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Would you work for free? 🤯
For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living.
With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website:
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The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit!
A group of fiscal hosts representing thousands of collectives have created a new independent, community-governed, non-profit organization and have reached an agreement with Open Collective Inc. to take over the Open Collective platform as it exists today.
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I have been thinking a lot about headphones lately...
I have a simple list of requirements, but so far I haven't found anything that meets all of them, which is frustrating because most of the requirements don't contradict each other!
1) Noise cancelling. Like, REALLY good noise cancelling. Please, please, please I want to drown out all of the noises.
2) Physical tactile buttons. None of this capacitive touch sensitive bullshit, that ignores my intentional presses but is suddenly incredibly responsive when I'm trying to adjust their position in my ear!
3) They can't fall out, just because I made a facial expression or yawned!
4) Discrete! This is important to me. I don't want to wear big honking over the ear headphones all the time. I'm already self conscious enough, and don't want to stand out.
5) The ability to hear others talking to me, when needed. This can be a toggle for how the noise canceling works, but it is important that it works and works well. I keep headphones on ALL the time, and I don't want to have to take them off every time someone wants to talk to me.
6) Comfort! Again, I wear them ALL THE TIME.
7) Multi device pairing!!! This is so basic and important, and so many devices fail at this. I keep my headphones on ALL THE TIME! I need to be able to pair them with my phone, and tablet, and laptop, and desktop, and VR headset, and... You get the idea. I hope.
8) Waterproof, because I keep them on ALL THE TIME and I'm not very smart. A few months ago I went swimming, and forgot I had them on. Yeah... *sigh*
9) USB-C charging!!! It is 2024. If it is an electronic device that I'm going to be carrying with me, then it ABSOLUTELY MUST BE ABLE TO BE CHARGED VIA USB-C, NO FUCKING EXCEPTIONS!!!
I feel like I'm forgetting something too... Oh well. The point is, these shouldn't be hard. This is a small easy set of requirements. Why doesn't anything exist that meets them all perfectly?
![Litani Red Ironheart writes: "OK so I did my research and I actually FOUND the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes and heat waves and wild fires and floods worse:"
[A photo of an oil platform in the sea on fire, being extinguished by several firefighting ships]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/598642 "Litani Red Ironheart writes: \"OK so I did my research and I actually FOUND the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes and heat waves and wild fires and floods worse:\"
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That's what I run, and while "works for me" is not a general recommendation, I would argue that the upcoming release is the time to dip one's toe in, now that it will have proper audio support, among other missing features until now.
Es gibt vom ZDF die Aktion „Mitreden“. Wenn ihr euch dort anmeldet, werdet ihr regelmäßig zu Umfragen eingeladen.
Im Moment läuft die Umfrage „Soll die AfD verboten werden?“
Würdet ihr bitte? 😬
Found a new way #WebDesigners are blocking #Accessibility.
Because I am legally #Blind, with less than 10 degrees of vision, I cannot visually solve #Captchas
Because I am mostly #Deaf, I cannot solve vocal Captchas.
Therefore, I added block and solve Captchas extensions to my browser.
On three major sites - I could no longer access, as they had added Captchas that bypassed the blockers!
FaceBook, Amazon, and Submittable do not allow Captcha blockers.
So, I had not been able to access those sites at all for a while.
When I found Submittable blocking me today, for the first time, I decided to turn off the Captcha blockers, as they obviously aren't working.
Instantly, Amazon and Submittable are working.
I haven't tried FaceBook.
#CaptchaBlockers are and #Accessibility need for blind, deaf, #DeafBlind, and multiple other disabilities. It is Disability Discrimination for sites to block Accessibility Access helpers.
I shouldn't need a sighted and hearing person, likely a stranger, to be given my login information, username and password, to log me into every site I need to go to every day!
#Tech people, please respect people with disabilities. Disable and Remove Captchas. Disable and Remove Block the Block Captchas extensions.
I wasted a lot of hours trying to figure out why suddenly I could not login to sites.
Hours because some tech people decided to break and block accessibility for a DeafBlind #Author!
Ich finde den neuen Eingabebereich der Weboberfläche für Mastodon 4.3.0 nur so semi … ich habe den Zoom der Seite auf 125% stehen, und wenn ich dann einen längeren Text tippe, gibt es einen doppelten Scrollbalken.
