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State Of The Bird 2024/25 - great report by @thunderbird 's team: blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/s…

Thank you for this wonderful piece of software. Can't wait to see the new database in action and I'll continue to donate ❤️

#mail #thunderbird


State Of The Bird 2024/25 - The Thunderbird Blog

Let's dive into the details with the Thunderbird Annual Report 2024-2025 to see how we've grown and what we've accomplished in the past year.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird #mail @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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This is your yearly reminder to #contribute to the apps you depend daily and still respect your #privacy are #free and #opensource. Demonstrate your love for them, help them do what they do best.

Today I contributed to @kunzisoft and @davx5app.

@keepassxc, @signalapp and @thunderbird will next.

The image shows two rows of app listings, likely from a mobile app store. Each listing contains an app icon, a name, and a price. The first listing features a green icon with the text “DAV x5”, the text “11 awesome years” and the price “€10.99”. Below that is the date “Oct 8, 2025”. The second listing features a green icon with a white heart, the text “KeePro Unlocker” and the price “€10.00”. Below that is the date “Oct 8, 2025”. Both listings have a small downward-pointing arrow on the right side.
#free #opensource #privacy #contribute @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Team KeePassXC @Signal @DAVx⁵ 🔄 @Kunzisoft | #KeePassDX
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#фалыстыннаш

существует две правды.

видео на котором поле, усеянное трупам и полицейский кричит «есть кто живой»

мурло которое вылезает на сцену с гениальным умозаключением. зрителей фестиваля Нова убил вертолет апач. есть ли у палестинцев такие вертолеты? нет. и ебаная толпа долбоебов, верящая в плоскую землю и то, что Израиль сам разъебенил с вертолета фестиваль Нова, чтобы напасть на бедных арабов в газе.

как мы можем сосуществовать с ними? никак.

#фалыстыннаш

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We really want to kill the planet as fast as possible

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Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest *(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's Alberta)* in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.

cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-tr…

#cdnpoli

#cdnpoli

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Yesterday Twitter showed me a video of a known journalist interviewing a famous muslim US representative, where they cheerfully talk how the representative married and has sex with her brother.

Very realistic looking yet 100% fake. So many will believe it.

Insanely racist, islamophobic and defamatory.

Non consensual deep fakes are so obviously problematic, and in this political environment absolutely incendiary.

People involved in facilitating this should be arrested.
mas.to/@carnage4life/115338574…


Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

Attached: 1 image Sora is a remarkable technical achievement but these were two poorly considered decisions 1. A platform where anyone can share a video of Pikachu & Sonic the Hedgehog beating each other up will be a DMCA takedown festival. 2.
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🌊You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means? Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?

That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!

🗓️ Join us on October 13th at 4pm
📝 It is free, but you have to register via ceo@corporateeurope.org
👟This is a physical tour of the European Quarter in Brussels
⌚ It will take about 90min

📷 by Marcella Via

@LobbyControl
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Did you notice Tuta's new colors? We've already heard great feedback, particularly about the blue dark theme. 💙 What are your thoughts about this update?!

✨ New color themes
✨ Apply dark mode to emails even if they contain colors
✨ Auto-save drafts

The last one is not visible, but super handy: Tuta now saves drafts automatically so if your device shuts down, your Tuta draft will not be lost! 🎉

New dark blue theme on the Tuta Calendar
New dark theme on Tuta Mail
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Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…

Zitat

Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“
Bundesministerium der Justiz
#chatcontrol
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As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work.
But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority.
Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant
#Accessibility #accessible #AI #rant #developers #vibecoding

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"Google is supposed to begin distributing third-party app stores inside the Play Store and mirror Play Store content in other stores."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1…

Should @fdroidorg be added to Google Play?


Play Store changes coming this month as SCOTUS declines to freeze antitrust remedies

The first app store changes are due in a few weeks, with the major changes coming next summer.
Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)

  • Yes, the world needs to know about F-Droid (51%, 140 votes)
  • No, it must stay in the free world (37%, 102 votes)
  • I don't care (11%, 31 votes)
273 voters. Poll end: in 16 hours

@F-Droid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Missing option, though that would probably be unrealistic: "Only if signed by F-Droid".

Why? When Google signs, it adds proprietary BLOBs to the APK as well (keyword: DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK, FROSTING_BLOCK). So the APK as it would then be distributed via PlayStore would no longer be fully FOSS.

Why unrealistic? As for new apps, Google no longer accepts APKs signed by their devs.

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Heimdal support in #curl is now history: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1893…

build: drop Heimdal support, update docs, replace with MIT Kerberos in CI by vszakats · Pull Request #18932 · curl/curl

The kerberos5 library Heimdal is one of three GSS libraries curl support. It has a memory leak triggered by the new test in #18917 and the project seems mostly abandoned. Drop support and steer use...
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#curl

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So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file.
#Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much.
Here's a catch:

me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml
1 file.xml

It's a 439 Mb long line.
I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.

#emacs #vim #librecalc

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Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2025

Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.

