So now the fake imposter accounts are incorporating text that looks like the person's actual bio. Read to the end friends, read to the end. #Disgusting #Reprehensible #Unforgiveable
I sincerely hope this person doesn't start impersonating me next. I really, really don't want to have to switch instances. That having been said, I doubt they would put forth the effort to write with my style. Hell they don't even seem to know what punctuation and spelling are. I've seen them spell "pronouns" as "prenouns."
@jdking92 And if you did move it wouldn't solve anything. I'm hanging onto every instance I've registered upon even the one from which I migrated I kept and just locked so no one could get it.
True. Yeah this situation is getting annoying as all hell. Also what this person is doing is very definitely not legal from what I've read. I boosted a couple posts with links to info about impersonating people online. If you can't find them though, the links are:
@mcourcel Oh, see I'd love to see that kid put behind bars, personally. Might have to look at the Colorado code for this sort of thing if I can but...yeah. This is not at all OK, ever.
He's definitely not a kid, and definitely does not live in Colorado. He's, I believe older than me, by quite a lot,@n Arab from Bahrain so and so. Blind, mental health issues. What more? The more you pay attention and post,the more he enjoys it. So, stop. Stop with the impersonations, the fears, the worries. A blind person from some weird place of the world thousands of kms, can't do crap against you.Pay attention, he continues. Stop, he stops.
Stalwart mail server does not use the OS trusted CA roots because "there are platforms in which CA stores are not available" and "in MacOS using the native store adds huge delays to lookups"
So it's written in Rust but you gotta turn off certificate validation if you connect to services using a private CA
Which feature or improvement would you like to request? I'd like to see this feature: Ability to use an alternative ACME provider in the install prompt. Ability of use a custom made CA root for the...
@mWare I think I'm going to use this for my personal-self-hosted mailboxes because I'm having some weird bugs with Radicale for CardDav and I really really want some shared calendar support, invites, etc that are more advanced features that most CalDAV/CardDAV servers don't bother implementing. And the ability to have it be smart enough to auto-train spam on each user's Spam/Junk folders would be helpful. I had something half-baked to automate this for Aox/Rspamd but I hate how clunky it is
Email is just one of those things that we built all these individual pieces for and it would just be a lot better if they were more cohesively integrated.
I'll note that a few features that you will want require their Enterprise License (multi-tenancy, undelete mail, etc). You gotta pay per mailbox. How many are you hosting? They're charging like $2/yr per mailbox for the licensing. You can get a trial license from them too.
@mWare so I've been doing some light testing of it, and it's fast and capable. Still need to finish testing more features.
But I have one gripe. And it's the same as I've had with other software:
I don't understand why people are so obsessed with this RocksDB / LevelDB. It's terrible. I have been able to corrupt(?) my data 3 times now. Or at least I mean I got it into a state where the software wouldn't start, I get Segmentation Faults, and tracing the processing doesn't tell me anything useful other than it exploded while trying to read the database.
This has happened to me with other software that tries to store data in RocksDB.
So anyway, my current configuration that I may keep only stores the cache and Full Text Search in RocksDB, and the rest is all in Postgres. Their Postgres implementation is completely opaque because they just turn it into a giant BLOB store of key:values, so the data is binary and unreadable. You wouldn't be able to read anything by looking at Postgres yourself.
But it's still fast from what I can tell. And I never have to worry about Postgres getting into an inconsistent state.
well that's their fault for ignoring hardware errors 🤡
Also I already have pretty robust backups setup for Postgres so I can restore fairly easily as I have snapshots + WAL archiving, and I can move the process around between jails and VMs or physical machines and don't have to move data
This video about recent and ongoing evolution of Audacity (a popular open source audio editor) is a terrific case study—or several terrific case studies—about the challenges of developing software.
I was most interested in the Technical Debt (11:45) and Gradual Transformation (16:07) chapters, about how easy it is to tangle up your software architecture (even if you know better), how the tangle causes problems for you, and how much dedicated effort it takes to untangle. youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3…
This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and ...
It wasn't updated since 2022, and the source repo was archived in 2023 – so it's unclear if it's still working at all (to download firmwares from Xiaomi).
EDIT: thanks for the feedback! As it's still working, we'll keep it for now.
Episode 45 of Access On, is on. This week, we bring you an extended episode featuring a look at new features in #iOS 26. It includes a deep dive into a significant new #accessibility feature, Braille Access. We cover numerous other accessibility and general enhancements. Subscribe to Access On wherever you get podcasts, or download the audio for this episode at: pinecast.com/listen/5b1b77d8-6…
The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat…
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people.
