I post mostly in English, about #sustainability, the #EnvironmentalCrisis and the #environment, #SurveillanceCapitalism, and #FLOSS.
I've an alt @silmathoron where I do the same, only in French.
I tend to boost a lot, so don't hesitate to mute my boosts if you feel overwhelmed (three dots on my profile > "Hide boosts from @silmathoron")
Most of my posts are automatically deleted after a year.
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During peak times (workday, afternoon in Europe/morning in America) Transitous currently covers almost 300k concurrent scheduled trips.
That is, 300k trains, trams, busses, ferries, flights, aerial lifts, funiculars, suspended monorails and whatever else all running at once and moving people around.
The #PeerTube platform is a Fediverse alternative to #YouTube. You can help it grow by following PeerTube accounts from Mastodon etc:
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CHATTING & VLOGGING
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> SF-Based Internet Archive ( @internetarchive ) is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean
In some #library good news.
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with, especially Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of many Jeff’s initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative. It is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility, and regularly gets updated. The upcoming release of GNOME, 49, will feature the biggest update GNOME Calendar has ever received (excluding the initial release). It will also be the accessibility update, where we managed to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and assistive technology, to an app that is actually functional with a keyboard and screen reader in about three months. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence, the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* The cycle decoded part 2
* #Conversations_im & #Quicksy internal refactoring
* #Jami is more accessible
* Get your people on #SimpleX
* Dial #K9Mail & #Thunderbird up to 11
* Main #AnySoftKeyboard app updated too
+ 8 new apps
& 222 more updates
Get comfortable for a long read in: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/24/twif.html
A climate 'reckoning' just unfolded at the World Court. What happened?
By Doug Dingwall, Lillyrose Welwel, Lice Movono, and Stephen Dziedzic
The World Court's climate change decision has been hailed a "planetary scale" win for climate advocates pushing for stronger action against carbon pollution.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/icj-climate-change-decision-world-court/105566582
#ClimateChange #Environment #EnvironmentalPolicy #LawCrimeandJustice #EnvironmentalManagement #WorldPolitics #DougDingwall #LillyroseWelwel #LiceMovono # #StephenDziedzic
We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444
This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥
What was your favorite Spring 2025 anime?
https://www.animefeminist.com/what-was-your-favorite-spring-2025-anime/
#MOTIS v2.1.0 is released and live now on @transitous - checkout https://api.transitous.org!
For everyone interested in analyzing public transport networks, you can now create an isochrone visualization. Isochrones display the area you can reach within a specific time from your starting point. Don't forget to check how the area changes for different starting times! ⌚
Thank you https://github.com/MichaelKutzner from https://www.mobidrom.nrw for contributing this functionality! 🚀
This was very fun! I learned several things :) https://fstrings.wtf/
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