Giver of skulls

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Cake day: June 6th, 1923
  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Using thunderbird with a custom domain I changed providers but same email, then my local emails disappeared.English
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    3 days ago

    If you have your client configured for IMAP, Thunderbird will synchronise with the new server.

    If you did not transfer your emails from your old server to your new server, that means the new state is “empty inbox” and synchronising means “removing everything that’s available locally”.

    To fix this, either do a server-to-server transfer from the old email provider to the new one (there are tools to do that, like imapsync), or try importing emails from a backup into Thunderbird after synchronisation succeeds, so that Thunderbird will upload the messages. It’s possible that you will need to use a tool to rewrite the message IDs so that Thunderbird treats the messages as new items.

    If you have already cancelled your old server provider (so a server-to-server transfer is not possible), restoring from backups may be your only solution.

    If you don’t have any backups, your email may not be lost. The first thing you need to do is copy Thunderbird’s data folder to a backup location, just in case Thunderbird tries to do maintenance on the file while you’re performing recovery. Then, use a tool like Thunderbird Reset Status (I can’t quickly find a more up to date tool but they probably exist) to unmark the emails in the Thunderbird mail store as deleted. Then set up backups for your new mail server.

    If you use the trick above and Thunderbird starts deleting emails again, repeat the trick but break the email account settings first. Then, set up a second connection to your email account, drag over all the undeleted emails so they get uploaded to the new server.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoAndroid@lemdro.id•RCS update adds end-to-end encryption, Google and Apple confirm supportEnglish
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    19 days ago

    MLS is designed to support that use case, but the spec to actually intercommunicate between services is still being developed by the MIMI group. MIMI is the logical but entirely optional extension of MLS.

    I don’t think carriers will want random chat apps to send messages for free to their infrastructure for spam prevention alone. Companies like Element and Wire are probably going all in on this, but Signal doesn’t even want you to use clients they didn’t compile, let alone federate between services.

    I believe WhatsApp has chosen to license its API in a documented fashion rather than implement a cross platform messaging protocol after they were forced to open up by the DMA. That said, there are a bunch of Facebook emails in the MIMI protocol discussions, so at least one of their messengers may still end up implementing MIMI when it’s finally finished.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoFediverse@lemmy.ml•How can the Fediverse protect against AI slop?
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    4 months ago

    Heavy moderation. Some real people will be flagged as bots, but it’s the only way. A well-prepared prompt can be indistinguishable from human language. Registration questions will only block bots because they stop bot makers from registering thousands of accounts at once.

    Servers with lax signup requirements will need to be blocked (temporarily?) when spammers find their way in. Detecting links and other promoted content can easily get rid of the commercial spammers, but it gets harder when you’re trying to block political bot farms. Even still, Fediverse software lacks any kind of standard “firewall” against spam, as a few Japanese teenagers demonstrated with a script not that long ago, and the trolls spamming child porn before them.

    On the wider Fediverse, it’s quite possible to set up a Lemmy server consisting entirely of bots, or a whole network of them, first only interacting with each other but soon becoming part of the wider Fediverse.

    Luckily, almost nobody cares about the Fediverse and the few bad actors I’ve seen don’t care enough to actually put in any effort. If the Fediverse does ever grow to become a sizable influence on the internet, we’re pretty much fucked.