Video player question for anyone who wants to weigh in:

From my personal perspective, I've never understood "Theater mode" as it exists in YouTube and PeerTube.

In the screenshots (showing PeerTube) you can see the regular player (first image) with the theater mode button [1]. In the second screenshot you see theater mode enabled, with a somewhat larger player area [2].

What I do understand about this is that it makes sense to have something between "normal player" and "full screen", i.e. a third mode that gives maximum viewing area *without* hiding your browser, window, OS interface, etc. (e.g. maybe you have another window next to it that should stay visible, or you want to see the time in your OS task bar, etc.).

But here's what puzzles me: Why is the viewing area in this theater mode as it is ([2], the red frame), and not the maximal viewing area that the page would offer ([3], the yellow frame).

If anyone has ideas/insights on that, happy to hear them! :)

(Context: I'm currently redesigning the video player in #Hyper8 and I'm planning four modes – in-page (default), full-page (somewhat like [3] in the second image), full-screen and cinematic viewing mode – but I'm eternally puzzled if and why theater mode is a thing and whether I'm making a mistake by not providing something like that :D)

🚨 A heads-up for anyone running #WordPress, #Moodle, #Nextcloud or other PHP-based services.

PHP has confirmed two critical vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2/10. Fixes are scheduled for today, 21 October, at 14:00 UTC.

Prepare to patch PHP, not just your applications. CERT-EU advises considering temporary isolation of public-facing services if prompt patching isn't possible.

It sounds pretty bad. Affected versions are not yet confirmed but I've heard 5.4+

https://www.php.net

#PHP #Security #SelfHosting

Kärtner Linuxtag 2026

Das Programm steht: Der Kärntner Linuxtåg findet am Freitag, den 30. Oktober 2026, von 15:00 bis 21:00 Uhr im IT-Gymnasium St. Martin in Villach statt.

#Kärnten #Linuxtag #Villach #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/kaertner-linuxtag-2026

Wow, October is almost over! Time to announce the new cycle of Feminist Linux Meetups in Vienna. Here's our next dates and topics:

* 04.11.2026 : Intro to using the Command Line with Bash
* 02.12.2026 : CSS – Cascading Style Sheets: and introduction
* 13.01.2027 : Containers in Linux: the bare thing without fancy Docker

Participation open to all FLINTA* folks. Check out our blog for more details: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/

#wien #technofeminism #linux 🏳️‍🌈 🐧 💪

BOOK LAUNCH - 20.10.2026 - Brussels, BE

We are happy to invite us to celebrate the launch of our latest publication. This fourth volume completes our chronological series, featuring articles published between 2022 and 2026. The content, a mix of articles and DIY guides reflects how Low-tech Magazine's focus partially shifted towards building prototypes inspired by historical research and alternative techniques.

The launch will be held at https://gilbard.be , who are generously hosting us for this evening.

ADDRESS
Rue de Liverpool 77, 1070 Anderlecht, BE.
18h00 > Door opens
18h30 > Book presentation by Kris De Decker and Marie Verdeil
19h00 > Book sale and drinks.

Poster by myself :)

The book is also avaialble online via our website (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/offline-reading/)

#lowtech #lowtechmagazine #lowtechjournal #solarpunk #bxl #bruxelles #brussels #gilbard

I received some very helpful feedback regarding the navigation in Faircamp 2 – namely that both the "foldability"¹ and the availability of contextual actions¹ for navigation items needs to be more discoverable.

So in 2.0.2² there will be explicit interface clues both for folding and for contextual actions! :)

Shout-out to @cubeofcheese and @zuggamasta who contributed critical insights for this!ヽ(⌒▽⌒)ﾉ

¹ Right now you can click the icons to fold/unfold and right-click (or use the "Menu" key in keyboard navigation) to access contextual actions

² Preview changelog: https://faircamp.org/changes/2.0.2/

#Faircamp

I've just packaged a debug Windows build of the very latest faircamp version – a preview of https://faircamp.org/changes/2.0.2/ if you will (commit 8d343724f1).

If anyone feels like testing, get it fresh from https://faircamp.org/packages/faircamp-8d34372-windows-x64.exe (direct download link, 48MB) :)

Note that you can use this one productively as well¹ – it contains only fixes and improvements (and lots of them at that). We are investigating a critical startup-crash with this one, so coincidentally more testing would be very welcome too.

¹ the only drawback of the debug build to keep in mind is that it is noticeably slower, especially with heavy computation like compressing archives

#Faircamp

After we’ve been aware of the fediverse and intending to make a mastodon account for many months, it took us hosting an event about “Reclaiming digital communication spaces” to actually make it happen.

Yesterday and today the 7th “Cross Movement Open Space” took place in #Vienna. The format invites representatives of local CSOs to meet and discuss a topic that’s currently relevant to their work. We’ve been organising it regularly for the past 3 years and this time around we were asking: 

How can we strengthen our digital sovereignty?
Should we say goodbye to big tech?

