2025 is drawing to a close, and with it my 6th year of covering accessibility in the video game industry. The year’s not quite over, but I’m going to try and take a few weeks off at the end of the …
This is getting better and better, I come to find out that @MonaApp is expecting customers who bought Mona Pro in the current version as a “one-time purchase” (note the quotes around that phrase) to pay both for Mona Pro Max in the current version, and Mona Ultra in Mona 7 to maintain the same functionality as you currently get with Mona Pro already. Let’s add this all up, in US dollars of course since that’s my point of reference. The initial purchase of Mona Pro was $12.99 plus whatever Apple tax you have to pay as part of the purchase. The upgrade to Mona Pro, Max in the current version according to the developer is an additional $10 plus the Apple tax. Oh, but hold on now in order to upgrade to Mona ultra in Mona, 7, you have to shell out an additional $20 plus the Apple tax. Hope you can afford it… what was originally a high-quality, accessible Mastodon client now will cost you the same price as a halfway decent dinner at a nice restaurant. Essentially, you’re being punished for purchasing the more affordable tier of the premium version of Mona6. Yes, I know it sounds like I’m bitching about this, but something seems wrong about having to pay twice just to upgrade. The developer could have done a much better job of providing an upgrade path for customers who’ve already paid for a premium version of their software, but decided that double dipping into their customers wallets was a better idea 
À lire : LA GAUCHE ET L'ISLAM #LFI a brouillé une frontière fondamentale : celle qui sépare le combat contre le racisme, que nous soutenons pleinement, et le soutien politique à des revendications religieuses qui viennent contester la laïcité et l’égalité des droits. generation-athee.fr/.../la-gau… @GenerationAthee
Précision nécessaire : ce texte ne vise ni les musulmans, ni les personnes d’origine ou de culture musulmane. Il dénonce des choix politiques : la complaisance envers l’islamisme, le clientélisme religieux et l’abandon de la laïcité.
This Sunday lazy toot was brought to you by my phone updating to a newer version of iOS and me getting hit in the face with a ton of bouncy, stretchy notification bubbles
zjebal som kolegyne v robote na druhej zmene.. všade mali bordel hnus checklist ako keby neexistoval ty vole, ja keď som tu a je tu manažérka to musím robiť, no prostě ma to nasralo. teraz sú na mňa nasrané
#Fediverse #bridge knowledge question: Since my account gets propagated to #Bluesky, sometimes people from there try to interact with me. I assume they have no clue I'm outside of that network. I would like to interact with them *in any way possible* that will not force me to create bsky account. So my question is: Can I post from Fedi to Bsky somehow without having an account?
📢 #FOSSWarn 1.0.1 is now on F-Droid. This release addresses some issues with the push-notification setup and fixes some bugs.
One crucial bug fix was related to the coordinates of the subscription bounding box. The coordinates (after a subscription has expired and the resubscribe feature was used) might be swapped (so lat is long instead). Please check your subscription and remove it if it is incorrect, and re-add the place. You can check the bounding box by pressing the icon to the left of the place name.
Other improvements are: - a notification self-check feature - an easy check to switch between distributors - bug fix with a parser error with biwapp alerts
This update brings some new useful features for the push-notifications and bugfixes. This also fixes a bug with swapped coordinates after a resubscribe. If you have used the resubscribe feature aft...
@schlumpf @daniel Our server is currently not able to push to up.conversations.im. We always get timeouts. It works with a local test server, and only the server on alerts.kde.org is affected, so that it might be on your side this time. Can you check if you might be rate-limiting our server?
I’ve been a freelance software developer for over 15 years. My main interests lie in open standards and communication protocols, including instant messaging, email, and the fediverse. I’m the project lead for Conversations and Ltt.rs.
@daniel @schlumpf Mh ok, I checked the server logs, and it seems like we are getting 404 responses here. Can this be related to deleted registrations for push notification on your server? So, if a user registers and later removes their registration, and we attempt to send a notification to that user, do we receive 404 responses in that case?
endpoints expire on Conversations so a certain number of 404s is probably expected. However if you try with a new region in FOSS warn expiry can be ruled out as a reason.
@daniel That's due to our mechanism to protect us from running into timeouts all the time. We had quite a few issues with that in the past. We set a flag for servers where we can not deliver push notifications. The flag expires after 5 minutes; during this time, every request to the server is aborted due to the flag. So in this case, the error is that we set the flag in cases where we should just delete the subscription. Is there an easy way to let a conversation's up registration expire to test that?
