When Mozilla Thunderbird starts hammering on the CPU cores of your computer you configure it in this way.

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... configuration editor. Type idle into the search box, and look for mail.db.idle_limit. According to that bug report, the correct value is 30000000. Check the number of zeros you have; if you only have 300000, that could be causing your CPU problems.
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https://rainbow.chard.org/2013/02/19/thunderbird-high-cpu/

Open SMTPd v7.7.0p0 has been released!

#SMTP #OpenSMTPd #OpenSource #POSIX #programming #BSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #openBSD #Linux

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250514052136

The #LibreOffice project is active on many social media platforms – and we have blogs in various languages too. Learn what we did in 2024: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/14/tdf-website-blogs-and-social-media-annual-report-2024/ #foss #OpenSource

Reading this article by @stefano with great interest.

Many things can be learned here.

#Apple #iPhone #ClosedSource #OpenSource #iMac #Mach #kernel #SteveJobs

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/14/apple-devices-reliability-question-20-plus-year-user-retrospective-updated/

"Why did you folks host the Shufflecake repository on Codeberg instead of GitHub like everyone else does?"

Exhibit nr. 712: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123

https://www.howtogeek.com/nextcloud-says-google-is-hurting-its-android-app/

Google is reportedly blocking Nextcloud, the open-source cloud storage service, from full file access on Android devices.

Nextcloud is accusing Google of anti-competitive behavior, while a fully functional version remains available through the F-Droid store.

**If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?**

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #OpenSource #Coding @ai

What a decade of data tells us about the state of open source security, via @TechRadar. #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #OSSRA #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/ITrry9

We are grateful for all of the contributors who make the Fedora Project what it is.

Why not nominate a Fedora contributor you know to be recognized at the Fedora Mentor Summit this year? Appreciation is key to keeping a community friendly and collaborative, so share the love!

Deadline to submit names is May 16.

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/nominate-fedora-heroes-mentor-and-contributor-recognition-2025/

The April Dev Digest is out! Learn about all our ongoing development and find out where you can help us test upcoming features. This month's blog focuses on:

* The upcoming Extended Support Release
* The Calendar UI rebuild
* Exchange support
* Account Hub
* and the Global Messaging Database

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-april-2025/

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS) just terminated the grant for the Next Generation Library Publishing (#NGLP) project.
https://educopia.org/blog/imls-terminates-next-generation-library-publishing-pilot-to-production-grant/

"The central aim for this grant project was to expand digital #infrastructure options for #LibraryPublishing programs that are #OpenSource, community-led, and grounded in academic values. The Big Ten Academic Alliance [#BTAA] remains engaged in supporting the continued exploration and development of #Meru — the open publishing platform emerging from the NGLP initiative."

https://youtu.be/kgiH0CsagNw?si=0EgdGW1Ww679BbtP

Terima kasih banyak, Adi Setiawan, for your wonderful and informative review of DEKUVE! We are very happy to see interest in our distribution in Indonesia! Also starring: @libreoffice @videolan @drawio and more.

KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025.

New KDE contributors will be tackling adapting Merkuro to mobile, adding video-conferencing to NeoChat, creating a virtual machine manager for KDE Linux, and many more interesting and useful things.

Discover all the projects at:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/

#GSoC2025 #GSoC #mentorship #openSource #FreeSoftware

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Firefox moves to Github

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox

"This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore!

Look out for boosts to @Krita's text rendering, improvements to @kdenlive's online resource and audio thumbnail rendering, Qrca's better battery usage, reduced memory usage in @neochat, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/12/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #videoediting #design #matrix

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

This is one important reason why you should rip yourself away from closed source underlords

The destruction of your privacy by ripping your adblock extensions a new #rsehole

I stopped using Alphabet's google chrome 100% before this came into effect

@mozilla

How has Fedora Linux in WSL been working for you? We're super excited that more people can now use Fedora in a way that works for them.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/fedora-linux-is-now-an-official-wsl-distro/