We've published our new terms of service for mastodon.social and mastodon.online today, effective July 1. The same template will be available as an option to other servers in the upcoming #Mastodon 4.4 update. There are no changes to our policies or operations, just clarifications, e.g. if you upload content to be displayed to other users, you give us permission to display it to other users, but you keep all rights to it. We also explicitly prohibit scraping, even though it was never allowed.

iPhone and iPad users, your browser just leveled up.

🎧 Keep audio playing even when you switch apps
📌 Pin the tabs you always use
🧱 Stack related tabs together for better tab management
🔗 Open links without getting bounced into other apps

Just how it should be.

Full list of changes: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-7-4/

#Vivaldi #Browser #iOS #iPadOS #iPhone #iPad

If you're looking for a #Pocket replacement, give #Obsidian Web Clipper a try — it's open source (MIT) and works with any app that supports Markdown, not just Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/clipper

Obsidian Bases + Obsidian Web Clipper is the web archival tool I always wanted

replaces my read-it-later app and saves everything to local markdown files

What? Pocket is shutting down?

"Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

#pocket #mozilla

#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬

Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects

➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos

➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)

Signal’s new Windows update prevents the system from capturing screenshots of chats https://tcrn.ch/3SKu0AK

Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds. Via @arstechnica. #Signal #Cybersecurity #Windows #Recall #AI #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/bztLbn

If you're online, you've seen it. Maybe you've even fallen for it. The rampant wave of online misinformation is impacting public health, democracy and even hurting personal relationships.

Season 3 of 'What's up with the internet?' investigates a topic close to us all—the ongoing threat of online misinformation. How and why does it spread and how can we respond?

🎧 Stream the season three premiere now with host @takarasmall: http://cira.ca/podcast

📆 15 May 2025 - tomorrow!
Dave Raggett, W3C, will talk about "W3C & digital twins for industrial systems" at OMG Information Day, standards for industrial systems, Clamart, France 🇫🇷
This talk will describe W3C’s work on the Web of Things, the relationship to NGSI-LD, work on RDF 1.2, web-based monitoring and orchestration, work on a cognitive framework for low-code real-time control of digital twins in relation to factory automation, and more.
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2025/w3c-and-digital-twins-for-industrial-systems/

Tradeoffs. Those who have worked with me in leadership and design settings*, know I use this snippet about Spotify for a discussion that in part is in this area of surfacing the tradeoffs we're making when our org design emphasizes independent teams. I keep using it, not because I don't have other ideas, but because it draws a lot into the conversation. Including insights and experiences around de-emphasizing across-team communication, and alternatives and adjustments.

* https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf

A lot of people in tech don't actually understand content and data, other than it's stuff you use to get more engagement and sell crap with.

I once asked a senior tech executive why so much of their support content was in unreadable English?

"So that it's easier to translate into unreadable German" was his reply.

In Critical Software Redesign: Creating the Environment for Large Scale Change, (https://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog/2025/04/14/)
we presented the story of the TaxGlobe company as a series of signals. We invited you, the reader, to consider how you would react to each signal, as if you were an architect at TaxGlobe.

While writing that essay, we asked Avraham Poupko, Xin Yao, and Michael Keeling, three experienced architects, to do the same. Here are their responses: https://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog/2025/04/21/

@EdwinG

It's definitely back... and... uh, boy... there's a forecast of: "Several hours of freezing rain possibly giving between 5 and 10 millimetres of ice accretion." Coming your way

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to work alongside our frontend and mobile devs.

Ideally:

1. You’re highly skilled in UX design, having led product strategy & design process
2. Proficient in Figma/Penpot, with interaction & usability design skills
3. Experienced in accessibility & privacy-conscious design

This remote fulltime position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/d9e4d6d0-d360-4c86-9f04-5c14fbcab8ef

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #product #designer

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.

Will AI bot learn to respect "no crawl" directives? Or would that need Real Intelligence...?

System design is at the nexus of various design arenas and their focal disciplines — because trade-offs don’t “stay in their lane.” (For example, “technical” decisions have social consequences in sociotechnical systems.)

“Why greater strides in AI and data literacy are needed” https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/ai-data-literacy-education-skills-bearingpoint

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

“ the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

— F Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, 1936

https://classic.esquire.com/article/share/97a6b0a8-ba1c-4b7b-aa64-0d08dd9fb952