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Today, we were nicely surprised by @gianmarcogg03 with a new comprehensive (italian) #deltachat introduction video, going through initial setup, groups and chatting, second device setup, #webxdc apps, bots, calls and playing Quake -- all the nice things you can do these days :)

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containing peertube, odysee and youtube links (latter provides English subtitles)

Fun fact: devs noticed some tiny but embarrassing glitches in the UI which are now getting fixed as we speak :)

Gianmarco Gargiulo (@gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno)

Ho fatto un tutorial su @delta@chaos.social, un sistema di messaggistica istantanea libero e privato basato sulle e-mail, ma con un'esperienza utente molto simile a WhatsApp, se non migliore. :peertube: PeerTube: https://videos.gianmarco.
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#deltachat #Webxdc @Gianmarco Gargiulo
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@exodus Recently, Exodus started marking Catima as having a tracker due to ACRA being included for crash reporting: reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…

While it is correct that ACRA can be used as a tracker this has caused some worries with users who don't know ACRA in Catima is configured to never send anything without explicit consent and can be fully disabled in settings.

I understand Exodus can't tell the difference. However, to reduce confusion, is it possible to add a note explaining it? :)


Report for me.hackerchick.catima 2.39.1

Known trackers, permissions and informations about this specific version of this application
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Exodus Privacy

Hi, yes we're working on this on this issue: github.com/Exodus-Privacy/exod…

— Codimp


[Feature] Add an explanation about "present" vs "active" trackers on report pages

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe We explain the difference of "present" and "active" for trackers in https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/page/faq/#negatives : "Our static ...
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I am the guest on this week's Penny Forward podcast. I talked about my journey in terms of finding work that aligned with my values as a blind person and attempted to give some general advice for blind people who are looking for work or looking for a job that better aligns with what they would like to be doing. I also talked a little about investing and about moving across the country. To be clear, nothing that I said was intended as a linear "if you do this, then you will find what you're looking for," but, from the point of view of doing what we can as individuals, it is about positioning ourselves to increase our chances of finding opportunities.

The podcast is available from pennyforward.org/podcast-2/, or search for "Penny Forward" wherever you get your podcasts.


Penny Forward Podcast Episode Releases

A show about blind people building bright futures by making, managing, and wisely using their money.
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This morning a #Mastodon friend called me out on my name-calling of our current President. They said it was hypocritical to do something we tell our kids not to do. I’ve sat with this all day. I actually care about my friend’s opinion, and, hey, I’m not a malignant narcissist. Upon reflection, I must admit that they are absolutely, 100% correct. I am being hypocritical, and at the end of the day it’s really not a good look. But, will this knowledge cause me to stop? Very frankly speaking, I don’t think so. Before you condemn me as a bad person, please allow me to explain where I’m coming from. This presidency has been like none other in my lifetime. I’ve had presidents in the past with whom I disagreed on policy, oftentimes vehemently so. See also Bush, George W. But these were strictly policy disagreements. I never once questioned W’s humanity. But #Trump is something completely different. Almost all of his policies go way beyond abhorrent, but it goes deeper than that. He’s the first president I’ve ever known of who has actively, and deliberately, set out to actually punish those who didn’t vote for him or support him, to hurt them, make them suffer. I actually think that’s a lot of what this #SNAP hostage crisis is all about. He has shown, in countless ways, that he has zero respect for anything or anyone aside from himself. So, in my opinion, he deserves zero respect in return. (1/2)
#Mastodon #Trump #snap
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Mike Gorse

I'm feeling ... kind of jaded and discouraged. Probably similar to what a lot of people are feeling, though. I was just talking to a friend last night, and he was saying that, when they were younger, a lot of our mutual friends hoped that my generation of blind people would be the ones who would break out and be successful beyond what previous generations have achieved, but, for a lot of the people we know, things haven't worked out for them in the way they might have hoped. I think that a lot of us, myself included, felt that the left had won the argument with the younger generation, particularly after President Obama, but now this doesn't seem to be so, either. I have an old album where the last song is about building a world for women, and I'm not sure if its author is still alive, but, if she is, then I am sure that she also no longer feels the optimism that she might have felt when she was young.

I try to remind myself that we are at a point in time. We have been through dark times in the past. This is not the end of things. Donald Tramp will not be in the Whitehouse forever.

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Kevin LaRose, Just So Tired

@MikeGorse Sometime in the 80s Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote a book called The Cycles Of American History in which he posited that America’s history essentially reset every 30 years. I think, with the coming of tech and the revolution it brought in information availability and attention spans, that cyclical progression has been supercharged. Holy cow, I remember Election Day when #Obama won. It felt like my teams had won the Super Bowl and the World Series on the same day. I’m pretty sure I haven’t been that pumped up before or since. It truly did feel like we had reached a new, great day. And then, splat. It does occur to me that there were probably people who had that very same feeling when #Trump won last November. I can only hope their splat will eventually come. In the meantime, yes, I can related to your jaded and cynical feelings. To a great degree, I share them.
#Trump #Obama @Mike Gorse

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Fun fact: Microsoft purposefully left out Windows 10 from the Wi-Fi 6 gHZ party. As well as Wi-Fi 7. They could have updated the stack, but instead, quietly slipped that change into build 22000 at the time. Just so that if you're on Windows 10, you have another reason to upgrade. You'll never get any 6 gHZ network visibility or connecting on Win10, even if your Wi-fi card and drivers support it. The moment you in-place upgrade to Windows 11? Boom. all works.
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Today we're releasing LibreOffice 25.2.7. This is the final update in the 25.2 branch – all users are then recommended to update to 25.8, the newest stable branch:: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.7 - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 30 October 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.
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The XMPP Standards Foundation (@xmpp) has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare.

At Ignite Realtime, we’re excited to support this effort. Our projects, such as Openfire and Smack, provide powerful building blocks to explore what’s possible for Dutch healthcare communication. Let’s Build a Connected Dutch Healthcare Community!

Read our full article at: discourse.igniterealtime.org/t…
#openstandards #xmpp


Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare.
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I felt like listening to some Javanese gamelan.
Gamelan has 2 tuning systems, sléndro and Pelog. Fun fact, if you can't remember which has 5 notes and which 7, count the letters and you'll know the wrong answer! Each gamelan set has a unique tuning, so although people have tried to define sléndro as near-5TET and Pelog as near-9TET with 2 skipped pitches, this doesn't really work without a perfect octave.
#Music #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic #MusicTheory #Microtonality
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Lancaran YOGYAKARTA BERHATI NYAMAN / Javanese Gamelan Music Jawa Karawitan BBM #fyp

Lancaran YOGYAKARTA BERHATI NYAMAN / Javanese Gamelan Music Jawa Karawitan BBM #fypGamelan is one of the traditional music from Indonesia. There are various ...
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Cassana 🍻

@menelion No problem. Gamelan is played by an ensemble of metalophones struck with mallets; some similar to xylophones in setup, others more like pots resting on ropes within a wooden frame, and various gongs; all different sizes and timbres. There are also other instruments, but the gendang, a double-headed drum, is common, as it is an instrument that sets the speed. Hope that helps somewhat.
@André Polykanine

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#YouTube

YouTube’s subscription and advertising business helped generate a staggering amount of revenue for parent company Alphabet during the third quarter (Q3) of the year, driven primarily by higher interest in YouTube Premium and YouTube TV, the company said on Wednesday.

YouTube’s advertising business alone clocked in at nearly $10.3 billion, up more than 15 percent against the same time period last year, and accounting for more than 10 percent of Alphabet’s $102.4 billion in Q3 revenue.

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Also, a heads up:
I'll be doing an online presentation on the Epics About Women project! If anyone is interested, here is the registration link:
storycrossroads.org/AllThingsS…
You can join in, or ask for the recording to view later.

Here is a promo video:
youtube.com/watch?v=e4-AW9oIHF…

#folklore #mythology #women #epics #WomensHistory


All Things Story – Virtual Workshop Series

Learn and develop storytelling skills in all areas – professional, performance, and applied. This is a monthly series with a certificate after each time that can be used for professional deve…
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#women #mythology #folklore #womenshistory #epics

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No more Microsoft Exchange. 🇩🇪German consultancy IAGO GmbH celebrates its decision to switch to Tuta Mail. 🎉

The benefit:

✅ Digital sovereignty
✅ Security
✅ GDPR-compliance

Check here what Niclas has to say about Tuta and what feature he loves most. ❤️
➡️ tuta.com/blog/iago-switched-fr…

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #EmailEncryption #MadeInGermany

Image showing replacing Microsoft products with Linux, Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar.

IAGO GmbH switched from Exchange to Tuta Mail – and is not looking back! | Tuta

From its own Exchange server to a secure European alternative: Why a German business consultancy chose Tuta Mail over US clouds.
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Již tento víkend se v Brně koná @openalt a :fedora: tam nebude chybět. Nejenže tam budeme mít stánek, ale v programu najdete i několik přednášek, které se #Fedora týkají. 👇

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#openalt #openalt2025


Fedora na OpenAlt 2025 | MojeFedora.cz

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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp

The word "spam" meaning to flood a place with unwanted messages comes from a carnist joke made by #MontyPython in which the capitalist product #Spam is mythologized as an archetypal unwanted worthless repetition. A murder victims body reduced to a literal throw-away joke depicting their mangled corpse as nothing more than a nuisance.The company that killed them "Spam company" is remembered more readily than the victim #speciesism #carnism
#spam #montypython #carnism #speciesism

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Gosh I love podcasting! I started to create the podcast episodes for our local blindness organization. For the second to last episode, I had the main moderation with our press person over MS Teams, which I recorded in Audio Hijack by @RogueAmoeba. I then already had multiple tracks to import into REAPER. Then, I also had the intro and outro, which are two wave files, and a bunch of interviews which were created using several different setups by different people. Two were phone interviews, one was a statement recorded directly onto an iPhone, and two were interviews conducted over Teams or such, with the interviewer and interviewee using notebook mics instead of something proper. But thanks to the advanced audio processing algorithms offered by @auphonic, not only did the press person's audio, which was quite flat when it came to me due to the mic she was using, sound much better because of the voice EQ filter, but the interviews all benefitted from the voice isolation feature, including the removal of reverb. The resulting episode sounds amazing considering the varying bits of audio I was given to put together. The original version of the episode didn't have all of this, but I just recreated the audio with all the above, and hope the person in charge of the podcast host interaction will replace the audio with the one I recreated.

Anyway, the satisfaction of creating something really decent sounding from all these bits of unprofessional recording fills me with lots of joy.

@Rogue Amoeba @Auphonic
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Marco Zehe

Honestly, I wouldn't know what to do without your tools. With LoopBack's and AudioHijack's help, I use my studio microphone as my main microphone on the Mac, for voice messages, recordings etc. And the sound that others get is beautifully levelled and gently compressed by the compressor and limiter from FabFilter so that there's no harsh dynamic range. All thanks to the great integration of plugin parameters Audio Hijack uses, and all accessible with VoiceOver.
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