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I am seeking an e-mail client with the following features. I was happily using Thunderbird 78 and 102, but the former keeps quitting unexpectedly in Windows 10, 11, and even 7, where it never did before! 102 is tolerable, but anything after that is a mess.
1. Must work with NVDA screen reader. I've tried several supposedly simple programs, but they were all inaccessible.
2. Must have standard menus, accessible via the alt and arrow keys as well as hotkeys for sending, replying, forwarding, etc. I want something with a clean interface as well, not cluttered like Thunderbird 115 and later.
3. Must work with Windows 7. It is my preferred operating system and I will not waste time arguing about it.
4. Must be able to read and reply to messages without downloading them. Thunderbird has this feature. Essentially, the work is done on the server via the client.
5. Must be able to search the bodies of e-mails. For some reason, Thunderbird 115 and probably higher appears to lack this important feature.
6. Must work with GMail, preferably natively, but app passwords are also fine. This is the main reason I am even using a client. Yahoo has a wonderful Basic HTML version, but Gmail does not.
7. I don't need other features aside from the normal functions of an e-mail client i.e. send, receive, allow for multiple accounts with separate inboxes, spell-checking (optional), signature (optional), and sound alerts (optional but preferred). I don't use other services that I need to connect with my e-mail client i.e. cloud, calendar, contacts, meeting platforms, etc. I also neither need nor want ai features in such a program.

#accessibility #blind #email #e-mail #GMail #NVDA #programming #technology #Windows7

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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools (2024) https://lobste.rs/s/kt0yxd #programming
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/04/12/use-renovate/

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I wanna talk about the political movement of the Open Source community. If you spend enough time on fedi, you surely will have heard *plenty* of criticisms of what's going on in Open Source, and rightfully so.

So I'm curious, what do we think the Open Source community *should be doing* in order to achieve important progressive and anti-authoritarian goals? What should the next generation of programmers be thinking of and working on in this space?

A special rule: You're only allowed to say "don't X" if you have at least as many "do Y" recommendations. Preferably, I'd like to see more do's than don't's.

Boosts welcome

#tech #openSource #FOSS #progressive #programming #askFedi

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What are you doing this weekend? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/jmdchp #ask #programming

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Implementing Undo - Computerphile https://lobste.rs/s/eulzvm #video #programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6PqsZ65Mg4

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Reverse Engineering Comanche Terrain Maps https://lobste.rs/s/qcafwq #games #programming #retrocomputing
https://pikuma.com/blog/comanche-maps-reverse-engineering

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It's been made clear to me that one of the reasons I was hired for this job is my boss read the README files of some of my OSS projects and was impressed at how clear and detailed a writer I am.

Just in case you thought written-English wasn't a useful skill for a developer: It got me this job. Work on your writing skills if you want to survive in tech.

#Programming #GetFediHired #Writing

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What are you doing this week? by @caius https://lobste.rs/s/nvkrb9 #ask #programming

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Speciesism, Patriarchy, Christianity, Islam, White Supremacy, Sex Negativity, Cisheteromononormativity, Ageism, Ableism, Psychiatry, Zionism, Anarchism, Capitalism, Cryptocurrency, Pornography, Sex Work, Masturbation, Sexual, Drugs, Prisons, Pedophilia

Long post

Edit: I'm appending more examples from the bottom of the list so you can review your favourite/boost

I often get the feeling that most of you would unfollow if you read all my posts and replies and honestly I'm fine with that so I'm going to just state a bunch of my controversial opinions now to rip off the bandaid

Eating other animals is murder and paying for their flesh and secretions is the same as hiring an assassin

Billions of land animals are killed every year for human taste preference (trillions if you count weight estimates from sea creatures): there is no greater injustice past or present and there is therefore little to no suffering that could possibly fall upon humans as a result of correcting this that would ever not be worth it.

Dogs and cats can be vegan with supplemented diets for taurine for example

Its in my bio but the bible and the quran both advocate killing queer people so there is no way to call them good sources of morality.

Speciesist language that establishes a moral hierarchy of species or perpetuates depersonalizing or deindividualizing stereotypes are harmful and there is no good reason to use them: such as chicken pig weasel dog cow snake rat inhuman, "animal" (as insult or as a way to imply humans aren't animals) many such examples dm for a long txt

Sex negative language hurts women and queer people most such as fuck, blow/suck, dick, pussy, jerk-off, slut/tart/whore

White supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteromononormativity, ageism and ableism are real. Representation matters.

Children can be trans and they deserve gender affirming care especially hormone blockers which are themselves the compromise in this discussion as they are reversible

Children are widely regarded as property, status symbols or as a pets to satisfy the parent's desires and generally speaking aren't given enough rights for example freedom of association freedom of speech freedom of movement

Schools are prisons designed to instill unquestioning obedience to arbitrary authority more than anything else. They teach children that their free time is never truly theirs that they should be dedicating their life to the institution that knowledge and truth comes from authority not inquiry and, in schools with uniforms, that self expression is dangerous and will be punished

Borders kill for no good reason, they don't stop international crime but they do prevent periphery citizens from attempting to flee to the imperial core that is pillaging them. It is far easier for a citizen of the imperial core to get a passport almost anywhere in the world than it is for someone in the periphery to get a visa in the imperial core. Borders are the primary cause of modern slavery.

