@ragrum

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It's open source (though I'm still populating the GitHub repo). Full story/video explainer up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRPRW6pHIY

Making an electronic bumper sticker to show what music I'm listening to in real time!

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@jeremybmerrill that's cool that the stats perfectly back up the trickiness scale that the setter aims for
@mosseri hi from mastodon

Tired of using your own tongue to test 9V batteries???
👅👅👅🔋🔋🔋 ouch!

Honored and humbled to announce my latest product:

We 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.

mastodon on the front page of the app store!! available in a living room near you

The 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/

#WebStandards

The web just gets better with Interop 2024

The web is amazing.

WebKit
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.
I 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.
Longer 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/
Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber