#GNOMEAsia2022 is only a few hours away! Reminder that our schedule is in local Malaysian time, but you can view it in the timezone of your choice by using the settings at the top right side of the event website. events.gnome.org/event/100/tim…

Attendees, check your emails for more info on how to join us remotely and check back here or on the event website for links to our YouTube Livestream.
events.gnome.org/event/100/

#GNOMEAsia #opensource #GNOME #conference

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Hey @yatil - I came across your #accessibility in the #fediverse post: yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i…

I'm currently working on a #chess game that can be played over Mastodon, and I'm keen for it to be as good an experience as it can be for everyone. I've done some research, have a prototype, and now I feel like I can start talking to users...

Would you be willing to offer your thoughts, and could you recommend a few people I could email or chat to?

obsessed with this article by the Android team. just looking at the graphs it's like "rust go up, exploits go down" security.googleblog.com/2022/1…

also holy shit Android has a lot of rust code now

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Godot Engine 4.0 is approaching release, future plans detailed gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/godo… #GameDev #OpenSource

Apple releases iOS 16.2 beta 4 to developers ahead of expected launch this month 9to5mac.com/2022/12/01/apple-r…

Tusky 20.0 (a Mastodon client for Android) is out! It's live on Google Play + F-Droid now.

I helped with this release:

- I added (with help) a "focus" dialog that lets you set the focus point on an image attachment, like the web client has
- If you're logged in on more than one account it now shows your account name in the title bar. I didn't do that. I added a preference to turn it off since it's personally not useful to me… ^_^

There are other new features too, see:

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#Tusky 20 is out! 💙
It is already available via Google Play, F-Droid should follow soon!
Here is the full changelog: github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele…
Enjoy ^_^

I've spent the last 30 days diversifying my #socialmedia presence because the hellsite Bird App is going to implode at any minute.

Here are my observations so far: nataniabarron.com/2022/12/01/m…

Ahora que extremistas previamente expulsados vuelven a #Twitter, escribí de la plataforma:
albertochimal.com/2022/11/25/t…
…y sobre la escritura literaria en línea:
literalmagazine.com/la-muerte-…

#artículos

✅ Heslem pátého ročníku Ptačí hodinky (sčítání ptáků na krmítkách od 6. do 8. ledna 2023) je "přikrmujeme správně a zodpovědně".

☝️ Umístěním krmítka na zahradu, balkon, parapet (či jinam) na sebe bereme zodpovědnost.

birdlife.cz/prikrmujete-ptaky-…

#MS365 Beschluss der #DSK: #Microsoft wirft deutschen Datenschützern "ausufernden Aufsichtsansatz" vor, "der keinen Betroffenenschutz mehr verfolgt" sondern #Datenschutz "zum dogmatischen Selbstzweck" mache

Starker Tobak - gerade weil #MS sowohl an den Besprechungen unserer Arbeitsgruppe beteiligt als auch vorab angehört wurde

Aber: Die deutschen #Aufsichtsbehörden sind sich einig.
heise.de/news/Office-365-Micro…

Gerade wenn jetzt vor Weihnachten wieder ein #Smartphone unter dem Bäumchen landet, ein Hinweis: Antiviren-Scanner-Apps auf #Android und #iOS benötigt ihr nicht. Diesen nutzlosen Hokus-Pokus kann man sich sparen - am Ende wiegt man sich nur in falsche #Sicherheit, obwohl diese Apps systembedingt (Sandbox und Co.) kaum etwas leisten. Im Gegenteil: Diese vermeintlichen Sicherheits-Apps sind meist vollgestopft mit #Trackern. Mehr Infos und wie man idealerweise vorgeht 👇

kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-si…

Scientists make ‘exciting’ breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery

"Hidden letters and numbers discovered on aluminium panel believed to be from famous aviator’s aircraft"

#aviation #history #Earhart #AmeliaEarhart #interesting

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Thought I was done posting about #hivesocial #hive but guess not.
This time, they've taken their server offline to "fix vulnerabilities affecting service stability and user security".
As it turns out what happened is that there's a vulnerability that straight up allows a malicious actor to edit another person's posts, among other things.

Source for the video:
zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en…

🔥 HTMHell Advent 2022 Day 1: How to turn wireframes into HTML 🔥

Lara Aigmüller shares her process of turning wireframes into HTML. She talks about heading outlines, landmarks, DOM order, and more.

htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/

49-Euro-Ticket verzögert sich: Langsam wird es peinlich | tagesschau.de

Das 49-Euro-Ticket wäre ein Meilenstein in der Verkehrspolitik und eine finanzielle Entlastung für viele. Dass sich die Umsetzung jetzt verzögert, ist ärgerlich, meint Torben Ostermann. Das Vorhaben droht zum Rohrkrepierer zu werden.

tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

in reply to ⛳ rebel

Vielleicht sollte jemand mal die FDP informieren, dass Siemens auch Züge und Mercedes Busse baut? 🤔 OK, nix für Porsche & Co dabei… Obwohl: Wenn die halbe Republik in den Öffis sitzt, ist doch die Straße wieder frei?

