Thunderbird needs to allocate some resources for implementing #OMEMO for #XMPP. It's honestly a higher priority in my book than perfecting their #Matrix implementation.
XMPP is a rich protocol and the OG secure chat standard by which Matrix is inspired. It also has a massive usage proportional to other methods but the adoption is largely silent due to the federated nature of the protocol and the attitudes of the users.
Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person.
...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.
#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.
The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...
A thread 🧵
Instagram blocked the #joinPixelfed hashtag not long ago, and Twitter too.
Don't forget that 😉
App recommendations in Spotlight become more prominent in iOS 17, to the degree that they look like ads.
Spotlight claims this gambling app is the “top hit” for the query "mr" which iOS 17 have autocompleted to "mr green" but that gambling app isn’t even the top result for “mr” on the App Store. That’s two games with a 12+ age rating.
In this week's #Linux and #opensource news video, we have Github Copilot being sued for copyright infrigement, the new @thunderbird redesign, and Google's new giant AI project.
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