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For anyone interested in older assistive technology (namely screen readers and speech synthesizers) I am now hosting a mirror of the Vintage Access Git repository on my website. The original can be found at github.com/nstockton/vintage-a…, and the mirror is at datajake.braillescreen.net/vin….

GitHub - nstockton/vintage-access: Archive of assistive technology software, manuals, and audio clips from the 1990s or prior.

Archive of assistive technology software, manuals, and audio clips from the 1990s or prior. - nstockton/vintage-access
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Me: We all know PGP is bad because it forces you to support legacy bullshit like 1024-bit RSA keys, but I'm specifically going to write a blog post about email encryption as not just a technical challenge.

@delta: subtoots my blog post

Their source code: Disables TLS security to support legacy 1024-bit RSA.

github.com/chatmail/core/blob/…


core/src/net/tls.rs at 9d7db202256ee334260c7ebccc3ab6403ee59a6c · chatmail/core

Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - chatmail/core
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Delta Chat

Is it too much to expect a bit of precision in your analysis and statements? Doing some click-bait comments like "their code: disables TLS security to support legacy 1024-bit RSA" is very misleading. The *opt-out* to allow 1024-bit RSA is for real-world people that can not change anything about the fact that the server they are using only offers RSA1024.
Most people just use the defaults, and the default is strict_tls checking, and that has been security-audited independently twice.

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I have been notified about this #accessible text editor written in rust with a lot of interesting features.

github.com/Ambro86/Novapad/


GitHub - Ambro86/Novapad: Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks.

Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks. - Ambro86/Novapad
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#accessible

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RE: chaos.social/@delta/1158424466…

Encrypted content / headers / transport / etc. are great harm reduction, but by no means is it metadata avoidance (in the strict academic sense of what those words mean when applied to communications systems).

Third party actors (e.g. relay servers / network actors) can build correlative models using the *metadata* inherent in the communication protocol (source, destination, timing, frequency).

We have decades of research demonstrating the power of such models - let's not minimize them.

Delta Chat

2026-01-05 12:17:38

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Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:

DONE:

- no phone number other identifying data needed
- no cleartext "Subject"
- no cleartext "To"
- randomized "Date"
- no IP addresses
- group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message parts

Upcoming:

- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata
- remove "threading" and auxilliary headers
- experiment with Sealed Sender


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Delta Chat

indeed, resistance against traffic correlation is a big challenge. Usually, for instant messaging Signal is used as a comparison basis. Its amazon/cloudflare/microsoft hosted servers, like chatmail relays and their hosters, can do adverserial traffic analysis, irrespective of how much metadata travels in the messages. The question maybe is if there is anything inherently not doable with the email system and in particular chatmail clients that can be done with Signal clients.

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We are looking for an experienced Android UI developer for github.com/deltachat/deltachat…. Native Java, close to the system, with minimal deps and fluff.

Networking/encryption/persistence is not part of the job as it happens in github.com/chatmail/core

Remote collab is fine and the default. We meet in person every few months in the black forest or other occasions/places. We can do 20-30 hours per week contracts with 4-5K EUR pay per month.

EDIT: position is filled. thanks all!

#FediHire


GitHub - chatmail/core: Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧

Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - GitHub - chatmail/core: Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings...
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J'en ai eu marre de voir un ami galérer avec un client XMPP sur Mac…

Et bon je suis impulsif·ve vous le savez, donc comme j'adore le client Gajim, bah ça fait 4 semaines que je travaille sur le fait de pouvoir enfin utiliser Gajim sur MacOS, vous avez du le voir passer ici vu mes demandes en décembre :D

Et ça y est on a enfin des .dmg qui marchent bien et que vous pouvez tester en nightly ici :
gajim.org/download/#install-ma…

N'hésitez pas à nous faire vos retours sur le salon de Gajim !

#XMPP #MacOS


Install

Free and fully featured chat app for XMPP
gajim.org
#xmpp #MACOS
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

This is something we've definitely been discussing, and exploring how we can implement it and what the best way to do that would be. There's a link to a Connect post in the bugzilla report, and it's never a bad idea to upvote/comments on these to help show support, which is useful when we prioritize features to add to our development roadmaps: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/o…

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RE: fosstodon.org/@gajim/115843719…

Glad to be able to help Gajim be available on MacOS! 🎉

Gajim

2026-01-05 17:41:24

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Gajim on macOS :apple_inc:

Installing Gajim on macOS just got a lot easier! Gajim is now available as a packaged DMG setup file 📦, which can be downloaded and installed.

