, Thunderbird just spawned support for a new email protocol 🎉
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
It's really been a privilege leading this project towards this amazing milestone, and helping a piece of software I've loved for over a decade take a significant step towards broadening and modernising itself.
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
blog.thunderbird.net
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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On rappelle que le gars qui a fourni les armes au commando qui a frappé l'Hyper Cacher est un cadre du FN 59. Son rôle était "d'accentuer le climat d'insécurité dans certains quartiers"
blogs.mediapart.fr/vilmauve/blo...
blogs.mediapart.fr/vilmauve/blo...
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
On rappelle que le gars qui a fourni les armes au commando qui a frappé l'Hyper Cacher est un cadre du FN 59. Son rôle était "d'accentuer le climat d'insécurité dans certains quartiers"
blogs.mediapart.fr/vilmauve/blo...
blogs.mediapart.fr/vilmauve/blo...
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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NieR Automata genuinely might be one of the most important game releases of all time explicitly because of how it directly inspired DXVK, yes.
www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...
www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NieR Automata genuinely might be one of the most important game releases of all time explicitly because of how it directly inspired DXVK, yes.
www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...
www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ni...
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📢 Attention, dreamers! 📢
Dreamed Away is now Steam Deck verified! Join Théo on his journey wherever you are 🏞️
Get it on Steam Deck here 👉 store.steampowered.com/verified/191...
#pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #godotengine #solodev #steamdeck
Dreamed Away is now Steam Deck verified! Join Théo on his journey wherever you are 🏞️
Get it on Steam Deck here 👉 store.steampowered.com/verified/191...
#pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #godotengine #solodev #steamdeck
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢 Attention, dreamers! 📢
Dreamed Away is now Steam Deck verified! Join Théo on his journey wherever you are 🏞️
Get it on Steam Deck here 👉 store.steampowered.com/verified/191...
#pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #godotengine #solodev #steamdeck
Dreamed Away is now Steam Deck verified! Join Théo on his journey wherever you are 🏞️
Get it on Steam Deck here 👉 store.steampowered.com/verified/191...
#pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #godotengine #solodev #steamdeck
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Cross-posting from Mastodon but, in case folks were hopeful about the Ladybird browser project: here's the main guy whining about "The Left" "going after DHH" mastodon.social/@alatiera/11...
Jordan Petridis (@alatiera@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image
"First they came for the Fascists, and I spoke up cause I was a fascist"
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1971287738268909576
mastodon.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Cross-posting from Mastodon but, in case folks were hopeful about the Ladybird browser project: here's the main guy whining about "The Left" "going after DHH" mastodon.social/@alatiera/11...
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Taxe Zucman : "L'idée qu'un petit impôt comme ça, puisse mettre à terre l'économie française, ça ne tient pas debout." L'économiste Gabriel Zucman répond à nos questions, et à ses détracteurs.
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/YlV
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/YlV
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Taxe Zucman : "L'idée qu'un petit impôt comme ça, puisse mettre à terre l'économie française, ça ne tient pas debout." L'économiste Gabriel Zucman répond à nos questions, et à ses détracteurs.
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/YlV
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/YlV
Getting in the headspace for the final volume of the Book of Dust series's release event with Philip Pullman tonight 🎧📖
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Getting in the headspace for the final volume of the Book of Dust series's release event with Philip Pullman tonight 🎧📖
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
📢ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Dreamed Away is ✨OUT NOW✨ at 15% OFF!
Join Théo and Louise in this mysterious narrative-driven RPG adventure in a dark & enigmatic world, and try not to lose yourself along the way!
Steam, Switch & Xbox links below! 👇
Dreamed Away is ✨OUT NOW✨ at 15% OFF!
Join Théo and Louise in this mysterious narrative-driven RPG adventure in a dark & enigmatic world, and try not to lose yourself along the way!
Steam, Switch & Xbox links below! 👇
October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Dreamed Away is ✨OUT NOW✨ at 15% OFF!
Join Théo and Louise in this mysterious narrative-driven RPG adventure in a dark & enigmatic world, and try not to lose yourself along the way!
Steam, Switch & Xbox links below! 👇
Dreamed Away is ✨OUT NOW✨ at 15% OFF!
Join Théo and Louise in this mysterious narrative-driven RPG adventure in a dark & enigmatic world, and try not to lose yourself along the way!
