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Wayland Protocol 1.39 released
This new release contains two new protocols:
- ext-data-control - allow privileged clients to control data devices, e.g. a clipboard manager.
- ext-workspace - receive events about and control workspaces, useful for e.g. workspace indicators.
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at Amazon but I get your drift...
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One of the talks at #DitchSummit is how we can make use of AI such as ChatGPT, but by asking questions to multiple AI and a normal search engine, comparing and contrasting results and applying critical thinking to these results.
Asking one source is not going to cut it as far as doing good research is concerned. A lot of good ideas on this topic.
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Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
A better Thunderbird? Let's take a look!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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What fool put a background logo over a non-mobile friendly page?
In any event, this feature set looks nice.
I had no idea!
Wonder if any of that stuff will make it upstream and if not if there’s good reason?
As per the FAQ:
We will submit all changes to upstream to eventually benefit Thunderbird.
Is there a way to use this as a drop in replacement easily? Like maybe move my Thunderbird profile folder into a Bettterbord folder, or maybe an automatic import option?
This looks promising but I don't really want to set up my email accounts and settings from scratch.
As per the FAQ they seem to share the exact same profile so you can seamlessly switch between them (provided both are the same dot release).
Edit: in case that doesn't work, run betterbird -p and select the right profile. For me it chose the wrong one.
~/.thunderbird/ to~/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/did work for me. I might try betterbird sometime.
Ngl that link puts me slightly off. It reads exactly like what people booted for very good reasons say
The following paragraph shows how so-called cancel culture was used weaponising [...]
And in the email, Mozilla talks about him violating their "inclusivity" policy... we also don't know what was reported, only the reasons stated.
Not saying that it wasn't unjust, just that we only have 1 perspective and it's written in a way that raises some red flags.
1. No specific instances of violations are referenced in the CPG emails
2. There's no language in the CPG emails regarding prior warnings
3. Suspension from the council is clearly out-of-process
If you read the developer's background and reasons for the fork, it's actually a lot more....... cringe.
Pretty much, the guy lost his shit because Mozilla is woke / SJW / DEI and all the lovely buzz words used by certain people.
Thanks for sharing this, looked into it myself and that's quite unfortunate.
Why does every piece of cool software end up having some reactionary midlife crisis behind them?
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Too lazy to look it up today maybe later. There has got to be a term for people who just can't wait to point out whatever they deam as a social injustice to appear right about their choice or signal to others in a feeble attempt at taking the moral high ground. OSS is becoming more and more bogged down by people who spend more time on the politics and whether or not their feelings were hurt rather than the actual utility of the project. This is the equivalent of 'you offended me and you should feel bad' when you are the one being offended. Get over it. Stop trying to drag everything through the mud in perpetuity because somebody on the internet hurt your feelings.
Turns out nothing will live up to this standard over that timeline so maybe find a more constructive thing with your time.
It‘s coming along in Thunderbird, they continuously mention it in their monthly development blog.
Exchange Web Services support in RustNovember saw an increase in the number of team members contributing to the project and to the number of features shipped! Users on our Daily release channel can help to test newly-released features such as copy and move messages from EWS to another protocol, marking a message as read/unread, and local storage functionality. Keep track of feature delivery here.
If you aren’t already using Daily or Beta, please consider downloading to get early access to new features and fixes, and to help us uncover issues early.
I came here because of the clickbait title, ready to lambast thunderbird for the empty promises... But it turns out that they're pretty clear on the specifics of what separates them from Thunderbird.
But I'm not gonna let that righteous indignation go to waste, so instead I'm gonma rip Sourav Rudra('s writing skill) a new one. Prepare your (writing skill's) ass for a kicking Sourav.
Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
Better features?! Can I also have updated elements and improved aspects? Maybe superior components too??? Ah. A girl can dream.
Vague buzzwords and nothing more. "Better features" is not only subjective, but also vague enough to be almost entirely meaningless. Let's hope the rest of the article does better.
Thankfully, the author included a shortlist of "Must-Know Bits." I'm sure that's a good summary of what's to follow.
— Features many long-requested features.
I'm glad they're finally listening to my request of compatibility with the Lovense remote control vibrator app's API. Now I can feel good about receiving emails instead of stressed! They sure took their sweet time, it's been long [time units] since I requested it!
How long and who requested? Or better yet, what features????? Why should I care???????? Please, give me somethinbg concrete to grip onto!
— A more streamlined alternative to Thunderbird.
Streamlined! Wow! Is it also more efficient, and higher quality? Will they make it sustainable? Maybe it can also be more ethically sourved.
Could you be more vague please? This almost accidentally told me something about the changes they've made.
— Highly customizable, thanks to Add-ons and Themes.
Like Thunderbird? Like the addons you can find at the official Thunderbird site at addons.thunderbird.net?
Do they also plan to send and receive email in betterbird? Will it work with a graphical desktop environment? Will it be computer software? Or does the failure to mention these assumed "features" imply that it will diverge from Thunderbird in these key aspects?
Deeply shit lead-in. The rest of the article stands in stark contrast, being actually specific and informative. It's like ol Sourav wrote an actually good article, then some idiot editor slapped it in ChatGPT and told it to fart out a title, subtitle, and highlights list. And then ChatGPT ignored all that and made the most generic tech article heading of all time.
