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A few years ago, I spent some time reading through apologies (or defenses of the faith) from the early church. It helped me to understand how Christians who were persecuted in the Roman empire related to society.
In short, they saw themselves as exiles who were to submit to authorities established by God, in obedience to Paul and Peter's instructions in the New Testament.
As both a Christian and a U.S. citizen living in the 21st century, it can be hard for me to relate to the mindset that they had at that time. It was very helpful for me to read these people's arguments so that I could have better perspective on how to relate to a society and governmental power structure that was anti-Christian.
This dynamic changed after Constantine. Then, you had people like John Chrysostom who no longer needed to defend the faith, but rather criticize the nominally Christian government for their immoral actions.
It's hard to know which context to apply today. Maybe both?
Here's the full postmortem of the nightmare postgres corruption on matrix.org which caused room corruption over the last few weeks: matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgr… We'd like to apologise to everyone who got bitten by the incident.
📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸
Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.
Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.
that's a shame. Swedish radio has also been pushed into restricting some of their (amazing, btw) podcast offering to their own app. luckily someone put up a mirror sr-restored.se/ @james
@bano Not that we're aware of. If you do notice something like that happening, please announce it on the forum, so everyone in our community can help out and investigate. @sitnik_ru
"We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?"
🤣 Looks like they really need a contract... and again a deadline to "help" bring down their negotiating position to almost zero. #gogetthem #havefun
It is of course also quite brilliant to imply/admit that they don't have this contract themselves... You could write anything in the "current contract" and they would be bound by it. Is that what they are offering? 🤔 🥳
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Wait, somehow I may have downloaded a copy of that contract while playing with curl.
Is that the contract that says this reseller agreed to donate $100 to you, for maintenance and support purposes, for every license of their product(s) that included curl? That was so very, very generous of them.
If that is the contract they're looking for, and you can't find it, I will have my (AI) assistant send you a copy. 😉
I have to admit that, considering who built it and when, the idea of having a US chain of burgers, and a British chain of Asian fusion in this train station makes my irony sense tingle
“ #Facebook and #Instagram owner Meta Platforms has indicated it won’t be signing on to the European Union’s voluntary ✨ #AI Code of Practice, which includes restrictions on how AI companies can collect #Copyrighted content.”
As a Swiss citizen, I assure you that the EU is a better zone. (One of the reasons I use Tutanota). Some points: - No company has ever been significantly penalized in Switzerland on this issue, - The SRC, despite numerous legal violations, has never been punished, - It's a myth that falsely links banking secrecy with data protection, - All it takes is for a judge to categorize someone as a terrorist, and they lose all protection—case of a French squatter.
Proton's move aligns with their ethos. As a EU resident, our GDPR protections actually mean something. When choosing privacy tools, infrastructure location matters more than people realize - jurisdiction trumps encryption.
It's weird that Swiss is going to kill off the only niche they were so great at so far. For what? To drive everyone away so their mass surveilance law becomes pointless when no one will want to run business from Switzerland...
People who know Switzerland have often said that it is a false assumption that privacy is more secure there. Too bad for the services like #Quad9 that have made efforts to establish themselves there. @quad9dns Only the fundamental non-storage of personal data from the outset and the non-storage of logs can help.
Being pro-privacy, I opened both Tuta & Proton accounts to compare. Like almost all the expert reviews they seem very similar overall (pluses & minus points are not important to me). The deciding factor came down to Tuta making adverts about 'issues' with Proton, whereas I have never seen anything negative about Tuta from Proton. The current politics is to gouge the opposition, but I prefer the guys who don't so it.
Computers were expensive in those days. The base price ($1295) plus the monitor ($495) plus 256K of additional RAM ($195) brought the total up to $1985 – after adjusting for inflation, this would be about $6000!
A picture showing most modern digital products and services Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of Open Source.
if it's purely "EU funded" that implies to me that it's from a general fund that also includes personal/individual income tax, which I'd be opposed to. It should be funded by the corporations profiting from open source, not the general populace.
@hyc if the software is "critical", it is used widely in society already so you ARE using it, so adding the tax on companies makes no difference in the end because they charge their users: us. We are the ones paying either way.
I suppose. But even if everyone uses it, not everyone is financially profiting from it. If you tax the companies, even if they pass the cost onto their customers, it's still more targeted than taxing everyone.
