done with all of them! Most things I now host myself, but I know that's not a possibility for most people. For Messengers I really like @delta and run my own chatmail server, but most people I have on Signal.
Yeah pretty much any of the "small tech" options are better and more private, but privacy and security are worthless without intersectionality, so it's difficult to recommend Brave run by a bigot, or Proton whose CEO liked to "both sides" fascism. They too would be stood up there on inauguration day in a heartbeat if they had the chance.
I wish TutaCalendar could read/autoimport both my Outlook and iCloud Calendar, perhaps even add a simple way to sync it with the Calendar on Gnome (fedora linux) ... if already possible, make an easy guide 😊
I like the list, except for KeePassXC. They now use AI to build the product, and doubled-down when confronted on this. That project can no longer be trusted.
just a note for everyone on the thread that Ecosia and qwant are working on an independent index together blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-… - might only be for French users at first though
We’ve started delivering independent search results from our European-based index. This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in.
Good considerations, though I use your rival, Proton, for mail specifically. Ecosia is allegedly for tree spiking from what I read, so I use something like Startpage or DDG without the AI features.
Gerne hätte ich Tutanota weitergenutzt, wenn mein Account nicht einfach nach 6 Monaten ohne Login gelöscht worden wäre. Die E-Mail-Adresse war für bestimmte Fälle gedacht. Zum Glück habe ich dadurch keine wichtigen Daten verloren. Die Wiederherstellung mittels Bezahlaccount werte ich als extrem negativ!
Ich hoffe trotzdem, dass Tutanota sich entwickelt und evtl. irgendwann die kostenfreien Accounts lebenslang ohne Nutzungszwang laufen.
I already made most of the changes last year and it's been great so far: Windows to Fedora (Linux), Google to Ecosia, Chrome to Brave, YouTube Premium to ReVanced, and of course: Gmail to Tutamail. Whatsapp to Signal is a very hard one when you're studying at university and every group chat is on Whatsapp, but I'm certain that I'll make the change after graduating. :D
My moral compass is aligned such that I would rather pay a little bit of tax than move my operations to the US, but I truly believe that granting non-profit status to open-source projects in Germany would be a net positive for the economy.
why isn't that possible? I think this depends more on the legal structure of the entity "owning" the project and not on the license, should even work for closed source projects.
@robert non-profit / social benefit status (Gemeinnützigkeit) are only granted to specific kinds of businesses (for example religious, sports, arts & culture and a few more). Open Source / free software development isn’t one of them.
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.
I don't think that developing open source alone should be a sufficient criterium to obtain fiscal non-profit status. There are a bunch of examples of software that is open source but commercial and clearly profit-orientated at the same time, cf. debian (clearly non-profit) vs. ubuntu/canonical (clearly commercial and profit-orientated).
Also, we don't want to open new avenues for bigtech to avoid paying tayes. We don't want a way for companies to spin out their "open source but not free" software (cf. Tivo) development into subcompanies that are tax-exempt non profits.
A way to do this proberly could be to add a criterium like "strengthening of sovereignty in IT matters"
@robert I agree, but I also needed a word that fits into a Mastodon post. I can leave the legal definition to someone else.
It's normal that the lines around that get blurred. It's pretty common for organisations to have two arms. A for profit one and a non profit one.
In any case keeping software engineers in Germany instead of incentivicing them to move their business to the US is a net positive for the economy irregardless of moral opinions.
Announcing Jabboratory, a partner collective of @joinjabber Jabboratory aims to be for the people who already have an XMPP account and want to help improve XMPP and the Jabber network.
We use the same CoC as JoinJabber and all the same governance documents. All of them being by Vojkruco codeberg.org/Vojkruco/Cooperat… and we are hosted under the Vojkruco umbrella.
Some of the things we do are: - specifications (called XCSPs in Jabboratory), - developer help/documentation and implementation collaboration - improve XMPP/Jabber network socially (safer spaces, blocklists, outreach, organizing events, pushing for a better non-tech culture, etc.) or anything else that includes improving XMPP and Jabber network as a whole.
