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Made a new friend. I like him a lot. An axolot.
I've used DeltaChat for about 7 years. I even managed to get a few family and friends to install it for a while, so we the built-in AutoCrypt would encrypt our emails. But none of them stuck with it.
Until recently DC continued to be a great mobile app for my personal email account. However, the devs are slowly moving away from supporting my use case, in favour of DC being a client for dedicated ChatMail servers. Which leaves me scratching my head as to its utility.
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You're not alone, others on the forums with the same use case are also asking these questions. It's possible where the devs want or need to go can no longer hold onto the past because the world has become a very hostile place.
What do I mean? Regimes such as China and Russia are being reported as blocking Deltachat based on fingerprints and port use. Good old port 25 is the Achilles heal. Email ports are just too easy to target for any regime.
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I'm celebrating the end of a contract with a very difficult client. So far I have played Handel's Hallelujah and the soundtrack to the Mike Judge Office Space movie. Suggestions?
Low-key scared that if I get another job interview, they'll ask me if I have a 5-year plan and this will be the only thing that I can think about
@researchfairy mine is literally recreate this shot again, but dressed this time as Gandalf the White. (Technically a 9 year plan. My three month plan is to go in a throuple's costume as Miranda from Devil Wears Prada)
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I work at a radio station. Before the advent of AI, I listened to most of the new music we received to know if it was any good. Now, whenever I receive a song with AI-generated image, I don't even press play, I know it's gonna be crap. I don't feel even remotely guilty for it.
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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@Tutanota Do all of these and then switch to graphene.
@bryce @atax1a @rossmadness @corbet this doesn't work cos it sounds too much like "hi, have you heard about Jesus? you met me eleven seconds ago and I'm already assigning you homework"
@davidgerard @atax1a @rossmadness @corbet What specifically doesn't work? If you're referring to my comment about asking developers, respectfully, to add anti-AI contribution rules, I'm speaking from personal experience of a 100% success rate.
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Also, "AI is bad because copyright" style thinking can't condemn the destruction of old books to feed the LLM's
If they bought the books, and copyright law says they can train on them, on that account there's nothing wrong with destroying them
But if your concern is what they're doing to the shared commons of knowledge to which all humans lay a rightful moral claim, then of course it's horrific
Those books could have been read by countless humans
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385994
#HackerNews #AI #companies #physical #books #rare #books #preservation #digital #archiving
I would envision that as a group of open source developers, collectively taking ownership over important bits of the Ruby eco system, so that the load can be shared.
Might be a pipe dream but also might be necessary in a Ruby ecosystem that doesn't particularly grow, it seems.
@halfbyte I think that Ruby as a whole might be too wide net to cast, but I think it could happen on a more granular level (like a framework or library with ecosystem, such as Sidekiq). I actually proposed it years ago for Hanami: https://discourse.hanakai.org/t/idea-hanami-community-organization-on-github/483
On the other hand, I understand how it could be seen as additional burden for maintainers or the parent project.
This was quite interesting. Since being diagnosed I've had real battles with how I feel about it. In the beginning there was a tidal wave of relief. A life of feeling broken inside or different. To finally understand I'm OK and just wired differently, not wrong. Perhaps a chance to have a real conversation with myself that doesn't involve constant internal self-flagellation. But then came some strong resistance from the people in my life who I love and trust the most. It's not a real condition. I'm leaning into it. It's the medicalisation of the human condition and I'm just looking for attention. That was very very hard. Fedi was brilliant. But I continue to live with imposter syndrome. And the constant narrative in the press that I may have been misdiagnosed, or there is an overdiagnosis - maybe I am stupid. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everyone is wrong and I am a broken boy. Even more so for wanting or daring to believe there's a reason for it all. And I'm back where I was 4 or 5 years ago. But looking at this article I'm reminded that there were soooo many assessments. So many different people. So many interviews and tests. With people stood in the corner of the room with clipboards whilst I undertook a series of physical tasks. At every stage there was a sense that so many people want to go through this process because they've seen something they identify with on social media. People seeking diagnosis. I pointed out at every stage I never asked about autism. I never even thought about it. I didn't even think I had autism and were they sure they wanted me to carry on with the process. And at the end of every stage, there was an emphatic yes. There is a range in the diagnostic assessment process (which is very very long and thorough, with people who have lots of fancy qualifications and who have spent their lives working to get to the stage of their career they're currently at). And if there's any sense it's inconclusive of they feel there's any question, then they do not diagnose. They say it's inconclusive. That they can't be 100% sure so don't confirm. They were very very clear with me (and in the subsequent reports) that there was absolutely no question. I was in the top range. The absolute best at autism. I don't know why. To be honest I still haven't really read it. I should probably do that, thinking about it. But I'm minded, reading articles like this..... how could so many people - so many people who are very highly paid doctors and scientists or whatever - how can so so many people over so many different assessments, get it wrong? I don't know what autism looks like. I'm just me. For the most part the me I've always been. And for a moment I had a chance to have a real identity. To accept myself and ask others to accept me. But all the time the narrative's that I'm a fool - misdiagnosed, deluded and just wanting attention - I won't know peace with it. The end. Sorry. Just wanted to get that out. X
A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism
@TheBreadmonkey A lot of people speaking about accommodations for having autism, and I am coming to the opposite interpretation of this area. I feel it is more accurate to say that I am making accommodations for other (non-autistic) people because I think my way is right and theirs is wrong. A situation has rules, I follow the rules and neurotypicals do not, I then make accommodations for them being that way and not getting it. After 50 year's of being told I was wrong I am just being honest...
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Our beautiful city became unlivable 😓
Although I am proud to be Palestinian, living amid destruction and uncertainty has made it extremely difficult to continue my education, develop my skills, and work toward giving back to my country.
I now have an opportunity to change this by continuing my education at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where I can study in a peaceful environment and pursue a field I have dreamed of for a long time.
I still need to raise enough to cover my living expenses so I can meet the requirements to evacuate from Gaza. I would be incredibly grateful if you could read my story and consider supporting me: https://chuffed.org/project/193798
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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OK adesso che abbiamo messo da parte "gli eccessi della cultura woke" sono sicuro che aboliremo tutte le disuguaglianze sociali ahah certo certo. Cialtroni ridicoli.
Iran's Pres.: Better to End War Today, Ground Beef Relief, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-08-21/iran-s-pres-better-to-end-war-today-ground-beef-relief-more?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg
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thats what the ladies call me
I'm on this picture and don't like it.
@buherator The clarification in the alt text is a masterpiece.
Faut voir les personnalités que ces partis mettent en avant aussi, genre le PCF n'a pas mieux que Roussel à sortir ?
@PhieLaidMignon si au moins c'était Gaëtan Roussel...
