Wow, a year has passed since we recorded this episode for the NerdOut@Spotify podcast! That was a fun one! Who would have thought what the future would hold for us... 😅 I still think we managed to put together a decent episode. Sharing in case you’d like to give it a listen! Would love to know what you think.

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19: Engineering for Accessibility

Listen to this episode from NerdOut@Spotify on Spotify. We’re often focused on features that improve the experience for users — letting them do something better, faster, smarter.

^{19: Engineering for Accessibility (Spotify)}

Wow, apparently there is now a classifieds sales platform for the Fediverse called Flohmarkt ("flea market"). You can find out more at:

➡️ codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmar…

...and especially its wiki page at:

➡️ codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmar…

The wiki contains a list of existing servers, compatibility with other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, and instructions for installation.

No official account yet but you can follow the lead developer at:

➡️ @grindhold

(via @Tealk 🙏 )

#FediTips #Fediverse #Flohmarkt

flohmarkt

federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub

^Codeberg.org

The counterargument is that our willingness to collectively talk about the fractal nature of moral behavior, and the language we use, has grown over time, creating a false illusion of decline.

experimental-history.com/p/the…

The illusion of moral decline

The short version of the paper I just published

^{Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)}

Normalize being fucking patient with free and open-source software.

Normalize not saying "phew, this latest version was a fucking disaster! the old versions were better" to everyone you know, especially if you contributed no development, testing, issue reporting or other time to the software.

Normalize writing GitHub issues that thoroughly describe a problem as well as you absolutely can (you don't have to be perfect at this, but it's more important that you're patient and considerate than being exactly technically correct) without editorializing in it. Leave out the "I'm going to (paid competitor)" threats and the "This software is shit now" sentiments. You are talking to human beings who are giving you a thing for free, so the least you can do is not make them regret doing that.

(Edit: If you like this, I should point out that I'm a free and open-source software dev myself, and I could really use your help right now.)

Donate to Support Silver Eagle's Summertime Struggles, organized by Buster Neece

Hello! My name is Buster Neece, though online I often go by "Silver Eagle" (o… Buster Neece needs your support for Support Silver Eagle's Summertime Struggles

^gofundme.com

Condolences.

Mike Karels of Berkeley Unix/BSDi died of a heart attack on his way home from BSDCon.

Karels was responsible for implementing TCP/IP on BSD, which was later ported to Linux. Since you're reading this, you are benefitting directly from his work.

RIP, Mike. We won't forget you.

freebsdfoundation.org/mike_kar…

As per twoot.site/@bean/1125693563919… from @bean , please draw the most ridiculous thing with an ass.

#SillyCuratorPrompts #Ridiculass

More #phosh custom quick settings coming in. We just landed a dark mode toggle by Teemu Ikonen on main:

#gtk #LinuxMobile

If you see a domain name ending in .ai that means the island of Anguilla got some money, as it is the owner of this country domain.

”For each domain registration, Anguilla’s government gets anywhere from $140 to thousands of dollars from website names sold at auctions, according government data.”

In 2023 just over 20% of the government’s total revenue came from these registrations.

”[…] the government used the money to provide free health care for citizens 70 and older, and it has committed millions of dollars to finish building a school and a vocational training center. The government has also allocated funds to improve its airport; doubled its budget for sports activities, events and facilities; and increased the budget for citizens seeking medical treatment overseas.”

The island was hit hard by a hurricane in 2017 and tourism essentially disappeared during the covid pandemic. The .ai domain revenue has been a welcome injection into the economy.

Now you can’t say I never talk about AI in a positive light 😉

per.ax/angui

The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla

The small Caribbean territory brought in $32 million last year, more than 10 percent of its G.D.P., from companies registering web addresses that end in .ai.

^{Emma Bubola (The New York Times)}

Oh, authors will do this
mastodon.social/@charis/112569…

I have done many audits where the devs claim their framework won’t let them reorder the HTML, so they use CSS techniques and fail an SC they never knew existed (1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence).

Charis Rooda 🌿 (@charis@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Tab order, reading order, source order! (!!!) @rachelandrew@front-end.social shines a light on order, and problems that occur when working with masonry and grid layout.

^Mastodon

Draft implementation of the MOTIS/Transitous support for @gnomemaps

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m…

I think the number of reference issues here is some kind of record for me…

#gnome #mapstodon #transitous #motis

Today we're excited to join #NYM and talk about why #privacy matters and how we fight #surveillance #capitalism. 💪 🔒

Join us here: youtube.com/watch?v=PPyrioLe0G…

Nächste Woche soll die Neuauflage eines Sommermärchens starten: Fußball-EM in Deutschland.

Die UEFA macht dabei Rekordgewinne, zugleich müssen die Städte für die EM Millionen Euro mehr ausgeben als ursprünglich geplant war. Um EM Spiele austragen zu können mussten die Städte harte Verträge unterschreiben und darin der UEFA weitreichende, teure und sogar grundgesetzwidrige Zusicherungen machen. Wir haben mit @correctiv_org recherchiert und veröffentlichen die Verträge: fragdenstaat.de/blog/2024/06/0…

UEFA Euro 2024: Hier sind die Knebelverträge zur Fußball-EM

In zehn deutschen Städten finden ab nächster Woche die Spiele der Fußball-Europameisterschaft statt. Die  Spielorte mussten der UEFA weitreichende, teure und sogar grundgesetzwidrige Zusicherungen machen. Hier könnt ihr die Verträge nachlesen.

^FragDenStaat

Are you as tired as I am from people bringing up Munich’s Linux phase as a bad example?

Well, the European Commission's Open Source Observatory released a case study that comprehensively tells the whole story.

Instead of just sharing it like a reasonable person would I went full Charlie Day in a blogpost about how it applies to Open Source in Public Administration efforts today: tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-…

Let’s Talk About Open Source in Munich (and Everywhere Else)

Updates/Edits: Since I wrote this, I found out the names of both persons who wrote the case study and shared it on my Mastodon feed so I updated the article accordingly. The day after this was writ…

^{Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger}

Hledání náhrady za Mapy.cz

O mobilních, webových a desktopových aplikacích, které mě zaujaly při hledání náhrady za Mapy.cz.

#LocusMap #mapy #mapyCz #Nextcloud #OpenStreetMap #OrganicMaps #OSM #OsmAnd #OsmAPP #Seznam

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/06/05/h…

Hallo #Köln!
Gegen die Einführung der entmündigenden & rassistischen #Bezahlkarte sammeln wir weiterhin Unterschriften!
Macht mit & verbreitet die Petition:

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

I have never been more disappointed by a spelling error:

dp.la/item/9383481d7c3b1a327cb…

If these facts are accurate, this is so wrong.

Blind PepsiCo worker requested screen reader for NC job, then was fired, feds say by charlotteobserver.com
charlotteobserver.com/news/sta…