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We were surprised to hear today that Forbes.ru (a subsidiary of the global Forbes brand it seems) recently published an article quoting an expert recommending to use #deltachat on the backdrop of restrictions of Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord and Viber in Russian networks.

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Не гасите ваши экраны: чем заменить Telegram и WhatsApp

На фоне учащающейся недоступности самых популярных у россиян мессенджеров Forbes опросил экспертов, чем их можно заменить. Они советуют использовать мессенджеры, поддерживающие сквозное шифрование и децентрализованное хранение данных. А также установ
Анастасия Гаврилюк (Forbes.ru)
#deltachat

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feld

DeltaChat *can* be used with mail servers that are government surveilled, but that is not at all the default path that users are exposed to.

Chatmail servers are run by volunteers across the world and even if one was run by a malicious admin they still couldn't learn anything useful about you except your IP address you used to send the message and a recipient address that could be on another server somewhere else on the planet they can't surveil

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DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri

Its very much a durability thing, they last MUCH longer, and ontop of that, it looks like they are on their own daughterboard too which I think MIGHT ™️ make them more user repairable if they chose to sell replacements!

Thumbsticks are like the #1 thing to go on the controllers, I am on my 4th or 5th set of index controllers, all because of broken joysticks, all of them! ​:nkoRee:​

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“Allowing himself to be captured by the Sontarans — if anything happens to myself as a result of it, I will never forgive himself.”

“I do wish you'd stop switching personal pronouns.”

— The Doctor and Peri, in “The Two Doctors”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

#doctorwho #quote #quotation

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Fiona Bianchi

I had to use Big Query a few years ago, IIRC there are multiple sections to the screen but it is essentially the same as any SQL tool - queries, results, error panes and similar. That's the web interface though, also IIRC we mainly used sbt which is a command line tool for building up that queries. There are some complexities there with versions and other stuff I frankly didn't understand but the bottom line is that you can use that or other tools so you are only dealing with a terminal, would this make it easier for a screen reader?
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Phantasm

Search with the @-URL is half-broken. Maybe try replacing it with /users/<user>/statuses/<post number>. There's something wrong in Pleroma where it deletes the slash before the @, but it should then try to fetch using the expanded URL.

I can fetch the post no problem using both links. Maybe time to check logs :/
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At this point if you have no kids and no real health issues you should just opt out of the health insurance system in the USA.

Join us. Don't be afraid. They still have to treat you in the ER. You can negotiate hospital bills down significantly when no insurance scam is involved.

We can break the system so there is no other option but a full reform.

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feld

@RandomDamage I paid over $80,000 in premiums (still with a huge deductible!) between 2017-2024 for absolutely fucking nothing when that money could have been invested. I got the best deal I could possibly get being self employed by getting a group plan for my 2-member (me and wife) LLC which most people don't know you can do

Even just having that $80k in a bank account would be better than relying on insurance for almost all medical incidents, especially because they STILL demand more money from you regardless

@Random Damage 🌻

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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

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Ja mega. Mal wieder ein und halb Stunden meines Nachmittags damit verbracht, mich darum zu kümmern, dass meine Berufsschulmaterialien barrierefreier werden. Weil ich sonst kein Leben hab, ne?
Ja, schlechte Barrierefreiheit gibt's wie Sand am Meer. Ich hab auch ehrlich gesagt nicht mehr Worte. Ich bin einfach enttäuscht davon, dass sich nichts geändert hat. Und ich hoffe, es läuft nicht wieder darauf hinaus, dass ich das Problem bin und die Problematik mit jedem Lehrer einzeln auslöffeln darf. Weiß was ich schon, es macht mich traurig und es macht mir Sorgen. Kann's doch echt nicht sein, oder?
#Barrierefreiheit #Schule
#barrierefreiheit #schule

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Panic button update:

Data layer designs are done, so I figured I’d jettison a few sanity points and let the internet try naming it.

In case you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, here’s the idea.

Blind / VI user struggles to use website or app because accessibility sucks. They hit a button that lets them report the product as inaccessible, and why. Other users can search for up to date accessibility info, and get an early warning if the try using something that’s clearly broken for their setup

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PhillyFan

One of my first jobs was in a support role for a technology company and I never understood why a company would want to outsource customer care. From my experience, customers would often contact us with a simple question, but the easy answer wasn't going to get to the root cause of their problem. As a human, we could interact with them to quickly understand what they were trying to accomplish and propose alternative solutions based on our knowlege and experience. 1/

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So will der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt Besucher gegen Terror und Amok schützen swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…

#freiburg #FreiburgImBreisgau


So will der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt Besucher gegen Terror und Amok schützen

Am Donnerstag, den 20. November, startet der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt. Eine Neuerung im Sicherheitskonzept soll vor Terror- und Amokfahrten schützen.
SWR Aktuell
#freiburg #FreiburgImBreisgau

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The #OpenPGP ecosystem is moving forward with new certificate formats from RFC 9580, as well as upcoming #PQC support via datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

We are working towards support for these modern certificate types on keys.openpgp.org

