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Relax 😎! GPG is not OpenPGP!

Yesterday, vulnerabilities were published gpg.fail but they don't affect #deltachat or other #chatmail clients because

A) We never used #gnupg for anything; we use the modern #rustlang #openpgp implementation @rpgp, security audited multiple times.

B) #openpgp is fine, as modernized in #RFC9580, which already warns against several #gpgfail issues (gpg didn't implement that spec)

Please spread the word that #gpg is not #openpgp ... Thanks! #39c3

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#gpg #openpgp #RustLang #deltachat #gnupg #chatmail #39c3 #rfc9580 #gpgfail @rPGP
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Delta Chat (39c3)

@jan once details are published, and #39c3 is over, well take another look. But note that #deltachat's usage of #openpgp is intentionally minimal. #Gpgfail is a lot about failures of signature verification, and parsing problems in the gpg c-implementation but #deltachat doesn't use these mechanisms or code at all. The @rpgp folks are still studying the details, and there might be issues, so maybe also follow them for more details. Again, this doesn't affect deltachat as things stand.
#openpgp #deltachat #39c3 #gpgfail @Jan @rPGP
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DD9JN

Hi,

For those interested we have a master ticket dev.gnupg.org/T7900 which lists all the claimed bugs. Actually there is only one major bug (T7906 - armor parser) which was fixed early November. T7901 requires a 2nd pre-image attack on SHA1- which does nor yet exist. T7907 (plaintext recovery) is simply untrue; see dev.gnupg.org/T7907#210501

BTW, of course we sign our commits and most of us even use hardware tokens.

- wk@gnupg.org

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The median family income in the U.S. has gone from $10,000 in 1970 to $106,000 today, an increase of 10x.

However, the median cost of a house has gone from $25,000 to $445,000, an increase of 17x.

And the median cost of a car has gone from $3,600 to $50,000, an increase of 14x.

The median cost of college has gone from $2,900 a year to $45,000, an increase of 16x.

And the average cost of healthcare per person has gone from $350 to $14,600, an increase of 42x.

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OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.

Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war Exakta camera did not have GPS. Could you identify, from that picture, exactly where it was taken?

Google can.

A black and white picture of a small, anxious boy with blond hair, sitting on a stony beach. At the top of the beach, on the grass, a line of cars is visible. The picture is on a Google Photos page, and at the bottom right of the page is a map which shows the exact location where the photo was taken -- and it's right.

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Yo 2025 kinda sucked ass, both globally and personally.
The world is on fire, people are leaning towards far right, hate is the new norm, I lost my best friend, and I felt defeated multiple times like never before.

My plea for 2026 is to be the positive change I want to see in the world, in whatever form I can manage to be, by pushing ethics and morality into software and products, by loving more openly and fiercely, and by punching Nazis in the face

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Ach jo :-(
Zemřel kytarista a klávesista skupiny The Cure Perry Bamonte
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Zemřel kytarista a klávesista skupiny The Cure Perry Bamonte

Britská alternativní hudební skupina The Cure v pátek oznámila, že zemřel její kytarista a klávesista Perry Bamonte. Hudebník byl členem kapely od roku 1990. Po krátké nemoci skonal během vánočních svátků ve věku 65 let.
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My friend is subscribed to this service called drama box. It is basically movies that are divided up into tiny episodes and you have to spend coins to continue watching them. Not only is the iPhone app an accessibility nightmare, but the acting in most of the movies is so horrible and overdone. I would never hurt her feelings by telling her that because she is totally obsessed and addicted, but it’s just the truth. Also there is no audio description, although most of the time the plots are so predictable you can figure out what’s happening.
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Tamas G

think one time a podcast mentione this service, that I listen to. Good to know a bit more. I think the idea is that it is low budget and that allows more starting actors to get into acting in general, so these services have their place too. Their idea is that by making it smaller bites and lower budget there's not as much loss if a show does poorly, and if it does well, it can make back the money it cost to produce quite easily. We'll see how it works out in the longterm though.

