The #chatmail #rust core is the base infrastructure library used by all apps and bots. It contains all networking, encryption, email processing and implements all the relevant IETF email standards. It's a single central development place with which the whole ecosystem of clients and bots can upgrade consistently.
We are constantly trying to remove code, and to cleanup things. That's a must to keep a 8-year long evolved code base agile and adaptable. Key insight: The best code is no code ;)
"The problem is, right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
I spent a week with Copilot, asking it the same questions Microsoft has in its ads, and tried to get help with tasks I’d find useful. And time after time, Copilot got things wrong, made stuff up, and spoke to me like I was a child.
Copilot Vision scans what’s on your screen and tries to assist you with voice prompts. Invoking Copilot requires you to share your screen like you’re on a Teams call, by hitting okay Every. Single. Time. After it gets your permission, it’s excruciatingly slow to respond, and it addressed me by name every time I asked it anything. Like other AI assistants and LLMs, it’s here to please, even when it’s totally misguided."
theverge.com/report/822443/mic…
#AI #GenerativeAI #Microsoft #Windows11 #Copilot #CopilotAI #LLMs #AIAssistants
Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?Antonio G. Di Benedetto (The Verge)
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork…
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew up with the first home computers and fondly ...Zarf Updates
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Does anyone remember that Tabs research Deque did at CSUN 2016(?)? It was about whether Tabs should be one or multiple tabstops.
I think the conclusion was like 50/50 at the time as far as expectations went.
If anyone has a link to any resources about this that would be amazing!
hmla kdě? 
edit: gdě hmla? blbé vtipy já vím
![[On the bridge of Enterprise]
Picard: Yellow alert
Everyone: OW ALERT!!](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/728017 "[On the bridge of Enterprise]
Picard: Yellow alert
Everyone: OW ALERT!!")
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Manchmal geht dann doch alles ganz schnell! 🥳🎉
Wir lancieren heute Version 1.0 von barrieren-gutachten.de und veröffentlichen zeitgleich viele neue und hilfreiche Funktionen auch für Laien — sowie über 700 neue Prüfgutachten, die zeigen, wie der Staat seine eigenen Gesetze missachtet und Inklusion zu einem reinen Schauspiel verkommt. Das ist der nächste große Schritt für mehr digitale Barrierefreiheit und ein dringend nötiger Weckruf für die Politik.
Lest hier mehr: barrieren-gutachten.de/blog/ba…
Good morning Fedi friends!
I got myself a recent Google Pixel (ugh) so I could install #GrapheneOS on it (yay).
DeGoogling currently under way, following an excellent video tutorial by Liron Segev (lironsegev.com).
Wish me luck!
TURN YOUTUBE into your most reliable source of qualified leads STOP treating YouTube like an afterthought! We use proven strategy and the ICE Framework – Impact, Core, and Explainer – to turn your expertise into discoverable, trust-building content …Liron Segev
One thing I miss about old-timey "user unfriendly" linux was the way it wasn't bloated with every possible feature, tool and library that tried to cater for every hypothetical future user's potential needs.
Like, unpacking and building a tarball was annoying and time consuming, but it meant that you could install a PDF parser on a headless server without automatically pulling in a window manager, a print stack, several gigs of UI widgets.
Old days: "You will need 2MB of disk space, plus another 150KB for the compiled executable. It will take an hour to build, and you're gonna have to repeat the process if we release any updates that you feel you need"
Now: "You will need 15GB of disk space to install all the dependencies and their dependencies and their dependencies and their dependencies, and now you have to check for updates every 6 hours because we just added 1150 packages __that you don't even know what they do__ and they all have published CVEs but you haven't read any of them because nobody has that's too many CVEs to worry about, and if you try to remove any of them the entire stack auto-uninstalls to protect you from accidentally clicking 'print' on a subdependency that you didn't know was there and then it won't print"
Anyway, I'm just annoyed that today's must-fix patch is for 28 different packages all with "cupsd" in their name on a laptop that has never installed a printer and never will.
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Ah, the Guardian have set up an "accept being surveilled or pay us money" gate now.
No more Guardian for me.
Guten Morgen Marco,
kennst Du denn Libs, die dass können? Und Spezifikationen für mich als Entwickler und eventuell Tools zum lokalen Testen?
Also braucht es eine Lib, und ein Tool, dass das kann. Ok...
Ich mach mir da mal einen Kopf dazu. Könntest Du mir eventuell, falls Du Zeit hast, zumindest ein paar keys, auf die man mindestens prüfen sollte, nennen?
Wenn Inhalte als (semantisch getaggtes) HTML vorliegen, kann man Prince verwenden, um daraus accessible PDFs zu machen: princexml.com/doc/prince-outpu…
Bruce Lawson hat das hier super beschrieben: medium.com/@bruce_39084/making…
Prince ist frei für Non-Commercial-Use. Für Commercial Use oder wenn mans als SaaS verwenden möchte zB mal auf europdf.eu schauen (Disclaimer: In dem Projekt steck ich mit drin.)
