so after reviewing the knew really, really, fucking high aira retail pricing structure for 2023, I had a friend ring aira and we put together a document detailing the individual pricing after offset. Since they don't want to be transparent? Let me help you out. please review the notes at the top of the file as well. Boost, and I don't care if they scream at me for publishing this. They don't wanna be transparent? Let me do it for them! dropbox.com/s/ktj41y14fhea8li/…
Of course. Failures are always coming at least in pair. Today a broken wheel spike and also punctured inner tube. One on front and one on the rear wheel. Well, today's evening plan is clear now... 😒🚲🛞📍🔧
Here's a very early implementation of #Firefox Sync running in Thunderbird Daily!
The bones are there and the foundation is solid.
Though it may be called something else by the time we launch it in Thunderbird 115 (such as Thunderbird Sync or #Mozilla Sync), it's a feature we're THRILLED about putting in your hands.
Seriously though, we've been working hard on taking ownership of Flatpak packaging and distribution, and the plan is to also offer Beta and Daily Flatpak channels.
Firefox Sync is awesome and I use it all the time. It'd be awesome if #Mozilla would make it easier to have a self-hosted option for this too. I know it *can* be done (I played with it a bit) but it was very hard to get going and I eventually had to give up.
We've implemented the technology behind it to securely sync things like your email accounts, passwords, tags, email filters, contacts, and more between Thunderbird clients on multiple PCs.
cool! When i first heard about Firefox sync in thunderbird, I didn't know what the point is, but seeing the address book would be syncable means I could stop relying on Google contacts which would be awesome. Will this be coming to the android app as well?
DE (EN below): Wann gibt es einen komplett privat aufsetzbaren Sync-Dienst? Also Sync-Server UND Auth-Server als private Cloud!? EN: When will there be a completely private usable Sync-Service? So a Sync-Server AND Auth-Server for a private Cloud!?
Musing about the end of Pinafore development and official Mastodon UI accessibility shortcomings, long post
Re the just boosted post about the end of pinafore development, I completely understand the situation but I'm still sad to see it go. Now Mastodon isn't Twitter so it'll probably work for months if not years to come, but IMO this is going to leave particularly Windows and Linux users without a good desktop or desktop-like client (Mac OS is going to be served by Mona very well once it gets feature parody). But for the foreseeable future I'm probably going to stick to Pinafore as my main desktop client because it offers a ton of logical keyboard shortcuts, has excellent autocomplete support and reads posts in a very clear way even including media descriptions. The official Mastodon UI is almost there in that aspect, but the speech feedback you get when navigating with its keyboard shortcuts has many shortcomings (see github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…). Maybe this is the right time for this to get more love in either Mastodon or at least one of the forks like hometown, though that won't help anyone using something like Pleroma or its forks. #noxp
Right now, if using a screen reader in non-virtual mode so one can use the J and K keys to navigate up and down, and 1 through 3 to quickly switch columns, the screen reader NVDA on Windows with Fi...
Musing about the end of Pinafore development and official Mastodon UI accessibility shortcomings, long post
I think that got closed? My main issues with the web client are the "article 1 of 20" every time I navigate with J and K, and the fact that I always have to go to the first toot to start that kind of navigation (this last part happens sometimes in Pinafore too, but much less)..
Musing about the end of Pinafore development and official Mastodon UI accessibility shortcomings, long post
@sukiletxe Yes those two are annoying as well. As for that issue, true that it was closed but if you look at the comments the information presented lacks some important details like media descriptions and you only see absolute times while visually they're displayed as relative.
Musing about the end of Pinafore development and official Mastodon UI accessibility shortcomings, long post
I considered contributing to the official client instead of Pinafore, but I'm fairly sure that would require me to set up all the server stuff locally, since the front-end is tied to its instance. Setting up the Mastodon server is just not something I'm willing to invest time in, so the barrier to entry is just too high.
Revisiting my pinafore thread from last week this time without a CW, hello world from @semaphore! Really happy to know that Pinafore's legacy will live on.
Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…
Thanks a lot for the software. I'll keep running it while I can, and hopefully something as good comes along. Take care, and hope you find something else fun to code on.
EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.
the money collected from those fine should be donated to software/organisations that fights for privacy and security, to help them running. It would be a great move to encourage software devs to create open-source and privacy respecting software.
