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We are nearing the end of our #fundraiser and we still have a bit to go. #Donate now and get your hands on some cool digital #goodies! Such as "I donated" badges to display on your social media, designs for digital and printed cards, and the new #Katie and #Konqi Santa mascots.

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…

A pile of presents and a Konqi card in front of them.
Screenshot of the fundraiser "Thank you" page, showing badges, cards and the new Katie and Konqi Kristmas mascots.

You Make KDE Possible

Your donation allows KDE to continue developing the spectacular Plasma desktop and all the apps you need for education, productivity, and creative work.
You Make KDE Possible
#donate #fundraiser #konqi #katie #goodies

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A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.

Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.

More: apnews.com/article/prisons-dce…

#Stutthof #history #Nazis #Germany #SS #justice #woman #trial


German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
Geir Moulson (Associated Press)
#woman #history #Germany #Justice #stutthof #nazis #ss #trial

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Google introduces client-side encryption for Gmail - but only for key account customers.

Yet, you'll be happy to know that encryption is available to everyone in Tutanota, not just a chosen few. 😀

#fight4privacy #PrivacyMatters #privacy

tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-…


Google introduces client-side encryption for Gmail - but not for you.

Gmail's end-to-end encryption project seemed dead in 2017. Now it's back, but only for key account customers.
Tutanota
#privacy #fight4privacy #privacymatters
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Toshimaru

日本語訳がtutanotaのブログに掲載されている。
tutanota.com/ja/blog/posts/gma…

Google、Gmailにクライアントサイドの暗号化を導入 - ただし、あなたには関係ありません。

Gmailのエンドツーエンド暗号化プロジェクトは、2017年に死んだかに見えた。今は復活していますが、主要アカウントのお客様のみです。
Tutanota

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Crazy that 10% of Twitter's users has joined Mastodon. It's too late now to stop the bleed with features, at least in my opinion. theverge.com/2022/12/20/235183…

More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter

Mastodon, a decentralized Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 monthly active users to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO Eugen Rochko said in a blog post.
Jay Peters (The Verge)

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Accessibility in the Fediverse — how, why, and who yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i… by @yatil #a11y #federated

Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert

Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.
Eric Eggert
#a11y #federated @Eric Eggert

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Digital Ocean, provider of some of the most helpful tech tutorials around, just published one for how to set up #mastodon !

digitalocean.com/community/tut…

I wish this had existed before I stood up my own instance, but now it'll help others.


How To Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04

Mastodon is a microblogging social networking application that uses a decentralized model, also termed as a federation by its creators.
Tony Tran (DigitalOcean)
#Mastodon

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While I might be the only dinosaur still loving and using @thunderbird, I'd like to encourage you to contribute to its development as well if you or your company relies on it:

give.thunderbird.net

#opensource #thunderbird #mozilla


Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.
Give to Thunderbird
#opensource #mozilla #thunderbird @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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After seeing how the admin of gladtech[DOT]social handled a recent situation with a racist user, I'm going to recommend blocking that instance.

After admitting a user had multiple reports of racist behavior and using an ai generated of a Black woman to do it behind, it was deemed that they would be allowed to stay on that instance.

This is unacceptable for a couple of reasons. To give a racist the benefit of the doubt after multiple infractions only invites that behavior to continue. And secondly, hiding your identity behind the face of a generated face of the people you are targeting implies a nefarious attempt to avoid consequences and is inherently a bad faith practice of a person who is anti-black and only seeks to cause harm.

Taking the word of a bigot after multiple infractions and deciding there should be no consequences and not limiting their ability to harass others simply invites more hateful behavior to continue and makes the fedi less safe.

#fediblock

Text of Image: The account in question has been reported by many people now for a few racist posts. Message received. I've handled the reports on my end in a way that I think is fair. For the avatar, our instance doesn't have any rules against AI-generated avatars. We do have rules against racism though, and the posts in question are obviously problematic. I've talked to @vesperto@gladtech.social about it and I consider the issue resolved for now. Let me know if you have any other questions.
#FediBlock

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Tutanota: We are kicking off the development of email import!

@Tutanota is on fire 🔥! They're finally working on an email import feature, which will make it easier for people to switch from email providers like #gmail.

#privacy #privacymatters

tutanota.com/blog/posts/kickof…


We are kicking off the development of email import!

Email import is coming to your secure Tutanota mailboxes.
Tutanota
#privacy #GMail #privacymatters @Tuta
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Miles

@hub This display from Pimorini has almost the same viewable area as the original CRT. I used the original screw holes from the CRT to mount it. 🙂

adafruit.com/product/4338


Pimoroni HDMI 8" IPS LCD Screen Kit - 1024x768

Make a gorgeous video set up with this high-resolution 8", IPS, 1024x768, plug-n-play HDMI screen kit with a display driver board that's perfect for building into projects like ...
www.adafruit.com
@Hubert Figuière
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David Runge

@Bubu as there are a lot of unreleased features on the default branch, I'd recommend trying that (using pdm). 0.2.2 is in the repos but also lacks quite a few of the new fancy stuff and is not as well documented.

Do note that currently you can only add/ update packages, but not yet remove them!

