Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #IAQ advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.
When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #MatrixConf have been monitoring the air quality, adjusting ventilation, and noting when things are concerning. I never even had to ask!
The trick is making the invisible visible, and giving people the tools to make informed decisions.
... and in case you're curious, here are the live data feeds for the event!
LAB Green: aranet.cloud/public/b7v923hk
LAB1: aranet.cloud/public/r52ec3cg
LAB3: aranet.cloud/public/wnh5g37q
LAB4: aranet.cloud/public/v8m3c3w3
Organizer Room: aranet.cloud/public/dx9vb3r9
So if you're interested in an ESP32 on a multicolor printed circuit board with a touch keyboard, emulating a ZX-Spectrum, displaying it on a small LCD - Chris Greening has got you covered!
On my way to day 2 of the #matrixConf, and I'm so looking forward to a day full of discussions about the social impact of our work, how it works behind the scenes, and how projects use Matrix in their products.
And you can join the fun remotely too, at 2024.matrix.org/watch!
#opensource #Gnome #linux
Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
rudokemper.github.io/google-ma…
ArcaneChat (previously known as #DeltaLab) an alternative Delta Chat client for #Android is now available in official F-Droid store!
If you already have it you can securely continue to upgrade it now from F-Droid (or #IzzyOnDroid) thanks to #ReproducibleBuilds which ensures the apk matches the source code and not me nor F-Droid is manipulating the binary 🎉
f-droid.org/en/packages/chat.d…
#encryption #decentralization #anonymous #email #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #fdroid
When someone is deliberately misgendered, you know it, and you tolerate it, you are contributing to the dehumanization of all trans people.
That person will learn that they can get away with it and will start to do so with other trans people, moving the bar on what they think "deserves" dehumanization to wherever is convenient.
Those watching will learn that it is acceptable to misgender people.
No. I don't care if you are marginalized. I don't care if you yourself are trans. Don't. do. it.
#blocklist update:
Added ts.net to my spammy-subdomains.txt list. While I have been aware of this for the past year, the number of subdomains on fedi has increased and the spam risk is too great (at least one person reported spam).
I should have added this months ago, to be honest: free easily-created subdomains and partially-managed hosting (networking) all in one for a product with sufficient popularity without heavy moderation of spam generally spells out a terrible place way to run an instance. Get a domain name.
For more about spammy-subdomains, see the supplementary blocklists section of my fediverse blocklists.
Moreover, I’ve had an increase in requests to add entries to shared blocklists. I normally don’t take requests for shared lists except in extreme situations, and in those cases I only do overrides as part of the process documented in the article. If I think an override is controversial, I ask a couple sources most likely to disagree; if multiple sources are opposed to adding an entry that overrides consensus, I don’t.
The point of FediNuke is to show what basically everyone agrees should be blocked, and that leaves out a lot of awful (and less-awful) entries. The goal isn’t to make a blocklist that’s enough; it’s to make a blocklist whose entries you probably agree with. As the docs say, this list is not comprehensive. It’s a huge compromise. There’s a reason why our blocklist isn’t just FediNuke; FediNuke is a list to compare other lists to, or a starting point for blocklist-skeptics. If you choose to trust FediNuke (and it’s fine if you don’t; I’m not “making” anybody use it on principle), then your list should eventually be a superset of what you import from it.
I’m making a 13.7 billion year long timeline with 5th graders mostly to teach them the difference in scale between billions and millions— but also to get them curious (I hope) about the way things bunch up and cluster together. I need more ideas for “significant events in the history of the universe/earth”
Nothing too technical.
Sean Randall
in reply to Darren Duff • • •Just to pick a few out of thin air. :)
Darren Duff
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Andre Louis
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Sean Randall
in reply to Andre Louis • • •If I have a well defined talk that 'm familiar with, I replace it with a 6 dot cell that fills in over the defined time period instead.
Darren Duff
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to Andre Louis • • •@FreakyFwoof @cachondo You could even do 6 if you removed the colons.
You could also go further and use the upper 4 dots for the time and the lower 4 for the date, assuming digits and no letters.
Darren Duff
in reply to Andre Louis • • •Sean Randall
in reply to Darren Duff • • •Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to Sean Randall • • •@cachondo I'll add to that:
Last 8 digits of a phone number / first 8 chars of a contact name, often enough to identify the caller.
First letters of a name, to identify a speaker in a meeting.
TOTP code.
Time / room (or time / beginning of name) for next appointment.
Line number of next incoming bus / tram / train.
Darren Duff
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz • • •