One of the teenagers I work with is taking an interest in computers/networking. We're emailing about why you can't access home servers from outside your network, and how websites can be accessed from anywhere. Does anyone have a good analogy for LANs, private IP blocks, DNS, name servers, and accessing it all? Nothing I can come up with is a very good fit.
Edit: yes, another adult is copied on all emails. I know the CPP regulations, including the recent updates, and have passed advanced CP.
A new member in the Foundation, server-wide anti-spam in continuwuity, and a matrixRTC-SDK...
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2026-01-09
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Element welcomes Video Rooms and a new search experience!
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!Mathieu Velten (Element Blog)
#Signal a deux défauts, et ils sont politiques :
- Il est étasunien;
- Il est centralisé.
C'est là où #Deltachat pourrait sortir son épingle du jeu. Je songe à y migrer. En attendant, je suis sur Signal depuis cinq ans et j'y reste; c'est déjà difficile de convaincre mon entourage…
Je pense que #Matrix, bien qu'ultra-sécurisé, est trop complexe pour ma mère; il restera sous-utilisé, à moins qu'on ne trouve une façon de l'encapsuler dans quelque chose de plus simple.
Suis-je seul à penser ça?

Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript
(Hooray)
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Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript - The New Stack
Frontend developers are returning to Vanilla JavaScript. Here's how native APIs and AI tools are making plain JS the cure for framework fatigue.Alexander T. Williams (The New Stack)
Hrubej dokumentarni sestrih nasi prosincove akce.
Pokud by nekoho zajimal cely zaznam, muzu nasdilet.
#music #unreleased #art
Dva boti? NE, správný počet je TŘI! Aby se @zpravobot a @slunkobot zabavili i v mezičase, kdy nic nepublikují, je tu i @hrubot, třetí do mariáše.
Hrubot přinese trochu jiné zprávy, ale neodpustí si jejich okomentování, a nedělá to v bílých rukavičkách, ne ne, je ironický, sarkastický, hrubý, je zkrátka Hrubot!
#zpravobot #mastodon #aiDigest #ffcz #ffczsk
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Hrubot @ zpravobot.news (@hrubot@zpravobot.news)
😏 DNEŠNÍ REALITA (08.01.2026) 3992 postů = co se stalo? 🌍 Zahraniční politika (427×) 🏃 Sport (483×) 🏛️ Politika (283×) 💼 Ekonomika (205×) 🎬 Kultura (109×) #realita #zpravobot 👇 Důkazy zmaruHrubot @ zpravobot.news (Zprávobot.news)
Tak abychom to shrnuli:
• @zpravobot pro vás má výběr ze zpráv z předešlého dne vždy ráno v 7:00.
• @slunkobot je šiřitelem pozitivních zpráv k odpolední kávičce vždy v poledne.
• @hrubot přináší lehce kontroverzní zprávy se svým naprosto úžasným hrubým, ironickým, sarkastickým komentářem vždy v 19:00.
Nezapomeňte je zaslonit a nechat se bavit…d8-D
Zprávobotí shrnutí zpráv je možná fajn, ale ke kávičce po dobrém obědě to nechce žádné drama, krvák, finanční ztráty na burze, ale pohodové čtení dobrých zpráv.
Navíc se @zpravobot nebude cítit tak osaměle, když tu bude mít věčně pozitivně naladěného parťáka @slunkobot, který neví, co je blbá nálada!
#zpravobot #mastodon #aiDigest #ffcz #ffczsk
zpravobot.news/@slunkobot/1158…
Slunkobot @ zpravobot.news (@slunkobot@zpravobot.news)
☀️ DOBRÉ ZPRÁVY DNE (08.01.2026) Z dnešních 3992 zpráv: 💼 Ekonomika (15 postů) 🎬 Kultura (9 postů) 👥 Společnost (1 postů) ❄️ Počasí (1 postů) #dobréZprávy #zpravobot 👇 Inspirace na čteníSlunkobot @ zpravobot.news (Zprávobot.news)
Check out this SendGrid account phishing message I received today.
The email claims that SendGrid will be adding a 'Support ICE' link to every email sent via their platform.