"Since then I learned how well curl project is maintained. How quickly issues are addressed and how many work is put to have all needed resources for users of curl. What a project! What a tool! What an author! Thank you!"
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…
Interview: Tuta Begrüssung und Vorstellung von Hanna Bozakov Wer ist und was macht die Firma Tutao GmbH und warum heisst sie nicht Tuta GmbH? Wie steht ihr zu den Themen Ethik, Nachhaltigkeit, Open Source, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community? Was sind die USPs eurer Lösung? Wie kann man mit Tuta Mail verschlüsselt mit anderen kommunizieren, die kein Tuta Mail verwenden? Man kennt euch in erster Linie als E-Mail-Provider. Wie differenziert ihr euch von Mailbox.org oder Proton Mail? Seht ihr euch als Konkurrenten oder gibt es ein Zusammenspiel auf dem europäischen Markt? Wie seht ihr Bestrebungen der EU Privatsphäre zu untergraben, Stichwort Chatkontrolle? Welche Rolle spielt die Tutao GmbH im Rennen um das europäische Souveränitätsbestreben? Welche Zielgruppe sprecht ihr mit eurem Angebot an? Gibt es Pläne für weitere Produkte? Verabschiedung
A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com
This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.
Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.
Is Google’s AI secretly reading your private texts?
Here’s what’s really happening—and how to stop it before it’s too late.
MSM reported that Google silently activated a controversial update: its Gemini AI began scanning popular third-party apps like WhatsApp and Messages on Android devices.
While Google claims this “helps with daily tasks,” it also exposes an uncomfortable truth about AI data harvesting.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
On this day forty-one years ago, the code memories for the DECtalk DTC-01 firmware version 2.0 were apparently generated. Here's an audio sample of such a unit doing a power-on self-test and then speaking a test message. Transcript in alt text.
hehe. Just playing this self-test again. I'm also happy with dictionaries generated in the 1980's, for the most part. That probably makes me a bit backward.
@remixman @lexipic I had 3 devices from Dolphin in the UK here. an Apollo 2, which connected to a serial port on my desktop. It was a box with a headphone port, volume dial etc. Then there was a version of that which sat inside the computer's case, so someone had wired that all in for me. and finally a card which attached to a laptop and provided the same feature whilst sticking out the side of the computer. I never had any American hardware though, my first exposure to doubletalk was the road runner from 1999. I then moved onto the book courier (I think the US version was the book port?) but then the port plus moved to software TTS and that was that. I was not interested thereafter haha
@remixman @lexipic Looking back, objectively, I can only have used Doubletalk for 7 years. i must have gotten through thousands of books in that time, but I haven't had a working one since I tried to show it to my girlfriend in the summer of 2007 and found the hardware broken. So it's been 18 years since I even used it. Would I move away from Eloquence long term? Probably not. but I miss it and really don't want to see any technology die
@lexipic @remixman a synthesizer? Possibly. The company that made them still sell the chipsets. But they're not compatible with any modern screen readers, so it'd just be a vanity project and I just don't have the spare cash for fun but pointless things sadly. No chance of unearthing a road runner or book courier though, I'd imagine.
@lexipic @cachondo At one point I had Access32 working on XP, which was heavily used on netbooks. So if you could find that, you could probably just use that.
@remixman @lexipic I had no idea that RC Systems sold a version of the doubletalk I could wire up to a breadboard. $75 for a v-stamp. That's cool. Would be a relatively simple matter to turn that into a keypad-driven text file reader. I could remake the book port, effectively.
@troed I still haven't gotten it completely up and running, been vacationing mostly the last few days. I'll write up a blog post about it once I have. Probably within a week or so.
To be honest, I would've preferred no "we know exactly who you are, enjoy this machine you'll be trusting for the next couple of years" note in my shipment.
But I'm probably a tiny bit paranoid about these things.
I'd like to just add that this is more appreciation shown in this note than from most companies that ever used my Open Source. It's not a high bar. I truly appreciate it - said without sarcasm.
Google used to be really good, they once donated a big quad-socket server to the OpenLDAP Project, and they sent me a little gift pack with some shiny metal gadgets. Back ~2007 or so. Back when Jeremy Allison from Samba Team was their head of open source...
the mousepad idea is cute 🤏🏻❤️ for nostalgic reasons, a cdr with a kind of bad lettering but they messed up with the date, no one was burning cd's in 2023 anymore, it should be 2003 #imho 🙃
I seriously am curious if Tweesecake Clyant's built in recording feature even works, as i don't see anyone that uses it. So, guess what? We are gonna try it! Hope this works! As i havn't made a post with Tweesecake in a while.
