I recently learned that German company Telefunken arguably invented the computer mouse. They offered a “Rollkugelsteuerung” (“rolling ball control”) for one of their mainframes in 1968, months before Douglas Engelbart’s “mother of all demos”. Telefunken’s mouse was also more advanced than Engelbart’s mouse as it used a ball instead of two wheels. (Photo credit: Marcin Wichary, CC-BY 2.0, flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/… and flickr.com/photos/mwichary/232…)
This is the culmination of two and a bit months of hard work, and we're really proud of it :)
Big thank you to all contributors, testers, and well wishers!
Release highlights
Basic video support (mp4 only). You can finally upload videos, and view videos from remote instances too. Not all mp4 files work, currently -- this is something we'll investigate for next release most likely.
Support for federating reports in and out of GoToSocial, and viewing reports via the admin settings panel (this feature was sponsored by NLnet).
Support for webp attachments, avatars, and headers.
Users can now create, remove, and view status bookmarks!
Domain blocks now apply on a wildcard basis, so you can block a second level domain (like example.org) and it will apply to subdomains too (like poop.example.org etc).
HTTP request throttling -- only a certain number of http requests are served at a time now. This should vastly improve responsiveness under load on small instances.
Much better logic for pruning old avatars + headers, leading to gb of disk space savings.
Hello everyone! After much testing and prodding and poking, we're ready to release v0.7.0 Stormy Sloth into the world!
This is the umpteenth alpha release of GoToSocial (we stopped counting), and i...
@gotosocial And, it lives! Note, it can take a significant amount of time to start up on upgrade (I think it took at least 10 mins for me). My guess is it might have been deleting obsolete storage stuff.
Europa considera “injustificados” 300 permisos de ocupación de costa ampliados por la amnistía del PP
Se han producido 346 prórrogas de fábricas, chiringuitos o pasarelas en la costa tras la reforma legal de 2013 promovida por Mariano Rajoy en un proceso que Bruselas considera falto de “transparencia e imparcialidad” eldiario.es/sociedad/europa-co…
Desde que, en 2013, el Gobierno de Mariano Rajoy (PP) permitió prorrogar casi automáticamente durante décadas las ocupaciones que iban a caducar de fábricas, chiringuitos o pasarelas en la costa, 346 de estos permisos han sido alargados de manera “in…
As I said two years ago, discovery is going to be amazing and oh baby was it ever --- RT @willsommer This filing in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is one of the most remarkable documents I've ever seen. Filled with private texts between Fox stars like Hannity and Carlson, plus Murdoch, all admitting they knew Fox's stolen election claims were lies. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-cas… twitter.com/willsommer/status/…
LibreOffice 7.5 introduced a new Dark Mode, activated automatically to match your system settings. But many of you asked for a manual switch, so our Design community @libodesign has implemented it for the next update – LibreOffice 7.5.1, in two weeks!
And I use Characters and libadwaita demo for testing myself.
This is probably the most widely-tested wip widget to date in libadwaita 😅
One of the missing pieces last time was undershoot style handling - if we have a flat header bar next to scrolling content, we need to add a border/shadow/whatever if content scrolls down.
I'm not going to detail the problems because I already did it last time (see neurodifferent.me/@alexm/10978…), but we ended up with yet another widget replacing GtkBox for this.
The preliminary name for it is AdwToolbarView (I don't particularly love it but don't have better ideas), and it actually allows us to do quite a few other things aside from "make header bars in dual pane view not look borked", even when header bars are not flat:
- Add a window handle to the full thing so search bars etc are automatically draggable - currently they are not even though they look connected to header bars
- Get rid of double spacing after getting rid of the borders, again like on that mockup. This part is complicated though, I'll explain why in the next toot.
- Have a shadow on the header bar. We never did because if you pack it into a box it will go below the window contents and not above - in a vertical box widgets are drawn top to bottom so header bar is rendered before content, along with its shadow
- Have a property for extending content underneath it. At this point one can use it instead of flap for things like Epiphany header bar in fullscreen.
So while I was not enthusiastic about having a widget for this initially, it seems to be working surprisingly well in practice.
Now, spacing. So, toolbars are supposed to have 6px padding on all sides, right? Well, that's not entirely true. It only has side padding, while top/bottom padding is instead margins on each button, each entry, each switch and each separator. And then undo it for popovers, so that buttons like in Epiphany's menu don't have extra padding.
This may sound ridiculous, and honestly it is, but the reason is these 3 cases.
Honestly, we should probably just get rid of all 3:
- view switchers can just be always wide in header bars, nobody really likes the narrow layout there anyway. And view switcher bars - we can just make them taller and use the regular padding
- calendar and logs should be redesigned, they look broken anyway
Now, why does it matter for collapsing spacing? Well, undoing those margins for buttons, entries, separators and switches in this particular case would make that css even more complex than it already is, and basically unmaintainable. If it was just padding on the toolbar we could do it easily, but with that part in mind... Yeah, not happening.
Another layout this leaves in the dust is tabs that are attached to a header bar but aren't full width. For example, in Nautilus. This was the original reason the tabs mockup wasn't completely implemented and kept the border btw.
Devhelp is another app with the same pattern, though it's still using GTK3 and GtkNotebook. But well, they can both switch to split header bars, all of this stuff is gonna be opt-in anyway - by using the new widgets.
Theming is a frequently requested feature for Conversations.
