DeltaTouch 1.12.0 is out, highlights:

🔹 Sync deletion of messages and chats across devices
🔸 Page sized text editor for longer messages
🔹 Webxdc: Notifications (and more)
🔸 Improved integration into UT (ContentHub import/share)

Also included: Preparation for the long-awaited feature teased by @delta 😇
chaos.social/@delta/1141265297…

Full changelog: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

Webxdc support in DeltaTouch is generously funded by @nlnet / @NGIZero, thanks!

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #Webxdc #UbuntuTouch

Family of four found 'frozen,' rescued at Canada-U.S. border crossing into Quebec

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/0…

(they seem to be safe now)

in reply to mhoye

This framing is the kind of nonsensical AI boosterism that @timnitGebru has been telling us about for years, just absolutely bullshit. There’s no hacking of anything, no clever new insight, it’s just lying and cheating, and the conclusion of this article should properly read “the more expensive a model is the more likely it is to produce lies that seem superficially correct and we have to ask ourselves what world we think we’re going to build on a foundation of epistemological quicksand.”
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My dad, who is constantly bored, is a talented home improvement hobbyist craftsman. Can fix up pretty much anything. He has #ADHD, keeps asking me to remind him to do stuff, he keeps not doing it, months pass.

I've now set up a cron job that calls a homemade Python script (that I'd update over SFTP) to put one task in front of him at all times on his #GNOME computer, using this #GNOMEShell extension:
extensions.gnome.org/extension…

I don't know whether that makes me a chaotic good or lawful evil son.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

@federicomena Hilarious! A long time ago I got annoyed at @johnmark not completing things that I was waiting for, so I wrote a quick IRC bot that would remind him any time he spoke up in channel.

github.com/purpleidea/jmwbot/

I recall he mostly got to those things pretty quickly after I deployed this.

Deleting Yahoo is as easy as a few clicks! 👏 (+ There are better privacy-focused mail providers available today) 😉

🔗 Learn how to delete yahoo in a few simple steps 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-delete-ya…

🔗 Don't feel like reading? Watch our quick guide to delete Yahoo 👉 youtube.com/shorts/WwgZLdKvaw4

#Howtodeleteyahoo #quickguides #Howtodeleteyahoomail

There's a new TWBlue version available. Highlights include initial support for filters, pinned posts, posting in different languages and some minor bugfixes (including show all posts correctly). You can update via autoupdater as always, or via GitHub Releases at github.com/MCV-Software/TWBlue…. Due to lack of time on weekends I will delay this announcement on TWBlue's website until monday, thanks for understanding!

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Wow. #Rust is an unserious language. Unless you bend over backwards to fight the compiler and avoid the standard library, you cannot write code that doesn't try to terminate the calling process on arbitrary error conditions. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Terminating the process is never an appropriate action in a library. The library has no way to know its caller's uptime constraints. Libraries should only return error codes to callers. Only applications can decide whether to bail out or not.

#rust
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

@Piciok thanks for your message. So the Minitel itself is just a terminal, screen and keyboard. There also no audio capabilities, never was. So I doubt it ever was accessible that way. We are using a raspberry pi to control the screen and read keyboard inputs. So the pi can output audio but the Minitel itself wouldn't do too much except having a nice keyboard, but it's AZERTY. So I wish it could be useful that way but I don't really think it would be that useful. Unfortunately in 1980 it wasn't something the french government thought through, and looking at the situation of accessibility in general in France today, it's still isn't a priority unfortunately.
in reply to recyclism

Yes, I thought that might have been an issue. I thought, perhaps, it would be possible to hook up an external device, capable of reading the text transmitted over the Minitel protocol, into the terminal and have it output, a kind of hardware screen reader. In my fantasy, it would hook up like those hardware caller presence indicators, maybe even output speech through the phone's receiver, to allow for two-way interaction. Maybe it's something to think about. Yes, with Raspberry Pi, it would be relatively easy to build a simple screen reader, I expect.

The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term "backdoor" to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated the title of our story.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

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Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

Gov. Tony Evers says #Wisconsin is joining a multistate lawsuit against the #Trump admin over the mass firings of federal workers.

The lawsuit argues the admin unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire thousands of probationary employees.

jsonline.com/story/news/politi…

If you want to read a masturbatory, propagandistic profile of the Liberal Party of Canada, have I got the piece for you!