Of course 99.99% of orgs would want to opt-out if it were real, so this is an incredible lure to get SendGrid creds.
Also, if the bad guys are using opting out of supporting your organization as a lure, you know you done fucked up.
Hey, someone's boosted a cool bit of art from an artist on Fedi I haven't seen before! Clicking Like.
Clicking over to their posts, they have some other fun art I like! I'll just scroll a little more before clicking that Follow button...
"FYI I'm going to focus my efforts on Substack."
Backing away from Follow button forever.
Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.
Question: what are y'all using as secret service on #Linux? (With #Wayland and #sway, if that matters.)
I did not like #GNOME #Keyring, because that pulled in tons of stuff I didn't want.
I'm currently using #KeePassXC, but let's just say it's a much better password manager than a Secret Service. (e.g., it can't remember authorized binaries over a session, and handling multiple databases isn't great.)
Ideally, I want something that does only this, but does it well.
- Saying NO is hard for me (45%, 59 votes)
- Saying NO is easy (36%, 47 votes)
- I will lose opportunities if I say NO (13%, 17 votes)
- Don't like rocking boats (19%, 25 votes)
- Rock the fucking boat (26%, 34 votes)
- I don't want to offend (19%, 25 votes)
- Silence is a NO (11%, 15 votes)
- Silence is complicity (13%, 18 votes)
- I say NO but people don't listen (29%, 38 votes)
- I'd rather find a way to say Yes (12%, 16 votes)
- I say NO but don't enforce the boundary (16%, 21 votes)
- I'm scared and anxious and don't wanna (23%, 31 votes)
Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse - The Beaverton
AUSTIN, TX - World's richest man Elon Musk has achieved another lifelong milestone goal, this time training his artificial intelligence program Grok to make it easier than ever for users to create images of child sex abuse.Staff (The Beaverton)
An Overview of TalkBack Screen Reader Settings - Accessible Android
If TalkBack is running, TalkBack settings can be found among the TalkBack menu items. Alternatively, it is possible to navigate to installed services inKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
I was using pdflatex to generate receipts for product purchases on my website, and I found it didn't have very good international multilingual unicode support. I found wkhtmltopdf, which works great for me. On a digitalocean debian server, I'm producing receipts that closely mimic my on-line HTML receipts in 16 languages. I highly recommend wkhtmltopdf.
#html #pdf #wkhtmltopdf #latex #pdflatex #unicode #multilingual #international #foss #webdev
I observe some weird behaviour from my organisations #outlook server. I use #thunderbird as a desktop client. When I send a message to an unknown recipent, the non delivery report gets flagged as junk from outlook and will never be delivered into the inbox. All support staff I am asking are trying to convice me, I am doing something wrong or that is just the way it is.
E.g. #microsoft says: "This is not a misconfiguration in the traditional sense (such as no broken SPF/DKIM/DMARC, no transport rules required). Rather, it relates to how EOP handles NDRs based on the originating client’s submission method. It aligns with Microsoft’s design: Outlook web/desktop clients receive preferential treatment for internal mail flow."
Anyone else observed similar problems?
Might have to make one for NVDA 2026.X, although at least SMPSoft can grab direct wave chunks, it's just that the engine is a bit meh Like, it's not as bad as SoftVoice. But like, it's kinda bad.
Added: BraiLab 2025.
Added: Eloquence 3.3 2025.
Added: Eloquence 4.7 2025.
Added: SMPSoft 2025.
Added: MindMaker FlexVoice 2025.
Happy Friday!
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Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers - Eurpod
Welcome to the post everyone has asked for over time! The one where you can find download links for various Piper (link to repo) voices.Tamas Geczy (Eurpod)
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Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.ČTK (Expats.cz (Howlings, s.r.o.))
Minidisc or cassette might be cooler, but honestly CDs are probably the easiest “retro” format to get into.
Used players are still relatively easy to come by and you can get a drive for your computer to burn audio CDs very easily; and there’s plenty of dirt cheap used CDs. (This CD Walkman is from Goodwill!)
Audio quality is top-notch, too.
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