We aim for diversity of ideas, include people directly in all aspects of decision making (protocol, implementations, social, etc.) and build a space where people feel safe to talk, ask for help, bring up any kind of ideas and work with others to implement said ideas. By the community for the community with inclusive decision making to serve the people affected.
you are welcome to join our lounge room here -> invite.joinjabber.org/#lounge@… It is strictly non-tech because we aim for inclusivity, but we do of course have other channels some of them being tech related🙂
We already have some implementations, servers, and XMPP collectives involved (including JoinJabber) and we are all building a better XMPP and Jabber network together 🙂
On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.
Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.
In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.
Jeremie writes
"Jabber is a new
project I recently started to create a complete open-source
platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication
to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).
"Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform."
The IRC protocol is a text-based protocol, with the simplest client being any socket program capable of connecting to the server. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
We all just pretend the Matrix protocol with federation, builtin E2E encryption and several open source client and server implementations does not exist.
Element only develops the Rust and JS SDKs. And the libOLM crypto library of course. All other SDKs are community projects. On the server side, there is Conduit which forked into conduwuit which forked into Tuwunel which will eventually reach maturity, if the moon is in the right phase. The phone number mapping service is controlled by the foundation. You could use alternative ones or none.
As far as I can tell, work on the standard has slowed down due to being more and more complete. This is good for projects implementing it.
I think the entire ecosystem is on a good path. It needs fair competition between companies and community projects. Let's wait another 2 years and see what we get.
People complaining about how phones, the internet, and social media are destroying the world from their phones on the internet to a social media platform never stop amusing me.
Oh wow! Danke für das schöne Feedback! Das macht mich jetzt stolz. ❤️
Ich hab die Seite mit Eleventy als SSG aufgebaut, korrekt. Hab auf der „Über mich“ Seite ein bisschen über die Tools geschrieben, die im Einsatz sind. Ansonsten ist das mein HTML, CSS und JS und sonst nix.
Ja, Eleventy macht das einem ja auch einfach, sein eigenes HTML & co. zu verwenden, und zwingt einem nicht eine andere Programmiersprache auf wie Jeckyll oder so.
Ich hab' meine Archive der alten Blogs ja auch mit Eleventy gebaut, nach einem Tutorial für Eleventy von Andy Bell, das er 2020 veröffentlicht hatte und inzwischen als Open Source freigegeben hat. Das ist das erste Tutorial gewesen von einem SSG, bei dem ich das Gefühl hatte zu wissen, was ich tue. Jekkyl und Hugo habe ich vorher auch probiert und war höchst verwirrt.
Working on a piece of #music and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Still in very rough early stages, partner says she loves it, others think it's alright but nothing special. Very different from my usual stuff.
@arfy My hope is that you'll bring something in on the left, perhaps a fun sine-wave arp thing to fill out that side of the spectrum a bit. You have your bass more to the right, which leaves the left feeling all sad and lonely about itself. Definitely a peace of the puzzle missing, but not a huge one.
@FreakyFwoof Sounds are all from Native Instruments, I picked up the "Komplete Standard" bundle a couple of years ago on sale, it's pricey but the sounds are usually pretty excellent @arfy
@arfy Aah, well you're talking to a guy that's done videos for NI in the passed, they've done right by me so I hear you. If you saw the drum video walk through for Komplete 13, that was yours truly.
Eine frühere Freundin und ich haben uns mal per Lorm-Alphabet über einen der Machos unterhalten, der ebenfalls mit uns in einer Sauna saß. Wir haben kräftig über ihn abgelästert, und niemand hat's gemerkt.
L'enlèvement ou l'assassinat de chefs d'état ce n'est pas une spécialité US, la France aussi a fait ça très bien. Me viennent Toussaint Louverture, sylvanus Olympio, Maurice Yameogo, Moussa Traoré, Thomas Sankara ou Mohamed Jaffar aux Comores. Et puis on est assez forts dans le maintien de régimes pourris, tiens, comme il y a moins d'un mois, au #Bénin, le 7 décembre. C'est un peu passé sous les radars. "La politique françafrica, c'est du blaguer-tuer" disait Tiken Jah Fakoly
So I've just pushed a really early version of being able to control a Mac via NVDARemote to the NVDARC app, via a new Be controlled option in the settings page. Note/warning! Due to limitations in VoiceOver, the speech output is going to be less than desirable in a lot of cases, but at the moment, it's the best one can do. Thanks to @miki for igniting the spark in me to actually make this a reality. testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
Wow. Just had a thought. What would stop another nation from doing to us what we did to their leader. I'm no fan of Maduro, but capturing leaders even if they are indicted is probably not a cool persective.