I fully understand the need for ads in order to keep some content free for people, but why do those ads have to bog down my screen reader? If I had a magic wand, I would place heavy performance fines on all advertisers or send their developers to take performance 101 courses. I mean, seriously…
@mcourcel You know, I tried 1Blocker and ended up with it blocking ads in one browser, but not in another. Also, I believe it could not block ads inside web views such as used by certain apps, e.g. Google News or Google. Do you think AdGuard does any better or is it an OS restriction?
It's the most modifiable setup I've ever seen. I've been using it for 2 months now and have no complaints. Plus, you can add various extensions to it, to nullify things that annoy you. For example, they have a social extension that will remove those annoying share links at the tops of articles.
Fedi admins, be aware that a lot of people who report abuse don't forward it to its original server because the official Mastodon app doesn't include this option.
If you're running a public Fedi server and you receive a report about a bad post, you might also want to report the bad post to yourself and make sure you've selected the option to forward it to the original server.
If the original server never receives a report, the spammer/abuser/etc will keep posting.
Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. wired.com/story/ice-social-med…
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
I'm using Paperback more and more these days. Unlike QRead, which I still need for Bookshare DAISY files, Paperback removes all the unnecessary blank lines between paragraphs and pages, and you can't imagine how nice that feels! It also loads books incredibly fast, no matter how large your EPUB or PDF files are. Huge kudos to the developer, and here's hoping DAISY support gets added soon so I can fully switch over. github.com/trypsynth/paperback @TheQuinbox
@clv0 As I see it now, Bookworm supports DAISY books, and I'm afraid it's the only advantage. But even its DAISY support is half-baked, meaning, for instance, activating hyperlinks inside DAISY books doesn't work at all. Honestly - and with all respect, Bookworm sounds like an abandoned project to me. It hasn't received a single commit on Github over the past couple months or so, and no one is responsible to handle its long-standing bugs or issues. There's no clear roadmap for its upcoming releases - if any. It doesn't handle bookmarks and notes well either, so you can't easily move books to different machines along with your notes and bookmarks. All in all, I don't like Bookworm as things stand right now. @TheQuinbox
@clv0 As far as I know, no. But it seems to be planned. I also had no luck with Bookworm's OCR. It's good, but nowhere near solutions like AABBYY FineReader, Omnipage or even the older Kurzweil 1000. @TheQuinbox
If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying. They need you more than you need them. Stop complying with invasive requests.
Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Evening all, my lovely, reliable, loyal chiming clock broke today. it's the one i have in the living room. It started to make odd noises, different to when it's batteries ran out. I pulled the battery out last night and believe i accidentally broke something inside. It was on it's way out anyway. It just feels sad, that clock's been with me for years and years, through many situations, providing comfort. Some may say it's only a clock, however, it was more than that.
You tell me. Recently lost a small pocket knife that has been with me since I went to Switzerland in 2001. Got taken away when almost ended up in the US instead of flying back home and then we had many many adventures since. I'm not even a knife person lol.
@AntennaPod Hi! I suppose you generate deeplinks only for advertising antennapod in links. But do you also analyse accesses to your deeplinks? The latter makes me avoid your deeplink sharing. I always copy the feed url from the feed's details.
We do not analyze the deeplinks. The deeplink page is a static website and the contents are filled locally in the browser, not on the server. You can view the source code of our website here to confirm this: github.com/AntennaPod/antennap… The main reason for the deeplink is that average users are confused by rss links that just show "code" when clicking them, without any explanation what this is or how to start playing
I've been meaning to grab some for years, but looked at high quality Japanese ones the other day and they are way beyond what I can afford. I think the lowest price was around 60 euros. Understandable, but still.
Crossword puzzles you mean? Yes, but if they are presented well then it works.
Puzzle boxes can be a bit more tricky, e.g. you might have to navigate a marble inside the box to a specific part of it to put some weight on something, those are harder to solve, but a lot of them are not that fancy and you can just figure them out by touch.
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. theverge.com/news/791533/googl…
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.
