Dulon Von Paradis Project: blog post 3, Now that I’ve started writing about music I can’t stop. My Canada Counsel grant is allowing me to dive into one of my very favourite pools, and the water’s fine! In reading the first half of Friedrich Dulon’s autobiography I’ve been most moved by his accounts of playing music with others, not for performance or money, but for the joy of it. Busking is primarily about money it’s true, but it’s not stage performance, and it’s definitely not glamorous, two of the many reasons I love it so. Here’s what happened to me while playing at my favourite station, Queen’s Park, this week. patreon.com/posts/dulon-von-bl…
A lost recording of a Pavarotti concert in a Welsh village is released.
The Decca label celebrates the late tenor’s 90th birthday with the out-of-print archives of the Llangollen Competition, which he won in 1955 as a member of an amateur choir.
‘The Lost Concert’ also includes the first two recordings of Pavarotti’s career.
The Decca label celebrates the late tenor’s 90th birthday with the out-of-print archives of the Llangollen Competition, which he won in 1955 as a member of an amateur choir. ‘The …
Several episodes into Earth Sound, thanks to deborahh@cosocial.ca for the brilliant recommendations, a decades old mystery was solved for me. Back when I used to camp, and spend a lot more time in nature, there was this intermittent sound, a beat that started slow, and got faster. It was of such resonance that you could feel it in your chest and in the ground. It’s a ruffed Grouse, and you have to be exactly in its line of sound, and if you’re a female ruffed grouse I guess you get pretty horney. For so many years I wonderd, a bever, some huge mutant scunk about to spoil my year? Now I know. This audio rendering isn’t great, but if you’ve ever heard it and wondered, now you’ll know too
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/lifeoflukeI stalked this Ruffed Grouse with my camera to capture his "drumming" display. The low WHUP-WHUP-WHUP sound of its wings b...
For those who used all three of Whatsapp, Signal and Delta Chat in multi-device mode:
Which messenger provides the best multi-device setup and handling for users (UX)?
(question spans setting up a second/linked device, as well as migrating to new device, as well as quality of multi-device synchronizing/bugfree-ness -- all subjectively weighted by each voter according to their subjective experiences)
Delta Chat is pretty close to Signal, but I find it easier on Signal to see which devices I have paired. Not sure if that is a thing on Delta Chat, as I'm sort of new to it.
no, not really because there isn't a central server keeping track of your devices. There are thoughts about this situation and how to provide a similar experience though.
ah -- we should have said that we were only looking at end-to-end encrypted messengers. Telegram is a fancy and fast clear-text central database viewer, not a private messenger. It has good messenger UX, and provides messaging, and naturally has a lot less problems with showing everything with just a login to their central database. so pretty easy for multi-device.
@rakoo at least Signal and WhatsApp don't even have proper multi device support. They have "primary device" that must connect to central server regularly or other devices stop functioning. IDK about Delta Chat, I hope it does better job.
honestamente, se me hizo fácil con Whatsapp usar la versión de escritorio, incluso web. Con DeltaChat tuve un inconveniente, pero me pareció mejor y baatante más seguro, la opción de cargar el código QR desde una imagen.
The multidevice. Delta experience is great except for the moments when you turn on your computer, and if delta notifs are on, past messages will all come streaming in one after the other as the device syncs, creating a stream of unnecessary notifs. I have not experienced this on the other apps
there is some work happening in this area. A notification debounce was added recently and I have been thinking about this too.
The clients should know the latest message timestamp and what the current time is, and if they diverge a lot notifications should be suppressed as it's clearly backfilling and these are not new messages that need to generate notification events
@fu I know that there is no all-platforms app for #XMPP, but I don't see that as a disadvantage. Every app that you are used to use is 'good'. My personal setup is #Conversations on my Android machines and #Gajim on Linux and Windows. For iOS (I don't use Apple devices, though) I recommend #Monal, which I see as the most advanced app for XMPP on Apple. On Linux, #Dino is very promising, and I might switch in the future
Deltachat’s QR code is hard to scan with non-premium laptop cameras from a modern premium phone. It took me ages … One aspect might be that the screen size isn’t fully utilized on the phone?
