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If you have your client configured for IMAP, Thunderbird will synchronise with the new server.

If you did not transfer your emails from your old server to your new server, that means the new state is “empty inbox” and synchronising means “removing everything that’s available locally”.

To fix this, either do a server-to-server transfer from the old email provider to the new one (there are tools to do that, like imapsync), or try importing emails from a backup into Thunderbird after synchronisation succeeds, so that Thunderbird will upload the messages. It’s possible that you will need to use a tool to rewrite the message IDs so that Thunderbird treats the messages as new items.

If you have already cancelled your old server provider (so a server-to-server transfer is not possible), restoring from backups may be your only solution.

If you don’t have any backups, your email may not be lost. The first thing you need to do is copy Thunderbird’s data folder to a backup location, just in case Thunderbird tries to do maintenance on the file while you’re performing recovery. Then, use a tool like Thunderbird Reset Status (I can’t quickly find a more up to date tool but they probably exist) to unmark the emails in the Thunderbird mail store as deleted. Then set up backups for your new mail server.

If you use the trick above and Thunderbird starts deleting emails again, repeat the trick but break the email account settings first. Then, set up a second connection to your email account, drag over all the undeleted emails so they get uploaded to the new server.

Mastodon is just one of many applications that uses AP for their own custom purposes. MissKey and derived software has some kind of emoji response feature to posts that’s basically unimplemented anywhere else. Lemmy’s boosting trick to make comment sync make interoperability with timeline based social media a spamfest.

Maybe I should check again, but last time I looked into it there were no commonly used ActivityPub compliant servers. Everyone does their own thing just a little different to make the protocol work for their purposes. Even similar tools (see: MissKey/Mastodon, Lemmy/Kbin) took a while to actually interoperate.

As far as I can tell, the idea behind the original design, where servers are mostly content agnostic and clients decide on rendering content in specific ways, hasn’t been executed by anyone; servers and clients have been mixed together for practical reasons and that’s why we get these issues.

It’s very useful in sealed devices (smart watches, ear phones). Much better than pogo pins on your skin; whatever metal they pick, someone is going to be allergic. Things like active pencils (Apple Pencil, but als the Windows open standard ones) also make a lot of sense to charge like that.

I also use a wireless charging stand for my phone. Most phone stands have an opening for a cable, but for some reason that opening is always at just the wrong space, or not right for the cable. K They’re also useful when using your phone for navigation in your car. I find a cable sticking from the bottom of my phone quite a handful to manage, especially as the USB ports are all so close to my gear shifter.

For those still sporting lightning iPhones, it also provides a universal charging option.

Oh, and then there’s the edge case of “I want to plug something into my phone and also charge it”. Tiny flash drives, 3.5mm converters, you name it. Most phones only have one USB port, so using it for anything but charging usually means not being able to charge unless you go wireless.

Still, wired is the way to to moet of the times. Wireless is just a nice backup, and maybe a fun gimmick in certain furniture.

Building trust is hard. It’s easier to trust a few companies than to trust a million unknown servers. It’s why I prefer Wikipedia over amazingnotskgeneratedatalltopicalinformarion.biz when I’m looking up simple facts.

Furthermore, Facebook isn’t selling data directly. At least, not if they’re following the law. They got caught doing and fined doing that once and it’s not their main mode of operation. Like Google, their data is their gold mine, selling it directly would be corporate suicide. They simply provide advertisers with spots to put an ad, but when it comes to data processing, they’re doing all the work before advertisers get a chance to look at a user’s profile.

On the other hand, scraping ActivityPub for advertisers would be trivial. It’d be silly to go through the trouble to set up something like Threads if all you want is information, a basic AP server that follows ever Lemmy community and soaks up gigabytes an hour can be written as a weekend project.

Various Chinese data centers are scraping the hell out of my server, and they carry referer headers from other Fediverse servers. I’ve blocked half of East Asia and new IP addresses keep popping up. Whatever data you think Facebook may be selling, someone else is already selling based on your Fediverse behaviour. Whatever Petal Search and all the others are doing, I don’t believe for a second they’re being honest about it.

