Gmail and Outlook are popular but not necessarily the best - especially when it comes to #privacy and #security.

In this in-depth guide we review #Gmail vs #Outlook and fill you in on the best email provider that's ad-free, private, and secure. 😉

👉 Read more: tuta.com/blog/outlook-vs-gmail

Happy to share that my implementation of xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol for Mutter has landed and should start shipping in Gnome 48 🎉 That's part of an ongoing effort @ @igalia to officially ship Chromium Ozone/Wayland backend.

youtu.be/GAPjtLUBa_E
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/…

For the ones curious about the technical bits and challenges for a first-time contributor for Gnome/Mutter, I'll be covering it in a blog post series in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

We are excited to announce that we will be giving away a free BT Speak Pro from @BlazieTech or a free Victor Reader Stream 3 from HumanWare!

The BT Speak Pro is a pocket computer, offering an eight-dot Braille keyboard and speech output to stay connected. The Victor Reader Stream 3 is a handheld digital audio player to enjoy your media content and features a fully tactile interface.

Give between 12/1 to 12/8, and you could win one of our giveaways: buff.ly/498swYq

Some SSD stats for you. This is a 10 year old Mac Mini (Late 2014) with the SSD replaced. (using AmorphousDiskMark 4.0.1)

Device Model: SanDisk SDSSDA480G (Manufacturer states: High sequential read speeds of up to 545MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 350MB/s at shop.sandisk.com/products/ssd/…)
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Device Node: /dev/disk1s5s1 (Physical Store: disk0s2)
File System: Apple File System (APFS)
Capacity: 479.89 GB
Available: 53.59 GB
Used: 426.30 GB
Block Size: 4 KiB
Interconnect: SATA
Location: Internal
Medium Type: Solid State
Queue Depth: 32
Native Command Queuing: Yes

Sequential 1 MiB block (QD=8):

• Read: 346.56 MB/s (330.5 IOPS @ 1 MiB)
• Write: 4.20 MB/s (4.0 IOPS @ 1 MiB)

Sequential 1 MiB block:

• Read: 202.40 MB/s (193.0 IOPS @ 1 MiB)
• Write: 4.17 MB/s (4.0 IOPS @ 1 MiB)

Random sequence 4KiB block (QD=64):

• Read: 1.53 MB/s (372.9 IOPS @ 4 KiB)
• Write: 0.79 MB/s (192.8 IOPS @ 4 KiB)

Random sequence 4KiB block:

• Read: 20.22 MB/s (4,935.4 IOPS @ 4 KiB)
• Write: 2.08 MB/s (507.4 IOPS @ 4 KiB)

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^{SanDisk - US}

Proposing to add 0RTT QUIC support for curl builds with ngtcp2 and GnuTLS.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1566…

QUIC, 0RTT for gnutls by icing · Pull Request #15667 · curl/curl

When a QUIC TLS session announced early data support and 'CURLSSLOPT_EARLYDATA' is set for the transfer, send initial request and body (up to the 128k we buffer) as 0RTT when curl is built ...

^GitHub

Long term technologies, waiting in the background

Once in a while, there is a disaster. Phone lines go out, the Internet breaks down, and mobiles don't work⁰. Then the Ham Radio Operators save the day.

Amateur radio is one of those things I'm only vaguely aware of. It chugs along in the background unnoticed. It doesn't follow the fashion of today's industry, nor does it chase growth at all costs. It is an open standard, run by a decentralised group of people rather than a corporation, and it favours relentless practicality rather than KPIs.

I love technologies like this.

The recent stratospheric rise in popularity of the QR Code is a example of where these long-term technologies work well.

I've been banging on about QR codes for over a decade - while marketers sneered and tech companies tried to usurp, QR codes kept chugging away in the background. When the pandemic hit, and people needed a way to scan in to venues or present a vaccine certificate, QR codes were ready. They were an open standard, completely decentralised, relentlessly practical, and battle tested. They were rolled out in a variety of situations.

Every contender who has come at them with a proprietary barcode has failed. And because people have had a chance to get used to QR codes, they're not seen as weird any more.

They are boring magic. Decentralised and free.

The Fediverse is similar. It powers Mastodon and other social networks. At the moment, proprietary networks like Twitter are dying and new networks like BlueSky are in their ascendency. But BSky will eventually get bought out by cryptoloons, or will shit the bed in some other spectacular fashion.

The Fediverse will have been rumbling on the the background. Slowly gathering momentum. Waiting for an implosion or emergency.

There are various other technologies like this. Built in to the fabric of online society, quietly ploughing their own furrow, increasing resilience, despite being unfashionable.

What technologies do you think are waiting to be rediscovered in times of change?

1. Sounds like fun! ↩︎

#technology

The End of MS Tag

Three years ago, I wrote about the deficiencies in Microsoft's Tag system. It was painfully obvious even then that MS had no desire to back the "standard" they'd tried to create.

