I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."

This is quite a press release:

"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.

In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.

Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."

Source: mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/…

krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-…

Musím uznat, že Nostr vypadá vážně zajímavě. Ryzí decentralizace. Uvidíme, jak se to bude vyvíjet, až se zaplní větším množstvím uživatelů.

#nostr

Good morning everyone. I hope your all having a good day/night.
Please remember, your all very much loved and amazing. Always be kind to one another. We need to look out for each other.
Today we are gonna be talking about the parsec.

A parsec is a unit of length used to measure vast distances on a cosmic scale. It's an important unit that professional astronomers use to calculate the distance between stars and galaxies, with its definition rooted in the concept of parallax. Essentially, a star located one parsec away from us will appear to shift by precisely one arc-second (1/3600th of a degree when viewed from two different vantage points along the Earth's orbit. By measuring this parallax angle, we can use trigonometry to determine the distance to the star. Parsec is derived from the terms "parallax" and "second", reflecting the scientific principles on which the unit is based.

Strictly between the two, which do you prefer using?

#XMPP or #Matrix ?

(Boosts for increased reach are appreciated!)

• XMPP/Jabber (43%, 293 votes)
• Matrix (56%, 383 votes)

The @thunderbird betas have a rewritten main window UI. This has a lot of accessibility problems. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the energy to file the bugs myself. Here’s what I found:

1. Too many tab stops. Toolbars should definitely be a one-tabstop container and employ the ARIA toolbar design pattern.
2. Speaking of which, the containers should all be made into proper toolbar containers in the process.
3. The main messages list should be a tree with tree items, since they are collapsible. List and list items are not. Also, there are a lot of focus issues still remaining when deleting messages/threads or when the view refreshes from the IMAP server.

Perhaps someone on the team can convert these into proper bugs in Bugzilla, or maybe most of these are already filed. Like I said, I unfortunately currently lack the energy to do so myself.

PL: 12 kwietnia 1961 roku, pierwszy raz w historii ludzkości, Ukrainiec zamiast psa wysłał w kosmos Rosjanina

EN: On April 12, 1961, for the first time in human history, an Ukrainian, instead of a dog, sent a Russian into space

Hello @ellieapp, I just found out about the app through HN, and gave it a quick try. I'm blind and use a screen reader (specifically NVDA) and have some suggestions how to improve Ellie's accessibility.

Firstly, most of the controls in the app are currently not labeled. Most critically in the list of posts or notifications, the list items are spoken as just "Ellie.ViewModels.PostListItemViewModel" where I would expect the post content, along with any media descriptions to be read out. Likewise, if you go into the details for a post, all of the various buttons to reply, boost and so on are unlabeled and spoken as just "Button."

The other thing I'd like to mention is keyboard navigation in the app. If I tab to the list of posts or notifications and try pressing down arrow to go to the next post, the app instead brings me into the details for the focused post. Ideally, when the list of posts/notifications is focused the arrow keys should just move through the items, which they do in other parts of the app like the navigation buttons. Speaking of the navigation sections, I can switch to most sections like home, notifications or settings by pressing enter on them, but for some reason if I do it on the compose button the item gets selected but the compose dialog doesn't open unless I do a simulated mouse click on it.

I hope you can look into some of these issues in a future release! :) Ellie has the potential to be a great app for screen reader users - I know several people who want a native Windows Mastodon client.

Microsoft Windows just got a new Mastodon client!

It's called @ellieapp.

While it's very early access, I love the incredibly minimal interface and the snappy responsiveness.

I'm also glad that a new native Windows app was just released because the main Windows app has been Whalebird, and it's much too Slack-like for my liking.

Features are lacking in Ellie right now, such as Federated feed and the ability to upload photos.

But I like what I see!

ellie.software/

@fediversenews

Did you know about #curl's --json flag?

When you work with JSON data, curl can take care of the json content-type/accept headers for you:

curl --json '{"msg": "hello"}' example.com

Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast!

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#Thunderbird #Podcast #OpenSource #Email #Mozilla