Aira has introduced new prices for 2023, by stating that the users won’t pay fully the prices listed on their page, but would have to call in to know what the service actually costs. Highly complicated for a service which really could make lives easier. aira.io/plans-and-prices
Introduction To design the 2023 plans, we examined actual call data and studied patterns of use from the last year. Our goal was to deliver a set of plans that align closely with how the majority of you use the service.
TO know the discount, one has to call customer support and answer a set of yet unknown questions by the support agent. By hiding the methodology, aira kind of doesnt’ reflect the customer transparency values they’ve been talking about for the last several months. Not knowing the basis of how one gets discounted gives a lot of floor for potential discrimination.
Petros Michopulos (Kecy&Politika podcast) na Twitteru: „Po rozsudku nad Babišem, mají @MarekHilser a @PavelFischer na stáhnutí kandidatury ještě tak den dva a budou za hrdiny voličů😉.“ / Twitter twitter.com/PetrosKecyaPoli/st…
As a hobby, I hack instant messaging gateways from various chat "apps" to XMPP (XMPP is to Whatsapp what the fediverse is to Twitter). Slidge (the name I gave to my hobby software thingy) has been mostly usable for me for a few weeks, so I decided to talk about it a little in my blog, by pretending some milestone has been reached and calling it a "release candidate".
Since the release of the first text-to-speech (TTS) model, researchers have been looking for ways to improve the way these systems generate speech. The latest model from Microsoft, VALL-E, is a significant step forward in this regard.
Did you know what are so called "Desire paths"? No no, this is not a psychology term. A desire path is when people very often walk on a terrain which is not a typical road, but the more people go, the more conveninet the road gets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_p…
@Eva I am programming a small program to create fantasy city, country or space name. It parses the Oxford dictionary and I came across that term which interested me
Floating compose button in K-9 Mail beta. Behavior is the best of any of these floating buttons that I've seen (I like that we have an extra line when you get to the bottom so it doesn't cover any content).
If you aren't already - follow @k9mail and @thunderbird for more updates!
Unlike stable versions, beta versions on F-Droid are not marked with a “Suggested” label. You have to manually select such a version to install it. To get update notification for non-suggested versions you need to check ‘Settings > Expert mode > Unstable updates’ in the F-Droid app.
@jj @mjjzf Sorry, it's actually not live yet. cketti had a concern about stability, so it hasn't been uploaded yet. Probably VERY soon though, so please keep an eye out.
@djiko_iko You're referring to the account, not the software, right?
If so, valid point. Since K-9 Mail is being transformed into Thunderbird by this summer, it makes more sense to update people here on this account, for both our mobile and desktop products.
As a hobby, I hack instant messaging gateways from various chat "apps" to XMPP (XMPP is to Whatsapp what the fediverse is to Twitter). Slidge (the name I gave to my hobby software thingy) has been mostly usable for me for a few weeks, so I decided to talk about it a little in my blog, by pretending some milestone has been reached and calling it a "release candidate".
@daniel That's really nice to read, thanks! Slidge tries to XEP-comply as much as it can and I'm happy to fix stuff if it doesn't. Bridged contacts and groups should not be differentiable from other #XMPP entities; it seems to be the case as it (mostly) just works with #Conversations (for me, at least).
@aenea Yes it does! Telegram is actually the walled garden that is the most OK with third party clients: they provide a rather easy to use open source lib: core.telegram.org/tdlib/
They still are a walled garden though, don't be fooled!
Ooohh spectrum2_signald, fun times! I remember trying to make sense of the (hum, "minimalist"?) dev docs of spectrum2. Thanks for the reminder, I need to keep the docs up-to-date and well written; it is a very important part of making a cool piece of code. 🙃
I remember fighting with the purple shade of lib and custom builds from source... Concise documentation and an introduction/summary to fresh eyes is a key feature.
I forgot to mention #quicksy for android, which is a #conversations version with "whatsapp-like' onboarding on their server (you receive an SMS code that acts as a one-time-password). I'm not fond of "your phone number is your username" *but* I'm grateful that quicky exists, since a lot of non tech savvy folks really like this. It's still federated XMPP underneath.