Do you think you could add eleventy-excellent.netlify.app… and add an accessibility statement marking what you do, and how folks can report errors when they come in?
Every little website is being pushed onto Facebook thanks to the computer illiterate duckheads in UK Parliament. We'll played MPs, people are much more vulnerable on Facebook you cuckwombles 🤬
Look, I don't want to go all xkcd 1172 here, but it'd be really great if I could do actual work instead of having to work around things broken by random updates.
Steps to reproduce the problem Open https://mastodon.social/deck/getting-started Scroll to a post containing an image with alt text Mouse over the image Expected behaviour Alt text appears Actual b...
Tohle je ta zajimava stranka, jak ti agenti funguji. Cela magie kolem toho jsou algoritmy (ne-AI), jak se v tom repozitari pohybovat a hledat (neco, co treba lidi moc nezvladaji).
V zasade dela pseudo-nahodne veci, dokud nenarazi na ten emscripten build do wa a ten spusti. Nasazene je to potom pres Github pages (efektivne udela staticky webserver z build directory).
Ale to hledani v repozitari me fascinuje a bavi sledovat, treba jak si Codex poradi s iOS appkou Unreleased u nas.
Its new video time again folks. Did you know that with REAPER version 7.42 a new scrubbing mode got introduced? No? My newest video tells you all the differences between the three available REAPER scrubbing modes, how they can be used and what neat little keystrokes we now got on the OSARA keymap to make our lifes so much easier. Plus, I give you a demo on how I use them when editing VoiceOvers. Enjoy. youtube.com/watch?v=a0HbxFOm9K…
Everyone knows the tape scrub mode in REAPER, as this is the default setting when turning on REAPER for the first time. You might have already heard of the l...
Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of open source, and yet a substantial part of this open source is built and maintained by enthusiasts or other financially and resource-constrained teams. Funding options like the EU-STF proposal can truly help enforce the ecosystem and offer new paths towards sustainability.
The report ‘Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: The Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)’ provides a roadmap for establishing an EU Sovereign Tech Fund to secure, maintain, and scale critical open…
a lot of questions: maybe vast parts of that digital infrastructure are 'unhealthy, or wasteland' ... should it exist at all ? How much of the digital infrastructure is worthwhile - is it worth the cost of supporting all the useless stuff to get to the 'good' stuff ? Who gets to determine what is usefull ? Are funds another form of corporate welfare ... ideally these funds would be created via taxing corporate personhoods but I get the feeling that will not directly be the case.
My pro meeting audio tip for #GNOME users: map an unused top-right corner keyboard key as global shortcut for (un)muting the microphone, then paper-sticker-label it. Now no need to have the meeting browser tab focused (or to remember each conferencing app's shortcuts) to toggle your microphone input.
The recording indicator in the top-right of your screen in GNOME reflects that change, although a bit too subtly. Up for grabs for newcomers: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s…
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Dear Sir/Madam
I was wondering if you could help as is a current Customer/Reseller of yours.
We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?
Given our impending deadline, we would be grateful if this could be provided by COB on 1 August 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
[name redacted]
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Dear Sir/Madam
I was wondering if you could help as is a current Customer/Reseller of yours.
We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?
Given our impending deadline, we would be grateful if this could be provided by COB on 1 August 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
[name redacted]
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@jonah@neat.computer posted here: https://mastodon.social/@jonah@neat.computer/114902990636685184
Buried in Proton's Al announcement [proton me] today is a pretty
shocking detail about their service:
"Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government
proposals [www.tdg.ch] to introduce mass surveillance —
proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving
most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will
be the first product to move."
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@jonah@neat.computer posted here: https://mastodon.social/@jonah@neat.computer/114902990636685184
Buried in Proton's Al announcement [proton me] today is a pretty
shocking detail about their service:
\"Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government
proposals [www.tdg.ch] to introduce mass surveillance —
proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving
most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will
be the first product to move.\"
Preview of the Proton blo")
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[Scientific Periodic Table of Elements color coded with \"Sure, go for it,\" \"Maybe not the best idea,\" \"Please don't do that,\" and \"See you on the other side.\"]")
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