JC @jc@librem.one

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
— #FredRogers

Our dogs got toys for Christmas, as usual. Leo wasted no time removing the squeaker from his. But I was quite surprised to find a message hidden inside the toy. #Christmas #dogsOfMastodon

People like to sh*t on Microsoft, but I don't see other big tech companies treating #a11y seriously, not just software, but actually designing and marking adaptive equipment and Accessories for disabled people.

3 people at Xbox and Microsoft came to my house in the UK from Seattle, to give me a XAC (xbox adaptive controller) prototype to help test it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/b/accessible-adaptive-devices-accessories?icid=Cat-PC-Accessories-Hero1-CC3-CTA1-Learn-More-Adaptive-Accessories

#Technology #Tech #Disability #Disabled #Microsoft #Xbox #Accessibility

every time a pine64 product or the framework is described as “open source hardware”, an actual open hardware developer sheds a single perfect tear

@edbott @dak3 @adaitsman

Personally I really think not adding this feature because of cyberbullying doesn't make much sense considering abusers can easily work around this problem by taking a screenshot to quote post. Worse part is, with the screenshot method, the target would have no idea you were talking shit behind their backs.

Also, they're taking away a useful feature because some bad apples could abuse it.

Honestly to me this is a moderation issue, not a technical one. Mastodon remains the only microblogging platform without this basic feature.

Are you looking for a new password manager? Take a look at @keepassxc

+ Open source and cross-platform (Linux/Win/macOS/BSD/iOS/Android)

+ Self-hosted

+ Encrypted database

+ Supports key file & hardware USB key to protect password database

+ Sync with cloud of your choice

+ Free

If you use LastPass this is extremely important news. Attackers have access to all your website URLs and encrypted passwords.

This was effectively their only job and they failed.

This feels somewhat inevitable given how big a prize the LastPass vault is but scary to see happen.

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

The best way to find every AA battery in your home is to need a pair of AAAs.

ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of U.S. TikTok users, including two reporters

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone.

@SwiftOnSecurity on a similar note, for people who want to stream on Twitch or wherever and need good cameras: use your old cell phones and the Iriun app. It's better quality than most webcams and way cheaper

A #FediTip I’m just now starting to understand..and it’s so cool! Last week, I created a #PixelFed account (OpenSource Instagram replacement). I can go into any #Mastodon app and follow any Pixelfed account, and see it’s posting activity in my feed!

It works in the reverse as well. I can follow any Masto account on Pixelfed. It’s like being able to follow Facebook, Instagram and Twitter favorites all in one place. Sweet!

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

Finding people to follow on #Mastodon can be hard! We all hear it. We all feel it. Well, I built a little tool for myself to find new people to follow, and in the spirit of getting feedback I'm sharing it with you all here: https://fedipages.com

#projects #flask #zappa #mongo

Lots of new #Mastodon instances popping up this winter #MastoAdmin #linux #memes

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

Mark your calendars, July 13th-16th SFC will be hosting the first annual FOSSY Conference in Portland, OR! A conference dedicated to the communities of people who use, make and love software freedom. https://fossy.us

AgonLight Open Source Hardware Retro Computer is captured in KiCad and updated by Olimex https://olimex.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/agonlight-open-source-hardware-retro-computer-running-bbc-basic-was-captured-in-kicad-and-updated-by-olimex/ #retrocomputer #bbcbasic #z80 #OSHW #embeded will be available for pre-order next week at special Christmas price of EUR 50 for assembled, programmed and tested board