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@thunderbird
Please consider setting android:allowBackup="true" on Android. Backups are an essential security feature. Without the ability to easily backup & restore data, it is extremely vulnerable to being destroyed or ransomed. Security is not just about preventing unauthorized access, it's also about protecting authorized access.

github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

thunderbird-android/app-common/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml at main · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android
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@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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@thunderbird is this known issue with the rebranded #K9?

I composed a message while out and about, but the message didn't send because my mobile provider has ended up on #Spamhaus #XBL. The message sits in the #Thunderbird Outbox.

On getting home to my WiFi network (whose internet connectivity is provided by an entity which is not my mobile provider) and attempting to resend the message in the Outbox, the message still fails to send, with the same error. However any email composed and sent while on my home network is sent reliably.

What's going on there?

check.spamhaus.org/results/?qu…

A screenshot snippet from my firewall showing the external IP address of my home wired/wireless network. It's in a different range entirely.
The message from Thunderbird showing the human-readable part of the SMTP response, indicating that my mobile network IP address is on the Spamhaus XBL.
A screenshot of the output of `whois` in Termux on Android checking the ownership of the IP address blocked by Spamhaus.
#thunderbird #K9 #spamhaus #xbl @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Amin Girasol

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Hey there. There are some issues with messages being stuck in the outbox, but they tend to heavily be related to EIG-owned web and email hosting companies. So we'd suggest opening a question on support.mozilla.org or joining our community support chat on Matrix at matrix.to/#/#tb-android:mozill… - our developers also hang out in this room as well!

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to

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If you want to know how a spoon, ai, Matrix and accessibility are connected, then check out the #btconf talk description by @tink with the title “There Is No Spoon” beyondtellerrand.com/events/du…

#a11y #ai #accessibility #presentation #tellerrand


Léonie Watson is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2025 in Düsseldorf

Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. She
beyond tellerrand Events
#a11y #Accessibility #AI #presentation #btconf #tellerrand @Léonie Watson

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Kevin Powell has an #accessibility intro video:
“Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement”
youtu.be/pJ0GPI7BMIs

This isn’t for practitioners; this isn’t new stuff.

This is for folks who are new to it, who learn better with videos, who know his name and will believe him more than us, who want recent examples, etc.

#a11y


Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement

Accessibility can be a deep topic, but there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that so many people get wrong when there really is no excuse.🔗 Links✅ axe dev too...
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#a11y #Accessibility

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Q&A profile page options

v.01
@Friendica Support @Tutorial

Hi there!

A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03).
/settings/account/basic

Screen of the account type options in the advanced account page type settings.

Right now this page want's to merge from a standard personal profile page to kinda community profile page where only specific defined profiles can publish thru it's wall to the rest of the followers.

First thought was to stay as a single profile page, allow mutual friend relations to publish/write to this wall, and change all contacts that do not belong to the inner circle of profiles to followers only. Apparently this setting doesn't work, or doesn't work as expected.
Security and privacy settings in:
/settings
Screen of the setting that allows friends to post to the profile page wall of a personal page.

Is this a known issue or some kind of misinterpretation of this option?

Next possible option would be to choose to become a public community group page.
Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

This option would imply a continuous attention to change every new contact to followers only, if in fact this would mean that the followers would not be able to publish to the group but receive publications. Also this setting would include the risk of being exposed to unexpected posts into the community of followers whenever the administration of the profile lags behind for some reason.

The option private group looks more promising in this regard and actually would be the same than being a personal profile page that checks new follow requests and than could change the setting to allow mutual friendship to post to the profiles wall or simply define a follower relationship. The [Experimental] notice, that actually exists like lot's of years already is a little bit confusing, or creates a certain reluctance to try this option. How experimental is this still as of now or could we perhaps ask the community to run a general test on all the options of the account settings in general together with a general feed back to sum this up and come to some definite setup, wording and explanations on the matter?

@Friendica Support @Tutorial

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Meet our new Fedora Project Leader, Jef Spaleta!

As we're excited for Jef to support the community in this role, we also extend a big thank you to @mattdm (who is not leaving the Fedora community either!)

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/introducing…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource


Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta - Fedora Magazine

Hello everyone! Current Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller here, with some exciting news! A little while ago, I announced that it’s time for a change of hats. I’m going to be moving on to new things (still close to Fedora, of course).
Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)
#linux #opensource #fedora @Matthew Miller
in reply to Nolan Lawson

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Matt Campbell

I did get to the end of the post, and I do care that you wrote it without the aid of generative AI. Of course, maybe that's because I'm another middle-aged programmer somewhat afraid of being left behind.

I think the fact that you find these tools particularly good at busting out unit tests suggests that we need to figure out how to make practical software testing less rote, less boilerplatey, such that lovingly crafting that code is actually worthwhile.

in reply to Matt Campbell

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James Scholes

Counterpoint: It's unrealistic to expect every developer to "love" every part of the software development process.

I write tests because they are legitimately helpful, and because it would be irresponsible not to. And I hate every second of it.

I'm legitimately not sure what changes/improvements to software testing would make it feel less arduous, but very interested in ideas! @nolan

@Nolan Lawson
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Twenty Thousand Hertz, my favorite podcast about all things sound, just released an episode talking about Apple's accessibility and how they approach sound. Its very well written and gives a nice overview on how Accessibility has evolved in Apple. 20k.org/episodes/sonic-accessi…

Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility

If you want to know where the future of sound is headed, accessibility is a great place to look. And for decades, Apple has been leading the charge in accessible technology.
Kelly Nowels (Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.)

