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bernat

@bernat@social.ei8fdb.org

User centred design, Security, Usability, Open Source Software, and Radio (utility and SWL'ing, amateur radio, general appreciation of RF waves) again.

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bernat, to random
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The Tory party, is the party of people with capital, in a country of people (on the whole) who don't have capital.

bernat, to UKpolitics
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My God. Keir Starmer just made me laugh out loud, but in a good way.

Listening to his Today @BBCRadio4 interview just now, and he pitched this cracker when talking about Squishi Rishi and his rain filled election announcement:

"The image of a man saying I'm the only one with a plan, standing in the rain without an umbrella is, to put it politely, farcical."

joelanman, to random
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Go use this thing I designed

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

bernat,
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@joelanman At times like this, it must give you a (well-deserved) kick of pride to have worked on this. 👏

markhughes, to drama
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If you have access to BBC #iPlayer and like a bit of Le Carre, there are seven episodes of A Perfect Spy waiting for you.

These old BBC dramas are gold. Go dig. Oppenheimer was another treat.

Let me know any gems you uncover.

#UKTV #drama

bernat,
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@markhughes Is that the 1987 series?

joelanman, to UX
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Any thoughts on infinite scroll vs button to load more vs next page buttons? In the context of a feed
#ux #accessibility

bernat,
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@joelanman I do remember reading some best practices suggesting load more/next button providing users more control.

This control was particularly needed when the infinite scroll breaks leaving the user marooned:

  1. they have to either refresh the page (and presumably loose their position in the "infinite") or

  2. scroll back up/down/up/down to try and "replicate" the scroll to try and force the page to load the next.

For me it depends on how long you're expecting someone to scroll. HTH

liaizon, to random
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"Roam the Wilderness of Autonomous Social Networks"

Requesting feedback for this as a title for a tour of the fediverse I am giving in September...

bernat,
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@liaizon Nice name. I think that'd work.

Would you like a suggestion for more wilderness-y, forest-y, hiking-y sounding options?

bernat, to random
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How many hours of human brain power are wasted saying "Can everyone see my screen?", in order to making up for the fact that video conference screen-sharing is stress inducing, and tools do a shit job of feedback.

Edent, to android
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🆕 blog! “Inconsistency is a feature, not a bug”

Some of my best friends are designers. But I think we can all agree that - however well-meaning - they can be a little obsessive. Whether it is fretting over tiny details, or trying to align to a grid which doesn't exist, or spending time removing useful affordances in the name of æsthetics - they […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/inconsistency-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/
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bernat,
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@Edent

Ah come on...you mean designers who focus on visual design. I know you know not all design is focused on making thing pretty!

bernat, to privacy
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Do you work in a university? If so, request that they run a Tor node.

It's a good thing to do.

https://toruniversity.eff.org/

jsrailton, (edited ) to egypt
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    bernat,
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    @jsrailton @citizenlab

    Hello Sandvine,

    Blue Coat and Syrian Internet from 2011 called and said they want their shitty Internet censorship business model back.

    bernat, to random
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    I'd like to see the informed consent agreement for this:

    The University of Michigan has "allegedly sold 85 hours of audio recordings from various academic settings including lectures, interviews, office hours, study groups, and student presentations to third parties for the purposes of training artificial intelligence." [...]

    Next, they plan on selling the recorded ramblings of the drunken professor who creepily hangs around the student bar.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-university-of-michigan-is-selling-student-data-to-train-ai

    bernat,
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    "a sample dataset downloaded by The Daily Beast included a recording of a lecture from 1999 making it highly unlikely that they knew their data would be used to train future generative AI models."

    Oh Lordie!

    bernat,
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    “logical progression of data capitalism.”

    “When students are in a class or attending office hours there’s a trust implicit in that relationship,” Logan said. “They’re there to learn.”

    bernat,
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    "Students, ideally, should feel that they are able to try things out and make mistakes in classes, with those mistakes not being available to anyone except the professor," Brett Karlan, an assistant professor of philosophy who researchers AI ethics explained. He added that now the material might end up training AI. "This feels like, if not a fundamental betrayal of the mission of a university."

    sabderemane, to django French
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    Thank you to all who have contributed to make Django more accessible! 💚

    https://fosstodon.org/@django/111911003894220507

    bernat,
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    @sabderemane Good work to you all! 👏

    If you're still looking for some help, let me know when you, Tibo and Tom for that call.

    nojhan, (edited ) to random French
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    The presentation of at was surprisingly successful! I did not foresee that. Room was extra packed. Got a lot of questions and people reaching out with thanks and more questions. Awesome experience for my first contact with the @opensourcedesign community.

    bernat,
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    Hi @nojhan thanks for your talk today. It was very nice. You asked about support to do usability testing. Did you get some help?

    bernat, to random
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    This year, after asking for 6-7 years, our @opensourcedesign devroom will be wheelchair accessible. Good news.

    If you or friends haven't been able to visit our devroom in the past, this year AW1.126 is better.

    bernat, to Magic
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    High-quality photo of making decent coffee with travel coffee machine traveling on a train under the sea, from one country to another, transmitting that high-quality photo via high bandwidth data telecommunications to an open source software social networking system, self-hosted on a computer in someone's house.

    We are truly living in the future.

    bernat,
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    @Alister Always bring hot water when I travel on transport Alister! You never know when you'll be stuck in a train for 48 hours especially in England.

    How are you old bean?

    impactology, to random
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    Folks who follow me on twitter as well, could y'all please report this account?

    Someone is pretending to be me

    https://twitter.com/RaghavAgra10232

    bernat,
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    @impactology Reported it. Have you left shitter for good?

    Edent, to fediverse
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    🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”

    I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…

    👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
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    bernat,
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    @Edent @edent_location

    It certainly does work. There was one thing I noticed that seemed b0rked. That or maybe my client couldn't read it?

    I see the alt text in the location.edent link, but when I try to click the alt text link in my (stock Mastodon web client) it doesn't show. See video:
    https://saneux.ei8fdb.org/s/MKZqAwjRbM3P8pE

    I expected the alt text to be visible in my client, right? Maybe not?

    bernat, to london
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    Dear inhabitants,

    Where can I buy a proper (not flimsy, thin, crappy) hot water bottle?

    I'd even settle with a link to a website.

    It seems to be impossible to find one.

    This is a serious situation.

    Yours,
    Freezin' John Mastodon

    pieceofthepie, to fediverse
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    Is anyone aware of any OSS project that enables Disqus like commenting on static file blogs powered by ActivityPub?

    I've found https://github.com/oom-components/mastodon-comments and https://github.com/dpecos/mastodon-comments which are really close to what I envision.

    What I really want is something more akin to the Wordpress plugin. i.e. a full integration with the protocol. A blog author that can be followed by a Mastodon user etc.

    bernat,
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    @pieceofthepie There is https://commento.io/ / https://github.com/souramoo/commentoplusplus

    It is Disqus like - I don't know if it can be used on static file sites.

    HTH.

    cnx, to random
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    FYI @bernat, thy web site seems to be down.

    bernat,
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    @cnx Oh? Which one? There are a few.

    bernat,
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    Hi @cnx thanks for letting me know. Now fixed that.

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