Most Fediverse software defaults to federation and accepting inbound follow requests. At least, Mastodon, Lemmy, GoToSocial, Kbin, and one of those fish named mastodonlikes did. Profiles are often public by default too. The vulnerability applies to a large section of the Fediverse default settings.

I’d like to think people would switch to the Fediverse despite the paradigm shift. The privacy risks are still there if there’s only one company managing them, so I’d prefer it if people used appropriate tools for sharing private stuff. I think platforms like Circles (a Matrix-based social media system) which leverage encryption to ensure nobody can read things they shouldn’t have been able to, are much more appropriate. Perhaps a similar system can be laid on top of ActivityPub as well (after all, every entity already has a public/private key pair).

I don’t believe you can do it natively. However, I have managed to convince my phone to swap from slow 2.4GHz to 5.2GHz by using the Fritz! Wlan app, which exposes some more WiFi control.

I can imagine recent Android versions having patched that out, though. WiFi permissions are usually only granted to system apps these days.

I believe there’s also an ADB command line way, but I don’t remember it. Furthermore, you could try looking into developer options to see if there’s a toggle in there, or perhaps a method to select the WiFi country so you can pick one that won’t connect to your 5.2GHz band.

As long as the SSID and password are the same, and both are routed to the same network, IoT apps shouldn’t struggle to connect, though. You can try temporarily disabling 5.2 GHz in the router but I kind of doubt that it’ll fix your problem unless you have a really uncommon setup. Even with my weird guest network setup, cheap tuya IoT seems to connect just fine. Tuya all goes through the cloud anyway.

I don’t think dansup was in the wrong here. Yes, it’s a security issue I suppose, but the problem lies within the underlying protocol. Any server you interact with can ignore any privacy markers you add to posts, you’re just not supposed to do that.

Whether this is a 0day depends on what you expect out of the Fediverse. If you treat it like a medium where every user or server has the potential to be hostile, like you probably should, this is a mere validation logic bug. If you treat it like the social media many of its servers are trying to be, it’s a gross violation of your basic privacy expectations.

This is exactly why ActivityPub makes for such a mediocre replacement for the big social media apps. You have to let go of any assumptions that at least some of your data remains exclusive to the ad algorithm and accept that everything you post or look at or scroll past is being recorded by malicious servers. Which, in turn, kind of makes it a failure, as replacing traditional social media is exactly what it’s supposed to do.

The Fediverse also lacks tooling to filter out the idiots and assholes. That kind of moderation is a lot easier when you have a centralised database and moderation staff on board, but the network of tiny servers with each their own moderation capabilities will promote the worst behaviour as much as the best behaviour.

But really, the worst part is the UX for apps. Fediverse apps suck at setting expectations. Of course Lemmy publishes when you’ve upvoted what posts, that’s essential for how the protocol works, but what other Reddit clone has a public voting history? Same with anyone using any form of the word “private” or even “unlisted”, as those only apply in a perfect world where servers have no bugs and where there are no malicious servers.

The market runs Windows, so it would entirely depend on how well Windows runs on them. If you’re buying an Apple chip to run macOS, you’re already getting the best deal out of Apple anyway.

Given the history of Exynos I doubt Samsung will ever make anything high performance. If you want high performance ARM, you’ll probably want to go for something like Ampère, like the workstation that System76 is selling right now.

The modern Snapdragons seem more than fast enough for most desktop use. They have PCIe capabilities so in theory you could just hook up a GPU and use them in a gaming rig. The most power efficient gaming rig could hilariously be a Qualcomm CPU paired with an Intel GPU. Qualcomm’s media encoder/decoder is also leagues ahead of the desktop competition, so streamers may get an edge there if OBS can take advantage of the hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen on reviews, some games don’t like to run on ARM. Performance is just fine (very impressive for laptop GPUs!) but without stability, you’re not attracting many gamers.

If Qualcom targets the desktop market, I expect them to go all in on Apple Mini style computers. Their Snapdragon chips inside those ultra thin desktops Lenovo sells pack a surprising punch and they’re more than good enough for most desktop use. Taking the fight to gaming seems like picking an uphill battle for no reason.

