We are proud to have come out as the **most secure** app with the lowest risk score on Malcore - even better than other secure apps!

One must 💗 the security and privacy of Tutanota 😎

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange

Google to pay $118 million after being accused of underpaying 15,500 women

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Google to pay $118 million after being accused of underpaying 15,500 women

Lead plaintiffs to get at least $50K each after alleging pay gap for similar work.

^{Ars Technica}

Kudos to @alecaddd and team for taking on the massive challenge of modernizing Thunderbird. Here's hoping it'll finally get a headerbar instead of the 6 toolbars, and real threading!

Your move, @libreoffice :)

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.

^{Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)}

With all the uproar about Golang recently I thought to myself, maybe I should start learning Rust and start working on a Rust powered alternative to Hugo.

But I’m apparently late on that thought.

getzola.org/

Prodávám RX 580 8GB

Hodí se na 1080p gaming, ideální pro Hackintosh.

aukro.cz/sapphire-rx-580-8gb-n…

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

For me this is the last nail in the coffin for #Go.

I've never bought much into the language. I've been impressed by its constructs to natively manage and synchronize asynchronous operations, but its rigidity when it comes to programming paradigms (no proper object-oriented and functional constructs in the 21st century, seriously?) means that I see it as a language that seriously limits expressivity, and doomed to generate a lot of boilerplate. It's a language very good at solving the types of problem that are usually solved at Google (build and scale large services that process a lot of stuff in a way that the code looks the same for all the employees), and little more than that.

After #Rust really took off, I didn't see a single reason why someone would pick Go.

And now here we go with the last straw: Google has proposed to embed telemetry collection *into the language toolchain itself*. And, according to Google, it should be enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in), because, of course, if they make it an opt-in then not many people will explicitly enable a toggle that shares their source code and their usage of the compiler with one of today's biggest stalkers. If they make it an opt-out, well, many people won't even notice, and you can grab more data points from people, whether they know/like it or not.

If you build open-source projects in Go, it's time to drop it and start considering alternatives. The market for modern compiled language is much more competitive now than it was a decade ago. We knew already that we couldn't trust a programming language developed by the largest surveillance company on the planet.

theregister.com/2023/02/10/goo…

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

This is today's watch. It has to be – the date is broken, and it only shows 11, so it only makes sense today.

It's not winning any beauty contests. The dial has a nice texture, but the hands are nowhere near the markers, and the date window is nowhere near the indexes. Not a surprise, if you look inside. And with these long lugs it somehow manages to wear a little big, despite being classically sized.

It came to me with a bracelet, and I lasted maybe 2 minutes with it. It's an excellent hair removal tool, so it went back to the box of crappy parts, making room for this leather strap. Now it looks somewhat nice, if you squint a little.

Seems like it's overdue for service for decades, the amplitude (at a glance) is probably around half of what it should be. Somehow manages to keep decent time though.

Mastodon v4.1.0 got released today!
Some awesome additions that people have been after for a while now:
- Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks
- Ensure exact match is the first result in hashtag searches
- Add support for editing media description and focus point of already-sent posts
- Add listing of followed hashtags

And the list of fixes inbound with this version is monstrous.

This is great to see, but please keep in mind that your particular instance will need to be updated to this version so not all instances will update at the same time.

Some apps may also need to be updated in order to support these new features.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#Mastodon #Update #MastodonTips #FediTips

Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...

^GitHub

If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more the merrier.
tootfinder.ch/

Thanks to @buercher for building it.

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips #feditips

Mustelid cable management:

ferret-school.co.uk/working-fe…

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#82 Software Performance
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/…

#GNOME #TWIG

Pencils and pens look very old as well. That's because they dither very slightly around an evolved functional shape that happens to be quite simple.

I'm glad that I can choose whether to "enjoy" having the shape of my tools arbitrarily rearranged. I don't need to have scrollbars shrunk, whitespace added, tail fins, uncomfortably skinny jeans, optical function of glasses shrunk, etc.

But even so, please don't confuse fashion accessories with tools, #Thunderbird

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July

"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?"

^{Ars Technica}

Librsvg 2.55.91 is out! This is the beta release before GNOME 44.

* Support "turn" units for <angle> values.
* Support the feDropShadow element.
* Fix a panic in filters.
* Tons of documentation updates.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…

2.55.91 - development · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is 1.64, because of the gtk-rs update.

^GitLab

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New gtk-rs release is out! More information there: gtk-rs.org/blog/2023/02/10/new…

#rust #rustlang #gtk

Y'all. Please fund my shit so I can spin up the second-best instance (PV is obviously the first LOL) and get my team back together.

Hell, I'll even hard-fork Masto myself if we hit the first milestone.

I am 4k away. Let's make this happen.

patreon.com/Are0h

Ro | creating digital platforms for the people. | Patreon

Become a patron of Ro today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators.

^Patreon

Neuestes #GrapheneOS Release:
"add toggle to Settings ➔ Location for force disabling SUPL as a carrier-independent replacement for editing APN configuration since editing APN configuration is unintuitive, not fully respected on Tensor SoC devices and users with no carrier should be able to disable it without using airplane mode" 🤗👍

grapheneos.org/releases#202302…

GrapheneOS releases

Official releases of GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

^GrapheneOS