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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Featuring @deconspray, @aardrian, @LFLegal, @SteveFaulkner, @TPGi, @a11ytalks, @db, @brucelawson, @pxlnv, @mgifford, and more.

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Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
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@Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Pixel Envy @Steve Faulkner @Lainey Feingold @Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @A11yTalks @deconspray @TPGi, a Vispero Company @David Bushell 📅
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Delta Chat

recently delta chat introduced metadata protection regarding the "Date" header that is visible to providers but it seems some providers don't like the variance. So we will reduce the variance in the next releases. Note that chatmail relays (chatmail.at/relays) do not have this issue.

Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
chatmail.at

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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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@Eugen Rochko
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Felix Hlatky

My vision for Mastodon is a different direction than all previous attempts at social media, by focussing on community ownership, Trust & Safety features, slow user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, and creators in the Fediverse. I’m thrilled to have @haubles as Community Director and @renchap as Technical Director on my side in making this vision a reality.
(4/13)
@Renaud Chaput @hannah aubry
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Felix Hlatky

My personal heroes and projects I admire are @signalapp @Mer__edith @torproject @gnome @thunderbird @ryanleesipes . I’d much rather have Mastodon be inspired by the contributions of these people and projects to the FOSS and non-profit technology world than trying to rebuild early Twitter.
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@Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 @The Tor Project @GNOME @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Signal @Meredith Whittaker

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Felix Hlatky

I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like @cwebber @evan (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like @dansup bringing photo & video to it, new projects like @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @saskia @bonfire @ivan @mayel orgs like @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and @rileytestut @altstore for trying out completely new things.
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@Matthias Pfefferle @dansup @Bonfire @Riley Testut @Evan Prodromou @AltStore @Flipboard @Mike McCue @Christine Lemmer-Webber @John O'Nolan @Ghost @ivan @ActivityPub for WordPress @Mayel @Newsmast Foundation @Michael Foster @Freddie Johnson @Saskia
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Felix Hlatky

Thanks to amazing people like
@jaz @iftas @swf @mallory @bjoernsta @j12t we can see through topics larger than us related to policy, regulation, protocol development as well as how to deal with spam attacks, how to design a safer product for everyone, and how to deal with occasional interpersonal conflicts in our beautiful part of the internet.
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@jaz @Mallory Knodel @IFTAS @Björn Staschen @Johannes Ernst @Social Web Foundation
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Felix Hlatky

I want to send my heartfelt thanks @karienbez @alshafei for their wisdom and emotional support during this crazy journey so far, to @codinghorror @biz for your visionary strategic & financial support without which this restructuring would not have been possible, and to the team of Paul Hastings for your pro-bono legal advice.
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@Biz Stone @Jeff Atwood @Esra'a @karienbez
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Felix Hlatky

Thanks @Gargron for allowing us to do this the pure non-profit and FOSS way by saying no to earlier offers, some of which would have given you more than 10x the payout. I have been inspired by your vision about this project from the moment I met you 5+ years ago. It takes a lot of courage and greatness to let this project go. Super excited for continuing to work with you!
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@Eugen Rochko
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Felix Hlatky

But Mastodon wouldn’t be where it is without so many more people than Eugen. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to work with the best team we’ve ever had. Each one of you brings so much value to the Mastodon project and I want to thank you for making our mission your day job while you could certainly earn double or triple at one of our for-profit competitors.
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Felix Hlatky

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever grateful for. We still have a large funding need for 2026, so please consider making a donation before the year-end if you’d like us to continue building and improving Mastodon joinmastodon.org/sponsors#dona…
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Donate to Mastodon

Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!
joinmastodon.org

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Luxchat, the Matrix-based instant messaging solution for the public and private sectors, is holding a Hackathon during the Luxembourg Internet Days 2025. We're shipping our guardian Matthew Hodgson there to contribute!

📆 November 18 & 19
📌 Chambre de Commerce (salle F01), Luxembourg

Come and say hi if you're around!

digitalskills.lu/fr/event/matr…

« MATRIX meets Luxchat » – Hackathon – Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Luxembourg

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One thing that frustrates me about Mastodon is that you can do everything, engage with different people over different servers, have awesome, caring instance admins, etc. But still, half the data you can fetch is literally months outdated or incomplete. I see accounts in follower lists which instances are dead since God knows how long. From the 40 followers someone has, my client only displays 2. I love the concept and all that, but it is so unpredictable, not to say unstable, but I don't know a better word to describe it. And it's not my instance, I've tried on 2 different instances, with different profiles, some on the instance itself, some not.
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Adam MacLeod

I totally agree with your observations about how Mastodon seems qerky in a lot of ways. Some rather fundamental. I definitely have noticed inconsisitencies of data fetched at any given time.
Fortunately, The latest FetchAllReplies framework they have released in 4.5 will hopefully start to resolve a lot of this inconsistent state stuff.
It will be actively making connections and fetches of data from any remote instances mentioned in any given post as it is requested via the API or the web interface.
It will add some performance penalty to the transaction, as well as potentially require larger instance admins to scale their resources differently, or in some cases reevaluate their entire resource distribution plan and rework. But from a user perspective, it will transparently appear that all posts and threads are consistent, no matter what instance they have been requested from.