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📢 Aktualizace Mastodon instancí!
Všechny naše Mastodon instance byly aktualizovány na v4.3.7 ✅

🔹 mamutovo.cz
🔹 mastodon.arch-linux.cz
🔹 zpravobot.news
🔧 Pokud narazíte na jakékoli problémy, dejte nám vědět.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
#Mastodon #Oscloud #Update


Release v4.3.7 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Add Add delay to profile updates to debounce them (#34137 by @ClearlyClaire) Add support for paginating partial collections in SynchronizeFollowersService (#34272 and #34277 by @ClearlyC...
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#Mastodon #update #oscloud

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Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC.

More details about the impact for your on our blog.

matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix…


Matrix.org will migrate to MAS on Apr 7th 2025

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Quentin (matrix.org)
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

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chris

I administer my own home server. I've set up an upstream OIDC server (Authentik) in anticipation of the new MAS standard. What else do I need to do in order to have a smooth migration?

I've seen a lot of promotional material about the new MAS implementation, but not much about how it will break my instance or how my configuration will need to change.

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Remember the #curl distro meeting 2025 next week! github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…

To make #curl better in distros. To make distros ship better #curl. To make everyone happier and the world a little nicer.


curl distro discussion 2025

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...
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#curl

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#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.

Mark your calendars!

More details: akademy.kde.org/2025/

#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

Akademy 2025

Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE
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#linux #foss #KDE #techevent #akademy2025 #FOSSevent @Akademy

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The UK has introduced a requirement to have an electronic travel authorization on order to visit the country. I just thought I'd have a look at it and see what I'll have to do if I'm ever to visit my mother again, and I'm in a queue. A queue on a website. Never seen that before (but it does seem very British).

It doesn't accept any method of payment which I use. Well that's just great.

What's more, the only way to make payment to the British government is to sign up to a choice of American payment services which will send some slice of the payment to the US. Why on earth have they done that?

Oh, and if your use the app, which they really want you to do, then you're phone has to meet their requirements. So it may also cost you a new phone to visit the UK in future. And if my phone stops meeting their requirements after I pay for an autorisation which should last two years? Who knows.

Thanks Brexit, the curse which keeps on cursing.
#brexit #eta #unitedkingdom

Screenshot from gov.uk website telling me that I'm in a queue. On a website.
#brexit #unitedkingdom #eta
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If someone needs to belittle, berate, or break others to feel powerful, they’re not a genius—they’re a tyrant in a hoodie, a bully with a pitch deck, a tantrum in search of a title.

And we should stop fucking clapping.
joanwestenberg.com/stop-confla…


Stop Conflating Genius With Asshole

Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity.
Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)

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Imagine being the person who, 30+ years ago, solved the problem of moving the mouse diagonally to a submenu closing the submenu because the mouse passed over another element – just add a short timeout before switching to a different submenu – and then living to see every application on the planet reimplement menus without that behaviour.
A diagonal mouse movement from a menu to a submenu in Discord that will, incorrectly, cause the submenu to close.

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Noticed #MetaAI is now in #WhatsApp? 🫣 If this concerns you, you're not alone 💛

In our latest guide, we look at how you can get rid of Meta AI 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

Screenshots of Meta AI in WhatsApp. Welcome message: Ask Meta AI anything. Interacting with Meta AI: “How can I disable you?”, “Meta AI is integrated into this experience, so you can’t disable it completely”.

How to turn off Meta AI? You can’t, but... | Tuta

Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.
Tuta
#whatsapp #MetaAI

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Don't lose control of your data! A few days ago, we celebrated Document Freedom Day – championing open standards and free software. Here's a talk we gave with the Nepalese LibreOffice community: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Document Freedom Day banner, with trees on a hill and LibreOffice icons

Video: Document Freedom Day with the Nepalese LibreOffice community - The Document Foundation Blog

On March 26, we celebrated Document Freedom Day. Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, gave an online talk about the importance of open standards and free software: Please confirm that you want to play a YouTu…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource

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Ich verstehe dass nicht so ganz. Die Gasspeicher sind so leer wie schon lange nicht mehr (ca. 30%), obwohl es letztes Jahr um diese Zeit deutlich besser aussah (fast 60%). Was ist da los? Ist das Absicht? bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Gasver…
Vergleich Füllstände Gasspeicher 2024 zu 2025. Die Kurve für 2024 bewegt sich am oberen Rand des Mehrjahresdurchschnitts, die Kurve für 2025 ist nah an der Untergrenze des Mehrjahresdurchschnitts.

Bundesnetzagentur - Aktuelle Lage Gasversorgung

Aktuelle Lage Gasversorgung
www.bundesnetzagentur.de
This entry was edited (8 months ago)

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Brave translate now available on all desktop and mobile devices, supporting 108 languages brave.com/blog/brave-translate…

Brave translate now available on all desktop and mobile devices, supporting 108 languages

We're excited to announce that we've expanded support for Brave Translate---our tool to translate websites privately and securely---to all desktop, Android, and iOS devices, and that we've added 93 languages, going from 15 supported languages to 108.
Brave Software
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