A 39C3 debrief, getting ready for FOSDEM, and new developments in the Rust servers area. That and more happened over the year end holidays!
matrix.org/blog/2026/01/05/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Folks now getting mad at me that I paywall the channel Discord/Matrix.
I get it, everyone wants everything for free.
Counterpoint. I:
1. Have to eat, and
2. Don't want to spend 10 hours a day moderating.
It's a buck a month. I'm OK with it.
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".
#fairphone #braille #phone #smartphone #packaging #accessibility #a11y #blind
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Archive of assistive technology software, manuals, and audio clips from the 1990s or prior. - nstockton/vintage-accessGitHub
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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/…
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - chatmail/coreGitHub
I have been notified about this #accessible text editor written in rust with a lot of interesting features.
Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks. - Ambro86/NovapadGitHub
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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.
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 partsUpcoming:
- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata
- remove "threading" and auxilliary headers
- experiment with Sealed Sender
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!
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...GitHub
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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 !
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.
RE: fosstodon.org/@gajim/115843719…
Glad to be able to help Gajim be available on MacOS! 🎉
Gajim on macOSInstalling 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…
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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
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
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.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
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!
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.
An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperbackGitHub
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…
Edit: Thunderbird-Account berichtigt
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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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
There really is a lot of exciting stuff happening!Jon (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.
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.
Back at home, I have bad headaches almost daily. In just a little over two weeks of being away from home, I've had one.
Now I'm starting to wonder if it's 85% stress-related, because there is certainly plenty of it there.
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…
YUNZII Keyboard insists to provide users with highest standard mechanical keyboards and accessories including keycaps, switch, cables with free shipping worldwide.YUNZII KEYBOARD
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)
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
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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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