in reply to Jessica Phoenix

@jesscanady started imposing limits on free/community/selfhosted. 10,000 message limit now

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I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂

Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:

• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings

• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever

• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines

• I have all the filtering power of my MUA

• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too

• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email

• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too

• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived

• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service

And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.


¹ github.com/wking/rss2email

² blog.thechases.com/posts/readi…

in reply to Cleverson

If you have the ability to send mail from your machine (even if it's just configured to use your mail-provider as a smart-host), rss2email should still work.

github.com/wking/rss2email?tab…

Granted, if your email provider is MS/Outlook, they don't play well with third-party SMTP/IMAP clients, but that's on them and the folks who choose to use them 😆

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in reply to Cleverson

@clv1 Huh. It's there in the man page shipped by the Debian stable package. manpages.debian.org/trixie/rss… That one refers to this repository which is *way* more recent: github.com/rss2email/rss2email

@gumnos

Great! NiceGram's text box no longer works either. There goes an alternative. If multiple developers would stop using the native Telegram interface (because yes, tons of these third-party clients do), we wouldn't have to deal with things like this. Bright Guide is outdated and hasn't been touched in ages either. If anyone has any Telegram client alternatives, I'm all ears.

I'm not sure I really get the logic behind the antizionists who also want to kick fellow Jewish citizens out of their diaspora countries.

Like... where are they supposed to go specifically?

I'm joking. I totally get the fucking logic.

"A violent #antisemitic incident unfolded Sunday evening in #Istanbul, where a group of #Jews heading to light the eighth and final #Hanukkah candle at the Neve Shalom #synagogue were attacked by #proPalestinian #protesters.

According to footage circulated on social media, the attackers charged at the group while shouting, “These #Zionists should leave this country.” Police intervened and dispersed the demonstrators, who waved #Palestinian flags and attempted to approach the #Jewish group."

ynetnews.com/jewish-world/arti…

Ich habe den Eindruck, dass Matrix weitaus problemloser läuft als XMPP.

Bei XMPP kann sich nicht jeder Client an jedem Server anmelden (ich habe diverse Clients und Server, nicht nur meinen eigenen mit ejabberd, getestet). Und auch die Kommunikation zwischen zwei Accounts funktioniert manchmal gar nicht, manchmal nur in eine Richtung und irgendwie nur selten problemlos. Auch da wieder stark abhängig vom Client.

Ein Problem mit meinem Server mag sein, dass er unter einer Subdomain (xmpp.example.com) läuft. Ich mutmaße, dass nicht jeder Server bzw. Client damit zurechtkommt. Zwischen meinem Server und dem von Mailbox.org klappt jedenfalls gar nichts. Aber ich habe noch nicht einmal eine Möglichkeit gefunden, für Mailbox.org einen andeten Client als deren Web-Client zu verwenden. Ich glaube fast, die sind nur zu sich selbst kompatibel.

Manche sagen freilich auch, dass ejabberd recht eigenwillig sei.

Mit Matrix hingegen hatte ich bisher keine Probleme (auch da habe ich einen eigenen Server am Start).

#Matrix #XMPP #Jabber #ejabberd

in reply to Michaela Molthagen

Unter der Voraussetzung, dass für den Server SRV records eingerichtet sind wären mir keine Fälle bekannt in denen eine subdomain Probleme machen sollte. Im Gegenteil ist hostname ungleich domain part (der Teil hinter dem @) eigentlich fast schon Standard.

Das sich Clients gar nicht verbinden können (korrekte Certificates und korrekte SRV records vorausgesetzt) wäre auch eher neu.

Sonst hört man manchmal das nicht alle Clients alle Features können. Das ist wahr.

in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@daniel
Die SRV Records meines Servers sind m.W. korrekt, trotzdem gelingt es mir nicht, von Mailbox.org aus eine Verbindung zu meinem Server aufzubauen. Die Fehlermeldung (ich habe sie gerade nicht parat) deutet darauf hin, dass Subdomains nicht zulässig seien.

Mailbox.org ist eh speziell, weder mit Conversations noch mit atalk kann ich mich dort anmelden. Ich kann es nur über die Weboberfläche von Mailbox.org nutzen.

Ich habe noch einen Account bei 5222.de, da kann ich mit Conversations mit meinem Server interagieren, aber nicht mit aTalk. Mit aTalk sehe ich von meinem Server aus 5222.de, aber umgekehrt kommt keine Verbindung zustande.

in reply to Michaela Molthagen

@daniel

Ja, @mailbox_org nutzt meines Wissens einen sieben Jahre alten #ejabberd. Möchte nicht wissen, wie viele längst gelöste Bugs da drin sind, schlimmstenfalls auch #security bugs.