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Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik hat zusammen mit eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. und Bitkom e.V. das E-Mail-Sicherheitsjahr 2025 ausgerufen.
Ich kaufe gefühlt fast seit meiner Kindheit bei #jpc … irgendwie die zugegebenermaßen nicht sehr bewusste Standardwahl von mir, früher hatte ich die Kataloge … 🤷
Last year, all the residents of my apartment building (most of whom are in their late 70s) were invited to get together and bake pepperkaker (Norwegian gingerbread cookies). Some of them met up, baked and decorated the cookies, or just came by having a toddy and chat for a bit. A box of cookies were then placed in the entrance hall every Sunday during Advent (and all week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve) for everyone to enjoy. They did the same thing again this year and I just love that something like this is possible.
Der #Datenatlas soll die Bundesverwaltung effizienter machen. Ein wissenschaftliches Gutachten @david zeigt nun jedoch, dass er mitunter nicht einmal dem Stand der Technik aus dem Jahr 1986 entspricht. Anstatt den Gutachter zu konsultieren, erwägt die zuständige Bundesdruckerei „rechtliche Schritte“ gegen ihn. #verwaltungsdigitalisierung #verwaltungnetzpolitik.org/2025/datenatla…
Der Datenatlas soll die Bundesverwaltung effizienter machen. Ein wissenschaftliches Gutachten zeigt nun jedoch, dass er mitunter nicht einmal dem Stand der Technik aus dem Jahr 1986 entspricht.
If someone copies another person's post from another platform and pastes it here, should they link to the original, or at least say who they got it from?
@uastronomer I have enough of this when people use my already free-to-use music without proper attribution. All I ask is that people credit me. I did the hard work of making it, you get to benefit from it.
Don't you understand? If an AI sees my content in training, that's a violation of my human rights, even if that content never directly appears in its output. When a Mastodon users copies my post... they're a Mastodon user, they have the absolute right to do so, and nobody can tell them otherwise.
#freesofadvent Day 7 is #deltachat by @delta Use it everyday to communicate with family across a variety of devices. And now they're adding voice and video calls. PLUS, the small applets within the conversations, like grocery lists, are super useful.
Just reading up on #DeltaChat and it does look interesting as a possible signal alternative. Even deploying your own relay seems easy too. Anybody here using it and has any positive feedback ? I mean share if you've negative too as it'll all be gratefully received by all.
Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app 💬 Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support ⚡️ Sign up to secure and interoperable chatmail relays 🥳 Interactive ...
It is indeed quite a frictionless switch imo. One thing I would point out that needs to be ironed out is for the notifications to work 'as expected' out of the box.
I think there's a manual step required currently to ensure notifications keep working in the background (settings -> notifications -> enable 'use background connection' and 'force background connection')
That's the only inconvenience I, and my friends, have faced so far.
Talking to a dad at my son's school, he works in IT, he is a researcher, he says something about WhatsApp, I say I don't use it but have Signal.
"What's that?" they say... Nobody knows anything outside of WhatsApp, Instagram, and iMessage. User domestication is a real issue seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/27/wh… (@Seirdy)
My partner managed to get about 5 people on Signal but they've all bounced back to WhatsApp now.
About "support for multiple chat profiles/identities" : that looks awesome, but I can't find how to create a second identity in the app. Feel free to send me RTFM :)
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…
@apicultor @soatok with anything missing we meant in the positive list :) of course there are also several things that can be approved on our side and where signal is better. For example signal had a 100 times more money to develop their offering :)
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...
there is something that can happen and will happen to new people: uninstall Delta Chat and lose the account. Is there a way to warn people before uninstall? Maybe not, but it'd be great to be able to prepare a text warning about second devices or backups, even offer a link to download backup file...?
@sarae state actors could run #chatmail servers, and maybe that is happening today. But the server does not get private data, and can not break the end-to-end encryption, and so does not see any metadata like profile names, avatars, group memberships etc.
