Last of the Matrix series at the Decentralisation Communication devroom: what does it take to bring MLS to decentralised environments? Hubert tells us so!
Today at #fosdem26 we listen to @benjaminbellamy the father of @Castopod presenting the project #podilibre to bring freedom and control at every step of the process when producing a podcast.
@TomGrant91 You can now enter your own custom tick value, or in beats with the Grave key '`'. CTRL+` to change the duration of the highighted note, as you'd expect.
@TomGrant91 You can also reverse the audio too, and export to Nokia RNG not just import and it does actually work properly now, unlike when you tried it yesterday. There's a What's New in readme.
@TomGrant91 @carrottop1023 I will say it's one of the most fun things I've ever worked on, musically or otherwise. I always wanted to be a coder but don't have the brain for it, but now I can fake it, and tie it into my love of music, so I basically have my cake and eat it.
I didnāt get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so Iāll ask it out-loud here :)
I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.
If you want to moderate interaction level content, then thatās things like āis this image problematicā or āis this person harassing someone elseā and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there
But the collective level is something Iām curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be āharmlessā or ānot violatingā at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?
Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem weāre trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)
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Together with @Mastodon@mastodon.social director @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social , Open Networks advocate @samvie@chaos.social and EU MP @alexandrageese@bonn.social , @jmaris@eupolicy.
@modulux A good example would be identifying a wave of spam from multiple individual accounts, each one being a ānormalā amount of traffic, but the aggregate being a disproportionate amount of volume.
Another would be a group that targets a subset of a community with messages that, individually, do not break any rules but the combined result is that the targeted community members feel so unwelcome that they canāt participate safely in the space without harming their mental health.
When done severely enough and targeted enough, it can erode a community over time to the point where it collapses
my knew favorite thing on the templates tab of @FastSM is this option, right here. Collapse usernames when more than (0 = disabled) I set mine to two and then when a billion people are in a mention, etc. I here something like, @munchkinbear and 2 more. Makes reading long winded mentions with a billion people so much smoother. lol.
@4zv4l I'm totally blind, people like me use special software called screen readers which convey the information for us in speech and/or Braille. Not every app or website is inherently ready for it. It is called digital accessibility, or simply #Accessibility. There are standards and (in several locations) laws enforcing it. The most prominent world standard everyone bases their local laws of is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG, most commonly read as "wick-cagg"). Unfortunately, I didn't find any Matrix client for Windows or web accessible for screen reader users.
@menelion ah I understand, hopefully one developper will see the need and make a client with that feature or adapt a current one (maybe less work to adapt a preexisting one like Element).
@menelion @4zv4l What? Elements.io is quite accessible both on app and on browser. I don't know about other apps though. There should also be possibility to manage matrix and xmpp chats through thunderbird but I haven't used it. What's quite weird in matrix is the identity verification method when you associate devices to account that asks you if emojis match. So you have to learn emoji by heart like the game "simon says" but for the rest, the Element web and mobile clients are pretty good.
@elettrona @4zv4l don't you experience focus jumps? Are you able to read longer messages? Do you have any notification with text when a message comes in? I'll retest though.
@element @4zv4l Where can I post issues, please? For me, when I tested element, focus was jumping constantly, I had no accessible notifications of new messages, I couldn't read longer messages, etc., etc. I'd be glad to help because Matrix seems very promising, but I wish it were fully accessible also. Thanks!
XMPP is listed at the āDigital Independence Dayā (DIDAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.
The German initiative āDigital Independence Dayā (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and ā¦
āØ Heute ist wieder Digital Independence Day! āØ
aka DI.Day / DUT ā und zukĆ¼nftig auch jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat. š Schon im Kalender? Falls nicht: jetzt! šļøš„
Zum DI.Day ƶffnet bei uns der @cccp seine TĆ¼ren: š freiLand | Haus 5 | machBar š Sonntag, 01.02.2026 ab 15:00 Uhr Fragen? HĆ¼rden? Komm vorbei! Wir helfen dir!
š Wichtigster Schritt nach dem Wechsel: drĆ¼ber reden! Am besten mit einem DI.DAY Post Generator Bild: qznc.github.io/dot/diday.html
Ernsthaft? Die gesamte grafische Gestaltung sagt: Hier sehen sie einen Kosmonauten, verbunden mit seiner Raumstation - selbst die Bildbeschreibung deutet in diese Richtung. Dass, vollkommen entgegen der Optik, hier NICHT kyrillische Buchstaben Verwendung finden, ist wenig intuitiv. Und wenn man eine Grafik erklƤren muss, weil die naheliegende Interpretation nicht intendiert ist, ist die Grafik vielleicht nicht so passend. š¤š¤·š¼āāļø
Eine weitere Einordnung: Das Bild findet man am Rechenzentrum in Potsdam. Es wurde von dem KĆ¼nstler Fritz Eisel unter dem Titel "Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos" zwischen 1969-1971 dort angebracht. Das Rechenzentrum ist fĆ¼r uns in Potsdam ein wichtiger Ort. Zu DDR Zeiten war es das Datenverarbeitungszentrum des Bezirkes Potsdam und heute ist es ein Ort fĆ¼r Ć¼ber 300 KĆ¼nstler:innen. Zum anderen ist das RZ der David gegen Goliath im Streit um den Wiederaufbau der Garnisonkirche.
i dunno, "i would walk 804.672 kilometers and i would walk 804.672 more just to be the man who walks 1,609.344 kilometers to fall down at your door" just doesn't have the same ring to it
To je fraja! Ta nase princezna do snehu nerada. I na zahrade chodi jen po cestickach co ji musim odhrnovat. Kdyz jdeme ven tak chodi vicemene jen po cestach, nebo skace v mych proslapnutych stopach.
