We're back for a new season!

Kicking off "Season 3" of UX Podcast @axbom and @Beantin bring you a topic show. In this episode we dive into the concept of "Dark mode", its benefits, and its implications for UX design, user experience and accessibility.

uxpodcast.com/329-dark-mode/

#ux #a11y #uxpodcast #podcast #uxdesign #userexperience #accessibility

"teaching old hippies new tricks" by @danny oblomovka.com/wp/2025/01/02/te…

> A few fates that I’ve avoided, barely: one is joining the Nineties Internet Re-Enactment Society, where communities scrabble to re-inforce the dominant vibe of — what, two? three? years maximum? — the early networks. I mean, I still have it in my habits — my dinky RSS reader, my affinity for plain text, email. A co-worker described watching me work as “like someone playing one of those adventure games”. I can see it.

in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

> There’s a tradition you draw from, but the tradition evolves, it doesn’t mindlessly recreate. You don’t stay in the moment that you entered that tradition. My daughter says that Discord is IRC for young people, Slack is IRC for old people, and IRC is for people who can’t get out of their chair.

OOF

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Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins Repository, un indice per scoprire e installare i plugin.

Negli ultimi mesi abbiamo rimodellato l'architettura dei plugin sviluppando una raccolta di plugin ufficiali per Castopod. Questi plugin rientrano in due categorie:

🔺 funzionalità che in precedenza facevano parte del core e che sono state estratte
🟢 nuove funzionalità che introducono tag Podcasting 2.0 o miglioramenti attesi da tempo


1. 🟢 custom-head
aggiunge frammenti di codice nel <head>tag di tutte le pagine pubbliche: inserisce nuovi meta tag, stili personalizzati o script di terze parti.
2. 🔺 custom-rss
inserisce RSS personalizzati nel canale e negli elementi del tuo feed.
3. 🔺 Aggiungi il prefisso op3
all'URL dei tuoi episodi con il servizio di analisi Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3).
4. 🔺 owner-email-remover
rimuove tutte le occorrenze dell'email del proprietario dal feed RSS.
5. 🟢 podcast-block
indica quali piattaforme sono autorizzate a mostrare pubblicamente il tuo feed e i suoi contenuti.
6. 🔺 podcast-episode-season
indica il numero e il nome dell'episodio o della stagione del podcast.
7. 🟢 podcast-images
aggiunge più risorse di immagini per il podcast nei tuoi feed RSS utilizzando <podcast:images>il tag Podcasting2.0 di .
8. 🟢 podcast-license
indica la licenza del podcast
9. 🔺 podcast-medium
specifica il tipo di mezzo contenuto nel tuo feed RSS.
10. 🟢 podcast-podroll
consiglia altri podcast.
11. 🔺 podcast-txt
aggiunge testo libero, come un record DNS TXT.
12. 🔺 show-notes-signature
aggiungi una firma a tutte le note dello show dei tuoi episodi, un ottimo modo per includere i tuoi link social in una volta sola.
Puoi trovare il codice sorgente di questi plugin, tutti con licenza AGPL v3, su github.com/ad-aures/castopod-p… .


blog.castopod.org/castopod-fir…

I find "trucks" that have a massive footprint with a tiny bed ridiculous. If you can't fit a full 4'x8' sheet of plywood in the back, it's not a proper truck.

urbanists.social/@straphanger/…

@vick21 It’s in your client (and used to be in tweezecake IIRC) but not in mainline Mastodon. It is in some forcs though, like Glitch-soc and also some Akkoma instances. Like mine!

When I quote post from Enafore, it does mention the other people in the thread and does not break the previous thread. You can remove the mentions though if you choose.

The quoted post shows up as a separate post in the feed so you can reply, boost, etc. it if you want. This probably does not work everywhere but it should if you are on a supported instance! For example:

@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ
RE: mastodon.social/users/vick21/s…


@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ The feature exists, so I assume it's officially supported. It's a feature that should exist, IMHO.

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Ach, ach! Was werden unsere Enkel denn wohl dazu sagen? #3K25
Es drängt sich der Gedanke auf, dass die ihn lobbyierende Klientel hofft, an der "Technologieoffenheit" bei der Beseitigung der mit seiner Hilfe viel größeren Schäden durch die Klimakatastrophen noch viel mehr Geld verdienen zu können. Persönliche Gefahren werden diese Heinis wohl nicht ausgesetzt sein, dank Privatarmeen, Bunker und startbereitem Privatjet in nettere Gefilde.
#3k25

*Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod* @Che succede nel Fediverso? Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins (1/7)

If you haven't seen this, its the best and most beautiful explanation for the "why" of privacy, and what it means for the practical definition of it.

I've never been able to put it into words myself, I scarce understood the totality of my own motivations and methods beyond what "felt right" for one reason or another. More than anything, this binds every one of those motivations into one.

media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-a…
By @Mer__edith at #38C3
President of the Signal Foundation and an Absolute Icon

My team is hiring. If you're looking for a job around #cryptography, take a look:

- redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
- redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/e…

#FediHire #getfedihired

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Pouring
emptiness into emptiness
like waves coming to shore,
you become quiet,
luminous,
still.

Where
before there were
ten thousand entanglements, now
there is undifferentiated
Oneness, clarity,
peace.

WEI WU WEI CHING
#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue #LouTheCreamfilledCat

Came across this Hacker News comment by @rain which succinctly describes one reason #Rust's approach to ownership and borrowing is valuable: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

> Which popular GC languages have mutexes owning the state they guard, such that it is structurally impossible to access that inner state without holding the lock? To do that you must have single ownership.

Posting for the benefit of anyone else who, like me, is sometimes swayed by the backlash against Rust.

5 years ago I created this list of #accessibility axioms that I wrote to understand some basic principles of digital accessibility github.com/accessibility/Axiom…

How do folks think they hold up? What would you add or remove?

Short passwords are an open door for hackers. 🕵️ 🔓

🔑 Longer = Stronger.
How long is yours?

🔒 Learn more & secure your accounts today: tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…

#CyberSecurity #PasswordTips

🆕 blog! “Review: Roamless Travel eSIM”
★★★★★

I've got a bunch of travel coming up to exotic locations. Previously, I've bought a local SIM card when I've landed - but they're often expensive, fiddly to fit, and queuing in an airport isn't much fun. I've also bought pre-paid SIMs which have a fixed amount of data or only last a specific amount of time.

But the big…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/revie…

#eSIM #mobile #phones #review #roaming

Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app.
appleinsider.com/inside/iphone…

New NVDA synth add-on: Eloquence 2.0.
Note two bugs exist:
1. No choosing of audio device in NVDA's sound dialog (it re-inits the DLL with a full crash and isn't playing through nvwave player)
2. Be warned that cold-starting NVDA with this synthesizer will result in no speech, but it does work when switching from another synth over. Haven't had time to trace down why this is happening exactly, so far the only "fix" is to send a silent audio to prime the DLL for better init.
eurpod.com/eloq20-2024.nvda-ad… (and before people complain, it's 2025! I'm basing the version on the NVDA series, and making it 2025 may cause confusion to think it's fully compatible with NVDA 2025.X) Also, no shorten pauses, we might be able to add inflection and a few other things back, although doing so may reset variant parameters which is why these are not part of the driver yet. Compared to even Eloquence 3.3, it's super basic and there's not much we can do about that. I tried to disable the abreviations dictionary as well, but Eloquence still loaded it regardless, so again, no clue on it yet.
Oh, and huge shoutout to @rommix0 again, without his debug info I couldn't have done it. Hats off to you, man.
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