Unfortunately, modern ARM designs all seem to go the same route as Apple, with unified memory for both CPU and GPU. You can run the CPU on swappable DIMMs, but the GPU needs more bandwidth than that, so you’ll need to get soldered RAM. I was hoping LPCAMM2 would fix that, but Framework and AMD tried and couldn’t get their new AMD chip to work without soldering the memory for stable performance, so I’m thinking the days of swappable memory are coming to an end.

ActivityPub has a feature where most post objects can actually have different language representations within one item. On a protocol level, MissKey/Mastodon/Lemmy can have the same message in different languages, and the client can pick the one to display. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen anyone make use of it. Seems like a waste. If used, users with their display language set to German/Japanese will see the “machine translated:” post first, and people with English as a language will see the original. English first, and good implementations would allow the user to switch languages to compare.

I find that approach really diminishes some of the great scenes that rely on pauses and pace for dramatic effect. I agree that some Star Trek stuff is rather slow (and it feels even slower when you hit one of the worse episodes) but defaulting to accelerating content just doesn’t feel right.

Lots of YouTube is intentionally lengthened for view time/metrics balance to entice the algorithm. Spiffing Brit does this very well by padding his videos with nonsense for the first five or ten minutes, however much time he needs to pad the meat and potatoes, and his viewership metrics show it works. For that reason I do find myself speeding up YouTube, though having SponsorBlock on also helps a lot.

The platform itself does, but you’re not getting free compute as easily as with the American alternatives. You’ll have to hook up your own server(s) if you want to enable whatever pipelines you prefer.

Gitlab was founded in Europe, employs developers from all over the world, but has gone to the American stock exchange.

I think the open source, self hosted version should be fine. After all, you’re not buying anything if you’re just using the free version.

If you buy official support, for a company for instance, I’d look for European alternatives.

It’s not really that strange. Pick any country and there’s a good chance half the population remembers the time there was a literal monopoly on things like telecoms and television (either exclusively privatised or state-run). Even in countries where the phone system was almost completely privatised, there was a good chance that hooking up a phone that wasn’t made by the phone company was a criminal offence (or at the very least would provide reason to permanently disconnect your house).

Telephone cables are (well, should be) public utilities. The electromagnetic spectrum is shared as well. From the fiber optic lines underground to the antennae on large poles, all levels of government are involved in any kind of telecommunication system. If the government doesn’t want any of that (like when the Soviets aborted plans for a pseudo-internet out of fear of information spread), then it’s pretty much disallowed by default.

The current situation most countries find themselves in when it comes to telecoms, where governments allow just about every citizen to freely communicate over a variety of communication providers, is something extremely recent. Factor in encrypted communications that weren’t backdoored by the government, and we’ve got about 10-20 years of history.

Dit kan alleen maar de bedoeling zijn van de BBB. Ze zijn tegen het concept van veestapelvermindering, dus door zo veel mogelijk onzekerheid en spanning te creëren rond de plannen die we al hadden, wordt het bestaande werk van politici die wel iets nuttigs willen doen langzaam ongedaan gemaakt. Met een beetje geluk worden de boeren er boos van, kunnen ze weer lekker wegen blokkeren, dat heeft de BBB eerder ook al aan de macht geholpen!

Two possible reasons here:

1. Discord is blocking Nord from password reset links on a network level (probably because VPN servers are second only to Tor when it comes to malicious traffic). Frankly, I would’ve expected a CAPTCHA page instead, but it’s technically possible for an error to show up that way. You can try bypassing it by manually editing the address to make sure it starts with https.

2. Your VPN is actively trying to sslstrip you. Aside from the whole “that’s literally a crime people go to prison for” thing, that means you cannot ever trust that VPN again. Just because Discord bothered to secure their website doesn’t mean other apps do. You may already have been hacked if that is the case.

I’d be extremely cautious with VPN software because you’re essentially trusting them to be your ISP. If they’re doing permanent 40% off deals or (god forbid) sponsoring YouTubers, you should never trust them. It’s both funny and depressing how companies like PIA and Nord somehow convinced everyone that VPNs make your internet more secure while also not getting people to think for even a second about how much they trust these shady ass Caiman Island tax dodge scheme companies.

PII includes any information that can be used to link or correlate personal information. That includes usernames and account IDs. Every like/upvote contains that information, as well as a timestamp, indicating a unique account but also behaviour. The system doesn’t just share a list of names, it shares a list of names with a lot of context. Stuff like this is also why pseudonymisation isn’t sufficient to avoid GDPR obligations.

