Notices by Timo Zimmermann (fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com)

One week ago we migrated 21 people from Matrix to @delta and it has been a pretty good experience.

Not everything is working flawlessly but that also wasn’t expect. Plus we didn’t do a lot of debugging so I cannot rule out user error yet.

All 21 users are happy about the change. #deltachat

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/one-week-with-delta-chat/

We are testing #deltachat with 8 users since Friday with a self hosted server.

The experience is excellent and people are happy, especially with secondary device setup.

So far we ran into a few small issues.

- one user had pushes on one device delayed (its push. Remember apples guarantees on delivery…)
- a gif didn’t post but only the first frame (iOS)
- taking a photo doesn’t add it to the message, using the gallery works (Android)

I really hope this was an April fools joke.

If you send me an email that requires me to use a stripped down Gmail to read it you can bet I’ll add you to my spam list.

Just another attempt of Google to make email even more proprietary forcing people to use their offering.

Still looking into the claim that workspace admins have access to the encryption keys. Which means we should really talk about the meaning of E2EE… #gmail #google #privacy

https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/gmail-easy-end-to-end-encryption-all-businesses

One day I’ll write a book „how to build scalable system for the 95%“.

You’ll be able to summarize it with

- pick any mainstream language
- deploy on one server
- deploy Postgres on another server
- double the number of server for redundancy

So many systems I’ve seen lately could run off in memory SQLite and a replication to a CSV file.
Yet there’s a relational database, a document database, a key value store and four services deployed on k8s for all 100MB data and 2000 customers.

@killyourfm I’m curious which apps you are concerned about with the M1?

I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen9 which runs perfectly under Fedora (sans facial sign in as I’m too lazy to setup howdy). Battery life is better than Windows 11, Intels GPU might be a deal breaker depending on your needs :/

@SuperDicq when traveling I found this option really helpful as I could most often pull up an English menu or at least had pictures so I had a rough idea what I’m ordering. But I’m with you, if there’s a feasible option for a regular menu I prefer it as well

@SuperDicq maybe a phone icon with a camera next to it?

Is there actually any research showing that removing the „friction“ of typing a URL increases conversion / usage?

@SuperDicq I’d argue that most phones which are usually used to scan a QR code have decent enough OCR lately to simply print a URL. It’d also make it a lot harder to hide trackers etc