I’ve gotta be real with you, @Tutanota: I love your work and your company, but you need to add Web Key Directory compatibility.

At this point, PGP/WKD support for a privacy-focused email provider has to be as fundamental as supporting TLS. Proton does not own PGP.

I simply cannot in good conscience recommend Tuta over Proton to people generally speaking, knowing that Proton users benefit from E2EE when they email me on my self-hosted email servers, as well as when they email plenty of other providers (Posteo, Mailbox.org). And that is a shame, because trust me I would love to be able to point anywhere other than Proton when I’m asked this.

Keep your superior encryption for intra-Tuta emails, absolutely. Give it a different UI indicator so people know the difference, I don’t care. At the end of the day, not at least silently supporting in the background the only decentralized email encryption method we have is antithetical to what email is all about: interoperability.

People have been asking you about PGP for 8+ years, I know Autocrypt used to be on your roadmap and now it seemingly no longer is.

There is a clear winner now, and it’s WKD.

Flights booked for #MatrixConf 2025! 🎉 Can't wait to see everyone in Strasbourg this October.

Tickets are still on sale, but space is limited so don't delay: conference.matrix.org/

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Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!

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Lizard in my window.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #anole #lizard #nature #BackyardWildlife

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hey, do you folks have recommendations for an USB fingerprint reader that works reliably with Fedora (or ideas how I could get mine to work)?

Mine (a "Benss" branded Elan 04f3:0c3d) is supposed to work, but I can't get it to verify prints - Apparently fprintd really doesn't handle "tap to scan" readers well, like the one I've got.

I've tried tapping, swiping, in every direction, I'm running out of ideas

This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…

#uspol #censorship #bannedbooks

Wat je in Florida niet mag lezen, wordt nu tentoongesteld in de OBA

^www.at5.nl

in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.

- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment / straps experiments easier
- same ecopak material as my frame bag
- cordura on the bottom for durability

overall: an improvement, attachment to the rack is simpler and faster. could be slightly taller, and maybe all ecopak

A new type of career opportunity emerged from vibe coding because vibe coders didn't know what they were doing 😉

#ai #llm #jobs

Bug Hunter (1990) is one of those rare puzzle platformers written exclusively for the Acorn 32-bit machines.

Whenever I stumble on an Archimedes title, I perk up. These machines—descendants of Acorn’s BBC line—were the first computers powered by ARM CPUs. Think about that: ARM, the chipset now running your phone, your tablet, your Nintendo Switch, even your M-series Mac.

Back in 1990, ARM wasn’t about pocket gadgets. It was pitched as the next big leap in desktop computing. Only problem was the Acorn Archimedes barely left the UK, and outside of classrooms, almost nobody touched one.

That’s a shame, because games like Bug Hunter show what these machines could do. The hero is Hysteron Proteron—a bioengineered soldier gone wrong. A lab mix-up left him a spineless bug-eyed creature who can’t actually fight. So the army threw him on pest control duty.

His gimmick: suckered feet that let him scuttle along floors, ceilings, and walls, and the ability to pick up objects and drop them on unsuspecting insects. Kill them all, move to the next room, repeat. Simple, but clever.

Graphically, it’s impressive for 1990. Crisp sprites, fluid enough movement, and backgrounds that look every bit as solid as what you’d see on the Amiga or Genesis. The SNES wasn’t even out yet, and here’s Acorn pushing visuals in that league.

Sound, though, is the usual British compromise: no music, just effects. Still, compared to the PC speaker squawks of DOS games, those crunchy bug-splat noises were fine.

What makes Bug Hunter stand out isn’t just the gameplay—it’s the personality. One room even has a parody movie poster on the wall: Schwarzenegger in Decorator, with the tagline “They picked the wrong man…” It’s little details like that which make it feel less like a generic extermination game and more like someone’s sly passion project. Which it was.

Ian Richardson, a solo dev at the time, built this thing himself. He’d later go on to Gremlin and Ocean before becoming a respected figure in UK game development. He passed away in 2021, but Bug Hunter remains a testament to his early craft.

The sequel, Bug Hunter in Space, came out the same year, expanding the concept to alien ships and teleports. And Bug Hunter & Moon Dash was even sold together on a single disk, though everyone agrees Moon Dash was the weaker half. Bug Hunter’s the one people remember—the one schoolkids used to sneak onto Archimedes machines in British classrooms.

So if you ever find an Acorn 32-bit, don’t pass this up. Bug Hunter is charming, tough, and a reminder that the ARM revolution didn’t start with iPhones. It started with a bug-eyed mutant wandering the walls on a forgotten British computer.

@videogames