Any citizen of a country in the imperial core is a beneficiary of neocolonialism.

The vast majority of people believe one or more of the justifying myths of kyriarchy, by that I mean that they have beliefs that are either white supremacist human supermacist misogynist ableist queermisic ageist cisheteromononormative etc.

Private property is theft. Here I am using the socialist definition of private property: when your boss takes a tax off your work and gives you back a fraction of the value you create that is theft

Money in any system creates an exponential power imbalance and will lead to systems of domination

Actually private cryptocurrency like Monero XMR (not bitcoin or ethereum) is a reasonable engagement with money for anarchist praxis and as an anti surveillence and anti censorship technique

There is no justifiable use case for generative AI in programming or as part of any other creative output

Signal App is not censorship resistant or anonymous enough to facilitate revolutionary organization and something decentralized like SimpleX, Cwtch or Briar is preferable.

I2P>Tor (for hosting hidden servers) as its more censorship resistant

Hierarchical organization will produce societies with hierarchical power structures and is antithetical to the ideals of socialism: ie: marxism leninism is wrong and counter productive and you should all be anarchists.

Israel has no right to exist, nor does any country, but israel is built on colonialism and genocide just like the United States of America, Austrailia, New Zealand, South Africa etc. and as such israel shot first. There is no moral equivalence between genocidal violence and liberatory armed resistance.

Psychiatry as a field is first and foremost an immune response from kyriarchy to individualize social problems and medicalize anti authoritarian tendancies. https://veganism.social/@ambiguous_yelp/115905636752429264

Pets exist for the benefit of humans not non-humans who have their reproduction controlled and monitored for profit and are separated from their families kept in isolation a lot of the time and punished for displaying natural behaviours or for having mental health problems.

Sex work deserves no less respect than modelling or athleticism.

Pornography and masturbation doesn't atrophy your brain you fell for a christian misinformation campaign

Pedophiles need therapy, killing them or putting them in prison just discourages people from getting help

Drug addiction is a health issue and largely a matter of bodily autonomy especially when done in private. Criminalizing drugs makes the drugs themself and accessing them more dangerous and discourages people from seeking professional help

Prisons are universities of crime and countries that focus on rehabilitation have lowest recidivism rates

#Vegan #Veganism #HumanSupremacy #Cats #Dogs #Bible #Quran #Queermisia #Chicken #Pig #Weasel #Cow #Snake #Rat #SexNegativity #Patriarchy #Kyriarchy #WhiteSupremacy #Cisheteromononormativity #Ageism #Ableism #Transgender #YouthLiberation #AntiSchool #NoBorders #Colonialism #ImperialCore #Periphery #Passport #ModernSlavery #NeoColonialism #Misogyny #PrivateProperty #Capitalism #AntiMoney #Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Monero #XMR #AntiCensorship #AntiSurveilance #Praxis #GenAI #AISlop #NoAI #AI #VibeCoding #Programming #Signal #SignalApp #SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Cwtch #CwtchChat #Briar #BriarMessenger #I2P #Tor #Anarchism #MarxismLeninism #Israel #Zionism #AntiZionism #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Australia #NewZealand #SouthAfrica #Psychiatry #AntiPsychiatry #Authoritarianism #AntiAuthoritarianism #Libertarianism #LibertarianSocialism #LeftLibertarianism #Pets #Pornography #Porn #Masturbation

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PHP2Shell — Deep Dive https://lobste.rs/s/d8dgav #programming #security
https://djad04.github.io/php2shell-deep-dive/

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A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) https://lobste.rs/s/rmh4fg #programming
https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501

rmh4fg

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RE: https://defcon.social/@riverpunk/117568060385140896

Lots of very interesting discussions on this post. With the amount of fair criticisms against the Free Software/Open Source movement's approach, and where it has seemed to fail, I wonder if perhaps an explicitly new movement needs to "rise from the ashes", so to speak?

A Neo-FOSS or Post-FOSS movement, that takes far more into account than simply just the 4 Freedoms put forth by the FSF.

Some common points I observed in the replies:
- We need more focus on inclusion, accessibility, and kindness
- We need to think about the user, and accommodate *their* needs -- such as by focusing on UX and listening to user input.
- We need to get the creeps out of our movement. We don't work with fascists or rape apologists.
- We need to come to terms with the inherently anti-monopolistic/anti-capitalist (depending who you ask) aims of our movement. Accept the fact that our movement *is* political, and is a progressive movement!

So, the question is: Does this movement need to explicitly define itself as a new thing beyond just Free Software? Do we need a new, less problematic Richard Stallman and FSF to head the effort and write new theory? Or would it be better for this movement to simply continue operating as the modern day version of the same old "Free Software/Open Source movement"?

Once again, boosts encouraged

I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts on this!

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #tech #leftism #progressive #programming