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It is something of a fashion now to insert emoji by writing a colon and then, once the popup comes up, filter emojis by name to find the right one. Clearly, google has thought so too as they added the feature into Google Docs. They didn't consider one thing: the French language and the fact that one needs a space before a colon before the start of a list of things. bibelo.info/en/the-plague-of-e…

The plague of emoji insertion in french docs

tl;dr A thumbs-up emoji appears each time you type a colon : in Google Docs, in french. I have just noticed that it is now possible to easily insert emojis in Google Docs! Good news? Not for french writers! This feature already exists in Outlo…
bibelo (Bibelo)

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So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

6074 users signed up using the official iOS app, 4933 users signed up using the official Android app, 3813 users signed up using a browser.

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Speaking of #repod:
If you are a #python programmer and are also a bit into #packaging, have a look and help create the future of #archlinux package repository management:
repod.archlinux.page
gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…

We are currently hard at work to build a straight forward user experience on the command-line with 0.3.0: gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…


Arch Linux / repod · GitLab

GitLab Enterprise Edition
GitLab
#python #archlinux #packaging #repod

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Let's spread the word about LibreOffice around the globe! Just like Muthuramalingam Krishnan is doing, in southern India: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Community Member Monday: Muthuramalingam Krishnan (Tamil project) - The Document Foundation Blog

Today we’re talking to Muthuramalingam Krishnan, who’s helping to spread the word about LibreOffice in southern India… Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m Muthuramalingam, from Tirunelveli – a southern district in Tamil Nadu, currently living in Chenna…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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:thunderbird: Hello @thunderbird , I have been looking at your enterprise-oriented website enterprise.thunderbird.net/

I like what I'm reading so far, but I could not find the answer to what my company has been looking for:

Is it possible to enforce setting a master password when opening Thunderbird for the first time?
(or to enforce it at a later date...)

Thank you for the amazing work that's being done on my favorite mail client!

Thunderbird@Work - Thunderbird@Work

This documentation is intended to help deploy and manage many Thunderbird installations at an organization.
enterprise.thunderbird.net
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. But the goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.

In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want".

Quote: Sergey Brin / Larry Page, from the seminal 1998 paper that kickstarted the #PageRank algorithm - and #Google with it (see Appendix A).

Reading the paper that started it all after so many years is a quite interesting experience. 25 years ago they knew *exactly* what a search engine may have become if it chose the path of an ads-based business model. They were very aware of the conflict of interest that arises when you have to provide relevant results to the users, but also boost those that pay your bills.

In other words, were warning us about the risks of the business model that their own company eventually decided to embrace.

infolab.stanford.edu/pub/paper…

#google #PageRank

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Since you seem to be getting excited about the redesigned calendar in #Thunderbird Supernova, it's an appropriate time to mention that the ENTIRE application is getting a modern UI overhaul in 2023!

You can track our progress here: developer.thunderbird.net/plan…

(That link also leads to our Thunderbird Android roadmap).

#FOSS

Roadmap - Thunderbird

Planned work for the 115 (2023) release of Thunderbird.
developer.thunderbird.net
#foss #thunderbird

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@pjhenry1216 Hi there! As mentioned, there's an Android roadmap on the same page. But here's a direct link for you:

developer.thunderbird.net/plan…

K-9 Mail does currently support openPGP when OpenKeychain is installed.

More info here: docs.k9mail.app/en/current/sec…

Android Roadmap - Thunderbird

Android Priorities through the summer of 2023.
developer.thunderbird.net
@Paul H (he/him)

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MŽP spouští Novou zelenou úsporám Light. Nejzranitelnějším domácnostem pomůže snížit účty za energie

TISKOVÁ ZPRÁVA MŽP A MPSV Ministerstvo životního prostředí a Státní fond životního prostředí ČR ve spolupráci s Ministerstvem práce a sociálních věcí připravily program Nová zelená úspor...

blisty.cz/art/110597-mzp-spous…


MŽP spouští Novou zelenou úsporám Light. Nejzranitelnějším domácnostem pomůže snížit účty za energie | 14. 11. 2022 | Britské listy

TISKOVÁ ZPRÁVA MŽP A MPSV   Ministerstvo životního prostředí a Státní fond životního prostředí ČR ve spolupráci s Ministerstvem práce a sociálních věcí přip...
Britské listy

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The 2nd (and by far biggest) wave of new #Mastodon user additions is declining... which isn't a bad thing at all. It gives all the admins some time to relax and to take care of their servers.

And it helps all of us to engage with interesting new accounts to make sure that they'll stay here. The amount of amazing new users, scientists, journalists, creators... this was such an incredible quality-content boost for Mastodon and the #fediverse

Thank you for being part of this. You rock 🤘

A statistic of newly registered users on Mastodon. More than 640 000 signed up in just a single week.
#fediverse #Mastodon
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Fun fact:
Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe
science.slashdot.org/story/22/…

Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe - Slashdot

Slashdot reader Informativity writes: First published in Jan. '21, a new publication entitled Measurement Quantization affirms the #42 is the address of our universe (Appx.
science.slashdot.org

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Sent out invitations to those on the waiting list for my free #RustLanguage basics course for #FOSS developers. Let me know if you'd like to be on the waiting list, too.

Next courses are in a week, on Sunday. One in the European morning, and a separate one in the European evening.

Let me know if you'd like to join either. Instructions on the web page.