#TIL - A Congressman was once sworn in on a #Superman comic book.
Some on the right are outraged that #Mamdani took his oath of office on a #Quran . But at least three #NYC Mayors have been sworn in on a #Torah , several elected officials have used only a copy of the Constitution, and Donald never touched a Bible at all when swearing in for this last term.
In 2023, California Congressman Robert Garcia (D) outdid them all. He took his #OathOfOffice on a #Superman comic book. It was placed in a stack of items that meant a lot to him, including a photo of his late parents and his citizenship certificate. It was a rare copy of Action Comics # 1 (first appearance of Superman) from the Library of Congress, so it did have historical significance.
As a Superman fan myself, I know he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a copy of that treasure in his hands for just a minute, and I completely endorse the idea. Buying his own copy would have set him back millions of dollars, but that brief moment of "geeking out" was free, thanks to our National Archives.
In addition to chapters support, the app also remembers where podcast playback was stopped and can return to that exact point. In the meantime, I’m addressing a few more of Gemini’s suggestions, so another pull request is on the way. 🙂
I did test that feature on a podcast, but it didn't work for me. I started playing worstofallpossibleworlds.podbe… then I switched to shows.acast.com/itsathing/epis… but it did not remember my spot from the first file. This feature is low priority for me personally, but I thought I'd let you know.
Thank you for the information. I tested it and it worked for me. I’ll check the podcasts you sent, but that will probably be tomorrow — it’s 3 a.m. here in Poland! 😊
I tested the example podcasts you sent, and well — it works for me. Maybe you didn’t listen long enough? The app only starts saving the position after about 20 seconds. Try seeking further into an episode, stopping it, and then coming back to it.
I got a fairly large list of podcasts of various types from a friend, and it’s pretty much what I expected — it all behaves differently. Oh well, we’ll need to test things and catch those edge cases so it works properly. You’ll probably see a few more pull requests from me in the near future.
No worries, we'll work it out when it comes. I got into codex skills last night, and I had to resort to using the AI to install them. I might run bug-triage on it just to be safe, when it is someone I do not know at all/first commit.
It turns out that podcasts started in different ways and stopped in different ways behaved differently. I hope the PR that’s currently going through will resolve this issue!
I kid you not: This is the actual Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs scolding the USA for “a grave violation of sovereignty and international law” — while Russia itself is actively engaged in a a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and about every international law you can find.
we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.
now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.
free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.
super curious situation where I have ICMP reply packets disappearing into the ether
I can see them coming from the server with tcpdump on one end of the wireguard tunnel but not the other, no firewall in this path (it *is* the point to point tunnel after all)
there are things about the pf firewall that drive me absolutely nuts.
I can have a floating rule that only applies to a single interface and it works, but if I apply that rule directly on the interface instead it doesn't work.
For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader:
Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies.
And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.
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I'm looking for an audio adapter where I can plug the USB end into my PC and an aux cable into the other end. This aux should be a stereo (Not Mono) mic input so I can get sound from another device to my computer in stereo.
All the adapters I found on Amazon have been mono. Any recommendations?
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If you find something, please let me know. I'm using an old Andrea Superbeam USB headset dongle for this purpose right now, and I have a feeling it's days are numbered. It's ready to fall apart.
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It's very hard to find something that is actually stereo, line level and 3.5 MM on a simple dongle like that. The potential for noise is pretty high, too, when you start introducing common earth ground. There are some 3.5 MM mic level stereo things out there that you can sort of fake to be line level, like the aforementioned old adapter here, but the couple I've tried had so much DC offset it isn't worth using for anything much. M-Audio used to have a reasonably clean one that did Mike/line, but that was only packaged with some junkie inaccessible software, far as I know.
pretty much everything I use is balanced in and out, so I can't really help too much.
if you are looking for something very tiny, I don't know, but there are lots of options with 3.5 MM stereo line level I/o, or RCA, which is easy enough to adapt, but you will sacrifice size.
