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Little #RustLang trivia for the crate `anyhow`:

if `FooError` and `BarError` are both error types, then you can do:

let wrapped = anyhow::anyhow!(FooError).context(BarError);

and `wrapped` will `downcast_ref` to both `FooError` and `BarError`.

Useful to inspect the context independently of the error! Just a bit unintuitive in my opinion.

docs.rs/anyhow/1.0.66/anyhow/t…

Context in anyhow - Rust

Provides the `context` method for `Result`.
docs.rs
#RustLang

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Wem das #Mastodon 4.0 Theme auch nicht gefällt: Installiert euch #Stylus als Browser Extension und dann dieses Theme: userstyles.world/style/4743/sp…

ggf. noch eure Instanz als gültige Seite eintragen und los geht's.

Endlich wieder weniger Platzverschwendung!
Und einstellbar isses sogar auch!

Spacious Mastodon by riedler

Helps you see more and restores some of the old styling
userstyles.world
#Mastodon #stylus

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💬 Kennst DU den schon?

Manche #iOS-Nutzer:innen werden jetzt möglicherweise etwas neidisch schauen 🙈
f-droid.org/de/

@fdroidorg @IzzyOnDroid #Android #FOSS #ohneGoogle #AndroidApps

Screenshot von der f-droid.org Website

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid ist ein installierbarer Katalog mit FOSS-Apps (Free and Open Source Software) für Android. Der Client vereinfacht die Suche und Installation von Apps und behält den Überblick über Aktualisierungen.
f-droid.org
#android #foss #ios #ohnegoogle #androidapps @F-Droid @IzzyOnDroid ✅
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Guenther wie bei den 100 anderen, die das schon gefragt haben, auch. Und sollte in der nächsten Version gefixt sein (wie bei den an… oops 🙊)

Den wahren Grund kenne ich nicht. Immer wenn ich das gesehen habe, war zwischendrin ein Netzwerk-Aussetzer. Meine Vermuting ist, dass der Download danach von vorn beginnt, die App das aber nicht merkt. Ergebnis ist dann ein kaputter Download… Aber wie getippst, in der nightly schon gefixt. Wann das Release kommt, weiß ich nicht. @Aakerbeere @mondstern

@» Aakerbeere 🏖️ @Guenther @-/mondstern

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It's Monday, and I'm still looking for projects to hold me over as I get Fipamo funded.

Ideally, I'm looking for Product Manager roles where I can use my diversity of skills to help strategize and manage the creation of cool stuff. And I love research.

I'm also open to part-time/contract web design and development projects as well. I'm an end-to-end person, so if all you have is an idea (and a budget), give me a shout, and I can help you through the process.

To get an overview of what I do and for some work samples, check this out. roiskinda.cool/profile.html
For any specific questions, send me a note.


profile

Because it should be easy.
roiskinda.cool

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We just published a new blog post detailing our adventures with streamlining authentication in #XMPP!

It turns out you don't *always* have to choose between improved security or better performance. Why not both?! 🌈 🦄

Check it out at blog.prosody.im/fast-auth/

Bringing FASTer authentication to Prosody and XMPP

As our work continues on modernizing XMPP authentication, we have some more new milestones to share with you. Until now our work has mostly been focused on internal Prosody improvements, such as the new roles and permissions framework.
blog.prosody.im
#xmpp

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Hey friends! ottawa.place is now open for signups 🎉🇨🇦❤️

@andrew and I built it as a hosted-in-Canada, capital-region-focused (but open to all Canadians) instance.

Please boost so folks can find us! 👀

#fediverse #twittermigration #canada #ontario #ottawa #canpoli


ottawa.place

Mastodon instance for residents of Ottawa, Gatineau, and surrounding regions. Instance de Mastodon pour les résidents d'Ottawa, de Gatineau et des régions avoisinantes.
Hometown hosted on ottawa.place
#fediverse #canada #twittermigration #ottawa #ontario #canpoli @andrew

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A new Tusker beta build is available! This one adds state restoration (remembering where in your timeline you left off when leaving and returning to the app), an option to jump all the way to the present, as well as a slew of other minor improvements and bugfixes.

If you have any feedback or run into issues, please let me know!

You can join the beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/wtB7…


Join the Tusker beta

Available on iOS
testflight.apple.com

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Can I borrow your ears for 66 minutes? I promise to give them back in a bit. Take a listen/watch to my #InspiredBySound Long-form video about the score I wrote for Lean In! I hope you enjoy. youtu.be/y7L5Bzy5d6M

#InspiredBySound - Musical Breakdown - Lean In! Score

Welcome to a very long video in which I break down my score for Lean In! As their own video description explains what they do better than I could, here it is...
YouTube
#inspiredbysound

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Hello everyone 👋

For months I've worked on a poster about designing for users with dyscalculia and low numeracy.

