Happy to see my tax money well-spent 😊🥳

Apparently accessibility fixes in Mastodon were largely sponsored by the Dutch government. Public money funding public code benefitting us all, regardless of where you live or your nationality. Awesome!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Almost forgot...well done & congrats on release 4.6 @Mastodon people & floss contributors 🎂🫶 🎉

#OpenSource #Mastodon #FLOSS #DigitalAutonomy #Accessibility

Das ist halt peak #WienLiebe

Man geht laufen in den Schlosspark Schönbrunn und hat überraschend Musikbegleitung, weil die Wiener Philharmoniker gerade für das Sommernachtskonzert proben.

A major new version of Mastodon's server software (v4.6.0) has just been released 🥳 You can find out more at:

➡️ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6

Some highlights:

- Collections (starter packs)
- Newsletters (following by email)
- Export/import of filters
- Longer account display names
- Alt text on profile pictures & headers
- Simplified profile editing on web interface

...and lots more. Techy people might want to check out the full changelog at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0

#FediTips #Mastodon

My work team was meant to go into the office today. Its meant to be one day per week and its "to foster cooperation and team working" and all the usual bullshit.

Quite a lot of people didn't go in, me included. One guy was hired fully remote and lives in Scotland and the office is in London.

The office is all hotdesks allocated by first come first served so the people who did go in could not sit near their colleagues.

FFS

Some years ago, I needed to get an visa for urgent travel to China, a process that required me to fly down to SF and stand in a very long line at the Chinese consulate. When I finally handed the woman there my forms, she promptly stamped them and said "you need to take these to Window 2", pointing around the corner. So I walked around the corner...

...where *the same woman* swiveled her chair around and proceeded to check the stamp that she had just applied.

I would have been annoyed if I wasn't in so much awe at discovering the purest form of bureaucracy.