this is close to the creative nonsense of the late 2000s, so at least it has that going for it. Creativity took a dive when the centralized social media took off
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care. A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Are any other @thunderbird users seeing the issues that @winterschon wrote about in this post? I've been seeing the high resource usage, just not quite as high (but almost as high). This is one of the reasons that I'm moving back to Emacs for my email or looking for a client that is a bit "lighter" on the resource usage.
Ugh, we're sorry you've been seeing this, and thanks for tagging us. Can you try any of the steps in our Testing Memory Usage article on the wiki to see if you can pinpoint the cause? wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T… - thanks!
Thank you for sharing this. It's strange, but the issue persists on my Fedora desktop but the issue is not present on my Debian Stable laptop. I will keep digging in to see if I can find the issue with Fedora.
A bit more info. The install on Debian is a Flatpak, and it seems to be fine. The resource issue is on Fedora, installed from the Fedora rpm repo. I am going to remove the rpm and install a Flatpak to see if that resolves the issue.
Sorry for not updating! I actually removed the rpm from Fedora and installed the Flatpak. The issue is no longer there. I'm not sure if the issue was the rpm or not. Definitely a strange issue. Thanks for following up.
On my Fedora laptop, when I launch Thunderbird and filter for it in htop, I see dozens of PIDs each showing around 3640 MB virt, 570 MB res, and a varying amount shr.
That is with 5 IMAP accounts, 1 CardDAV, 1 CalDAV and several (manually refreshing) RSS feeds.
@qlp Ugh, this is definitely not what we want. If you haven't done so already, we definitely suggest going through the steps in this wiki article to help narrow down what might be causing this! wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T…
No flack, but I have to wonder who paid for those results, and what benefit the pay for the research gives the company or companies who sponsored it. These days, research is code for "we want to prove this, how much will it cost?" I'm sure with enough cash pumped into research, ciggarettes could be a health suppliment. ☺️
@storm it really does make you wonder that is for sure. I still remember many years ago when they would say eggs were good for you, then later eggs were bad for you, then later still eggs were good for you. same with coffee.
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A neat project: from Brazil, a tool to print a star map that folds into a dome! Written by a physics professor. Teachers use it to introduce children to the night sky.
It had _never_ occurred to me that, instead of simply reciting to students _yet again_ the old speech about how flat maps and flat star charts distort the sphere, you could just _fix the map_ instead and make it dome-shaped. Brilliant!
They hope to open-source soon. Uses my Skyfield library.
Many consider #Bluesky a success, but in fact its activity has steadily declined since Trump's inauguration. The #Fediverse has had similar trends. Rapid growth caused by an external event is always followed by a slow decline back to a small base of loyal users. In a world full of dopamine addiction, it's hard to be a social network without dark patterns.
agreed but I think we look at social media all wrong. it's treated as entertainment instead of a civic tool. I think that misunderstanding is widespread because of how it evolved with those dark patterns. people know of it as providing dopamine, instead of a better way to distribute the most relevant news and spread the best culture, while incorporating a public conversation about all that.
This is indeed very similar to the fediverse if I see the MAU on fedidb (they don't show daily). In fact, the active participation longterm might be far lower on BS?
This pattern correlates with news intake from past elections with a lead up during high profile events. Adoption is tough. My friends aren’t on Mastodon and beyond news or science it seems like a struggle to get information on other fun social topics like sports. Where it isn’t a mirror bot no one interacts with.
The removal of the dark patterns is wonderful tho. It feels like you can really time out because you don’t see anything interesting sometimes and that’s okay.
@schmaker Počkej, ale to je snad logické, že výroba elektřiny bude náročnější než prosté vyfrakování benzínu. Pak máš ale tu nejvíce ztrátovou přeměnu energie za sebou, zatímco u spalováku pořád před sebou.
@schmaker Jo, po Polsku máme nejšpinavější výrobu elektřiny v EU. To je pěkně vidět tady: app.electricitymaps.com/ Ale i tak je ekologičtější jezdit na naši elektřinu nebo benzín/naftu.
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I own a Librem5 and this device has not even a little bit met the expectations that I and a lot of other people had for it. It is still pretty much useless for daily driving and stays in my drawer for most of the time. Although I wouldn't call Purism a scam, it really underestimated the scale of such a project. The worst thing was the lack of communication.
All the "business opportunities" now are just a call for help in a struggle to survive somehow imho.
Google's and Amazon's tracking-based advertising are under fire in the EU. In a landmark decision, the Brussels Court of Appeal invalidates cookie consent banners built on the Transparency & Consent Framework of IAB Europe.
So glad we have always steered our clients away from cookie banners, and toward asking for the consent of being tracked in a specific way only when it is needed, not as a gate for using the site at all.
ALLOW STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES (FOR OUR BUSINESS PURPOSES NOT YOURS)
IF YOU CLICK THIS BUTTON, YOU WILL CLICK IT EVERY TIME YOU VISIT THIS SITE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T "LEGALLY" STORE YOUR SELECTION IN A COOKIE AND LITERALLY NO OTHER TECHNICAL MECHANISMS EXIST FOR SUCH A THING
problem with cookie banners and so-called choices is that these are temporary - lasting until cache gets cleared or user changes the device and has to confirm these preferences again.
browsers should handle these "choices" and by default refuse to store anything that is not necessary for a site to work.
perhaps also a special ranking system or something similar should be established that would warn users against sites who try to trick into "legitimate interest".
Do you think it would make sense to implement bridges from platform accessibility APIs that push updates to AccessKit? For example, this could make Wine accessible if you run a UIA or MSAA client inside Wine that pushes tree updates to AccessKit over some kind of socket, which Orca or Odilia could interpret and let you navigate and read. Or you could do the same thing with WSL2, having an ATSPI client that forwards updates to AccessKit which JAWS or NVDA or Narrator could interpret. Maybe you could even do this for virtual machines, to improve performance and responsiveness, and so you can use your favorite screen reader with any OS you want. I think ChromeOS makes Android applications accessible with this kind of bridge, because when you use Android apps on ChromeOS you're still using ChromeVox with the same commands and speech settings and navigation works the exact same way, even though you're using an Android VM, not a thin emulation layer like Wine.
@emassey0135 The difficult part here is efficiently gathering information from the current pull-based accessibility APIs (UIA, AT-SPI). In the specific case of Wine, where the UIA implementation (but not the API) could be changed, this might be more tractable. It's something I'd like to work on sometime.
@emassey0135 Then again, the most efficient way to gather information from UIA would probably require Wine to implement the UIA feature called Remote Operations which I helped implement while I was at Microsoft, and that feature is covered by a patent. Yes, I'm deliberately sabotaging my ability to just ignore the patent, by mentioning it publicly.
@emassey0135 For what it's worth, the best public overview of the UIA Remote Operations feature was probably the description of this NVDA PR by Michael Curran: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… The feature is mostly not of interest to UIA providers (toolkits), only clients (ATs).
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