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Thunderbird ☛ State of the Thunder: Mozilla Connect Updates
Welcome back to the latest season of State of the Thunder! After a short break, we’re back and ready to go. Michael Ellis, our Manager of Community Programs, is helping Alessandro with hosting duties. Along with members of the Thunderbird team and community, they’re answering your questions and keeping everyone updated on our roadmap progress for our projects.
In this episode, we’re talking about our initiatives for regular community feedback, tackling a variety of questions, and providing status updates on the top 20-ish Mozilla Connect Thunderbird suggestions.
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Dominik Schwind ☛ Francis Galton
Number one is probably that I prefer OpenSource or at least a very public bug tracker. When I have a problem, I want to be able to easily find if that’s a known bug, if I’m the problem or if I have something to report. Plus: it’s way less likely to just go away or turn into a subscription.
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Standards/Consortia
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Sean Conner ☛ Some musings on the Metric system
for more “round” amounts in metric. I do wonder if such rounding up (or even down) might affect the results though (probably not). Personally, I find the Imperial version easier to remember, but that might be bias on my part.
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John Goerzen ☛ Performant Full-Disk Encryption on a Raspberry Pi, but Foiled by Twisty UARTs
Even if you get all that working, you still have the problem that the Pi UARTs (all of them of every type) is 3.3V and RS-232 is 5V, so unless you get a converter, you will fry your Pi the moment you connect it to something useful. So, you’re probably looking at some soldering and such just to build a cable that will work with an iffy stack.
So, I could probably make it work given enough time, but I don’t have that time to spare working with weird Pi serial problems, so I have always used USB converters when I need serial from a Pi.
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