Blog post: Mastodon is now our social network of choice. Here's why we've done it, the benefits to you, and how to join us there mushroomfm.com/MastodonMove
Podcast transcript, Mosen at large 208, why Mushroom FM had gone all in on Mastodon, Dan Clarke from Focusrite talks about their accessibility initiatives, and a demo of the updated Vocaster Hub mosen.org/malp0208transcript/
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Yeeeha! @kensanata just tagged a new release of mastodon-archive. And what shall I say: Users of Debian and RPM based Linuxes now can install via their package managers, and be informed about future updates then automatically 🥳 Instructions in the Readme here: github.com/kensanata/mastodon-…
I'm proud my contributions were accepted into this wonderful tool. I don't want to miss it in my daily "Mastodonitis"
Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e. login required) - GitHub - kensanata/mastodon-archive: Archive your statuses, favorites and media using the Mastodon API (i.e...
Last year, 37signals employees shared the “pyramid of hate” in a work chat in response to seeing a list of “funny Asian names” of customers. Upper management responded by banning discussion of politics at work (I presume “politics” means “anything that creates a sense of social responsibility beyond investor value”). Its handling of the situation caused a third of its employees to resign.
However, I don’t think this policy is in effect anymore: 37signals leadership is using a company blog to rail against diversity and inclusion, and then double down after criticism. Is the “no politics” rule lifted, is upper management exempt, or does “no politics” only refer to politics that challenges David Heinemeier Hansson to change his behavior? I look forward to hearing a clarification on this rule.
37signals is known for creating Basecamp, Hey.com (an email service with bespoke email filters that are somehow incompatible with IMAP), and for creating Ruby on Rails. It appears to remain a key member of the Rails Foundation. For now.
This is untrue, world.hey.com/dhh is a personal blog of DHH, the founder of 37 Signals, not a company blog. I’m not a Hey user myself, but as far as I understand it, Hey World is basically like Substack, but for Hey users, and is available to anybody using the platform. If I remember Basecamp’s statements correctly, they have explicitly stated that employees are allowed to be politically active, as long as it doesn’t happen in the official company chat.
@miki Thanks, I edited the post. I do think that the leader of a company blogging about his political views on hiring practices probably does reflect on the company’s emergent political stance on hiring practices, and that limiting workers ability to discuss company decisions just because they’re “political” is a really bad look.
Also, as far as I remember their statements, employees were explicitly encouraged to create other places where they could discuss politics amongst themselves, as long as participation was voluntary and they weren’t using work infrastructure. I think WhatsApp and Signal groups were provided as examples.
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).
Je to 2,5 centimetru velké mandlovité těleso zvané amygdala.
Když se ocitneme v nebezpečné situaci, amygdala vyšle poplach a spustí se řada procesů. Do těla se dostává koktejl hormonů.
🫀Srdce začne pumpovat krev rychleji, což změní směr. Přesouvá se z méně důležitých orgánů do orgánů s vyšší prioritou, například do svalů nohou, aby byl kop silnější nebo běžel rychleji.
Potřebujete zkrátit dlouhou a těžko zapamatovatelnou URL adresu odkazu? Vyzkoušejte náš zkracovač URL! Zkracování URL adres je ideální na Twitter, do diskusního fóra či jen do SMSky. Nebo chcete skutečnou URL adresu jen skrýt.
Pitch This is extracted from #309. I suggest adding the following to mastodon settings and implementing the respective feature: Users that are in at least one of the following groups may quote-boos...
While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.
So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.
There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.
With a bunch of people I respect promoting their substacks, finding out they actively support anti- trans bigotry is disturbing and disappointing. I’m not hurrying off to subscribe.
Had to listen to the Getting Past Polarization episode of #CBCIdeas podcast episode with Anand Giridharadas twice to catch some of his great insights - cbc.ca/radio/ideas/divisive-am…
I hand't thought of the RT as part of a call/response culture.
My main concern with the piece is that we cannot control whether or not Twitter implodes. Monopolies are inherently fragile & we know it is being run by a benevolent dictator.
