Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@masukomi @webrecorder

yep, we can save all kinds of peripheral stuff like "threads i participated in" or whatever, but can't predict the things we want to look up next week. impossible problem.

one of the reasons i've been interested in IPFS is that content addressing as a primitive allows *loose* coordination down the road, for those kinds of content systems.

there's no universe where anything HTTP+DNS gets us future-protective publishing, let alone coordination+linking.

Cool idea for art schools: block IPs of Adobe license verification servers for one week each semester to simulate the future.

Just a reminder that leaving content in closed platforms is a good way to lose it. Take some time *this week* to move your key information out of Slack, Discord, Reddit, Google Docs, etc. and into text files or html pages on the open web for folks to find.

Always Be Opening.

📢 Funding opportunity!

We're thrilled to launch the Open Infrastructure Fund pilot, which offers 5-25k USD to projects worldwide that strengthen resilience + increase adoption of #openinfrastructure underpinning research & scholarship.

We are committed to reserving at least 60% of the funds available to applicants working in/services widely adopted in Low and Middle Income Economies (LMIEs).

Applications are accepted in both Spanish and English.

Find out more at https://investinopen.org/blog/open-infrastructure-fund-pilot-cfp/

"Instead of everything having to go to Amazon East in order to share a cat picture, we can instead discover each other on our local network and exchange data directly with each other. So taking peer-to-peer protocols and mashing them with mesh networks makes both of these systems more resilient and powerful." - @mauve

Learn more about local-first software by watching Mauve's talk: https://youtu.be/rSvj_NQ5rho #localfirstsoftware #p2p

I wonder if we're going to see fewer social media startups in the future try formats where communities can self-organize, since the best way keep the end user powerless is probably algorithmic feeds.

The only good anti-homeless architecture is a home 😤

✨ Import from Instagram

Now available! 🥳

PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4466

Docs: https://pixelfed.social/site/kb/import

Thanks again to @NGIZero for funding this amazing feature! #instagramImport

Along with the strike on #reddit, the organizing of volunteer moderators and contributors on #StackExchange feels like more and more people are realizing that it is their labour which makes these digital places so useful.

It is digital labour, social labour, cultural labour and knowledge labour being exploited by commercial platforms. Organizing and strikes are important steps in realizing this relationship of exploitation.

Feminist thinkers have a lot to say about the exploitation of social work, especially if it is unpaid and framed as not being work at all. Laurel Ptak once made a clever remix of the "Wages Against Housework" manifesto from the 1970s. Ptak called it "Wages for Facebook", and in it she writes:

> By denying our facebook time a wage while profiting directly from the data it generates and transforming it into an act of friendship, capital has killed many birds with one stone. First of all, it has got a hell of a lot of work almost for free, and it has made sure that we, far from struggling against it, would seek that work as the best thing online.

http://wagesforfacebook.com

ssh is so fucking cool. wireless is so fucking cool. I type some shit in my computer and it screams invisible light to the computer next to me. the same light I see, it sees too, just in a different spectrum.
and then it screams to the void. and, from far far away, something hears, and responds. and their language is color and light, and their words are so fast that they are imperceptable to our world, in the glow of a fading summer sun
all of that to relay a command to a device a meter away
all of that to communicate another nothing

@mcc @gzrrt @nyc
off, sorry :)
usually i shorten mastodon.social as 'social', but hear me out

So, here is an example:

https://lemmy.film/post/11983

I would like to "boost" this post on my Mastodon account. I can't… figure out how. With Mastodon statuses on remote servers, I can paste an URL in the "Search or paste URL" box. That doesn't work. So I don't know what else to do.

So, if I (a relative power user who builds her own bespoke Mastodon Android client) can't figure this out, the ActivityPub interop promise is failing. But, never mind that. Is there a cheat code to make this work?

#Reddit just banned a subreddit that helped people find alternatives to their platform. The platform in question is https://kbin.social. I encourage everybody to check it out.

#RedditBlackout #Redditapi #redditd #federated #lemmy #kbin #redditAlternative

This whole thread on #a11y on Linux is really sad to read. I think there’s a few things getting lost there, like how Sun used to pay a whole team of engineers to work on accessibility for GTK2, or how X wasn’t designed to enable accessibility but just happened to not get in the way of it because it had no concept of isolating clients. Wayland not having put much thought into enabling accessibility needs sucks a lot.

Even for me, the decline of accessibility on the Linux desktop is noticeable. My eyesight is currently good enough that I don’t need Orca etc. but I do use it at times. It allows me to use a computer but give my eyes some rest. Especially GTK4 apps are hard to deal with. This also makes any Linux-based phone a likely no go for me in the end.

When it comes to Qt, yeah it’s great that they have a plan and all. People love to point that out. “KDE has a plan, Gnome just closes issues.” But a plan and welcoming input on it doesn’t translate to accessible software today and it doesn’t look like much implementation progress is happening on that front. The plan will soon be old enough to vote.

This is also the reason I’m really not excited about everyone’s custom GUI toolkit and a “ya we’ll plonk accessibility onto it later”. I’m hoping AccessKit becomes viable at some point, but it’s a difficult thing to get right especially across platforms.

The reality is that probably even for myself, I will find myself back on macOS as I get older. Unless IBM, Canonical, SuSE etc. pull a Sun and fund an accessibility team for the Linux desktop again. I don’t strictly need a screen reader, but at some point at least having the option to use VoiceOver is going to outweigh my desire to use a free desktop.

https://tech.lgbt/@xogium/110507457689374019

What can I add... the job market is kinda abysmal right now. A ton of companies have done substantial layoffs over the last few weeks and a lot of folks at all experience levels are looking all at once in the US.

Cybersecurity is still a substantially more stable space than a lot of other IT fields. My heart breaks for a lot of development roles right now. However, if you have something that is stable but just okay, I'd recommend sticking with it for the next year or so unless you have a solid and guaranteed move. The economy and investment is going to take a while to recover. Also, plan to have to move if you are part of layoffs. Have a resume ready to go, and a safety net of some sort and a plan if you are able to. Take care of your mental health.

If you're a student, I'm really sorry. I graduated during the last recession and I truly understand this is awful. Strongly suggest you target a specific niche and skillset within cybersecurity that is in higher demand and less competitive, and consider moving to something more specific later. Have your resume reviewed by a hiring manager and a professional editor. Participate in networking and in-person community events as much as you can. Meet people. Everything gives you an advantage!