A general update by the founders, progress on intentional mentions, the release of eternal IRC bridges… that and much MUCH more happened this week in Matrix!
* Lineage Dialer RRO: enables call recording in Lineage OS Dialer for all countries
and 7 updated apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid (an 8th update had to be rolled back as FoodExpirationDates decided to add Firebase, Crashlytics & Co; issue is open with them, so there's hope for a fix)
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).
When an interactive element like a button, link, and form field sits on top of another interactive element, accessibility (and usability) problems arise.
@Friendica Support Ich überlege, ob ich meine #RSS-Feeds als #Gruppe in meinem #Account verwalte. Dazu meine #Frage: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, alle Feeds in die entsprechende Gruppe zu #importieren? Mein aktueller Feedreader (das Firefox-Addon Feedbro) bietet dazu die folgende Datei an:
Ließe sich das denn technisch umsetzen, so wie von mir angefragt? Oder ist das Interesse dazu sehr gering, weil nur wenige Nutzer - so vermute ich - Friendica als RSS-Reader nutzen?
ICYMI: Within minutes of Bill C-11 receiving royal assent last night, cultural lobby group points to the need for the CRTC to establish social media rules.
--- RT @mgeist That didn’t take long: Canadian cultural group’s release on Bill C-11 already calls on the CRTC to establish rules on social media. This is the bill @pablorodriguez built with lobby groups ready to demand user content regulation supported by the plain language in the bill. twitter.com/mgeist/status/1651…
Dear @Castopod team, the action I required was posting an episode in a not yet published podcast to fill up the backlog before publishing ... oO The episode is not in the episode list. What happened?
I wonder whether this code was generated according to the spec. I have a feeling that generator should choose a proper mask pattern to avoid large areas of solid color. It's definitely readable though.
Add a fun and relaxing touch to your garden, with this beautiful Singapore Hanging Egg Chair. With a natural and timeless design, this egg chair would compliment any outdoor space/garden. Made from metal, this chair is durable and sturdy.
@ladymunch I was looking at these for my balcon, not sure if they are too big or not. Does the pole go into the ground or how is it fixed to the floor?
@andrew@social.hodgson.io I'll be checking into that link. I wouldn't be able to use a hammock, but something like that would be really therapeutic for me and my messed up senses.
@ladymunch Thanks, this is good news. I will probably end up getting one for my balcony as my sister is coming to house sit for a few days they can try and build the thing.
@andrew @ladymunch Yeah but that's not the same chair, and Kirsten looked at it, it's not as good as the one I sent you. I'm not on twitter anymore and she's not on Mastodon but if you drop her a tweet @Mooncat86 I'm sure she'd be happy to tell you more.
Главные певцы апреля — это дрозды. Возле моего дома их каждый год тьма. Вокруг много растительности и птицы чувствуют здесь себя в безопасности. Кстати, соловьи тоже уже дня два как поют. Как минимум один точно))
Здесь в Германии, да и во Франции, соловьёв не слышал вовсе, а вот чёрные дрозды здесь поют на такой громкости, чтобы перекричать шум от движения машин по улицам.
When can I test it on my legacy gmail accounts for the entire family? Some 10+ years of mail accumulated in there :) Also, if I do import 10+ years of mail history, how will the search keep up with that? And YES I am at least as excited about it!!
@martijndevrieze It's a very first prototype, challenge now it that emails are correctly sorted into folders. This might take a few more months; hopefully we can release during the summer.
We plan to improve search in general, and for this we will also focus on performance in larger mailboxes. On desktop performance is already excellent (just make sure not to delete the cached search index).
@waywardchild It's a very first prototype, challenge now it that emails are correctly sorted into folders. This might take a few more months; hopefully we can release during the summer.
Awesome, that's great news! Any news about the Android widgets? What's the status? The issue tracker on Github (Calendar Widget #1756) is not getting updates looks like
Self promo about twitch stream on accessible and inclusive gaming in the context of Hearthstone
In an hour, we'll hop on ye olde stream machine once more and take a thorough look at #hearthstone. I'll go over the efforts that were made to make the game work for a #gamerWithoutSight, and we'll play through various modes while trying to have fun and answer any questions anybody might have about the channel, the game, its accessibility, or stuff in general! :) Come find me over at twitch.tv/game4access #twitchStreamer #gaming #accessibility #gameDev
ES Gaming exists to create a new standard for equity, inclusion, and access among all disabled gamers, and amplify disabled voices and accessible innovations.
russia launches another mass attack on Ukraine, killing 2-year-old child
Killing at least 16 civilians and injuring 23 more.
In central #Ukraine city of Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, the russian strike hit a 9-story apartment building and a warehouse.
As of 12:38 p.m. local time, 14 people are known to be killed and nine hospitalized, according to Interior Ministry. The number of casualties is not final and will be updated as the rescue operation is ongoing.
Russian forces launched yet another large-scale missile strike against Ukraine in the early hours of April 28, killing at least 16 civilians and injuring 23 more. The number of casualties is not final and will be updated.
Building everything in Electron and Blink was a mistake.
