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Want to try running your own builder – to confirm apps as #reproducibleBuilds or just to build your own apps? At #IzzyOnDroid we've just made "easy setup scripts" available which should take care for all requirements, while letting you choose which parts you want:

codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…

These scripts are not yet thoroughly tested (just a bit on Linux Mint/Debian/Ubuntu), so we'd welcome volunteers & their feedback.

Thanks to @nlnet for supporting us on this project! You're awesome :awesome:

Screenshot with an excerpt of an install session, showing the completion of the install and a first "call for help"

rbuilder_setup

Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependencies
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @NLnet

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@s3nnet err… Steht gleich am Anfang in der Readme (hat leider nicht mehr in den Tröt gepasst): In der ersten Version funzt das nur mit Debian-basierten Systemen. Für RPM-basierte Systeme haben wir uns schon ein Issue aufgemacht. Für BSD möchte auch schon jemand schauen.

Aber schau gern mal über das 01_sudo_requirements.sh Skript, was da für Arch/Manjaro die passenden Dinge wären, und mach dafür ein Issue auf.

Danke Dir!

@s3nnet.de

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I wrote a #DeltaChat blog post for technical users who are skeptical about how it works

Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/03/del…

@delta

Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong – Makefile.feld

I am smitten with DeltaChat... DeltaChat has been making massive strides lately and I think you should consider using it as your full time secure messenger.
blog.feld.me
#deltachat @Delta Chat (39c3)

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feld

@adiz have you actually tried it yet, though? It cost you nothing but a minute of your time. No need to provide any identifying information to make an account, and the account will be auto-deleted if it's idle for too long.

click the link in my bio to message me. I'll show you some cool stuff that no other messenger has.

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹
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Puck

@adiz this statement is technically inaccurate. Xmpp and Delta chat have the same federated model, so architecturally they are equivalent.

However, a key pain point for me for xmpp is that media attachment is out of band with regards to the protocol, occurring over http. It has all the same privacy concerns that media uploaded to the fediverse does. As media sent over Delta chat occurs in band (email attachment) and is end-to-end encrypted, it is strictly better from a privacy perspective.

However, from a normalfag perspective, interface remains the chief detriment of using xmpp over other solutions. The xmpp ecosystem has been waiting for "someone else" to make a good, functional, attractive client forever. It is not a good argument to say that all it needs is a client that has not been developed in 20 plus years. One client that is a functional clone of something that normalfags are used to like telegram or Whatsapp, is an enormous selling point for people not concerned with, or unable to understand arguments for privacy.

I like xmpp. I like Delta chat. But there will be no one true instant messaging solution until a plurality of users exist that brings it to dominate the market. Currently, those are all proprietary networks tied to services like Facebook or well, mostly Facebook I guess.

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹
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𝖏𝖆𝖊[Ø]™

@pwm @adiz

The open source community is never going to fill this gap. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I've been waiting for 20 years now...


waiting just as long. hasn't happened. the desktop ui for deltachat feels wonky and i'm slowly moving away from handset although arcanechat for 'droid is pretty okay.

what i like about deltachat is i already have a mail system which i use for.. mail. i can still keep encrypted mail separate from delta(openpgp) encrypted messages and it just works. i've handed deltachat to people in this thread, elsewhere on fedi, at the local coffee haus, and to the chick i'm dating who's not technical. so far so good.

i was always an enthusiast of xmpp, but damned if i can't get anyone to talk on it regularly so i use it for a transport bridge for fun, nothing serious.

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹 @Puck
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𝖏𝖆𝖊[Ø]™

@adiz @pwm it looks like the latest non-electron is github.com/dignifiedquire/drea… which hasn't had much velocity lately. we'll have to see how it goes.

GitHub - dignifiedquire/dreamer: Experimental deltachat client

Experimental deltachat client . Contribute to dignifiedquire/dreamer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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feld

@jae @pwm @adiz the tauri branch can be found here. I've never tested it, know nothing about it right now really

github.com/deltachat/deltachat…


GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-desktop at simon/tauri-flatpak

Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Desktop - GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-desktop at simon/tauri-flatpak
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👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹

Everyone talks about XMPP and bad clients, but I just don't have this experience. There are multiple clients available and they all work well for me. 🤷

It's kinda a moot point when Delta Chat has just the one client.

I can concede media being facilitated by HTTP in XMPP vs. within the protocol itself. Still more performant and capable than trying to do file transfer over SMTP. @feld

@feld
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feld

@adiz @pwm it's pretty easy for you to build a client on any platform if you want. You get to skip all the annoying parts of reinventing the SMTP/IMAP/PGP and Iroh functionality. In fact it would be stupid to reinvent it because the core has been audited multiple times.

So you just wrap the core DeltaChat JSON-RPC server (written in Rust) and treat it like an API service, and you're done.

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹 @Puck
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feld

just because there are client libraries for these protocols in another language don't mean they're good or safe

edit: I should really emphasize that the only safe PGP implementation is rPGP in Rust, and it has some required functionality you will not find in GPG, Sequioa, NetPGP, etc that is being leveraged for additional privacy. It would be a security downgrade to not use it.

edit2: anonymous recipient is an example, which makes it impossible for an adversary to analyze the PGP data and know who it was intended for because there is no exposed public key ID. The only way to know who the message was for is to successfully decrypt it with the recipient's key! github.com/rpgp/rpgp/issues/50…

Use anonymous recipient for generated packets · Issue #507 · rpgp/rpgp

Currently rPGP supports receiving packets with "anonymous recipient" (all-zero wildcard keyid/fingerprint), but I have not found any way to generate them. But key_id is always included in the gener...
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feld

@adiz @pwm

> Everyone talks about XMPP and bad clients, but I just don't have this experience.

If you lock yourself in a box where only Android and Linux desktops exist, sure, there's an *okay* XMPP experience available. Conversations on Android is like the only good client available.

But the experience is still terrible on Windows, Mac, and iPhones

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m0xEE

@pwm@darkdork.dev @adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa

media attachment is out of band with regards to the protocol, occurring over http


Does it not send some sort of key over XMPP when you are sending a file to an OMEMO chat, making the data transmitted over HTTP useless without it? I never looked into it myself, but attachments sent without OMEMO look like normal links you can access from a web browser, those sent with OMEMO encryption have aesgcm:// schema.

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹 @Puck
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feld

@m0xEE @adiz @pwm that's similar to how Signal does it as well, and I think iMessage(?). Probably Whatsapp for groups too. Makes most sense anyway.

Fun part is that if the web hosting is not owned by the chat app team it has a potential for metadata leaks. Signal groups use CloudFlare, so you can just ask CloudFlare for the logs of who downloaded a file from their CDN and you get the IPs of all members of a Signal group. So you better hope that nobody has infiltrated your top secret anonymous anarchist chat group and shared a file because there's a way to unmask the members

@👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹 @m0xEE @Puck
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👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹

There are ways to unmask IPs, anyway. If the concern is about deanonymization or infiltration or loss of encryption then honestly the most likely threat in any system is a mole, not people pulling server logs from service providers or man-in-the-middle attacks, etc.. And, there is virtually no way to program or digitally defend yourself out of infiltration if you're running a group or organization. 🤷

Luckily, we run our own websites and XMPP server, etc.. @pwm @m0xEE

@m0xEE @Puck
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👺кину奇诺［流浪者］👹

(You could have the best, most secure, most anonymous, most decentralized, zero access, log-less, bla bla bla app or protocol to run your illicit or nefarious agendas over and it means almost nothing if you're communicating with someone who is an agent of the state or an informant.) @pwm @m0xEE
@m0xEE @Puck
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DeltaTouch 1.12.0 is out, highlights:

🔹 Sync deletion of messages and chats across devices
🔸 Page sized text editor for longer messages
🔹 Webxdc: Notifications (and more)
🔸 Improved integration into UT (ContentHub import/share)

Also included: Preparation for the long-awaited feature teased by @delta 😇
chaos.social/@delta/1141265297…

Full changelog: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

Webxdc support in DeltaTouch is generously funded by @nlnet / @NGIZero, thanks!

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #Webxdc #UbuntuTouch


Delta Chat (@delta@chaos.social)

Attached: 1 image Release cycle completed. Please update so we can initiate the next release round with a long awaited feature ;) Generally delta apps are compatible to all currently released apps and because 15+ app stores come with all kinds of …
chaos.social
#deltachat #UbuntuTouch #Webxdc #deltatouch @Delta Chat (39c3) @NGI Zero open source funding @NLnet

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Family of four found 'frozen,' rescued at Canada-U.S. border crossing into Quebec

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/0…

(they seem to be safe now)


Family of four found 'frozen,' rescued at Canada-U.S. border crossing into Quebec

A migrant family of four, including two young children, were rescued at the Canada-U.S. border on Thursday, as they were trying to enter Quebec illegally. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had to intervene around 4:15 a.m.
Alyssia Rubertucci (CityNews Montreal)
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mhoye

This framing is the kind of nonsensical AI boosterism that @timnitGebru has been telling us about for years, just absolutely bullshit. There’s no hacking of anything, no clever new insight, it’s just lying and cheating, and the conclusion of this article should properly read “the more expensive a model is the more likely it is to produce lies that seem superficially correct and we have to ask ourselves what world we think we’re going to build on a foundation of epistemological quicksand.”
@Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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My dad, who is constantly bored, is a talented home improvement hobbyist craftsman. Can fix up pretty much anything. He has #ADHD, keeps asking me to remind him to do stuff, he keeps not doing it, months pass.

I've now set up a cron job that calls a homemade Python script (that I'd update over SFTP) to put one task in front of him at all times on his #GNOME computer, using this #GNOMEShell extension:
extensions.gnome.org/extension…

I don't know whether that makes me a chaotic good or lawful evil son.

Screenshot of GNOME Shell's panel with a text label next to the clock, saying: "To do: replace insulation below the garage's backdoor!"

One Thing - GNOME Shell Extensions

extensions.gnome.org
#gnome #adhd #GNOMEShell
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James Just James

@federicomena Hilarious! A long time ago I got annoyed at @johnmark not completing things that I was waiting for, so I wrote a quick IRC bot that would remind him any time he spoke up in channel.

github.com/purpleidea/jmwbot/

I recall he mostly got to those things pretty quickly after I deployed this.


GitHub - purpleidea/jmwbot: JMWBot (the alter-ego irc bot of johnmark)

JMWBot (the alter-ego irc bot of johnmark). Contribute to purpleidea/jmwbot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Federico Mena Quintero @John Mark ☑️

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Deleting Yahoo is as easy as a few clicks! 👏 (+ There are better privacy-focused mail providers available today) 😉

🔗 Learn how to delete yahoo in a few simple steps 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-delete-ya…

🔗 Don't feel like reading? Watch our quick guide to delete Yahoo 👉 youtube.com/shorts/WwgZLdKvaw4

#Howtodeleteyahoo #quickguides #Howtodeleteyahoomail

Finger clicking "Yes, delete this account" with Yahoo logo

How to delete your Yahoo account (on any device) | Tuta

Getting rid of an old Yahoo email address doesn't need to be a hassle. Here's how to delete a Yahoo account in a few easy steps on iPhone, Android or browser.
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#howtodeleteyahoo #quickguides #howtodeleteyahoomail

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There's a new TWBlue version available. Highlights include initial support for filters, pinned posts, posting in different languages and some minor bugfixes (including show all posts correctly). You can update via autoupdater as always, or via GitHub Releases at github.com/MCV-Software/TWBlue…. Due to lack of time on weekends I will delay this announcement on TWBlue's website until monday, thanks for understanding!