@Bubu

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Thanks to some physics modelling and hacking from last year, we can now connect our water rower to Zwift to "bike" with friends github.com/osresearch/rowblue
rower with an ipad showing a bike next to a laptop
first person view of a rower with a laptop showing physics model code and charts of pull strength

GitHub - osresearch/rowblue: ESP32 BLE interface for generic rowing machines to Zwift and other services

ESP32 BLE interface for generic rowing machines to Zwift and other services - GitHub - osresearch/rowblue: ESP32 BLE interface for generic rowing machines to Zwift and other services
GitHub

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@Friendica Support Friendica currently comes with two themes: frio and vier with frio being the default.

The theme selection does not indicate that. What are others thinking? Would it make sense to add a default tag to frio so that fact is communicated to users?

github.com/friendica/friendica…

Display > General Theme Settins > Display Theme: to frio listing · Issue #12481 · friendica/friendica" class="attachment-image" />

add "(default)" to Settings > Display > General Theme Settins > Display Theme: to frio listing · Issue #12481 · friendica/friendica

The theme selection dropdown Currently * frio * vier Expected * frio (default) * vier frio is the default. That fact should be communicated to users.
GitHub
@Friendica Support
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Wilhelm

@Tobias Had you tried the new frio v1.0? What were your thoughts?

Clearly themes are a question of personal taste and arguing about them is very difficult. I really don't want to get into an opinion war about personal preferences as that will lead nowhere. But if tobias or other vier users could share, what aspects they prefer about vier over frio, maybe there is something to learn / takeaway / improve about frio.

I want to also add 2 cents about UI changes which affect us all and how many (me included) perceive them: e.g. it's so funny with the changes in macOS. When they first hit you, they sometimes look ridiculous. And next it's fascinating how quickly I get used to altered UI and my brain accepts the change as nice and normal after 14 days of usage and getting used to.

@Tobias

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 19 - made in Poland
And so we arrived in the last week of advent so this calendar has only six windows left. To finish it off nicely, from now on I'll try to post some smaller projects that nevertheless have an impact on the quality of life for the blind and partially sighted people somewhere. Let's start with another Polish invention:
Totupoint is an in-door navigation system created by Jan Szuster, a blind engineer from Warsaw. It revolves around Bluetooth beacons placed at key points in a building or at a points of interests such as bus stops, administrative buildings or other venues that are key infrastructure. Those can be discovered through the Totupoint mobile app or an additional module attached to the user's white cane. As soon as you find yourself within the range of a beacon, it is triggered and plays the assigned recording so that you exactly know where it is located. You can repeat the message as many times as you need to locate the point you're looking for or in case of the mobile app read the attached information such as opening hours or address and phone number of the place you're at.
The system also supports tiny interactive HTML apps that can be operated from within the app so it can be adapted to turn on the traffic lights or request line number on public transport. Many successful installations happen at an increasing number of venues in Poland. You can learn more and see the complete list of active locations at:
totupoint.pl/
In other news: as soon as Apple flicks the verification switch, I will have something to share that potentially all of you might find useful so watch this space.
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Poland #UrbanEnvironment
#Accessibility #blind #Poland #adventcalendar #urbanenvironment

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Just a little note in case you didn't know that I'm a person who REALLY likes this particular mashup to like an Unhealthy Degree
youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3…

Taylor Swift vs. Nine Inch Nails - Shake It Off (The Perfect Drug)

DL: http://audio.isosine.com/Isosine%20-%20Taylor%20Swift%20vs.%20Nine%20Inch%20Nails%20-%20Shake%20It%20Off%20(The%20Perfect%20Drug).mp3FB: http://facebook....
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Hey folks. I'm still available for new projects.

Ideally, I'm looking for part-time design and/or web development gigs that I can balance with working on Fipampo and The Bad Space.

I'm open to full-time product management positions, especially with a tech focus, as long as they are remote. Part-time management and strategy roles are in my wheelhouse too.

I've had a long career as a digital creator, and I've amassed a lot of skills along the way. I keep an overview handy here -> roiskinda.cool/profile.html
If you have any specific questions, feel free to send me a note.


profile

Because it should be easy.
roiskinda.cool

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I finally actually wrapped it up and pushed it out: the hopefully-soon-to-be-peer-validated paper MUSICAL STRUCTURE OF GEOMETRIC ELAMITE

do you like mysterious undeciphered tablets? do you like maybe the literally oldest music in existence? boy do I have the PDF for you academia.edu/93268214/Musical_…

I also have the MP3s for you, though I ask that you at least glance through the paper for context before listening to them soundcloud.com/0xabad1dea/sets…

This has been consuming my life for about nine months now so I guess that makes it my baby

photo of tablets with screenshots of musical sequences superimposed

Musical Structure of Geometric Elamite

The Konar Sandal "Geometric" tablets, written partially in Linear Elamite and mostly in an otherwise unknown script of simple geometric shapes, have resisted linguistic explanation. Their structure is better explained not as written
Melissa Elliott (www.academia.edu)
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Publisher's Weekly finally updated their annual salary & jobs survey and the results are grim and not surprising at all.

Read the whole thing but I'm pulling this graph of the racial makeup of publishing.

Notably, nonwhite respondants were very skeptical that this small push for diversity will continue.

If we want to change publishing we need to prove the efforts are worth it and BIPOC books SELL.

publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top…

#bookstodon @diversebooks @bookstodon #reading

graph depicting the racial makeup of publishing. here are the stats: 83% white 5% hispanic 4% asian 4% mixed race 3% Black/African American
@bookstodon group @diversebooks group
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