The first beta of #Tusky v22 is out, including:

- View trending hashtags
- Edit image descriptions and focus point
- "Refresh" menu for accessibility
- Support Mastodon v4 filters
- Show detailed differences when a post is edited
- Option to show post statistics in the timeline

Fixes including:

- Show player controls during audio playback
- Correct post length calculation
- Always publish image captions

Full details at github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob…

Big thanks to Sakamoto for stepping up to maintain the #Firewire subsystem for the #Linux kernel.
I still use an #RME #Fireface800 and it works super well with the #ALSA driver he wrote using #pipewire.

I hope even post 2029 someone will be up for maintaining it as the devices are solid and using them on Linux is a great countermeasure against their planned obsolescence.

phoronix.com/news/Linux-Firewi…

Three years ago, I wrote a series to help people get a job in tech for as close to $0 as possible with no prior experience.

That sounds like a tall order, but at least 4 people (that I'm aware of) have succeeded with this guide.

soatok.blog/2020/06/08/furward…

If you feel lost or discouraged, give it a read. It costs you nothing. (Not even privacy. I do not have ads on my blog after all.)

There's no Mastodon slump.

Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

See chart.

mastodon.fediverse.observer/st…

in reply to Chris Trottier

Every app on the Fediverse could talk to Bluesky if they really wanted to, and Bluesky really was as decentralized as they say they want to be.

For example, look at Friendica. It uses at least four protocols to talk to other server software:

1. DRFN
2. Diaspora
3. OStatus
4. ActivityPub

In theory, adding AT protocol shouldn’t be a big deal—it’s open source.

The question is whether Bluesky actually wants to federate with other servers.

2FA-Secrets offengelegt: Google Authenticator bläst geheime Daten in den Äther
tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-sich…

Wer den also mit Account Sync verwendet (hat), sollte dringend handeln.

#security

„Stärkster Rückgang seit 2008: #Reallöhne in Deutschland deutlicher gesunken als bislang angenommen

Das Statistische Bundesamt revidierte am Donnerstag die Zahlen. 2022 verringerten sich die Reallöhne demnach um 4,0 anstatt 3,1 Prozent. Der Wert sinkt das dritte Jahr in Folge.

Trotz der stetig sinkenden Reallöhne hat sich die Zahl der #Arbeitskämpfe in Deutschland einer Studie zufolge im vergangenen Jahr kaum erhöht.“

Hauptsache, die Boni steigen.

tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/sta…

Last year's #LibreOffice Conference 2022 in Milan was awesome! 😍 And now we're gearing up for 2023's event in Bucharest. Learn more in @tdforg's Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Today @NASA tweaked the power system on Voyager 2 so its instruments could stay online.

The spacecraft is powered by three MHW-RTG (Multi-Hundred-Watt Radioisotope-Thermoelectric-Generator) units.

They used Pu-238 to provide a total of 470 watts at launch, but Pu-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years, so 46 years later the craft is down to ~348 watts.

That they can keep a 50 year-old machine operating on a fraction of its power by making modifications from billions of miles away is AMAZING!

@NASA
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Nothing like a deadline for prioritisation and motivation! On Wednesday, we realised there was a high severity bug (reported by @Marco)in Firefox + Cache the World regarding Mac text navigation that was a blocker for shipping Cache the World on Mac. Unfortunately, Firefox 113 is about to go into rc, so we only had just over a day to get it fixed or it would need to be disabled for 113. I've never done any Firefox development on Mac, so I had just over a day to set up a Mac Mini from scratch, remember how to use VoiceOver, get MacOS updated, install Xcode, get Firefox building from source, figure out the (undocumented) Mac text API and associated Firefox code, debug the problems, fix them, figure out how to write automated tests for them, submit the patches and get them tested, reviewed and uplifted. The good news is that it's all looking pretty good and I think we'll be able to ship. 🤞 At least I'm set up to do Firefox Mac development now!

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I love this blog post from @chutten that goes through some analysis of the anomaly, describes some of the process around how we tackled the issue and why, and then ultimately ends unresolved. Because sometimes, often even, that's the case. Shit happens and without direct insight into the affected systems we can't figure it out. chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2023…

Hey, here’s my usual breakdown of Amazon's quarterly business results: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…

Tl;dr: Amazon retail loses money, but AWS and Advertising emit floods of profit that cover those losses. Does this sound sane to you?

AWS’s growth is slowing but it’s still a damn fine business and should been have spun off from the retail behemoth years ago.

"As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, it is crucial to address issues of inclusivity, bias, and fairness in #AI development and deployment."

govloop.com/community/blog/the…

#accessibility #disability #AI

Greetings!

For anyone wanting an alternative browser to Microsoft Edge, why not give @Vivaldi a shot!

vivaldi.com

If on #Android, the @accessibleandroid crew from #BlindAndroidUsers, have a podcast on it found at

youtube.com/watch?v=mhrl9i2MQ7…

The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices — Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com/2023/04/p… #a11y
#a11y

Oh, hi! it's a new cover. Please feel free to like, share, comment, subscribe or do the things you do with these things.

Link here: youtu.be/o4K0VLl1Dn8

@talon Thank you for bringing my visions to life in the way you do. You're a genius.

