mastodon 4.7.3Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.
Partner success at @EndlessOS@floss.social Foundation. @gnome@floss.social Foundation member. Previously elementary OS, System76.
Frequently posting about #OpenSource, specifically in #GNOME and #Flatpak realms. I also enjoy #StarWars, #LEGO, & mobile #photography.
I have a background in web development, UX, and open source. These days I’m more involved in communication & coordination, though I am getting more involved in open source UX again.
So many people are joining Mastodon and missing one crucial step: verifying your account!
You might think, “I’m not important, why should I care?” Think about it as a way to protect anyone who follows you. Consider:
1. Someone sets up an account claiming to be you, automatically grabbing real posts from somewhere else
2. They get a bunch of followers
3. They post, “really struggling this month, a little could go a long way” with a link to Cash App
How would any followers know it was a scam?
I have been playing Death Stranding for the past few days, and DANG I regret sleeping on this game until now! It’s so refreshing to play a game that is challenging, engaging, and not just “shoot all the bad guys lol,” at least so far. The main foe so far is the environment, and it is quite the opponent.
#DeathStranding #DeathStrandingDirectorsCut #PS5 #PlayStation #PlayStation5 #VideoGames #Gaming
I wonder if *one* of the incentives for Google giving out a VPN for Google One subscribers, Google Fi users, and now Google Pixel owners is that it makes it harder to block ads, e.g. with something like Pi-Hole.
I’m genuinely happy to see traffic encrypted through a VPN becoming more the default, and I also don’t really believe Google will use it for ad targeting or anything due to its anonymity by design—but I feel like there may be more than just one-upping Apple’s privacy claims at play.
GTK folks: do you know of a way (or "the right way") to know if my app/a widget is actually *using* the font specified? For example, if my CSS says to use font "Foo," but that font isn't installed?
I poked a little bit at PangoFontDescription but it looks like it will return the requested font description for the context and not actually what's being used.
@Joaquincastrotx@mastodon.social it’s great to see you on Mastodon! Would you be able to verify your account so people know it’s actually you? In the age of disinformation, it’s more important than ever to verify important voices are who they say they are.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification
Basically, add a special link to your Mastodon account on a known site that represents you, e.g. https://castro.house.gov or https://castroforcongress.com, then put a link to THAT site in your Mastodon profile. It’ll show as a verified URL.
I installed a brand new Nest Protect smoke/CO alarm today aaaand then I blew out a candle and it immediately went off, blaring all the alarms around the house. 🤦♂️
To be fair, it was a pretty smoky candle and the smoke detector is right outside the bathroom door where the candle was, but I thought it would have given me more of a heads up before blaring all the alarms.
If there was a real, unexpected fire, I would have been grateful. But what a nuisance of a first impression. 😅
@megalodon@floss.social heck yeah! One AMAZING feature would be able to have tabs for the lists on the home page of the app, or at least some quicker way to get to them. It's currently around five taps after opening the app to get to a feed of a list which is… a lot. I'd even love to be able to set a single list as my main feed to filter out some of the noise of accounts I follow.
@garrett@mastodon.xyz I am very much not far. I think I have only come across the second uh, place-where-I-have-a-private-room (I forget what they call them with the terminals and fabricators). It has been slow going for me, just like an hour or so each night I have been able to play for the last week.
@lenzgr@mastodon.social @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social I should consider doing this again… I used it for a while but I recall it became a bottleneck for my network at times, e.g. if the Pi was down for whatever reason, the whole network couldn’t resolve DNS. But it was nice to be able to block ads at a network level…
@patrickstewart@mastodon.social ha, especially with a—well—unique name like yours. 😅
@eljefedsecurit@infosec.exchange it was just one example that people may be able to relate to, but consider any other way someone could anonymously use the trust of a bunch of people for ill. Verifying accounts helps make the platform as a whole more trustworthy and safer.
As a single data point, I am far more likely to follow someone if I can click through to their verified site from their profile—otherwise, I don’t really know or trust who that person says they are.