Amanda Unvarnished

“Every dog has his day,” they used to say. Still, no one was quite prepared that morning Emperor Mister Pickles marched his army into town.

—@batkaren

Y’all may be wondering why I feel so strongly about Linux and FOSS. I’ve thought about it. You know how Mastodon is now a very accessible, for the blind, social network? It wasn’t always like that. But over the years, the open API has meant that blind people have made their own Mastodon clients, like Tweesecake and TWBlue. Sighted people have made their Mastodon clients accessible, like Mona and Tusky. I see so many pictures on Mastodon that has descriptions that I have to remind myself that an actual person spent time out of their day to craft a description for us. And I think to myself, “What if that could happen to Linux?”

#accessibility #foss #linux #blind

—@devinprater

#AudioMo On the afternoon of November 7, 2014, I was at Clearwater Beach, Florida, when I decided to stand in the surf with my Zoom H6 and it’s X/Y microphone capsules, and recorded a few minutes of the ocean waves.
It wasn’t a particularly nice day, kind of overcast, windy and a bit cold for the time of year.

—@BorrisInABox

Responsible disclosure of unpatched vulnerability CVE-2023-1430 in FluentCRM by WPManageNinja (with mitigation patch): https://github.com/karlemilnikka/CVE-2023-1430.

tl;dr Attackers can view and edit contact details in FluentCRM. WPManageNinja hasn’t patched the vulnerability within the 90-day responsible disclosure time window. I provide a mitigation snippet to prevent vulnerability exploitation while waiting for an official patch.

#wordpress #wpmanageninja #fluentcrm #cve20231430

—@karlemilnikka

p.s. Kbin is part of the Fediverse. You can follow Kbin accounts and magazines from Mastodon etc, and follow Mastodon etc accounts from Kbin.

However, the cross-platform federation doesn’t seem to be working properly yet (bear in mind the project is only a few months old!).

There’s also a complication about the Kbin.social server being overwhelmed over the last few days. Kbin.social has had to use Cloudflare to cope with the overwhelming load, which is known to mess up federation.

—@feditips

Wow! 88% of subreddits have gone dark in protest of #Reddit admin policy. I have no idea it was going to be anywhere near this many. They’ve effectively taken down most of the content in Reddit.

Huge props to the community for putting together such an effective protest. No idea if it’ll work, but it’s heartening to see people fight back.

https://reddark.untone.uk/

—@matdevdug

There’s a Fediverse alternative to #Reddit called #Kbin. More info at https://kbin.pub

Still VERY new, not many servers yet, two so far in English:

https://fedia.io
https://kbin.social

No app yet, use it through these sites. Subreddits are called “Magazines”. You can interact with magazines from other servers.

Coders help Kbin at https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core, non-coders donate at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

(Sorry to people bored of this, had many requests to put info in one place)

—@feditips

Some work news: I could not be prouder to have worked with a tremendous coalition of advocates and researchers and my clinic student attorneys on the new #FCC rules for #videoconferencing #a11y, more than a decade in the making. There are serious barriers for deaf, hard of hearing, blind, and low-vision folks to participate in the virtual meetings that have become de rigueur in every part of American life since the pandemic, and we are finally going to get some fixes. 🙌 https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-requires-video-conferencing-accessibility-proposes-asl-support

—@blakereid

I do feel more than a little sympathy for @ernest.

In January he decided to try to build an ActivityPub based messageboard system.

A month ago he decided the code was stable enough that he could release the first alpha version, and stood up https://kbin.social to demonstrate it.

It attracted quite a few users per day and proved that it might just be an exciting new entry into the Fediverse.

And then Reddit’s admins did their thing, and suddenly thousands, millions, tens of millions of users are looking for a new home. And although a few other brave souls have also created kbin instances in the last few days, there’s simply not enough capacity to even begin to cope with all the demand.

#kbin #Fediverse #RedditMigration #Reddit

—@losttourist