@goetz large display maybe, but also there are better qr-code scanning libraries/activities. It's possible to improve but low prio because setup-second device is a relatively rare event, and a bit of a first-world problem. (>90% of onboarders are single-device according to some rough statistics)
…regarding UX: i really hope you will improve iOS support. Some missing basic features in Delta like “mark as read" on Apple Watch and Focus Mode support, made me return to Signal for now…
Ich nutze Signal problemlos auf vier Geräten (iPhone, iPad, MacBook und DOS-Rechner, Delta Chat habe ich installiert, nutze ich aber nicht. WhatsApp habe ich seit vier Jahren nicht mehr und ansonsten noch Threema auf iPad und iPhone. Signal ist am unkompliziertesten.
DC is easily my favorite UX of these 3 because any device can be the primary - needing to create accounts on Whatsapp and Signal with a phone and tie a phone number to the account before creating a quite awkward secondary on a computer is, especially after that WA data leak, pretty unfortunate.
other folks have mentioned some Matrix and XMPP clients, and while I understand why DC does everything with QR codes to mitigate MITM attacks, it does make that standard workflow of scanning a QR code off a phone into the computer a pain in the neck. Matrix's approach to a username/password and then key syncing via emoji checking is really universal and slick.
@Delta Chat it used to be signal of the three but they've made that more difficult particularly when using with two different phones with their own phone number. For most this probably isn't a normal use case but those off is with separate work and personal devices who prefer to have the same conversations available on both phones that sucks.
Of the OTHER options I have had best experience with XMPP based apps like CONVERSATIONS.
I more-or-less gave up on Delta chat because I couldn't get multiple devices working right between my personal Android phone and work Windows laptop.
is it possible your work Windows laptop was locked down and couldn't talk to devices on the local network unless it was an approved company network or a VPN?
@feld that wasn't the case at the time, though years later security requirements have changed to the point it wouldn't even be possible for me to test this. Since I spend like 12 hours a day on my work laptop, more often doing personal stuff then work stuff, not having that option makes it even less likely I'll actually use DeltaChat. I'm really wish I could use a webclient for delta chat. (And no, using my regular webmail client doesn't count).
@delta there is a web client proof of concept but it's not being actively pursued at the moment
would you be willing to message me directly to try to get to the bottom of this? If we can identify the root cause we may be able to prioritize the fix
As of now telegram is doing a better job than Delta in case of setting up a desktop device. Showing a qr code from a mobile device to a laptop camera is a bit weird and clunky. Let alone you need to have a web cam on your desktop device which is not always the case.
Signal is a nightmare, not because the steps are complicated, but because the transfer almost always failed for me. WhatsApp is kinda painless, apart of the phone number thing. Deltachat was pretty straight forward. Well done!
I think XMPP is the best since it uses one key pair for end-to-end encryption per device. Delta Chat uses one key pair across all devices, which may be a security risk.
Darkness WithinBy: whimsical musings 1 On the fateful night when Ron and Hermione were abducted, the wheels of destiny began to turn. For Harry, the kidnapping of his friends shattered the illusion that the light side could protect those he loved. An ultimatum was presented, and a decision was made. Now, Harry stands at a crossroads: Can he protect those he loves without losing himself in the process? fanfiction.net/s/14368837/1/Da…
The Darkness WithinBy: Kurinoone What if Wormtail hadn't told Lord Voldemort the Potters hideout. What if he took Harry straight to him instead? A Dark Harry fanfic. AU Mild HG fanfiction.net/s/2913149/1/The…
Visto lo visto, creo que conviene, para quien no lo haya hecho, recalibrar un poco el tema de independencia judicial, separación de poderes, y estado de derecho.
Los jueces son el poder del Estado que tiene menos legitimidad democrática (prácticamente ninguna), menos control, menos transparencia, etc.
A lo mejor hay que plantearse que la función de resolución de conflictos de la judicatura no puede o deber convertirse en un obstáculo para la democracia.
La Fiscalía de #Portugal🇵🇹 reconoce que, como indicaba esta mañana el 'Diário de Notícias', hay escuchas al exprimer ministro António Costa relacionadas con el caso que acabó con su dimisión que no fueron incorporadas a la causa judicial. El 'DN' hablaba de 22, la Fiscalía admite siete #justicia #política #noticias rtp.pt/noticias/pais/pgr-admit…
A Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) reconhece que foram identificadas sete escutas em que o ex-primeiro-ministro era interveniente e que não foram comunicadas ao Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) "por razões técnicas diversas".
TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'🤦♂️
It’s Friday, which obviously means today is the day to push all your untested vibecode to prod before the weekend, but remember that (at least for those of us in the US), next week is a short week presenting one of the best opportunities for code pushes. 🦃🍂🍃🍁
This text would make an excellent made-up computer screen for some "cyberhacking" scene in a cheap CSI-style crimi-series. Lots of serious and technical sounding nonsense. :)
What I don’t understand is why they bother to do this. Is there some bug bounty they’re trying to get? I mean why submit AI slop unless it’s going to profit the submitter in some way?
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
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I can't state any more strongly of how much I love Libre Office. You helped me get my MSC you clever piece of open source software. Thank you all at @libreoffice
I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines
putting the sociopathic billionaires to one side for a moment, there are lots of smaller tech leaders who *are* in fact congruent with the kinder, gentler stereotype from the aughts of really smart, clever people who think fast and talk fast and try to make a "win-win" scenario out of their business
the problem is, this kind of person, who is exemplified by a lot of mozilla leadership, has to have a particular orientation towards leadership and problem solving. tech filters aggressively for time-to-market, which means it filters for leaders who are comfortable making confident decisions under uncertainty
this means that good leaders develop a way to kind of vibe out a technology, to quickly develop a partial understanding based on several carefully-chosen data points. even at the best of times, they become overconfident in their facility with this skill, because they are disproportionately rewarded for it. but also a lot of them *do* have a track record of trying out emerging tech and developing a sufficient model of it by intelligently interpolating between the features they can quickly test
LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money (and maybe fraud?) driving a subprime-bubble type mania. They infer from the plausibility of its outputs, which are absolutely fucked because the job of these models is to produce plausible outputs.
lest we feel superior in *our* ability to clock LLM garbage, this disaster among elites is a microcosm of something even worse that LLMs and their sister technologies of shitcoins and spambots are harbingers of: we *all* have heuristics that we need to use to make sense of the world, and heuristics work because of an implicit presumption of good faith in many interactions. most presumptions can be hacked if some significant plurality of actors in a system are always seeking maximum advantage
Huh what? So now it's no longer one time purchase for features, I have to subscribe? IIRC I have Mona pro, I got the features, no idea how much it was back then but it was fine. But no way I'm subscribing just to use features of such an app. One time purchase, or even pay for big upgrades, fine. But USD per month to, browse Mastodon? Thanks that I'm on Android at this point and Pachli is free and OSS.
Už jsem tady psal o tomhle klenotu ve vedlejším městě přes který každý den jezdím do Londýna. Napadla mě ještě jedna zajímavost. Jak vidíte, té to vlastně jeden velký kruhový objezd vytvořený pěti malými kruháči. Ale všimli jste si, že ačkoli ty krajní, malé objezdy jsou tradiční a jezdí se po směru hodinových ručiček, ten vnitřní je opačně - proti směru 😁 Už se vám točí šošolka?
@archos no ono se tu evidentně zobalo už za sověta. Tohle je Väike-Õismäe sídliště aby se člověk dostal z jedné strany ma druhou tak člověk musí objet půlku kruhu co ma okolo 5 kilometru.
Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:
I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.
I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.
I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.
I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.
I'm a gamer: Bazzite.
I'm a Mac: Elementary.
I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.
I think rms made some good points: Debian.
I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.
Some criticism of people using AI is just mean. Just saw a post that said:
> Instead of using AI images to illustrate your blogpost or presentation, why not go deep into the forest, lie down in a pile of autumn leaves and allow the earth to consume your body
Seriously? You know, not everyone is as immersed in all of the things that are wrong with AI as we are. Some people are just trying to get by in the system of incentives that they didn't create.
People just hate because something that took them 15 years to figure out is now doable by the press of a button in mere minutes. I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it? As long as you fact check your research and test things that you're having it code, why not?
@threlm4280 Yes, there are probably people who hate AI for the reason you described. I want to push back on this point though:
> I don't get it. Its literally convenience why not use it?
