Impressed at the speed that things are tracking CT logs looking for stuff to scan.
Just issued a brand new subdomain and in 70 seconds got scanned for a whole bunch of (presumably) commonly exposed/vulnerable URL paths, a whole other random TLS config probing by a range of IP addresses
What it means when people exhort non-White peeps to “start your own instance” or go to another more suitable one—-the digital version of White Flight/segregation.
“[Mastodon risks] ghettoizing the Black community in a federated space. All of the Black people go here and [other] instances have the option of engaging with them or deeding from them.]”
I’m new here but this is why I wanted to join a broad instance but hashtag and follow the hell out of Bipoc and marginalized folks. Don’t know if that logic will pan out, but so far, I’m loving what and who I see and engage with.
Yes, I feel exactly the same way! I was going to join the black twitter Mastodon or the one for journalists or Mastodon.scholar or even one limited to America. But, like you, I don’t want to be in a silo.
Coming up on Mosen at Large 208, it’s in the blind community’s interest to embrace mastodon, tell me your guide dog refusal stories, and Focusrite talks about accessibility of its products mosen.org/malppreview0208/
“Thanksgiving and the Myth of Native American ‘Savages’” blogs.scientificamerican.com/c… “Prominent scientists exaggerate the violence of Native Americans, whom European invaders ravaged”
I am making the bold call! This is one of the best Christmas songs to have been written and recorded during my lifetime.
Taylor Swift first released this as a very catchy pop song. But this version, recorded in the famous Abbey Road studios, makes it not just a pop ear worm. It’s now a Christmas standard.
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupChristmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version) · Taylor SwiftChristmas Tree Farm (Old Timey Version)℗ 2021 Taylor SwiftR...
Harvest mice need your help!
Can you help improve the future of the harvest mouse? Classified as Near Threatened with extinction (Red List), the tiny Harvest Mouse needs your help! We're embarking on a multi-year project to build our knowledge about…
Soatok's Proposal for End-to-End Encryption in Mastodon - GitHub - soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification: Soatok's Proposal for End-to-End Encryption in Mastodon
I was hoping for some help during my transition from the bird place. Having left that dumpster fire behind and found a very welcoming community here, there's really only one thing I'm missing so far, real-time news feeds.
Is there a tip or trick anyone can share to help increase the stream of information I see?
As a reward, here's a puppy. If you can find him, he's yours.
@archos Unity nahradil tuším už někdy v roce 2016-2017 GNOME. Přijde mi, že jsem snad poslední člověk na planetě, kterému se ten vzhled líbí 😅. Vypadá to jako elegantnější verze macOS, který jsem si v posledních měsících taky dost oblíbil
Výhoda Linuxu, každému sedí něco jiného a má možnost si vybrat. Já někdy v tom roce 2016 zkusil Manjaro, protože jsem koupil notebook Lenovo a byla to snad jediná distribuce, ve které fungovala WiFi a postupně přešel na Arch a zde už jsem několik let 🙂
"All of us, regardless of background, should be horrified by genocide, as much as we would be of other facts that we don’t shut down discourse on through self-indulgent projections of innocence, like the world being round despite the fact that some insist is not so. We should all be enraged."
I work in professional fact-checking and content moderation for my day job at meedan.com and I have begun conversations about ways to do content moderation as a federated service that admins can pay to subscribe to (where moderators are paid a living wage, maybe in worker owned coops even, as opposed to big social media companies using basically sweatshop moderation labor)
Someone should set up a third-party tool that mastodon/fediverse users can report abuse to. It should be staffed by people who are skilled at evaluating this stuff and who are paid to do it.
"Yesterday, I came across a somber tweet by a man who’s trying to protect his family from Covid. He said, “my wife has been speaking with the principal of my children’s elementary school and that he has been advising her to file for divorce because I was clearly not well and ‘my life revolves around fear.’”
Yes, a principal is telling someone’s wife to divorce him because he wants to protect them from a deadly, disabling virus.
"Companies are also starting to pressure their employees to get therapy “to conquer their fear of Covid.”
