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For those new Fedizens arriving from #Bluesky, here’s a little introduction to our lord and saviour, John Mastodon.

And remember to always, and I mean always, add #AltText to your images!

John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis[@Onj])
~ Dgar

“When the darkness fell on blue
In the year of twenty-two
The chanting started to ring true
The call went out to me and you
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How could they have ever known
Their words were forming sacred tones
The ancient forces in the stone
The summoning of flesh and bone
John Mastodon
John Mastodon

John Mastodon, they love their mum
They have alt-text written on
The tattoo on their arm
Of a hairy pachyderm
John Mastodon
John Mastodon

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The chants grew loud as we watched on
The coming of the chosen one
They emerged triumphant from
The ancient portal of Gargron
John Mastodon
John Mastodon

Linking people across the earth
They lead them to the Fediverse
Their admin army show their worth
Shouting loudly in their mirth
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John Mastodon, they’re the one
Who takes the corporate socials on
They give their code to everyone
For every platform you might run
John Mastodon
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Sweating blood and guts and tears
And fighting bots and billionaires
An artist and engineer
With indie songs in his ears
John Mastodon
John Mastodon

Ditch the birds and book of faces
Leave behind the corporations.
Tooting old computer cases
Open source on all our bases
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John Mastodon knows all the tricks
Of every distro of Linux
They stay engaged in politics
They fought an army of Fediverse chicks
John Mastodon
John Mastodon”

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#DgarMusic #DgarRadio #Indie #Music #Bandcamp #JohnMastodon


John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis), by Dgar

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#music #indie #bandcamp #bluesky #AltText #johnmastodon #dgarmusic #dgarradio @Onj 🎶

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Florian

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 It's one of those weird ones where I know most people will like/subscribe if I don't say it, but then, it's become such a staple that I do wonder how much it's hurting creators that don't give out the reminder. To what degree you want people who need to be told to subscribe to you in order for them to actually do it is another matter but particularly for small creators I don't think beggers get to be choosers that much :)
See also, why are subscribing and pressing the notification bell two different actions anyway :P
@Jamie Teh @Andre Louis @Kara Goldfinch
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Andre Louis

@jcsteh @KaraLG84 The other thing pressing 'Like' does is fine-tune your video choices youtube will feed you so you hurt both yourself and creator by not using it, unless you're happy with AI slop and not much else, as your next recommendation.
I said weeks ago on here that my algorithm on youtube is so extremely finely dialed in, that 95% of the next videos that come up are things I would choose to watch. That is because I press Like on so, so many videos. It genuinely does matter.
@Jamie Teh @Kara Goldfinch
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Florian

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 I think that is the insidious thing though ... it kinda does for some people. Like, sure, my feed has a bunch of garbage in it, but it also generally has things I like without me needing to scroll too much and I think a lot of people just consider that the standard way of things. Basically, it's not as good as it could be, but it's good enough. And if it's good enough, no need to change anything is there?
I forget, is there a hotkey to like videos? On SPotify I've grown fast friend with shift+alt+b :)
@Jamie Teh @Andre Louis @Kara Goldfinch
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x0

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Meanwhile I just use foo_youtube over here, which can't even like and most of the time isn't signed in unless age restricted, and don't even touch the recommendations feed. But I'm the odd one out. I subscribe to a few channels but primarily just have some playlists I periodically look at with channels in them to view.
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Andre Louis

@jcsteh @KaraLG84 Good ratio here for example.
My NI video which is now out of date called 'What to install first' has 58K views, 607 likes.
My 'how to format your drive as APFS' has 44K views but 638 likes.
A slightly higher like-to-watch ratio, so that tells me that I must have gotten something correct with that.
It isn't just inane bullshit, you see?
Knowing that, it can help me to decide that hey, this kind of tutorial thing was worth it, should do more.
If it had that many views and only say 15 likes, I'd be more concerned.
@Jamie Teh @Kara Goldfinch
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Florian

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Those tutorials, that are actually well recorded and produced definitely do fill a niche I think, I far prefer a youtube video over a random MP3 in someone's dropbox where the speaker is only in the left track for the entire time, the filename is clearly the Audio Hijack Pro default filename for a source and the music is 5 times louder than the speaker :)
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I was recently looking at Framework for a new x86 laptop, as I believed the company to be reasonably aligned with my values (e.g. pro-repair, pro-FOSS, pro-humanity). But others have warned me that they are now supporting Hyprland, Omarchy, etc. They support these projects led by people who hold alt-right views, in the name of building a “big tent” coalition.

The problem, however, is that building a “big tent” coalition, by design, requires some form of value alignment.

community.frame.work/t/framewo…

Alpine is a “big tent”, for example, but people who want to harm members of our community aren’t welcome.

This isn’t hard.

Needless to say, I won’t be buying a Framework laptop anytime soon, which makes me sad.


Framework supporting far-right racists?

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win.
Framework Community

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A poll, about microwaves!

Assuming you have a microwave oven, does it have a digital display and buttons, or a number of dials only? Just got a new microwave, with dials as I hate the digital beeps, and a friend was surprised that it had dials and not a screen. Over here I think mine is quite normal and common and it's the type I always get! The "microwave is done" sound also comes from a physical bell, which is nice.

Share for science, should you care to.

  • Buttons plus display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Buttons, no display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Dials plus display (28%, 2 votes)
  • Dials, no display (42%, 3 votes)
  • ✨ No microwave participation club ✨ (0%, 0 votes)
7 voters. Poll end: in 8 hours

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Mikołaj Hołysz

As a blind person, I find that most household appliances fall on a bimodal distribution when it comes to accessibility. You have the cheap stuff with dials and buttons which is perfectly accessible, you have the super expensive stuff with apps and smart speaker integrations (though EU law certainly doesn't do us any good here). THe middle, with touch screens and no internet connectivity, is the most challenging of them all.
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Sini Tuulia

@miki Oh yeah, that makes sense. I prefer the tactile and simple mechanical things in everything but my phone and computer, and even then I prefer a clacky mechanical keyboard and physical mouse versus touch screen. Even my sewing machine is as old as I am, with nothing but dials!

I figure the speech controlled ones are super nice when they work flawlessly, and exceptionally a hassle to troubleshoot when they don't.

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Mikołaj Hołysz

There are some weird restrictions about that in EU law. I don't understand which devices this applies to specifically, but there's some restrictions on being able to remotely start devices which contain a heating element. Many devices that have an app only let you use it to adjust settings, but the start button has to be pushed on the (inaccessible) screen. Some gadgets don't have this restrictions, so I don't really know when it applies and when it doesn't.

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Time for serious questions on #Reform and #Russia

(In March, the New York Times reported that “one of the biggest corporate donors to the #populist #ReformUK party has sold almost $2million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of #Moscow’s #blacklisted state weapons agency”.)

heraldscotland.com/politics/vi…


Time for serious questions on Reform and Russia

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…
Neil Mackay (The Herald)
#Russia #Moscow #reform #blacklisted #reformuk #populist

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I am collecting texts and resources on the "Haitian Revolution" for my Human Rights class and I thought I'd share a few things with you.
First of all, this Graphic Novel (online), which helps you understand what happened: "The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti" thenib.com/haitian-revolution/

And this short article which also gives an overview - both written by historian Laurent Dubois, who is an expert on the field: aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-shoul…

#HumanRights #Haiti #HaitianRevolution #Slavery


Why Haiti should be at the centre of the Age of Revolution | Aeon Essays

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of Revolution
Laurent Dubois (Aeon Magazine)
#HumanRights #haiti #haitianrevolution #slavery
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Nina Kalinina