Aber wie Du schreibst, es ist nicht gewollt. Wenn man wollte, hätte man schon längst ein 29€ Ticket (ging mit dem 9€ Ticket ja auch recht schnell). Das benötigte Kleingeld könnte man einfach von der Kohle-Subvention abzweigen, "kein Geld" ist auch nur ein Vorwand.

Mention of OCD

My boyfriend (@crispy) says that he wishes there's a way to use Mastodon when he can't type much because of #OCD. He says that's why he prefers Twitter Spaces, because he can use his voice.

Perhaps #Mastodon would do well to add a voice post option?

He doesn't like dictation because it's slow and doesn't work properly. The built-in dictation at least.

Related GitHub Issue: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#accessibility #TypingImpaired

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Picks of the Day:

➡️ @FrankenGraphics - Creates new Nintendo NES games and retro pixel art

➡️ @BRKitchenGarden - Growing your own vegetables in an urban kitchen garden

➡️ @base - One of the world's largest academic search engines

➡️ @ellie - Account dedicated to motorbikes

➡️ @snookerbot - Results of snooker matches

More follows at fedi.directory

I’ve been writing HTML for over 20 years, and just today I learned about the `<menu>` element. It’s not deprecated and has been supported by all browsers for almost as long as I’ve been coding! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

You can find answers to your questions about Mastodon and the Fediverse straight away at:

➡️ fedi.tips

If you can't find the answers you need on the site, ask me and I will reply.

(By the way, my replies aren't publicly-visible because most people don't need to see them.)

#Mastodon #Fediverse

The accessibility for the #blind advent calendar - day 1: 🗾 Open the content warning to discover the interesting fact for the day
In #Japan, the concept of accessible phones has been known since the early 00's and has its own term, "Raku Raku Phones" and means simplified phones. Those are adapted for the needs of elderly users and those who don't feel as familiar with modern technology so a lot of concepts are, well, simplified. This is especially important given that the 00's saw the emergence of Japanese mobile phones with capacities comparable to today's smartphones. Sending emails, taking photos, mobile payments, music recognition and downloads; even TV watched on a phone were all there by 2005 and formed an important part of how the Japanese society accessed information. This is why the Raku Raku phones manufactured jointly by Fujitsu and NTT Docomo, the leading Japanese mobile carrier, were so important. Fujitsu called to the corporate social responsibility of other companies to follow suit and also formed the basis for accessibility guidelines for I-Mode, the gateway to all of Japan's mobile internet services. Apparently, 80% of Japan's blind population used these phones as they were equipped with a screen reader and allowed accessing I-Mode this way. fujitsu.com/global/documents/a…
#accessibility #blind #Japan #adventcalendar #mobile #phones

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The accessibility for the #blind advent calendar - day 1: 🗾 Open the content warning to discover the interesting fact for the day
@b_cavello Glad to be of service! Feel free to explore my other posts for the next days as I hope not to run out of content. Hopefully something that actually still works will surface in these.

Small Web sites will require JavaScript to sign in.

Why?

To protect your privacy.

We use public-key authentication (which I’m implementing as we speak) so your secret is never stored on the server and you only enter it in places you own and control.

(I can already see some folks up in arms about this because JavaScript Bad™ so I just checked in the initial copy for the page that gets displayed if JavaScript is off.)

#SmallWeb #Kitten #SmallTech #JavaScript #cryptography #authentication

in reply to Aral Balkan

Honestly, if it weren't you I had stopped reading at "[turn on Javascript] to protect your privacy". Call me biased, but I'd never believe/follow that advice unless I'd totally trust™ that server (admin+machine+software). This too much reminds me of the "corporate evil" of "you'll see a certificate warning because we use a self-signed one, you can simply ignore that" – which leads to, guess what? People getting used to ignore and doing so elsewhere. Dangerous 😉
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

@IzzyOnDroid Sadly, there’s been a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to client-side JavaScript (especially in the FOSS world – “The JavaScript Trap”, etc.) Ironically enough given how adtech uses it, the only way we can have a privacy-respecting web (where you and you alone hold the secrets that authenticate your identity) is through client-side JavaScript. It’s basically the basis of the Small Web.
in reply to Aral Balkan

Yupp, once more: Ad-tech destroyed the web. If it weren't for them, the world would be a much better place!

* Web traffic down to 10% (no bloated elements, no bloated ads, no tracking scripts)
* Mail traffic down (same reasons plus no spam at all)
* required computing resources down to below 50% (no tracker-blocker needed, no spam filters)
* power consumption down (especially those ad panels!)
* …

When we say "hyper-capitalism destroyed the world", this is true on so many levels…