This morning nine.testrun.org was briefly unavailable, some network problem. A good time to remind everyone to add a second relay to your #deltachat app:

1. Go to https://chatmail.at/relays randomly choose one of the listed relay pages and copy the invitation code to your clipboard

2. In delta chat settings go to advanced/relays and tap "add relay" and paste the invitation code

3. That's it.

If one relay is unavailable you still can receive and send messages.

https://delta.chat/en/2026-03-31-zero#maximizing-availability-and-resilience-through-multi-path-delivery

"elon musk launches xchat"

I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU

Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’ https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/915508/framework-announces-laptop-13-pro-the-macbook-pro-for-linux-users

Our biggest breakthrough in efficiency yet, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with 20 hours of battery life. In Graphite.

Linux-first with options for Ubuntu pre-installed. Featuring Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors, LPCAMM2 Memory, a new haptic touchpad, and a touchscreen display.

Pre-orders for the Framework Laptop 13 Pro open now: https://frame.work

La Francia sta pianificando una migrazione graduale da Windows a Linux per tutta la pubblica amministrazione, in risposta alle preoccupazioni sulla dipendenza tecnologica dagli Stati Uniti e sulla sicurezza dei dati dei cittadini. https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/04/15/la-francia-dice-addio-a-windows-per-linux-una-scelta-di-sovranita-digitale-europea-contro-gli-stati-uniti/8356736/ #unoLinux @linux L'8 aprile 2025, la Direzione interministeriale per gli affari digitali (Dinum) ha annunciato la transizione durante un seminario a Bercy, con ogni ministero che dovrà presentare il proprio piano di migrazione entro l'autunno.

An ex-Azure engineer published six essays arguing Microsoft's cloud has been on life support since 2008, and the cause isn't bad code. It's bad people decisions. Rushed launch, post-launch talent exodus, no testing discipline, no architectural vision. Sound familiar to anyone who's worked in a place that ships first and staffs later?

Now layer 2026 on top. Microsoft cut roughly 15,000 jobs in mid-2025. Coding agents are pumping out 4x more commits in 90 days. GitHub's unofficial uptime has slipped under 90% and the proposed fix is, wait for it, moving more of GitHub onto Azure. The same Azure the engineer says is held together with rushed decisions and wishful thinking.

🧠 The phrase that stuck with me is "knowledge dilution from high attrition." When the senior people who knew why a system was built that way leave, no LLM in the world can recover that context

🤖 More AI-written code does not mean less work. It means more code to review, test, deploy, and run, which means more compute and more humans needed downstream

📉 OpenAI signing an $11.9B compute deal with CoreWeave in March 2025 was the loudest "we don't trust your capacity" signal Microsoft has ever received from its closest partner

🪑 The bet that AI lets you cut headcount keeps colliding with the reality that AI generates work for humans faster than it removes it

Every CIO I talk to is being pitched the same dream: fewer engineers, more agents, lower run rate. The Azure story is what happens when that math doesn't pencil out and the bill comes due in incidents instead of dollars.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/04/azure_talent_exodus/

#Azure #AI #Leadership #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #software #devops

What are more accurate and emotionally resonant names for the propagandically misnamed proposed laws which would compel all operating systems to force users to present their ID to attain permission from the US government and its designated corporations to use any computer (including a cellphone)? It is not #ageVerification, despite the Orwellian misnomer. #idVerification gets closer, but still doesn’t communicate the fact that it would let the the worst people in the world decide which individual is allowed to use a personal computer (including a smartphone), and to tie everything you do or say on any computer to your legal identity.

“Please, #PeterThiel, may I use my phone?”

What would be more honest and effective branding? (Any ideas, @pluralistic@mamot.fr?)

Anyone with better ideas, please reply here, and if you’re willing, in the comments of Louis’ video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa3-TkHBh90

@privacyint@mastodon.xyz @eff@mastodon.social

#privacy #surveillance #censorship #authoritarianism #totalitarianism

LinkedIn shitposter: "I invented Clawpilot as a parody of Microsoft's AI strategy."

Microsoft: At long last, we have created the Clawpilot from the classic shitpost "Microsoft will pivot from Copilot to Clawpilot".

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7430947857916039168/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/project-lobster-week-1-update-omar-shahine-hrwsc/

One for Pivot To AI, @davidgerard@circumstances.run

#Microsoft #OpenClaw #Copilot #Clawpilot #TormentNexus

Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-palantir/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/127002

Making sure that deleted messages are actually deleted and unrecoverable is more involved than most folks think. The FBI could recently recover deleted Signal messages from an iOS phone because the notifications you see on your phone were stored in an extra database. Apple has now fixed this, also making #deltachat iOS users safer. Few know that so called "forward secrecy" is all about deleted messages becoming unrecoverable, see https://autocrypt2.org for our plans

https://www.heise.de/en/news/FBI-extraction-of-deleted-Signal-messages-Apple-secures-iPhones-better-11269038.html

RE: https://mastodon.world/@hn100/116455128993659393

Mandated surveillance (ID verification) only has downsides.

Random sketches.

#Art #Drawing #Dejiko #DiGiCharat #Anime #Krita