Release v2025.03.08 · MCV-Software/TWBlue

Changelog In this version, we have focused on providing initial support for Mastodon filters and pinned posts. From TWBlue, it is now possible to initially use filters for posts in most buffers, as...
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Wow. #Rust is an unserious language. Unless you bend over backwards to fight the compiler and avoid the standard library, you cannot write code that doesn't try to terminate the calling process on arbitrary error conditions. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Terminating the process is never an appropriate action in a library. The library has no way to know its caller's uptime constraints. Libraries should only return error codes to callers. Only applications can decide whether to bail out or not.

> Its `SQLITE_INTERNAL` error code is atypical in my experience. In my experienc... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
#rust
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recyclism

@Piciok thanks for your message. So the Minitel itself is just a terminal, screen and keyboard. There also no audio capabilities, never was. So I doubt it ever was accessible that way. We are using a raspberry pi to control the screen and read keyboard inputs. So the pi can output audio but the Minitel itself wouldn't do too much except having a nice keyboard, but it's AZERTY. So I wish it could be useful that way but I don't really think it would be that useful. Unfortunately in 1980 it wasn't something the french government thought through, and looking at the situation of accessibility in general in France today, it's still isn't a priority unfortunately.
@Paweł Masarczyk
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Paweł Masarczyk

Yes, I thought that might have been an issue. I thought, perhaps, it would be possible to hook up an external device, capable of reading the text transmitted over the Minitel protocol, into the terminal and have it output, a kind of hardware screen reader. In my fantasy, it would hook up like those hardware caller presence indicators, maybe even output speech through the phone's receiver, to allow for two-way interaction. Maybe it's something to think about. Yes, with Raspberry Pi, it would be relatively easy to build a simple screen reader, I expect.

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The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term "backdoor" to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated the title of our story.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

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Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

Gov. Tony Evers says #Wisconsin is joining a multistate lawsuit against the #Trump admin over the mass firings of federal workers.

The lawsuit argues the admin unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire thousands of probationary employees.

jsonline.com/story/news/politi…


Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers joins lawsuit against President Trump, calls widespread federal workforce firings illegal

In new Trump lawsuit, Gov. Evers alleges the thousands of federal workers fired over the last month are illegal and reckless.
, Journal Sentinel (Journal Sentinel)
#Trump #wisconsin

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If you want to read a masturbatory, propagandistic profile of the Liberal Party of Canada, have I got the piece for you!

(No, I won’t waste a gift article on this, sorry! lol)

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ar…


The Liberal Party of Canada is reinventing – and resurrecting – itself once again

Canada’s ‘natural governing party’ is among the most successful political parties in the democratic world
Andrew Cohen (The Globe and Mail)

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This painting evokes nostalgia for my beautiful pre-war Kharkiv. I believe that Ukraine will prevail, and I, like many Kharkiv residents who have been forced to leave for foreign lands, will one day return to my hometown. I have faith that we will restore Kharkiv after the devastating destruction, and it will emerge even more beautiful than before.

Many thanks to the buyer from Green Bay, WI who purchased a 20" x 15" print of Night Lights of Kharkiv!

ukrainian-artists.pixels.com/f…

The painting captures the vibrant scene where the bright lights of street lamps reflect in the Lopan River, and crowds of joyful people fill the embankment, listening to street musicians and admiring the majestic silhouette of the Annunciation Cathedral.

Night Lights of Kharkiv by Olena Kishkurno

Ukrainian Artists

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"Female" and "women" are considered words to avoid but not "male" and "men" because they view male as the default and standard sex and men as the default and standard gender.
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
Karen Yourish (The New York Times)

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Trump's budget plan may cut NASA science funding by up to 50%, alarming scientists who call it an "extinction-level event" for space science. This threatens ongoing missions and would cede future space exploration to China. Also, about 30% of NASA's science budget is for Earth and climate science.