@vextaur one does not need a camera for installation 🤷♂️
apart form that, for getting in contact, it is handy if one party has a camera. and for adding a second device, it is handy if the new device has a camera. both have alternatives by passing links around, yeah, still, there is room for optimisation
@bjoern @Delta Chat Not initial install, but additional install, which requires you to create a back up on one of your devices, then transfer that backup to the new device if you can't snap a pic of the QR code
@Delta Chat @bjoern Yep, but it could be easier, look at Signal which offers a link in addition to the QR code IIRC (its been a while since I used it), or Telegram which sends a code to your other devices. Heck, you could make it where I put in my user ID, and generate a code on one of my other devices for better security than either of those two
@vextaur @r10s Delta Chat also offers to copy-paste the link instead of scanning the QR code. Contrary to Signal, the link only works in the same wifi to avoid attacks like this one: dailysecurityreview.com/securi…
But yeah, a simple improvement could be that it doesn't matter anymore which device scans which QR code. This wasn't available at the time when we implemented it. Now, other priorities take up our focus - but it isn't forgotten, don't worry.
krainian military personnel are facing sophisticated spear-phishing attacks using compromised Signal accounts to deliver Dark Crystal RAT malware. Urgent security updates are needed.
Supporting classic, unencrypted groups with people who doesn't use Delta Chat yet, while still having avatars and modyfing member list, for example 🤦♂️
I still have to use 1.58 and tell people to install legacy version. It's a shame.
@anedroid unencrypted email use cases have been discussed in the support forum already and the outcome is: our focus is on end-to-end encryption and metadata minimization, along with helping to grow a world-wide federated reliable chatmail relay network run by many 3rd parties.
Instead of sticking to the old 1.58 delta versions it'd likely be better if you recommended your friends to use another email app that directly focuses on unencrypted mail handling if that is what you are looking for.
Or, if you really wanted to be stupid, there is a 10 meter repeater with links on VHF and UHF. You could tune into that, and I could yell at you from one of the linked repeaters on the system, and you theoretically could yell back at me. Actually that would be a fun thing to try, especially at night, because that system is completely 100% dead then... of course, assuming you can even hit that machine from Don's place at night. Ten is weird like that.
@BorrisInABox right I totally was combining when that happened when another NYC based alternative station was switched to another short lived fm news station.
Krásné a dobré ráno druhé neděle adventní mastodonní chásko! 🙋♀️🐶🐈 Slunce jsme přivítali, mlha odešla. Pomalu se obracíme k domovu. Lord Archibald začíná větřit. V dálce přes cestu přebíhá stádo daněl. Dvě, třetí, čtvrtá, pátá, šestá se zastavuje u kraje cesty. Lord Archibald vyráží.... 🐶: Hej! Hej! Tebe znám! Počkej! Stůj! Ty chodíš k nám! A ty taky! .... 👩: Baldineeeee!!!....Stůj!!! Archibald hodí stopku. Daněly mizí. Archibald se zhnuseně otáčí. 🐶: Matko! Když lovím, máš bejt zticha! Běží ke mně. 🐶: Dělej!! Pohni zadkem! Ty neumíš běhat? Ještě je doběhneme!! 👩: Hodný kluk. Ke mně! 🐶: Děláš si prdel?? Dělej! Pojď!! Třeba je ještě chytnem! 👩: Sedni! 🐶: No to mě poser.... Dostává odměnu. 🐶: Lepší než drátem do oka. Ale MATKO! Tebe na lov teda neberu!! Vy se dneska za ničím nehoňte. Hezky se dívejte kolem sebe a nasávejte klid a pohodu! 😊 #dobre_rano #dobréRáno Ps: Tak my teda jdeme domů. 😁
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created an small #webxdc app for #DeltaChat / #ArcaneChat as a joke to quickly send a "Yo!" or "Bro!" notification to your chat pals!
this was inspired by an episode of #SilliconValley https://en.wikipedia.
So, I'm not sure if this was ever supposed to work, but now it definitely doesn't.
When WatchOS 26 came out, I got per-voice settings on my Apple Watch 10 under settings > accessibility > voiceover > speech, then for each voice. I found this very useful, as I use Eloquence on my watch. By turning down the ultra-lows by a ridiculous degree and decreasing the head size, I could make it sound quite a lot better on the internal speaker.
Well, I was playing with betas, and forgot to turn it off. Tonight, my watch updated to WatchOS 26.2, and now the per-voice settings are gone for all voices. Weirdly, my custom voice, based on Reed, which I called "Freaky Little Eloquence", is still listed in voices on my phone in the Watch app, but not as English (United States), just English, and it no longer seems to be associated with anything, as I can't add it to the rotor. It's just this orphaned, useless voice that still has all those extra sliders.
So, yeah, that's fun. No more freaky little Eloquence for me, I guess.
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