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In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202… #privacy #security #opensource #unix #linux #macos
This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important.“Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.
1. Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.2. Browser engine monopoly
Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.It’s happened before
In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.
Firefox is actually really good
If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.So please, help save the web by using the best browser out there. It’s an easy thing to do, and it makes a big difference.
roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202…
Man Reader - my Mac app for reading Terminal command man pages - has finally had its long awaited update. The new version is now waiting for review.
Currently, Man Reader costs USD 4.99 or the local equivalent. I will be increasing this to USD 9.99 when the update is released, so if you want to save some money, buy it now and get the upgrade at half-price.
itunes.apple.com/app/man-reade…
#macOS #swift #terminal #zsh #bash
Man Reader
Man Reader allows quick, convenient and easy access to the man pages on your system, useful for programmers, system administrators and tweakers.App Store
Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".
It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome
Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlB…
Are you Being Served by Free Software?
This is a off the cuff discussion which is a response to some other videos about the whole RedHat news more recently. But looking at it from a the thousand m...YouTube
If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/potentia…
#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab
Potential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTK
The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare met…GNOME Discourse
How-to: Use Logic's Built In Net Send and Net Receive Plugins
In this video I will explain the AU Net Send and AU Net Receive Plug-ins built into Logic Pro which enable you to pipe audio from an audio track to a MIDI tr...YouTube
Does anyone care deeply about macOS support for GLib? If so, you might want to get involved
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/…
ci: Disable the macOS CI (!3463) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
It’s almost a complete waste of time at the moment. For several reasons, jobs flakily fail on it more often than they succeed. It’s wasting resources, slowing down...GitLab
Are #apple #macos users here who would want to test one of the submissions to the #game jam for #blind gamers?
It’s the only one that didn’t get any ratings yet, and that’s just sad to see. It looks like a pretty nice blind-friendly 3D stealth system: itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
You want to help #Monal but you can't code?
Just help out translating the app! We have many unmaintained languages only half translated right now:
hosted.weblate.org/projects/mo…
Every contribution welcome :)
Monal
Monal is being translated into 35 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.Hosted Weblate
Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!
#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:
* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation
#Monal is taking part in this year's #GSoC (google summer of code). There are already lots of interesting project proposals over here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…
If you can write code and always wanted to take part in #GSoC, we'd love to have you on board!
Just pick a proposal or suggest your own project idea and simply drol us an email to info@monal-im.org
Let's move #Monal forward together! 😊
#libreoffice, #macos and #darkmode, a dark topic indeed...
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Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.
It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.
Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.
XMPP + Google Summer of Code 2023
Project presentation:
@Monal - Monal is a modern #iOS and #MacOS XMPP chat client
wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…
#XMPP #GSoC2023 #GSOC, #Google #interoperability #standards #federation #SwiftUI #Swift #ObjC
Super post from @SaraSoueidan on how to set up a screen reader testing environment.
sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-…
Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?
#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing
Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳
Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!
System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine
You can download the latest release from GitHub: github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)
And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
GitHub - smallsco/macstodon: A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS
A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS. Contribute to smallsco/macstodon development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
We just released #CollaboraOffice 22.05 🌻
The new major release for #Windows, #macOS & #Linux includes:
🐘 Jumbo spreadsheets with 16k columns
📈 Sparklines in Calc
⏱️ Performance improvements across all modules
Find out more in the announcement 📢 collaboraoffice.com/press-rele…
Collabora Office 22.05 brings features, performance wins, and excellent Interoperability
Enhanced productivity for all users and improved interoperability, make migrating to Collabora Office and gaining data control more easy then ever beforeMarc Rodrigues (Collabora Productivity)
Just watched the video youtu.be/-KYbHJulEo8 as suggested by @Suzie97 and as usual, while I agree about most of the complaints about macOS window management (it's awful), there's always something that's been overlooked.
There IS a real 'maximize' action in macOS:
- hold ALT (or option)
- double click the bottom right corner of any app
- thank me later :)
Linux Fanboy Reviews macOS: Feels OLD.
Try OnlyOffice, the best open source office suite for Linux: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop.aspxGrad a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux out of t...YouTube