Walter S. @walter@programist.ro

Dreaming of the Mastodon future, here’s a feature I’d love to see. The ability to Follow a specific post. Now and then I see someone ask a question or start a discussion, and I don’t have anything to add, but I’d like to see how it develops. And be notified when there are responses. And I’d also like to see _all_ the replies, not just the ones that happen to make it to my server.

This is a thing I do on Slack often, tag a post with “notify me of replies”.

Here are Mastodon apps with lots of accessibility features and fabulous screen reader support.

Desktop:

Pinafore: excellent keyboard support! https://pinafore.social/

iOS:

Mercury for Mastodon https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mercury-for-mastodon/id1486749200

Toot. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toot/id1229021451

Metatext. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615

Android:

Tusky. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.keylesspalace.tusky/

#FediTips #MastoTips #Accessibility #A11y

Did you see the news that all of the #JWST instruments are aligned now?

Check out this comparison of one of the newly released calibration images from the MIRI instrument compared to images taken of the same region of space by the WISE and Spitzer space telescopes! Look at that resolution! So many newly resolved stars and structures! 🤩

I can't wait for all the new discoveries we'll make with JWST! #Science data starts in only a couple months!

(Image from @/AndrasGasper on birdapp)

You can now read and engage with news and information about 🇪🇺 EU policies, in a privacy-focused environment and with no transfer of data outside the EU.

This initiative is part of an EU pilot for supporting and using social media platforms based on open-source software.

Follow us! 🙌

#EuropeanUnion #Mastodon #Fediverse

Ich habe nochmal ausführlicher aufgeschrieben, was hier anders ist als auf #Twitter und wieso es das Leben besser macht - ganz unabhängig davon, dass Elon Musk hier nichts kaputtmachen kann.
Unter anderem lernen wir wieder selbst zu denken und zu entscheiden, was wir wichtig finden. Generell finde ich es spannend darüber nachzudenken, welche Technologien kritisches Denken unterstützen und welche es eher verhindern. Klassische soziale Netzwerke gehören zu letzteren.

https://www.riffreporter.de/de/technik/mastodon-wie-funktioniert-fediverse-altenative-zu-twitter-elon-musk

I've been focused the past few weeks on targeting some core package sets for #reproduciblebuilds in #Debian, and wrote up a summary of the status:

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2022-April/002548.html

It's a long, long #lastmile, but it seems almost within sight! Maybe. I hope.

@reproducible_builds @debian

If you're saying we should ditch #Firefox due to #Mozilla's decisions, this is the world #map you're advocating for. #browser

🔗 https://nitter.net/theworldmaps_/status/1518150533038620672

Doomerism is a subbranch of consumerism where the focus is to get Doom running on different consumer devices

@Tutanota also here:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/email-security-guide-online/

I did infosec trainings for journalists, activists, others who *need* encrypted e-mail service. People like me could be your best advocates.

But this is based on trust, and with that kind of messaging, I simply do *not* trust Tutanota to do a decent job. If you go all clickbaity marketing on this, will you communicate honestly about breaches and risks?

Stop using the h-word to mean "cybercriminals". There's a perfectly good word for that: "cybercriminals".

Researchers Uncover a Hardware Security Vulnerability on Android Phones

https://www.cyberkendra.com/2022/04/researchers-uncover-hardware-security.html

I don't think I've I've posted this before, but the below thread linked is a pretty good overview of Linux accessibility from a veriety of people. I use Fedora myself, but I guess Lint Mate edition is great too. I hate that the OP thinks it might be user error. Young people like her shouldn't be locked out from what turns out to sometimes be a fun experience if you can bang a whole in the wall with your head without killing yourself. #a11y #foss #linux

https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/44298/i-am-having-quite-the-dificulty-with-linux-but-is-it-just-user-error/

@Gargron Yes, there is some analysis that suggests they have a hard time finding the techies to do some of the required work as most tech people are more likely to be in the liberal or libertarian quadrant rather than authoritarian far right.

I’m trying to establish whether this struggle is just a technical one or whether there might be other factors at play (economics, politics, loyalty, factions).