For this, we need to overhaul and extend our user-facing workflows, as well as the API that KOO exposes. The KOO board has decided to move forward based on the HKPv2 protocol:

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

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Post-Quantum Cryptography in OpenPGP

This document defines a post-quantum public-key algorithm extension for the OpenPGP protocol. Given the generally assumed threat of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, this extension provides a basis for long-term secure OpenPGP signatures…
IETF Datatracker
#openpgp #PQC

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Nextcloud will invest 250 million euros until 2030 in sovereign Open Source solutions and we expand our channel partner program. Interesting times ahead.
nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-c…

Nextcloud and its community take the lead in making sovereignty available for everyone - Nextcloud

Discover how Nextcloud will grow the digital sovereignty movement, investing in people, open source, and community.
Christoph Weissthaner (Nextcloud)

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Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.

toot.cat/@pup_hime/11553196384…

reki singular point (@pup_hime@toot.cat)

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
reki singular point (Toot.Cat)

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# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-l…

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown


Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer

neilzone.co.uk
#linux #foss #libreoffice #git #vim #markdown #lawfedi
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LibreOffice

@christianschwaegerl @hzulla Why would you say this is a "1990s" design, when office suites didn't have tabbed interfaces in the 1990s? Also, saying we "don't care" is really unfair to the hard-working volunteers who do so much to give the whole world a free office suite. They do all they can, with extremely limited resources, in their spare time, and then people on social media say they "don't care". Very demoralising for them.
@Christian Schwägerl @Hanno Zulla
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DigitalStefan

@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla when someone offers feedback about your UI they aren’t under any obligation to cite exact reasons for their dislike nor are they required to be accurate in their comparison.

The message is they don’t like it and they don’t feel it is modern. It is enough of a concern for them that they avoid using the software.

I’m not saying I agree or that you should do anything about it, but your…

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LibreOffice

@christianschwaegerl @whatevs Well first, would you like to retract your statement that the hard-working LibreOffice volunteers "don't care"? Maybe join the Design team calls and see what they're working on, or read their minutes: listarchives.libreoffice.org/g… – Does that look like people who "don't care"? There is a lot of work going on, from volunteers in their spare time, who get hugely demoralised by such flippant remarks. Why not contribute back and help them, or fund someone?

[libreoffice-design] Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2025-Nov-05 – The Document Foundation Mailing List Archives

listarchives.libreoffice.org
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Bern

@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Personally I find the LibreOffice interface refreshingly functional, after the persistent nightmare that is ribbon interfaces. ("Why use one click when you can force users to do it in three?")

FWIW, my 15yo much prefers it, too, so it's not just "what I was used to in the 90s" (or "before Office 2007 made everyone re-learn how to use MS Office from scratch", as the case may be).

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Femme Malheureuse

@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Imagine choosing not to use a screwdriver or hammer because they don't look different than they did when last used a decade or more ago.

LibreOffice works. It has worked. It's what Microsoft has feared for two decades even if it doesn't have a glossy corporate-funded 2025 appearance.

Bonus: Libre Office isn't going to steal users' IP to train its LLM.

/choir-preaching

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dandels

@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla I grew up with the 90's Windows UI and have formative memories of using MS Office as a schoolkid in the early 2000's. A few years later the ribbon UI appeared, making me not find anything, while Windows has lost all semblance of the visual clarity it had in those days - I know enough about computers to have forgotten more than most will ever learn, yet I'm also blind to Windows 11's new context menu's copy/cut/paste icons.

LibreOffice intuitively works "the way office suites have worked all my life". I'm glad that when I need it, it hasn't gone and changed to follow some new (or resurgent old) design trend.

Careless redesign doesn't work for Windows, it doesn't work for MacOS, and it certainly doesn't work for for underfunded FOSS productivity tools used by millions of people daily. Change can be good and necessary, and I certainly tend to resist it at first, but change also needs a good justification. Constancy and stability over time is one of the best features for a tool to have.

And if you read this far, thank you so much for your work.

@LibreOffice @Christian Schwägerl @Hanno Zulla
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jïjse

Seems like it was Andrew Johnson, or akj.

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Fix screen reader accessibility in torrent list by akj · Pull Request #23359 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent

Link to Issue Closes #20393 Description Navigating the torrent list with arrow keys did not announce selection changes to screen readers. Development Approach Call QTreeView::currentChanged() to en...
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Canceled my accessibility meeting today because, I’m just really not in the mood to put pants on, and explain to a marketing executive that, no actually, your dog shit accessibility toolbar solution doesn’t work and here is 90 reasons why. They tried to follow up and say, it’s only just a few pages, bullshit. but I just really don’t have the patience and I looked at their website, which was designed using Shopify, and they need a new theme but they don’t want to install the accessible theme I pointed them to. They said, but we really need someone to review our website for accessibility, and I can’t express how much I hate doing work like this. Makes me want to retire from freelancing early because this is ridiculous. I’ve seen their website. It’s a giant e-commerce website with over 300 links, and they use AccessiBe. I’m perfectly happy in my nice warm bed, writing a romance scene where a protagonist and a love interest share a cookie together. #Rant
#rant
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