The Microsoft 365 Copilot OS (formerly Windows)
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404 Sight not Found for January 5, 2026 – Puppies and Pennsylvania
Join Liam and Alyssa for the first podcast of 2026. Learn about Guide dog schools, strange city names, and find out what the Ervens are looking forward to in the new year.Liam's Live Streams
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Completely different topic, so ripping this quote out of the context from the article I just boosted:
"I wonder how much Venezuelan sensitive information was in fact stored on Google/Microsoft services and accessed by the US military to prepare their recent strike."
This is indeed a pretty interesting question to ponder. And if you're, say, Greenland, maybe consider your use of US cloud services...
@feld I am pretty sure, Palatir can access Google/Microsoft. That would be consequently after PRISM.
AFAIK Palantir has their own copy of everything. They scrape and buy any data they can get access to and aggregate it so they can make sure they can target you with a hellfire missile while you're on the toilet scrolling reddit
The blast radius of the AI bubble just grew slightly more.
I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.
See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering
We should have a game of "who said it. CEO or chatbot?"
Things would be very different if Harris was president. Democratic voters would be defending her attacks on other countries instead of opposing attacks by Trump.
Just like how they were out to brunch when Biden was increasing the military budget, financing genocide, attacking civil liberties, and killing hundreds of thousands of people when he switched to Trump's Covid strategy to please short term business interests.
Other's People Music returned from its very brief EOY hiatus with some groovy new tunes! Leftfield hip hop, singer-songwriter art pop, demented soundscapes, lo-fi electronic nostalgia & a post-rock concept album about ants. Enjoy!
If I could have my ashes pressed into a record, that would be my vinyl request.
I'm off Mastodon for just over a week when Med-mastodon was down and it is remarkable how things have changed. Before it went down I was posting about Trump bombing NIgeria. Ten days later, its about Trump recently bombing Venezuela. Will it be Greenland next week?
Is there a good tool for building out a resume that works with ATS and doesn't look like absolute shit? #OpenForWork
I played briefly with this and it seemed okay on the surface, though I'm not looking for work so didn't go deep: github.com/rendercv/rendercv
GitHub - rendercv/rendercv: CV/resume generator for academics and engineers, YAML to PDF
CV/resume generator for academics and engineers, YAML to PDF - rendercv/rendercvGitHub
So I'm going to NAM in a few weeks. I got a hotel room with a spa tub in it for the occasion, because I am a boujee bitch. There was an option during the booking to request braille signage, which I thought was pretty spiffy, so I selected it.
I just got a call from them to inform me that the braille signage is only available for the accessible rooms. Naturally the accessible rooms are just the regular rooms and don't have the upgraded tub. So So I decided to just keep things as is and do without the signage (as I have done my entire life)
How annoyed should I be about this?
How do you deal with finding hotel rooms? I was in the states recently and pretty much couldn't do it. It was one of these weird hotels where the rooms were accessed from the outside (good job zoning regs). You couldn't count rooms because of the parked cars, there was no signage, and I just couldn't get the hang of finding door numbers with Be My Eyes.
@miki Most hotels in the US should have braille on the outside of the door, it's quite unusual in my experience for them not to have that. I did notice when I went to NL that they were less common there which was quite unfortunate. I think the signage in this case refers to stuff inside the room.
@miki Wow, you came to nl. Hope you had a good time. Braille on doors is quite unusual here. it is sometimes provided at elevators.
@vitallie @miki I did enjoy it! The food is great, it's very walkable, the trains are solid and everyone I met was super nice. I think of moving there sometimes. But then I would have to learn dutch ;)
I think this is just a case where the ADA has succesfully bullied everyone in the US to do the right thing, which is good. I make a point of mentioning it when I stay in hotels (not that I think it will matter, but, you know, you gotta say something)
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We just got food delivered by a guy who lived at this house before my parents moved in. How weird.