Over two days around 40 participants were discussing, workshoping, discovering and skillsharing around these questions. On the afternoon of day 2 some of the participants offered a “practical tips and tricks for starting your mastodon account”-session. One of our team members was there and got us on here. We are excited to have arrived and very greatful to @cypherhippie and @totientfunction for hyping the #opensocialweb and sharing so much of their wisdom and experience with us :)

picture: the session were we made this account!

#NeuHier #Wien #Zivilgesellschaft #civilsociety #openspace #Vienna

Upgraded https://faircamp.meljoann.com/ to the super-fancy #faircamp v2!

I've also updated my tutorial on how to get this lovely self-hosted music store running. https://meljoann.com/posts/faircamp/

TLDR: it's super easy now, 'cause it has a GUI! And brilliant video tutorials! 💜

Thank you @freebliss

📢 We are #hiring! Applications open until 21.10.2026 📢 We are looking for a data protection lawyer to expand our legal team.

▸ Workplace: Vienna (50-75% office presence)
▸ Internal working language: English
▸ Part-time/Full-time (20-40h)

Apply via https://noyb.eu/en/gdpr-litigation-lawyer #JobOpening #ApplyNow

Timeline integration for chapters in #hyper8 is now good enough to be merged yay!

Next up is the integration in the graphical editor. If time remains at the end I'll tweak the timeline design/usability a bit more, and maybe I can also implement chapter thumbnails if things go very well. :)

Mastodon für alle Studierenden:

Die Uni Innsbruck eröffnet eine zweite Instanz für alle Studentinnen und Studenten. Nach den Mitarbeiter:innen haben damit nun alle Uniangehörigen Zugang zum Fediverse über lokale Instanzen, angebunden an das Uni-Anmeldesystem via Single-Sign-On. 🙌

https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/social-media-mastodon-fur-alle-studierenden/

👉 @team

#fediverse #opencommunication #openscicomm

I've got an MVP for chapter support in #Hyper8 in place now. \o/ Next up is integration in the video player timeline and graphical editor. Tentatively planning to release this with 1.2 in November.

🚨 Save the date: 2.11. um 19 Uhr

Anfang November findet der 78. netzpolitische Abend in Wien zum Thema "Digitale Souveränität" statt.

Mit dabei:

Nicolas Stocker (Österreichisches Bundesheer)

Christof Tschohl (@researchinstitute , Vorstand @noybeu)

und @samvie @offene_netzwerke

Moderation: @abaratsits @cba

🗓️ Montag, 2. November um 19 Uhr
📍 #Wien, Flucc

👉 https://netzpolitischerabend.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/77-netzpolitischer-abend-at-am-02-11-2026-im-flucc-digitale-souveranitat-sind-wir-diesmal-vorbereitet/

:BoostOK:

#netzPAT

Today in Vienna starting at 18:00 – the eight edition of the vienna #permacomputing meetup!

https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/117309965245044742

Faircamp 2.0.2 is shaping up nicely: https://faircamp.org/changes/2.0.2

There are a number of critical improvements and patches in there, but so far (in contrast to 2.0.1) nothing that needs to be shipped immediately, so this time around I'm going to still wait a bit and collect a bigger set of changes for the release.

Something useful that was just added: In the theming widget 2.0.2 will print pending changes for the dark and light theme simultaneously, instead of only those of the currently active theme. \o/

#Faircamp

If you have a small company in NL , that would like to become more “sustainable” , or aligned with being part of natural world (or at least minimizing harm..) , you can apply for this funding - so you can learn to listen to nature while making decisions : deadline 15.10.’26.

https://zoop.earth/en/fund

(Please ignore the fact that the g00gle form is used :(( )

#GreenTech #coop #permacomputing #SmallTech #MoreThanHuman #SpeakerForSquirrels #ecocide #SpeakerForLiving

Random #Faircamp (and #Hyper8) research question:

"Theming widget" is the current term for the widget that gets injected into the page and allows to interactively explore site design/theme settings.

I think the term is adequate in that it describes the function pretty clearly.

Two things about it could better though, I think:
1. The term is quite long, resulting e.g. in the CLI option --theming-widget which is annoying to type out.
2. "Theming" is a specific term and especially with new, broader customization settings coming up, something like "Design widget" or "Design explorer" (e.g.) would maybe be more fitting and future-proof – but that's also still quite long

For the above reasons I'm thinking about using a new term for Hyper 8 (and maybe picking it up later in Faircamp as well).

A few random thoughts:
- "Themer" would be super short, at the expense of being equally specific like "theming widget"
- "Designer" would be short and generic, but it also sounds like ... a person doing design ... kinda weird maybe? x)
- Maybe it'd be an option to use a long form "Design explorer" term in general, but abbreviate it in the CLI as --design (as in "Design!")?

Any thoughts from you on this?

"In the extreme chroma range we need to heavily push lightness to prevent erratic shifts"

Hyper 8 theming system development has reached peak rabbit hole depth. ( ◡‿◡ *)

#Hyper8

Vienna! Next tuesday (Oct 13th) we're doing the next #permacomputing meetup. \(^ヮ^)/ This time starting already at 18:00!

For the programme (three talks) and details (location etc.) see https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/117309965245044742 and/or https://vienna.permacomputing.net/