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silmathoron

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I post mostly in English, about #sustainability, the #EnvironmentalCrisis and the #environment, #SurveillanceCapitalism, and #FLOSS.

I've an alt https://floss.social/@silmathoron where I do the same, only in French.

I tend to boost a lot, so don't hesitate to mute my boosts if you feel overwhelmed (three dots on my profile > "Hide boosts from https://floss.social/@silmathoron")

Most of my posts are automatically deleted after a year.

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stefan, to accessibility
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Interesting to compare the use of alt text based on which apps people use.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/

silmathoron,
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@stefan nice!
How difficult would it be to include the date when the person who posted joined and compute the average "Mastodon age" associated to the groups using each app?
I wonder if there couldn't be a strong confounding factor, namely that early adopters may have used other apps (as the official app was not yet available) and have different practices.
Thus, using something other that the web app or the official app could be strongly correlated with how "old" your presence on Mastodon is.

silmathoron,
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@stefan Cool, this will be much easier than I thought, then!

One other question: how did you choose the list of apps in the highlight? Are these the top apps by numbers or is it something else?

silmathoron,
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@stefan ok, I was just surprised to see only Tusky in the Android apps (are there mostly US-citizens on m.s?)

silmathoron,
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@stefan sure, I just expected to see Fedilab or Subway tooter in the list 😉

ilumium, to bluesky
@ilumium@eupolicy.social avatar

I'm still trying to figure out whether 's departure is a good thing or a bad thing for .

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

silmathoron,
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@ilumium why would it be bad?

silmathoron,
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@Beaver
I don't think we need to entice them. The only reason bank apps are necessary is because they don't use standard 2FA.
What we need is to get legislators like the @EU_Commission to force them to follow standards (so we can use our own 2FA apps or keys, that have been working just fine for decades and are way more secure than some of their "2FA" implementations) and make their websites usable on a mobile browser.

alcinnz, to random
@alcinnz@floss.social avatar

Occasional remainder: individual action vs collective action is a false dichotomy!

What we need to be doing is helping our neighbours live lighter upon this earth of ours, relying less on the capitalist infrastructure. That's how we get change! Not by relying on politicians!

For instance: Have you checked if there's a Repair Cafe local to you? Which you can volunteer for?

(this is a subtoot)

silmathoron,
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@alcinnz
I mostly agree, I'd just nuance the "this is how we get change": pushing for better public policies on transportation, energy, and food is absolutely necessary (and not dichotomous either 😉)

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

I'll need to get an Akkoma account somewhere, won't I.

sigh

silmathoron,
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@rysiek there are major limitations to this, though: many people like their community (the instance their account is on) and moving a whole community to a different server is generally not possible, which means that admins are mostly stuck on whatever software (usually Mastodon) they started with.
And most comunities are on Mastodon at the moment, meaning their is major inertia against moving to other platforms.

sengi_app, to mastodon
@sengi_app@mastodon.social avatar

Hello all, I'm trying something new to get a better vision of users, what you like in the app, what you don't like and miss.

(yes, it's a survey 😶)

You can find it here: https://forms.gle/QbVhVQDnuShfvhUB9

Since it's the first time I'm doing this exercise, don't hesitate to give me any feedback about the process by itself!

Also, boosting for visibility will be highly appreciated. 🙂

silmathoron,
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@bllgvn @sengi_app same, I cannot fill it without a google account apparently

silmathoron,
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@sengi_app while I salute the initiative, I think using gForms is going to seriously limit its usability given the people using Sengi (and the fact that a google account is required to reply).
I think it might be best to redo it with another platform like Cryptpad or Yakforms: https://yakforms.org/pages/explore.html

carol, to random
@carol@floss.social avatar

"Take the bus; don’t buy a car. Fly rarely. Stop ordering random stuff online. Work less. Get to know your neighbors and get some exercise, too. Tax the rich."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-slowing-down-save-the-planet

silmathoron,
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@carol
A good read, though not seeing anything about reducing meat and fish consumption in a piece about "saving the planet" feels a bit weird (as it's the majority of all the non-climate impacts, plus 25-30% of the GHG emissions)

apps, to random
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We are still more focused on fixes and small enhancements.

We keep in mind all your feedback on this thread:

https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/111768170965854275

One big enhancement that we would like to bring for 2024:

  • A mixed home timeline for all your accounts
silmathoron,
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@apps
Thanks for all your work!

Side note: mixed notifications timeline would be even more appreciated in my case ;)

eloquence, (edited ) to threads
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There's a common false dichotomy about : cut them off, or leave it to user choice.

I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server.

  • You can follow Threads accounts after clicking through a warning.

  • You have to manually approve followers from Threads.

