Kelson (Tech and Testing)
@KelsonTalksTech@snac24.keysmash.xyz
The dangerous Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA now has a House version, and some lawmakers are seeking to attach the bill to must-pass legislation. Legislation of this magnitude deserves to pass—or fail—on its own merits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill
FediTest is progressing. Major update this week.
Blog post: https://feditest.org/blog/2024-04-30-update/
Want to try the work-in-progress? https://feditest.org/docs/quickstart/
@feditest glad to see TAP is not dead... Besides Perl, I've used it over a decade ago for C unit testing.
More recently I wrote my own Bash tap library, fairly simple but pretty neat IMHO (they are plenty out there but I particularly like mine of course).
I just wish it was better supported by some popular languages.... Just one parser for all test scripts.
I'm working on a spreadsheet to monitor which organizations, celebrities and other major accounts have truly made the exit from X, and where they're going.
I'm not tracking dual-posters, or people who've said they'll quit but actually haven't.
As this list fills up, I hope it'll make it easier for others to do the same.
https://bit.ly/eXit (redirects to Google Spreadsheet)
If you'd like to help & get edit access, send me a private mention. Or just reply with any additions!
Hi @eloquence,
Both GÉANT - the collaboration of European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) - and SURF - the Dutch Research and Education Network have announced their X-its this week 
Both the organisations have been on Mastodon for quite some time already 
@geant @SURF
Please see https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/29/geant-is-ceasing-activities-on-x-fka-twitter
Hey #Android users: What are some of your favorite mobile apps, be they native android or PWAs?
Please boost!
@jcrabapple
The ones I use the most would be #Vivaldi, #FairEmail and #Moshidon, followed by YR weather app.
Like the most would be #OrganicMaps, #NewPipe and #VLC, with #fdroid as a both yes and no, because the app itself is annoying to use (half of which is probably Android limitations), but I wouldn't want to depend on Google.
@leeloo @jcrabapple the Client design has not seen many changes for years, as there's a lot of work done on the inner workings. Can you convey what you find annoying in the latest 1.19.1?
@fdroidorg @jcrabapple
- Needing to install one update at a time - but that's an Android limitation, my old tablet was rooted so I could install the privileged extension, that solved that problem. Unfortunately I can't root my current tablet.
- The search button does not focus the text box.
- "Your apps are up to date", refresh, 7 apps needs updates. Don't say my apps are up to date before checking. (Reminds me of Windows Update, which has the same problem).
- Hitting "back" from settings closes the app instead of taking me back to "latest" or where I was before pressing settings. This is probably following some Android design guideline, but I much prefer Moshidons way of doing it, where back from any other tab takes me to the home tab, and only closes the app if I'm already on the home feed.
- And I'm missing a way to select which one to install when an app is available from multiple repositories, but I believe that's being worked on.
@leeloo @jcrabapple Thank you for your feedback!
@leeloo @jcrabapple Maybe this helps a bit:
- Android 12 or later should autoupdate
- make sure autoupdate is toggled on and both data sliders are to the right
And yes, the keyboard and back button issues are known and annoy us too :)
@fdroidorg @jcrabapple
Not really, I think being still on Android 9 and 11 means I'm not getting any more updates.
And hopefully make this one something that will be less distracting.
Still going to post some tech stuff here though.
The Browser Company has finally launched the Windows version of its Arc web browser, following a successful testing phase. The new version retains core features from the Mac version, offering up a fresh alternative to Chrome or Edge https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/5/the-browser-company-finally-launches-the-windows-version-of-the-arc-web-browser/
Fedi-friends: if you get value from the fediverse, please consider donating to support your instance. Most instances are completely volunteer run and funded via donations. Some instances charge a fee to have an account, and that model likely works well. I, and many others, believe that it’s important for people who may not be able to afford it to have a social connection.
If you are able to, and not already doing so, I ask you to please consider supporting your instance. I am extremely fortunate to have generous members, however not instances are so fortunate, so here I am, asking on their behalf.
I appreciate all of you and hope you have a great week.
Over the past few months I've seen an increasing number of personal attacks levied against well-intentioned unpaid and under-paid community leaders in the Fediverse, in what seems to be an increasing cycle of anger and harassment.
Motivation aside, personal attacks and causing harm to others is unacceptable. I'd like to see what we can collectively do to calm the waters.
Here's my personal thoughts, not reflective of any entity or organisation I am affiliated with:
When I delete a photo on my phone using Google Photos, it gets renamed as .trashed_blahblahblah...which Nextcloud sees as a new file, and uploads it again. 🤦
(This is separate from the desktop sync client, which in my experience works just fine!)
Going to have to try out some other gallery apps. I want to get off of Google Photos eventually anyway.
On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.
Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!
You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html
I mean, obviously, for text-only clients, but still....
@KelsonTalksTech the first time we fixed the bug, the patch sank into the swamp
second patch also sank into the swamp
third patch was struck my lightning, caught fire, burned down, and *then* fell into the swamp*
but the fourth patch *stayed*
Among other things, having it point to an account I don't use anymore seems like a bad idea.
New tech tip on my website:
This is very much a corner case on top of another corner case, but on the off-chance someone else encounters the same issue, I hope this makes it easier for you to fix it.
Empty AJAX Replies Working on ColdFusion But Not Lucee
TL;DR: ColdFusion and Lucee have different defaults for the return type: text/plain vs. text/xml. And if you send out an empty 200 OK as text/xml, some front-end code will try to parse the void as XML and fail.
So you have to explicitly tell Lucee to return that empty content as plain text, so that the front end (in this case it was jQuery) will happily accept an empty string and actually look at the return code.
#ColdFusion #Lucee #Programming #void #WebDevelopment #WebDev #CFML #jQuery
It failed to reach Flickr because it went through as a note rather than a photo, and the Bluesky autopost only included the title and raw URL...and the URL wasn't clickable.
For Flickr, it could just be that I didn't include the u-photo class on the image.
https://brid.gy/about#picture
I'm going to add that and retry.
And then take a look at whether it's the plugin or the service that's setting the content.
Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.
FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable
Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes.
1. The Arch dependencies for some of the optional components were broken (wmenu requires dmenu, but the package didn't say so).
2. The Arch documentation for Sway is out of date and sends you to AUR for just about everything.
3. The documents I found didn't make it clear that key bindings are the only way to launch things unless you explicitly add some other kind of launcher that's not in the sample config. Or what to expect when changing the menu config. Or what the menus are supposed to look like.
4. Because of the broken dependencies, even when I tried to use the keybinds, they failed silently. For a while I wasn't even sure it was reading my config file.
And now I'm like...why did I go to all that trouble? All I wanted was to make sure I had all the prerequisites to run a basic Wayland session on something lighter than Plasma. I'm just going to switch back to LXQt.
I miss the days when #Linux seemed to actually run deterministically. When I could see what was breaking easily and fix it easily.
I don't miss all the extra fiddling and trial and error just to get something functional.
Sure, I like tinkering. When I want to. I don't like to have to.
Biden signs bill to ban TikTok if Chinese owner ByteDance doesn’t sell
Bill gives ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok or app loses access to US market.
@arstechnica You can always tell the TikTok users from the non-TikTok users in threads like these.
Paying for it doesn’t make it a market
Cory Doctorow, nailing it as usual.
If you care about how people are treated by platforms, you can't just tell them to pay for services instead of using ad-supported media. The most important factor in getting decent treatment out of a tech company isn't whether you pay with cash instead of attention – it's whether you're locked in, and thus a flight r
https://www.osnews.com/story/139393/paying-for-it-doesnt-make-it-a-market/