I just met @bagder and he was as nice and humble as you can imagine! I also got to see his retroactively awarded medal from the European OpenSource academy which was very shiny! #FOSDEM
Wer nach einer Alternative fĆ¼r seinen #Messenger sucht, kann mal ein Blick in #XMPP werfen. Es gibt verschiedene Seiten, auf denen ihr euch informieren kƶnnt.
XMPP ist ein dezentrales, offenes und somit UnabhƤngigkeit System zum chatten.
Denise is building on her work within the Foundation to give a tour of the Digital Omnibus in UA2.118! Is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity for Open Source?
Okay, for any of you who have NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof installed, paste the following into it. One note sounds a tiny bit short to me, but nevertheless, some of you should definitely recognize this!
I just tried to do the VoxClock version of Roslein, as well as the Estonian national anthem, and neither seem to be working out. It seems the note lengths this thing can produce aren't really designed for waltzes.
If YOU CAN PLAY IT IN USING MIDI AS A TEST< THEN BRING IT INTO THE COMPOSER< IT SHOULD ALIGN IT TO NEAREST tick value and we can see if it does support it or not. I'm still going to implement that anyway, but still.
Potential bug, maybe? So I'm editing a sequence, which involves a lot of 1/12 and 1/24 note fractions, and also occasional 8th notes. It's swing that isn't, mostly just triplets, and I transcribed this in MML previously. So I've got my units set to 1/24 and use control+right arrow to lengthen to 1/12 when I need it. But when I press control+right again, it goes from 160 ticks to 320 ticks, when it should probably increase by another step size, yielding 240 ticks, which is the 8th note I need. Is it supposed to always double or is it supposed to add?
@x0 It's doubling I believe, yeah. It's hard to account for so many variables admittedly. Can you use the ` or CTRL+` to get the right number in as desired? Is that working at least? That was only added today so it's a new feature.
That's how I punched in the 1/12 and 1/24 fractions yup, although I haven't tried using control+` on a single note that was already entered. Oh! Right, I was thinking that this was like reaper's grid, where step size and note length are different, but control+` is only for editing existing notes, isn't it? That's how come it's blank?
You should at least be able to fix that short note now. I tried it myself (pre the tick fix) and couldn't get it to work but that should not be a problem any longer.
Onko kellƤƤn vinkkejƤ muuten kartalla pysymiseen keikkatarjonnasta?
En ikinƤ muista katsoa jotain lempiartistien kiertueaikatauluja ajoissa ja missaan nƤitƤ. Muutenkin miljoona asiaa mitƤ yrittƤƤ muistaa niin bƤndien ja keikkapaikkojen sivujen lƤpikƤynti ei ole ykkƶsenƤ.
Jos otetaan valtavirtasomejen seuraaminen pois laskuista (mikƤ on valitettavasti edelleen kaikkein kattavin tapa tƤhƤn), niin meteli.net on edelleen hengissƤ ja listaa laajasti eri paikkojen keikkatarjontaa. MielestƤni siellƤ on myƶs artistisivuja.
Save Social, Tuta, and lots of other organizations are building a better web ā and you can be part of the journey! The next Digital Independence Day is Sunday, February 1st.
great initiative! Here is a website about moving to alternative social media xodus.online . Of course people here on Mastodon already have taken some of those steps, but can share the website with friends who may like to learn more.
Digital independence day for blind people is as hypocrite as Valentine's day if you are in an abusive relationship, where one gives chocolate hearts to their partner while abusing of them, one day after the other. No, this is not my way to get angry/envious of people who celebrate good stories. But to remind that too many people can't afford digital independence from multi-billionaires tech, as smaller companies/communities aren't so careful of accessibility (yet). This is due to a very relevant digital gap lasting since 25 years at least, when laws have started to come out before learning. Investments made on empathy-driven campaigns, "you must make it accessible otherwise"... The consequence is we have most 40-50 years old developers who know nothing. And 30-20 years old devs who could learn, but who are gradually being replaced by automated tools which claim to create accessibility automatically while accessibility needs human approach.
For this special Digital Independence Day, you can also contribute to the deGoogle movement š by installing Sapio on your device š± and evaluating the compatibility of your Android apps.
šļø Let's make developers aware of privacy issues together !
ā replacing email service provider to #tutanota ā changing the OS to #Linux š§ , with least prepackaged disros. ā using @signalapp instead of #WhatsApp. ā using Telegram & @Mastodon for publication of our content
Currently, we are looking forward for finding ways to support our efforts locally in Iraq to popularize #FOSS for everyone (no matter how much tech experience has)
Now in the Decentralised Communication devroom: @cassidy and Anne presenting how Roost helps orgs mutualise their Trust & Safety efforts to keep people safe
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