Today is #GivingTuesday! As a nonprofit Foundation, we rely on sponsors and individual donors like you to keep the project going.

We hope for #GivingTuesday2022 you'll consider supporting us with a donation:
foundation.gnome.org/2022/11/2…

#GNOME #SupportFreeSoftware #FOSS

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"Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening."

👉 citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-s…

#sound #musicproduction

Been following this critique with a lot of interest & have a hot take.

Mastodon is unbearably white only if you're unbearably American. It's refreshingly not yet Americanized for many from the Global South with American Discourse™️ all over our TL.
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techpolicy.press/the-whiteness…

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I get that Black Twitter is uninterested in Global South encounters with racist, fascist hate speech, but that also reveals Black Twitter's fundamentally American gaze.

Even more American is this framing of "Marginalized users self-moderating will subject themselves to violence." Who is currently moderating violent content on Twitter? Marginalized Global South workers, employed in highly precarious Big Tech fronts in far-flung corners of Asia.

New paper alert: “Artificial Intelligence Accountability of Public Administration in Canada” by Paul Daly and Brandon Orct papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@fenwick @supergovernance @sboots @anabrandusescu @mgifford

Responsive accessibility using visibility hidden scottohara.me/blog/2022/11/07/… by @scottohara #css #webdev #a11y #tips

CoSchedule is a great tool for small teams. Unfortunately it doesn't support #Mastodon #ActivityPub. Go vote for this feature to be added, please.
cosintegrations.ideas.aha.io/i…

And if you know of any proper #OpenSource tool that does what CoSchedule does, please let me know 😀

Today's #SongInMyHead
🎵 Keep The Streets Empty For Me
⭐ Fever Ray
youtube.com/watch?v=jWFb5z3kUS…

Few days ago I discovered this song in a Netflix series 1899 and I can't push it out of my head since...

CSS Style For Identifying Undescribed Media
Recently, several users expressed a desire for a way to quickly check if the images in the toot they were about to boost were described. It would be nice if Mastodon itself offered warnings for that, as well as for forgetting to describe media in your own posts, but until then, this is actually one problem admins can fix on our own!
All you need to do is go into the site settings and add a bit of CSS code that will display a red border around any undescribed media. There are two examples available, depending on how subtle or noticeable you want the border to be; experiment and see what you like!
gist.github.com/FiXato/3de505b…
Thanks to @IngaLovinde for thinking of the starting code and @FiXato for improving on it! They did all the work here; I am just sharing this along.
Open this post in a new tab and look at the image to see how this can look like. The example image is my avatar, described in another pinned post.
#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

Wow. Google and iHeartRadio are fined big time by the FTC. Apparently iHeartRadio and other radio companies accepted money from Google to have their radio personalities talk on-air about using the Pixel 4 phones in 2019 and 2020.
But the radio personalities did *not* use the devices, at least some of them. The commercials for the Pixel 4 were scripted and faked. And the FTC said that's deceptive.
radioinsight.com/headlines/245…

#BlackMastodon 
Pure Leaf "No" Grant - $2,000 
- Deadline: Nov 30th
Pure Leaf and the SeekHer Foundation are dedicated to helping women redefine their work/life boundaries and create a culture where her “no” is celebrated. $2,000 will be awarded to provide short-term support to those who want to say “no” at work — whether that's coming in on a day off, handling others' work, or more. 
Apply:
nogrants.dja.com

Attention #SFF and #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #Fantasy #SciFi readers/writers. Clarion West is looking for application readers. You will receive a small honorarium to help go through the applicants for the upcoming 6-week workshop. Details here: clarionwest.org/get-involved/j…
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Flickr CEO Don MacAskill (@d0n) is currently running a poll to decide whether to add #ActivityPub to :flickr: Flickr to join the #fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc.)
Make your voice heard:
sfba.social/@d0n/1094226479952…
Poll on Twitter too:
twitter.com/DonMacAskill/statu…

Remember this has good and bad repercussions whether you use Flickr or not, it would be the first time an old giant joins us but also would bring many many new issues we would have to face together. Please boost for reach!

The next time someone tells you that browsers could maybe automatically fix accessibility issues for us, remember that some folks are trying to override the Firefox *feature* that makes scrolling content areas keyboard accessible:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

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Ayer hice berenjenas en escabeche, básicamente thespruceeats.com/pickled-eggp… pero con más ajo y chile. Están ridículamente buenas #comidodonte

Bis eben habe ich @fdroidorg für diesen nerdigen App-Store gehalten, den ich mir installiert habe, weil ich so paranoid bin. Aber dieser Artikel hat mich davon überzeugt, dass es cool ist, viele verschiedene Shops zu haben, die alle nach eigenen Regeln kuratieren. Dann ist es auch nicht mehr so schlimm, wenn eine App aus dem einen Shop fliegt. Der ist dann halt nur woanders.
f-droid.org/2022/11/23/why-cur…

Hey adventurers!
Do we have a ludicrous amount of values and goods? Of course, WE'RE RICH!

Don't miss the appointment this late evening (10:00 PM CEST), I'm going to hunt meteorites, yes, meteorites, on #DeepRockGalactic

Come by and say hi, or ROCK AND STONE!

🔗 twitch.tv/the_gamer_tavern

#Twitch #TwitchStreamer #gaming #VideoGames #Live

Zná tu někdo PinePhone? pine64.org/pinephonepro/

Velmi zajímavá věc v rámci open source, já doufám, že jednoho dne to bude můj hlavní telefon a zbavím se Androidu - S22U.

PostmarketOS - linux adaptovaný na mobily. Existuje už i pro běžná Android zařízení, skvělá kompatibilita je například u OnePlus 6.
wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Dev…

OK in terms of scaling #Mastodon server infrastructure, this looks interesting:

"CIRA is proud to announce its official partnership with Mastodon Canada, mstdn.ca, to support its growth and community-building efforts. As thousands of Canadians flock to the platform, this unique partnership reflects CIRA’s mission to support Canadian internet communities built on the open web and powered by a .CA domain."

financialpost.com/globe-newswi…