Kind: Likes

dirty deeds done for a reasonable price

—@wandrew

I’ve been working with a Signal developer to improve the #accessibility of the desktop app, and I think it’s getting to a usable state (at least on Windows). There are sounds for chats in the current window now, and messages are list items (and also articles) so they can be reached easily. There are also a few keyboard shortcuts to jump to the oldest unread message, jump to the composer, and navigate to various sections of the app. I’ll be addressing some of the remaining issues, such as the chatty conversation windows and the fact you can tab to every single message in the history. If anyone has feedback on #screenreader accessibility of the current beta, I can pass it along. I haven’t tested it on MacOS or Linux yet. The beta is here: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318471-Signal-Beta

—@simon

Alright, this is priceless – this is why we say that the #Fediverse is magical!

So, @kraft who works at Automattic (creator of WordPress) pops in to check out #Calckey. We start a chat about how they have a “Share to Mastodon” button, but that doesn’t cover the richness of platforms in the Fediverse. Bam, less than 12 hours later, Automattic are officially discussing how they could implement a “Share to the Fediverse” button, connecting the rest of the platforms potentially to hundreds of millions of websites using WordPress.

Is that something, or what?

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9eo1cd3vxj

—@panos

Coffee tables aren’t in fact made out of coffee, and that’s why I have trust issues

—@cerealtendencies

some shit is about to go down

—@UncleDuke1969

FedEx has a new RESTful API. Great! We’re migrating to it at work. Finally, we can throw out SOAP and XML, and use JSON. Great! FedEx didn’t release any client libraries for this, not even in popular languages like PHP or Java. Annoying, but okay. Request a response, and you get headers and JSON. Great! Exactly what you’d expect. But what’s this? If your request results in an error, you get… You get… GZIP? Why? FedEx, why are you compressing 200 bytes of error data? WHY????

—@alexhall

ok, like, you can’t ask people to opt out of features which can cause disorientation and other epileptic symptoms. this is usability 101.

telling me there is some checkbox that you can check to make misskey turn off animations is missing the point.

the checkbox should be to *opt into that feature*.

—@ariadne

‘You almost feel like the blog post announcement is a cry for help from the team of engineers who built this, as it practically screams out “Elon demanded we get this done, and look, this was the best we could do in the period of time he gave us”‘ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/twitter-launches-not-actually-encrypted-encrypted-dms/

—@burritojustice

How is your friday going?

I am getting dangerously close to reading a manual.

—@jonoabroad

Twitter’s announcement of so-called “end-to-end encrypted” direct messages is complete garbage and an exercise in gobbledygook. Here’s the major caveats:

1. It’s not available to all Twitter users — you must be subscribed to Twitter Blue
2. It must be deliberately opt-in for use
3. You can only send encrypted messages to people who follow you
4. Does not work with groups
5. Only works with text or links — don’t even think of encrypting photos!
6. Where are these messages being stored?

With all those caveats, why use Twitter’s end-to-end encryption at all?

Even Elon Musk doesn’t trust this feature right now. He’s said, “try it, but don’t trust it yet.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/05/11/musks-long-promised-encrypted-messages-finally-launch-on-twitterwith-major-caveats/?sh=65495f4070a5

@socialmedianews@venera.social

—@atomicpoet

It amazes me when people toss around scary percentages around youth identifying themselves as queer as proof of anything other than increased awareness leading to younger people actually finding out there are words they can use to describe themselves.

It’s like left-handedness. Look at that spike! OMG! It’s an epidemic! People are *making* other people left-handed! We need to stop it somehow!

Or, y’know, we stopped demonizing it and people got to be themselves. Could be that.

—@NathanBurgoine

Want to make a bet about when CNN hosts a White Power Hour with Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska? They can call it a town hall and have Jake Tapper ask questions.

That fits, right? After all CNN put Kaitlan Collins on a stage with a know sex abuser. Anything to appeal to the worst of humanity in the name of “ratings”. #RSSFeed
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CNN Boss Faces Internal Furor Over Trump Town Hall – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2023/05/cnn-boss-faces-internal-furor-over-trump-town-hall/

—@jan

Hi there, it’s LinkedIn. We’ve compiled a list of the least relevant posts on the entire Internet and we think your email box at 3 AM is the perfect place for them

—@mcc

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

if it’s called catnip because cats love it, then pizza is now Tillynip

I will not be taking questions at this time

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

—@tillybridges

Twitter’s new bluecheck-only encrypted DMs are about what you’d expect. I have *so* many questions about those keypair boundaries, but my favorite part was them just punting on PFS because, well, it’s easier that way.

—@kennwhite

Me: I never have any time to do any of the things because of how busy life is. 😭

Also me: Every spring finds time to watch 45 hours of playoff hockey every week. 🍻

—@iChris

Twitter DMs are encrypted in the same way that Tesla cars are self driving.

—@carnage4life

Remember — don’t let ANYONE ruin your day. Don’t empower them. It’s YOUR day. Ruin it by yourself.

—@spaf