I donated to @thunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy. thunderbird.net/donate
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Note to @thunderbird: I hope you'll consider adding mastodon to your web page share links so one isn't forced to chop up the form email to include the correct screen name.
In my talks and discussions about the role of Open Source maintainers, I usually list a number of reasons why maintainers might quit or otherwise reduce their involvement.
"The Russian army destroyed my house" hasn't been on that list yet 😐 🇺🇦
Source: github.com/wasm3/wasm3
#OpenSource #maintainer #freesoftware #FOSS #ukraine #StandWithUkraine
🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime - GitHub - wasm3/wasm3: 🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtimeGitHub
Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...Tom Scocca (Slate)
We've got a Thunderbird for Android "Two for Tuesday!" Play two songs from your favorite band while you read our latest progress report (blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/t…). There's lots of news, updates, and community contributions to end 2023!
While we hoped to release Thunderbird for Android by now, we realized you deserve the best mobile e-mail we can give you. Read about our decision to let the newest Thunderbird take its time to hatch:
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/w…
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android
It's not a simple answer, but we'll do our best to explain why Thunderbird for Android developments is taking longer than expected.cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)
Better to take some more time to prepare a proper release – looking forward to it and kudos for keeping Thunderbird on @fdroidorg.
Still, any news about future encryption options, especially via #OpenPGP? Pretty much all #Android email clients rely on #Openkeychain to manage all your keys. Sadly it is still unmaintained and desperately needs a replacement or someone to take over development. Look at issues like this: github.com/open-keychain/open-…
#Thunderbird for Android will also rely on this unmaintained app.
Hello, Researchers discovered a vulnerability in OpenKeychain. The technical report was sent by email (security@openkeychain.org), no response. Please contact us.GitHub
🎙️ Cox Media Group's Active Listening Technology is being used to collect to your conversations and use them to push ads. 😱
CMG boasted, "This is a world where no pre-purchase murmurs go unanalyzed, and the whispers of consumers become a tool for you to target, retarget, and conquer your local market." 🎯
Don't make yourself an easy target for predatory advertising agencies, choose #privacy respecting solutions instead!🔒💪
👉 tuta.com/big-tech-alternative
#encryption #surveillance #creepy
Tuta is the secure email service, built in Germany. Use encrypted emails on all devices with our open source email client, mobile apps & desktop clients.Tutanota
»Epic-Urteil – Googles Play Store ist ein illegales Appstore-Monopol:
Nach der Niederlage gegen Apple hat Epic Games nun einen Sieg errungen: Eine Jury sieht Googles wettbewerbswiedriges Verhalten als bewiesen an«
Sicherlich mMn ein guter Entscheid, obwohl #Epic wie #Google ein monopolistischen #Unternehmen ist. Klar ist deren Kerngeschäft ein klein diferent aber doch beide #Monopolist'en. Ich nutze zufrieden @fdroidorg für #OpenSource #Android Tools zu installieren.
👆 …da ich kein #Apple nutze, ist dies an mir vorbei gegangen. Auch die müssen #Apps über andere #Zahlungen-Anbietern auf #iPhone & Co. zulassen. Spannend obwohl es um sehr viel #Geld im #Prozess von #IT-Giganten geht.
»Prozess um Zahlungsmethoden: Apple muss App-Store-Regeln entschärfen«
💾 rnd.de/wirtschaft/apple-und-ep…
Im Rechtsstreit zwischen Apple und dem Spiele-Entwickler Epic Games über die Bedingungen für eine Aufnahme von Software in den App Store ist ein Urteil gefallen.RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland
Sind da auch alle "Praktiken" abgedeckt? Zum Beispiel die akteuelle Praktik, aus anderer Quelle (z.B. von @fdroidorg) installierte Apps durch die "eigenen Varianten" zu ersetzen, und das den Leuten als "Update" zu verkaufen?
=> Wer deren Store "aus Gründen" noch parallel zu F-Droid nutzt, sollte bei Google definitiv Auto-Updates deaktivieren. Sonst muss mit unerwünschten "Werbegeschenken" gerechnet werden, und man tut Trackerfahrn.
You are watching the official HD video for "Night Boat to Cairo" by Madness.We're number 1 in the midweek album chart but Taylor Swift is right behind us, he...YouTube
Vianočný darček pre distingvovaný protest proti autokratickému Ficovi. #fuckFico
Zastavme ich spoločne, už v utorok, 19.12. na Námestí SNP v Bratislave.
edit: ja mám termosku 
Otázka znie: zbalím skôr niekoho na
a.) čaj
b.) čaj s rumom
edit: rum nemôžem aj keby som chcel, zajtra robím a musím byť top ty vole
#vtip
I am super excited about this mini-conference on #reproducibility in #linguistics that I am organising this evening: Four of my M.A. students will be reporting on their attempts to reproduce the results of four published quantitative linguistics papers for which the data is available, but not the code!
Colleagues, they have *a lot* of things to report! So, if you're in the area (Cologne), do come along! There will be #ReproducibiliTea and Christmas biscuits! 🍵 🍪 #OpenScience
"Nasse Füße"
Unbekannter Künstler, 2023. Straßenschild in Elbufer.
