Mastodawn

Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.
https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497

Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fan (@[email protected])

OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

LGBTQIA+ and Tech

Ollie Boermans 3h ago

I can’t think of any.

I want examples of sci-fi that foresaw shit software in space.

I don’t mean the variety of turdware that preserves company interest over individual safety. We’ve had a few of those.

I don’t mean bad guys as some variety of robot. I mean Microsoft Office style shit that barely or simply doesn’t do its one job.

Ollie Boermans 3h ago

Human Brain Enthusiast 4h ago

One thing I notice with a lot of software people I follow(ed) who got more into LLMs is that it’s like the only thing they’ve now have an opinion on.

Instead of posting interesting stuff about building beautiful houses they post about the same hammer 500 times.

Ollie Boermans 18h ago

AJ Sadauskas 19h ago

Here's something really useful I've found.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.

But.

If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.

This is particularly common if you're on a small or single-user instance.

Here's the solution.

First, follow @_followback

It will follow you back.

And then tags.pub bot then reshare all of your posts that use hashtags.

So if you do a post with the hashtag #Fediverse, then @fediverse will share your post.

Here's where the magic happens.

The tags.pub bot will do the same thing to everyone else who follows that followback account.

So if you follow @fediverse, then you'll get a feed of everyone who uses #Fediverse on the Fediverse.

And you'll see their posts even if no-one on your instance follows them.

And it works for all hashtags.

Just put the name of the hashtag, followed by @tags.pub

So @tech follows all posts using #tech, for example.

Or @news follows all posts using #news

#relay #relays #selfhosted #selfhosting #Mastodon #feditip #feditips #fedihelp

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

Florian 2d ago

Given this is now released, I'm happy to report that the third-party control client for the Elgato Streamdeck, called OpenDeck, is now a lot more accessible for #screenReader and keyboard-only users.
These devices have always had a huge #accessibility barrier in that the only way to assign an action to a key was through a drag-and-drop interface. Elgato has been notified about this, but proved ... let's say ... less than ehtusiastic to fix it. So, I did.

While I can't claim 100% accessibility, primarily because that isn't a thing, I can say I made sure everything I could find was labeled, and that there's now a keyboard-only way of associating buttons, knobs, and touch controls with actions, something the official client does not, and probably will not, support.

I'll be making a video on the ViewpointUnseen youtube channel with all the details soon.

https://github.com/nekename/opendeck

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

Kevin Beaumont 2d ago

Microsoft Copilot terms of service have been updated to include this gem: "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service/

Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

: Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

The Register

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱3d ago

The year 2026 in one animation

#year2026

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

Etienne Jacob 2d ago

Physarum update: filling a gallery page, a place to showcase results that are now obtained by live-coding during the simulation:
https://bleuje.com/physarum-gallery/
Here are some samples:

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

annaecook 2d ago

In case it wasn’t clear:

If your designs aren’t accessible they aren’t going to work.

Your average user does not exist.

This is an incorrect bias is built on an ableism.

People have disabilities.

You need accessibility or your designs will not work at scale.

Full stop.

Ollie Boermans 2d ago

NetNewsWire 2d ago

NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac — new iCloud features: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/04/03/netnewswire-for-mac-new-icloud.html

NetNewsWire - NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac — new iCloud features

We’ve just released NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac. Do a Check for Updates or download it directly to get the update. The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync. Another change is a new iCloud Storage Stats window that tells you exactly what’s in your iCloud storage — and it includes a Clean Up button that will trim down your storage (and lead to faster syncs in the future, though not necessarily right at first).

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