Steam, Switch & Xbox links below! 👇
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Eric Woerth, Bruno Le Maire :
- Nommés ministres pendant 14h, dont :
- 8h de sommeil
- 0h de boulot
mais
3 MOIS d'indemnité de ministre, soit 30 000 € minimum (DEUX ANS DE SMIC !!!)
L'extorsion par des repris de justice n'est pas où on pense...
- Nommés ministres pendant 14h, dont :
- 8h de sommeil
- 0h de boulot
mais
3 MOIS d'indemnité de ministre, soit 30 000 € minimum (DEUX ANS DE SMIC !!!)
L'extorsion par des repris de justice n'est pas où on pense...
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Eric Woerth, Bruno Le Maire :
- Nommés ministres pendant 14h, dont :
- 8h de sommeil
- 0h de boulot
mais
3 MOIS d'indemnité de ministre, soit 30 000 € minimum (DEUX ANS DE SMIC !!!)
L'extorsion par des repris de justice n'est pas où on pense...
- Nommés ministres pendant 14h, dont :
- 8h de sommeil
- 0h de boulot
mais
3 MOIS d'indemnité de ministre, soit 30 000 € minimum (DEUX ANS DE SMIC !!!)
L'extorsion par des repris de justice n'est pas où on pense...
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days.
His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.
If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.
It’s time to #FreeMario now!
His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.
If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.
It’s time to #FreeMario now!
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days.
His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.
If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.
It’s time to #FreeMario now!
His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest.
If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara.
It’s time to #FreeMario now!
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
Le rassemblement est maintenu en bas de la rue de Siam sur l'esplanade des Français Libres à 19h.
La préfecture du Finistère interdit la manif antifasciste qui riposte à l'attaque fasciste ayant fait plusieurs blessé.e.s à Brest.
Et c'est logique car l'Etat et sa police se rangent toujours du côté du fascisme. (C'est pour ça qu'il faut abolir l'Etat et la police.)
Et c'est logique car l'Etat et sa police se rangent toujours du côté du fascisme. (C'est pour ça qu'il faut abolir l'Etat et la police.)
La préfecture du Finistère interdit une manifestation antifasciste après l’attaque d’un bar à Brest par l’extrême droite
Quatre jours après l’attaque d’un bar par un commando d’extrême droite à Brest, la préfecture a pris ce mercredi 24 septembre un arrêté d’interdiction de rassemblement pour jeudi soir. Une manifestati...
www.liberation.fr
September 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Le rassemblement est maintenu en bas de la rue de Siam sur l'esplanade des Français Libres à 19h.
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It's a tough choice.
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It's a tough choice.
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Si vous avez enfin compris que sur le temps long, bluesky ne sera ni décentralisé (je parle en terme de gouvernance !)
ni un lieu de discussion fiable (le capitalisme ne l'a pas encore emmerdifié, mais ça ne tardera probablement pas ...)
un rappel que piaille.fr est toujours ouvert !
ni un lieu de discussion fiable (le capitalisme ne l'a pas encore emmerdifié, mais ça ne tardera probablement pas ...)
un rappel que piaille.fr est toujours ouvert !
Piaille
Piaille.fr est un serveur mastodon public francophone accessible à toutes et à tous.
Joignable via Tor ici :
piaillesmbiv4wjdy7no6r4eijsv6mlsp3cxrpy37dhmose2jwyqdrid.onion
piaille.fr
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Si vous avez enfin compris que sur le temps long, bluesky ne sera ni décentralisé (je parle en terme de gouvernance !)
ni un lieu de discussion fiable (le capitalisme ne l'a pas encore emmerdifié, mais ça ne tardera probablement pas ...)
un rappel que piaille.fr est toujours ouvert !
ni un lieu de discussion fiable (le capitalisme ne l'a pas encore emmerdifié, mais ça ne tardera probablement pas ...)
un rappel que piaille.fr est toujours ouvert !
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Again,
Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.
Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.
🙂🙃
No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿♂️
Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.
Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.
🙂🙃
No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿♂️
"Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book"
And, there it is.
ttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
And, there it is.
ttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/kamala-harris-book-trans-athletes-00573966
Kamala Harris cites concerns about trans athletes in her book
The Trump campaign attacked Harris over her positions on transgender rights. She says they were misconstrued.
www.politico.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Again,
Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.
Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.
🙂🙃
No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿♂️
Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids.
Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids.
🙂🙃
No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿♂️
Reposted by Brendan Abolivier
FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026: 31st January and 1st February
Brussels / 31 & 1 January 2026
fosdem.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM