#Codeberg, my code hosting platform of choice, suffered an attack earlier today that sent racist spam to many users.
This could've happened to other platforms too, but Codeberg was targeted because they're explicitly welcoming people and projects with a diverse and inclusive mindset.
But what really stood out to me: The post-mortem and apology.
The Advocate General has issued an opinion regarding the Danish ghetto policy. This is a hugely important case regarding direct discrimination by ethnicity, and the opinion from the Advocate General recognises this fact.
The policy is extremely harmful. Copying from the CJEU press release:
The Danish legislation on public housing distinguishes between several types of neighbourhoods with unfavourable socio-economic situations in terms of their levels of unemployment, crime, education, and income. The areas in which, in addition to an unfavourable socio-economic situation, the proportion of immigrants from non-Westerncountries and their descendants has exceeded 50% for the last five years have then been categorised as‘transformation areas’ (formerly known as ‘hard ghettos’). The law requires the public housing associations owning such areas to draw up a development plan setting out how the proportion of public housing units in thetransformation areas is to be reduced to 40% by 1 January 2030. This may include the sale of properties to private developers, demolition, or conversion of family housing into housing for young people. In such cases, the leases of the previous tenants must be terminated.
The Advocate General finds direct discrimination due to two issues: first, "the legislation puts those tenants in a precarious position in relation to security of their right to a home, thus resulting in their less favourable treatment in comparison to tenants of other neighbourhoods in a comparable situation, in which the majority of the population is of ‘Western’ origin". And second: "the ethnic criterion used by Danish legislation stigmatises the ethnic group whose structural disadvantage in their ability to integrate into Danish society was recognised, thus curtailing rather than enhancing their chances to integrate into that society".
#ECJ #AG Ćapeta: The Danish legislation on public housing in transformation areas constitutes direct discrimination based on an ethnic criterion 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.
One week ago, we announced LibreOffice 25.2, our brand new major release. It’s packed with new features, and has many improvements to compatibility and performance too.
The second part of hagiography is familiar: the combining form -graphy, which comes from the Greek verb graphein, meaning 'to write,' is found in biography and calligraphy (among many others) too.
Its "latest and greatest" are: - tags in post headers in your timeline (if that post is included due to you following one orore hashtags); - new post detail layout which makes it easier to view relationships between posts and replies and load more replies on demand.
The initial depth of nesting (higher values imply loading will be less performant, lower values imply you'll see more often the "load more replies" button due to threads being partially downloaded).
It is the best I can do with the current Mastodon APIs but it looks ok-ish and, which is more important to the user who asked for this feature I guess, it makes it easier to follow conversations.
Let me know what you think, and if I accidentally broke anything and in the meantime, as usual, #livefasteattrash
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 I'm wondering as a part of loading more replies, does @RaccoonForFriendica also fetching posts from different instances? Or would it be too much work? I can see one of my followers posts something interesting, my friendica instance receives replies from people we follow but when visiting his instance there are even more replies. Perhaps doing this is already possible somehow as most often such posts are available to the public thusadding that instance as an anonymous account in the raccoon app might :help with it to an extend.
@Peter Vágner that indeed is some extra work (and it can further worsen performance too), but I see it as hardly possible too. On federated instances posts (in this case the "parent" of replies) change their ID so it is virtually impossible to reconstruct the tree of answers across different instances. I'm sorry to have to say that...
What is weird is: why aren't those "extra replies" in instance B being retrieved on instance A where the post was created? Federation not being mutual (B federates with A whereas A doesn't federate with B)?
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 Okay, so I understand this is not going to happen. I can't explain it better. I think it might be a result how the federation on fediverse is working. Lets imagine a scenario like this: User 1 and User 2 are following each other. They both also follow user 3 but only user 2 is following user 4. User 4 follows User 2 but not User 1 and User 3. User 1 and User 3 are not following User4. User 2 posts a public message to his timeline. User 1, User 3 and User 4 receive that post as they all are following user 2. User 3 replies. User 1 User 2 and User 4 will receive the reply. User 4 replies. User 2 receives the reply but User 1 and User 3 won't receive it as they don't follow User 4. And this is the part where the conversation flow is breaking.
I was hoping it might be somehow possible to compensate for this client side, but if the posts identifiers are different accross instances or different fediverse servers such as friendica / mastodon, then I understand we are screwed and there is no way around this.
Still I believe when viewing a post it might be possible to consider adding an entry to the options menu of that post saying something like fetch from original instance and that would fetch the whole conversation from that instance without logging in to that instance effectivelly allowing doing what we can now do in the browser i.e. open the original post as seen at their site.
Then follow up difficulties might be how to like and boost such a post if my instance may not know that post.
I understand this is complex so perhaps lets keep it for the future and thing about possible difficulties until that time.
@Peter Vágner @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 How conversations work is not unified all across the Fediverse. Even how connections work is not unified.
Mastodon has taken over the follower/followed principle from Twitter which is always illustrated with arrows with one point. A following B is illustrated with an arrow from A to B. A being followed by B is illustrated with an arrow from B to A. A and B following each other mutually is illustrated with one arrow from A to B and one arrow from B to A.
It appears to me that Friendica has adopted this to become more compatible with Mastodon. But its several descendants, created by Friendica's own creator, starting with Hubzilla, haven't.
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte still have the bidirectional "connection" or "contact" as the default. It's illustrated with one arrow, but with one point on each end.
Also, all three understand a threaded conversation as an enclosed contruct entirely owned by the conversation starter. Everyone on these three who has the start post on their stream always actually has the whole thread on their stream.
In fact, all three have Conversation Containers implemented. This feature was originally created in the streams repository in 2022. Forte has had it from the get-go as it started out as a fork of (streams). It was eventually turned into FEP-171b and backported to Hubzilla last year.
All three make sure that everyone who has a post on their stream also always has all comments on that post, at least those that are made after they have received the post.
This works on two basic principles:
All comments go directly to the original poster because the original poster owns the thread.
Those who have the post automatically receive all comments from the original poster.
In a pure Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte system, your above example would look like this:
User 1 and User 2 are connected.
User 1 and User 3 are connected. (This doesn't even matter.)
User 2 and User 3 are connected.
User 2 and User 4 are connected.
Much simpler than explaining everything with "following" and "being followed", isn't it?
Now, the conversation works like this.
User 2 sends a public post, thus creating a Conversation Container of which they are the owner. User 1, User 3 and User 4 receive the post.
User 3 comments on User 2's post. The comment goes from User 3 to User 2, who is the owner of the conversation, and it is automatically forwarded to User 1 and User 4 who already have User 2's post on their streams.
User 4 comments on User 3's comment. The comment goes from User 4 past User 3 straight to User 2, who is the owner of the conversation, and it is automatically forwarded to User 1 and User 3 who already have User 2's post on their streams.
The only mentioning that occurs here, if any, is User 4 mentioning User 3. This is not necessary for User 4's post to reach anyone. This is only necessary to make sure on Hubzilla (which doesn't have a tree view) that User 4 is replying to User 3's comment and not to User 2's post.
On Mastodon, for comparison, everything depends on who follows whom, who mentions whom and whose instance knows whose instance.
@Jupiter Rowland Thanks for nice explanation. Now I understand we need to make sure #friendica does also respect this so called conversation containers. So the question is not for @𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 but for !Friendica Support
As far as I know, you can only send posts to a Friendica forum with an exclamation mark to have them forwarded to all members. But you cannot do that with comments, not in a conversation whose (start) post did not go to that forum.
On Friendica and all its descendants, a reply is never a stand-alone post. It's always a comment on another post.
Thus, mentioning a Friendica forum in a comment with an exclamation mark is futile.
Tento týden mě vesmír vyloženě nemá rád. Včera před desátou večer vypadl jeden z Roští.cz serverů. A pak ještě několikrát. Jako kdyby ztratil z ničeho nic napájení. Vypadá to na vadný zdroj. Server má dva. Jeden je aktivní a druhý čeká na svou chvíli. No a k jeho chvíli zjevně nedošlo a server se prostě vypnul. Po vyndání toho vadného zdroje to už 8h běží v pohodě. Řešil jsem to do třech do rána a jsem úplně na kaši.
Soucítím. Kamarád má hostingovou firmu a dřív jsem mu občas vypomáhal. To mě nadobro odradilo od jakéhokoliv hostingového byznysu. Jednou jsme fyzicky přesouvali servery z Coolhousingu do Casablancy, což bylo doslova přes ulici. Co mělo být asi hodinový downtime, se protáhlo na 10 hodin frenetického hledání příčiny, proč to po opětovném zapojení nejede.
@sesivany To jsme taky dělali, jenom do Master DC a vypadalo to podobně 🙂 Dneska bychom koupili nové servery a přemigrovali to pomalu. Tady ovšem došlo k tomu, že server měl dva zdroje, jeden vypadl a druhý to nepřevzal. Ten čas, co jsem na tom pálil, byla migrace služeb z jednoho na druhý.
@sesivany jo, kdysi z brněnské Forpsi pseudo serverovny do Prahy... To byly časy... Už bych to znovu zažít nechtěl 😂 ale zvládli jsme to rychleji než těch 10 hodin přes ulici 😀
@kepi Už je to 17 let, takže detaily si moc nepamatuju, ale tenkrát se to v rámci toho přesunu ještě předělávalo z casů do racku a Windowsy, které měl na jednom serveru, na té samé základovce, jen v racku prostě startovaly do nedeterminovaného stavu. Když už jsme nevěděli co, tak v deset ráno běžel do Alzy, koupil tu samou základovku a na té to nastartovalo. Tu původní základovku pak použil s Linuxem a ten na ní běžel bez problémů ještě dlouhou dobu.