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So just a soundcard or am I getting anything wrong? I got this one for my outside stream, though from a german reseller as shipping was faster, no idea wether it's available in your place: amazon.com/-/en/AXAGON-ADA-17-…
mmh, das hätte ich heute nach Berlin mitbringen können, aber jetzt bin ich grade wieder durch das Zugchaos durch den Stromausfall nach Hause gekommen und fahre morgen eher nicht nochmal nach Berlin rein.
(Brandenburg an der Havel. Ist jetzt nicht super weit weg, also wenn irgendjemand anders fahren will, kann die Person sich gerne melden )
I'm glad that NVAccess management realizes that even though I can get shit like image descriptions with AI 8 different ways from Sunday, that's a higher priority than the fact that I only have *1* way to use my terminal. And that's with NVDA. And it barely fucking works because it crashes so much. Good going folks.
@IzzyOnDroid Hallo, kann ich herausfinden, welche Größe des Laufwerks Sie verwenden, das Gewicht der Dateien? Ich möchte versuchen, das Archiv-Repository für ältere Android-Versionen auszuführen, die die Synchronisierung mit dem modernen Fdroid-Server nicht unterstützen.
das habe ich verstanden, ich bin zu dem Punkt gekommen, dass ich nur, wenn ich es bin, noch nicht weiß, wie. ich kann zwei Repositories auf dem Server platzieren.... Was ist das ungefähre Datengewicht Ihres Fdroid-Repositorys?
es besteht der Wunsch, es zu versuchen. es ist einfach, dass in einem modernen Server etwas nicht erlaubt, Daten zu erhalten. ich weiß es nicht genau, vielleicht geht es um Verschlüsselung... die Version des Kunden ist 0.100~, also, als Referenz. ich werde versuchen, es irgendwie zu lernen, es zu entfalten. es wird irgendwann nützlich sein. und die modernen wollen überhaupt nicht arbeiten. sie schreiben, dass ein Fehler beim Parsen des Dateiindex oder so etwas aufgetreten ist. ich werde das Gerät später booten, wenn ich es falsch geschrieben habe. für 0.46 schwört er auf den Index 301, denkt, dass er verschoben wurde. Hinzugefügt ohne ssl
Версии Android до 4.3 еще не поддерживают текущие версии SSL и поэтому не могут обмениваться данными с сервером (который был бы небезопасен, если бы предлагал старые версии SSL). Кроме того, такие старые версии не должны больше использоваться в Интернете.
nun, dann ist es sehr seltsam, dass ich noch etwas habe, das auf 4.2.2 funktioniert Wenn eines der Repositories auf github ist. nun, es funktioniert immer noch vom Guardian Project. obwohl ich Root x1-Zertifikate installiert habe, wahrscheinlich umsonst.
I keep fighting with myself whether I should just go back to Instagram. On the one side, fuck Meta and everything they do. On the other, why bother. Like, I wanna be social, a lot of irl people are there and apparently it's still number 1 when it comes to sharing what's going on in your life with sighted people who can't be bothered to you know, chat the oldschool way. But meh, I need to stay consistent for once, and I wouldn't have a lot of benefit as well. Problem is they just wouldn't care enough to come to Mastodon or Pixelfeed or st.
Mastodon honestly seems to be just your blindy space if certain instances, or if not that, since obviously mastodon is big and not made for blindies, it's just people who either cry about life, are super nerdy, or wanna get their ideas across or whatever. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing it, but I'm just saying from my perspective, maybe it's not needed for them, and I can get that. Well I have facebook already so it seems like nonsense to come to instagram as a 100% blind individual, given that I can see nothing and the only reason I have facebook now is to browse if I'm very bored or for my friends list on messenger. IDK man but yeah. Stick to something and don't change up your mind, that's not better than any audio game dev you would think about dissing.
@McOi Yes, Mastodon is a nerdy space, but that doesn't mean it needs to stay like that. There are tons of more sighted instances, of various focused places, you just don't discover them if you surround yourself with the same people and interests cuz well, there is no algorithm, no boost no discovery, mostly. Also as I said, PixelFeed is your better Instagram. But well, they wouldn't even consider caring for 1 person I guess.
Honestly this has always been my problem with it. Either I'm to stupid, unlucky or I just have no clue. Because I barely discover people I'd like to follow unless someone boosts someone, you look into their profile, that person boosts someone else etc. Or, I knew them from somewhere else before. If neither, they provided their mastodon details somewhere.