Twitter had a good run. We have to adapt. That means building in better means to protect marginalized users. #a11y
@harikrishnans Hi there, at this time we have European and US based stores. You can find links to both stores on our website here: tutanota.com/community
Tutanota will be the privacy-respecting alternative to Google with a calendar, notes, cloud storage - everything encrypted by default. Join us in bringing privacy to the world!
Time for an #introduction now that my account is finally on my own instance where I intend it to stay.
I'm a techie and a writer. I first started programming on a Vic20 when I was about 5 years old. I started writing some years later but put it aside for many years.
The last few years I picked it up again, and have published two #scifi novels so far, which you can read more about at galaxybound.com
If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leav…
This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, and why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and more are on the way. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.
Google has now migrated maps.google.com to www.google.com/maps thus if you grant Geoloc permission in your browser, every G-service on www.google.com can track your location.
Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.
Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:
Original Collection by MIDI_MAN. Modified by Jason Scott/Internet Archive for ease of use/interaction. (Click on VIEW CONTENTS links to interact with the...
Happy to recommend pinafore.social. It's an excellent Mastodon client for web. Some highlights:
- It's really fast (loads quickly, smooth scrolling, handles spotty network connections well). - Responsive across devices - Works offline. Installable Progressive Web App - Surprisingly featureful w/some ideas I haven't seen in native clients just yet.
Today I’m happy to announce a project I’ve been quietly working on for some time: Pinafore. Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon, which looks like this: Here are some of i…
My Windows 9x-inspired theme for GTK2/GTK3/Metacity, "Memphis 98"
It's got a few bugs and issues -- some original, and some because of things that have changed in MATE or GTK in the few years since I first worked on it. But it still mostly holds up.
It's for MATE, but should work with varying degrees of success on other desktop environments.
Hilarious!! A 1980s Mastodon instructions video. Gawd I miss DOS. Every time the modem connects I bust my stuffing. Enjoy. I want to credit the original poster, but my timeline got away from me while I was cracking up over the video. youtu.be/zV8Q0WOYoag
Somewhere in a parallel universe, Mastodon already existed in the 1980s. Programmer SuperIlu made a real Mastodon client for MS-DOS:https://github.com/SuperI...
We're testing the glitch-soc version of Mastodon. It supports Markdown in the posts. Bravo. And it works the way you want it to. The messages are rendered when they are viewed by readers.
Every year, #MushroomFM, a station run in the main by #blind volunteers, produces a top 100 #holiday #music countdown based on the votes of listeners. We also have a social media #Christmas party in conjunction with the live 10-hour broadcast. This year, for the first time, it’s happening on Mastodon.
This programming is produced by blind people, for the world. Everyone is welcome to vote for their holiday faves, listen in, and join in the social media fun if they want to. Here’s the blog post announcing the 2022 countdown. Looking forward to the votes of our regulars and, maybe, some new Mastodon friends as well. mushroomfm.com/node/3137
I'd LOVE to see him try. (iOS has been developing since 2005-ish, and Android for even longer; the only way he'll get a software stack is to use Android as a platform or buy in a cheap also-ran from China. Either path is a quick way to lose a few billion dollars more without shipping a useable product. A dozen billion here, a dozen billion there, pretty soon it's all gone ...)
Oh, how many developers could it possibly take to write an embedded operating system and a driver layer and a few wireless protocols and a camera and a sandbox for applications and a handful of applications and a customized user interface and and and? Regardless of the work, I’m sure a dozen of those 10x programmers he talks about will be plenty. /s
Elon Musk just banned the culture jamming anarchist publication CrimethInc. from Twitter after a request from Andy Ngo, the fascist activist who's beloved by multiple mass shooters.
CrimethInc. has had a Twitter account since 2008, has never violated Twitter policies, and has never been suspended until now.
Hello world, I am Luna Beelzebub. I'm a 4 year old demon of the feline variety, entirely indifferent to humans unless either I'm hunting them for sport or they are dispensing food.
My favorite hobby is hiding in dark rooms and scaring the shit out of people. I only bite if I like you.
Chris 🌱
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