It's May already. Time to check your #NewYearsResolution. What privacy-friendly services have you switched to recently?
@Tutanota ✅
@signalapp ✅
@bitwarden ✅
@mullvadnet ✅
Here's a nice list recommended by our friends at @aboutprivacy to help you #DeGoogle! 😎😎😎
My talk “Extending Rust’s Effect System” has been accepted for RustConf 2023!
In it I’ll be presenting the work @oli and I have been doing on effect systems in Rust via the keyword generics initiative. Looking forward to seeing some of you in Albuquerque in September!
Oxidizing GTK
events.gnome.org/event/101/con…
At the next GUADEC, there will be a presentation on an experiment
about integrating Rust in the GTK code base.
#Rustlang #GTK #GNOME #GUADEC #GUADEC2023
The art of designing and creating content to support people with cognitive disabilities lives in the space between usability and accessibility. This presenta...YouTube
This is big. No #embargoes. No #APCs.
"The #EU is ready to agree that immediate #OpenAccess to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, w/o authors having to pay fees & that the bloc should support #nonprofit scholarly publishing models.
In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly #publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month."
researchprofessionalnews.com/r…
Provisionally agreed position also expresses support for non-profit publishing modelsRachel Magee (Research Professional News)
Update. The #EuropeanCouncil just adopted the #OpenScience proposal anticipated earlier this month (this thread, above). No #embargoes. No #APCs. #Nonprofit publishing. #OpenLicenses. #OpenInfrastructure. consilium.europa.eu/en/press/p…
While this is not yet policy, it's a weighty recommendation to the Commission and member states.
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Featuring @MerylEvans, @wai, @SteveFaulkner, @aardrian, @matuzo, @a11ytalks, @knowbility, @michelle, @cferdinandi, @chriscoyier, @mgifford, @w3c, @codepo8,@vitalyf, @gerrymcgovern et al.
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
#DraculaDaily recently started again, so I thought it would be nice to share some links and free resources 😊
It all began with the Substack newsletter: Dracula is an epistolary novel that starts on May 3rd through November 7th and if you subscribe to Daily Dracula they'll send you emails with the content of the book on that specific day!
🔗draculadaily.substack.com/abou…
If you prefer the audio format, I have two podcasts/audiobooks for you:
🧛 Re: Dracula, which I discovered yesterday thanks to @weirdwriter (🔗shows.acast.com/re-dracula),
🧛 and the Dracula RadioPlay Experience by Cryptic Canticles (🔗crypticcanticles.com/dracula/). I listened to this one last year and it was very enjoyable.
IMO they're both really good, there's backgroung music and different voice actors. Re: Dracula has content warnings at the start of each day, it's nice.
Finally, if you'd rather have the entire book in your hands to follow along, you can grab the print version or you can download the free ebook from the Project Gutenberg website, since Bram Stoker's Dracula is public domain.
🔗gutenberg.org/ebooks/345
That's all I can think about for now. Feel free to share more resources if you have them! 😊
What is The Dracula Radioplay Experience? Bram Stoker’s Dracula is told through a collected series of entries – journal writings, newspaper clippings, letters, and telegrams – that prov…Cryptic Canticles
Graham Smith, the head of anti-monarchy group Republic, was detained in Trafalgar Square.By Adam Durbin & Daniel Sandford (BBC News)
Threema is the world's best-selling secure messenger, keeping your information out of the hands of hackers and corporations. The service is completely anonymous.Erişilebilir Android
So @element took part in the European Police Congress in Berlin, had a booth and presentation there, and is proudly posting on the fedi about it.
mastodon.matrix.org/@element/1…
mastodon.matrix.org/@element/1…
I’m currently paying them $11.90 a month to host my homeserver on their EMS platform.
My payment in April will have been the last.
It’s one thing to provide FLOSS comms to the government. It’s another to proudly support our fucked up police system.
@jabberati @fiveEyedBeast @pixelcode No.
I’m sorry, but XMPP is basically obsolete at this point, and I for one am not gonna miss it.
by Ashton K. Arnoldy As genres of speculative fiction—fiction which aims to imaginatively influence the manifestation of our collective future—solarpunk and lunarpunk hold a promise that their ance…Solarpunk Station
🚨 🇮🇳 #India banning #OpenSource #Matrix clients like #Element is equivalent to banning your favorite web browser or email client.
🤯 Can you imagine if Firefox, Chrome, or Thunderbird were banned nationally?
🔑 Privacy is a human right.
➡️ And governments will never stop human rights abuses by denying its citizens' human rights.
Pass it on.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/in…
India News: NEW DELHI: The Central government has blocked 14 messenger mobile applications that have been widely used in Jammu and Kashmir for spreading terror.TIMESOFINDIA.COM (Times Of India)
Greetings!
Well, after finding out that #WhaleBird
github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-…is a decent enough accessible MacOS client for use with #Misskey, you'll see me post on here from time to time now as well! Most of the time I'll still be posting on my Mastodon account, though watch this space! Three-Thousand characters is more than i ever would need myself, but I'll take it!
For users of #VoiceOver, the 'J' & 'k' keys currently do not speak under the curssor what the post is, thus nornal VO commands for now are necessary. Definitely a client for #Blind users to check out though!
NB. As noted among the GitHub page, WhaleBird is also available for #Windows and #Linux, though I'll leave those builds to you guys!
