Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in...
Massaal en hartverwarmend protest tegen een koud en kil beleid dat ook voor klimaat en natuur nalatig is.
Een verenigd en combattief middenveld zal broodnodig zijn om deze Arizona-partijen in alle regeringen te dwingen tot meer menselijkheid, meer rechtvaardigheid en meer duurzaamheid.
Given recent events, I want to move my digital life out of the United States ASAP. I'm looking at @Tutanota as a replacement mail and calendar service. But I'm confused about whether I can import mail from Gmail or not:
tuta.com/blog/tuta-release-upd… says I can import mail, but only on the plan that costs €8 a month (but I don't need 500GB of email storage; the €3/month plan is the one I'd go for).
What's the story? Can it be done, or not quite yet?
In this conversation, the community talks with Florian, manager of the VoIP team at Element. How does matrixRTC works, will we get SIP bridges, and what does the future hold?
Here David from Workadventure explains what his use case is for E2EE, and why it can get in the way. A great conversation about whether he should use E2EE in the first plain ensues.
In this conversation, David from Workadventure tells us about the friction caused by E2EE and how it works against his project.Hugh and Rich from the Encrypt...
A quick update on all the latest progress on core Matrix development from the project founders. Areas of focus include:* State Resolution improvements* Matri...
Matthew's Main Track Talk in Janson at FOSDEM 2025: The Road To Mainstream Matrix.(This Week in) Matrix🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix🤝 https://www.l...
The Rust programming language is often hailed as a perfect companion to Wasm, leading many to wonder: why aren’t matrix clients like Element Web fully leveraging the Rust SDK? Why does the JavaScript SDK remain the optimal choice for building Matrix-based webapps?
The Rust programming language is often hailed as a perfect companion to WebAssembly (Wasm), leading many to wonder: why aren’t matrix clients like Element We...
Step into the TARDIS as we go on a deep-dive to explain how federation in Matrix works. We'll cover the protocol, its robustness qualities and how it relates to CRDTs, all whilst operating safely in Byzantine environments far larger than consensus-based blockchains.
To aid in our journey, interactive visualisations backed by real homeservers are used to explain core concepts via TARDIS and other tooling.
Step into the TARDIS as we go on a deep-dive to explain how federation in Matrix works. We'll cover the protocol, its robustness qualities and how it relates...
📹 State of Synapse: where we're at, Matrix 2.0, and the future
A dive into the state of Synapse, including what we've been up to, what Synapse even is and who it's for, and the challenges we're facing. We'll also talk about the recent efforts to support Matrix 2.0 and pushing the Matrix protocol further, how we're using Rust to fix performance bottlenecks, and where we're going in the future.
A dive into the state of Synapse, including what we've been up to, what Synapse even is and who it's for, and the challenges we're facing. We'll also talk ab...
Ubuntu has recently adopted Matrix for instant messaging. This talk explains how we went through the process of moving from many different messaging platforms to Matrix, and how we ensure our users have the best experience on Matrix.
Ubuntu has recently adopted Matrix for instant messaging. This talk explains how we went through the process of moving from many different messaging platform...
📹 Robrix: a pure Rust multi-platform Matrix Client and more
Robrix is a new up-and-coming Matrix client for power users, written from scratch in Rust to demonstrate and drive the featureset of Project Robius, a multi-platform app dev framework.
This talk covers the general architecture and features of Robrix, the author's experience developing apps in Rust and the challenges encountered, and how Robrix's needs have driven the development of ecosystem components.
Robrix is a new up-and-coming Matrix client for power users, written from scratch in Rust to demonstrate and drive the featureset of Project Robius, a multi-...
📹 MatrixRTC: Building Real-Time Applications on Matrix
MatrixRTC is poised to become the foundation for real-time applications built on the Matrix protocol, unlocking new possibilities for secure, extensible communication. This session dives into the latest developments in MatrixRTC, focusing on the final pieces of its proposed specification and showcasing how it enables a broad range of real-time applications.
MatrixRTC is poised to become the foundation for real-time applications built on the Matrix protocol, unlocking new possibilities for secure, extensible comm...
Please consider hosting videos on other places than just #YouTube.
#Google is making it increasingly difficult to view their videos in ways that don't make you choke on their surveillance, ads and cookies. I will *never* load a video directly from YouTube, and I know I'm not the only one.
Please consider posting them on #PeerTube and sync that to YT for the people who still don't understand how evil Google is.
@hans Thanks, we look forward to posting primarily on a PeerTube instance as it is very much in line with our values.
We're deeply constrained in terms of resources right now so are making due as best we can, but have every intention of deprioritizing centralized systems and big tech up and down our stack.
As Europe and Ukraine grapple with the stark reality that Trump has abandoned them, this is a good time to read this interview I gave in early January. Everything I outlined is coming to pass. america2.news/elon-musk-wants-…
European governments are becoming increasingly alarmed at Elon Musk's interference in their internal affairs. Is Musk's plan for world domination likely to succeed, or make him into a global pariah?
