Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.
Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.
@ricci I wish this would also separate the extensions and their settings. For example, I could have a container tab just for Google services which has the ad blocker disabled, while it’s on in every other tab
The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.
I would like to connect with the #accessibility dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.
I've made another post with a link to a more shareable and complete description of the project and needs. It also includes descriptions of other smaller projects in need to adoption alongside or separately
@marcas learned this as a young child in Florida. It works , swim parallel to the shore until you can easily swim in.might be a long walk back to your family but you will get back.
@marcas
Drowning does not look like what most people think drowning should look like — I grew up at the seashore and spent several years as a lifeguard at both the beach and at pools. This now decade old article is a fine partner to your illustration of a rip current.
Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:
A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.
Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply more likely to file bugs.
Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA
"A recent study performed on the University of Toronto campus with participants selected by responding to a flier offering $5 for participation, revealed that 92% of all Canadians are students at University of Toronto…"
(This is a joke; I suspect sociologists have some way of correcting for this already)
(EDIT: Note I am not saying I believe the way sociologists have of correcting for it works.)
"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.
@ScarbirGaming@alal@dinodroid@gamesbymanuel imagine all the income lost by people buying books in the old times and not paying for every single readthrough after their initial one.
and then even borrowing it to friends! and after they don't need it anymore, they donate it to a library or one of these public book shelves!
while we are at public libraries, don't even get me started with those. truly horrifying how much money has been destroyed by them.
@Archie8 Honestly, fix anything. Fix your car, fix your bike, fix your television, fix your computer and teach everyone else how to do it to. Fix your house. Fix your kids favorite toy. Fix your jeans that you ripped while fixing your roof. Fix all the 🤬ing things. And maybe we can fix society, too.
@Archie8 I love how it's trying to paint all these activities as bad things.
What if the town square doesn't need to be monetized?
What if capitalism actually erodes social structures & works counter to safe and happy social spaces?
There's still room for the town square to host street patties & marketplaces where local independent creators can sell their products & services, like a Saturday Market for the fediverse?
Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!
The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:
"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."
It is common ground that the #bbc has published #transphobic material and that this ought to cease. Defining a large and rather diverse organisation as a transphobic group would take us down a dangerous road - certainly one I would hesitate to take. Knee jerk reactions tend to backfire wherever they come from. I just would prefer to see a #bbc which could no longer be called transphobic rather than see it #defunded and replaced by #GBnews and others.
I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.
And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.
@bittner That's just it - I have no fundamental problem with ads but I take a hard line on trackers. Trackers are not ads. Maybe at one point the blockers were mainly about ads. The blockers shifted focus to trackers as ads morphed into surveillance and the creepiness and danger that trackers pose was recognized. Ads stopped being about selling goods and services to meet someone's needs and more about harvesting their personal data and behavior. Any possible user benefit however minor evaporated once serving ads was no longer the goal. Reframe the message as "We see you are protecting yourself from surveillance and data mining..." and the guilt of using abusive software shifts from the reader to the site.