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Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!

Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.

For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/t…


Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
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feld

this is just normal internet business. When I worked at a smaller ISP/datacenter we had contracts with customers promising uptime and if we failed even because our own upstream providers had outages, we had to refund/credit based on the contracts.

Now the place I work for has huge contracts with Amazon and CloudFlare. I am not sure about the CloudFlare situation, but Amazon has refunded us hundreds of thousands of dollars for outages.

So it goes.

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A new travel description podcast from JJ Hunt, I’ve just launched a new travel description podcast called Describe Away. I captured description-rich audio of whale watching in Newfoundland, cabin time in Nova Scotia, and sunsets on Vancouver Island, using feedback and tips gleaned from the described walking tours and live events I’ve done within the Blind community. Search for Describe Away on your favourite podcast player, or click this link and go to describeaway.buzzsprout.com/

Describe Away

Travelling the world through vivid description and soundscape audio.
Buzzsprout

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Looking forward to it, especially as I'm going to experiment with some interactive methods of teaching screenreader use that might be useful in future trainings I'll be giving... front-end.social/@dnikub/11556…

Daniela Kubesch (@dnikub@front-end.social)

Attached: 1 image Alert: #web #accessibility talk and workshop coming up! Join me at d*sign week, the festival for experimental and independent design practices happening from the 24th to the 30th of November in Linz, Austria 🤓 🎙️ I'll be giving …
Daniela Kubesch (Front-End Social)
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Sven Slootweg 🔜 eth0 ("still kinky and horny anyway")

anecdote (in agreement) about keeping out fascists

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#natuur #Biesbosch #natuurfotografie #vogelfotografie #vogels #nederland #dutch #netherlands #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #birds #birdsphotography #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7rv #DXO #birdwatching

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Sonty A1II, 70-200

#dutch #wildlife #nature #birds #naturephotography #netherlands #birdwatching #nederland #birdsphotography #natuur #biesbosch #natuurfotografie #vogelfotografie #vogels #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7rv #dxo

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Gestern ein bisschen spontan den Umzug von Gmail zu @Tutanota vollzogen. Abgesehen von den Herzschlagmomenten beim Umzug der Domain samt DNS-Einstellungen, war das initial ganz erfolgreich.
Nicht ganz so geschmeidig ist der Workflow - Tuta reagiert an allen Ecken und Enden behäbiger, der Spam-Filter sortiert gerne echte Mails aus, aber belässt massig Spam im Posteingang. Und auch die Farbgebung ist nicht ganz meine…

Aber vielleicht gewöhnt man sich aneinander und alles wird gut 🌈☀️

@Tuta

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I had a cheeky comment prepared for today, saying that you shouldn't rely on Cloudflare if you can afford it, and that you don't truly self-host when you use it, but I could not post it because one of the services I don't self-host —my Mastodon instance— depends on #Cloudflare, too. 😅

#selfHosting #selfhost

#selfhost #cloudflare #selfhosting
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Not every open source software project can or should live on forever: priorities change, technologies evolve, and interests shift over time. From a corporate perspective, you don’t want to have neglected or abandoned open source projects with security vulnerabilities owned by your organization. However, responsibly sunsetting an open source project is more than just clicking the archive button on your repository. The CHAOSS Practitioner Guide: Getting Started with Sunsetting an Open Source Project can help you with this process. fastwonderblog.com/2025/11/18/…

Responsibly Sunsetting OSS Projects: A Guide for OSPOs | Fast Wonder

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Jonathan

@fireborn Leaving to where? I ditched Spotify for Tidal, but Tidal is so much worse; I'm sorry, I went back. Spotify's GUI, especially on the phone, also with my vision rest, is the nicest, imo. I don't have an Apple device; otherwise, I'd probably be using Apple Music, but I can't get it to run on my Windows PC either and won't have a half mess just to figure out how I eventually could (MS Store version doesn't work). Nothing much left. Qobuz is basically Tidal, maybe a bit more stable, but they all have no features, too. I didn't care about crossfade when I was at Tidal, but now I'm back on Spotify, I wouldn't want it off; it's just nice.

And don't get me wrong, I totally get the problem here, but I'm sick of taking drawbacks and weird flaws, in terms of accessibility or elsewhere, just to enjoy my music. Call me egoistic, but then I don't care that much apparently.

@aaron

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Jonathan

@fireborn Unless it won't run on your computer and you're one of the people who actually use Android. Yes yes there is also an Apple Music app for Android, I have it, and you'll say this is a generic reason but I simply dislike its design. Also there is no Pixel Watch app, kinda shooting myself with it. But yes, if you're an iPhone user, heck go for it. I'm all for paying the artists more and I've heard the UI is actually nice so...
@aaron
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Jonathan

@fireborn I can say, though, that I personally dislike what Spotify does recently too, though. Mainly adding stupid features like DMs no one wants and throwing AI-generated garbage around. I'd also not pay the full price; I use a subscription split service to split the subscription, that's not worth it. I wouldn't defend Spotify at this point, but I feel like bashing it generally isn't always valid either.
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Re Last Boost: from @miki:
Its good to hear perspective from the other side of the coin. We all ingest, and a lot of us do (myself included) the complaining, but perspective also should include all angles of a situation, and he covered the less exposed and talked about side quite well.
While I am not a CF user myself, unfortunately for the reasons of downtime being magnified, and my not wishing to be swept up in that, it does no less validate the points he made and touched on. The DDOS problem is so very very real, and my 40Gbps DDOS protection on a relatively low-traffic server I operate has actually not been enough on ocasion.
@miki
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I am thrilled to share the news that I joined @Mastodon's leadership team as Community Director alongside @mellifluousbox, our new Executive Director, and @renchap, our Technical Director.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

The Future is Ours to Build - Together

We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.
Mastodon Blog
@Mastodon @Felix Hlatky @Renaud Chaput

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Cloudflare seems to be having some kind of oopsie (it's probably DNS. It's always DNS) right now.

When you click on the link on their error page, it takes you to a page that says “Do you have a website? Anybody that runs a website should be on the Cloudflare network.”

Uh, read the room, #cloudflare. When people are trying to find out why your product has shit the bed, that's not really the time to make with the marketing copy about how they really really should be using it.

#cloudflare

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@gnome is cozy computing.

Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.

Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.

GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.

circle.gnome.org/

#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux


GNOME Circle

Applications and libraries extending the GNOME ecosystem.
circle.gnome.org
#linux #gnome #adwaita #cozy @GNOME

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I can't believe I have to say this once again, but not using AWS or Cloudflare doesn't mean your service won't go down as often.

It's just that nobody cares if the website of some little shoe manufacturer in Wyoming goes down, but everybody cares if all the websites go down *at once*. This is true even if, statistically speaking, CF / AWS go down less often than some little server located in a basement.

The old internet wasn't more resilient, your downtime on the old internet was just less corelated with everybody else's downtime, which made it less visible, and hence psychologically less of a problem.

Without CF (or somebody like them), there's no freedom of speech on the internet. If you say the wrong thing, your critics can just DeDoS you until you go away, and there's very little you can do about it. If you aren't rich enough to afford DeDoS protection, you have to be very careful when working against people who have more money than you do. This was a somewhat common occurrence back in the day, and the emergence of big social on one hand and CF on the other eliminated that problem entirely.

We should be really thankful for everything CF has done for the internet. Not every private company is as evil as people want you to think.

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Michał Dziwisz

Besides that, CF gives our server a certain level of protection. Sure, if someone is really determined, a free Cloudflare plan won’t stop them, but it will stop plenty of script kiddies — and in most cases that’s honestly enough. In my monthly CF report I see information about more than half a thousand attacks they managed to block. Combined with regular backups, it makes me much less worried that I’ll suddenly have to bring a broken server back to life, especially since server administration isn’t my day-to-day job. Setting everything up on your own teaches you a lot and can be fun, but only if you actually have the time for it.
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miki

@midzi Which is honestly why most people are much better off with a SaaS, even if they're technically competent and perfectly capable of managing their own server.

I know why this isn't the right approach for you (storage space, a different point on the time vs. money tradeoff than most commercial organizations), but that's an exception that proves the rule.

@Michał Dziwisz
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