This is fine for those of us who don't buy from Amazon anymore, but if you have a standing library with them, make sure you get it all downloaded so you can break it. It's frustrating because you can't bulk download - I keep finding titles I own but missed grabbing somehow - but you have until Feb 26th to get them all.
Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
I'm really quite sad about this. I love being able to read my Kindle books in Braille without their accessibility crapping out on me every few months or having to daisy-chain devices together.
Here’s what the assholes attacking Codeberg to try and make it unsuable don’t understand:
It doesn’t matter.
I can’t push to Codeberg right now? So fucking what?
You think I’m going to go running back to Github because you’ve temporarily inconvenienced me?
You think I give a couple of hundred euros to Codeberg every year to demand perfect service?
I support them by hosting my code there and by donating to them because I believe in what they do and because I want to see them succeed and to support alternatives to the likes of toxic trillion-dollar corporations like Microsoft.
So go ahead, take them off the web for as long as you can. When you’re bored, or out of money, or whatever, I’ll still be there, on Codeberg, happily supporting a local and ethical alternative to your US/Silicon Valley/Big Tech bullshit.
Musk called someone the "R" word for saying the government uses SQL The government is built on SQL.
If you're not a data scientist, imagine a car mechanic putting windshield wiper fluid in the gas tank while calling you a moron for saying gas goes there. It's like that.
#Codeberg, my code hosting platform of choice, suffered an attack earlier today that sent racist spam to many users.
This could've happened to other platforms too, but Codeberg was targeted because they're explicitly welcoming people and projects with a diverse and inclusive mindset.
But what really stood out to me: The post-mortem and apology.
#ECJ #AG Ćapeta: The Danish legislation on public housing in transformation areas constitutes direct discrimination based on an ethnic criterion 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
The second part of hagiography is familiar: the combining form -graphy, which comes from the Greek verb graphein, meaning 'to write,' is found in biography and calligraphy (among many others) too.
Its "latest and greatest" are: - tags in post headers in your timeline (if that post is included due to you following one orore hashtags); - new post detail layout which makes it easier to view relationships between posts and replies and load more replies on demand.
The initial depth of nesting (higher values imply loading will be less performant, lower values imply you'll see more often the "load more replies" button due to threads being partially downloaded).
It is the best I can do with the current Mastodon APIs but it looks ok-ish and, which is more important to the user who asked for this feature I guess, it makes it easier to follow conversations.
Let me know what you think, and if I accidentally broke anything and in the meantime, as usual, #livefasteattrash
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 I'm wondering as a part of loading more replies, does @RaccoonForFriendica also fetching posts from different instances? Or would it be too much work? I can see one of my followers posts something interesting, my friendica instance receives replies from people we follow but when visiting his instance there are even more replies. Perhaps doing this is already possible somehow as most often such posts are available to the public thusadding that instance as an anonymous account in the raccoon app might :help with it to an extend.
@Peter Vágner that indeed is some extra work (and it can further worsen performance too), but I see it as hardly possible too. On federated instances posts (in this case the "parent" of replies) change their ID so it is virtually impossible to reconstruct the tree of answers across different instances. I'm sorry to have to say that...
What is weird is: why aren't those "extra replies" in instance B being retrieved on instance A where the post was created? Federation not being mutual (B federates with A whereas A doesn't federate with B)?
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 Okay, so I understand this is not going to happen. I can't explain it better. I think it might be a result how the federation on fediverse is working. Lets imagine a scenario like this: User 1 and User 2 are following each other. They both also follow user 3 but only user 2 is following user 4. User 4 follows User 2 but not User 1 and User 3. User 1 and User 3 are not following User4. User 2 posts a public message to his timeline. User 1, User 3 and User 4 receive that post as they all are following user 2. User 3 replies. User 1 User 2 and User 4 will receive the reply. User 4 replies. User 2 receives the reply but User 1 and User 3 won't receive it as they don't follow User 4. And this is the part where the conversation flow is breaking.
I was hoping it might be somehow possible to compensate for this client side, but if the posts identifiers are different accross instances or different fediverse servers such as friendica / mastodon, then I understand we are screwed and there is no way around this.
Still I believe when viewing a post it might be possible to consider adding an entry to the options menu of that post saying something like fetch from original instance and that would fetch the whole conversation from that instance without logging in to that instance effectivelly allowing doing what we can now do in the browser i.e. open the original post as seen at their site.
Then follow up difficulties might be how to like and boost such a post if my instance may not know that post.
I understand this is complex so perhaps lets keep it for the future and thing about possible difficulties until that time.
@Peter Vágner @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 How conversations work is not unified all across the Fediverse. Even how connections work is not unified.
