Hey @delta! Reading this delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows⊠got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chromeâs one-click âInstall PWA as appâ. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? đđ»
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, weâll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...
there is also a tauri version, we will publish the blogpost about that somewhere in the future. github.com/deltachat/deltachat⊠Also this browser version is not standalone, it still requires one server instance per user that runs deltachat/chatmail core. Ideally it would be just a PWA, but for that #chatmail core needs to be compiled to, and work in wasm: support.delta.chat/t/what-woulâŠ
A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at allâit's mass surveillance. Hereâs a guide to what all those terms mean: eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/age-âŠ
If you've been following the wave of age-gating laws sweeping across the country and the globe, you've probably noticed that lawmakers, tech companies, and advocates all seem to be using different terms for what sounds like the same thing.
Excited about going to my first @w3c #TPAC in Kobe Japan. I will be co-hosting a breakout group on Web Sustainability Guidelines #WSG â November 12th, 08:30 JST w3.org/events/meetings/f7fcc7eâŠ
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Happy Halloween! Need a scary game? How about a hindsight horror tale of a looming Y2K apocalypse ruled over by digital eldritch gods?
The Shadow Over Cyberspace is a full-length visual novel for free. No ads, no MTX, we just gave it away because why not. fictionfactorygames.com/cybersâŠ
So a blind person from around town that only calls me for tech support is having jaws issues. In any word document she opens, jaws reads the word space marker instead of regular space and some kind of formatting info appears on her braille display. Line/paragraph info is turned off in quick settings. I have no clue what is going on.
It's show or hide non-printable characters. Those includes space markers, paragraph markers, new line markers. For example, we can clearly see on the Braille display that there are two or three spaces in a row, but for sighted people it's tougher, especially due to font and paragraph formatting difference.
I am looking forward to going to the @w3c 's #TPAC in Kobe Japan. I will be hosting a breakout group on #ARRM â Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping â November 12th, 16:15 JST w3.org/events/meetings/76eeff8âŠ
We also just reposted his invitation to a Puerto Rico group, because we think the way this group is instigated is exactly right: ask for people to drop into a DM, or like with the borken.social Fediverse instance: show an invite link only for authenticated users đŻ
Non-public invites maintain some privacy and sense of joiners and brings e2ee messaging to instance communities.
Fun with Robots. Had a tech support chat with Dell to triage a failed Alienware PC. I kept posting the transcript in ChatGPT so the robots could tell me what tech support was going to ask next so I could perform the task before they asked.
"A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from suspending all food aid for millions of Americans amid the ongoing government shutdown and directed it to use contingency funds to pay for the benefits."
Arduino Rap? "MIDI-triggered robots strike and vibrate glass bottles, coffee mugs, plastic wrap and a pizza box to make futuristic music out of the present's refuse and rubbish." clipping., the only hip hop group to win a Hugo. Tiny Desk concert.
ZĂtra nĂĄm drĆŸte palce. ÄekĂĄ nĂĄs prvnĂ velkĂĄ streamovacĂ akce. Ve spoluprĂĄci s @openalt budeme streamovat pĆednĂĄĆĄky ze vĆĄech 7 mĂstnostĂ konference #OpenAlt. Pokud budete mĂt Äas a nÄjakĂĄ pĆednĂĄĆĄka v programu vĂĄs zaujme, zkuste se mrknout. PĆi sledovĂĄnĂ videa jej zĂĄroveĆ sdĂlĂte s ostatnĂmi divĂĄky jako u torrentu (pokud nejste na mobilnĂm zaĆĂzenĂ) a kaĆŸdĂœ peer se tak poÄĂtĂĄ!
Here's a short video about my cloudless, portable, small, low-resource "smart thermostat". It doesn't need an internet connection and uses MQTT. Here, it's directly driving a relay. It's running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, in read-only mode. I used it for years and it's time to go back to it, cloudless and local.
I wish I could find the HN comment by the Honeywell engineer that talks about like 6 different safety features none of the open source DIY thermostats have but I cannot seem to find it anymore. Stuff like
- it needs to lock out instead of continuing to try to start the gas heat so you don't flood the house with gas if the ignition is faulty
- it needs to automatically turn on the heat no matter what if if gets too cold
- it needs a mechanical safety feature to shut itself off if the heat gets stuck on
@feld My Netatmo doesn't do all that, and neither do the other thermostats connected to the other boilers I have access to.
