Guy DupontTired of using your own tongue to test 9V batteries???
👅👅👅🔋🔋🔋 ouch!
Honored and humbled to announce my latest product:
@ragrum
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It's open source (though I'm still populating the GitHub repo). Full story/video explainer up here:
Making an electronic bumper sticker to show what music I'm listening to in real time!
DW InnovationWe started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments. 🎉
A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article about our experience with #Mastodon / the #Fediverse, explain the basics, and point out the advantages. 
Challenge accepted. 👍
So here's the finished post by @lxplm, hot off the #blog press. ⌨️
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https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastadon
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!
In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon.
sam henri goldmastodon on the front page of the app store!! available in a living room near you
AnthonyThe Interop initiative is so cool. Seeing that kind of collaboration across competitors is a delight. And the effect on the #WebPlatform is terrific.
A nice touch: the coordination is so good that all actors publish their take on it at the same time (5pm UTC).
Alphabetically:
- Apple https://webkit.org/blog/14955/the-web-just-gets-better-with-interop/
- Bocoup https://bocoup.com/blog/interop-2024
- Google https://web.dev/blog/interop-2024
- Igalia https://www.igalia.com/2024/interop-2024-launches.html
- Microsoft https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/02/01/microsoft-edge-and-interop-2024/
- Mozilla https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/02/announcing-interop-2024/
Framework 
The first pallets of Framework Laptop 16 left our fulfillment warehouse earlier this week. The lucky first customer is receiving their system tomorrow! Our factory is now in continuous production, with a pause for Lunar New Year from Feb 8th-14th.
Eugen RochkoI hope that an organization as massive as Meta adopting #ActivityPub will send a signal that pushes Tumblr and other platforms that have been considering it over the edge in doing the same. Perhaps even Bluesky would consider replacing or at least supplementing their custom protocol with the @w3c standard for interoperability.
Lukasz OlejnikLonger description of the train hacking (controller software reverse engineering) story. Amazing story which considers cybersecurity, train security, competition issues. One of the best hacking examples in 2023. https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/
Mike McCueWhile I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well.
This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web.
Dan GillmorThe self-verification system built into Mastodon should be one of its greatest selling points. This is especially true for journalists and everyone else for whom evidence of identity has huge value in the social media realm.
But anecdotally -- and I would wager for real -- most people in the craft, even a lot of technically adept folks, don't seem to know how easy self-verification can be here.
If you are trying to persuade a journalist you know to join up, please highlight this feature.