I've been thinking about your post a lot, especially after seeing such tools at my $dayjob. I'm biased due to their ethical impact, but even without it I consider them, on average, harmful. I write code, I make sure it works for my usage, I write tests, I do linters and static analysis, I do a peer review to share the knowledge and get external inputs. And then this thing, supposedly state of the art, goes over my code, mansplains it to me and finds either a false-positive (I wonder who removed false-positives from the lists you've got?), or a nit ("don't forget to add an extra check here!", "The comment is stale!"), or a misguided optimisation possibly introducing new bugs. I spend lots of time thinking over those useless blanket reports that ultimately don't matter because I have empirical evidence that my code works for my use case.

I have seen so called AI tooling generating "helpful reports", but they cannot replace decent tooling and tests. And yet some people replace their LSPs with LLMs :/

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daniel:// stenberg://

@nina_kali_nina all analyzer tools, including compilers, give a certain amount of false positives. I don't think we should expect AI tools to be any different. As long as frequency is manageable and there are decent ways to inhibit them.

The AI tools I've mentioned recently don't seem to have much more false positives than the state of the art static code analyzers we use also do.

@Nina Kalinina

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Asking in English in hope that it'll reach more people! I'm french, windows user and unfortunately not playing locally. Do you know of some software a deafie could use to game with her pals? One that could transcript what people say in their mics? Not necessarily free, I'm willing to pay for something that works well.

Asking for a me.

Please, boost so a girl can play with her friends 🥰

#accessibility #Steam #gaming #discord #disability

#Accessibility #gaming #discord #steam #Disability
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@Poruri Sai Rahul from @FOSS United echoed the federation aspect of #XMPP (mentioning how he can communicate with Prav users using Quicksy) in an Indian Express article (indianexpress.com/article/opin…) in which he talked about how moving from one walled garden to another (WhatsApp to Arattai) is a bad move.
#xmpp @FOSS United @Poruri Sai Rahul
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Nicoco

The author mentions being able to chat to telegram users from Matrix. He does not mention that:
- this is not because Telegram is better than WhatsApp (or just marginally, with regards to alternative client tolerance)
- this is possible via a matrix bridge
- bridging to WhatsApp is also possible
- XMPP bridges to telegram and WhatsApp exist too: slidge.im (yes, a shameless self-plug)

slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks

Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.
slidge.im

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The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.

Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.

pixelfed.social/p/Rudini/88129…

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Zítra to bude rok, co odešel taťka. Mamka na dnešek naplánovala výlet na Portáš v Javorníku. Každoročně tam spolu jezdívali na borůvkové knedlíky. Pojede nás hodně. Jedna ze sester bere i tchána s tchýní. Docela nevím, co mám čekat. Prochajdu s Baldínem musím odložit. Vyrážíme ráno, protože sraz je u mamky. No, myslete na mě.
Vy si užijte krásnou neděli plnou pohody, dobrot a nicnedělání! 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views

Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.

If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli

osnews.com/story/143520/in-biz…

#ClownCar

In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views – OSnews

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#clowncar

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I remember coming home from school and telling my mom Columbus "discovered" America. She told me it was a load of crap, and set me straight. Mom was a hippie who challenged the status quo. At the time, it embarrassed me, I'd get frustrated and just wanted her to be like the other parents.
I realized later how lucky I was, and do the same with my daughter.
#indigenous #fuckcolumbus #indigenouspeoplesday
Alt-text: A woman gesturing with her middle finger, along with bold and subtitle text, surrounded by a decorative geometric pattern frame. Transcribed Text: This Monday, don't forget: Fuck Christopher Columbus.
#indigenous #indigenouspeoplesday #fuckcolumbus

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Go to log in.

<password is incorrect>

No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.

<password is incorrect>

<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>

Entered backup email, received verification code.

Enter verification code.

<must enter this info you never needed before>

What?!

Entered info, logged in.

It was never about an incorrect pwd.

I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(

Yes, I am grumpy.

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