Fuška "kluci, pojďte mi helfnout, ve dvě na to vletíme, ve tři nemáme co dělat" dopadla tak, že já odpadl v devět ráno a kámoš frčel až do dvanácti, ale on jel na adrenalinu naboostovaném emaily od zákazníků. :)
Fellow #Blind #ContentCreators, have any of you found a decent free website platform that is #accessible and usable by someone who isn't a professional web dev? I'd hoped to go with Neocities, but their hCaptcha doesn't seem to let me use my cookie. I need, at this point, a free option, sadly. Any suggestions? Boosting greatly appreciated.
este año está jodida la cosa, la vacuna de la gripe funcionó bien, pero el resto de virus nos está dando a base de bien. Llevamos desde el viernes con recomendación de no ir al residencial a visitar a los viejos porque tienen un problema con los virus respiratorios.
This is a quick follow-up patch release due to the number of ugly regressions in the 8.12.0 release. Release presentation Live-streamed on twitch as always at 10:00 CET on the release day.
Start accelerating your advanced car in Wheels of Prio for a race that is both fast and fun! Can you complete the required number of laps before everyone
Zajtra je Valentín vlastne... celý podnik obsadia páry čo by až tak nevadilo ale zajtra je (asi) aj protest a radšej obsluhujem ľudí z protestu ako zaľúbencov. Nemám život ja môžem.
Your heart and mind may be in the right place. But if you use the odious X/Twitter or Substack as a platform for your publishing you are supporting the bad guys.
Ditto, indirectly, if you subscribe to and/or pay for content there.
In this episode of the Tech Doctor podcast, the Tech Doctors welcome special guest Nicole Bond and Tim Noonan.
Nicole and Tim were Braille ’n Speak users who enthusiastically explained why they loved the Braille ’n Speak. Nicole got her Braille ’n Speak at age 7 and used it through college. Tim used the Braille ’n Speak both on the job and in his personal life.
Robert, also a Braille ’n Speak user provided some historical context and talked about his role as a Braille ’n Speak beta tester.
Allison, Robert, Tim and Nicole are all now BT Speak users. They explain how the BT Speak has filled the void that was left during the many years when there was no Braille ’n Speak like device available. They also looked at how far the BT Speak has come in a little less than a year. Tim demonstrated some examples of how the BT Speak is evolving to meet the needs of its users. In a future update, the BT Speak will offer a One Handed Mode for people who need it. There will be a new much advanced way of managing multiple files in the editor and the famous Braille ’n Speak Append Mode is coming to the BT Speak. As exciting as all of this is, at only one year old, the BT Speak is just getting started. The Tech Doctors will report new developments as they unfold. Stay tuned. We will be back.
I disagree with use cases that rely on CSS, generally at risk from network interruptions and caching, to trigger programmatic state changes in the HTML that references it (see pic). Cart / horse and all.
The CSS3 logo as a head atop a torso with its arms folded across its chest. I am a big proponent of the First Rule of ARIA (don’t use ARIA). But ARIA brings a lot to the table that HTML does not, such as complex widgets and state information that…
Unfortunately, I don't have sources, but this is coming from someone closer to the govt than I am. I would not be surprisedat the accuracy of the below statement. Malice and incompetence are a dangerous combination. (1/4)
DOGE, by executive order, want to end DEI in the federal government. (In all seriousness: I invite anyone reading this who is uncomfortable with DEI to state their objections to it. This is a no-judgement zone. DEI is complicated, and the media has done a terrible job of explaining what it actually is).
The brilliant solution from the technologists at DOGE: write and run scripts that delete documents with words they find objectionable.
The intent: To remove any articles about "white privilege" or "male privilege" or things that DOGE finds objectionable. The outcome: Hundreds of documents deleted that use "privilege" in a technical context. Dry, boring, very important stuff like server administration and installing Windows apps.
Next up: Diversity The intent: Well shoot, that's the D in DEI. Can't have that! (3/4)
The outcome: Hundreds of documents deleted that talk about "biodiversity." You know, that thing you heard about once in Ms. Giles' 10th grade biology class that just means "environments with different species on them are more conducive to life." Gone.
The people carrying out these orders are very, very stupid. (4/4)
Blake Allee, Equipment and Demo Lead, at The INDATA Project at Easterseals Crossroads shows us the Hable One, which is a small Braille keyboard that offers full screen reader control on phones and …
Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 18, introduces a suite of innovative accessibility features for those with disabilities. These upgrades enhance how individuals interact with their devices and …
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