(Boosts welcome.)

liw.fi/training/rust-foss-dev/

Free Rust training to FOSS programmers

liw.fi
#foss #RustLanguage

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Hi I'm Jay! I'm a writer, editor & developer who works in comics, games & books. I love #scifi, #fantasy & especially #StarTrek, #StarWars, #WheelofTime, #TheWitcher and way too many more to tag. BIG #BioWare fan, so expect to see loads of #MassEffect and #DragonAge here. I'm also a cosplayer with 120+ costumes. I stream video games, comics discussions, #TTRPG, art & cooking. I LOVE talking #comics, #cosplay & #games, so feel free to hit me up! Boosts appreciated ❤️
a smiling dark-skinned Black woman holding several comic books including Nubia, Queen of the Amazons, Nubia: Real One, Niobe She Is Life, Living Heroes, and Marvel Voices. Text on image reads 'Comics Chat' 'Indies, Big2, Self Published & Webtoons' 'Jay Justice'
#comics #games #scifi #ttrpg #fantasy #starwars #startrek #cosplay #dragonage #masseffect #bioware #thewitcher #wheeloftime

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according to Fediverse Observer we just hit 6 million accounts:
fediverse.observer/stats

@mastodonusercount bot that gets its data from instances.social lists that we are close to 7 million accounts.

The Federation lists that we are at 7.5 million accounts (2.6 million recently active)
the-federation.info

All of these numbers are also quite meaningless! If the people you want to talk to are here then that's really the only thing that matters.

Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.

Fediverse Servers Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!
fediverse.observer
@Mastodon Users

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Everyone, if you are on Twitter, please put your Mastodon/Fediverse ID into your bio or your name etc. Ideally in the form @pruvisto

That way tools like Debirdify (pruvisto.org/debirdify) and Fedifinder (fedifinder.glitch.me) can easily pick it up and your Twitter friends can find you on here more easily.

Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followings

Extract the fediverse handles and urls of your Twitter followings.
fedifinder.glitch.me
@Manuel Eberl

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It looks like a lot of organizations are going to need to update their #SocialMedia icons, so I decided to put up a few which include #mastodon.

My goal is to produce #SVG images that respect dark mode, can be easily styled with CSS, and also allow either circle, square or no background.

I want to embed best practices of accessibility, and web sustainability in this.

So what can I do to improve these?

codepen.io/mgifford-the-typesc…

#a11y #SustyWeb #DarkMode

#a11y #Mastodon #socialmedia #svg #darkmode #sustyweb

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Great podcast #VoltsWTF & episide Lessons from a life in progressive PR
A conversation with David Fenton volts.wtf/p/lessons-from-a-lif…

#sustainability #ClimateAction


Lessons from a life in progressive PR

David Fenton has just released a new book that is a combination biography, photo journal, and accounting of lessons learned during 50 years in the PR business.
David Roberts (Volts)
#sustainability #climateaction #voltswtf

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Alright folks - my service which allows you to create and share follow lists that can then be imported on #mastodon is now online. It's an early version so be kind, but I'd love you to try it and create your own lists that you can then share with people:

followlists.online/

Follow Lists for Mastodon

Create and share follow lists of people on Mastodon
Follow Lists for Mastodon
#Mastodon
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Firefox is trialing consent dialogue handling community.mozilla.org/en/campa… Says will auto-click "Reject All" if that's an option, otherwise will click "Accept All". I think the second option - auto accepting everything, is EXTREMELY problematic. I get that we're all annoyed, but first Brave and now Firefox taking the lets bury our head in the sand approach is unfortunate. Its not solving the actual problem at all!

Firefox Cookie Banner Handling - Mozilla Community Portal

Thank you for helping us test Cookie banners handling! Foxfooding is important for getting wider feedback for new feature
Mozilla
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

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harsh

@IzzyOnDroid Except when using legitimate interests - which require you to take action to disable / opt-out / object. So hiding the banner will only avoid the ones where consent (or opt-in) is required, and you will lose the ability to inspect or control the opt-outs or legitimate interests. And there is rampant abuse of misusing these legitimate interests in the wrong manner, which is why hiding the dialogues should work in theory, but isn't enough.
@IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to harsh

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

I agree it's kind of a gray area. But if I didn't submit the form, those pre-checked fields have no legal powers. What if due to some browser quirk (or network issue, as most of those content banners are hosted by 3rd parties) I didn't see the banner at all? If I visit a shop site and don't hit any order button, I didn't buy anything.

But as said, gray area. It's not a "final solution", but still better as the alternative (except for simply closing the browser tab of course).

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Is it good idea?
I think you'll like it.
Translation of posts in #tusky #github #issues
github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…

Post translation option in post menu. · Issue #2823 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Hello to you. It annoys me that when I browse posts on foreign servers, there is no option to translate the post in tusky itself. When I want to translate a post or read a local timeline that is in...
GitHub
#Tusky #github #issues

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With Twitter’s ongoing crumbling and user departure, remember that tweets you embedded in your articles / posts can be completely lost. Tips:

“Bulletproofing Embedded Tweets”
adrianroselli.com/2021/01/bull…

Add to this list: compress the images you download from Twitter.

• Use Twitter’s embed feature to get the HTML; • Adjust the HTML to fit your own style guide; • Change all links to point directly to the source, not Twitter’s link shortener; • Download any media and add it to the tweet on the page; • Be sure image alternatives, captions, transcripts are all included; • If none are provided by the tweet author, make them.

Bulletproofing Embedded Tweets

You may rely on embedding tweets in your posts as a quick and easy way to quote or reference a person or subject.
Adrian Roselli

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Today's #AndroidAppRain brings you 30 updated apps at @fdroidorg – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 12 updated plus 1 new apps:

* Clock 31: Clock + Calendar combo widget (for those who remember cLock from old LineageOS versions: look-alike). JUST 40k APK SIZE! Always awesome, Federico…

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo @F-Droid
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