"A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes, then asks the backhoe operator for directions."
Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉
It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)
This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the
adaptive icon background color.
This should look a lot better than a plain white background.
Also slightly enlarge the icon shape.
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Apple introduced new Mac mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro models this week, adding faster and more efficient M4 chips, along with some other updates like...
@jvossen I'm writing a tiny custom script for this that generates all the data, then I render graph from that using gnuplot. I have them all in a git repo, but I'm still polishing these ones.
- Assuming You Know Your Location - Reckless Use of Elevated Privileges - Skipping Package Updates Before Installing - Unintentionally Overwriting or Deleting Files - Confusing Path Types - Ignoring Built-in Help Resources - Not Using Shortcuts to Speed Up Navigation - Dismissing Error Messages and Logs - Neglecting to Make Backups Before Making Changes
Each item above is explained in the article & how to avoid it.
Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
SpaceX’s Starlink Mini satellite dish provides fast battery-powered internet with low enough latency that can be set up quickly in places 4G and 5G don’t reach.
Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility.
Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. This article will guide you through installing Seafile on a Debian ...
Youtube and GitHub RSS/Atom feeds didn’t quite offer the experience I wanted so I built a web service that takes in a feed, hydrates its contents with more useful stuff and outputs a new feed.
Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)
On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Save the bachelor study Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University from extinction!
Dear Fedi, we need your help!
On Monday, the University of Utrecht announced that they would shut down six bachelor studies, including the 'bachelor of arts' ("BA") Celtic Languages and Culture. Current students will be able to finish their study, but from 2026 on no new students are to be accepted.
This was shocking news to receive. We will not go down without a fight, though! We started a petition to stop it! (see the end of the toot if you want to skip all about why it is bad to loose Celtic in Utrecht.)
The Celtic BA at Utrecht University is unique in the Netherlands, and rare worldwide. Moreover, being able to study Celtic here in the Netherlands, away from the political context you have when you study it in Ireland, for example, allows us to bring new insights, because we can see it all from a slightly different perspective, which is very valuable for the whole field of Celtic studies. It should be no wonder then, that the department of Celtic studies at Utrecht University is internationally respected. The Celtic department also delivers important contributions to the field of Celtic studies that are much-needed worldwide. Therefore, it would be disastrous to lose this beautiful and culturally important bachelor, that celebrated its centenerary just last year!
Hence, I emplore you all to sign this petition to save Celtic! chng.it/tBwmVpYqMF
It is also possible to write a letter or email wherein you write why it is so important to keep the Celtic bachelor, to the Rector Magnificus of Utrecht University, who has to vote together with the 'rectores' of all other Dutch universities about the dissolution of the Celtic bachelor. If you decide to write a letter or email, the staff of the Celtic department would love to receive a copy.
Written letters can be directed to: Professor dr. Henk Kummeling Universiteit Utrecht Bestuursgebouw Heidelberglaan 8 3584 CS Utrecht The Netherlands
Emails can be directed to: h.kummeling@uu.nl
You can send the Celtic staff a copy by: Adding their email address in the BCC, or emailing a scan of your letter: keltischezomer@uu.nl
Alternatively, you can send a physical copy to @drnike, Aaron Griffith, or Natalia Petrovskaia, at Trans 10 3512JK Utrecht The Netherlands
There exists an example draft for letters, if you would like to see that, please ask me!
One of the few, if not the only, Life Simulator app accessible to the blind and visually impaired. How will you live your life? Will you become famous? Commit
In #CzechRepublic there is a traffic rule that cars have to keep 1.5m distance from a #cyclist. Nobody gives a shit. And even worse, cars often push cyclists out of the road. It's hard to find a day when I didn't have to do emergency braking like on the video...
Interesting. I cycle around #Brno quite a lot and my experience is almost completely positive. I cannot recall a situation when a car driver endangered me. Most also try to keep a 1-1.5m distance if possible. My worst experiences with aggression on roads are from Prague.
Víte co to je #jokgu? Je to sport příbuzný s #nohejbal, který vznikl paralelně v Jižní Korei. Hraje se 4v4 s menším míčem a nesmí se hrát za sítí ani blokovat. Další porovnaní a reportáž z návštěvy českých hráčů u Jihokorejců najdete tady:
This is the AI Era. Companies are racing to incorporate as many AI features as possible into their devices. While some features may seem like gimmicks, others
MacOS 15.1 brings a nice handful of bug fixes to Apple’s audio system, which will benefit users of all of our products. See this post for full details, then update your Mac to 15.1.
Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference.
phoronix covers my work on OpenPaX, a patch to restore userspace W^X and some other common sense functionality from PaX: phoronix.com/news/Edera-OpenPa…
this patch is the cornerstone of the new “alpine hardened” project, which is intended to produce a spin of alpine which is similar to the old grsecurity days of alpine.
Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a 'new open-source alternative to GrSecurity.
Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.
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.
@ekennedy80 Having Thunderbird for Android out definitely gets us closer! This is a very loose estimate, but I imagine we'll start actively planning, which will mean hiring an iOS engineer, next year, hopefully towards the beginning.
This typist is an iOS user, so I know the wait is hard, too!
Congrats, of course, but I can’t help but wonder if supporting additional platforms is the right priority when there are still numerous issues with the desktop release. For example, the long-promised message threading and the very broken calendar still need attention!
it's really nostalgic to part with the robo-dog icon on home screen, but there's no better family for K-9 to get taken in by, hands down. The bark notification sound will stay though. 😅😋 Big kudos to #k9mail and hello world, thunderbird! #FOSS 4 life ❤️
the migration from K-9 was seamless and easy, just 2 taps. Though the App is now a bit too Android-ish, I think it kind of smoother than K-9? I still need to make used to with the new panel.
I would like to use the function "export to mobile" in the Thunderbird Desktop (Flathub), how can I upgrade from 128.3 to 138.4 which is the precondition to have that function?
I'm planning to install this in place of K-9, but it doesn't appear to be available on APKPure as yet. I'll try my other independent app stores later this morning.
Congratulations on the successful release of Thunderbird for Android! It's an exciting milestone for the team. I wanted to inquire politely about when we might expect support for the Exchange Web Services protocol, as discussed in the community forum. Thank you!
@v613 Early next year, we'll work on creating and publishing our roadmap for 2025, and we'll be looking at things like Connect to help us decide where we'll be going. Thank you for asking!
If your email address is using one of the supported domains, adding a Yahoo account should be fairly straight-forward. If your email address is using an unsupported Yahoo domain, you’ll have to manually set up your account.
thank you for the reply. I could resolve the problem already. Once I configured the account on Thunderbird, either manually or loading it from K-9, the browser opens for authentication. I was using Firefox as default browser, with "strict ennhanced tracking protection". I don't know if that's the root cause, but I switched my default browser to chrome only for authenticating and it worked. After my account was correctly loaded in Thunderbird, I switched back to Firefox.
New:
Thunderbird for Android now looks like a Thunderbird!
New Material 3 folder drawer gives Thunderbird a fresh new look.
Migrate your settings from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird using an in-app setti...
When you install it you'll be surprised. I won't tell you exactly why but migrating was trivial (assuming you have K9 installed). Literally a few clicks.
Congrats @thunderbird on a nice simple migration process. 👏 👏 👏 👏
Thank you all so much for your tireless work making this a reality. I am so thrilled to now have my favorite email client on all of my devices as well as computers! ♥️♥️♥️
As long as Tbird doesn’t show account pictures, having the email list showing is fairly useless because there’s no way to keep them apart. I have 2 each of Yahoo + Gmail and besides the “account color” they all look the same.
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Gerade wurde K-9 auf Thunderbird aktualisiert.
Ich nutze mehrere Konten und habe links jetzt nur noch runde Buttons statt einer Anzeige der Kontennamen.
congrats on the release. But how come the f-droid version of k9 (stable verison) is now "Thunderbird Beta for testers" ? It's not very nice to suddenly be moved onto an unstable release stream.
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox Is it possible to run both T-Bird & K9 on the same device? I'm transitioning to new email addresses, so I was thinking of putting those in T-bird, and leaving the old ones in K9 for future deletion
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox Cool, I was concerned that since they're basically the same program (?), they'd clash. Is T-bird available at F-droid, I couldn't find it when I searched.
@stshank it's actually quite fascinating I think and it will be curious to see for how long it can continue., I mean logically it needs to plateau at some point!
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