An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for Windows, Mac, and Linux - GitHub - h3poteto/whalebird-desktop: An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for Windows, Mac, ...GitHub
At this time, with any Misskey instance I try, I get the following:
Error: Failed to fetch. Is this a valid Mastodon instance? Is a browser extension blocking the request? Are you in private browsing mode? If you believe this is a problem with your instance, please send this link to the administrator of your instance.
Ah, that's a pity. Maybe you could raise this as an issue over at github.com/NickColley/semaphor…
No guarantees that it'd be added, but it's worth a shot. imho
Accessible, simple and fast web client for Mastodon - GitHub - NickColley/semaphore: Accessible, simple and fast web client for MastodonGitHub
Republic’s Graham Smith held at protest on King Charles III’s procession route in central LondonDaniel Boffey (The Guardian)
Bix
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Bix je převozník, který převezl ka-tet přes řeku Whye. Také věděl o dveřích.
"Čas je na téhle straně dveří krátký, to víte."
(Závan klíčovou dírkou)
#temnavez #darktower #gunslinger #stephenking
Well, that escalated quickly. 🤗
#Fediverse #Bonn #ActivityPubAddicted
Bonn.social (@Mastodon)
Bonn.pics (@pixelfed)
Bonn.video (@peertube)
Bonn.jetzt (@gancio)
Bundescast.de (@Castopod)
Bonn.live (@owncast)
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In 1938, a judge was worried by the growing Nazi rallies in the US and asked a Jewish gangster for a favour.
“You got some boys who might want to punch a Nazi?” he asked.
“I do, Judge,” the mobster answered. “Respectfully, you understand we can do better than punch? I know just the crew — in Brownsville. The boys in the press call them Murder, Inc.”
nypost.com/2022/05/07/jewish-g…
In the late 1930s, America’s fascism problem was eventually solved — with some Jewish toughs and their fists, a new book reveals.Todd Farley (New York Post)
Potřebujete poznámky v mobilu šifrovat? Na Androidu to je jednoduché
👉 infoek.cz/sifrovani-poznamek-n…
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #MobilniAplikace #android
La Convocatoria de Participación para #GNOME Latam se extendió y aun seguirá abierta.
Todas las propuestas deben presentarse hasta el día 07 de Mayo.
Motívate y se parte de este gran evento a nivel Latinoamericano en:
events.gnome.org/event/136/
With help from ePARA, Capcom developed sound effects to improve the accessibility of Street Fighter 6 for sightless and low-vision players.Marijn / ActiveB1t (Can I Play That?)
Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona.John Voorhees (MacStories)
If you need to take it easy after a busy day, but don’t want to fall asleep, then Smooth and Easy is the show for you. This program features an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listeni…Kelly Sapergia's Home Page
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#94 Configuring Columns
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/…
Change Line Range - 21 to 27 PROPOSED CHANGE ONE: Changed the description of an example in the "Simple Usage" section on line 21. The command original returned all matches for "curl" and did not r...GitHub
There's a lot to absorb about this one. Mosaic trained this model from scratch on 1 trillion tokens, at a cost of $200,000 taking 9.5 days. It's Apache-2.0 licensed and …simonwillison.net
Then, riffing on a type of prompt you've used before, I asked it "Write a rap battle between Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein". The results were... disappointing.
Newton vs Einsteins, who’s got more genius?
I’m sure you’ve heard of me before! I am Sir Issac Newton, known for my laws of motion & gravity; but don’t let this fool ya’, cause when it comes to physics there ain’t no competition here!
Einstein on the other hand… he was just some German dude with crazy hair.
etc.
@matt I decided to test the MPT-7B-Chat demo with the same questions/prompts.
Who is Simon Willison?
Simon Willison is a web developer and writer from London, England. He is known for writing the popular blog “This Week in Web Development” and for creating the JavaScript library “Aos”. He has also contributed to several open source projects and spoken at various conferences around the world.
This is your irregular reminder #Adobe are fucking dicks:
vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/ado…
> Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
We need #FLOSS tools to get to the point where they can replace Adobe tools. Open alternatives are great, but they are sadly not there yet to replace Adobe tools for professionals.
And won't be unless projects like @inkscape get enough funding to develop to a point of being viable alternatives.
Yes, it is in no small part about the money.
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.Karl Bode (VICE)
I wonder if closed protocol network vendors panicked as much when TCP/IP took off and the internet's popularity exploded.
semianalysis.com/p/google-we-h…
Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAIDylan Patel (SemiAnalysis)
A new admin API for Synapse, progress on Element X Android, and calls in Quadrix… that, and more happened this week in Matrix!
The #XMPP Newsletter for April '23 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!
Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕
xmpp.org/2023/05/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #xep #interoperability #federation #decentralization #chat
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Simon Willison (born April 14, 1980) is an American web developer and entrepreneur who co-founded the social news site Reddit in 2005 with Alexis Ohanian.[1] He was also one of the original developers for Twitter’s Bootstrap framework,[2][3] which he created while working at Twitter from 2009 to 2011[4] before leaving to work on other projects including his own company, Dropbox Paper; it became part of Dropbox as its “Paper” product after being acquired by them in 2013.[5]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/433928 "Question/Instruction: Who is Simon Willison?
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Simon Willison (born April 14, 1980) is an American web developer and entrepreneur who co-founded the social news site Reddit in 2005 with Alexis Ohanian.[1] He was also one of the original developers for Twitter’s Bootstrap framework,[2][3] which he created while working at Twitter from 2009 to 2011[4] before leaving to work on other projects including his own company, Dropbox Paper; it became part of Dropbox as its “Paper” product after being acquired by them in 2013.[5]")
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