White House may seek to slash ...


White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

“It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…
Eric Berger (Ars Technica)

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Support for the SMC-Mixer and SMK-25 II piano keyboard have been merged into @mixxx and will be available out-of-the-box in version 2.5.1! Thanks to M-Vave for sending me these; I'm glad I could help! I enjoy writing plugins for DJ setups, if you have an extra controller that you want supported, or are a company that makes MIDI or HID controllers and you want to send one my way, I'm always happy to write a mapping and help get it supported in the best DJ software out there!

#Mixxx #Music

A depiction of a small 25-key piano keyboard with some buttons above the keys and a small screen. The buttons have labels like "Play, Cue, Record, etc. showing what they do and are lit up in various colors." Across the top are several circles representing rotary knobs that control the Deck EQ, Crossfade, and gain. To the left are two touch strips that control tempo and volume.
#music #Mixxx @Mixxx DJ Software

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In the interest of using Canadian providers, CanChat.org services are now running on #LunaNode hardware.

Check out the referral link below for more information!

lunanode.com/?r=17812


Get Started on LunaNode!

Deploy a 1 GB RAM KVM cloud server on our Toronto cloud platform for just $3.5/mo ($0.00486/hr). We support snapshots, block storage, load balancers, and much more!
www.lunanode.com
#lunanode

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Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

Text did not fit so I posted it here https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f

ANTI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThere have unfortunately also been people who have been l - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
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Máme 16 přihlášených a čekáme další 😉
Pokud chcete dorazit, dejte mi vědět, ať vím, kolik míst nahlásit 😉
mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@archos…

Archos

2025-03-06 11:32:12

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🐘 Mastodoní a BS sraz v Praze! 🍻

První nadšenci už se hlásí, tak neváhej a přidej se taky! 📅 21.3. v Hospůdce Do větru.

Dej vědět @cynik_obecny, jestli dorazíš, ať se zajistí dostatek míst.

Více info: pivo.stloukal.uk

Boostni dál, ať se nás sejde co nejvíc! 🔁✨
#mastopivo #masto_sraz


Cynické pivo – sraz lidí nebo robotů z Mastodonu a BlueSky

pivo.stloukal.uk

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Maybe time for people and groups to start considering #Matrix for their current #Discord servers, as Discord becomes focused on getting money out of everyone who uses it, with likely enshitification beginning soon. #XMPP/#Jabber is also an alternative.

Both are decentralized, publicly owned services, where you can interact with anyone else regardless of which server they choose to be hosted on, just like Mastodon, et al.

kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-…


Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse

The video game chat platform is reportedly exploring a Wall Street IPO
Ethan Gach (Kotaku)
#xmpp #matrix #discord

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🕯️ Nach Todesfahrt: Interreligiöses Gebet auf Paradeplatz #Mannheim

Genau eine Woche nach der Todesfahrt in der Fußgängerzone laden Oberbürgermeister Christian Specht und das Forum der Religionen zu einem interreligiösen Gebet ein.

🗓️ Montag, 10. März, 12:14 Uhr,
📍 Auf dem Paradeplatz O 1, 68161 Mannheim.

Das Gebet beginnt zu der Uhrzeit des ersten Notrufs, der während der Todesfahrt eingegangen ist. Es werden Vertreter der katholischen und der evangelischen Kirche, der jüdischen Gemeinde, der alevitischen Gemeinde und muslimischer Gemeinden sprechen.

Menschen aller Glaubensrichtungen und Herkunft sind herzlich willkommen, um der Toten zu gedenken, für die Verletzten zu beten und sich gegenseitig Trost und Zuversicht zu spenden.

Blumen und Kerzen auf dem Paradeplatz in Mannheim
#mannheim
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