Mastodon has taken over the follower/followed principle from Twitter which is always illustrated with arrows with one point. A following B is illustrated with an arrow from A to B. A being followed by B is illustrated with an arrow from B to A. A and B following each other mutually is illustrated with one arrow from A to B and one arrow from B to A.
It appears to me that Friendica has adopted this to become more compatible with Mastodon. But its several descendants, created by Friendica's own creator, starting with Hubzilla, haven't.
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte still have the bidirectional "connection" or "contact" as the default. It's illustrated with one arrow, but with one point on each end.
Also, all three understand a threaded conversation as an enclosed contruct entirely owned by the conversation starter. Everyone on these three who has the start post on their stream always actually has the whole thread on their stream.
In fact, all three have Conversation Containers implemented. This feature was originally created in the streams repository in 2022. Forte has had it from the get-go as it started out as a fork of (streams). It was eventually turned into FEP-171b and backported to Hubzilla last year.
All three make sure that everyone who has a post on their stream also always has all comments on that post, at least those that are made after they have received the post.
This works on two basic principles:
All comments go directly to the original poster because the original poster owns the thread.
Those who have the post automatically receive all comments from the original poster.
In a pure Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte system, your above example would look like this:
User 1 and User 2 are connected.
User 1 and User 3 are connected. (This doesn't even matter.)
User 2 and User 3 are connected.
User 2 and User 4 are connected.
Much simpler than explaining everything with "following" and "being followed", isn't it?
Now, the conversation works like this.
User 2 sends a public post, thus creating a Conversation Container of which they are the owner. User 1, User 3 and User 4 receive the post.
User 3 comments on User 2's post. The comment goes from User 3 to User 2, who is the owner of the conversation, and it is automatically forwarded to User 1 and User 4 who already have User 2's post on their streams.
User 4 comments on User 3's comment. The comment goes from User 4 past User 3 straight to User 2, who is the owner of the conversation, and it is automatically forwarded to User 1 and User 3 who already have User 2's post on their streams.
The only mentioning that occurs here, if any, is User 4 mentioning User 3. This is not necessary for User 4's post to reach anyone. This is only necessary to make sure on Hubzilla (which doesn't have a tree view) that User 4 is replying to User 3's comment and not to User 2's post.
On Mastodon, for comparison, everything depends on who follows whom, who mentions whom and whose instance knows whose instance.
@Jupiter Rowland Thanks for nice explanation. Now I understand we need to make sure #friendica does also respect this so called conversation containers. So the question is not for @𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 but for !Friendica Support
As far as I know, you can only send posts to a Friendica forum with an exclamation mark to have them forwarded to all members. But you cannot do that with comments, not in a conversation whose (start) post did not go to that forum.
On Friendica and all its descendants, a reply is never a stand-alone post. It's always a comment on another post.
Thus, mentioning a Friendica forum in a comment with an exclamation mark is futile.
This is a quick follow-up patch release due to the number of ugly regressions in the 8.12.0 release. Release presentation Live-streamed on twitch as always at 10:00 CET on the release day.
Start accelerating your advanced car in Wheels of Prio for a race that is both fast and fun! Can you complete the required number of laps before everyone
In this episode of the Tech Doctor podcast, the Tech Doctors welcome special guest Nicole Bond and Tim Noonan.
Nicole and Tim were Braille ’n Speak users who enthusiastically explained why they loved the Braille ’n Speak. Nicole got her Braille ’n Speak at age 7 and used it through college. Tim used the Braille ’n Speak both on the job and in his personal life.
Robert, also a Braille ’n Speak user provided some historical context and talked about his role as a Braille ’n Speak beta tester.
Allison, Robert, Tim and Nicole are all now BT Speak users. They explain how the BT Speak has filled the void that was left during the many years when there was no Braille ’n Speak like device available. They also looked at how far the BT Speak has come in a little less than a year. Tim demonstrated some examples of how the BT Speak is evolving to meet the needs of its users. In a future update, the BT Speak will offer a One Handed Mode for people who need it. There will be a new much advanced way of managing multiple files in the editor and the famous Braille ’n Speak Append Mode is coming to the BT Speak. As exciting as all of this is, at only one year old, the BT Speak is just getting started. The Tech Doctors will report new developments as they unfold. Stay tuned. We will be back.
I disagree with use cases that rely on CSS, generally at risk from network interruptions and caching, to trigger programmatic state changes in the HTML that references it (see pic). Cart / horse and all.
The CSS3 logo as a head atop a torso with its arms folded across its chest. I am a big proponent of the First Rule of ARIA (don’t use ARIA). But ARIA brings a lot to the table that HTML does not, such as complex widgets and state information that…
Blake Allee, Equipment and Demo Lead, at The INDATA Project at Easterseals Crossroads shows us the Hable One, which is a small Braille keyboard that offers full screen reader control on phones and …
Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 18, introduces a suite of innovative accessibility features for those with disabilities. These upgrades enhance how individuals interact with their devices and …
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