There’s a line from the film The Big Short that echoes through my head these days. The investor Michael Burry says, “I may have been early, but I’m not wrong.” There’s a lot of us who feel like that right now. A majority of the world thinks we’re crazy. In reality, we’re not crazy at all.
"Over the last few months, there’s been an avalanche of studies telling us that Covid poses a major threat to our health, our lives, and our sanity. The biggest risk now comes in the weeks and months after we recover. Our politicians and media have done a poor job communicating this threat. Instead, they’re doing their best to manipulate information to protect their own political interests. The public has bought into these lies. They want to believe they can return to normal.
There’s no permanent immunity from this virus. Each time we catch it, this virus attacks our hearts and minds. It weakens us. It tries to kill us. It imprints on us, so a future variant has a better shot next time.
1. You can catch Covid multiple times. 2. Reinfections are common, not rare. 3. Breakthrough infections are common. 4. Covid can kill you months after you recover. 5. It can cause brain damage. 6. It can cause blood clots and heart attacks. 7. It doesn’t spare children. 8. Vaccines help, but only some. 9. Masks work. jessicawildfire.substack.com/p…
"Everyone should know about these studies. I’ve linked to the original articles. I’ve tried to summarize them in clear language. I’ve also linked to summaries written by journalists who still care about the truth.
Last winter, the media made a concerted effort to convince Americans that Covid had become mild. They said catching Omicron would protect us from future variants, and that we could ditch our masks. Newspapers were filled with op-eds basically telling us to go out and shop, celebrate, and get infected. They blanketed the internet with stories about the “relief” people felt catching Covid.
There was no evidence to support any of these myths, just arrogant assertions from the same handful of pundits. The actual studies tell the truth. You don’t want to catch Covid once. You certainly don’t want to catch it multiple times. We should be getting boosted. We should be wearing masks.
@fireborn It is on github, not lab. I have moved more towards github recently because gitlab’s accessibility has gone down hill, and you can’t read thei readme file for projects without javascript, so no w3m. Github still works decently well with w3m.
@fireborn Which mod key did you pick? If super, to switch between windows would be super+tab and super+shift+tab. Should I make it be alt+tab and alt+shift+tab no matter which mod key you choose?
@fireborn I will add the volume stuff sometime today. I’ll have to think about how to change things to not include a ratpoison mode, so I may not get to that today, but I’ll certainly keep it in mind.
@fireborn Volume keys are in place now, as well as other music bindings. At this time, they are part of ratpoison mode, but I will add an alternative soon. For now, however, the keys are as follows:
Never mind Codeberg, I just got my own Gitea up and running. I will ask the developers if they could implement a math captcha similar to the one on my Blog's comment form, but I'll keep the image crap turned off and deal with any bots manually until they have a solution. I know bots can get around those images easier than screen reader users can. But I have zero comment spam on my blog since I moved to Chyrp Lite and turned on the Maptcha plugin, and it is screen reader friendly. If I find that the Codeberg version works better or implements a math captcha similar to the one I have on my blog, I should have no trouble migrating to their fork. I don't know that my server will handle a sizeable number of large projects, but I certainly can take some small to medium projects. And you'll be happy to know that I have migrated a repository off Gitlab already, and I can see README.md with w3m. I find general accessibility on Gitea to be a good deal better than Gitlab as well.
@kyle that looks neat. I like sourcehut pretty well too, but this is a shared project, so it was either gitlab or github, and github is better these days. I know that sucks, because open source is always better, but they really have wrecked their accessibility, and javascript required to read a simple text file is just plain dumb.
@fireborn We are merging the key conflict detection. I sent you a reply on github. Basically, for things that present dialogs, use yad instead of zenity. Also for short things like battery info, you could just make a key binding and speak the information with speech-dispatcher instead of using a text box.
@fireborn I updated the battery status script just a bit so that it doesn't rely on ls which can be different on different systems. I also did some string manipulation so it would read "Battery 0:" instead of "BAT0".
If you have time, take a look at it and tell me what you think.
@fireborn lol I was way over thinking the ratpoisonless configuration. Once I realized it would actually be simple, it took me about 10 minutes to write. Then I spent about 35 more minutes tracking down a really obvious bug in the yesno dialogs.