Today it's ready.

designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/1…

Please use it to improve your service for people who struggle with numbers.

I'm happy to chat to anyone about the poster or what it's like living with dyscalculia.

Created with colleagues Rachel Malic and Jane McFadyen at DWP and HMRC.


Designing for people with dyscalculia and low numeracy

We believe in working in the open. This blog is for designers across government to share their projects, ideas and concepts, or just to think out loud.
designnotes.blog.gov.uk

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Hi, folks! Please participate in our short survey:

> We’d like to learn from #RustLang developers about their experience and best practices with C and C++ code in their Rust code base. <...>

jb.gg/rust_cpp

#JetBrains #IntelliJRust #Programming #IDE

"Help Us Learn How the Rust and C/C++ Ecosystems Coexist!" Rust logo, C logo, and C++ logo.

Rust developers survey

Rust developers survey.
jb.gg
#programming #RustLang #ide #IntelliJRust #jetbrains

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The Tutanota desktop clients are amazing tools as they come with a lot of benefits compared to webmail access to your encrypted mailbox. 😀💪🔐

Check here how our desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS can speed up & improve your workflow, particularly now that they support offline mode! 🥳🤩

tutanota.com/blog/posts/deskto…

Woman at a PC using Tutanota in dark mode.

Why choose the Tutanota desktop clients?

Benefits of our desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Tutanota

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New blog post: "Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA" nolanlawson.com/2022/11/28/sha…

Wherein I describe a tricky accessibility issue with shadow DOM, and some of the upcoming web standards trying to tackle this problem.


Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA

Shadow DOM is a kind of retcon for the web. As I’ve written in the past, shadow DOM upends a lot of developer expectations and invalidates many tried-and-true techniques that worked fine in t…
Read the Tea Leaves

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VERY good read about the path Twitter is now on. It's not "our" favorite bar anymore.

Highly recommended:

tracks.ranea.org/post/70165652…

Quoted text: "New Twitter will be hostile to anyone queer, or non-white, or slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan. You may be a creator who wants to stay on Twitter to reach your audience, but the audience there will inevitably tilt toward the anti-woke, All Lives Matter, gender critical, Just Asking Questions crowd. If they’re your audience, congratulations, I guess. If they’re not, you have a problem."

Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar

So I’ve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Most circle around what tech people might dub failure modes in...
chipotle (Tumblr)

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The path to bringing you a great email experience on Android devices begins with K-9 Mail, which joined the Thunderbird family earlier this summer.

As we work towards a modern redesign of desktop Thunderbird, we’re also working to improve K-9 Mail as it begins its transition to Thunderbird mobile in Summer 2023.

Read more about today's new release of K-9 Mail on the Thunderbird blog:

blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/t…

#Android #Thunderbird #K9Mail #Email #FOSS #OpenSource


Thunderbird Android Update: New K-9 Mail Adds Swipe Actions

In addition to Thunderbird Supernova, we're working towards improving K-9 Mail as it transitions to Thunderbird Android in Summer 2023.
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#android #foss #email #opensource #thunderbird #k9mail
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OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:

European Union: EU Voice >>> social.network.europa.eu/explo…
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> mastodon.archive.org/explore

#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance
@mastodonmigration


Explore Internet Archive

Discover users based on their interests
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.archive.org
#fediverse #Mastodon #twittermigration #governmentinstance @Mastodon Migration
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Losing billions: Why are brands still not prioritising digital accessibility? campaignasia.com/article/losin… #a11y #business #ecommerce

Losing billions: Why are brands still not prioritising digital accessibility?

Inaccessible websites lose $6.9 billion a year to their accessible counterparts, yet digital inclusion remains under-addressed. We look at how brands can benefit from placing accessibility at the heart of their strategy.
Matthew Keegan (Campaign Asia)
#a11y #business #ecommerce

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Want to improve Mastodon's Single Sign On support? I've hacked the #SSO #OIDC code to retrieve the roles from the auth server, but don't actually know ruby or rails or #OAuth so this PR could use more experienced eyes. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
keycloak settings screen showing effective role of admin for the mastodon client scope

omniauth: support admin/moderator roles from OAuth/OIDC SSO server by osresearch · Pull Request #21787 · mastodon/mastodon

This patch adds support for setting the user role based on the roles stored in the single-sign-on database. Rather than having to set admin/moderator flags on the command line with tootctl, they c...
GitHub
#sso #oidc #oauth