Fundamentally, those are things the boiler handles (if it's less than 20 years old), not the thermostat. My boiler, even though it's 10 years old, has all these internal features; it also controls the water temperature, etc.
The thermostat is just for deciding if the house is cold or not - I expect all the other controls to be handled by the burner itself.
In other words, I'm not replacing the internal thermostat (the one that regulates the flow temperature, etc.), just the room thermostat. Besides, my sensor is located very far from the boiler, which is in a separate, ventilated room.
modern thermostats have neat features like compressor short cycle prevention for ac. 40 years ago you could literally make a call for service from the unit every minute and nothing would stop you until either the high side failed or the compressor motor failed.
I removed the Nest at this place I'm renting and put in a ZWave Honeywell, thought it was defective at first because it wasn't turning on the AC but it was just a safety thing and made me wait like 15 minutes before it would turn on the compressor the first time
on an unrelated note kids these days dont remember when a wet floor or frayed Xmas light could literally send you to Jesus same day delivery or flash fry the cat and burn the damn house down.
GFCI AFCI combo outlets save lives and their inventor deserves a Nobel prize.
Oh boy, traded in my iPhone at the Apple Store, and they needed to confirm it's alive, which requires getting from the hello setup screen to the regular Home Screen, which requires ten solid minutes of skip, skip, continue, set up later, skip, not now, later, continue, continue, skip, skip.
Ya know, I could just start typing and typing and paste a huge amount of stuff in here, and no one would even notice. Those who noticed wouldn't care. Those who care don't allow themselves to be seen.
A number of the #GigEconomy companies are offering discounts to #SNAP recipients in November. While this is almost certainly a strategic, not compassionate move it does help people who canât shop for themselves and donât have anyone who will shop for them.
However, please remember that your gig worker is still being exploited and are themselves often on food assistance. Gig companies pay extremely small amounts to workers, they absolutely depend on tips to meet their own basic needs.
For example, In 2023 I was working primarily for #UberEats, doing about 60+ hours a week. I working every weekend and holiday when trips were plentiful and tips were higher. On average, I drove 100 miles per day.
It was the best year I had doing gig work and I took home $35K, before taxes, of which, only 20% was paid directly by Uber themselves.
None of the gig companies Iâve worked for reimbursed for gas, wear and tear expenses or slow hours without any orders. You didnât get sick time, there were no benefits. When someone broke into my car on Christmas while I was picking up food from a restaurant Uberâs only response was to suspend my account until I sent photos of my car having a new window.
If you can tip, please do tip, your driver is struggling too.
@feld I can't find out fedi-thread to reply to, but every since I asserted that SQL timeout you suggested, my AOX server has basically dropped to zero maintenance. It's amazing.
ICYMI, Joe Menn had a good scoop this week about how the US govt is getting set to ban TP-Link devices from being sold in the United States. If that happens, a whole lot of small businesses will probably need to find new networking gear. I have never trusted TP-Link devices and have repeatedly warned readers away from them. They have a history of flooding the market with massively underpriced hardware, and this is a market where generally speaking the cheapest means the most hackable. Here's one reply I sent to a reader in 2023 who inquired about finding what appeared to be an undocumented cloud login page.
"I realize that NYT and others constantly recommend TPLink b/c of the features vs price point, but I would stay away from this brand, and any that force you to register "in the cloud" before you can use them as local networking devices. You do not want your router to do anything except when you tell it do so, and to my mind all this cloud business being attached to network storage and local network things is troubling."
"If you are at all confident around computers, I'd recommend getting something like a high-end ASUS router and then installing an open source firmware on it, like Tomato or something. Because the default software that is on most routers is complete garbage, and often turns on a lot of stuff you really don't want turned on, or has other stupid default settings. If updating your new $160 router w/ third party firmware that could brick it if you screw it up is too much, then just stick with a Netgear router and make sure you check for firmware updates periodically."
This is pretty neat. It's common for IoT malware threats to patch infected routers, etc. so they can't be updated (with other malware or security patches).
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Elle est aujourd'hui célébrée dans de nombreux pays.
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