For Samsung users: How to Enable and Customize Back Tap on Samsung Devices accessibleandroid.com/how-to-e… #Samsung #Android

Before we get too far into 2024, we wanted to think about everything that went well - and the things that didn't go so great - for Thunderbird in 2023. Don't get us wrong, while we think some amazing things happened last year, we also want to admit what we could have done differently. 🙂 😐 😕

As always, we'd love to know your thoughts on where - and how - we can improve! 💙

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#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

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Seems not very wise to add Exchange via EWS as Microsoft deprecated it. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5…

Why not use Microsoft Graph?

in reply to Zhivko Vasilev

@zvasilev EWS is our best way to enable support for both Exchange Online and on-premise installations.

Graph API was considered & may be considered again in future, but currently provides narrower support than EWS & lacks some functionality for desktop applications. Even with the announcement that EWS support will be removed for Exchange Online, it's still valuable in the short term for enabling access for a wide userbase & in the long term for supporting users using on-premise installations.

Purism Differentiator Series, Part 2: Formation!

Why Purism Smartphones, Tablet PCs, Laptop PCs, and Servers Supported by PureOS are More Secure/Private than Smartphones and PCs Supported by Android OS, Apple iOS, and MS Windows.

puri.sm/posts/purism-different…

Apple is showing flagrant disregard for the EU #DigitalMarketsAct. 🇪🇺

Their reluctant allowance of third-party app stores, #sideloading, & alternative payments is nothing more than an act of #malicious compliance by #apple 🍎

👉 tuta.com/blog/apple-eu-dma-mal…
#monopoly #BigTech

pretalx users: We're getting ready for a new release, maybe even before the weekend!

If you use pretalx in a language that isn't English or German, now would be a great time to help us out by updating the pretalx translations: translate.pretalx.com/projects…

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

* Verification UX in Element is a disaster, and being reworked in EX: github.com/element-hq/element-…
* Element Android failing to compute a recovery key is clearly a bug too.

Your other complaints about Element UX (e.g. user discovery by email; specifying the server URL) are also very familiar.

It's not true to say vector.im uses "the very same dark patterns as LinkedIn" for contact discovery though; github.com/matrix-org/matrix-s… explains how it works (and is strictly opt-in).

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

@matrix the claim that vector.im uses the same dark patterns as LinkedIn is mine, and I apologize for lack of precision: For me as an end user, it is not distinguishable from the LinkedIn dark pattern since I am prompted when I dont have any contacts within element/matrix and the use of the term "contacts" immediately makes me think of my contacts app on the mobile device. I appreciate the link to the spec, /1

Happy World Radio Day! 📻 Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as a UN International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day. Take a look at the selection of radio apps we have available on Accessible Android accessibleandroid.com/app-cate… #Radio #worldradioday #Android #app

#LibreOffice 24.2 is our new big update, with many new features, including highlighting for the active row and column in Calc. Find out more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource

I wish that #Matrix (and #Synapse) were better designed.

It has become among the most popular open messaging protocols, but it remains a scalability nightmare.

It's literally the Blockchain of messaging. Its current state is given by the sum of the whole chain of events received since t=0. It's a brittle append-only ledger, and any modifications you do to it are very likely to break it.

Do you have a huge 100GB database and you want to clean up old stuff? Sorry, you can't. There are some non-official solutions for compacting the events, but they're all likely to break your db - and none worked so far in my case.

Do you have users on your instance that entered a busy room on matrix.org? Then you'll get all the join/leave events of that busy room on your db, with no way of deleting them, and nothing to do unless your users exit those rooms.

Did you start your instance by toying with the default SQLite backend, and now that it's become big you want to move to Postgres? Sorry, no official guides provided, only unofficial procedures scattered across a bunch of blogs.

Do you want to change the name of your server? Sorry, you can't. All the events are tightly coupled to your server name. The advised solution is to simply start a new instance.

Do you want to keep the same server name but spin off a new instance? Sorry, you can't, because your server name, your keys and the events sent to other servers are all tightly coupled, so your new instance may not be able to reliably exchange messages with servers that were federated to your previous one.

Do you want to migrate your account and conversations to a new server, or even just get a backup of your data? Well, you can just forget it, because there's no way of disentangling the thick mesh of events and moving it somewhere else.

Such a rigid and brittle implementation shouldn't have become an open de facto standard without much questioning about its poor design decisions.