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Welcome pojomi as #curl commit author 1430: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2018…
Fixed missing space in cookie header when using multiple -b flags by pojomi · Pull Request #20184 · curl/curl
Summary When using multiple -b flags, the Cookie header was missing a space after the semicolon separator. Bug behavior curl -b 'a=b' -b 'c=d' https://google.com/ Produced: Cookie: ...GitHub
v stredu idem nakupovať rysovacie potreby, nohavice a ešte píšem diskusný príspevok ale ten si možno nechám na štvrtok.. a ešte by bolo celkom pekné keby aj rysujem
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Today’s lesson: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. A viral Reddit post about an unnamed food delivery company that delays customer orders takes all of the “driver benefit fee” was probably AI-generated. “Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it’s easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing,” Elissa Welle writes in her vetting of the post for @theverge. Read the rest of her report here:
#Tech #AI #FoodDelivery #Apps #TechNews #Transportation
That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
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)
#XMPP #Extensions and #Specifications ( #XEP )
Read about the new XMPP Extensions and Specifications changes and updates in December 2025:
xmpp.org/2026/01/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xeps #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
The XMPP Newsletter December 2025 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard
In this issue: Pack your bags and get ready for the XMPP Summit 28, take part on any or all of the three XMPP events on Fosdem 26 and the other two on the RHL26. Learn about Monal IM internals. Last JMP newsletter of the year. Update your clients …xmpp.org
Хегсет высмеял Путина и его "аналоговнетное оружие"
"Три ночи назад почти 200 наших лучших американцев вошли в центр Каракаса. И похоже, российская ПВО сработала не очень хорошо, не так ли?", - заявил глава Пентагона.
The XMPP Newsletter for December 2025 is out!
Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!
xmpp.org/2026/01/the-xmpp-news…
Enjoy reading! ☕
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter
The XMPP Newsletter December 2025 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard
In this issue: Pack your bags and get ready for the XMPP Summit 28, take part on any or all of the three XMPP events on Fosdem 26 and the other two on the RHL26. Learn about Monal IM internals. Last JMP newsletter of the year. Update your clients …xmpp.org
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Microsoft's CEO doesn't want us to talk about AI slop any more, does he?
He's quite right: we need to start calling unwanted LLM-generated garbage "Nadella", in honour of Microsoft renaming "Office" to "CoPilot".
Or I guess we could call it Nadella Bukkake.
What do you think?
nadella is what results when you try to make Nutella using a recipe you got from ChatGPT
I wish I could boycott places using foreigners for customer service. But then I couldn't call anywhere.
Great idea for a startup: provide native speakers as tech support. Expensive, but good. But expensive.
@menelion Yes. It's not a knock against anyone. The lady today was very sweet. But I have no confidence we adequately understood each other. This was not tech support. This was financial information that I was giving this person.
Loppu laihduttelulle | Timo Vornanen jätti pääkaupunkiseudun ja ohjasi Kullervon – "Somen luoma paine on Suomen poissaolossa"
A 39C3 debrief, getting ready for FOSDEM, and new developments in the Rust servers area. That and more happened over the year end holidays!
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This Week in Matrix 2026-01-05
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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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-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/…
core/src/net/tls.rs at 9d7db202256ee334260c7ebccc3ab6403ee59a6c · chatmail/core
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - chatmail/coreGitHub
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.
Most people just use the defaults, and the default is strict_tls checking, and that has been security-audited independently twice.
nevermind, maybe we just wait for the "0days" then, and leave your generic comments alone even if misleading.
I have been notified about this #accessible text editor written in rust with a lot of interesting features.
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/NovapadGitHub
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Hmmmm, can I get a thousand books on this card?
The real question is, can you get a thousand books on that card and have your player not lag to shit
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
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.
@delta running a chatmail relay inside DeltaChat and P2P communication might be difficult with the default email protocol
Hey Samsung users? How do I turn on fast charging?
It fast charges by default. You have to make sure you're using a compatible cable and power source, though.
@Bri Oh I see now. I had to borrow a USB block though, so yeah. Might just consider getting Chromebook chargers because they charge faster.
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!
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...GitHub
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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?
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…
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 !
@thunderbird Why do you only support OIDC/OAuth for big tech and not for everyone? How can I free up my 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…
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.
It's 9 PM but feels like 12 AM: Good night all, I really had to less sleep last nighht.
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.
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