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Dieses Signal bashing geht mir langsam auf den Sack. Wenn die Leute doch meinen das mit einem dezentralisierten Protokoll wie XMPP oder Matrix ALLES in Sachen Instant Messaging besser wird und die Leute hinter Signal einfach nur blöd sind weil Sie Dienste wie AWS und Co benutzen, dann sollen Sie doch einfach aufhören Signal zu nutzen.
Versteht mich nicht falsch, ich finde Dezentralisierung super. Das heißt aber nicht das man auf andere die dieses Konzept nicht nutzen dauernd rumhacken muss.

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Let me be cheeky and preempt @pid_eins's systemd 259 posts:

In systemd 259, I'm making it possible to run commands that need privileges as your current user instead of as root. With "run0 --empower", you'll get a session as your current user in which you can do anything that root would be able to do, without actually being root.

This is very useful when you need to run something with privileges but still want all created files and directories to be owned by your current user.

#systemd259

#systemd259 @Lennart Poettering
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Today is seven years ago since I quit #Mozilla: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/11/18…

I’m leaving Mozilla

It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet…
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Los 18 de noviembre celebramos el orgullo LGTBIQA+ en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (eso del #STEM). ¿Por qué esta fecha tan raruna? Por un lado porque noviembre suele ser un mes de la ciencia (yo mismo he estado montando más de 30 años celebraciones en estas fechas para llevar la ciencia a la calle). Pero también por Frank Kameny, astrónomo y activista estadounidense represaliado por las leyes discriminatorias del terror lavanda, que un día como hoy llevó su despido al Tribuna Supremo de los EEUU. Perdió, pero eso le animó a dedicarse al activismo en la Matachine Society. Creó, por cierto, eso de "Gay is Good".
Otros años, desde el @pamplonetario solíamos hacer actividades que visibilizaran la ciencia LGTBIQA+, la situación de discriminación, la necesidad de seguir apoyando a este colectivo... Hoy lo dejo en un toot y os felicito a todo el mundo que vivís la diferencia y lucháis por una sociedad inclusiva.
#stem

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Welcome boingball as #curl commit author 1420: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1957…

AmigaOS: raise default tool stack size to 32768 bytes by boingball · Pull Request #19578 · curl/curl

This change increases the minimum stack cookie for the AmigaOS build of the curl tool. In testing, the older stack size of 16384 was causing curl to crash on heavy TLS loads These operations are si...
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Guardando secreto de las materias clasificadas u otras cuya difusión esté prohibida legalmente, y manteniendo la debida discreción sobre aquellos asuntos que conozca por razón de mi cargo, sin que pueda hacer uso de la información obtenida para beneficio propio o de terceros, o en perjuicio del interés público.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

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Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence:

apell.info/2025/11/17/declarat…

Thanks #APELL #OpenSource #FOSS


Berlin Summit on European Digital Sovereignty: European Open Source industry declares digital independence - APELL

Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …
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#foss #opensource #apell

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Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence:

apell.info/2025/11/17/declarat…

Thanks #APELL #OpenSource #FOSS


Berlin Summit on European Digital Sovereignty: European Open Source industry declares digital independence - APELL

Berlin, Brussels, Paris, 17 November 2025. On the occasion of the French-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, taking place in Berlin tomorrow (18 November 2025), more than 100 businesses, organisations, and individuals are publishing their …
Sebastian Raible (APELL)
#foss #opensource #apell

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Before the opening of the Deux-Montagnes branch:

West Island REM trains stopped by snow

thesuburban.com/news/city_news…

(that's on the branch that won't open until next year)


West Island REM trains stopped by snow

As the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) is into the final testing stage of its Deux-Montagnes branch, it the season’s first snowfall was able to bring at least two REM trains
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One of my current pet peeves with "signing in" to basically anything these days is that I immediately get a message urging me to "stay logged in on this trusted device."

Now, I know in most cases that's mainly about tracking people around the Internet (especially if they use something like "sign in with Google" or "sign in with Facebook"), as well as gathering information about site users that can be sold/remarketed to others. It's just being presented as a "convenience," not a privacy invasion.

But my immediate gut response is always "What makes you think I trust this device?!"

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