Terence Eden

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure

#Solar

OK, but *how* can you tell if something is AI generated?

This isn't your normal "looking for work" post.

I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work.

If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.

Nothing full time. Personal recommendations preferred. Feel free to share.

What's the largest number of "trusted partners" you've seen in a cookie consent pop-up?

🆕 blog! “How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?”

When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced.

The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/how-can-governments-pay-open-source-maintainers/
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#government #money #OpenSource

We've hit FORTY-THOUSAND entries on https://openbenches.org 🥰

All contributed by people like you.

Thank you to all our wonderful supporters, brilliant photographers, and open source coders.

I like this use of absolute time rather than relative time.

When you see that a code expires "in 5 minutes" you have no way of knowing how long it has taken to get to your inbox.

#2FA #MFA #CyberSecurity

Urgh. Very annoyed with @bitwarden@fosstodon.org

For obvious reasons, I want to move from the .com version to the .eu hosted version.

There's no "one-click" way to do it. Instead, there's lots of exporting data, creating new accounts, importing, deleting old ones.

That wouldn't be so bad, but I have a family plan and would have to do this for several people. That's going to be a logistical nightmare.

Why can't they offer an easy migration to paying customers?

The best edit to see on a #DoctorWho Wikipedia page 😯
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Daleks%27_Master_Plan&action=history

"If it terrible for everyone it isn't an accessibility issue - it is just a bit shit."

Brilliant from @kitation@disabled.social
#Sotb26

Are there any good conferences coming up in London which *aren't* about tech?

I'm bored of watching manels about niche computing concepts, being cornered by cryptobores, and endless discussions about AI.

What fun, ideally free or cheap, conferences can you recommend?

(Personal recommendations please. I know how to search Eventbrite.)

"You two have been through thick and thin!"

Which do you think is the good one and which is the bad?

If you want to understand what the #accessibility community have lost with the demise of Twitter - and what Mastodon can do to help - you've got to listen to @tink@front-end.social on the BBC's latest podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dfbgsc

(Starts about 24 minutes in - but the whole podcast is great.)

🆕 blogging - “Twitter's archive doesn't have alt text - but Mastodon's does!”

Because I don't trust Alan, the Hyperprat who now runs Twitter, I decided to download my Twitter archive before setting my account to dormant. About a decade ago, I wrote about how the Twitter archive works and where it is deficient. Thing…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/twitters-archive-doesnt-have-alt-text-but-mastodons-does/
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#a11y #accessibility #mastodon #MastodonAPI #NaBloPoMo #twitter