Bummer. Last week our OpenTechFund contract was not signed but suspended along with OTF itself. Shit happening overseas.
However, we wouldn't deliver resilient messaging infrastructure and apps if we weren't a resilient and fun community. We never had much money to begin with, and are graced with great pro-bono contributions.
We are now looking for other public funding but it takes time. Meanwhile it'd be great to get intermittent help via a wealthy donor or small tips delta.chat/en/donate
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The enterprise formerly known as Twitter is now understood by all to be in the service of right-wing authoritarianism in the United States and around the globe.
There is an uprising against Tesla, which is just a car company. Where is the uprising against X? How can any nonmalicious nonprofit or state or city organization continue to use it for its messaging? Or anyone else.
The fastest growing religious group in the United States are βNonesβ β as in no religion at all β and it's time they get a holiday of their own.
@mush42 It's just a witty video. You can also find similar statements from Penn Jillette or Richard Dawkins and others. In every case you'll find things to disagree on with the person who said it. That's actually okay. This is what we celebrate. Atheists aren't a uniform group and atheism doesn't unite us. It's okay to be atheist even if you don't like Maher, Dawkins, Hitchens, or Jillette. They're not religious figures. They have no monopoly over the absence of belief in deities.
@Friendica Support Die folgende #Frage hatte ich schon einmal gestellt, sie aber irrtΓΌmlich wieder gelΓΆscht:
Ich habe mir einen zusΓ€tzlichen #Circle eingerichtet, den ich nur als #Feedreader nutzen will. #Feeds, die dort landen, werden jedoch nicht in diesem Circle angezeigt, sondern unter "Alle Kontakte bzw. Kontakte". Was muss ich tun, um die Feeds nur in diesem neuen Circle anzuzueigen und den Rest unter "Alle Kontakte"?
@Gerhard Hallstein aktivier mal im Profil der Feeds unter "Kanal Einstellungen" --- "AusschlieΓlich KanΓ€le" dann sollten die BeitrΓ€ge der Feeds nur noch in KanΓ€len und Circles erscheinen. Vielleicht lΓΆst das dein Problem.
Get the story with the romance hero I swore would get bitten on the ass several times (he deserved it!) for $.99USD in ebook until March 31! barnesandnoble.com/w/sons-of-yβ¦
SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
@archos JΓ‘ vidΓm nΓ‘sledujΓcΓ: 1. MusΓΕ‘ si zaloΕΎit ΓΊΔet. 2. ZprΓ‘vy jsou uloΕΎeny na serveru. 3. FederovanΓ‘ sΓΕ₯ je skvΔlΓ‘, ale decentralizovanΓ‘ vΓce.
Another Harry Potter #fanfic I enjoyed. Contains LGBTQIA2S+ representation. SNAKES ARE VERY NICE by Oulixeus: "At four years old, Harry decides that he would like to be a snake when he grows up. A story following Harry as he wills himself to become more and more serpentine - to the discomfort, bafflement, and horror of everyone around him." archiveofourown.org/works/35855626#harrypotter#hp#fanfiction
A few years ago, I wrote a web audio game based on an old Eureka A4 game called Aliens. The original version was purely audio. I just added some visualisation to see whether it would be potentially more engaging (and easier to learn) for sighted folks. Given that I'm totally blind and not particularly adept with CSS, the visualisation is kinda crappy, but I got my kids to help me check that it at least works. I haven't had anyone with sight test it on mobile, so it's likely completely broken there and thus I'd recommend desktop for now. Anyway, here it is if anyone's interested: files.jantrid.net/aliens/
@KaraLG84 Haha. They don't kill you though. If you miss them, you just miss out on bonus points. They can confuse you though when there are a lot of other things happening.
@KaraLG84 The original game had a slightly different sound for commanders. I might need to do something like that here, though I'm not sure it'd make things easier, just more interesting. What do you think?
E&P - βThe Voice of America is facing an unprecedented crisis. Journalists have been cut off from their newsroomsβemails shut down, phones disconnected, and no way to reach editorsβleaving many in a state of uncertainty. VOAβs chief national correspondent, Steve Herman, finds himself among more than 1,300 colleagues placed on excused absence. editorandpublisher.com/storiesβ¦
Hereβs a way to support those losing their jobs at VOA, RFE/RL, RFA and other international broadcasting entities under USAGM. secure.givelively.org/donate/uβ¦
on the broadcast I was listening to, this news was quickly followed up with Poillievre talking about creating jobs for working people and how he was going for the union vote.
