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Welp, yesterday Apple notified me that my backordered new Ipad mini was now due after November's 8th. So today I walked into the Apple Store in Brussels and walked out with three exact same backordered model (then cancelled the order). Why does Belgium get them more than a week before Scotland?


The wait is over! Our first stable release of Thunderbird for Android is out NOW! Find out what's new, where to get support, and how to download it in our release announcement.

And to everyone who contributed via beta testing, giving us feedback on K-9 Mail, localizing, thank you. :) Your community team work has made the dream work.

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdForAndroid #OpenSource

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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

The import via QR Code function works really well and quick for my dozen+ mailboxes.
Great job!



masto hive mind, I've seen a lot of stuff about factorio, and the volunteer factorio access mod, is this worth investing in, and the factorio space rage expansion?
in reply to Jason Fayre

@jfayre I'll hunt up the mod discord after my meeting that starts in five minutes.


The 2025 releases of JAWS, Zoomtext and Fusion are now live.


#curl source code age (take 2)

How large share of the code was written after a certain date, over time.

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Cool chart! The 100% are code base today? Does it mean curl is not growing significantly since around 2005? What happened there?
in reply to Daniel Nordhoff-Vergien

@dve 100% is the entire code base of the time. It has kept growing ever since before 2000.

But that confusion risk is also why I won't keep this version of the graph, I will go with the "take 4" I posted later.



so the commons are shouting "shame!" about crumbling schools, unfit hospitals etc. But a penny off a pint at the pump in the pub had them all on their feet.
in reply to Sean Randall

if I wasn't lucky enough to listen Live over lunch, the text feed on the BBC is behind by a good 5 minutes. That's a shame. This is the sort of thing our license fee should make handling of reliable and speedy.


Interesting. When I search for “Norton Password Manager” on Chrome Web Store, it first lists five completely unrelated extensions, and only the last search result is the actual Norton Password Manager. Somebody told me that website is run by a company specializing in search, so this shouldn’t be due to incompetence, right? What is it then?

#google #cws



Todays #RetroTech

Scotch 3M Magnetic Tape Viewer

These are rare beasts, a useful tool for Audio Archiving. It rests on the Tape, showing the Magnetic Pattern

Ensures you get the right Head Configuration first time

Here’s - Quarter Track, Half Track & 8 Track

Before anyone asks, no, it doesn’t work on Helical Video as the Tracks are too fine. But it does show Edge Track Audio & Sync Pulse

@obsoletemediauk

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Internet Archive Services Update blog.archive.org/2024/10/28/in…


Safe and Smart: Expert Tips on Using Smart Plugs Safely This Winter cnet.com/home/smart-home/exper…

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I was briefly interested in getting a Galaxy Z Fold for art, but the price immediately turned my away. What do you mean it's almost $2000??


I Tried Dozens of Low-Carb Keto Breads. These Were the Best cnet.com/deals/best-keto-and-l…


Take 50% Off a Walmart Plus Annual Membership Ahead of Black Friday cnet.com/deals/take-50-off-a-w…


Why is Montreal appealing a historic ruling on racial profiling by its police?

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ap…



Falls Ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt: ab 15. November nimmt sich x.com in den neuen TOS u.a. heraus, Eure evtl. noch existierenden Tweets zum Anlernen von AI zu nutzen.

Ich hab meine sämtlichen 30541 Tweets gelöscht mit dem hervorragenden Script github.com/lucahammer/tweetxer von @luca
In der Beschreibung ist sogar eine Video-Anleitung auf deutsch und englisch. Vielen Dank! Angenehm schmerzfrei.

(siehe auch techradar.com/computing/websit… und x.com/de/tos )

in reply to bilbo_b

😰 „The download your data feature is unavailable right now. Try again at a later date.“
in reply to Luca Hammer

thanks for the tip. They responded „We’ve received your request. We typically respond within a few days, but some cases can take a little longer.“ That seems better.
in reply to Oskar

today the X archives was ready to be downloaded. But tweetXer.js with firefox did not provide an upload dialogue but errors, see pastebin.com/8z15ASxT
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in reply to Oskar

tweetXer.js with chromium successfully removed all my tweets. Thank you!








there's something mildly ironic about the head office of a parcel delivery company being on the 2nd floor. One of the most irritating things for delivery drivers and it's baked in to every communique they send.


