Mastodawn

Head's up, the "you must confirm your profile" scam is proliferating on the Fediverse. I wonder if they are trying to gather driver's licenses and credit card numbers? It's a scam.

#scam #MastoAdmin #cybersecurity

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Jun 27

Fedi.Tips Jun 25

If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server

The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.

Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.

Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.

#FediTips #Fediverse

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Jun 19

aaron Jun 19

I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice — fireborn

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Jun 15

I saw this at Stockholm Central station. The EuroNight train between Berlin and Stockholm has vehicle issues. They don't even go all the way to Berlin Hbf.
Hopefully, my next trip to Germany will not be like that

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Jun 10

Baldur Bjarnason Jun 9

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 May 28

Liam Erven May 27

Linux nerds. I need to burn an SD card with Raspberry PI OS. I absolutely need Orca on this thing. What is the process like for getting Orca on a pi? Pretty automated? Hours of work? What am I looking at here.

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CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Apr 18

I checked again
- My Firefox is 127.0.2 (64-bit)
- It is the latest version available on Nixpkgs
- The add-ons page tell me to upgrade to the latest version
- Clicking the link to download the latest version yields a tar-ball for 127.0.2

Still all extensions are disabled

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Apr 9

Tuta Apr 8

Sweden wants to #backdoor #encryption. But we, together with 230+ orgs, are saying no.

#NoToBackdoors 💪

Read our open letter to the Swedish Riksdag: 👉

https://tuta.com/blog/open-letter-sweden-encryption

Open letter urging Swedish lawmakers NOT to break encryption. | Tuta

Sweden's latest attack on encryption comes simultaneously with the Swedish Armed Forces speaking up in favor of encryption. If this alone is not enough to reject the legislation, read the open letter to the Swedish Riksdag.

Tuta

CoopDot 💻 𐑒𐑵𐑐𐑛𐑪𐑑 Mar 22

Firefox on my laptop last week: add-ons working fine

Firefox on my laptop today: all add-ons disabled (including ublock origin)

After upgrade to the latest Firefox in Nixpkgs and rebooting: still nope

Disable add-on verification in about:config: still nope