How to Enable and Customize Back Tap on Samsung Devices - Accessible Android
Discover a new way to interact with your Samsung device through Back Tap actions. Back Tap allows you to perform various functions with a simple double-tap orSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
Before we get too far into 2024, we wanted to think about everything that went well - and the things that didn't go so great - for Thunderbird in 2023. Don't get us wrong, while we think some amazing things happened last year, we also want to admit what we could have done differently. 🙂 😐 😕
As always, we'd love to know your thoughts on where - and how - we can improve! 💙
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#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community
Thunderbird In 2023: The Milestones and The Lessons We Learned
We're listening, and we're learning from your feedback. Here's where Thunderbird succeeded in 2023, and the lessons we learned along the way.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
Seems not very wise to add Exchange via EWS as Microsoft deprecated it. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5…
Why not use Microsoft Graph?
Retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online
Today, we are announcing that on October 1, 2026, we will start blocking EWS requests from non-Microsoft apps to Exchange Online.TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM
@zvasilev EWS is our best way to enable support for both Exchange Online and on-premise installations.
Graph API was considered & may be considered again in future, but currently provides narrower support than EWS & lacks some functionality for desktop applications. Even with the announcement that EWS support will be removed for Exchange Online, it's still valuable in the short term for enabling access for a wide userbase & in the long term for supporting users using on-premise installations.
Purism Differentiator Series, Part 2: Formation!
Why Purism Smartphones, Tablet PCs, Laptop PCs, and Servers Supported by PureOS are More Secure/Private than Smartphones and PCs Supported by Android OS, Apple iOS, and MS Windows.
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Purism Differentiator Series, Part 2: Formation – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfacestonsky.me
The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Babylon 5 (1993) - Cancelled Sci Fi
Does Babylon 5 count as one of the greatest sci fi TV shows or has it not stood the test of time?johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)
Apple is showing flagrant disregard for the EU #DigitalMarketsAct. 🇪🇺
Their reluctant allowance of third-party app stores, #sideloading, & alternative payments is nothing more than an act of #malicious compliance by #apple 🍎
👉 tuta.com/blog/apple-eu-dma-mal…
#monopoly #BigTech
Apple's malicious compliance: app sideloading will remain impossible on your iPhone
Apple follows EU Digital Markets Act by introducing hefty fines for independent software developers. Expensive fees will restrict the use of alternative app installation.Tutanota
snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106
https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Blu…snarfed.org
pretalx users: We're getting ready for a new release, maybe even before the weekend!
If you use pretalx in a language that isn't English or German, now would be a great time to help us out by updating the pretalx translations: translate.pretalx.com/projects…
pretalx/pretalx
pretalx is being translated into 22 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.Translate pretalx
blog.koehntopp.info/2024/02/13…
In which I try Matrix and Element and can't even manage to sign on, because the Onboarding is a Trashfire of bad UX, a selection of vulnerable servers and a confusion of clients.
* Verification UX in Element is a disaster, and being reworked in EX: github.com/element-hq/element-…
* Element Android failing to compute a recovery key is clearly a bug too.
Your other complaints about Element UX (e.g. user discovery by email; specifying the server URL) are also very familiar.
It's not true to say vector.im uses "the very same dark patterns as LinkedIn" for contact discovery though; github.com/matrix-org/matrix-s… explains how it works (and is strictly opt-in).
LibreOffice 24.2 Community available for all operating systems - The Document Foundation Blog
Berlin, 31 January 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite and the first to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M), is now available at https://www.libreoffice.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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I wish that #Matrix (and #Synapse) were better designed.
It has become among the most popular open messaging protocols, but it remains a scalability nightmare.
It's literally the Blockchain of messaging. Its current state is given by the sum of the whole chain of events received since t=0. It's a brittle append-only ledger, and any modifications you do to it are very likely to break it.
Do you have a huge 100GB database and you want to clean up old stuff? Sorry, you can't. There are some non-official solutions for compacting the events, but they're all likely to break your db - and none worked so far in my case.
Do you have users on your instance that entered a busy room on matrix.org? Then you'll get all the join/leave events of that busy room on your db, with no way of deleting them, and nothing to do unless your users exit those rooms.
Did you start your instance by toying with the default SQLite backend, and now that it's become big you want to move to Postgres? Sorry, no official guides provided, only unofficial procedures scattered across a bunch of blogs.
Do you want to change the name of your server? Sorry, you can't. All the events are tightly coupled to your server name. The advised solution is to simply start a new instance.
Do you want to keep the same server name but spin off a new instance? Sorry, you can't, because your server name, your keys and the events sent to other servers are all tightly coupled, so your new instance may not be able to reliably exchange messages with servers that were federated to your previous one.
Do you want to migrate your account and conversations to a new server, or even just get a backup of your data? Well, you can just forget it, because there's no way of disentangling the thick mesh of events and moving it somewhere else.
Such a rigid and brittle implementation shouldn't have become an open de facto standard without much questioning about its poor design decisions.
At the very least, some official tools must be provided to enable admins to compact events. If the size of the database is guaranteed to increase indefinitely, then entry barriers against self-hosting are only going to increase.
