The domain zwezo.o-k-i.net automatically creates mirroring #Mastodon #bot accounts upon any #Twitter handles put into their search field, without authorization by the original Twitter profile owners.
I doubt, this is #legal, under EU law at least & find it highly #disturbing, that anybody can create bot accounts referring to others, who are neither aware of this nor authorized this in person.
BIG FLAW!
Please boost, so mastoadmins can take action.
#mastoadmin #followerpower #boost
@rysiek
ARIA SUCKS!
Clickable <div>s
SUCK MORE!
#a11y #WebDevelopment #merch
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This Gender-Neutral Adult T-shirts item by HTMLZ has 2 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on 24 Aug, 2022www.etsy.com
omg I made it into the “people“ list in the CSS survey. At the veeery end, but still! Thank you? 😮😁
2022.stateofcss.com/en-US/reso…
The 2022 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the CSS ecosystem.2022.stateofcss.com
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New episode is out!
@dsearls and @katherined talk to @kyle about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Full episode here: reality2cast.com/133
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#opensource #security #trust #openstandards #vendorLockin #podcast #NewEpisode
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more.Reality 2.0
With PureBoot Restricted Boot, you can lock down your boot firmware so you control the keys. Let’s see how you tighten down your boot security with Restricted PureBoot ⬇️
puri.sm/posts/spotlight-on-pur…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Giropay: Entfernung aus der Empfehlungsecke
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Im November 2022 gab es eine Anpassung der Datenschutzinformationen bei giropay. Bisher war das Online-Bezahlverfahren in der Empfehlungsecke zu finden: Giropay: Wenn ein Online-Shop keine…Kuketz IT-Security Blog
Und klar, das "Totschlag-Argument" gleich im ersten Absatz der Antwort:
"… Mittelpunkt des bequemen Bezahlens …"
Merke: Sicherheit + Datenschutz hat nicht "Bequemlichkeit" im Mittelpunkt. Wenn es Bequemlichkeit obendrauf gibt ist das super – aber auf Kosten der anderen beiden ist ein No-Go. Als Ausrede für's Datensammeln sowieso.
#Megalodon is a pink app for people who like the color pink, but Lucas' pull request convinced me to include color themes. Huge thanks to him – also for adding a mastodon-style logo text!
Some other new features include:
• Add push notification category for posts
• Improved emoji search while composing
• Poll answers not cut off, show own vote, always display vote button
Out now on GitHub – should be available on Izzy's repo and the Play Store soon enough!
github.com/sk22/megalodon/rele…
Custom color themes by @LucasGGamerM New "megalodon" text logo submitted by @LucasGGamerM Better emoji search while composing Tweaked voting (display own vote, always display vote button, don't cut...GitHub
Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.
wired.com/story/apple-photo-sc…
The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source.Lily Hay Newman (WIRED)
This comic hits home, but when you see the 2007 publishing date in the lower right hand corner it hits even harder.
#climate #nature #sustainability #environment
Před 81 lety se odehrál japonský útok na americkou základnu Pearl Harbor.Reuters (Aktuálně.cz)
tencent: yeah we’re developing facelD Al algorithms to identify people in protests and riots
everyone: jesus that sucks
tencent: also here’s an Al art generator that can turn your selfies into anime!
everyone, apparently: fuck yeah let me get in on that
Source:
I'm old enough to remember people screaming about government surveillance, the same that now have a tracking device to use apps that track what they do and read (the smartphone).
So, yeah.
They let telco, and facebook do what they were uspet about the Govt doing.
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In August 2011, Los Alamos techs posed 8 plutonium rods on a work table to take a few photos.
Had these rods rolled into each other there would have been an instant criticality event. (Think "Demon Core")
Worst still, a supervisor who saw the display ordered the techs to safe the rods, ignoring the protocol to evacuate EVERYBODY (b/c even a hand could moderate the neutrons & cause criticality).
It caused a 4-year, billion-dollar shutdown.
...
Smart people + overfamiliarity = stupid things.
On the other hand, I wish it would show all the text from the feed, on the same page as the reader, rather than make me click a link to read it on its own page.
But I don't have to use the reader, and I don't see how adding a fake title to the item would help it.
Maybe I should try subscribing to a mixed feed such as scripting.com/rss.xml to see how it deals with that.
One of my favorite Twitter accounts was always Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America. Matthew closed up shop on Twitter and moved to Mastodon as @AbandonedAmerica. You should follow and support his work not only because we need more mid-size original content accounts here, but because his photos are FANTASTIC.
mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmer…
I think Stego is done with all the router fun we had. My website staging server is talking to our DynDNS acct again. Maybe Ill try and build something over the holiday weekend.
We say goodbye to our cable service and hello to....
(well just look at this bandwidth. The mountain has never seen connections this fast!))