+ Melotune: a music streaming app 🛡️ + DSub2000: client for Subsonic & Funkwhale 🛡️ + ArchiveTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music client 🛡️ - DSub: no longer maintained, replaced by its fork DSub2000 - Tsumugi: no longer working - NextPass: archived 2024, development stopped ~2021
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
#linguists, riddle me this. Splice two words together. Terrible and horrific. You get, terrific? Which is a completely opposite vibe! Now clearly ific is some kind of suffix and probably doesn't carry it's own meaning that much, so let's ignore horrific for a second, but then how is that that the terr root of terrible, which is also used in terrify, became that meaning in terrific? Terrify and terrific are seemingly ridiculously close in the semantic tree, ify and ific I think being effectively variant forms for different parts of speech, and yet the actual meaning is completely opposite! Contrast with horrific and horrify, which are clearly related, one being an adjective and one being a verb, both meaning the same basic concept. Something horrific horrified you. But something terrific doesn't terrify you.... How does that make sense⁉️ How did that happen? Did the meaning used to be different? Was there some kind of morphing of the spoken or written form over time that ended up fudging one of those into that position? Am I incorrect about my preliminary analysis of the morphemes and their semantics? #linguistics #english
Terrific (from terribilis), causing terror, essentially terrible. It meant this around the late 1800s and before.
Terrify, to cause (to make) terror, comes from terrificāre, it's Vulgar Latin.
While terrify's meaning remained the same, terrific had undergone a semantic shift, from negative to positive, however, there was an in-between state, where it was used ironically, or to add some flourish, extraordinaire, think of how we say something is a killer today.
This just reflects how cultural needs can change any language in even the weirdest directions.
New instance for me, so I'll try to introduce myself, because why not. I am 45/straight/cis (well, I might be ace somehow, but Idk) and live in Austin, TX, USA. In general, I tend to think about patterns that occur in society and how best to look at situations. I think a lot about the political situation in the US but feel like I don't know the solution. I am totally blind and am involved with Linux accessibility (I currently work for SUSE), so sometimes I post about that. I also find land use and transit to be interesting, since they are related, and both impact me as a pedestrian. I'd consider myself spiritual, and I've gone to the local UU church off and on, although lately I've been finding it harder to motivate myself to go out and do things. Other than that, in no particular order, I like swimming, podcasts, puns, coffee shops, music, reading and writing. I also have mikegorse.substack.com, but, alas, I haven't written there in a while--I need to get into the habit of blogging again.
It's a time of change. I sometimes write about politics, or disability, or the way we think about things, or the ways these things intersect. Click to read Chronicles from an unstable era, by Mike Gorse, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
welcome! are you the at:spi dev? I can't spell at:spi, atspi, at-spi? one of the key components that grants us accessibility? if you are, thank you so much for the work you do on it. you use opensuse write? how did you install it sir? i've wanted to install it for along time, but it's not accessible no orca. least for the gnome live iso.
@mhussain Thanks for the message. Agama is the future openSUSE installer. Orca isn't part of the official ISO yet, but Rastislav opened an issue for it. If you haven't already, then I would suggest reading through the comments on it. github.com/agama-project/agama…
Hello! 👋 I'm a blind user who'd love to use OpenSUSe Tumbleweed. Would it be possible to add the Orca screenreader into the Agama's live ISO? I believe the project already has an ideal stack for vi...
@mhussain YaST is still the default installer for Tumbleweed, but I assume that Agama will become the default at some point. Regardless, it is possible to download an Agama ISO and install Tumbleweed from it.
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adop…
Hey - I am honestly responding to what I do recognize might be rhetorical, but I'm curious (as a platform moderator/community admin type) what your concern is behind the question.
And I don't mean the skinny on what's up over on Bsky, I'm quite well on top of a number of the latest ass-showings.
Looking to better understand the suggested remedy from the users' view.
@johannab the case where the CEO of Bsky went all antitrans and did override the moderators moderating a notorious anti-trans. On this, maybe it's worth looking at whether the bridge is a good idea.
Bridging is a network technology concept now offering various tools to individual users who make their personal selections on how they do and do not want to engage with other individual users.
It is also is the category of interoperability tools which allows Bounce and similar innovations to help users migrate their social graphs off of ATProto systems and onto/into the APFediverse.
Making "the bridge" the problem is very much asking your admin to aim squarely at your own feet.
Shocked — just shocked — to discover that supposedly-decentralised social network Bluesky is entirely under the control of the single company that developed it and runs the entire network, and that their CEO is able to personally override moderation decisions to unban high-profile transphobes and ban people who complain about it.
This was completely impossible to predict and nobody ever suspected that anything like this could happen from the outset.
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in reply to Robin Frost • • •True. Yeah this situation is getting annoying as all hell. Also what this person is doing is very definitely not legal from what I've read. I boosted a couple posts with links to info about impersonating people online. If you can't find them though, the links are:
#1: torontodefencelawyers.com/crim…
#2: minclaw.com/social-media-imper…
Those were originally posted by @mcourcel.
How to Deal With Social Media Impersonation | Minc Law
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