FWIW, itsfoss.com: you should fire that editor for being a completely incompetent moron.
The homepage of their website also has a very 'holier-than-thou' feel to it, it's not horrifically bad, but something about how it's written makes me feel like I'm being preached to by a televangelist.
In linux it doesnt have a tray with mail count that sends a notification when new mail arrives. It's a pretty basic feature nowadays to be honest. It didn't even have the auto fetch every 30 minutes when I switched!?!! Like Thunderbird expected me to click on the sync button every 30 minutes. That's not how people use email I'm sorry.
I agree that all those calendar and contacts features are completely unnecessary and that it could integrate with other tools instead, but the main use is lacking.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.
[a] Fork That Promises Better Features
Have they released anything yet? Or are we at the project stage, where they're yelling at their CLI confused about git?
Promises are cheap, releases matter. I mean I could announce a project called Betterfox, promising to bring better features to a well-known browser. But in reality I'm by myself, overly ambitious, and going to leave the github page abandoned after the initial commit.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article
A wise choice in this case. It's 23 paragraphs that mostly describe standard Thunderbird features (as the author usually does not use email clients) and only one list with three (!) bullet points of new features in Betterbird.
Edit: to save you a click, here's the list from the article (the actual feature list on the project page is longer):
Some notable features include:
- System Tray Icon (Linux)
- Accent Colors (for folders)
- Multi-line Inbox View (disabled by default)
System Tray Icon?!? What is this sourcery?
Sounds so futuristic. I mean I may be stuck in the 70s reading my electronic mail in pine on a pdp11, so that may influence my judgment.
Well, this solves nothing. I don't really know what's going on with Thunderbird but it is looking like a piece of crap, the latest UI changes made it worse, a few months after the other revision that was actually much more visually pleasing. Is it that hard to look at what others do instead of adding random boxes everywhere?
Anyways, the worst part is that right now Thunderbird wastes more RAM than RoundCube running inside a browser with the Calendars and Contacts plugins. Makes no sense.
I tried it, it was a massive pain in the ass trying to add accounts because they want to use every security mechanism under the sun to secure communications, and I'm using it in a VPN and can't disable all that shit. You'd think you had it and then the next time you opened it you're back to putting in passwords and convincing it to run.
Gave up, back to Thunderbird.
The only reasons I sometime back looked into betterbird was thunderbird breaking TbSync and its companion "Provider for Exchange ActiveSync", which I really need for work, and because of their tray support (I don't like the modern way which rejects the benefits of the tray functionality, or notification area which is how it's also called now a days).
For the first thing, I was able to live with thunderbird by reverting the upgrade and keep its package from upgrading at all, until the two extensions I required eventually supported the new thunderbird version which broke them. I looked into betterbird as an alternative since someone suggested it given betterbird wasn't moving as fast at that time as thunderbird was, and at that moment they were not breaking the extensions I'm force to use if wanting to use thunderbird as email client at work.
For the tray, ohh well, it doesn't work on wayland if you don't use gnome or kde (I use wayfire), so it couldn't help me at all. I found a bug reported on mozilla (not sure why not also on betterbird) which matches my case, so no luck with their tray support, :(
Other than that I really didn't find a compelling reason to use betterbird instead of thunderbird. But if I were a gnome or kde user, perhaps its tray support might be compelling enough.
#OTD in 1904.
The first of Virginia Woolf's published writings, "Haworth, November 1904", an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, appears anonymously in a women's supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. (A book review written later has appeared in the same journal a week earlier.)
Books by Virginia Woolf at PG:
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Thou hast let billionaires play god, and now they’re treating thy government like a game of Twister—one hand on greed, one foot on corruption, and a fucking faceplant right into dystopia.
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Musk may own trump, but what a money losing investment.
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the fediverse account didn't grow much though 🤔
is there any bot owner out there that could help me understand that gap?
possible causes I can think of:
- bot filtering/throttling is stronger on fediverse than on bluesky
- account landed in a federated blacklist
- server landed in a federated blacklist
- fediverse community doesn't care about that kind of content
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LibreOffice
libreoffice.org/
I use this for over 10 years now. In my opinion it's much better than Microsoft Office, which I am forced to use at work. But I use LibreOffice wherever possible, especially in my private life.
Death of Windows 10:
This is a pretty good write up on what your options are. I'd say 'Go Linux' myself.
✔️ backup is up-to-date
✔️ new #linuxmint is aaaaaaalmost there
✔️ I'm in the mood for some fun
So before I soonish install the new linuxmint (with #xfce btw baby 😎) is there anything fun I can try, to break my current system? And no, rm -rf is only a meme, give me something cool 😅
Pls nothing that goes hard on the ressources, I only want a system breakdown, not a hardware one....
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21 December 1926 | A Polish woman, Henryka Mank, was born in Warsaw. In Jan 1943 arrested in a roundup at a train station in Wolbrom where she went to buy cheaper food for her family.
In #Auschwitz from 29 Jan 1943.
No. 32367
In 1944 transferred to KL Ravensbrück. She survived.
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