Making accessible tagged PDFs with Prince Disclosure: I’ve been doing some paid consultancy for YesLogic (Prince’s vendors) on the accessibility of Prince’s PDFs. Love them or hate them, PDFs …Bruce Lawson (Medium)
Nachtrag (wir haben das literally vor 10 Minuten deployed 😎):
Auf europdf.eu gibts einen Playground, wo man bequem mit Prince rumexperimentieren kann – HTML oder URL reinkopieren, bei Bedarf div. Options setzen, „Create PDF“, fertig. 🚀
Braucht zwar einen Account, aber Free Plan reicht. Damit kann man schon unbegrenzt viele „Test-PDFs“ (mit Wasserzeichen) machen.
/_bridgetown/static/europdf-og-6LMUHV7J.pngwww.europdf.eu
🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you.
Turn it off now; here's how!
tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g…
✊️ Fight AI & fight Google
You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
Share so everyone is aware. ❤️
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity on your phone.Tuta
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To skip potential UX variants this direct link mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sett… may be a good starting point.
(& don't use evil G's services at all!)
Gmail is email that’s intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access.mail.google.com
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Obedeciendo las instrucciones y órdenes profesionales de los superiores, salvo que constituyan una infracción manifiesta del ordenamiento jurídico, en cuyo caso las pondré inmediatamente en conocimiento de los órganos de inspección procedentes.
Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?
⚖️ Opinión | La sentencia al fiscal general y un cursillo acelerado sobre la historia del poder en España.
"Puede que no haya que llamar franquista a la justicia que ha despachado en un pispás y sin complejo alguno al fiscal general del Estado, pero la cuestión no está tanto en saber cómo llamarla sino en cómo desmontarla."
✍🏻 @pelorduy
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RE: gultsch.social/@daniel/1115289…
I knew pretty early that the EU regulation for IM interoperability is not going the way we want it to go. However the regulator is now looking at push services (FCM, APNS) and I believe we can make some real impact there. We have working solutions and our demands are significantly more actionable.
I don’t know what I was expecting but it looks more and more like the Messaging Interoperability the EU promised will be each gatekeeper essentially publishing their client to server protocol and then you can either use multi protocol messengers or t…Daniel Gultsch (Mastodon)
Who here uses manual configuration profiles in NVDA? What do you use them for? Do please let us know!
And if you're not sure what configuration profiles are all about, check out the recent In-Process blog, which covered them: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Tips #Blog #Features #ScreenReader
Steps to reproduce: Make sure Automatic Language Switching and Automatic Dialect Switching are enabled in the Voice Settings dialog Make sure you're using a TTS engine, like Eloquence/eSpeak/Vocali...amirsol81 (GitHub)
I just spent a wonderful hour digging through archives, and ended up putting up a page of my own. Feels like 1999 again. public.monster/~darkuncle/
researchbuzz.masto.host/@resea…
public.monster, Roblox, Google Gemini, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 20, 2025NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It's a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: "Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder and BAM — your site was live for the whole world to see. No build steps. No frameworks. No deployment pipelines. Just pure, unfiltered creativity. We want that feeling back." …
researchbuzz.me/2025/11/20/pub…
public.monster, Roblox, Google Gemini, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It’s a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: “Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder a…ResearchBuzz
Tekoälykupla ei puhjennutkaan: Nvidian liikevaihto päihitti ennusteet
dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/11/19/nvi…
#talous #nvidia #nvda #tekoäly #uutiset #ai #teknologia #tekniikka
Tekoälyä on povattu jo jonkin aikaa kuplaksi, mutta Nvidian marraskuussa 2025 julkistama tuorein neljännesvuoden tulos peittosi analyytikkojen odotukset.Petteri Pyyny (AfterDawn)
📊 NVDA SEC Snapshot
Three Months Ended
Revenue: $57,006M (+62.5% YoY)
Gross profit: $41,849M (+60.0% YoY)
Operating income: $36,010M (+64.7% YoY)
Pre-tax income: $37,936M (+70.0% YoY)
Net income: $31,910M (+65.3% YoY)
Filed: 2025-11-19
Astroconomics research commentary. Not investment advice.
#AI #Tech #Markets #NVDA #EDGAR
"Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
A fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.
Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians.
It began in 1998 with the removal of staples and paperclips from the delicate documents so they could be scanned."
(via the Guardian) 👉
"Search thousands of historical documents from the Nuremberg trials.
Examine trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany."
Delta Chat (39c3)
in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •two other things that can't be stressed enough for maintaining development long-term:
- Avoid superflous abstractions. Premature abstractions are the root of all ... complexity. If you have a second and third case, you can introduce an abstraction, but even then: don't over-abstract!
- write tests for everything, especially for the API that you want to guarantee to others. The chatmail core library just passed 1000 automated tests. The users of your API, and their users will thank you.
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Mikalai
in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •- If your test suites don't run locally on dev machine (vms and illusion of networks - can do in 2025), if you need any cloud to test, you are not done.
Mikalai
in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •Example, past delta's post talked about goodness and richness that little apps bring, versus monolith-style addition of features in signal, recent announcements. This is a good abstraction, even though many would've walked from it.
Food for thought.
Short haiku/koan doesn't replace wisdom and elaboration, it only highlights it.