Good news! It's getting harder to keep track of new #chatmail relays :)

Recently several public relays were added to the chatmail.at/relays list, in Warsaw, Helsinki, Romania and Barcelona.🧡

If you have #deltachat installed on mobile, you can go to any chatmail relay website in the list and click on a link there to create a chat profile.

It's wonderful to hear about collectives setting up chat infrastructure like the recent xat.fedi.cat from @fedicat and @eXOfasia

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@pertho I have a public Chatmail server and people I don't know have made accounts on it. I also have another running in South Africa under the domain e2ee.wang

When multi-transport is finished basically everyone's public Chatmail server will be routing messages for anyone who needs it. I've also brought up the possibility of using LoRa or Meshtastic type radios connected to the server to allow people under censorship situations or during internet outages to still be able to route low bandwidth messages to another Chatmail server which can then forward it on and deliver to the intended recipient.

@Tom

Lawsuit alleges games gathering children’s personal data

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/qu…

If only there was a federal Government that could put forth some privacy legislation to protect Canadians. But I guess the industry lobby doesn't want it.

#cdnpoli

If only the #CAQ was concerned about such things, eh. Nah, let's have more wars against fabric and jewellry.

Lawsuit filed in Québec and targets more than 40 gaming companies, including Gameloft, Bandai, Nintendo, Microsoft, Ubisoft, etc. ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/qu… #gaming #children #privacy #personaldata #polQC #QCpoli #CAQASTROPHE

Idea that just popped into my head: A cloud storage service or application which transparently makes use of lossless compression, potentially offloaded at least partially to the user's machine, and only bills you for the space taken up by the compressed file, while leaving all files uncompressed on the user's own file system. If compression and decompression take place at the client end, this reduces bandwidth. Obviously compressed data like zip files, and anything already using lossy compression like mp3s, is passed through unchanged. Known good compression algorithms and lossless transforms are used for certain kinds of data, E.G. WavPack for wav and some AIFF files, or flac if it can give bit-exact copies of every chunk, BMP automatically converted to/from PNG, etc. Something like brotli or zstandard for the rest, potentially with user-specific dictionaries which build up over time with their file history. For some users, it has no benefit at all as they're likely to already be handling compressed files, JPEGs, MPEG4 videos etc, but for others, it provides primarily a method of convenience, they don't have to manually get all these tools involved to maximize their storage potential with certain files, and they don't have to constantly convert back and forth with a copy elsewhere if they need to, say, actually work with the raw wav file for whatever reason.

Mastodon is quite silly. It almost looks to me like looking at a trunk line of conversations. Or perhaps a trunk radio system. There is little to no flow to anything, parts and snips of conversation are everywhere, and a lot of things are unrelatable, even with the fetch all replies feature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Not to mention the annoyance of having to open each thread to check what's available, every, single, time...
And even when it appears to be working, and you've opened the thread, and you're seeing replies, you're still left scratching your head, well did it really fetch everything? Is there more to the story?
However, the Mastodon project sure is actively and vibrantly being maintained and enhanced, so I am hoping threading becomes a greater focus and increased reliability comes in the near future.
#AmusedAnnoyedRamblings #Mastodon
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“Look. What do you see?”

“Nothing.”

“Billions of atoms, spinning at random, expending energy, running down, achieving nothing.

“Entropy, like the stars. But what is the one thing that stands against entropy, against random decay? Life. See how the atoms are arranged here? They have meaning, purpose.”

— Skagra and Romana, in “Shada”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

Toronto friends: The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live audio description
The Disability Collective presents!
Let's do the time warp again! Back by popular demand, don't miss a screening of the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring audio description by JJ Hunt, and an all-Deaf shadow cast at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre on October 28th and 29th at 8 pm! Come sing, dance, and sign along to kick off your Halloween!
Damnit, Janet! Let's make Halloween accessible!
You can visit this link for pay what you can tickets, and or email Ali Hand ali@thedisabilitycollective.com to reserve an audio description device or for further support.
showpass.com/the-rocky-horror-…

I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #Drupal community

A New Era of Digital #Accessibility: The #EAA and its Implications for Drupal drupal.org/association/blog/a-…

/c @drupalassoc

If you want to understand how untenable, radically new, and ridiculous the anti-trans idea of gender is, just consider Laker Jackson. He's an eighth grader in Arizona that is no longer allowed to participate in sports with his peers or use the boys facilities, despite having done so his entire life up until now without issue. He's a kid just trying to play sports with his friends and pee in peace.

He's also not trans.

Laker is a cis boy, but his birth certificate listed his assigned gender at birth as female. Because of anti-trans laws, his family can't correct the problem. Literally just a clerical error is all it takes for the government to decide, against all reason, that Laker is a boy.

Congratulations, the government now gets to decide your gender. That's a new power that the far right has decided the government should have over the past few years.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* PrivacyFlip: automatically manages your device's privacy features based on screen lock/unlock state 🛡️

1 #Magisk module was added to apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

* ReZygisk: standalone implementation of Zygisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.

The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.

apnews.com/article/trump-white…

TotalEnergies faces key ruling in Paris over claims of greenwashing

rfi.fr/en/france/20251023-tota…

Meanwhile the idiots in Ottawa believe carbon capture is the future. Liek the tooth fairy or santa claus I guess.

#cdnpoli

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Guilty with a slap on the wrist

French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing trial

france24.com/en/business/20251…

Must pay €8000 to each of the three NGO plaintiff and €15000 in legal fees.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

🔗 404media.co/how-to-disable-met…

I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.

Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.

If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.

#DeltaChat #ChatMail #SelfHosted #HomeLab

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I deploy mine with a Chef cookbook I maintain that is in sync with the official deployment tool. (actually it's slightly behind right now, I need to update a couple minor things but it's not important). Mostly because mine is ready to do DNS certificate validation, and it's significantly faster to install/deploy.

Additionally I have my server setup to auto update and reboot Debian as needed, so it's 100% hands off. It just runs. It reboots for maintenance and I never know anything happened (unless I look at my cron emails)

github.com/feld/chatmail-cookb…

really fast install demo: video.infosec.exchange/w/o9byi…