I set up #Prosody last weekend, and I haven't checked file uploads yet. The setup was incredibly simple, and resource usage is next to nothing. Added #Biboumi to make it function as my #IRC bouncer too, and it works like a charm!
This leads me to believe that even the current state of XMPP is already beats Matrix by a wide margin. Its easier, less resource hungry, faster, and there are already multiple good server and client implementations available.
Exciting news! The Ubuntu Community is now on Matrix. As of today, we're now fully federated with the rest of "The Matrix"! Anyone can join the party 🎉
Did you know that you can also find the Ubuntu HPC community on Matrix? We're an active group supercomputing professionals that meet every Wednesday over Jitsi. Just look for hpc:ubuntu.com when exploring rooms.
Hope to see you there with the rest of the Ubuntu Community 😎
Bridge to Bluesky
Apparently, Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org, an engineer/developer, is about to connect a bridge between Mastodon (Fediverse) and Bluesky.
Announcement here: snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106
Of note the bridge is OPT-OUT. That is, your content will be automatically bridged to Bluesky, UNLESS you OPT-OUT.
So how do you opt-out? You have to DM Ryan Barnett at @snarfed, email him (somehow), file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.
https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Blu…snarfed.org
‘Sir’ Philip Green – the rewards of tax avoidance
Nick Cohen wrote eloquently in the Observer yesterday about the knighthood given to Philip Green. He noted that:Funding the Future
‘Sir’ Philip Green – the rewards of tax avoidance
Nick Cohen wrote eloquently in the Observer yesterday about the knighthood given to Philip Green. He noted that:Funding the Future
I've just pushed the implementation of a GUI for calls in the CLI frontend of #Libervia
That means that you have a full-featured #Qt GUI accessible quickly from your #terminal to make or receive your #XMPP calls. Can also be useful to compensate for clients missing A/V calls.
Documentation at libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…
Pepsi: The Surprising Meaning Behind the Brand Name
Pepsi-Cola was named for two ingredients that it doesn't (and possibly never did) contain.Ellen Gutoskey (Mental Floss)
Radio Remembers Bob Edwards
Longtime NPR Morning Edition anchor Bob Edwards died on Saturday at the age of 76. After starting his career at WHEL New Albany IN, Edwards served in the US Army at American Forces Korea Network in Seoul during the Vietnam war.Lance Venta (Radioinsight.com)
Commercial radio industry objects to plans for new national BBC radio stations
The move by the BBC to launch or enhance four new national radio stations has been labelled as puzzling and unnecessary by the commercial radio sector.Steve Collins (RadioToday)
forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202…
#ycombinator #Nvidia #Amazon #Alphabet #Advanced_Micro_Devices #NVDA #nvidia_stock #nvidia_market_cap
Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Amazon And Google
Shares of artificial intelligence leader Nvidia are up more than 400% since the beginning of last year, adding about $1.5 trillion to its market capitalization.Derek Saul (Forbes)
Small Update to the Newsflash feed reader.
Mostly quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202…
#ycombinator #Nvidia #Amazon #Alphabet #Advanced_Micro_Devices #NVDA #nvidia_stock #nvidia_market_cap
Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Amazon And Google
Shares of artificial intelligence leader Nvidia are up more than 400% since the beginning of last year, adding about $1.5 trillion to its market capitalization.Derek Saul (Forbes)
#TinyWeatherForecastGermany version 0.62.0 just was built successfully at #fdroid ! 🎈 🎉 ✨
This version comes with overhauled home screen #widgets and new options to better customize data syncs.
You can choose the data categories that should be kept updated automatically, and specify intervals for weather forecasts and weather warnings.
This version also launches significantly faster on #legacy #devices .
This is a #floss #weather #app using #opendata from the #dwd .
Get it at #fdroid !
Privacy Browser Android 3.17 has been released.
Babylon 5 Creator Says Reboot Isn't Dead, Blames Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Drama For Delay | Cord Cutters News
Fans of Babylon 5, rejoice! A possible reboot of the classic science fiction series is alive, although stuck in limbo thanks to all the merger talk between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount, according to creator J. Michael Stracyznski.Roger Cheng (Cord Cutters News)
@snarfed@indieweb.social: No service should be opt-out. Bluesky is known to platform Nazis without remorse. Nazis aren't welcome on the Fediverse.
https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Blu…snarfed.org
Free Sketchbook 2015-2020
A 100-page PDF book, filled with over 90 pencil and ink drawing process, closeups, studies and fanart from 2015-2020. Free for your viewing, study, practice and inspiration. Enjoy!Gumroad
Apartaos de debajo de los guindos...
Desconcierto en el sector agrario ante la deriva de las manifestaciones: "Ya no se sabe ni quién es quién ni que pide cada uno" | Actualidad Económica
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Desconcierto en el sector agrario ante la deriva de las manifestaciones: "Ya no se sabe ni quién es quién ni que pide cada uno"
"Como ganadero en esa manifestación, ya no se sabe ni quién es quién ni que pide cada uno; creo que es más política o intereses de algunos para otro fin". La...David Vigario (El Mundo)




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