I am glad `<datalist>` saw some fixes in Safari, as spotted by @adactio adactio.com/journal/21445

However, other bugs (such as the ones I link from JAWS and Firefox) are still open as well as voice control challenges and text size issues:
adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde… (anchor link)

So nothing likely changes in your support landscape. Yes, this still makes me sad.

#accessibility #a11y

I was so excited for a long time when I read the news @thunderbird got a new push and people are working on it, and on an android version too... After all this time, I'm still get excited when I see updates, but I always realise I'll not use it as I moved to @protonprivacy 100% a few years ago with everything and I don't have any other server I would use. Now they are open for beta testing (mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1…) and I don't even have an email address to use it with. :/

FREAKING FINALLY

"Buttons are back, baby!! This piece has been 15 years in the making, more or less."

@mimsical in the WSJ on the resurgance of physical buttons for interfaces.

"Fundamentally, the problem with touch-based interfaces is that they aren’t touch-based at all, because they need us to look when using them."

Materiality and embodiment ftw.

[gift link, courtesy of the author]
wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tou…

We promise we aren't pulling your strings - Thunderbird for Android Beta is GO! Celebrate the launch with us and learn where to download it and how to help us test for the upcoming release! 🚀 🎉

#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/h…

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Migrating from @gajim apt to flatpak release. Do this so you don't loose encryption and history.

Migrate your data
When switching to Flatpak you might want to migrate your user data (accounts, history, ...) from your previous installation. Just copy your user data from/to the following directories:
Copy ~/.local/share/gajim -> ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/data/gajim
Copy ~/.config/gajim -> ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/config/gajim

/via dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/tree…

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Massive E-Learning Platform #Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen #AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over.

Udemy will train generative AI on classes developed/users contributed on its site. It is opt-out (meaning, everyone was already opted in) with a time window... and opting out may "affect course visibility and potential earnings."

Udemy's reason for the opt-out window was reportedly because removing data from LLMs is hard. IMO, that would be the reason for making it opt-in, but here we are...

#privacy #privacymatters #llm

404media.co/massive-e-learning…

"Poslanec Huliak sa po skončení politickej debaty O 5 minút 12 prevrátil na stoličke a spadol na zem. Video bolo zdieľané na internete."

Ten primitív menom Huliak teraz žiada ospravedlnenie za to že spadol zo stoličky svojou vinou kde pred ním sedeli desiatky ak nie stovky hostí. Za čo? Za to že je tučný ako "..." a neohrabaný?

Ako sa zábery dostali na verejnosť? Tak ako unikajú informácie z policajného vyšetrovania o všetkom. Slovensko.

aktuality.sk/clanok/3zAcvPQ/ru…

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I hope to hear from @Tutanota very soon. Lack of key verification is a major flaw in the technical design of the platform, allowing a malicious Tuta server to read end-to-end encrypted exchanges (both emails and shared calendars).

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

The issue has been opened 6 years ago.

#Security #Privacy #Crypto #Cryptography #Email #FOSS

in reply to Skyper 💻🎧☕📖

Thanks for your comment. We agree that key verification is important & we have it on our roadmap. We are working on it already & we want to implement it in a way that works nicely together with key rotation. We enabled post-quantum encryption for new customers by the beginning of the year, now we are in the process of upgrading existing customers & then we will deploy key verification. We already mentioned key verification when releasing post quantum encryption tuta.com/blog/post-quantum-cry….

Re-reading "The McRib As Arbitrage" in light of the entire no work from home, return to office push, and I find myself genuinly wondering how much labor exists - how many _companies exist_, even - primarily to serve as a utility function for corporate real-estate arbitrage.

I cannot tell you how grotesque this is, the idea that this might be real utility of so many jobs, bullshit or otherwise.

But there are a lot of bullshit jobs out there.

And....

web.archive.org/web/2020030306…

in reply to mhoye

I think I'm going to double down on this.

Companies that are forcing return-to-office aren't doing that to better fulfill their corporate mission. By clinging to antiquated ideas of what management does and what leadership is these companies have allowed themselves to be co-opted into propping up failing corporate real estate arbitrage schemes. That's it, that's the whole story.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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