Schade, dass es mal wieder für die Barrierefreheit und die Usbabilty außerhalb der Geräte der Entwickelnden nicht gerreicht hat.
Liebe Falschparker, ihr müsst jetzt sehr tapfer sein. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat höchstrichterlich festgestellt: "Das Interesse der parkenden Verkehrsteilnehmer an einer ungehinderten Fortsetzung ihres rechtswidrigen Verhaltens ist nicht schutzwürdig."
Auch euer gerne angeführtes "Gewohnheitsrecht" gibt es weiterhin nicht: "ein ‚Gewohnheitsrecht‘ auf Gehwegparken wird dadurch nicht begründet"
Danke an die Klägerinnen und Kläger aus Bremen!
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Bundesgericht zum Parken auf dem Gehweg: Kein Recht auf Falschparken
Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht gibt Klägern recht, die gegen zugeparkte Gehwege klagten. Die Behörde kündigt Konkretes an – und lässt wenig folgen.taz.de
What are your weekend plans?
We'll be celebrating the launch of the Tuta Calendar app 😉
#Tuta #Calendarlaunch #HappyFriday
The internet is very silent about this year's #LibreOffice and #OpenSource Conference 2024. Are there any slides, video recordings, interviews, press releases?
Thanks for the great Yes! This sounds excellent.
Regarding the slides, it seems - as of now - no speaker has uploaded slides yet. Could you please remind the speakers to upload the slides. Thanks a lot!
My daughter is trying to convince me that the phrase "social butterfly" implies the existence of a "social caterpiller", which justifies her wrapping herself in a quilt, her "social cocoon", and refusing to get up today.
I have to admit it's a pretty good argument. Solid wordplay, reasonable-sounding if ridiculous conclusions, ticks all the boxes. Kinda dad-proud right now, gotta say.
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What was I even doing?
To challenge the notion that the Mastodon has a strong tradition of #accessibility…
5 years since I tried to improve the accessibility of Mastodon and, despite overwhelming support, the project owner refused to merge my commit, then closed and locked the issue because he thought it was ugly.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
Compared to Threads, Mastodon is very good. But compared to Threads, getting kicked in the shin is also pretty good.
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If you don't know what the best comic/standup/comedian performance is, this is the one:
I have seen people running MacOS on Intel Mac Pros booting ESXi, for EULA reasons.
iirc the problem is that you'd be without graphics, as the MacOS guest only supports Metal or talking directly to the Hardware. For Metal you'd have to reverse engineer and reimplement all their APIs, kinda unrealistic. And for hardware pass-through you'd have to give up the whole GPU, which would make it useless, if even possible.
There better be a way to tell Mastodon I never want to be notified of quotes. How hard is this for others to understand? I don’t want to be notified if anybody quotes me, at all! To me, quotes are seen as a passive aggressive form of interaction and if you can’t message me directly/mention me directly, I simply just don’t want to interact with you if you’re going to quote me.
With the 4.3 release complete, we’re turning our focus to 4.4, which will include:
Quote Posts: We are resuming work on this long-awaited feature, and it will be our main focus for the rest of the year.
Block list improvements: We are evaluating several improvements, including subscribing to external blocklists and offering an optional default “worst of the worst” blocklist for new Mastodon installs. We’re also exploring ways for operators to approve blocks from external lists.
Post Parsing: We’re experimenting with potentially changing to a new parser for posts, which will be more modular and enable features like basic text formatting.
One irony of letting companies like Google run their spyware through our websites for "analytics" is how useless most of the information is to small/medium website owners.
Oh, 3% of my visitors are from Poland, and 8% use Firefox? Uh, OK, great insights … I guess. 🤷♂️
OTOH, that information is valuable to Google, because they can aggregate it with lots of other surveillance data for digital fingerprinting, etc.
We've been duped.
Renewing my open invitation, any former colleagues (or anyone, really) looking for a new role and would like to chat. Hit me up!
Sometimes just having someone there to listen for a bit does a world of good, especially someone that's been there before. I'm also in technology-centric spaces where design/dev/ops opportunities are posted fairly regularly, so I can help keep an eye out for you.
I know first hand how transformative it is to have that kind of support and want to pay it forward.
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