João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Hey #newbies! Don't worry about how mastodon works. Just join and play. Don't worry about what 'instance' (server) you can swap later. Just come and chat. No algorithm, no suggested stuff, no ads, just us!

Toot = tweet
Boost = retweet
Star = star
Bookmark = bookmark

Added excitement, content warnings for scary shit and NSFW shit. Oh and image descriptions and the choice to hide images.
#Twexit #TwitterMigration

O Hub do Beato deixou de o ser, pensar que houve acessores ou empresas de comunicação a receber bom dinheiro por esta ideia... 🦄🙄

The next release of #Mastodon will be numbered 4.0 and the release candidate will be available soon.

It's nice to discover that what looked like a #bent frame is just a misaligned rear wheel.
I flipped the wheel, and the gap moved to the other side.

Then I used the string method: https://sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html
Looks even!

Adjusting spokes is lower stakes than trying to unbend the main part of the #bike.

#cycling #repair #maintenance #mechanics

A short writeup on how you can use the #Librem5 's #smartcard reader for single-sign-on using #Kerberos and #PKINIT. No need to save any credentials on the phone: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Kerberos_authentication_on_the_Librem_5.html

#gnome #phosh #librem5 #kerberos

there's a neat little easter egg in the latest @shiftphones SHIFT6mq bootloader which you can get from fwupd. you can enable it with "fastboot oem enable-mainline-optimization"

yes, the SHIFT6mq gets official bootloader updates on @postmarketOS!

https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS/109121124776611512

RT @crim_tweets_

#OpenRefine needs help to improve its #Windows and #MacOS #packaging. We want to make it easier to install the tool on those platforms. We use #Java #Maven #Launch4j and #Appbundle. Do you know someone who can help? RTs appreciated! https://openrefine.org/blog/2022/09/30/windows-macos-packaging.html

Oh, there were other angles

@ejk @ccppurcell
Search is effectively disabled across all of Mastodon. You can search for people and hashtags, but you cannot search content.

This was an explicit decision based on how search on other platforms has been abused to enable stalking and harassment.

It's a difficult balance, discoverability vs "protection".

There are ways to semi-circumvent it, but broadly, there is no wide-spread search for content, which is why heavy use of #hashtags is encouraged.

@christianp

Good morning little street.

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#65 Officially Deprecated
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/10/twig-65/

#GNOME #TWIG

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.