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Ich habe heute, erinnert durch @goestern , an @thunderbird gespendet. Auch ich nutze Thunderbird schon ewig und es wurde mal wieder Zeit. Danke für das tolle Mailprogramm. #freetheinbox. Macht mit und unterstützt Datenschutz für die Online-Kommunikation. thunderbird.net/donate über @mozthunderbird
thunderbird.net/de/donate/?for…

#tugutesundsprichdaruber

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Thunderbird ist eine freie E-Mail-Anwendung, die sich leicht einrichten und anpassen lässt – und wir haben viele tolle Funktionen hineingepackt!
Thunderbird
#freetheinbox #tugutesundsprichdaruber @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Goestern
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You know, right after hitting send I thought about something. Should I call myself nerd? Honestly there are tons of more smarter and nerdy people than me, and somehow, I wouldn't even necessarily call me nerd, but many people do, my parents, friends, and I guess what I do is, nerdy? I don't know what I think about the association with the word nerd at this point tbh.

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And that's the fun part of beeing a nerd. Been at the YMCA the last couple of days and got recommended an audiobook, that recommendation kinda spread so it wasnt only me who wanted to hear it. So what did I do? Get it on Audible, NVDA Remote into my PC, Open Audible FTW rip it, throw it on my audiobookshelf server, and saved people money. Yup sometimes its great to be seen nerdy in a good way as you are.

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Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next

privacy.thenexus.today/reasons…

#fediverse #ActivityPub #ATmosphere


Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next

There really is a lot of exciting stuff happening!
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#activitypub #fediverse #atmosphere
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The Nexus of Privacy

What are you looking for in social media? (10/N)

Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.

  • Extremely easy onboarding (33%, 11 votes)
  • Less mansplaining (51%, 17 votes)
  • A place to see and be seen (36%, 12 votes)
  • Long posts with no character limits (27%, 9 votes)
  • Rich formatting and inline images (27%, 9 votes)
  • Actual conversations with people I disagree with (36%, 12 votes)
  • Safe place for NSFW artists, without sex-negativity and neo-purity culture (54%, 18 votes)
  • No algorithms (66%, 22 votes)
  • The ability to choose and customize algorithms (36%, 12 votes)
  • Rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, rats, mice, and other little friends (45%, 15 votes)
33 voters. Poll end: in 11 hours

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The Nexus of Privacy

What are you looking for in social media? (11/N)

Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.

  • a place that takes constant and aggressive actions to avoid anti-blackness and misogyny (75%, 9 votes)
  • A place with safety team to handle anti-Blackness, racism, etc when it happens. (100%, 12 votes)
  • Something to replace "buy nothing" Facebook groups (25%, 3 votes)
  • Discussions with people in my neighborhood (without Nextdoor's racism) (33%, 4 votes)
  • A place to organize to fight bad internet reuglation like ChatControl, age verification, KOSA etc (75%, 9 votes)
  • A new and different kind of social media I haven't seen before! (41%, 5 votes)
  • A "community bulletin board" of local events (41%, 5 votes)
  • Independent media (66%, 8 votes)
  • Discovering new authors (75%, 9 votes)
  • Discussions that *aren't* public for the whole world to see (50%, 6 votes)
12 voters. Poll end: in 11 hours

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Juanjo Salvador

something like custom keycaps or just themed? Usually, on Aliexpress you can find nice quality keycaps from all styles. But since you're looking for a cute design, check this out.

yunzii.com/es/collections/acce…


KEYCAP SET

YUNZII Keyboard insists to provide users with highest standard mechanical keyboards and accessories including keycaps, switch, cables with free shipping worldwide.
YUNZII KEYBOARD

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ZD Tech : Microsoft évincé d’une administration entière, 100 millions d’e-mails migrés vers des outils libres avec succès (Microsoft Exchange et Outlook remplacés par Open-Xchange et Mozilla @thunderbird) #SchleswigHolstein – ZDNet zdnet.fr/actualites/zd-tech-mi…