A new image of Uranus in near-infrared from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the planet's ring system and 9 of its 27 moons.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Source: webbtelescope.org/contents/new…
ja sa chcem!
ale zase no také ťažké to nie je len by mohli viacerý.. ja mám plán (svoj osobný, viacerým by to len prospelo)
edit: chcem sa dovzdelať to je všetko, nič za tým netreba hľadať
Refs: https://terrapin-attack.com/ https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q4/292 https://osv.dev/list?ecosystem=&q=CVE-2023-48795 GHSA-45x7-px36-x8w8 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2...GitHub
A year ago we found #curl use in this Swiss TV-series Tschugger: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/19…
Any more recent sightings?
Initial release of http4s-otel4s-middleware:
github.com/http4s/http4s-otel4…
#Scala #OpenTelemetry #http4s #otel4s
Initial release. This is a fork of natchez-http4s-otel, with Otel4s replacing Natchez. It is compatible with otel4s-0.3.x and http4s-0.23.x. New Contributors @rossabaker made their first contrib...GitHub
WTH @RocketChat why the hell are accessibility features like high contrast themes only available with "Enterprise"?! Do this with things that do not exclude people based on their disabilities.
What is being done there is straight up discrimination!
Kabinet zatím může uklidňovat, že jeho zklamaní podporovatelé se nepřesouvají k opozici. Vládním úkolem je nalákat je zpět, jinak sešup nemusí vybrat a strany pětikoalice čeká volební výprask.Jakub Grim (iROZHLAS.cz)
European Commission on accessibility overlays: commission.europa.eu/resources…
Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.European Commission
Keyboard accessibility myths and WCAG (10min) “WCAG itself doesn't require that each and every interactive control is keyboard accessible. Rather, WCAG only requires that the functionality associated with a task can be completed using the keyboard alone. In some cases, this may mean providing additional ways that will allow people who cannot use a mouse, touch, or a similar pointing device to complete the task.”
By Graeme Coleman
tetralogical.com/blog/2023/11/…
tetralogical.com/blog/2023/11/…
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.TetraLogical
Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey, blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/18/….
Your feedback is very valuable. Please, give 10mn of your time 🙂.
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
A poll: if you're planning on blocking Threads , do you want your posts to federate there so that hate groups can interact with them and Meta can track you?
The way blocking works on Mastodon, if your instance hasn't enabled "authorized fetch", blocking Threads won't actually prevent your posts from federating there if somebody on another instance who hasn't blocked Threads boosts your post. This means that anybody on Threads can still potentially see your posts, including hate groups like Libs of TikTok and Gays Against Groomers. And Meta's privacy policy says they'll use the information to target advertising and improve their products by training AIs. And most large Mastodon instances today haven't turned on authorized fetch.
If you're planning on -- or considering -- blocking Threads, do you still want your posts to federate there?
#meta #threads #fedipact #fedimeta @fediverse @fediversenews
A hopefully more approachable explanation of the Mastodon configuration settings Authorized Fetch and Disallow Unauthenticated API AccessSunny Garden Hub
Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.
tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-…
This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.
Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.
If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.
#microsoft #outlook #hotmail #email #spam @Tutanota
Update: Emails from Tutanota.com no longer go to Spam in Outlook.Tutanota
RFC 9518 is finally done!
mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/stand…
RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards has been published, after more than two years of review, discussion, and revision.Mark Nottingham
here are a bunch of the publications you can now follow on Mastodon thanks to #Flipboard starting their federation work
@theverge
@polygon
@FastCompany
@Kotaku
@Semafor
@Medium
@Refinery29
@Digiday
@NewsLitProject
@pitchfork
@LGBTQNation
@IndieWire
@FrommersMag
@Smithsonianmag
more pubs participating here: medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-b…
Today we are beginning to open Flipboard to the Fediverse, a rapidly emerging part of the Web which includes social services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Firefish and PeerTube all built on a…Mike McCue (Medium)
You can burn a library, or you can add in thousands of books with garbage. Both will render it useless.
And guess what? AI is _great_ at making garbage - very _convincing_ garbage, but still garbage. And it seems like this has begun to choke Facebook.
A very interesting read: 404media.co/facebook-is-being-…
The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
@Pxtl Meh... In a way, the usernames by facebook already serve as a handle for "trust".
One can also consider that every camera should contain a crypto-chip, which signs every image. But that would be a disaster for whistleblowers.
OTOH, even cropping an image would break the signature, so that is totally unworkable.
We found a flaw in the SSH specification which allows a MitM attacker to drop certain messages from the secured connection. If you are using SSH, check this out: terrapin-attack.com 🐢
Joined work with Fabian Bäumer and Jörg Schwenk at Ruhr University Bochum, HGI, funded by CASA Excellence Cluster / DFG.
Just blogged: using emojis to identify threads in log messages
It's kind of uncool that the Terrapin Attack on the ssh protocol (CVE-2023-48795) affects ChaCha20-Poly1305 in particular, which I assume is widely used by now...
Named Vulnerability announcement page: terrapin-attack.com
SuSE recommends disabling that cipher and MACs using encrypt-then-MAC (suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=00…). PuTTY has some additional info in chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath… - according to that (and the Terrapin FAQ), disabling CBC encryption algorithms should be another possible workaround.
...well, that, or updating to current releases of ssh implementations (did not check the backport situation yet).
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to LibertyForward1 • • •Thanks so much for donating!
And we have asked our donation provider for a Mastodon share button, but there's technical issues on their side. We will keep asking though!