All SMS codes are archived by the operator. is it possible to track the account associated with an sms code? Does server record my #phone number? I am concerned about the way accounts are stored / logged on the server. If my phone number is stored somehow then I am not interested with that solution. Thankx, #XMPP #Android
@ErcanErdemArdal Yes, credentials are stored server side with slidge. Although, just to clarify, I am not administrating a public slidge instance. Slidge is a software meant to be installed by XMPP server admins. #selfhosting an #XMPP server is relatively easy and cheap, and that's the option I recommend to anyone that wants to try slidge. Maybe some XMPP servers admins will propose this to their users one day, but right now, all slidge users that I know of are self-hosters.
@ErcanErdemArdal Oh, I realise you were probably talking about #quicksy and not slidge in this toot, sorry about that. Yes, Quicksy JIDs (#XMPP addresses) look like +555123456@quicksy.im, so if you want an XMPP account not linked to your phone number, do not use Quicksy but rather #conversations or forks like cheogram or blabber. I also don't like to see my phone number in my JID *but* a lot of users appreciate it. It makes the user experience closer to whatsapp, signal, telegram, etc.
It could be nice indeed. I guess we could ~sortof maintain e2ee with omemo. Probably the first step would be to have a "xep0114 with encryption" somehow. Prosody is probably a good playground for attempting to implement some experimental server-side module like that. I am unsure of the security implications behind letting users run a whole namespace@some-custom-domain.example.com
The main "objection" I see: if you're able to run a component, why not run the xmpp server too? I see some little benefits, like not needing a static IP, possibly no need to worry about dns and certificates... but overall running prosody alongside gateway components is not much overhead. Who would be interested by such deployment option?
Hi, thanks a lot for sharing this ! I recently gave a try to matrix/WhatsApp. Could you tell if you have a different philosophy or if it is "just" a xmpp/matrix difference ? Thanks :) Sinon je ne prendrais pas mal de recevoir un TG
@Chartrux The "technical" philosophy of the bridge part is very similar. In fact, both for whatsapp and messenger slidge relies on (reverse engineered) libs from the mautrix project. I even had a one-line pull request merged in maufbabi (the facebook lib), wow! One difference though, I don't plan to run a large-scale paid instance like beeper.com. Slidge's amateurism is a feature .
@0 For what it's worth, the maintenance effort of an XMPP server is waaaaay smaller than an email server, especially if you don't allow account creation.
That said, perhaps the real issue is with services that don't support authorisation grants (e.g., #OAuth2). It's more acceptable to store a limited grant on someone else's component than to share your actual login details with them.
- signal, telegram, whatsapp: revokable, "per device" access ~token - discord, mattermost: slidge login process = "get your access token from the web UI via dev browser dev tools" 🤡 - facebook, steam: optional 2FA (but right now, password is stored slidge-side anyway, possible area of improvement). they used to have "revokable application password" but I've had less success with them recently Steam is the largest game store for PC, with social network-like features.
Sons from wealthy families are more likely than daughters to get secondary education. Daughters from poor families are more likely than sons to get secondary education.
In the 13th century a 7 year old schoolboy named Onfim doodled on his birch bark. He drew himself as a warrior & as “a wild beast” and scribbled a greeting to his friend Daniel.
These are his drawings, unearthed by archaeologists near Novgorod, Russia #history
After inadvertently finding that InfoSys leaked an AWS key on PyPi I wanted to know how many other live AWS keys may be present on Python package index.
> Extremists have refused to accept Lula’s victory in presidential election last year
> Hundreds of hardcore supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro have stormed the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court in a stunning security breach that was immediately compared to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol by followers of Donald Trump in 2021.
Brazil inaugurates its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Sunday. Facing investigations, former President Jair Bolsonaro has taken refuge in Orlando.
Well, yes, it would be very important to be outside the country in case the coup fails. I'd say it's a likely reason he is in Florida, to conspire and keep himself safe while his police loyalists and followers attempt a coup.
He's in very deep with the globalist fascists, it's for sure shielding himself if things go wrong (he was already fleeing potential prosecution so it's all about avoiding consequences). The police escort means this was an organized coup attempt and I'm sure Bolsonaro knows about it and would happily return as dictator for life (as he was trying to make himself before he was forced out of power). Dictators are cowards so of course he's hedging his bets.
