Since June 1st there is a big sudden surge of new Delta Chat users and so far things are going pretty smooth. We are happy that our #chatmail infrastructure is holding up and that there is growing recognition that #deltachat is a ready-to-use and resilient chat solution. Some stats from the last days, a brief discussion of centralization risks and what we plan to do about it, also introducing a brand-new chatmail OpenCollective with a european fiscal host.

delta.chat/en/2025-06-04-surge…

Delta Chat: A big user surge and funding for decentralized scale

Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it probably helps that Delta Chat apps resiliently work...

^delta.chat

Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out”

How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid

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An array of federal agencies attempted to carry out a coordinated raid in Minneapolis on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, precipitating an angry response. Locals surrounded the federal officers and police, chanting “Get the fuck out!” and eventually forcing them to retreat.

We present two firsthand accounts of the events of June 3 along with a few strategic reflections on how best to resist these raids.

This text includes footage by Taylor Dahlin (bsky.app/profile/taylr.bsky.so…).

17 tys. - tyle nieregularnych przekroczeń miało miejsce w 2024 r. na wschodniej granicy UE wg Fronteksu, który naprawdę nie ma powodów, by zaniżać liczby.

Moglibyśmy spokojnie przeprocesować tyle wniosków o azyl w zgodzie z prawem międzynarodowym. To dla mnie dowód, że zaostrzenie polityki wobec migrantów to tylko teatrzyk pod radykalną prawicę.

Thrilling story time~

A lady living next door mentioned to me that she'd lost many photos of her late husband when her old laptop died. I asked if she considered taking the hard drive out of the laptop to recover the photos. She told me she did not know she could do that, and, moreover, a person at the computer shop told her there was no guarantee the data could be recovered, and it would cost a lot of money.

Long story short, I took the hard drive out of her old laptop and tried to connect it to our home computer. The disk didn't power up.

I looked closer and noticed signs of rust on the disk's board. The situation seemed a biiit hopeless.

But my fiancee washed the board in alcohol and removed the busted capacitor that caused a short between VCC and GND... and the disk powered up.

It is not working well (it keeps complaining about stuff on the dmesg board), but it works well enough to copy gigabytes of photos stored on it.

Happy end~

I would so much rather see a shitty hand-drawn sketch from someone who has never practiced their drawing than a photo (or video) someone's taken without asking of a person doing something in public. Or anything made by AI.

Just draw bad pictures! Or describe in your own words! You can do it!

📸 First satellite images from Russia’s Belaya airbase confirm the destruction of several strategic bombers following an SBU strike, according to analyst Chris Biggers.

Visible damage includes:
– 3 Tu-95MS bombers destroyed
– 1 Tu-95MS bomber possibly damaged
– 4 Tu-22M3 bombers destroyed