(When we look back at this period of software development - building everything on top of a web browser will be seen as one of the contributors to climate change)
Zuletzt hatten wir in unseren Umfragen größere Veränderungen beim Vertrauen in Institutionen beobachtet. Nach einem Vertrauensrückgang in alle untersuchten Institutionen im April ´22 konnte zuletzt das Vertrauen in Gewerkschaften den größten Zugewinn verzeichnen. @BettiKohlrausch und ich haben dazu eine genauere Analyse durchgeführt. Details⬇️ 1/🧵
Die Krisen der vergangenen Jahre haben das politische System unter Druck gesetzt. Das Vertrauen in Gewerkschaften hat sich als weitgehend stabil erwiesen.
This article by NOS on how NS is going to be allowed to also financially punish people who have to travel during peak hours has this rather neat summary on how NS is being financed.
Essentially, the only subsidy they get is for the free student travel. Everything else (including a fixed annual concession fee and track usage fees) are paid through tickets (and other commercial activities such as Abellio abroad.
Stanovy České pirátské strany
Základní ustanovení
Čl. 1 Úvodní ustanovení
(1) Název politické strany je Česká pirátská strana.
(2) Zkratka je Piráti.
(3) Sídlem České pirátské strany je Praha.Sídlo strany je upřesněno na adresu
"Twitter is no longer reliable" said a post by New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Agency. It announced that real-time bus and train service alerts would no longer be available on the platform.
- 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
- Beta 1 loads a lot of notifications, which can be twice as slow. We're tuning that back down - A potential crash when loading notifications - Filter warnings will show the filter name, not the phrase
There's also an issue with Pixelfed notifications. However, this is not something the Tusky team can fix.
Tracking the work to perform the v22 release. Unless anything unexpected occurs, the release process will start 2023-4-24. Current state: Merge request created at F-Droid repo, https://gitlab.com/f...
If it helps solving the notification crash issue, I've figured out that my notifications & local timeline crash Tusky beta 1 every morning. Once I log in on a browser and view my notifications and local timeline, Tusky stops crashing.
Thanks for the great update 😍Normally I use Fedilab but with this update I give Tusky a new chance. I really missed the statistics. Are there integrated (optionally) push notifications planned? This would be a big step forward.
There is only one small thing that I wish Tusky could do: reorder images after adding them to a post (before the post is published). Or is that a Mastodon limitation?
I wonder if it would be possible to view a toot that I'm replying to while replying to it. That would be very helpful. Otherwise, very happy with Tusky.
Oh, wow, you guys got around redesigning the filters! 💙 This was the only thing I kept jumping to the web interface for. The better timeline handling is also much appreciated. Lookin' good, too!
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.
I probably don’t need to remind anyone reading this while it’s fresh about the current state of affairs in the world, but for the future readers looking back on this time, let me set th…
The armchair pundits who talk on and on about Mastodon's non-existent "slump" -- which I've shown isn't happening in a previous chart -- aren't even considering the broader Fediverse.
The tech press very much want to frame this as Mastodon vs. Bluesky.
But have they ever considered that if the protocol underlying Bluesky (AT protocol) ever took off, Mastodon could just use it—thereby talking to Bluesky?
It’s as though their narrative of “competition” doesn’t work in this situation!
„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.“
¿Os acordáis de que Sumar iba a abrir un portal de participación? Pues ya está abierto, y por lo menos el registro es accesible, aunque todavía no he presentado ninguna propuesta. Si queréis contribuir, echad un vistazo a sumarfuturo-demo.osoigonext.co…
Ah, sí, porque en España es bastante conocida. Es una formación política en lanzamiento, que tiene como propuesta concurrir a las próximas elecciones como fuerza unida de la izquierda bajo el liderazgo de la que hoy es nuestra ministra de trabajo, Yolanda Díaz.
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!
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The history of the web is an odd substance: always present and eternal, yet profoundly ephemeral and immediately forgotten. It becomes increasingly difficult to imagine obscure roads not taken in the deeper architecture of the internet [49] with every fork. Before the dominance of compute in the cloud, distributed computing projects like folding@home were more powerful than any supercomputer [50]. Before the dominance of cloud video streaming platforms, peer-to-peer systems accounted for a majority of global internet traffic: in the mid-2000’s between 49% and 95%, depending on the survey.
[49]: Except by the scores of beloved nerds in exile on the freer parts of the internet who remember the death of IRC and RSS and the weaponization of JavaScript acutely and personally.
[50]: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic a wave of folding@home volunteers broke the exascale computing barrier and made it more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined — filling a need that the cloud either couldn’t or wouldn’t.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/431340 "[footnote 49 is highlighted, it is linked from the [49] in the text and reproduced at the bottom beneath the body text]
The history of the web is an odd substance: always present and eternal, yet profoundly ephemeral and immediately forgotten. It becomes increasingly difficult to imagine obscure roads not taken in the deeper architecture of the internet [49] with every fork. Before the dominance of compute in the cloud, distributed computing projects like folding@home were more powerful than any supercomputer [50]. Before the dominance of cloud video streaming platforms, peer-to-peer systems accounted for a majority of global internet traffic: in the mid-2000’s between 49% and 95%, depending on the survey.
[49]: Except by the scores of beloved nerds in exile on the freer parts of the internet who remember the death of IRC and RSS and the weaponization of JavaScript acutely and personally.
[50]: During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic a wave of folding@home volunteers broke the exascale computing barrier and made it more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined — filling a need that the cloud either couldn’t or wouldn’t.")
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