Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
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🎉 We have a new release! 🎉
It ships with features that have been brewing for a while: we are pushing use cases that blend peer discovery with a novel app model called Web Tiles.
All the details about this release are at https://capyloon.org/releases.html#jun-09-2023
A quick overview:
1. Device discovery is now more user friendly and integrated in the contacts and sharing apps.
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PeerTube, the Fediverse's alternative to YouTube, is normally associated with video. However, you can also upload audio files directly to PeerTube. It will accept lots of audio formats including .mp3, .ogg, .aac, .flac, .wma etc.
You can optionally upload an image file as a thumbnail. If not, audio files will show a black screen by default.
You can find out more about PeerTube at https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/
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Don’t get me heckin’ started on places which make their websites a nightmare to use or make the interface suck when you’re not logged in. No, Reddit, I don’t want to use your app. I’m here in a browser on purpose; you don’t have to ask me every page-load. Freaking set a cookie and stop bothering me. If I *were* going to use an app, it would be Apollo, but apparently you can’t stand how much better their app is than yours and are trying to kill them now?
Enshitification sucks so badly. Ugh.
Are there any #blind folks that use #ChromeOS and their ChromeVox screen reader? I was wondering if it suites their needs. I don't have a chromebook to test at the moment but I'm thinking of alternatives to raw linux and that's top on my list.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/accessibility/os/chromevox.md
:abreath:🌬️
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Wouldn't it be funny if all the workers of the world were to unite? Like as a bit
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“Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue.” At this point, developers shouldn’t build their apps against commercial APIs. Open standards or nothing; the risk is too great. #Technology https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
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Linux GUI
But, enough about GTK. I'm now moving on to xorg and wayland.
Xorg was good. It was buggy, it was not especially secure for various things, but it worked. More importantly, it allowed the screen reader to perform relatively good.
Wayland, on the other hand, is the complete oposite. Oh sure it works for general use. But the minute you try to use mouse emulation to click on an element of the interface, be it on a website or in a program, orca crashes. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Orca is now no longer allowed to provide a clipboard, either. The excuse the wayland folks gave was security. Applications that lack a window, focused window at that, will not be allowed to use the clipboard. Well, guess what? To be able to copy the content of a window for example an error message to share it with people for assistance, one needs to focus that window. Not orca. Oh, and by the way, it's been *years* orca has had a window.
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Linux GUI
So, at the beginning, Linux started with console only for us blind folks. It is only in 2007 or so that the GUI really started taking off. Back in the days of gnome 2, the accessibility was extremely impressive. The UI was fluid, and every program in ubuntu (that's what I was using back then) was seemingly designed with accessibility in mind. Reality was probably different, but to me, it seemed this way. I loved it. Ubuntu 8.10 was the first Linux I ever used. Of course, QT was not even on the table yet when it came to accessibility, but, it was the glorious days of GTK.
I'm kind of surprised that this forum for figuring out ActivityPub specifications requires account creation instead of supporting ActivityPub.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-1b12-group-federation/2724
I'm entering my chameleon era. I just got my new head mounted display in the mail and have a separate screen and each eye with different windows. I'm practicing switching between reading one or the other and overlapping windows in the same space and my vision
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Join @mauve next week at #DWebYYZ in #Toronto talking about p2p and their work on the Agregore p2p browser.
Thurs, June 15th. Thanks Max & Serena from 1RG for hosting! https://lu.ma/ji5oo2gv
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Interesting find:
"Despite Mastodon’s decentralized architecture, we found that the 25% of the largest instances on Mastodon contains 96% of the users.
Paradoxically, while larger instances attract more users, smaller ones attract more active users, reinforcing Mastodon’s decentralization."
...We observed the impact of social network in migration, with an average of 14.72% of Twitter followees per user migrating to the exact same Mastodon instance as user."
Honestly it'd be nice to be able to delegate more stuff to folks. I feel like my physical body is kinda limited for getting stuff done compared to being able to describe how stuff should be done to others.
Kinda miss having a team I could work with to parallelize feature development.
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The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…
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The new ".zip" domain is being used almost solely for malware. Some of the clicks are very deceptive, even to technically knowledgeable people. See the attached image for an example.
You can block all zip domains with the following uBlock Origin rule under My Filters:
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Tell everyone you know.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.
Joined Apr 2022