I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member […]

#centos #fedora #LinuxDays

enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/10/07…
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Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2025 – Brno Hat

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#fedora #linuxdays #centos

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The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, naturally I read through the results of the 2024 edition with the help of Google Translate. Some interesting patterns: 1. The survey was distributed through many channels including mailing lists, Line chat groups (the leading instant messaging app in Japan(, X and, if I understand correctly, a local Braille magazine. Most respondents were in their 40's and 50's with a stark difference even towards respondents in their 30's and 20's. 2. PC Talker, the locally manufactured screen reader with some 30 years of history, is still the leader, however NVDA and Narrator are winning some ground too. Most respondents admit to using a combination of two or three screen readers, the most popular combo being PC Talker, NVDA and Narrator. Interestingly enough, the reason most given for sticking with their primary option is being used to it rather than added features or exemplary app support. 3. iPhone definitely dominates the market which cannot be said about the Mac. Two users are still running Raku F-03, an early smartphone manufactured by Fujitsu in the 00's with a screen reading capability, compatible with I-Mode, the predecessor of current Web but with many modern features we associate with smart technology such as video, payments etc. I might have gotten the model wrong in which case, my apologies. One of those users owns this phone alone while the other uses it in parallel with an iPhone. 4. The adoption of Word as a text editor is super marginal compared to some local options, many of which are linked so can be tested. Outlook is the second email client next to a local option. Browsing email from the provider's website is more popular than Thunderbird and Becky was used by just a couple users. 5. OCR and image recognition apps are used primarily on mobile devices for reading mail, product packaging and social media photos rather than books. The apps we all know like Seeing AI, Envision and Be My Eyes are far more popular than Japanese products. jbict.net/survey/at-survey-04 - I'd be happy about insights, feedback and corrections from Japanese users - I'm just a geek exploring whatever can be found with the means available to me. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Japan

第4回支援技術利用状況調査報告書

掲載：2025年3月9日 更新履歴 2025年5月21日 「Windowsで利用しているスクリーン・リーダーの数」の集計結果の表およびグラフ直後のコメントが誤っていたものを修正しました。 修正前：Windows用のスクリーン・リーダーを利用している210名のうち、128名（60.95パーセント）が複数のスクリーン・リーダーを併用していることが分かりました。 修正後：Windows用のスクリーン・リーダーを利用している199名のうち、137名（68.
jbict.net
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #japan

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Paweł Masarczyk

@jakobrosin Some time ago I was exploring the different advent calendars on accessibility and web design that @aardrian keeps recommending each year and there was the Japanese one - interesting resource by the way. Anyway, the JBICT network was referenced there and I followed the link and that's how I found their podcast which mostly posts interviews with exhibitors at the annual show of blindness products in Tokyo. I subscribed and transcribed some of that with Whisper which is how I got the rough idea of the products like Braillememo. They posted an episode on the results of the survey last week and had a link in the show notes - I need to take a peek into the episode itself as it might provide more context. The Raku phone is something I learnt from somebody I met through the ICC camp when I was researching the accessibility of I-Mode.
@Adrian Roselli @Jakob Rosin
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Paweł Masarczyk

@miki @jakobrosin I guess you could have some degree of difference in one country or the other if, for instance, someone developed a suite of self-voiced apps that a lot of people have come to use over the years, or some other factor that affects the general usage pattern. I guess this would have been more of a wild ride in the 80's/90's where each country had three local screen readers for Dos and one or two odd hardware synths plus Apollo. Czech Republic is my favorite example of this - a dos-based notetaker with dialup support at the beginning of the 90's, the biggest blindness organisation hosts its own BBS, accessible public transit schedules on Dos, a Symbian app to support two or three blindness libraries by 2007...
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Jakob Rosin

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In the end we decided on *not* a #curl security issue, but it's not an easy one to make:

hackerone.com/reports/3373640


curl disclosed on HackerOne: OpenSSL backend: X509 peer certificate...

## Summary: In curl’s OpenSSL backend, `ossl_get_channel_binding` retains a new reference to the server’s X509 certificate via `SSL_get1_peer_certificate` and never releases it. When Negotiate...
HackerOne
#curl

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Avis non-sollicité d'une personne noire sur le débat Bluesky VS Mastodon

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Israel, Palestine

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#israel #palestine #Gaza

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#a11y #Accessibility #AI #coding #coq #codex

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Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Mother of all Demos" as applied to Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo? Wikipedia doesn't say; it only mentions that the name was retroactive. I'm guessing the origin is Steven Levy's 1994 book _Insanely Great_. Rationale: Other authors write things like "known as" or "so-called" when mentioning that phrase, but Levy simply said "It was the mother of all demos." (I don't know about capitalization as I pulled that quote from the audiobook.)

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The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer!

Help scale & secure the systems that power Rust & support its global community.

If you’re passionate about open source & infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.
Learn more and apply here by Oct 26: app.beapplied.com/apply/wus8sn…

The Rust Foundation is Hiring! Rust Infrastructure Engineer: Collaborate with the Rust community and Foundation team to sustain and grow the programming language as our new Rust Infrastructure Engineer. The person in this role will help shape infrastructure, improve systems, and keep Rust secure for developers everywhere. bit.ly/RF-infra-engineer

Rust Infrastructure Engineer

The Rust Foundation was formed in 2021 as an independent, non-profit organization to serve as a steward of the Rust programming language and its users, maintainers, and enterprise advocates.
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