Conversations 3.0 will come with a green default theme and on recent devices users will be able to use "Material You".
There will be two settings: · Theme: Light | Dark | Automatic (follow system) · Use Dynamic Colors (Material You)
The latter will only be available on devices running Android 12+. This means no color selection on earlier devices unfortunately; but time will take care of that problem for us.
WebKit is bringing Web Push to iOS home screen web apps, with a full suite of native-like functionality including badging and focus modes. Read all about it: webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
The Atrix 4G was one of the first Motorola devices to ship with its Webtop platform. When the phone is placed into its HD Multimedia Dock or Laptop Dock accessories, the user can access an Ubuntu-based desktop...
I have a few NexDocks for convergence (though not the 360) and what's turned me off from getting any more is the touchpads are consistently *awful*. Phantom clicks with even the lightest touch and they only emulate a mouse, so those nice multitouch gestures in GNOME are forever out of reach
If that's changed with the 360 I'm interested, but my understanding from those who've bought one is it hasn't. I'd be glad to be wrong though!
Coming up live at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio
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Image is a post from Monica Goel from CVS Health. Full text in image alt text - it starts: "CVS Health Accessibility is happy to announce a donation to NV Access in support of their mission that every person who is blind or vision impaired deserves the right to free & easy access to technology, regardless of their language, location or financial situation."
Thank you so much Monica & the whole team at CVS Health! Your generous support helps us continue our mission to provide NVDA free to all!
If you're using OSM, either as a blind individual profiting from the available mapping data with one of the navigation apps or as a an OSM contributor, this OSM wiki article could be interesting as it explains how to map the world with blind users in mind. It explains specialty tags, some of which I had no idea existed, suggests tools for data entry and introduces the Blind OSM project. #OSM #GPS #Navigation #Mapping #Accessibility #Blind OSM for the blind – OpenStreetMap Wiki wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS…
This reminds me of a story from our local community in the @philippines, how a blind contributor got in touch to inquire about how to use #OpenStreetMap data for their GPS device.
Maning, (one of our OSM pioneers) promptly responded by creating a database they can use, and a few months later, they got another email, sharing additional data to add to OSM.
When I recently shared this, @vorompatra suggested that mobile applications are lacking somewhat still. Are you aware of any good, maintained apps for the blind that use OSM data?
@richlv @vorompatra Hello. Please check out the wonderful work some of my friends at Transition Technologies are doing with their Seeing Assistant Move app,, available on both iOS and Android. It could do with some more improvements, extracting more of the relevant information but they are pretty far already and it's going to improve. Another one coming very close is Dotwalker available for Android. For Windows, GRMapa, a map simulation tool using audio cues, allows for reading of any tags associated with a POI. zlotowicz.pl/grmapa/
When trying to log in to a new instance, I type the domain in, click "log in with mastodon", then I get a brief flash with the android logo upside down in the top left of the screen, then...
members of our team have commented in the issue, yes.
Additional info is always useful, Are you on the latest version? On beta? Or nightly? (yes, 3 different options, but basically the about info should show you which version number you're running)
Are you trying to log in with a Mastodon account or another ActivityPub account?
Work on the Third Room Editor is underway! Press the ` key at any time to open the editor. Navigate and edit the scene or any resource such as materials. Everything can be edited and previewed in real time! More coming soon!
Heute erklärte das Bundesverfassungsgericht den Einsatz anlassloser, unbegrenzter, automatisierter Datenanalysen der Polizei Hessen und Hamburg als Eingriff in die Persönlichkeits- und Vertraulichkeitsrechte.
The cannabis industry is suing Canadian banks. Canada’s legal cannabis industry has launched a class-action lawsuit against Canada’s large cartel of banks.
“The Data: We will have data from this survey available at webaccessibilitysurvey.com and on /r/blind later this year (2023) for everyone in raw versions and in reports.”
... and here we can have a glimpse on how it would have much worse consequences for falsly flagged users if this would happen on a state-level. Imagine being blocked from e.g. using public transportation or your phone. This is what will happen when the EU Parliament legislates their 'chat control' on messenger plattforms.
Hello Fediverse 😀 We are starting this account for Qt Project related communication, events, and many more things.
Did you know that there is a simple page that gives you the instructions to contribute to Qt? and also you can get some nice plots to see the activity on all the repositories!
New data from from Rentals.ca shows the annual rate of rent inflation in Canada increased 10.7 per cent in January, while B.C.'s rate jumped by 14.4 per cent.
Picked up a Fuji X-Pro1 11 years ago while I was still using mostly Canon. Today I have a whole family of X-trans sensor Fujis (and one of these is my daughter's camera, with another in "joint custody mode" between the two of us).
More than happy with this camera and sensor system. So happy I started to box up my final Canon lenses for sale today.
We were at the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany – spreading the word about LibreOffice and free software! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions.
Join us to learn more about the work of [Teach Access](http://www.teachaccess.org). Their mission is: "Bringing together industry, education, and disabilit
We have just released Ardour 7.3 with support for VST3 I/O busses, sample rate independence, searchable preferences, AVX-512 support in DSP, and more improvements and new features, as well as bugfixes
Skimming the announcement it seems they're toying with static, context-driven ads - e.g., you view a page about something JS-related, maybe you get an ad for a JS tool from MSFT.
You know - old school web advertising.
Mozilla and other FOSS entities have to pay people somehow, so I'm not automatically opposed to this.
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