ZD Tech : Microsoft évincé d’une administration entière, 100 millions d’e-mails migrés vers des outils libres avec succès - ZDNET

Une région allemande a finalisé cette année un chantier informatique colossal en remplaçant le couple bien connu Microsoft Exchange et Outlook par Open-Xchange et Mozilla Thunderbird.
Guillaume Serries (ZDNET)
#schleswigholstein @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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My 2026 resolution: renewing my monthly donations to the projects powering my life&work.
@eff
@internetarchive
@wikimediafoundation
@devuan
@thunderbird
@thephpf
@phpcs

And you? Can you pick just one project to back this year?
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #NewYearResolution

#FreeSoftware #opensource #newyearresolution @Electronic Frontier Foundation @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @internetarchive @The PHP Foundation @Wikimedia Foundation @Devuan @PHP_CodeSniffer
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Łukasz Langa

@matt Fixed the typo, thanks! As for why I chose this particular model:
⁃ it’s the biggest model that fits in my M1 Max’s RAM comfortably;
⁃ it responds almost as quickly as commercial hosted models;
⁃ it’s not pretending to know anything, it frequently tells me “I don’t know anything/enough about that, check online”;
⁃ instead, it’s just very good at English and Polish.
@Matt Campbell
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Sam Tupy

@vlad25 For anyaudio I am hopeful to implement proper database replication and load balancing so that several servers around the world can host nodes that handle bits of the anyaudio traffic. This sort of thing is pretty tricky to set up and get right in a bug free manner though. Indeed, however, we are quickly reaching the limits of my poor small server with all of these releases and I'll probably have to adapt accordingly in some sense.
@ownage vlad

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Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Starwar Part1, the binaural text to speech audio production I showed off on stream, is now available to download in flac! Especially for those who didn't see the stream, you might want to read the description before listening in order to acquire context which will certainly leave you a bit less confused. Those on mastodon and thus most likely to know of the streams get the Anyaudio link before the clip goes generally public, especially since there is no Anyaudio commenting at this time due to disabled registrations. Anyway, enjoy! anyaud.io/listen?audio=OeFViBO…

Starwar Part1 – The Any Audio Network

anyaud.io

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We are happy to announce that #GUADEC2026 will be held in A Coruña, Spain!

For more information, please check:

discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2…


GUADEC 2026 will be held in A Coruña, Spain

We are happy to announce that GUADEC 2026 will take place from July 16th to 21st, 2026, in A Coruña, Spain. As in recent years, GUADEC will be held as a hybrid event, allowing attendees to participate either virtually or in person at our venue.
GNOME Discourse
#guadec2026

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Gajim on macOS :apple_inc:

Installing Gajim on macOS just got a lot easier! Gajim is now available as a packaged DMG setup file 📦, which can be downloaded and installed.

At the moment, we provide an experimental nightly for testing. If everything goes well, the next Gajim release will include a macOS setup as well 🎉

Try the nightly here:
gajim.org/download/#install-ma…


Install

Free and fully featured chat app for XMPP
gajim.org

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I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.

18:33:01 up 3188 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 5.09, 4.73, 4.74

Debian, Btrfs, and zero internal dust.
It's kept in a sterile, extremely protected room.

#IT #SysAdmin #Debian #Linux #Uptime #ServerUptime

#linux #debian #IT #sysadmin #uptime #serveruptime

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RE: indieweb.social/@jbz/115843060…

satire is dead

jbz

2026-01-05 14:53:49

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Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"

office.com/

#aislop #ai #copilot


Login | Microsoft 365 Copilot

Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, workbooks, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.
www.office.com

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When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. They discovered those also helped people with strollers, using trolleys for deliveries, etc.
Illustration of The curb-cut effect: a range of people of all ages next to a crossing, road, and park show how the curb cut design for disabilities benefits everyone.
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Morgan ⚧️

I think that split is too blurry to be considered a problem in the analogy 🤷
On a wheelchair day, I usually have other options if there's no ramp--often I'm able to stand and take a couple steps, and often I have another person with me to help me get over a step with the wheels. A more skilled manual wheelchair user could pop a wheelie.
An abled parent pushing a large stroller with heavy kids and stuff in it doesn't always have the option to pick it up.
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:flan_guitar:

