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Ooh, @Codeberg just updated to @forgejo version 7 and… *ta daa*, the spurious warnings in the code listings for proper curly quotes and other correct – but sadly underutilised – typographical elements in comments and strings are gone!
e.g., see https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/fetchiverse/index.page.js#L9
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Extension Manager is the app GNOME Extensions should be. It not only lets you see already-installed extensions and disable/enable them and access their settings like GNOME Extensions does but, get this… (are you sitting down?) it even lets you browse and install new extensions. I mean, I don’t know why you’d ever want to do that but, hey, I guess this is for all the freaks out there… :)
https://mattjakeman.com/apps/extension-manager
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@LaQuadrature Hey folks, quick question: any idea why the embed of my video at the European Parliament from your PeerTube instance is showing a password field and lock. (I’m on my phone and haven’t had a chance to view source.) Would appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you :)
https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/
Folks think the “embrace” part of embrace, extend, extinguish applies only to the technology itself. It’s doesn’t. It also applies to the people prominent within it. Their legitimacy is essential for it to work. They’re told “come, sit at the big boys’ table with us” and “don’t listen to the naysayers, they’re just jealous of how popular we can make you.”
Last time I experienced this, the person in question who sold out got an OBE out of it. Which is rather fitting, when you think about it. ⌘ Read more
‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest
https://www.inkl.com/a/GWbLWRCokGo
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide [#UnitedStates](https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/UnitedSta … ⌘ Read more
Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
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@fedora@gnome Bug report: GNOME Web cannot display emoji in the URL bar. The URL shown in the video below contains 💕.
[Bug report: @Mastodon Note: video cannot be uploaded due to 422 1000fps videos are not supported error when trying to upload video using standard GNOME screen recorder.]
OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
@Mastodon Bug report:
Uploaded .webm file (see above), appears as GIF in interface and doesn’t play [UPDATE]: under Firefox. CC @mozilla (works in Vivaldi).
@gnome Bug report:
OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
Vivaldi Open dialogue after clicking Choose file on a file input: flickering tooltip.
CC @Vivaldi
@Vivaldi Bug report:
- OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
- DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)
After signing in after sleep, Vivaldi renders at @1x even though my screen is set to @2x.
(Moving the window around or resizing it, etc., re-renders it at the correct resolution.)
C’mon folks, how bad can genocide really be if someone as nice as Biden supports it?
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #USA #UnitedStates [#Biden](https://mastodon.ar.al/ta … ⌘ Read more
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Opposing genocide is antisemitism.
– 2024
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If a democracy can be destroyed by an election that democracy will be destroyed by an election. How do we make our democracies resilient so they aren’t at existential risk every four years? Is it already too late for some? If not, what’s the way forward? Or do we plan for what comes after and a path back?
Capitalism, working as designed.
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Our horrible guy is still better than their terrible guy.
– Democrats, 2024
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #studentProtests #policeBrutality [#USA](https … ⌘ Read more
So what do we need, ideally? The equivalent of VC but for tech for the common good.
Pick ten organisations working the common good and give them €5M each. Let them experiment. Let them pivot. Let them cooperate. The only thing you don’t let them do is exit. You can’t sell. Build something for the commons that will live on for the next ten, twenty, fifty years… if not more.
I said as much 5 years ago at the European Parliament:
[https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/](h … ⌘ Read more
Six years ago we ran a pilot project with the City of Ghent to explore what it would be like for a municipality to provide every citizen with their own place on the web at a domain they (the citizen) owned and controlled.
We prototyped. Everyone loved it. And then? Our budget was cancelled when a conservative local government got elected.
We need long-term funding that’s not privy to the whims of the shifting political winds.
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Wish I could say I was surprised by this but, in my experience, at least, it is par for the course.
We do not have predictable funding for technology for the common good in the EU. We have piecemeal funding for features, etc. What I recently referred to as “begging for scraps” when telling someone why I wasn’t going to apply for their latest round of funding (we’ve applied for and never received any EU funding for our work on the Small Web).
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(Ok, it looks like it’s up again now.) :) ⌘ Read more
“Kosovo boasts an impressive record when it comes to gender and digital inclusion but there is more work to be done—especially in ensuring girls from rural areas and families who receive social benefits have opportunities.
We’ve launched the EmpowerHer! Scholarship program so these girls can realize their dreams. Our scholarships will support 150 girls between 11-18 with technology training courses…”
Please donate, if you can, at [https://kosovaideas.com/product/empowerher/](https://kosovaideas.com/product/empowerher … ⌘ Read more
“…the EDPS regards the pilo project as a great success. It has proven that public institutions such as EU institutions can offer social media platforms that respect the fundamental rights of the individual. They are thus an alternative to the usual platforms that belong to a handful of large players … Or not - because none of the more than 40 bodies, institutions and agencies throughout the EU can be found that want to operate and moderate two servers permanently.”
EU leaving Fediverse (Mastodon & PeerTube) because no one wants to operate the servers
“In recent years, a total of 40 institutions have opened an account with EU Voice, including the EU Data Protection Supervisor, the European Court of Justice and the EU Commission. The video platform, on the other hand, was used by six institutions … the EU institutions were thus the largest group of public institutions in the Fediverse worldwide.”
[https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-und-peertube-eu-macht-fediverse-dicht-weil-ni … ⌘ Read more
“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”
[https://tansyhoskins.org/wages-not-warrants/](h … ⌘ Read more
Oh no, no more tech-bro land-snorkles?
https://www.techspot.com/news/102727-apple-have-slashed-vision-pro-production-canceled-next.html