@fireborn when you do pull requests, can you create a different branch for each one, and only request one thing per branch? The last batch has some tangles with things that are already in master, and basically we are adding in things manually because it's easier this way. With single pulls per branch, it should make it much easier to do this in the future.
If your instance is blocking an instance with folks you'd like to still read, you can add any Mastodon account to your feed reader (I like NetNewsWire myself) by using the following formula:
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.
The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him
Do you want SSO for @pixelfed and know how to PHP? I need help integrating my OAuth/OIDC patches with the theme library so it isn't just unstyled HTML: github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/p…
This is a very early draft set of changes to integrate Single Sign On using OpenID Connect into PixelFed. This hacks together the GCS OIDC Client library with some glue to create user accounts bas...
You may want to block the @federatedfandom.net instance. I was mildly critical of a book's run-on sentence; the instance's owner showed up on twitter to be, well, this.
@brainblasted I suspect it's deliberately unreadable to make some sort of point? (I don't know the book, so I'm guessing.) But yes, either way, it's unreadable.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.
We are welcoming Boatswain to #GNOMECircle! Boatswain allows you to control your Elgato Stream Deck devices. That includes adding custom icons and actions.
Control your Elgato Stream Decks – Boatswain allows you to control Elgato Stream Deck devices. With Boatswain you will be able to: Organize your actions in pages and profilesSet custom icons to actionsControl your music playerPlay soun...
"Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in visible text." adrianroselli.com/2020/02/link… via @aardrian #UIDesign #IXD #a11y #links #wcag #tips
TL;DR: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so anyway, inform users in visible text.
What's your opinion on doing this for web apps like Gmail, Twitter, Mastodon, etc.? In these cases, I tend to think of the app as a semi-permanent thing with its own context, not a transient thing that I return to with the back button. Pressing enter on a link and having it effectively replace my email/social media app seems super counter-intuitive to me. The exceptions don't quite cover that.
Does anyone know any instance directories which have safety requirements for being listed?
So, for example, JoinMastodon has the covenant at joinmastodon.org/covenant, are there any other instance directories which have similar (or better) rules?
Yep. It's a video!Links 'n' stuff:Technology Connextras (my second channel where stuff goes sometimes)https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnextrasTechnology...
"We don’t yet know what an Internet with less virality would look like, or whether it would be as compelling as what came before. But it is heartening, after watching Musk’s erratic Twitter despotism, to imagine community-driven spaces that are only as good as the hosts who moderate them and the people they attract. Perhaps we are undergoing a collective period of relearning what we need and want from our digital lives."
I present to you Typeshare 2.0! A way to share Rust types across the FFI (supports, Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Go). We use it everyday and I love it, makes things so easy and awesome.
Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI. - GitHub - 1Password/typeshare: Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchron...
#RiscOS fans: Which drag-and-drop operations are you missing in your modern-day desktop environments? Amazing that most #Linux file managers can't even open documents by dragging them onto applications, something I would consider very basic functionality of a desktop. Let's bring the joy to #helloSystem...
In unserem Jobportal sind derzeit wieder einige aktuelle Ausschreibungen online. Ein Blick auf die ausgeschriebenen Jobs lohnt sich: 🚀 jobs.fraunhofer.de/search/?cre…
Wir haben sowohl offene Stellen für Studentinnen und Studenten, als auch für Absolventinnen und Absolventen. 🙂 Kommt zu uns ins Team, wir freuen uns auf Eure Bewerbung!
Totally tooting my own Horn Bet, but if anyone enjoys the game of #Craps, I coded an #accessible version of it with #Python called Oh Craps! along with the 3 other casino mother games that can be played in #Terminal or your command line of choice. Couldn't find any accurate nor accessible casino games out there so I just built my own! I also created and maintain a compendium of Craps strategies for fellow #Dice nerds: marconius.com/craps
I wrote some useful utility for DOS in 1997 and distributed it via bulletin board. It was TeaspoonWare, which I made up. The license said if you like this please mail me a teaspoon because I lose them and mum gets mad. Every so often, we’d get a teaspoon in the mail without explanation. Drove mum insane.
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