At the very least, some official tools must be provided to enable admins to compact events. If the size of the database is guaranteed to increase indefinitely, then entry barriers against self-hosting are only going to increase.

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The further #Matrix goes the more obvious it becomes we should've stuck to #XMPP. The developer time wasted on Matrix is immense, imagine if that effort would've been stuck into making a nice XMPP server implementation that plays well with #Docker or #Kubernetes, with all the basic features people desire baked in by default. They would've had time to spare on a nice client if they felt this was needed to make a nice complete package to market.
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I set up #Prosody last weekend, and I haven't checked file uploads yet. The setup was incredibly simple, and resource usage is next to nothing. Added #Biboumi to make it function as my #IRC bouncer too, and it works like a charm!

This leads me to believe that even the current state of XMPP is already beats Matrix by a wide margin. Its easier, less resource hungry, faster, and there are already multiple good server and client implementations available.

Exciting news! The Ubuntu Community is now on Matrix. As of today, we're now fully federated with the rest of "The Matrix"! Anyone can join the party 🎉

Did you know that you can also find the Ubuntu HPC community on Matrix? We're an active group supercomputing professionals that meet every Wednesday over Jitsi. Just look for hpc:ubuntu.com when exploring rooms.

Hope to see you there with the rest of the Ubuntu Community 😎

#Ubuntu #Community #Matrix #HPC #supercomputing

Bridge to Bluesky

Apparently, Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org, an engineer/developer, is about to connect a bridge between Mastodon (Fediverse) and Bluesky.

Announcement here: snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

Of note the bridge is OPT-OUT. That is, your content will be automatically bridged to Bluesky, UNLESS you OPT-OUT.

So how do you opt-out? You have to DM Ryan Barnett at @snarfed, email him (somehow), file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

#BlueskyBridge

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The truly worrying message from the mess that Labour has created for itself in Rochdale taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/0… made a total mess of the Rochdale by-election by picking an inappropriate candidate. But the real issue is bigger. By demanding simple certainties and denying the existence of alternative views, Starmer is demonstrating a startling lack of ability in the key skills of leadership that a prime minister must possess.

I've just pushed the implementation of a GUI for calls in the CLI frontend of #Libervia

That means that you have a full-featured #Qt GUI accessible quickly from your #terminal to make or receive your #XMPP calls. Can also be useful to compensate for clients missing A/V calls.

Documentation at libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

It works on #X11 and #Wayland and supports desktop sharing.

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Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google
forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202…
#ycombinator #Nvidia #Amazon #Alphabet #Advanced_Micro_Devices #NVDA #nvidia_stock #nvidia_market_cap
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@ycombinator Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please rather than #NVDA? I know what NVIDIA's NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more broadly known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
in reply to Hacker News

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

Nvidia Is Now More Valuable Than Amazon and Google
forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202…
#ycombinator #Nvidia #Amazon #Alphabet #Advanced_Micro_Devices #NVDA #nvidia_stock #nvidia_market_cap
in reply to Hacker News

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please rather than #NVDA? I know what NVIDIA's NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more broadly known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

#TinyWeatherForecastGermany version 0.62.0 just was built successfully at #fdroid ! 🎈 🎉 ✨

This version comes with overhauled home screen #widgets and new options to better customize data syncs.

You can choose the data categories that should be kept updated automatically, and specify intervals for weather forecasts and weather warnings.

This version also launches significantly faster on #legacy #devices .

This is a #floss #weather #app using #opendata from the #dwd .

Get it at #fdroid !

Babylon 5 Creator Says Reboot Isn’t Dead, Blames Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Drama For Delay cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-…

#fediblock bsky.brid.gy: Opt-out bridge for Bluesky that will be live as soon as the main (and only) Bluesky instance enables AT-protocol federation.
@snarfed@indieweb.social: No service should be opt-out. Bluesky is known to platform Nazis without remorse. Nazis aren't welcome on the Fediverse.

I’ve put together a 100-page artbook full of pieces from 2015-2020, showcasing all the pencil & ink process steps and details all together, all in one place. It’s free for any viewing, study, practice, and inspiration! Enjoy! allisonchinart.gumroad.com/l/f… #sketchbook #artistsonmastodon #ink

Apartaos de debajo de los guindos...

Desconcierto en el sector agrario ante la deriva de las manifestaciones: "Ya no se sabe ni quién es quién ni que pide cada uno" | Actualidad Económica
elmundo.es/economia/2024/02/12…