At the moment, we provide an experimental nightly for testing. If everything goes well, the next Gajim release will include a macOS setup as well 🎉

Try the nightly here:
gajim.org/download/#install-ma…



Install

Free and fully featured chat app for XMPP
gajim.org

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My thoughts are really random right now. One of these random thoughts_ is that maybe I'm expecting to_ _much_ from myself. As long as I don't hang in front of _my_ phone the entire day and get TikTok _addicted_, I think it can't be bad to slow down a little bit, spend less time in front of the computer trying and just keep myself out of it with some audiobooks and bible. I hope we _finally_ get an YMCA youth group again, I need to find myself somehow and that won't happen through this computer sadly. I still _don't_ really know what I want, or well, I kinda do, but I need to learn to be _consistent_ with it, and not like, mix up my entire thoughts just because my emotions play with me or something. Difficult to describe.
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Jonathan

The reason I say that, btw, is probably kind of influenced by me spending more time outside the bubble again. I know that I need it once everything goes back to normal and I sit in the office 8 hours a day. NO sighted person would care enough to like, idk, chat with me that often, or bother about my tech stuff, etc. I'm not trying to downtalk this all, but I need, different stuff too. If not that, then that I've kinda noticed that I care less and less. Straight example, new Redspot, many people apparently at least somewhat care, honestly I see 0 reason to play it. Not trying to downtalk anybody's fun but I just don't feel like I fit into this kind of community mostly, with exception of some of the techy
people. Don't feel like I fit into anything though so that doesn't mean something lol. Also I don't know whether it's good to put this on Mastodon, but I enjoy reflecting and I just can't in like a journal where it's not really directed to somebody.
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Pretty sure this is a transcription error, but my new favorite 19th century name is "Almond Gushy"

(Currently going over a student transcript of an 1840s journal to standardize spelling of some proper nouns for discovery reasons)

ETA: Okay, I checked the manuscript, it definitely does say "Almond Gushy"

Edited again: Unfortunately, after further reflection, I think it's more likely Grisby. Boo

Screenshot of a manuscript showing the words "Almond Gushy"
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Hello @delta

I'm puzzled, the #DeltaChat Android app (from the Google play store, 2.34.0) doesn't offer to set a video chat instance

The version 2.11.0 from the FDroid store does.
Is this intentional?

The first one is set to English, the FDroid one to German

Side problem: while the web version of #FDroid also shows me 2.34.0 the "app store" on #EOS always downloads 2.11.0. It even offers an update but the version stays on 2.11

#fdroid #deltachat #eos @Delta Chat
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Einen schönen ersten Digital Independence Day! Vor allem für alle, die diesen ersten Sonntag im Monat nutzen, um von Outlook zu @thunderbird zu wechseln.

Ich kann euch die folgenden Tipps von @CHIP_online wärmstens empfehlen. Sie haben mir bei der E-Mail-Migration sehr geholfen: praxistipps.chip.de/thunderbir…

Ich wünsche euch viel Erfolg!

#DIDit #DUTgemacht

#dutgemacht #didit @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @CHIP

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@delta hi! I was told and shown some very interesting stuff at 39c3 by your team, so here's some more questions: what's the drawback of using a dedicated address on my existing SMTP server for delta chat? Someone from your team told me that you're looking to phase out that option. I'd like to avoid running a dedicated VPS just for a chatmail relay for now. If I decide to use nine.testrun.org instead, how easily will I be able to migrate to my own server in the future?
@Delta Chat
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Delta Chat

right now, for classic dedicated email addresses, you can go to the "chats-and-media / delete-from-server" setting and set it to "after download" or a higher duration if you have multiple devices on the same address that want to get messages. Once a message is downloaded, a device never looks back on the server for it.

Note: How the UX of deletion-options evolve in the next months is still under discussion. If it becomes required to do something server-side we'll document it.

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The latest Paperback 7 development build now includes basic web rendering. By going to Tools and choosing Open in Web View (Ctrl+Shift+V), you can display a part of a book, say, a section or a chapter, inside a web view.
How much of the book or file actually shows up in the web view is still a bit unclear to me; in EPUB books, for example, it seems to depend on the size of each chapter or section.
You might ask: what’s this good for? For regular books, the web view may not be all that useful. But it can be very handy for books with specific, intentional formatting (like code samples or shell commands), where browsers have already done the heavy lifting to build a sensible accessibility tree—or for Markdown previews.
Also worth mentioning: Paperback 7 (development) now supports tables as well. You can move between tables using T and Shift+T, and once you press enter in a table, you can navigate its columns and rows in a dedicated screen reader-friendly way in the same web view. Pressing Escape returns focus to the book.
github.com/trypsynth/paperback…
@TheQuinbox

Releases · trypsynth/paperback

An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperback
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Ich habe heute, erinnert durch @goestern , an @thunderbird gespendet. Auch ich nutze Thunderbird schon ewig und es wurde mal wieder Zeit. Danke für das tolle Mailprogramm. #freetheinbox. Macht mit und unterstützt Datenschutz für die Online-Kommunikation. thunderbird.net/donate über @mozthunderbird
thunderbird.net/de/donate/?for…

#tugutesundsprichdaruber

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Spenden

Thunderbird ist eine freie E-Mail-Anwendung, die sich leicht einrichten und anpassen lässt – und wir haben viele tolle Funktionen hineingepackt!
Thunderbird
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You know, right after hitting send I thought about something. Should I call myself nerd? Honestly there are tons of more smarter and nerdy people than me, and somehow, I wouldn't even necessarily call me nerd, but many people do, my parents, friends, and I guess what I do is, nerdy? I don't know what I think about the association with the word nerd at this point tbh.

