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Native support for large attachments is the only main pain point in day to day usage.

Once you start using DeltaChat you quickly forget the technical architecture that people get so upset about (oh no, email!!!) because it works so damn well.

Fast, reliable, you can send messages even if you're in an elevator, a cave, under the sea, in the woods with bad signal coverage, etc. None of this "message could not be delivered" garbage like with other messengers. The message will be successfully delivered when there's connectivity just like you expect.

Like an outbox. From email. Remember writing and sending emails without being dialed up yet?! Yeah, like that. Just works.
RT: chaos.social/users/delta/statu…

Delta Chat (@delta@chaos.social)

What are the main obstacles for you to adopt usage of #deltachat apps with your families, friends or communities? if you have other issues than the poll options please add to the replies.
chaos.social
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feld

I did see however that there was a stupid incompatibility some people hit where they were unable to play BF6 until they uninstalled Valorant (?) because of an incompatible anti-cheat detected

Microsoft really needs to just throw the Xbox team at this problem and build a unified kernel-level anticheat framework into Windows which every game can utilize... this is just getting ridiculous

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IDK If I'd been victimized by SPVM, etc. w/ shitty racial profiling policies, I don't think I'd be convinced that AI is going to fight crime w/o the same shitty [or shittier] programming... ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/ne… #polMTL #MTLpoli #montreal #MTLelxn2025 #MTLvotes2025

New Montreal party proposes rapid-response, AI monitoring to fight hate crimes

A new Montreal municipal party is proposing a plan to combat hate crimes and incidents in the city.
Marisela Amador (CTVNews)
#polmtl #montreal #mtlpoli #mtlelxn2025 #mtlvotes2025

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Westcoast Express

Cars for the Westcoast Express waiting for the end of work to return to the suburbs. Near Waterfront Station in Vancouver, BC

August 2012

(20120813_7954)

Fujifilm X-Pro1, XF 35mm

#vancouver #trains #fujifilm #xpro1

The end of two white suburban train cars connected. With blue stripe at the top and bottom, and the Westcoast Express logo. The train wheels are clearly visible as well as weed growing around the track and in the foreground part of the other empty track.
#trains #vancouver #fujifilm #xpro1

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How fucked up is that WhatWG just closes the discussion as “too heated” when people emphatically disagree with Google sabotaging the open web?

If you do that, at least take the heat. social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz…

ansuz / ऐरन

2025-08-15 06:10:34

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chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

github.com/whatwg/html/issues/…

#xslt #standards #openWeb



Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
mfreed7 (GitHub)

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I was going to make something based on triggers and PL/Python, but it seems someone has invented a better solution:

github.com/PgHookCom/PgHook


GitHub - PgHookCom/PgHook: PgHook listens to PostgreSQL logical replication events and posts changed row information as JSON to webhooks.

PgHook listens to PostgreSQL logical replication events and posts changed row information as JSON to webhooks. - PgHookCom/PgHook
GitHub

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On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”

To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂

donate.gnome.org

¹mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-li…

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux

The GNOME Desktop project.

mail.gnome.org
#linux #opensource #gnome @Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

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New version 🚨
#Weblate 5.13 brings many preparations for more significant changes and also delivers the new commit policy. Select what translations you want to receive to your repository. And don’t forget to check all the other improvements!
#YourSoftwareYourLanguage weblate.org/news/archive/513-c…
A paper plane icon with a dark green overlay. White text "5.13: choose what you like" over it.

5.13: commit only what you want

We published an exciting release today. It is the first one that includes the work done by new Weblate team members, namely Karen on the frontend and Kartik on the backend. We are excited to have them on our team.
Weblate
#weblate #YourSoftwareYourLanguage
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Sylvia

Small follow-up question, just to make sure I understand it right:

If I'm correct, translations failing *enforced* checks (not "normal" checks) will be forced to have the "needs editing" flag and thus will automatically be blocked if you set Settings -> Workflow -> Translation quality filter to "Skip translations marked as needing editing", with no way for the editor to override this, right? Because that is the behaviour I need, I need people to stop submitting broken translations :)

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Tamas G

oooh I'm fascinated that Gemini can code these out so well, very much reminds me of that demo Dino game you get in Chrome when you have no network, for sure fun to play as an idle time spender. Wonder how much you need to self-correct for JS games like these or if it can really get a working (and clean, that is readable with functions organized) copy at the first shot.

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A big announcement:

#MapComplete is now available as #Android app on the #Google #Playstore

Grab your copy here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

(If you don't like google, the Android version is alson available on #FDroid: f-droid.org/en/packages/org.ma…

Or you can use the web version on mapcomplete.org)


MapComplete | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Thematic, editable maps based on OpenStreetMap
f-droid.org
#android #playstore #google #fdroid #MapComplete
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MapComplete

@jandi @lokjo We both contribute to OpenStreetMap. MapComplete got a part of it's inspiration from StreetComplete, but we have a different philosphy: MapComplete has multiple maps about a single topic, where the data on the map can be edited.

StreetComplete mostly allows to answer quests on the go (but the 'overlays'-feature is quite close to this concept)

@jandi @Lokjo - a European online map

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chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

github.com/whatwg/html/issues/…

#xslt #standards #openWeb


Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
mfreed7 (GitHub)
#standards #openweb #xslt

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Oblomov

@jonny sadly it won't matter. Google has a stranglehold on the WHATWG, Mozilla is subservient and guided by people who couldn't care less about its users (see them shoving AI everywhere), and Apple is happy to follow suit as well.

We'd need someone truly independent of GAFAM on the WHATWG that could block the process.

@dillo ? @servo ?

@jonny (good kind) @Servo @Dillo browser

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There was recently a popular article about why someone chose OCaml as their primary programming language, which prompted this response about why someone else chose Lean: kirancodes.me/posts/log-ocaml-… I haven't tried Lean yet, but the article makes a point about OCaml that I think is worth discussing in contrast with Rust. (continued)

Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language

kirancodes.me
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Matt Campbell

That first point, about the OCaml compiler being conservative with optimizations, actually makes me more interested in OCaml, as it contrasts with my current favorite language, Rust. And I've verified that OCaml does in fact compile itself quickly, even on my modest single-board computer. But of course, the tradeoff is that OCaml requires a runtime written in C, thus adding an extra layer of unsafe code compared to Rust.
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Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌

In my experience, it has terrible code generation.

Case in point, I once looked at the assembly it generated for zeroing a statically sized array of POD types, and it was amazing how overcomplicated it was.
There is enough information at the AST level to branch on types and simplify the code gen in cases like that from my understanding of how things work.

This is just one example, so take it for what it's worth.

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John Goerzen

I used to use #OCaml quite a bit, though that was a number of years ago, and I use #Rust a lot now.

One of my main gripes about OCaml is how it wasn't very practical in some ways. There was no way to open a file read/write (very common for, say, databases), and because it lacked things like Haskel's typeclasses or Rust's traits, you'd use different functions to seek on a file opened for input vs. one for output.

Looks like it's still the same.

#rust #ocaml
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John Goerzen

There is something really elegant about #Haskell, and its isolation of "pure" functions (which can't perform I/O) from impure functions, as well as general data immutability, make for nice designs that are easy to reason about, and excellent recursion handling also feeds into that.

That said, memory usage in Haskell can be hard to reason about, and Rust gives some of those guarantees with its "mut" keyword.

I do a lot of systems programming, so would mostly go for Rust these days.

#haskell

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New TalkBack Spoofing Jieshuo Project Introduces Additional Functionalities Including Samsung Internet Support accessibleandroid.com/new-talk…

New TalkBack Spoofing Jieshuo Project Introduces Additional Functionalities Including Samsung Internet

Important note: The following post is a user-submitted post. Accessible Android editorial staff members have not tested the service, and using it is at your
Smit TV (Accessible Android)

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Here's the true story of how I got a single character domain name for £15!

shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buyin…


Buying a single character domain - and 3 character FQDN - for £15

Short domains are useful for security testing. If you only have a limited number of characters, you need to be able to reference code on a remote server in as few characters as possible. A few years ago, I tried to find a Minimum Viable XSS.
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