2024 was a banner year for Matrix, from Matrix 2.0 progress and Trust & Safety improvements, to operationalizing open governance and hosting the first Matrix Conference.
We can't wait to see what 2025 brings! From all of us to you, merry merry and a happy new year ✨
Max se prý musí pochlubit. Dostal novou bundu. 😁 Ale co dělal s novým plyšákem, to sem dávat nebudu. 😁😁😁 Artur prošel vývojem, zdá se. S klidným vrněním sledoval střídavě světýlka a pohádky. ❤️
30 years ago today, Compuserve and Unisys tried to give themselves a Christmas gift at the Internet's expense, by charging a $5,000 royalty for using GIF images. #retrocomputingdfarq.homeip.net/cashing-in-on…
It’s hard to overemphasize just what a bombshell this was for the webcomic scene in the late 90s/early 00s. Comics had been using GIF even for non-animated strips, and major comics started spearheading anti-GIF campaigns and teaching people how to switch to PNG. ioc.exchange/@siliconundergro/…
30 years ago today, Compuserve and Unisys tried to give themselves a Christmas gift at the Internet's expense, by charging a $5,000 royalty for using GIF images. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/cashing-in-on-gif-by-charging-royalties/
Interesting article in The Atlantic summarising some recent research suggesting that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer than if it had never been there at all.
Are you familiar with Huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way, in that the most-used letters are the shortest. [Matheus Ric…
She’s a severely disabled homebound young woman who escaped domestic abuse, no local orgs in her country will help, this is an emergency, please donate and share
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So.. here it is! Let It Go, the first video from our Disney punk cover album - A Whole New Wurst. This track is from the movie Frozen (as if you didn’t know!...
OpenOffice has multiple unfixed security issues, over a year old, as this image from the Board report says. And no new committers since 2022, and no major release since 2014. Maybe the FOSS community can ask the Apache Software Foundation to finally put it in the Attic, and stop leaving users vulnerable: apache.org/foundation/contact
It is interesting to note that their brand appears to be strong. Even all these years. I met more people during the past few years who know OpenOffice but not LibreOffice.
Anyway, I am old enough to remember the discussion during the fork. Many were skeptical regarding the license, the development model of LO. Things turned to the good, I would say.
@devSJR Yes, and one of the problems is that they still promote it as the "leading open-source office software suite", despite knowingly serving people unmaintained software with security issues.
But no matter how many security issues Open Office has, it's still better than the cloud Microsoft #AI surveillance data intake that is the commercial "alternative".
It is even worse than that, I had a conversation with a fellow parishioner over a morning tea where he extolled moving to OpenOffice.
On discussion about the security and release issues with AOO, he clarified that yes, he had moved to LibreOffice but still thought of it as OpenOffice.
The moribund AOO sadly continues to cause active harm to users
…people will never stop using it as long as it is available regardless of whether it is safe or not. I could post a copy of OG IBM lotus notes (which was terrible when new) and, if it was free, it would be popular.
Here's some Christmas audio for today. Back in the early 2000's a telephone service called Tellme which could be called in the US at +1 800-555-8355 (sadly this no longer exists) had a thing going where starting December 10 you could call in and hear special messages from Santa. Then starting at 7:00 PM local time (since it knew where you were calling from based on your phone number) on Christmas Eve, you could track Santa's state-by-state progress with his deliveries. I have great recordings of the special messages and some of the state reports, and a bit distorted recordings of the rest of the states. Sadly this service no longer exists, so what we have is what we have. Anyway, here are the special messages you could hear.
@Angela2000 I imagine that the Internet and smart devices are causing these telephone services to become extinct. For me, it was a sad day when Philly lost its time and weather numbers although I can understand why phone companies no longer want to maintain such services.
Buon Natale a tutti gli abitanti del Poliverso! (e qualche novità interessante)
Carissimi iscritti,
prima di passare ai due contenuti informativi CHE VI CONSIGLIAMO DI LEGGERE CON MOLTA ATTENZIONE, vorremmo approfittare del nostro canale di comunicazione per augurare a tutti voi buone feste, in particolare vi auguriamo di trascorrere un Natale rilassante e riflessivo in attesa di un 2025 ricco di soddisfazioni personali e soprattutto ricco di relazioni interpersonali!
Per quello che ci compete, noi amministratori siamo molto contenti: Poliverso è infatti diventata stabilmente l'istanza Friendica con il maggior numero di utenti attivi e noi cercheremo di fare il possibile per rendere vivibile e soddisfacente questo angolo di web e vi chiediamo di diffondere tra i vostri parenti, amici, scopamici (beh, perché no...), ammiratori e conoscenti la notizia dell'esistenza dei nostri tre progetti, tutti integrati grazie al Fediverso:
1) Poliverso.org, per chi vuole vivere il web sociale al massimo delle potenzialità 2) Poliversity.it, per chi ama Mastodon, ma non vuole rinunciare alla possibilità di scrivere post lunghi e formattati 3) Feddit.it, per chi al social network preferisce i contenuti tematici
E se volete farci un regalo per Natale o per la Befana, potete sempre dare un'occhiata alla nostra pagina di supporto su Liberapay it.liberapay.com/poliverso/ o alla pagina dei menu di Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/poliverso
Veniamo quindi alle informazioni:
Formattazione post con titolo leggibili da Mastodon
Come saprete, con Friendica possiamo scegliere di scrivere post con il titolo (come su WordPress) e post senza titolo (come su Mastodon). Uno dei problemi più fastidiosi per chi desidera scrivere post con il titolo è il fatto che gli utenti Mastodon leggeranno il vostro post come se fosse costituito dal solo titolo e, due a capi più in basso, dal link al post originale: questo non è di certo il modo miglior per rendere leggibili e interessanti i vostri post! Con le ultime release di Friendica abbiamo però la possibilità di modificar un'impostazione per rendere perfettamente leggibili anche i post con il titolo. Ecco come fare:
A) dal proprio account bisogna andare alla pagina delle impostazioni e, da lì, alla voce "Social Network" al link poliverso.org/settings/connect… B) Selezionando la prima sezione "Impostazione media sociali" e scorrendo in basso si può trovare la voce "Article Mode", con un menu a cascata C) Delle tre voci disponibili bisogna scegliere "Embed the title in the body"
Ecco, ora i nostri post saranno completamente leggibili da Mastodon!
Le novità di Raccoon For Friendica
Raccoon for Friendica sta migliorando a vista d'occhio. Dalle anteprime dei video, al miglioramento della composizione dei messaggi con immagini, fino ad alcuni aggiornamenti alla stessa architettura dell'app, la maturazione di Raccoon for Friendica è quasi conclusa. Ci sono ancora alcuni aspetti che verranno risolti nella release di fine anno, come la modifica dei messaggi pubblicati, o novità molto interessanti dal punto di vista della visualizzazione, ma oggi Raccoon copre tutte le esigenze dell'utente Friendica, escluse le impostazioni avanzate dell'account che è opportuno gestire sempre dal browser. Raccoon for Friendica può essere utilizzata anche dagli utenti Mastodon; anzi, al momento è l'unica app per Mastodon che consenta agli utenti di navigare facilmente tra i gruppi Activitypub (comunità Lemmy, gruppi Friendica, gruppi gup.pe o magazine Mbin), che sono oggettivamente difficili da apprezzare per gli utenti Mastodon, qualsiasi sia l'app che utilizzano. Infine Raccoon for Friendica è l'unica app che consenta agli utenti Mastodon Glitch-soc (come Poliversity.it) di scrivere messaggi formattati sfruttando una barra di formattazione molto intuitiva!
Chiaramente feddit.it è la più bellissima meravigliosissima istanza Lemmy del mondo, ma da questa settimana non sarà più l'unica a parlare Italiano. Nasce infatti l'istanza diggita.com, un progetto per portare su Lemmy la comunità di diggita.com, uno dei più longevi aggregatori di notizie e commenti
I've often seen questions about places where you can find accessible electronic greeting cards. The other day, someone sent @Bruce and me an e-card and I noticed that there was a button to turn on descriptions. After doing a bit more experimenting, I discovered that this site has pretty much every single card I checked out available with audio description. The description is synthesized, and I don't know if the description shows up on a braille display at this point. If you use their iOS app and have audio description turned on in your iOS settings, the descriptions will play automatically. If you use the web site every time you go into a new card you have to enable the descriptions. I haven't played with the Android app yet. It's about $8 a month to send an unlimited number of cards. The site for these cards is jacquielawson.com/
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the course of the trial of Dominique Pelicot and his fellow accused: what would a woman do to an unconscious man if she thought no-one would find out?
Today the Parker Solar Probe will get 7 times closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever has, going faster than any spacecraft ever has - 690,000 kilometers per hour. WHEEEEEE!!!!!!!
But the really cool part is what the newspapers are barely talking about: what it's like down there. The Sun doesn't have a surface like the Earth does, since it's all just hot gas. But it has an "Alfvén surface" - and the probe has penetrated that.
What's the Alfvén surface? In simple terms, it's where the solar wind - the hot gas emitted by the Sun - breaks free of the Sun and shoots out into space. But to understand how cool it is, we need to dig a bit deeper.
After all, how can we say where the solar wind "breaks free of the Sun"?
Hot gas shoots up from the Sun, faster and faster due to its pressure, even though it's pulled down by gravity. At some point it goes faster than the speed of sound! This is the Alfvén surface. Above this surface, the solar wind becomes supersonic, so no disturbances in its flow can affect the Sun below.
But it's even cooler than that, because "sound" in the solar wind is very different from sound on Earth. Here we have air. The Sun has ions - atoms of gas so hot that electrons have been ripped off - interacting with powerful magnetic fields. You can visualize these fields as tight rubber bands, with the ions stuck to them. They vibrate back and forth together!
You could call these vibrations "sound", but the technical term is "Alfvén waves". Alfvén was the one who figured out how fast these waves move. Parker studied the surface where the solar wind's speed exceeds the speed of the Alfvén waves.
Excited to share the first of a 2-part deep dive into Estonia's digital journey in our latest Let's Think Digital podcast episode! Estonia looms large in the digital government conversation despite being a small country. What led to it becoming a global digital government leader?
As always, you can check out the episode on our website at: thinkdigital.ca/podcast/welcom… or on your favourite podcast platform!
Follow the digital government space long enough and you will hear about Estonia. Despite being a small country of 1.4 million people with an overall eco...
I really enjoyed @RyanAndrosoff #ThinkDigital #Podcast episode Welcome to Estonia. In Estonia I was struck about their investment in democracy and trust, as they build their digital #government.
@mgifford be sure to also check out our most recent one that dropped yesterday which goes even deeper into issues around trust and digital government: thinkdigital.ca/podcast/trust-…
Trust is everything. It’s clear we’re in a moment in time where people do not trust their governments. There is skepticism about the impact of big t...
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