Note, however, that boosted posts will continue to appear in your home timeline:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301#issuecomment-1868240966

silmathoron,
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@eloquence
I'm still a bit unclear about the specific consequences of the limit in terms of what the limited instance can access... As far as I could tell, it's still allowed to access everything, so it does not do much in term of preventing Facebook to legally access people's data.
Did I miss something?
If not, that should also be made very clear to your people.

justsoup, to linuxphones
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For the past year and a half I have been daily driving on my Oneplus 6T. Sadly, it seems that my time has been cut short due to the shuttering of 2G towers in my area. Since calling on doesn't work with 4G yet and I require being able to make calls, I am considering switching to either some random Android ROM or maybe a dumbphone without internet access.

Either way, I am sad.

(Yes, I do live in the US. How did you guess?)

silmathoron,
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@justsoup @craftyguy I thought VoLTE was already supported on Linux mobiles (I'm fairly sure the L5 has it, thought the PinePhone had it too, but not sure).
Am I mistaken or is it a specific problem with Android-first devices?

nw, to fediverse
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Is it possible yet to follow a magazine like this on one the ?

https://flipboard.com/@mike/following-the-fediverse-50uv65adz

@mike

silmathoron,
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@mike
I would expect things like kbin to be closer to what Flipboard would need, are there some plans to look in that direction?
@janettespeyer @nw @mike

janriemer, to rust

makes some happy screaming noise :awesome: :ferris:

will end this year with a long awaited feature that will define it's future:

We will get "async fn and return-position impl Trait in trait" ( & ).

It will be stabilized in the next version 1.75, which will be released on 28 December, 2023.

https://releases.rs/docs/1.75.0/

PR:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115822

Thank you Rust for all of your hard work! ❤️

silmathoron,
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@janriemer could you explain in layman's terms what this is about? I skimmed through the PR and related issues but I've no idea why it's such a big deal 😅

silmathoron,
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@janriemer
Tanks, will have a look.
I don't know the first thing about rust and have limited knowledge about async, but this is a good occasion to dig a bit about both.
Stack vs heap already tells me a bit why it's a welcome change, though!
@matze @notgull

silmathoron, to linux
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Question for the and communities: if I want to send some money into the development of the linux accessibility stack, are there specific organizations or people that I can donate to?

Note that I want this money to specifically fund accessibility work, so a general donation to GNOME, for instance, is not what I am looking for ;)
(of course for individual people I do not expect them to dedicate 100% of their time to accessibility).

k9mail, to android

Hi K-9 Mail community! This is a reminder that we'll be retiring this account next month, when K-9 Mail transforms into for .

So please go follow @thunderbird to stay in touch and get future updates. Thanks for being on this journey with us!

(YES, Thunderbird for Android will be on @fdroidorg)

If you missed the news, here's the original announcement: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/

And here's where to find our monthly development updates: https://blog.thunderbird.net/category/thunderbird-mobile/

silmathoron,
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@k9mail @thunderbird thanks for the heads up, and glad to hear it will be on F-droid :)

strypey, to chat
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I finally got around to testing a bunch of GNU/Linux chat apps that support the @matrix protocol. Not one of them was suitable for production use;

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/can-trisquel-11-please-replace-pidgin-21st-century-chat-client#comment-174442

... which I'm presuming means there still isn't a functional Matrix client for mobile GNU devices like the PinePhone and Librem5.

silmathoron,
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@strypey @matrix it's likely you were using old versions (in addition to old apps, for several of them).
Current nheko is quite good, and I think NeoChat and Fractal have seen significant progress, though I haven't tested them recently.
FluffyChat is also available as a flatpak and works decently.

silmathoron,
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@strypey
Until these debian-stable-based distros start proposing flatpak by default, yes.

I mostly meant that

> I'm presuming means there still isn't a functional Matrix client for mobile GNU devices like the PinePhone and Librem5.

was not the right thing to conclude from your experience ;)

silmathoron,
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@strypey sure, as I said, nheko and Fluffychat work just fine and I heard Fractal and NeoChat are also good.

silmathoron,
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@strypey yes, that's the direction Purism is taking with their PureOS, flatpak can use any repo, it's a bit like like f-droid.
Some distros like Fedora already have their own flatpak repo https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/flatpaks/*

silmathoron,
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@strypey that's the beauty of it, they are both good desktop and mobile clients ;)

thunderbird, to firefox
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For those of us receiving email in multiple languages, it would be awesome to have Translate built in to Thunderbird. No sending your sensitive conversations to a corporate cloud, just a lean translation service running locally.

We've decided to make it a development priority for Q1 2024!

You'll be able to track the progress via this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823007

But as always, we'll also keep you posted right here.

silmathoron,
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@thunderbird sounds great! Just don't forget to not do the same mistake as @FirefoxNightly and only put a one-time notification to tell people about the new feature with a "got it" button that dismisses it for good.
Don't give us an "always ask for translation" default that makes people mad because they don't know how to remove it (digital literacy is still quite low and parameter buttons on these dialogs are quite small).
I don't want to have to manually check it out for my whole family again!

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