(No, I won’t waste a gift article on this, sorry! lol)

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ar…

This painting evokes nostalgia for my beautiful pre-war Kharkiv. I believe that Ukraine will prevail, and I, like many Kharkiv residents who have been forced to leave for foreign lands, will one day return to my hometown. I have faith that we will restore Kharkiv after the devastating destruction, and it will emerge even more beautiful than before.

Many thanks to the buyer from Green Bay, WI who purchased a 20" x 15" print of Night Lights of Kharkiv!

ukrainian-artists.pixels.com/f…

"Female" and "women" are considered words to avoid but not "male" and "men" because they view male as the default and standard sex and men as the default and standard gender.
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

Trump's budget plan may cut NASA science funding by up to 50%, alarming scientists who call it an "extinction-level event" for space science. This threatens ongoing missions and would cede future space exploration to China. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science.

White House may seek to slash ...

Support for the SMC-Mixer and SMK-25 II piano keyboard have been merged into @mixxx and will be available out-of-the-box in version 2.5.1! Thanks to M-Vave for sending me these; I'm glad I could help! I enjoy writing plugins for DJ setups, if you have an extra controller that you want supported, or are a company that makes MIDI or HID controllers and you want to send one my way, I'm always happy to write a mapping and help get it supported in the best DJ software out there!

#Mixxx #Music

In the interest of using Canadian providers, CanChat.org services are now running on #LunaNode hardware.

Check out the referral link below for more information!

lunanode.com/?r=17812

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

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Máme 16 přihlášených a čekáme další 😉
Pokud chcete dorazit, dejte mi vědět, ať vím, kolik míst nahlásit 😉
mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@archos…


🐘 Mastodoní a BS sraz v Praze! 🍻

První nadšenci už se hlásí, tak neváhej a přidej se taky! 📅 21.3. v Hospůdce Do větru.

Dej vědět @cynik_obecny, jestli dorazíš, ať se zajistí dostatek míst.

Více info: pivo.stloukal.uk

Boostni dál, ať se nás sejde co nejvíc! 🔁✨
#mastopivo #masto_sraz


Maybe time for people and groups to start considering #Matrix for their current #Discord servers, as Discord becomes focused on getting money out of everyone who uses it, with likely enshitification beginning soon. #XMPP/#Jabber is also an alternative.

Both are decentralized, publicly owned services, where you can interact with anyone else regardless of which server they choose to be hosted on, just like Mastodon, et al.

kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-…

🕯️ Nach Todesfahrt: Interreligiöses Gebet auf Paradeplatz #Mannheim

Genau eine Woche nach der Todesfahrt in der Fußgängerzone laden Oberbürgermeister Christian Specht und das Forum der Religionen zu einem interreligiösen Gebet ein.

🗓️ Montag, 10. März, 12:14 Uhr,
📍 Auf dem Paradeplatz O 1, 68161 Mannheim.

Das Gebet beginnt zu der Uhrzeit des ersten Notrufs, der während der Todesfahrt eingegangen ist. Es werden Vertreter der katholischen und der evangelischen Kirche, der jüdischen Gemeinde, der alevitischen Gemeinde und muslimischer Gemeinden sprechen.

Menschen aller Glaubensrichtungen und Herkunft sind herzlich willkommen, um der Toten zu gedenken, für die Verletzten zu beten und sich gegenseitig Trost und Zuversicht zu spenden.

Re: last boost by @TheQuinbox about the new release of easymark (github.com/trypsynth/easymark): This is a small success story for Rust and the growing ecosystem of libraries and tools around it, especially @raph's pulldown-cmark Markdown parser library, the native-dialog and webbrowser libraries, and the dist tool (opensource.axo.dev/cargo-dist/) for releasing cross-platform CLI utilities with easy CI integration.

Remember: when you run #curl shipped by Apple with the --cacert flag it won't behave like #curl does everywhere else. As I wrote about last year. I think they're doing it wrong. They think its fine.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/08…

#curl

Zum #Frauentag möchte ich ein Video mit Euch teilen, das mir mein Mann heute morgen zeigte, mit einem sehr berührenden Text von Slamerin Jule Weber (ab Min 1:10). Enjoy (v.a. auch die #Männer, dieses Stück ist für Euch!). #iwd #iwd2025 #frauentag2025 ❤️✊❤️

youtu.be/44DaC8vj80o

Chcete si na mapě zobrazit všechny výskyty nějakého objektu (knihobudky, bankomaty, pítka, veřejná ohniště...)? Snadno to jde například s @MapComplete (mapcomplete.org/). Chybějící objekty můžete i doplňovat, podobně jako přes @streetcomplete.

#mapa #OSM #MapComplete #StreetComplete