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Still so sad about the broken Cadence. I can barely do anything from how much guilt my soul and conscience is racked with. How could I drop it off my bed and break it. How could I be such a fool during errands to just slip it in my bag without a secondary protection around it like a case. Ugh ugh. So, what do I do when I'm guilty, record more videos. Made another one for the Tactile Engineering folks about it, even though it's late at night, guilt consumes my soul. Will probably send that one tomorrow, no point sending an e-mail this late.
The only way this could be worse is if the right display also broke. Both fell together, but the right one is perfectly OK. Things could always be worse which is what I'm trying to take comfort in.
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@jstark @amir LOL! One time I did trip my Braille teacher down a flight of stairs whilst she was holding my Brailler. Oh my gosh, will never forget that. The Brailler survived with only some minor bends on the paper tray, but the teacher, well, she had to go to the nurse and later the doctor for a broken ankle. Oof. Never gonna forget that moment, the huge thunk it all made.
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Sick of complaints about my keyboard resonating through my mic. I'm not going to deny that my setup isn't the best thing in the world. But face the facts. There's literally a volume slider on your end! Use it and take some responsibility for your own listening experience instead of making it my problem. It'll reach a point where I won't do anything. You'll take action for yourself and turn me down on your own. It's blunt, I know. But I can't please everyone. I'm done trying.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.

And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".

Which is fascinating, really.

I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.

At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.

Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.

#IT #Blogging

#IT #blogging

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New let's Play starts up Monday. I've started playing Rimworld. YouTue members have 12 episodes they can watch right now, and every one else starts getting them on Monday. youtube.com/user/liamerven/joi…

Liam Erven

I'm Liam, a totally blind guy originally from chicago, and now living in Oklahoma. I create videos to educate, inform, and entertain. I play a mix of both console, an daudio-based games.
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I was talking to my family about how my profession was dying, etc., and it was sad, and I wasn't sure what I would do.

Everyone keeps telling me that as a bilingual person in Ottawa, I can pretty much do anything. which.. is kinda true. But also, I didn't study for so many years in my field to... become middle management in the public service.

I'll do it if I have to, but please let me mourn my career, and my passion first!

(The funniest one was from my dad: "They can't actually lay you off from the government with your years of service? LOL)

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TextSpaced is a great idle game. Its one of the best Scifi games ever made, and while actions might take some time to complete, its fun to be able to know that your actions actually effect other actual players. If you want to get involved, please go to www.play.textspaced.com and when you create your account, enter the following code in when it asks for your ancestery in order to join the mighty Carbon faction. We need more people, any help counts, and if you join us, you'll be joining a team of great people who want to carve out there own part of space and who believe heavily in peaceful cooperation, the more, the merrier: 29123950d68f #TextSpaced
#textspaced

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Komplete Kontrol users using DAWs other than REAPER with KK DAW integration (Logic, etc.), can you please tell me what turning the 4d encoder does in plugin mode? Does it move by grid unit (e.g. measure, beat, etc.) or does it scrub in small time amounts more like a surface? I've had a number of requests to make ReaKontrol move by grid instead, but I thought other DAWs behave more like scrubbing and I think this should ideally be consistent between DAWs.

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These vague "something went wrong" error messages are ubiquitous, and I don't like them. Even GNOME has them. I'm getting a message on my phone saying that "a problem repeatedly occurred" opening a web page. It gives me no indication whatsoever of what kind of problem might have occurred. I was envisioning a broken link. Then I looked at my tabs in Safari and saw "Webpage crash." So, apparently, if Safari tells me that "a problem repeatedly occurred" when opening a web page, then it means that WebKit crashed. And I'm using VoiceOver, which presumably makes crashes more likely for me, although this is the first time I can recall experiencing one on IOS, and I have no idea if it is accessibility-related or not. (And, yes, I tried updating IOS, and it didn't make any difference.)

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Apple app developers. Please kindly remind the app review team to articulate the error they see in your app in text format instead of just through screenshots. This makes sure they are following accessibility best practices. Screen reader users who develop apps can't easily determine what errors the team is trying to demonstrate through the use of a screenshot. #iOSDev #swift #Apple
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