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And that's the fun part of beeing a nerd. Been at the YMCA the last couple of days and got recommended an audiobook, that recommendation kinda spread so it wasnt only me who wanted to hear it. So what did I do? Get it on Audible, NVDA Remote into my PC, Open Audible FTW rip it, throw it on my audiobookshelf server, and saved people money. Yup sometimes its great to be seen nerdy in a good way as you are.

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Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next

privacy.thenexus.today/reasons…

#fediverse #ActivityPub #ATmosphere


Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next

There really is a lot of exciting stuff happening!
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#activitypub #fediverse #atmosphere
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The Nexus of Privacy

What are you looking for in social media? (10/N)

Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.

  • Extremely easy onboarding (33%, 11 votes)
  • Less mansplaining (51%, 17 votes)
  • A place to see and be seen (36%, 12 votes)
  • Long posts with no character limits (27%, 9 votes)
  • Rich formatting and inline images (27%, 9 votes)
  • Actual conversations with people I disagree with (36%, 12 votes)
  • Safe place for NSFW artists, without sex-negativity and neo-purity culture (54%, 18 votes)
  • No algorithms (66%, 22 votes)
  • The ability to choose and customize algorithms (36%, 12 votes)
  • Rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, rats, mice, and other little friends (45%, 15 votes)
33 voters. Poll end: 23 hours ago

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The Nexus of Privacy

What are you looking for in social media? (11/N)

Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.

  • a place that takes constant and aggressive actions to avoid anti-blackness and misogyny (75%, 9 votes)
  • A place with safety team to handle anti-Blackness, racism, etc when it happens. (100%, 12 votes)
  • Something to replace "buy nothing" Facebook groups (25%, 3 votes)
  • Discussions with people in my neighborhood (without Nextdoor's racism) (33%, 4 votes)
  • A place to organize to fight bad internet reuglation like ChatControl, age verification, KOSA etc (75%, 9 votes)
  • A new and different kind of social media I haven't seen before! (41%, 5 votes)
  • A "community bulletin board" of local events (41%, 5 votes)
  • Independent media (66%, 8 votes)
  • Discovering new authors (75%, 9 votes)
  • Discussions that *aren't* public for the whole world to see (50%, 6 votes)
12 voters. Poll end: 23 hours ago

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Juanjo Salvador

something like custom keycaps or just themed? Usually, on Aliexpress you can find nice quality keycaps from all styles. But since you're looking for a cute design, check this out.

yunzii.com/es/collections/acce…


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ZD Tech : Microsoft évincé d’une administration entière, 100 millions d’e-mails migrés vers des outils libres avec succès (Microsoft Exchange et Outlook remplacés par Open-Xchange et Mozilla @thunderbird) #SchleswigHolstein – ZDNet zdnet.fr/actualites/zd-tech-mi…

ZD Tech : Microsoft évincé d’une administration entière, 100 millions d’e-mails migrés vers des outils libres avec succès - ZDNET

Une région allemande a finalisé cette année un chantier informatique colossal en remplaçant le couple bien connu Microsoft Exchange et Outlook par Open-Xchange et Mozilla Thunderbird.
Guillaume Serries (ZDNET)
#schleswigholstein @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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My 2026 resolution: renewing my monthly donations to the projects powering my life&work.
@eff
@internetarchive
@wikimediafoundation
@devuan
@thunderbird
@thephpf
@phpcs

And you? Can you pick just one project to back this year?
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #NewYearResolution

#FreeSoftware #opensource #newyearresolution @Electronic Frontier Foundation @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @internetarchive @The PHP Foundation @Wikimedia Foundation @Devuan @PHP_CodeSniffer
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Łukasz Langa

@matt Fixed the typo, thanks! As for why I chose this particular model:
⁃ it’s the biggest model that fits in my M1 Max’s RAM comfortably;
⁃ it responds almost as quickly as commercial hosted models;
⁃ it’s not pretending to know anything, it frequently tells me “I don’t know anything/enough about that, check online”;
⁃ instead, it’s just very good at English and Polish.
@Matt Campbell
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Sam Tupy

@vlad25 For anyaudio I am hopeful to implement proper database replication and load balancing so that several servers around the world can host nodes that handle bits of the anyaudio traffic. This sort of thing is pretty tricky to set up and get right in a bug free manner though. Indeed, however, we are quickly reaching the limits of my poor small server with all of these releases and I'll probably have to adapt accordingly in some sense.
@ownage vlad
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