The accessibility acceptance criteria testing checklist generator by T-Mobile - Accessibility Resource CenterMagentaA11y
This profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
newyorker.com/culture/the-new-…
Christopher Byrd interviews the post-cyberpunk writer Cory Doctorow, about the monopolists of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the lessons of science fiction.Christopher Byrd (The New Yorker)
@woozle Excellent bit at the end of Doctorow's New Yorker profile on content moderation:
I worry that, because of the attacker’s advantage, the people who want to break the rules are always going to be able to find ways around them, and that we’re never going to be able to make a set of rules that is comprehensive enough to forestall bad conduct. We see this all the time, right? Facebook comes up with a rule that says you can’t use racial slurs, and then racists figure out euphemisms for racial slurs. They figure out how to walk right up to the line of what’s a racial slur without being a racial slur, according to the rule book. And they can probe the defenses. They can try a bunch of different euphemisms in their alt accounts; they can see which ones get banned or blocked, and then they can pick one that they think is moderator-proof.Meanwhile, if you’re just some normie who’s having racist invective thrown at you, you’re not doing these systematic probes—you’re just trying to live your life. And they’re sitting there trying to goad you into going over the line. And as soon as you go over the line they know chapter and verse. They know exactly what rule you’ve broken, and they complain to the mods and get you kicked off. And so you end up with committed professional trolls having the run of social media and their targets being the ones who get the brunt of bad moderation calls. Because dealing with moderation, like dealing with any system of civil justice, is a skilled, context-heavy profession. Basically, you have to be a lawyer. And, if you’re just a dude who’s trying to talk to your friends on social media, you always lose.
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I think Doctorow's touching on a universal truth: that any rules-based system ultimately ends up being a sort of barristered hell. It's why content moderation is so damned context-sensitive. And also why and how extremists on both sides of a divide can drive out moderates and give rise to a highly-partisan shriekfest. Closely related to SSC's "Toxoplasma of Rage":
slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/…
#CoryDoctorow #NewYorker #ContentModeration #Lawyering #ToxoplasmaOfRage
Christopher Byrd interviews the post-cyberpunk writer Cory Doctorow, about the monopolists of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the lessons of science fiction.Christopher Byrd (The New Yorker)
Android 13 for TV now available with improvements to accessibility - SD Times
sdtimes.com/software-developme… #AudioDescription #a11y
This update brings support for 4K video playback, improved connectivity with other devices, and a new user interface.Jakub Lewkowicz (SD Times)
One of the great things about coming over to Mastodon has been raising my awareness of alt text for images.
Including this by default when uploading files is a great move. Not only is it better for accessibility on this platform, but it upskills people on how to do this creating content elsewhere online.
One of the best resources I have found and can highly recommend is this webpage from Harvard: accessibility.huit.harvard.edu…
#mastodon #accessibility #website #AltText
Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.accessibility.huit.harvard.edu
⏩ I'm available again in January!
⏹️ My contract with Nomensa will end. I'm looking forward to support new people with topics like accessibility, inclusive design and improve all things organisational
▶️ Let me know what I can do for you!
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#accessibility #inclusiveDesign
Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: tenderowl.com/work/frog/)
#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon
Super post from @SaraSoueidan on how to set up a screen reader testing environment.
sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-…
Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing
#OpenAccess journals, please take heed.
New study: "Using a random sample of 300 English language open access journals, we assessed author guidelines to understand image requirements for submissions…We found that most open access journals do not include disability accessibility elements in their guidelines…While over half the journals had required parameters for image submission, none of them required alt text."
osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/zsj…
#accessibility #a11y #images #alt
I’m not impressed by the Republicans who only now seek distance from Trump. I remember how long they followed him - and the depths of hell along the path.
Did they follow him for convenience or conviction? And which is more disgusting?
And does it even matter?
Never forget.
Please include alt text with your images. Especially when your image is nothing but text. It's dead easy to do in #mastodon.
DuckDuckGo, the popular privacy-focused search engine, has announced a new partnership with Bitwarden, the open-source password manager.Bradley Chambers (9to5mac)
A leak from the European Data Protection Board reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personaliz…
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The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.noyb.eu
For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it.😁👍
And be sure to check out the threaded replies for more tips. I will continue to add more. 👍🏼
#twitterexodus #twittermigration #feditips
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You have Signed up to Mastodon, but after using it for a bit and understanding it better, you have chosen to make the switch to another server as your main o...YouTube
I love seeing all the new members joining the platform, but this does mean that with more people, you may feel the need to #mute or #block an account on #Mastodon. That is fine, your experience on this platform should be dictated by you and you alone.
So, I made this short guide to help you better navigate how to use this feature.
Please give it a #boost if you can to help spread the knowledge around the Fediverse.:ablobcatrave:
#FediTips #MastodonTips #YouTube
youtu.be/X3L4FxyTZYc
Occasionally, you may feel the need to mute or block an account on Mastodon. That is completely fine, your experience on this platform should be dictated by ...YouTube
A little known feature of #Mastodon is the ability to create your own personal notes about an account.
This is a great way to potentially remind yourself why you follow particular accounts (or just about any other reason you can think of).
Also, these notes are private. The account does not know what you have written down, nor the fact that you have even made these notes.
Please #boost to help spread the knowledge around your networks. ☺️
#MastodonTips #Feditips #Notes
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Once you begin following accounts on Mastodon, you can use the Personal Notes feature to help you keep track of why you followed a particular account (or any...YouTube
TIL Ben Franklin refused to patent any of his inventions, saying: "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
fi.edu/history-resources/frank…
Learn about how Benjamin Franklin was inspired by the sound of wet fingers on glass, leading to his own musical invention, the glass armonica.The Franklin Institute
HTML forms the heart of the Web. The beautiful thing is, HTML is easy to learn. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to master. In the Upgrade Your HTML series, I’m taking examples of HTML, discuss these examples, and make them a little better.meiert.com
Nová verze digiKamu je podle všeho (před)poslední na Qt5 postavená, pak nás již čeká osmičková řada, která přejde na Qt6. Novinky jsou tedy vesměs…David Ježek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
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