The first beta of #Mastodon 4.2.0 is now available for testing! There are too many improvements to count. See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1

Release v4.2.0-beta1 路 mastodon/mastodon

鈿狅笍 This is a beta release! This is primarily aimed at server administrators who are willing to report issues, and may be less reliable than stable releases, although it is still tested on mastodon....

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Coming soon in #Mastodon v4.2.0:

馃憖 3rd-party JavaScript spyware loaded without users' consent.

#MastoAdmin #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/25019

Add optional hCaptcha support by ClearlyClaire 路 Pull Request #25019 路 mastodon/mastodon

Add optional hCaptcha support based on glitch-soc#1665 and glitch-soc#1667, largely rewriting prior work at glitch-soc#1323 Whenever the environment variables HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY and HCAPTCHA_SITE_...

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@downey @MastodonEngineering I said, they don't really care about us anymore.
@downey @MastodonEngineering but it's true we could argue about DeepL translation feature too, if we take this as we take it.
@gmate8 Somewhat. We use a self-hosted LibreTranslate but AFAIK content is only sent to the translation server when the user clicks the "Translate" link right? At least there is a bit of user autonomy there, as opposed to this new captcha that records PII automatically without warning or affirmative steps by users.
@downey LibreTranslate's cool, wish it was available in hu
But even lingva could be an option somewhat
@downey checked LibreTranslate again and it seems like now it has 馃嚟馃嚭! Cool.
@gmate8 Id艖 telep铆teni!
@downey you have always wholesome replies

@gmate8 if you're saying Hungarian, it's already in the argos language models used by LT. 脡lvezze!

https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate

GitHub - argosopentech/argos-translate: Open-source offline translation library written in Python

Open-source offline translation library written in Python - argosopentech/argos-translate

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