Usernames aren’t sensitive information, so you can handle it without too much special care (although you do need to ensure basic protection of login credentials against data leaks, for instance by encrypting databases as a minimum requirement). They are PII, though, which means you’re obligated to take some level of care and ensure that the information can be corrected or redacted everywhere.

The GDPR simply wasn’t written with something like the Fediverse in mind. My server knowing when your account upvoted what posts on a third server would be ridiculous if we’re talking about Twitter and Facebook, but it’s the core of vote counting on Lemmy.

Their reasoning isn’t necessarily bad:

They do explain their reasoning:

They use Threads as an example of what could happen to the Fediverse, but who knows how many companies are out there with fake Mastodon/Lemmy servers, subscribing to as many feeds as they can, letting the Fediverse handle delivering structured, scrapable data for them so they can work on their AIs or thread intel or marketing profiles.

They also have a point with their attempts to keep likes/follows private: that’s something a lot of users want, and something a lot of users are surprised to learn doesn’t exist on the Fediverse. The Fediverse is more metadata than data and that’s not something everyone likes sharing. With monoliths like Veklar, you only need to trust one server not to datamine your every move rather than thousands of servers.

Speaking of privacy, most of the Fediverse isn’t compatible with any privacy laws I’ve seen. For a bunch of hobbyists that’s probably fine because privacy enforcement agencies have better things to do, but for a company that intends to make money and wants to actually become an alternative, that’s a problem. A GDPR-compliant Fediverse server would need to record which other servers which bits of PII have been shared, how that information is protected (does lemmy.world even encrypt their database?), and with what other servers that information was shared in turn. That’s practically impossible. The Fediverse exists in Europe because it’s unimportant and unprofessional enough not to attract lawsuits.

They also have a good point about moderation. I could trivially spam every Lemmy server full of CSAM with maybe $100 in cloud credit to the point the FBI becomes interested. The Fediverse, and in particular Lemmy, is a bit like the Old Internet, assuming everyone has good intentions and that the minority with bad intentions can be handled by human interaction. New servers don’t get vetted, new moderation environments don’t get verified, and server administrators are left to their own devices to get rid of botnets and other malicious entities if they don’t want their server to become a spam relay.

I think the upsides of the Fediverse are worth the risks. Veklar clearly thinks otherwise. They’re not necessarily wrong, they just have different priorities.

De wetenschap zit vol met internationale samenwerkingen tussen wetenschappers. Projecten kunnen (deels) door Amerika betaald worden zonder dat wetenschappers direct in dienst zijn. Aangezien de Amerikanen de afgelopen honderd jaar nogal hebben geïnvesteerd in dingen als hun geologische dienst en hun maritieme onderzoek, zijn veel landen van samenwerking afhankelijk om productieve wetenschap te bedrijven.

Onderzoeken die vele jaren lopen, kunnen abrupt stop worden gezet als data en eventueel geld door de Amerikanen wordt afgesneden. Met de huidige politieke mix verwacht ik ook niet dat de Nederlandse overheid het potentiële geldtekort voor gaat schieten. Ik vrees dat dit voor een heel stel Nederlandse wetenschappers gaat betekenen “meewerken of je onderzoek stopzetten”.

MLS is designed to support that use case, but the spec to actually intercommunicate between services is still being developed by the MIMI group. MIMI is the logical but entirely optional extension of MLS.

I don’t think carriers will want random chat apps to send messages for free to their infrastructure for spam prevention alone. Companies like Element and Wire are probably going all in on this, but Signal doesn’t even want you to use clients they didn’t compile, let alone federate between services.

I believe WhatsApp has chosen to license its API in a documented fashion rather than implement a cross platform messaging protocol after they were forced to open up by the DMA. That said, there are a bunch of Facebook emails in the MIMI protocol discussions, so at least one of their messengers may still end up implementing MIMI when it’s finally finished.

I believe booze can be exported as concentrated syrup and turned back into liquid in the country of destination for tax purposes. I know for sure at least one European whiskey company exports part of its inventory this way. If Jack Daniels uses that system, that would explain why it’d show up as being of UK origin.