There are in fact better criticisms of current AI products. They're trained on basically all of the work of all humanity (or as much as the AI companies could get their hands on), without the consent of the people who did the work, for the explicit purpose of replacing labor. Worth thinking about.
I suppose there is validity in that. I don't think about it too much though because stealing the work of others has been a thing for ages even before AI came along to the stage. So to me, that's just finding a reason to criticise for the sake of it. Using the work of others in a modified fassion is not even remotely new.
You know what, I'm just gonna say it. Some people with depression or other issues, if they get enough of those kinds of comments, might just take them seriously.
"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."
This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.
ORIGINAL:
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
The #chatmail #rust core is the base infrastructure library used by all apps and bots. It contains all networking, encryption, email processing and implements all the relevant IETF email standards. It's a single central development place with which the whole ecosystem of clients and bots can upgrade consistently.
We are constantly trying to remove code, and to cleanup things. That's a must to keep a 8-year long evolved code base agile and adaptable. Key insight: The best code is no code ;)
two other things that can't be stressed enough for maintaining development long-term:
- Avoid superflous abstractions. Premature abstractions are the root of all ... complexity. If you have a second and third case, you can introduce an abstraction, but even then: don't over-abstract!
- write tests for everything, especially for the API that you want to guarantee to others. The chatmail core library just passed 1000 automated tests. The users of your API, and their users will thank you.
- Write tests with servers together with environment you roll 'em out. Id est, testing configs. - If your test suites don't run locally on dev machine (vms and illusion of networks - can do in 2025), if you need any cloud to test, you are not done.
But when your abstraction splits out part of the system, allowing richer life to it, while simplifying the rest, then entertain it. Example, past delta's post talked about goodness and richness that little apps bring, versus monolith-style addition of features in signal, recent announcements. This is a good abstraction, even though many would've walked from it. Food for thought. Short haiku/koan doesn't replace wisdom and elaboration, it only highlights it.
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in reply to Emory • • •there is some work happening in this area. A notification debounce was added recently and I have been thinking about this too.
The clients should know the latest message timestamp and what the current time is, and if they diverge a lot notifications should be suppressed as it's clearly backfilling and these are not new messages that need to generate notification events
n-gons
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in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •My personal setup is #Conversations on my Android machines and #Gajim on Linux and Windows. For iOS (I don't use Apple devices, though) I recommend #Monal, which I see as the most advanced app for XMPP on Apple. On Linux, #Dino is very promising, and I might switch in the future
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in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •DC is easily my favorite UX of these 3 because any device can be the primary - needing to create accounts on Whatsapp and Signal with a phone and tie a phone number to the account before creating a quite awkward secondary on a computer is, especially after that WA data leak, pretty unfortunate.
other folks have mentioned some Matrix and XMPP clients, and while I understand why DC does everything with QR codes to mitigate MITM attacks, it does make that standard workflow of scanning a QR code off a phone into the computer a pain in the neck. Matrix's approach to a username/password and then key syncing via emoji checking is really universal and slick.
Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist)
in reply to Delta Chat (39c3) • • •@Delta Chat it used to be signal of the three but they've made that more difficult particularly when using with two different phones with their own phone number. For most this probably isn't a normal use case but those off is with separate work and personal devices who prefer to have the same conversations available on both phones that sucks.
Of the OTHER options I have had best experience with XMPP based apps like CONVERSATIONS.
I more-or-less gave up on Delta chat because I couldn't get multiple devices working right between my personal Android phone and work Windows laptop.
feld
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in reply to Ji Fu (Domestic Terrorist) • • •@delta there is a web client proof of concept but it's not being actively pursued at the moment
would you be willing to message me directly to try to get to the bottom of this? If we can identify the root cause we may be able to prioritize the fix
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in reply to zaire arcana • • •@zaire to clarify if someone is reading that out of context:
Delta Chat's multiple devices can be in different networks, and can be indepenently offline
only on setup, existing and to-be-set-up devices needs to be in the same network (which also has some security advantages)
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in reply to bjoern • • •> only on setup, existing and to-be-set-up devices needs to be in the same network (which also has some security advantages)
👋relay op here. i'm working on a way to negate the need being on the same vlan/lan segment. stay tuned.
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