The packaging of the Fairphone and it's accessories has braille! I have never seen any packaging other than medicine have braille. I'm so impressed. Even the location of the qr code is highlighted with embossing. It seems to say "scan qr code for help".
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….
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.
please read more carefully the source code. You are in the "else" branch of "if strict_tls" and strict_tls is True by default.
It's pretty deep down in advanced menus to opt out of the default strict tls handling (with RustTLS btw). Opt out is needed for some users who would otherwise have no TLS at all in their national environment, and where they often use public WIFIs, so eavesdropping cleartext from people around is trivial but cracking RSA1024 is not.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Hi @delta One of my friends is a senior Android UI developer and actively looking for a job new year. Could you please share the job link or details on how to apply?
J'en ai eu marre de voir un ami galérer avec un client XMPP sur Mac…
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N'hésitez pas à nous faire vos retours sur le salon de Gajim !
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…
I just got the latest update of the Android Accessibility Suite on my Pixel 9. In Talkback 16.2, I believe you're supposed to be able to enable dictation by doing a two finger double tap in an edit field, but the gesture isn't working for me. Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere that needs to be turned on or something? Thanks.
You need to be using GBoard for this to work, to my knowledge. Make sure GBoard is up to date. I use Sasung Keyboard, so it doesn't work here, buuuuut that's what I know.
Y'all I'm away from my Linux work machine for two whole weeks. And I come back to find...
It's still powered on. It's at the lock screen. It's ready, ready I say, for my password. No reboot needed. No secure desktop and then wait for a few seconds for Windows to consider doing its job. It just, plain, works.
Multi-provider oAuth intgrations are far harder to do than I ever thought they were. There are so many weird edge cases a user can realistically run into.
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.
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.
It's weird when you actually have the _confidence_ to write a person, but you don't know what _exactly_ you want or _whether_ you even want them in your life. That last words sound harder then I'm trying to make them.
There’s a number of people, especially Linux enthusiasts, that kind of go around with this very USian customer-is-always-right mentality and judge things other people make as if everything in the world has to be made specifically to cater to them
It’s a huge breath of fresh air when I see folks who will just say, “This is a fantastic product that isn’t for me”. That recognition that something can be both good and also made for someone else is a kind of maturity level I wish we saw from more people who use and talk about open source software
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
I remember there was a Video Chat option in Delta Chat. Today I checked all my Android and desktop instances, and none of them have it anymore, it just disappeared.
@Claudius Link Audio / video calls have been introduced in v2.20 and refined in v2.22. At that time it was under an advanced feature flag. However now since v2.33 it's enabled by default I think. @Delta Chat (39c3) awesome work.
I think it should just be renamed to "Calls" in that menu to avoid the confusion. It doesn't say "Debug Channels" or "Debug On-demand Location Streaming", so the naming is kind of inconsistent for an experimental feature that isn't polished yet
@seymour ups, ja, "debug calls" is ein bisschen missverstaendlich. Das "debug" sollte nur bedeuten, dass wir noch nicht behaupten, dass calls voll funktionsfaehig und verlaesslich ist. Wird aber demnaechst sowieso ueberarbeitet werden.
DoorDash and Uber Eats both deny the allegations in the viral Reddit “confession” post about a “major food delivery app,” and the post is likely AI slop.
Einen schönen ersten Digital Independence Day! Vor allem für alle, die diesen ersten Sonntag im Monat nutzen, um von Outlook zu @thunderbird zu wechseln.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wir freuen uns, dass Sie den Wechsel vollzogen haben und danken Ihnen für die Tipps, die Ihnen geholfen haben! (Möglicherweise müssen Sie Ihren Beitrag bearbeiten und ein Leerzeichen zwischen die Webseite und "Ich" setzen) 🎉
@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?
a) using a dedicated address on an existing SMTP server is supported but you might want to arrange for automatic removal of old messages on the server yourself currently. We are working on improving this supported "dedicated email address as relay" case.
b) migration is easy these days. You can start with any of the chatmail.at/relays and later migrate to a new relay via "advanced settings - relays -- add relay" and mark the new as default relay.
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Thanks for the quick reply :) I also really like your solution from a UX standpoint, signing up and using it is a breeze!
How frequently would I want to run a cleanup job? I could easily script something for that. As far as I understand, all messages are stored locally on the client once received, so I could just delete all messages marked as...seen on the IMAP server?
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.
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
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.
Its just a label, really, and everyone has their own idea of what constitutes being allowed to use said label, but ultimately, its personal. If that's who you see yourself as, and others do as well, and you're comfortable with it, then you're a nerd. If you feel like you need to qualify, no you don't, and who cares. Just be you.
@cadey I'm curious if you continue to use your NVIDIA DGX Spark after the review you wrote in October. If so, do you have a favorite LLM that you run on it, and what do you use it for?
Yep, it runs GPT-OSS 120b and Z-Image turbo for various boring work things (style guide corrections, concept exploration for cover art on work blogposts, etc).
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.
Since you're seeing this on fedi -- or Bluesky, Blacksy, or elsewhere in the ATmosphere -- you already know the value of alternative social media that's not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's who make money by exploiting their users and working with their cronies in authoritarian governments.
But, what we have today is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible.
It's not just a rhetorical question, I really am curious!
You can respond with a reply to this post, via the pol.is conversation here, or -- if you're on fedi -- in the polls below. I'll write up the results later this month.
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.
Thanks everybody for the responses so far, here's a couple of new polls including some excellent suggestions that came in. If you've got other ideas, share them in the comments here -- or in the pol.is conversation (which also lets you disagree with stuff you don't want)
Yah, stress is most certainly a documented, medically-recognized cause of headaches. One of many many many causes of them to be sure, but most certainly a very valid one.
Have you considered not going back there? It seems like the living situation is horrible for you. This coming from someone who is not a huge fan of change. Lol.
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.
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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…
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.
My favorite use of a local LLM is asking graphite4 questions about the use of the English language that I’d be too embarrassed for Anthropic employees to read.
@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.
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in reply to Soatok Dreamseeker • • •please read more carefully the source code. You are in the "else" branch of "if strict_tls" and strict_tls is True by default.
It's pretty deep down in advanced menus to opt out of the default strict tls handling (with RustTLS btw). Opt out is needed for some users who would otherwise have no TLS at all in their national environment, and where they often use public WIFIs, so eavesdropping cleartext from people around is trivial but cracking RSA1024 is not.
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Unknown parent • • •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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