^{Terence Eden’s Blog}

Mária Telkes died #OTD in 1980. She was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, & inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.

During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1r…

#science #technology #WomenInSTEM

"hi daniel，there is a bug，see the picture

HELP！！！"

From my #inbox

Here’s a great summary of that “Ghost Engineer” nonsense that the Stanford researcher claims.

Src: instagram.com/reel/DDBaH-iNiRf…

#ghostEngineer #softwareEngineering #bullshit

🙁

ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/d…

Looking up some stuff about Ghost's recent narrative concert film, Rite Here Rite Now, and it's so incredibly fucking wholesome seeing younger queers finding comfort in the very camp anti-Christian popular beat combo.

But I am also feeling old a.f. because no one is doing any fan analysis or headcanoning of the Wizard of Oz stuff through a Friends of Dorothy lens, as a complement to the narrative of false and hollow imperial power, and I'm now thinking that I'm maybe from the last generation that had that frame of reference. (Like, I'm not that old at 40-cough, but it was certainly part of the oral culture of queer history when I came of age, even though I didn't have much of a community.)

For anyone else who enjoys sundry Wizard of Oz theories, after adding some time codes, I'm also pretty sure that the soundtrack album doesn't map to any edit of the movie, but I'm still waiting for someone to actually do that, just to fulfil that old Dark Side of the Rainbow idea.

Glossary & Citations:

Friends of Dorothy
Old slang (pre-1970s) term for gay men in particular and queer people in general. The Wizard of Oz books and films are rich in queer symbolism and the term appeared in cant and code when being gay was still illegal and taboo. Oz references, particularly to the 1939 Judy Garland film, were at one point common tropes of LGBT+ culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_o…

The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The idea that you can use Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. Not queer-coded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark…

#Ghost #WizardOfOz

On Thursday Dec 5 I will run a webinar and tell you all about Rock-solid #curl long-term support releases.

Sign up here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Rock-Solid curl. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join wolfSSL for an exclusive live webinar on December 5th at 10 AM PT featuring Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, to explore the launch of Rock-Solid curl, a long-term support version designed for users who prioritize security, st…

^Zoom

Here's the latest #curl hackerone issue I mentioned the other day: hackerone.com/reports/2871792 another one of those "we found a function call so therefore your program must be vulnerable".

Disclosed for educational purposes. Don't do this.

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...

## Summary: The vulnerability in the program arises from a classic buffer overflow, triggered by the unsafe use of the strcpy() function without bounds checking. The program copies data from a...

^HackerOne

Welcome to Monday.
Daughter abed, off school with a migraine. The new preventatives are not yet living up to their names.

I did crack open the cream yesterday, which is one of the key moments in my personal march toward the holidays. So first coffee of the day this morn was a deliciously hot, strong jolt of 'Get your butt to work soon' with a spiral of creamy goodness. A busy day at work, and then a stupidly early start for a 5:21AM train tomorrow, so not sure how i'll be feeling about that when I get there.

I am sat warm and comfortable with coffee 2 while I fill in the school absence form and ponder my morning's schedule and tickets.

Ve avemo aumentato a pensione de €1,8 AR MESE (!!!) pe sta ar passo co l'inflazzione

Un segnio de gli ottimi risurtati de sto governo 🚀

Nun spendeteli tuttassieme 😉

open.online/2024/12/02/pension…

L'aumento delle pensioni minime sarà di 1 euro e 80 centesimi al mese nel 2025

Il decreto dei ministeri dell'Economia e del Lavoro in Gazzetta ufficiale: incremento dello 0,8% per l'inflazione del 2024

^Open

Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — #billionaires like #ElonMusk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel — avoid #taxes. Here are 10 of their strategies.

#Finance #Law #Tech #Journalism

propub.li/4fQL3uY

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale

The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steve Ballmer.

^ProPublica

Hi, @jcsteh. I'd like to report an issue. I would do it in Bugzilla, but it appears that I can't comment on closed bugs. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… was marked as a duplicate of bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… which was marked as fixed 8 days ago. However, the issue from Bug 1927237 doesn't seem to be fixed in recent Nightlies.

Thanks for your time and all your hard work!!

TIL about #DecemberAdventure - what a lovely counterpoint to #AdventOfCode I tried the latter a couple of times, but found it stressful after a few days. This looks much more relaxing.

eli.li/december-adventure

Oatmeal - December Adventure

The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every

^eli.li

New page on my website: My workouts.

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I’m soliciting.

I figured that if I spend 5-6 hours a week doing something I care deeply about, I should probably mention it on my site.

I’m soliciting advice; see the “Current questions” section at the end!

#fitness #WeightLifting

My workouts

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.

^{Seirdy’s Home}