#aTalk kenne ich vom Namen her, aber ich kenne niemanden, der diesen #Jabber client nutzt. D.h. es wird vielleicht etwas schwieriger dafür Hilfe zu kriegen.

Bei Matrix ist es auch so: Manche clients funktionieren nicht mit manchen servers 🤷

Many thanks to everyone who supported the #LibreOffice project this year – through their own contributions, spreading the word, or donating to support us: libreoffice.org/donate/ ❤️ #foss #openSource

Somehow it won't get into my head that another year is over. And this is not even trying to be that "time flies" type of post. I just, can't really grasp it. I read old messages from a year ago, and there's just nothing. I feel like I've been stuck with nothing new, or old, or left. Not sure how to describe it. Like things kinda fade away, but somehow don't, nothing is really, worth building on, or completely trustworthy. Idk it's all a mess. And 25 didn't make it better at all. From a technical perspective, I've learned more than a ton this year, and improved a huge lot. But the satisfaction only lasts a few moments till my perfectionism takes over again, what do I know really, it's still a long way. Yet I don't even feel the progress I've made this year, cuz there's no one really to share it with. Cuz ultimately nerdy is only cool as long as someone else understands what you're up to, and at this point I feel like I'm at a position where it's kinda impossible to.
All right you may move on or something, guess these words wheren't really informative at all.

If you fancy an hour away from the mountain of turkey, or you need a nice accompaniment, check out our Christmas Eve show featuring the lovely Laura Kirker, who aside from reading all of our amazing listener emails, also found the time to participate in the creation of the new Harry Potter series on Audible. Hear the full story only on Double Tap, on podcast everywhere and on YouTube. youtu.be/AZZi-AXJP3g?si=ElYJZ7…

Marry Christmas to all of my followers, I still can't thank @Tamasg enough for making the FlexVoice 3 NVDA addon! I know it will be somewhat difficult to make the one for version 2, but to give you (and others) an idea as to what FlexVoice 2 sounds like, I attached a sample on this post. Note: it says that it is version 3, but it's actually version 2.

Leute, lasst es euch gesagt sein: Schräg auf eine Kante zwischen Bürgersteig und Kiesweg zu treten und dabei umzuknicken ist nicht zu empfehlen. Beim prompt folgenden Sturz hab' ich mir vorhin ganz schön das Knie und den Unterschenkel lädiert. Das Bild vom gepflasterten Knie und mit Kühlpack umwickelter Wade erspare ich euch. Und da sage noch einer, spazieren gehen sei gesund! Alles voll Fake News, ey! 😉

Subscriptions that lock you into renewing because they have some sort of credit system like Audible or Splice, where when you cancel you lose the credits and basically wasted money, but also don't instantly find something to use up all the credits should be prohibited. You're literally taking away something I've paid for, just because I don't want even more of it.
On that note, I finally need to get rid of my stupid Splice sub so if you know nice packs...

By the way: indoor positioning using our Android app is already working and we're working on making it better than ever before this year!

If you have a phone capable of Wifi RTT measuring (unfortunately that's mainly Google Pixel and Samsung), you even get more precise positioning :)

If you have an iPhone, there is no app. It wouldn't have any advantages to adding our site as an app through your browser, because iOS doesn't allow apps to scan for WiFi networks. #39c3

#39c3
in reply to 𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤

@blitter No, F-Droid is horrible at updating apps on short notice, so you want to use our F-Droid repo at f-droid.c3nav.de/fdroid/repo/.

Alternatively you can also use Obtainium or similar to get the release from our GitHub directly.

in reply to Tamas G

Wow, Joe from Tactile Engineering already responded, they'll be sending out a new unit for me potentially Friday. Can't believe that. Truthfully it did fall off my bed onto the carpet later on, I pulled my blanket not realizing I had left it there. So it then broke further. Sad! But maybe not so now, knowing that they'll send me a brand new unit and were still understanding about the issue!
I don't think every one of them will be this fragile, because the right-side one I have has done a lot better despite also having fallen onto carpet. So it's not like you drop one, and poof, it's gone fragile, broken. They really do try to make these displays solid, and one incident isn't going to mar my judgment on them.
He said, "Don't worry, we signed up to provide the best working multiline display. The feedback is important as well!"
So yes, Tactile Engineering does take this seriously.
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