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On Post, @kathygriffin challenges Noam about Andreessen and he starts backing away (see screenshot). To which Kathy responded:
"Please don’t try to gaslight anyone on Marc Andreessen, of all people.
"Please understand that real world people had no clue about who Elon Musk and Peter Theil were, much less the destruction we didn’t catch in time. You didn’t HAVE to go to AH. You could’ve self funded."
Kathy - as we are all trying to reboot things here, let's try to assume the best and not the worst of people. I am talking about me, I am not here to represent Marc Andreessen. I think you can look at my track record, and how Waze was built and managed, and get an idea of who I am. Regardless - give me a chance to screw up (which I will, often) and criticize the real screwups. I took an investment from Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) the VC firm, not Marc personally. They have backed a sizable amount of the internet services we all use. I am not here to represent the VC world, or the banks, or the corporations, or oil companies - I am here representing Post, the team, and myself. A16Z owns a minority share of the company, as does Scott Galloway and employees of the company. I am the largest shareholder and control the company Marc is not a board member or involved with the company, a different partner is I explained most of this in my post this morning. As a matter of corporate governance - the investors or the board do not have access to algorithms, data, privacy or any other personal information, and it is not something I would ever allow nor would any other CEO. Let's focus on the product and the community. Take your beef with Marc to Marc and A16Z and lets try and build something great together
@Kathy Griffin
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Tim Bray

I disagree. An algorithm is not intrinsically bad. As long as we understand that it represents the interests of whoever paid to have it constructed. I think an algorithm with human values that simply wanted to enrich experience is perfectly possible.

I haven't seen one, probably because nobody has ever had a financial incentive to construct it.

Mastodon would be a good place to try to make one.

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Our #introduction to #bookstodon!

Hello, we are Canongate Books, an independent #publisher of an eclectic mix of #authors for an eclectic and discerning audience of readers. You might know us from the spines of:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
& many, many more.

We're based in Edinburgh and London, and next year we'll be 50. Hello!

A pile of some of the books we publish. They are pictured in a corner against a light background seemingly floating off each other. There are 9 books in the pile, hardbacks and papaerbacks, each more desirable than the last.
The books The Fire People and More Fiya – both poetry collections featuring exceptional work by Black British poets – pictured against a white background (also seeming to float).
A recent book that we have published in hardback: Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan. Photographed, again, floating on a white background. It looks *chef's kiss*.
A pile of our books (again floating in front of a white background). They include work by Val McDermid, Travis Alabanza, Rebecca Donner, Ambrose Parry and more. There are 8 books in the pile, hardback and paperback.
#introduction #bookstodon #publisher #authors

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I wrote a bot that parses the current #Mastodon instances and assigns them to the respective #ASN (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN).

Interesting is the concentration on a few top ASN. Here for example the 10 most frequent ASNs as Pie Chart (as of 11/25/2022).

❤️ Thanks to @TheKinrar for the nice API for receiving the current mastodon instances.

#networking #network #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #research #bot #instance

Pie chart showing the top 10 ASNs among all Mastodon instances.

Wikimedia-Begriffsklärungsseite

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Mastodon #Bot #instance #mastoadmin #network #research #networking #mastoadmins #asn @TheKinrar
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Nils van Lück 🌱

@talon
Sorry, I noticed that too late.

In my other toot, I therefore integrated the ranking directly into the text. Here are the data from the chart:

1st place: OVH, France
2nd place: Cloudflare, USA
3rd place: Hetzner, Germany
4th place: Digital Ocean, USA
5th place: Amazon, USA
6th place: Linode, USA
7th place: Netcup, Germany
8th place: Online SAS, France
9th place: Choopa, USA
10th place: Sakura, Japan

@Talon

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#Mastoot 1.18 released! 🤩

• Supported post editing
• Added replies indicator
• Fixed a crash in notifications screen
• Fixed a loading issue of link previews

apps.apple.com/app/mastoot/id1…


‎Mastoot

‎Mastoot is a simple client app for Mastodon. Features: • Home • Notifications • Explore • Search • Local timeline • Federated timeline • Messages • Favorites • Bookmarks
App Store
#mastoot
in reply to Bei Li

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Marco Zehe

Hey, I was wondering if you were planning on adding some VoiceOver optimizations. For example, getting from one toot to the next currently takes 4, sometimes even 5 or 6 swipes to the right to move from object to object. This is very inefficient. The way for example @metabolist does it in #MetaText with only one stop per toot, a custom AccessibilityLabel for the object, and CustomAction elements for the VoiceOver rotor all actions actions, is far more efficient to get through a timeline.
#metatext @Metabolist
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