Yup, well that's the concept of Mastodon, if it's good or bad is left to you tbh. They do plan to introduce starter packs or something, where apparently you can find accounts of specific topics, idk not heard about it much, but that won't solve the problem either if you ask me.
@McOi Also it's funny how FB is still that active over there. Like Meta just has everything twice, WhatsApp-Messenger, IG-FB. Don't get it lol but FB would be more useless for me.
Nobody here uses whatsapp at least. Instead they use snapshit and I wanna just thro up when I keep hearing about it at this point, the fact how little they care to fix their accessibility makes me not want to use their app. Not to mention, pay to remove our pinned AI priority chatbot? Kindly back off.
@McOi Lol yeah, recently saw more people using it here again, like people I'm actually kinda interested in. Weird shit, no idea what's so awesome about it. Well probably the image filters and shit, oh and the flames. Just let's add this to Ramblio and make our own blindie concept clone social media.
@McOi Oh btw was it you with whom I recently talked about Be Real again, na I think somebody else but maybe you still remember, that thing where you get a notification each day and then make a picture at this notification/time. Apparently people still use it. And some other new apps with which you apparently post/share some image from your gallery each day, Retro or something? Like there are so many random ass apps and the accessibility, don't even consider asking about it. I'm not like, emotional about it anymore, but I would appreciate it to have 1 social media app I could actually use alongside sighted to you know, kinda discover something about the people I like and stay in contact the way it's apparently done these days.
#dobréRáno a pekný deň
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Justin Crozer
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in reply to Tuta • • •Most things I now host myself, but I know that's not a possibility for most people.
For Messengers I really like @delta and run my own chatmail server, but most people I have on Signal.
Richard Lucas
in reply to Tuta • • •KeePass Password Safe
Dominik ReichlKeagan
in reply to Tuta • • •OS: daily driving #Linux for ~2 years.
Email: #Proton for ~6 years, #Tuta for ~1 year (recently switched my business to Tuta)
Password Manager: Proton Pass for most things. Self hosted #Bitwarden for my homeland stuff.
Search: Used #DuckDuckGo and #StartPage for a long time but recently moved to a self hosted instance of #SearXNG
Messenger: Using both #WhatsApp & #Signal.
Anders Lund
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in reply to Tuta • • •I like the list, except for KeePassXC. They now use AI to build the product, and doubled-down when confronted on this. That project can no longer be trusted.
Standard KeePass >>> KeePassXC at this point.
Tuta
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in reply to Tuta • • •I'd LOVE to see a stable release of Tuta on Flatpak.
Is that in the cards for 2026?
Maya Bothe
in reply to Tuta • • •Bob Machintruc
in reply to Tuta • • •Jörg Baranczek
in reply to Tuta • • •Habe gestern dank Trump ein Konto angelegt. Wird morgen o.s. frei geschaltet. Privatnutzer mehr brauche ich nicht.
Was mir fehlt ist noch eine Tuta Notiz App. Kalender und Mail super ( i.d. Vorschau ).
Google Notizen habe ich jetzt erstmal durch die beim Smartphone mitgelieferte App ersetzt. Ohne Synchronisierung!
Leider kann ich die Google App nicht deinstallieren oder deaktivieren.
IO
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in reply to Tuta • • •The internet just got better: our European search index goes live
Ecosia (The Ecosia Blog)Mugita Sokio
in reply to Tuta • • •Good considerations, though I use your rival, Proton, for mail specifically. Ecosia is allegedly for tree spiking from what I read, so I use something like Startpage or DDG without the AI features.
All in all, certainly some good picks for sure.
nobrainer
in reply to Tuta • • •Zunächst mal, eine schöne Liste!
Gerne hätte ich Tutanota weitergenutzt, wenn mein Account nicht einfach nach 6 Monaten ohne Login gelöscht worden wäre. Die E-Mail-Adresse war für bestimmte Fälle gedacht. Zum Glück habe ich dadurch keine wichtigen Daten verloren. Die Wiederherstellung mittels Bezahlaccount werte ich als extrem negativ!
Ich hoffe trotzdem, dass Tutanota sich entwickelt und evtl. irgendwann die kostenfreien Accounts lebenslang ohne Nutzungszwang laufen.
Pau Cabrera
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