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Re:Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your fe... on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:36AM (#48903791)
Thunderbird has actually come back to Mozilla around 2017: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-hom...

And has been operating as a fully fledged subsidiary of the foundation since 2020: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

Re:Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your fe... on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:32AM (#48903762)
This is a known issue (tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2007074, as mentioned by a previous comment). A fix has landed in Thunderbird Daily a couple of weeks ago, and should be released in Thunderbird 154 which comes out next month.
Re:Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:58PM (#40101374)
As Sean Burke puts it on the related bug on Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847846#c2):

> At present, EWS is our best way to enable support for both Exchange Online and on-premise installations.

> Graph API has been considered and may be considered again in future, but it currently provides narrower support than EWS and lacks some functionality for desktop applications. Even with the announcement that EWS support will be removed for Exchange Online, it's still valuable in the short term for enabling access for a wide userbase and in the long term for supporting users using on-premise installations.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023) on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:22PM (#34615033)
> Senior Full Stack Backend Developer

Are you looking for a full stack developer or a developer specified in backend work? From the look of the ad on your website it looks like the former but the title is pretty confusing to me.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023) on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:12PM (#34614853) 

    Location: London, UK
    Remote: Yes, happy with hybrid too
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Python (Twisted, Flask-like, Django), PostgreSQL, Go, Rust, designing (incl spec work) and implementing decentralised HTTP+JSON REST APIs (e.g. Matrix), Git, Docker, CoAP, CI/CD, TDD, JavaScript, Salt, Ansible, Grafana, Logstash, Graylog, Warp10
    Résumé/CV: https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/cv.pdf
    Email: hello at brendanabolivier.com
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @07:41AM (#34230678) 

    Location: London, UK
    Remote: Yes, happy with hybrid too
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Python (Twisted, Flask-like, Django), PostgreSQL, Go, Rust (basics), designing (incl spec work) and implementing decentralised HTTP+JSON REST APIs (e.g. Matrix), Git, Docker, CoAP, CI/CD, TDD, JavaScript, Salt, Ansible, Grafana, Logstash, Graylog, Warp10
    Résumé/CV: https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/cv.pdf
    Email: hello at brendanabolivier.com
Available for a full time Senior Software Engineer role. Would ideally prefer to work on impactful projects with an ethical and/or community aspect.
Re:Show HN: I built a simple web app for my parents to use their netwo... on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:36AM (#27352627)
Thanks! :)
Re:Fairphone 3 Review: De-Googled /E/ OS and Repairability Make It Spe... on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:16AM (#26463914)
I've been using a Fairphone 3 with /e/OS for about 6 months now, and I've generally been quite happy about it Hardware-wise it's great; sowftware-wise it's not quite there yet (I've seen a few audio bugs, also the app store is very buggy and relies on a questionable third-party source for APKs for which /e/ offers no support (when reporting a bug with an app search causing an error message I've been advised to use Aurora instead, which isn't a great thing to hear) and which can have several weeks of lag on app versions, and also (bis) the tech support isn't there yet in terms of being accessible to non-tech people), but it's definitely going in the right direction!
Re:I enforced the AGPL on my code on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:59PM (#24850371)
It sounds to me from this article like the case was dismissed because the plaintiff didn't sue for the right thing, rather than specifically the GPL being judged inapplicable.
Re:Combating abuse without backdoors on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:19AM (#24846095)
The Informo folks also thought about something similar (though maybe not as flexible) a couple of years ago https://specs.informo.network/unstable/trust-management/
Re:Combating abuse without backdoors on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:26AM (#24837656)
Some countries can have blurry lines between companies and non-profits; in this case, Matrix.org is a Community Interest Company in the UK (https://matrix.org/foundation), so I assume that'd apply to it as well.

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