Globalist fascists are the international "Conservative" organizations that work together to get right wing governments elected. Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper heads up one (he's an evangelical, as many of them are). It's hardly a conspiracy because it's out in the open. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/08/06…
If you are following the Bolsonaro coup attempt in Brazil, you may need Bellingcat's auto archiver for preserving evidence right now: github.com/bellingcat/auto-arc…
Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media content in a Google Sheet. - GitHub - bellingcat/auto-archiver: Automatically archive links to videos, images, and social media conte...
I do own a bottle of the "normal" variant, I am mostly curious about the "salty" part. I have to check if I can get that in the local finnish shop... Probably not since it's a church, but you never know :D
When an interactive element like a button, link, and form field sits on top of another interactive element, accessibility (and usability) problems arise.
Tutanota, the fully secure encrypted email and calendar app, enables you to keep your private data private! We never compromise on security or privacy.
Funny! Of course I download Tutanota from Fdroid, but also have a random Gmail account to support a Google Play account ..... and because that beanie will come in handy when winter arrives.
- I'm not competing as I run #SailfishOS on my phones.
I am using #Tutanota for my mail mainly because I want to stay away from the big tech companies (like google and apple).
The android app works (but it's a bit unstable) on my phone. I've given up on you ever making a native app for the OS I like and, more importantly, trust. But a sliver of paradise is nonetheless better than all of hell.
....and I can always communicate safely with my daughters wherever they travel. 🔒
@dmlls Hi Diego, you won, congratulations 🙂 We used a 'random number generator' and your rating was selected. Please send us your details to pr@tutao.de so we can send you the beanie.
Všimla jsem si evropské iniciativy twitter.com/Women4Cyber a že existuje spousta lokálních odnoží - netušíte, jestli někdo zakládá českou verzi? Třeba jestli něco neslyšeli @evapavlikova nebo @honzakral? Já vím, že je takových aktivit hodně, ale jsem zvědavá.
Book recommendation: Mara Bos's new book, _Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice_. I've just started reading it, but so far it's excellent. Recommended to anyone who's interested in Rust, low-level concurrency primitives, or both.
It's published by O'Reilly, and available via your favorite bookseller. (I've pre-ordered a paper copy.) It's also available for free on the author's Web site: marabos.nl/atomics/.
Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and …
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Unknown parent • • •@thopan SOON™.
Seriously though, we've been working hard on taking ownership of Flatpak packaging and distribution, and the plan is to also offer Beta and Daily Flatpak channels.
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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Looking forward to use it!
Data is e2e encrypted?
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in reply to Jogo Detonado • • •I don't get it, what exactly am I syncing between my browser and my email client?
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in reply to Alexandru Balan • • •@alexandru_ionut_balan @JogoDetonado Despite its current name, Firefox Sync in Thunderbird has nothing to do with your browser.
We've implemented the technology behind it to securely sync things like your email accounts, passwords, tags, email filters, contacts, and more between Thunderbird clients on multiple PCs.
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in reply to CubeOfCheese • • •@cubeofcheese It's also really handy for having Thunderbird on multiple PCs (your tags, filters, preferences will all sync).
Regarding Android, we do plan to support basic syncing with whatever key features Thunderbird for PC and Android both support.
Café-Junkie
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Wann gibt es einen komplett privat aufsetzbaren Sync-Dienst? Also Sync-Server UND Auth-Server als private Cloud!?
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When will there be a completely private usable Sync-Service? So a Sync-Server AND Auth-Server for a private Cloud!?
omg! ubuntu
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in reply to Spike Smolders (she/they) • • •@SpikeSmolders Hey Spike, it sounds like you forgot your email *account* password? If so, you may need to contact your email account provider.
If you told Thunderbird to remember your password, try this: support.mozilla.org/en-US/ques…
retrieve password | Thunderbird Support Forum | Mozilla Support
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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •I can't wait to use this, and I definitely will use it.
But, have you or @mozilla ever thought about turning Sync into an open protocol so people can #selfhost it? Just a thought! Would be cool...
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in reply to Fell • • •@fell @mozilla This IS possible, but admittedly not an easy feat to accomplish.
As development goes forward, I suspect that will change.