#music #cover #coverartist #singing #singer #Art #Creation

13 SHIFTcycles♻
Diesen Monat geht es um "relate" (in Beziehung stehen). Wir fühlen uns mit allen am Prozess von Produktion und Nutzung Beteiligten verbunden.😊
Mehr Infos findest du im neuen Blogbeitrag: shiftphones.com/13-shiftcycles…

#shifthappens #shift #shiftphone #beziehung #relate #recycle #refund #reduce #cycle

in reply to SHIFTPHONES

"Wir fühlen uns mit allen am Prozess von Produktion und Nutzung Beteiligten verbunden"

Kann ich vollauf bestätigen. Wenn Du Freitag Abend per Email eine Frage hinschickst, und Dich am Montag der CEO zurück ruft, um alles mit Dir zu klären, kann Dich das schon aus dem Drehstuhl katapultieren 🤣

Weiter so, liebes SHIFT Team! 😍 Und ich freue mich schon riesig auf mein 8er. Schaut so aus, als käme es dann mit 256 GB, nur noch 166 Bestellungen fehlen: shiftphones.com/shiftphone-8-s…

Für 49 Euro können Sie mit dem Deutschlandticket den öffentlichen Nahverkehr im ganzen Land nutzen. Das macht Bus und Bahn attraktiver. Und ist gut fürs Klima, denn viele Verkehrsunternehmen setzen auf Elektro-Antriebe. Wie die BVG in Berlin. Kanzler Scholz hat den BVG-Betriebshof besucht - und durfte selbst ans Steuer:

Hey there folks! I get to make a really, really, really big announcement today. I can finally, fianlly announce that, for the past 2 years, I have been working on total blind accessibility for Forza Motorsport. Here's the audio described version of a video we made detailing these systems and how they work together to make Forza totally blind accessible. youtu.be/SwWn1EZTSSY

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2023: "Why did the entire executive team get EE/GE ratings [short-hand for top-tier performance reviews at Meta] when they are also directly responsible for the choices that led to us needing to lay off 20+% of the company? Where is the accountability?" entrepreneur.com/business-news… 17th century: "The law locks up the man or woman /
Who steals the goose off the common /
But leaves the greater villain loose /
Who steals the common from the goose".

You've seen it on Reddit or Hacker News: People complaining their self-hosted emails always end up in the spam folder of Gmail - even if they set up everything correctly. The question being asked: Is Gmail killing independent email? 🧐

tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-…

Du hast es wahrscheinlich schon auf Reddit & Hacker News gesehen: Leute, die sich beschweren, dass ihre selbst gehosteten E-Mails immer im Spam-Ordner von Gmail landen. Gerechtfertigt oder Missbrauch der Macht? 🧐

tutanota.com/de/blog/posts/gma…

in reply to Tuta

These posts confuse me. I'm not the most technical person around. I'm not the least, either, but certainly not the most. And yet, I've been hosting my own email and talking with people on Gmail fine for years. All I did was set up #Yunohost on a VPS that wasn't chock full of spammers, follow Yunohost's instructions on what to add to the DNS settings, regularly update and... well, that's pretty much it.

Somehow though, social is full of claims that selfhosting email is impossible?

in reply to Tuta

Yes, Gmail absolutely makes it difficult to get reliable delivery to Gmail users if you're not on Gmail or one of the other big webmail providers.

My server has never sent spam, ever.
It's had the same IP address for 15 years.
It's not on the DUL or any other list.
It is properly configured for and uses SMTP STARTTLS, DKIM, and SPF.
It has restrictive policies for SPF and DMARC and advertises as such.
It passes all validators.

And deliverability to #Gmail is a complete crapshoot.

Exercise:
Go to Wikipedia and click on the "Random Article" sidebar link. (Direct link to Random Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:… )
Whatever article comes up, try to invent a reason why someone else should find this article interesting.
This is a fun thing to try with other people. Person 1 gets the random article and tries to get Person 2 to be curious to learn more. Then switch roles. After each round, whoever did the best job provoking curiosity (as agreed by all) gets a point.
#curiosity
in reply to Kladni

Well, when you read something like

'The department also has a distinct shoulder patch depicting an erect grizzly bear, the Pacific ocean, and snowcapped mountains, along with totem images from Tlingit culture' It's hard not to wonder why, or who thought that the word 'erect' made sense in this context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoonah_P…

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Just dropped on the App Store: #RHVoice for #iOS. For now only #Macedonian and #Albanian languages are supported but it's worth bookmarking/installing this now to follow updates. Again, new linguistic communities have been included to the #Apple ecosystem with high-quality, free-of-charge voices. apps.apple.com/pl/app/rhvoice/… #Accessibility #Blind #SpeechSynthesis #TextToSpeech #Languages

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Planned:

- MAS-129: Fix search being hard to find on mobile
- MAS-48: Quote posts
- MAS-137: Sorting options for threads
- MAS-136: Add server setting for default discoverability of accounts
- MAS-134: Privacy settings as an onboarding step
- MAS-133: Display followed hashtag above posts in home feed
- MAS-132: Synchronize boost and favourite counts for remote posts
- MAS-131: P…

joinmastodon.org/roadmap #mastodon #roadmap

#miroslavpelta #soud #sportovnidotace

‼️ Bývalý šéf českého fotbalu Miroslav Pelta a exnáměstkyně ministryně školství Simona Kratochvílová jsou vinni ze zmanipulování sportovních dotací.
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/miros…

I think this is by far the best analogue TV shutdown announcement I've seen.

(Full video of a bunch of US shutdowns youtube.com/watch?v=XbSjD_ov_W…)

Some exciting news! Drupal has been designated as a "Digital Public Good"! If you're interested in learning more about why this is great news for Drupal, check out my blog post: dri.es/drupal-recognized-as-a-… #drupal #publicgood #dpg