Now I've heard there was a secret way
To edit text on your display
That's better than emacs (that's made by GNU), yeah.
It goes like this, you type E D
And nothing shows up visually
You baffle newbs who haven't got a clue, yeah.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You type an "a" to start append,
Then period to mark the end.
There is no AI bot that's gonna screw ya.
It's there for you in rescue mode
And when you need to edit code
Or when you need to spoof some Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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Microsoft's CEO is really sad we keep using the word "slop":
futurism.com/artificial-intell…

So, which one is it going to be?

#Microsoft #AI


Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)

  • Microslop (76%, 16 votes)
  • Slopsoft (14%, 3 votes)
  • Slopslop (9%, 2 votes)
21 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago

#microsoft #AI

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Comparto en mi blog en español el repaso que ha hecho @thunderbird de los logros conseguidos este 2025

victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20…

De muchos ya me hice eco en su momento en el blog.
Doné al proyecto para hacer que siguiera consiguiendo metas en el próximo año! 👍


Repaso de lo que ha conseguido #Thunderbird este 2025

Thunderbird, el cliente de correo de software libre, este año 2025 ha realizado grandes cambios y mejoras, hagamos un repaso de lo conseguido y lo que está por llegar
Victorhck in the free world
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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I’m _not_ saying to never put a live region in / on a button, but I _am_ saying it may not (will not) perform as you want.
cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/WbxvPOd…

Maybe try a ‘Multi-Function Button’ instead.
adrianroselli.com/2021/01/mult…

#HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y


Multi-Function Button

Table of Contents Example The HTML Live Region Button Decoration Accessible Name The Styles Hide the Live Region Color and Contrast Active Animations Text Resize and Reflow Windows High Contrast Mode The Script The Click Event Manipulate Outcomes Scr…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #html #aria
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Tamas G

ooh this is a good experiment, noted for sure. The only time I could see someone even remotely thinking of this would be for a status-update button, but that's when we have other stuff like aria-busy anyway and direct label changes get announced when buttons have focus so a dev doing that would be very mislead. Nonetheless, that pen will be useful to show devs what not to do.

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The concluding post in my AI-Ready Software Developer series ties all the threads together.

Far from "changing the game", AI coding assistants have just added another layer of uncertainty to an already very uncertain process.

Same game, different dice.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026…


The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

In this series, I’ve explored the principles and practices that teams seeing modest improvements in software development outcomes have been applying. After more than four years since the firs…
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For World Braille Day, I compiled a list of free braille art and tactile image libraries that I used for a project in one of my graduate school classes. This is by no means a complete list of all available resources for tactile graphics, rather it is a list of sources that were explored for this project. veroniiiica.com/free-braille-a…

Free Braille Art And Tactile Image Libraries | Veroniiiica

Free online resources for braille art and tactile graphics for blind and low vision students, with an emphasis on STEM content. Written for World Braille Day
Veronica Lewis (Veroniiiica)

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The best thing about modern software is the error messages that show up even before the condition has completed.

Like... "NO INTERNET OMG MAKE SURE YOU ARE ONLINE" which sits there for the first few seconds after you launch the app, and goes away when the software itself finally gets around to even attempting the connection for the first time.

Microsoft Windows, an entire operating system, likes to do this.

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That's wild. Each Cadance tablet has over 3500 parts that go into it when manufacturing, and they need to go down in precision as far as 1/32th of an inch for some parts when making them. There are wire coils thinner than a human hair inside it. Wow, just wow. And to think they got the manufacturing together and try to source local parts from Indiana where ever possible, mind-blowing. Watch this video on Vimeo to learn more. vimeo.com/1109418855?fl=pl&fe=…

Tactile Engineering Case Study

Tactile Engineering Design Engineer Nick Will and CEO Dave Schleppenbach show various parts and machines at the Cadence tablet factory. Schleppenbach gives a tour…
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