Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

After three decades of using email I just sent my first message using the protocol directly by talking to an SMTP server interactively and typing in all the commands by hand.

Have to say, was actually simpler than setting up some of the email clients I’ve used over the years :)

"Sigmund Freud called this “the narcissism of small differences.” He noted that the fiercest fighting doesn’t happen between people with big differences, but between those with relatively insignificant differences. The Romans used this bit of human nature in their “divide and conquer” strategy, turning locals against themselves and their neighbours for easy plunder, and colonialists and corporations have been doing the same ever since, wherever opposition springs up."

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2021/07/19/how-the-narcissism-of-small-differences-is-holding-back-community-transformation-work/

How many holes does this shirt have?

Hint: you are probably wrong.

Protonmail have introduced full, on-device email content search 🙌 ("The contents of your emails remain entirely invisible to Proton")

That's the big feature I was worried about missing. (In truth I haven't actually needed it yet, but I expect the need will grow as the inbox grows!)

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search-message-content/

@Linux_in_a_Bit@linuxrocks.online It breaks stuff that by all rights shouldn't need any JavaScript at all.

Though if you're willing to put up with having to click over to it and grant some permissions very often you'll find that you can often block a lot of the 3rd-party JS without breaking the page.

@mathew @DHeadshot @alcinnz @avalos it (and Silverlight) should serve as strong messages for *anyone* opting to build anything important on any technology that's proprietary to someone else. This sort of thing will inevitably happen, and you (the person building stuff on it) will lose. So don't. Build on #FOSS platforms. At least that way you always have a fighting chance!

alright, it is time

the spam thread y’all asked for

Linux From Scratch

@brainblasted C is simple as in you simply have no idea what type of data you're actually working with and neither does the compiler.

C is so confusing when you started with a foundation of Rust.

@avalos @lanodan IMHO the main problem of telemetry is that it's not engineers who put it there but managers.

And at first glance even harmless data may be used against users. Telemetry tells that statistically users rarely use feature X? It gets cut. But the truth is that feature X was used. It just wasn't for everybody or it was unfinished.

That's basically what happens with Firefox right now. Indeed, Mozilla doesn't have enough resources to support Firefox but what's worse, it's corrupted. In the end, everything that we loved in Firefox is deprecated.

Oh, let's not forget Thunderbird users. Those poor souls including me just get nothing at all.

The incident involving a certain food item at a certain event that took place two weeks ago is a prime example of the "PETA Principle" (as illustrated in https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ ) in action: Controversial issues, those that can get many people on different sides involved, get talked about the most, as opposed to issues where people mostly agree. The incident was right on the edge of acceptability with some crucial factual disputes, making this whole thing ripe for arguments.

Unit tests are a formal design artifact.

Popular 'coa' NPM library hijacked to steal user passwords

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-coa-npm-library-hijacked-to-steal-user-passwords/

#WarOnChristmas

@twotwenty Sorry its fake:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-albert-bourla-arrested/

We need #FOSS not OSS. We need governments to champion people and communities, not corporations. When you run 'open source' conferences, here's a tip: rather than using Zoom and inviting Microsoft, reject them both and use (wait for it) actual open source software. I'll help you. This is jingoistic bullshit: https://www.openirelandnetwork.com/events/open-source-in-government/ Remember, public corporations and FOSS are fundamentally incompatible because of https://davelane.nz/megacorps + https://davelane.nz/proprietary

A Swiss court confirmed that email services are NOT subject to data retention requirements in Switzerland. A win for #privacy!

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/proton-wins-appeal-in-swiss-court-over-surveillance-laws/47052196

"Me everytime trying a new framework or library"

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