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Several Mastodon instances (including Newsie) have come under cyber-attack recently by state-level actors.

If you are the admin of a Mastodon Instance that overlaps arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy and would like FREE cyber security protection from Cloudflare as part of Project Galileo please reach out as Fourth Estate is a long-time Project Galileo partner

See: cloudflare.com/galileo/

#mastoadmin #mastodon


Project Galileo

Through Project Galileo, Cloudflare provides free cyber security services to organizations supporting the arts, human rights, journalism, and democracy.
Cloudflare
#Mastodon #mastoadmin
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#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 12 updated and 1 new apps:

* Habo: a simple, open-source habit tracker for everyone

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

mastodon - Link to source

TootSDK is now open to the public! 🚀

TootSDK is a Swift package for creating apps that interact with Mastodon, Pleroma and other Fediverse APIs.

It handles the data model and network calls, with lovely async/await based calls.

The SDK is still young. There are plenty of API calls still to add. The foundations are strong, and TootSDK is very useful already.

Contributions and PRs are more than welcome!

Check out the repo here: github.com/tootsdk/tootsdk 🥳


GitHub - TootSDK/TootSDK: Cross-platform Swift library for the Mastodon and the fediverse

Cross-platform Swift library for the Mastodon and the fediverse - GitHub - TootSDK/TootSDK: Cross-platform Swift library for the Mastodon and the fediverse
GitHub

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Reminder that whatever you store on an internet site will one day vanish, even if it's stored on the largest and richest site in the world:

"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet."

theguardian.com/technology/201…

Please don't rely on internet services to exist forever, they will all disappear eventually.

Try to store copies of important stuff offline if you can. Music, video, photos etc can all be stored locally.


Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016

Faulty server migration blamed for mass deletion of songs, photos and video
Alex Hern (The Guardian)

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I think a lot of new comers to Mastodon, the Fediverse and ActivityPub don't really realise what they're dipping their toe into, and see it as a Twitter replacement. It's a lot more than that, and the potential is so much greater. A lot of things are still clunky around the edges, but they're improving. I urge people to stick it out. This is the best chance for an alternative to centralised corporate dominated platforms. Your best shot to avoid another Musk event.
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/brea…

The Breadth of the Fediverse

The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by Megan McArdle titled "Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
in reply to Ika Makimaki

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Ika Makimaki

Try this fun game.

Imagine you live a hundred years.
That's 36,500 days.
Imagine you get to spend 20,000 dollars a day, every single day.

Yup you're a newborn spending 20 k a day, stay with me.

You'd die a 100 years later and you would have spent 730,000,000. That's 730 million dollars.

You'd be very rich, but still would not be able to call yourself a billionaire.

No one "earns" that. No one needs that.

Billionaires should not exist.

This entry was edited (2 years ago)

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I fed Eleven labs a bunch of samples of my voice and told it to create a text to speech engine based on them. I don't think this sounds the remotest bit like me. But who am I to say I guess. It does say in a disclaimer that it works best with American accents, and I don't have one of those.

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I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or “violent” but was just “bait” to attract followers. From 1922 to 2023, NYT is still covering fascists from a marketing perspective rather than a moral perspective.

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In case anybody else wants to run imagemagick on a Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian, please read 'SoftCreatR's Imagemagick Easy install for Ubuntu and Debian aka 'imei' worked for me on my Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian bullseye': rolandtanglao.com/2023/02/05/p…

SoftCreatR's Imagemagick Easy install for Ubuntu and Debian aka 'imei' worked for me on my Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian bullseye

flickr.com/roland, twitter.com/rtanglao #firefox #thunderbird
rolandtanglao.com

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Hello Cakers! A number of our users have asked if we'll be changing our name. We can confirm that our name will be remaining the same, due to a number of reasons:
Firstly, we would need to purchase new domain names and re-configure our servers; while it might not be expensive to do this, it is still a valid reason.
Secondly, we would need to obtain new API keys for the services implemented in our client. While this might seem easy, it isn't. We would have to update the keys, forcing all of our users to log out of their sessions and need to wait for an update to re-configure them all.
Thirdly, our Mastodon instance is located at TweeseCake.social. We are unable to change this (making this the main reason); for more information, check out this article masto.host/can-i-change-the-do…
Lastly, while the "Tw" part of TweeseCake may be related to Twitter, Cheesecake isn't, and we love cheesecake!

Can I change the domain name of my Mastodon server? | Masto.host

Unfortunately, no. The domain name of your Mastodon instance is an essential part of how it functions within the network, and it is impossible to change it without breaking federation. Let’s imagine you have an…
https://masto.host/author/hmg/#author (Masto.host)

reshared this

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Měsíc nepít?! Díky kampani Suchej únor statisíce Čechů pijí méně i v dalších měsících
vikend.hn.cz/c7-67167090-15tdq…

Měsíc nepít?! Díky kampani Suchej únor statisíce Čechů pijí méně i v dalších měsících

Celé to začalo v Česku v roce 2013. Stovka mužů se tehdy rozhodla na měsíc přestat pít alkohol. Důvody byly zdravotní: čeští muži se léta drželi na vrcholu globálního žebříčku a pili třikrát víc než světový průměr.
Economia, a.s.

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

Matthew Wild @mattj today on
Modernizing #Authentication and #Authorization in XMPP

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Thank you for presenting!

#opensource #jabber #standards #interoperability #prosody #snikket

FOSDEM 2023 - Modernizing Authentication and Authorization in XMPP

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #fosdem #interoperability #prosody #standards #authentication #realtime #brussels #devroom #authorization #snikket @mattj
in reply to XSF: XMPP Standards Foundation

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"Contact me via mail or XMPP at <single address>" is IMHO one of the best parts of XMPP.

I find it quite awkward to tell people "oh, by mail contact me at address1, if you use Matrix, then you need address2, when you have Signal use my phone number at <number> and when you want to have a meeting with me use that URL at address3!"

Nonsens! Mail, XMPP and SIP enables you to be reachable by a single address. IMHO a big plus!

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Calling all coders: our EasyHacks are good starting points for to get started in #LibreOffice development. Here's one for QR code support: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or…

QR code improvement - LibreOffice EasyHack - LibreOffice Development Blog

Here we discuss the QR code SVG export in LibreOffice, and how to change it to use a function from ZXing library instead of an internal one.
Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
#libreoffice

LibreOffice reshared this.

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It would be such a cool feature for @MonaApp I hope you will consider it! tweesecake.social/@brianhartge…

Brian Hartgen

2023-02-03 20:06:31


I want to pass on something which I learned today. This could be very useful if there are particular Twitter accounts you wish to track, such as news sources, and you're not going to be able to access them as easily in the future.

What you will do is use an RSS Reader to obtain the Twitter feed. There are some good RSS Readers around. We have one in our Leasey product which does work with what I am going to describe here, but there are plenty of others, including Tweesecake I believe although I haven't tried it there.

Use the following syntax, where the term, username, represents the Twitter username, such as brianhartgen

Place this into your RSS Reader to validate the URL.
openrss.org/twitter.com/userna…
such as
openrss.org/twitter.com/brianh…


@Mona app

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Couldn’t agree more to what @slightlyoff is writing here. 👏

We lost a decade to smooth talkers and hollow marketeering by the complexity merchants of “the JS-industrial-complex”.

infrequently.org/2023/02/the-m…


The Market for Lemons

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks.
Alex Russell
@Alex Russell

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Yes, the mood has shifted against Brexit. But the road back to Brussels is long and hard | #Brexit
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

"Brexit is no longer an abstract future goal, where coming benefits can be talked up, while potential drawbacks are dismissed as partisan pessimism. Brexit is now a lived reality, whose frictions and costs are a daily experience, and whose promised gains have not arrived."

#UK #Politics


Yes, the mood has shifted against Brexit. But the road back to Brussels is long and hard

Three years on, the reality of the split with the EU has changed minds. But dashed hopes could come to haunt Labour, too
Robert Ford (The Guardian)
#politics #uk #brexit

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I wrote this article on "Accessibility in SwiftUI for Widgets" 2.5 years ago.

It covers VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Display/Text Sizes in terms of adding accessibility support to Widgets.

rryam.com/accessibility-widget…

I am thinking of extending it to Lockscreen Widgets.

Nothing much changes, but I found some great examples you can take inspiration from while adding accessibility support to Lockscreen Widgets.


Exploring Accessibility: Widgets – rryam

Apple announced widgets for iOS 14 that you can have on your home screen alongside your existing apps. Widgets help you to personalize the screen with glanceable relevant data upfront.
rryam.com

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The big #FOSDEM2023 Matrix 2.0 "How we made Matrix go voooooooom" talk from @matthew begins in 10 MINUTES in Janson - matrix.to/#/#2023-janson:fosde… for those following along at home!

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#Fosdem2023 @Matthew Hodgson

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

#Scaling Open Source Realtime Messaging System for Millions by Floris van Geel

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 16:45. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #europe

FOSDEM 2023 - Scaling Open Source Realtime Messaging System for Millions

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #fosdem #europe #realtime #brussels #devroom #scaling

mastodon - Link to source

#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

Real-time #audio/#video conferences in #Linphone thanks to a modern #SFU server by Jehan Monnier

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 16:25. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #europe

FOSDEM 2023 - Real-time audio/video conferences in Linphone thanks to a modern SFU server

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #fosdem #audio #europe #sfu #realtime #brussels #devroom #linphone

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

Interoperable Chat, #Dutch #Healthcare and the Digital Markets Act - [...] by Winfried Tilanus

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 16:05. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #jabber #interoperability

FOSDEM 2023 - Interoperable Chat, Dutch Healthcare and the Digital Markets Act

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #fosdem #interoperability #dutch #healthcare #realtime #brussels #devroom

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

Secure #payments over #VoIP calls in the #cloud - [...] using #Kamailio RTP Engine by Nuno M Reis

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 15:45. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #rtc

FOSDEM 2023 - Secure payments over VoIP calls in the cloud

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #fosdem #cloud #realtime #brussels #rtc #payments #devroom #voip #Kamailio

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM in #Brussels

#RealTime Communications #Devroom Talk:

Quantitative Analysis of Open Source #WebRTC Developer #Trends by Chad Hart

fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

Start at 15:25. Building: K, Location: K.3.401

#opensource #rtc

FOSDEM 2023 - Quantitative Analysis of Open Source WebRTC Developer Trends

fosdem.org
#xmpp #opensource #webrtc #fosdem #realtime #brussels #rtc #Trends #devroom
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