Both of these parties are corporate apologists.
Yet Ontario, the land of the manufacturer, refuses to vote for the left leaning, worker party in the NDP.
and now he's the centrist prime minister of an investor state with locked-in neoliberal economic policy. Totally different jobs. And I'll "crap on him" as much as I please according to my right of freedom of expression.
letβs at least agree to agree that Poillievre cannot be allowed to win and we all must do everything in our power to make that happen, whether that means voting Liberal or NDP, Bloc or Green. Whatever works to deny him.
Surely we can all do that while advocating strongly for the party we believe in and holding other parties and leaders to account.
Debian is present this weekend at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025, in Chemnitz, Germany. Visit our booth! You can also attend a talk given by Andreas Tille, the current Debian Project Leader: Tausend Freiwillige, ein Ziel chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2025/β¦ #debian
Die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage sind eine Veranstaltung rund um das Thema Linux und Open Source fΓΌr jedermann, die Linux-Nutzer, Insider und Unternehmen zusammenbringt.
"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." #fascism #USA #Canada #cdnpoli
The other person's name doesn't matter. Their platform doesn't matter.
So resist the very human urge to talk about that person and why they are bad.
Because name recognition affects judge elections more than you think. A lot of people are just going to vote for whichever name they've heard most. π€·πΏββοΈ
Elon is dumping in millions to make sure that as many people have heard that other name as possible.
You can't fight that by also saying that other name.
Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.
No, covid did not teach me that online conferences are just not working. It taught me that 2/3rds of all conferences could be fully online (though one still needs to think about best structure for them and not just transplant them without any adaptatβ¦
This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.
The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.
@sihaha Apps targeting older Android versions tend to work fine on newer ones due to how backwards compatibility works on Android, but targeting newer Android versions has 2 clear benefits: 1. Google has one reason less to kick you off Google Play 2. There are generally slight security improvements (small hardenings here and there)
The downside is that it can take a lot of work because Google tends to change a lot every Android version.
Lβappello Β«Stop ReArmΒ». Una campagna europea.La mobilitazione pacifista per fermare il piano von der Leyen e rilanciare l'Europa sociale. Qui l'articolo di #ilmanifesto: ilmanifesto.it/lappello-stop-rβ¦
I've been using Skype to talk with my parents since I moved to Canada, that's the tool they know and switching to something else for them is gonna be super hard. Now Skype is forcing them to switch to Teams, a buggy and bloated tool made to be a gateway to sell services. It's Microsoft, so I'm not surprised at all, but still, disappointing.
I'm in a similar situation but I'm going to try MyTello. You can set it up to dial a local number from the home phone to talk to someone with a number registered around the globe, or call via their app. I've only done one test call so far, but might be an option.
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if they only call with you I guess Jitsi via browser would suffice. bookmark the link for them, and yourself, maybe even secure it with password and they can use it without struggle. or you do it via Signal, element, Jami....there's lots of desktop clients that offer encrypted communication for free. just introduce them to one and they will happily stick with it.
None of those. Calendar: Google, since calendar needs to be shared and no one else outside MS seems to offer that. Office suite: LibreOffice. Video conference: Jitsi Chat: Telegram Chat, file exchange: Matrix Email: Our local ISP's email. Our godson uses some paid email service (US based) but not Outlook or Gmail. Sister-in-law uses Proton Mail.
Be sure that people know you mean, Open Talk Dot EU ( opentalk.eu ).
If you search for "Open Talk" you'll get an app (by, Jeet Productions) who is affiliated with Facebook / Meta. In fact, oddly, if you visit their website ( opentalk.club ), they don't even suggest you contact them via their app, but rather, WhatsApp (click on "Join Community, that's a WhatsApp url).
Any chance of developing bridge software to access Tuta using mail (SMTP+IMAP), contacts (CardDAV), and calendar (CalDAV) apps? (Comparative example: Proton Mail Bridge.)
Email, contacts, and calendars are all more useful when all accounts (e.g., work and personal) can be accessed in one place.
This week we did a working session in BOARC, Bidston Observatory, an amazing self-organised community center close to Liverpool, UK (with a radio station in the basement!).
We finalized and tested the first, experimental prototype of Toolkitty, an mobile and desktop app for collectives to share resources & spaces and organise events!
Toolkitty is a coordination app for collectives, organisers and venues. You can organise events, share resources and spaces in a collaborative calendar.
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