Made this thing 3 weeks ago using custom JS on my glitchsoc-based Mastodon instance, I still want to tweak it, but I kinda wish Mastodon would support accent colors or something.

They removed the ability to colour roles a long while ago, but I added it back, and using custom CSS to target the roles, I can expose to the JS custom accent colors for those roles, which are then used as an accent color for the profile page and some elements like buttons.

If the role doesn't exist, then the color is extracted from the profile picture.

It's delayed due to me performing checks after the glitch ready function is called, plus checks and retries for the role, then for the picture.

I can only hope Mastodon or at least third-party web and mobile clients like Moshidon can support stuff like this again, would be nice to see.

https://github.com/VantaInteractive/Social/blob/426e8b5c1771516bacbe3ad0c0c6b55447b9898a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/common.js#L76

@boneca_ambalabu GrapheneOS troll, insultingly stupid opinions / bait dismissed

@digiblossom AI slop

@Kierkegaanks There's non-alcoholic / alcohol-removed wine, so I might drink that. I don't drink alcoholic beverages at all, and don't plan to.

@verge nobody will buy it. Fuck off.

@tforcworc @apas_csc @halfbyte And that's good, but regulating US companies and startups take some time, especially if they're big companies like Uber, Google Apple, because they have the legal and financial manpower to overturn or jump through various legal hoops to avoid doing X or being responsible for Y.

This, and either they don't have a physical presence in the EU or have it in some country like Ireland which might benefit the companies.

Either way, our EU press needs to do better.

For a while, I've been working with some other developers on improving passkey support in Linux. Here are my thoughts on what the road to a secure native API for interacting with passkeys. We'll need TPM support, measured boot, a virtual TEE, sandboxing kernel modules and more.

Sounds intriguing? Read here:

https://www.iinuwa.xyz/blog/linux-passkeys-update/

#Passkeys #Linux

@G4Media oh yeah, Ciolacu can negotiate alright. He negotiates as if he's holding the whole party, or the whole country hostage. "It's me or nobody!", "I'm not leaving!", etcetera. Fucking prick.

Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."

Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/

@G4Media Truly shocking, the fiscal administration agency has someone high up that has been bribed? In Romania? No way! 🙄

Now hopefully the anti corruption agency's searches and eventual case will put this person in prison, instead of prescribing the act and effectively letting them get away with it scot-free.

@axios JFC

@john_cena_seo AI slop

@axios Inside Job died so Big Mouth could have a billion seasons. Fucking hell...

@fesshole What's wrong with them? They're great artists with their own musical style, let people have different musical tastes mate.

@biziday 🩷

@axios ew

@tforcworc @apas_csc @halfbyte "perhaps we just don't like rip-offs" except that we do in some cases.

Arnaud Betrand created HouseTrip (EU-run AirBnb) one year before AirBnb was a thing, and the European press overlooked it, then when HouseTrip was pitched to the press and VCs a year later they were called an AirBnb ripoff. HouseTrip was sold to Tripadvisor after AirBnb crushed them in popularity (as per https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1925029185052917791)

Hopefully now, seeing as US sentiment has declined, that important EU press that people actually read will push more for EU tech and alternatives instead of drooling over and simping for the latest US startup or tech company's products.

@TheMacroEdition ...carbon removal doesn't really work. $12 million wasted on stuff like this when it could be spent on more important things or better, proven ways to reduce CO2.

@tgold34 slop

@beep If, by bookmarks you mean listing off stuff that you recommend, I have a /recommends page which is structured like this:

What I recommend
↳ Blogs, News Organizations, Independent news, Press outlets
↳ People
↳ Podcasts
↳ Posts, Articles, News, Media
↳ Projects, Websites

What I don't recommend
(which is unstructured at the moment)

https://alextecplayz.com/recommends

I need to get back into web dev for my sites soon enough, so this structure might change later.