If I didn't have to pay over $700 for Dragon naturally speaking, I'd also get J-dictate for myself because I really enjoy speaking over typing even though I am good at typing.
in reply to Nick's world

I can't imagine using my voice instead of my fingers. I never use Siri and only use the smart speakers for limited things, usually when my hands are occupied. I guess I grew up not being welcome to talk very much, I could always type. It also freed me from not being able to communicate well as a child, so I suppose in that regard I've never considered it as something to be replaced by a more efficient method.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo It's something I considered because even though I can type be there are times when its a pain and if I'm ever going to have a job heavy in writing, I'd rather speak than type.

in reply to kurtseifried (he/him)

@kurtseifried hang on, I have a much nicer version coming up. It's just a little slow... running git blame on all files in 200+ tags takes a while


Version 1.3 of #Pipilo on #iOS is out. Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app where you view posts one at a time in a horizontal timeline.

Main new features are bookmarks support, upgraded link previews with inline YouTube videos, navigation by tapping screen edges, post translation, post deleting, and collapsible post threads.

Check it out, share and enjoy!

Full release notes: pipilo.thanel.me/changelog
App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/pipilo/i…



Now, because of Google's no-opt-out policy on AI searches, every search uses ten times more power than they used to. Want to find out what movie Danny DeVito did with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Now, you have to weigh your curiosity against the health of the planet.
Don't Google that! It was Twins! Jeez, didn't you read the start of this post?


- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.

*thinks*

Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.



The great start for #PragmaConf Day 2 continues with @feli speaking about accessibility in designing APIs.


Haptic’s touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/hapt…


I am a straight, cis male. For the most part, I'm OK with that, but if I could just make facial hair stop existing in my life without changing anything else, that'd be cool. I really, really hate shaving. I also hate not shaving because I put it off for too long, since I hate shaving. I just want nothing to do with any of it.

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

I don't enjoy it either. When my soup is more on than in me is about time for a trim. Then I just lop it all off and end up looking like a teen.


I left my Melbourne hotel at 8:30am, Tuesday 29 October.

I caught a 12:00pm flight from Melbourne to San Francisco also on Tuesday 29 October.

Then I caught another 12:00pm flight from San Francisco to Newark, still on Tuesday 29 October.

I have walked into the door of my house in Buffalo at 11:30pm — 23:30 on Tuesday 29 October.

I have spent 30 hours traveling and have not gotten away from Tuesday 29 October.

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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

doslova mi tečie nádcha.. asi si Zyrtec alebo tak niečo lebo ty vole 😪


Prvni zdokumentovany vyskyt Unreleased QR kodu™ v divocine hudebnich klubu.

Jen houst!

vede sem:
unreleased.art/new-dessert

Slogan "Want Unreleased Music?" jeste asi budeme nunat.

#music #art


in reply to Dave 🧱

Thank you! I am doing fine, actually. Enjoying my retirement and the fact that I no longer have to put up with job pressure.


📣 New blog post

✨ Sliding Sync at the Matrix Conference — mnt.io/articles/sliding-sync-a…

I have presented Sliding Sync, a novel, fast and efficient synchronisation mechanism for the Matrix protocol, at the first Matrix Conference in Berlin. It's been many many months that I'm working on this project, and I'm joyful it's now available to everyone for a better Matrix user experience!

The article contains the recording + slides. I've highlighted other talks too.

#matrix #RustLang

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I don’t get political very often on here, but this is gold! And yes, since this election will have worldwide repercussions, many of us outside the U.S. definitely hope for a particular winner. youtube.com/watch?v=se-didBGn8…

#USPolitics #Election2024 #Harris

in reply to Marco Zehe

Here in California and my Brandenburg in-laws are telling us to come home. There’s space.


has any single follower of mine ever played a MUD, or has even heard of what a MUD is. or am i a boomer. #mud #moo
#MUD #moo
in reply to lynn

Sure, I played Shades of the Past, Merentha, some vampire stuff, and some Wheel of Time stuff. Some MUDs in Spanish as well.


O Público noticia que entre 2015 e 2023 houve 126 casamentos, em Portugal, que envolveram crianças entre os 10 e os 14 anos.
Mas depois os activistas climáticos é que são presos.