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Our stance simplified: we want to make private communications available to anyone on the planet.

Problem: governments everywhere tend to want to control and contain private communications. While Iran and Russia might be contemporary poster examples trying to control private communication, almost all of the "Western" countries have similar control-tendencies, EU Chatcontrol, UK Online Safety Act, US KOSA etc.pp. And we often call those out. Without private communication, things are bleak.

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Delta Chat

@jrp mostly, it works, yes, despite various state attempts to block it. and we are working on making it harder, based on some R&D heavy revisions of how delta chat actually works internally. Last big change was delta.chat/en/2025-08-04-encry… which is in fact enabling another level of resilience and decentralization but that will be published about in a future blog post likely in spring 2026.

Delta Chat: Delta Chat V2: a major security upgrade, beautified contact profiles, new email action and direct app access in chats

With Delta Chat Version 2, chats are end-to-end encrypted, always and by default. Previously it was possible that chats without green checkmarks could contain messages without end-to-end encryption...
delta.chat
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Jonathan

@felixule Spoiler I didn't mess around with removing switches or anything yet. I'm still kinda pissed I even have to do that with a 230€ board. I think the Q6Max was just a bad production, I mean there are enough happy people with other Keychron boards, heck if it wasn't for that issue I'd probably picked up a V6Max for work by now but idk if I really want to spend money on this kind of boards atm.
@Felix Steindorff

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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.

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The Matrix.org Foundation

@bloodaxe yup, understood. the fact is that Matrix as a protocol supports all the same functionality as Discord (and then some), with the possible exception of arbitrary permission combinations (Matrix uses a permission hierarchy rather than purely role based permissions). Video/voice rooms for instance are demo’d by element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-o… but clients like Element haven’t shipped them as they’re prioritising other stuff.

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)
@Bloodaxe

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#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?

#matrix #signal #deltachat

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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
zpravobot.news/@hrubot/1158665…

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 zmaru
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#Mastodon #zpravobot #aidigest #ffcz #ffczsk @Zprávobot @ Zprávobot.news @Slunkobot @ zpravobot.news @hrubot
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Daniel Šnor

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

#zpravobot #mastodon #aiDigest #ffcz #ffczsk

#Mastodon #zpravobot #aidigest #ffcz #ffczsk @Zprávobot @ Zprávobot.news @Slunkobot @ zpravobot.news @Hrubot @ zpravobot.news

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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…

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☀️ 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 čtení
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#Mastodon #zpravobot #aidigest #ffcz #ffczsk @Zprávobot @ Zprávobot.news @slunkobot
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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.

#infosec

Phishing: We're writing to inform you of an important update to our email platform in response to recent events. As part of our commitment to supporting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), we will be adding a "Support ICE" donation button to the footer of every email sent through our platform. This button will appear automatically in all outgoing emails starting next week. What This Means for You All emails sent from your account will include the Support ICE footer element Recipients can click to donate directly to ICE support programs This change helps us demonstrate our platform's civic commitment Opt-Out Available If you prefer not to include this footer in your emails, you can disable it in your account settings.
#infosec

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:flan_ooh: Hey, someone's boosted a cool bit of art from an artist on Fedi I haven't seen before! Clicking Like.
:flan_awe: 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...
:flan_aw: "FYI I'm going to focus my efforts on Substack."
:flan_sad: Backing away from Follow button forever.

#substack

#substack
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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.

#linux #gnome #Wayland #keepassxc #sway #keyring

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How comfortable are you with saying NO to people?

  • 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)
130 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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Every time a politician posts on Twitter a journalist should ask them to justify supporting child sexual abuse and fascism. thebeaverton.com/2026/01/elon-…

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.
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And now I'm learning Typst. AFAICT it's like Markdown with functions and PDF output, or a less noisy but just as powerful LaTeX. Found it looking for something that could generate invoices without me having to dig up someone's LaTeX template from GitHub and shoehorn my text into whatever format it expects. In addition to typesetting documents, I can store invoices as data in recutils, pipe out that data as a Typst document using the invoice template, then convert to PDF. Not sure of an easy way to do this in plain Markdown, and LaTeX would require a bunch of other noise plus using someone's random template. Apparently the Typst templates have visual regression tests too, presumably meaning I wouldn't have that one odd experience where for some reason my LaTeX invoice was pink and I had no clue why. Fun times.
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Bo Morgan

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

#foss #webdev #html #unicode #latex #pdf #international #multilingual #wkhtmltopdf #pdflatex
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@thunderbird

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?

#thunderbird #microsoft #outlook @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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How much would my Polish followers enjoy having a Wrapper for SMP Soft? It's not hard to make one, but I wonder if it's worth my time.
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.
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Tamas G

@pitermach oh yes. I've look into that one a bit, it looks to be based on FestVox, which is to say, it's using Festival-generated voices. Very interesting. But no DLL, there's an engine that drives the voices as an executable, which makes that one super tricky. Not one single DLL lib that we could load into NVDA, so we'd have to manipulate the client executable to get speech results, blah. It felt like a lot more work than worth to even try to get speech out of it, kinda sad.
@Pitermach

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Updated page: Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers
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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