I couldn’t find a CAPTCHA solution that satisfied me, so for now I’ve implemented my own. The main advantage is that it’s fully internal—nothing is sent externally, no cookies, sessions, or similar mechanisms are used. Privacy is 100% preserved. The downside is lack of accessibility for visually impaired users (I’d need to generate audio on the server). It should slow down bots, but anyone determined to create multiple accounts still can.

@domi Yeah, that’s exactly why I’m still unsure about it. Do you have any good ideas or alternatives that don’t require external services, are lightweight, and would work well with Angular/Swift?

I’ve been looking for a good alternative to reCaptcha to protect a user registration page from bots. Ideally, it should be open source, require no extra infrastructure (so it’s easy to use with Angular and Swift), and be GDPR-compliant with no cookies, etc. So far, ALTCHA with the proof-of-work mechanism (not ALTCHA Sentinel) looks best. But I’m still unsure. Do you recommend anything?

@mlekar Thanks for the heads-up! I checked again and found a bug related to the recent update that introduced keyboard shortcuts. I’ve fixed it now, so everything should be working properly. Really appreciate you letting me know! 😊

Just experimenting… 😊
#Vernissage #LiquidGlass

Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:

https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated

I’ve spent the last few days working on dynamic OAuth client registration and OAuth authorization for #Vernissage (based on RFC 7591 and RFC 6749). Now it’s time to write up some docs and put together a sample implementation for iOS. The good news? Native mobile apps are now totally possible! 😊

@PhilipKing Accessibility is definitely the biggest Achilles’ heel of this new system. And in that regard, there are certainly many changes still to come.

Overall, I like the changes in iOS/iPadOS. There’s still a lot to improve, but the new icons, updates in Contacts, Messages, and Mail are nice. And of course, the iPad and multitasking are finally starting to look promising. However, you can definitely tell these are just the first betas - everything is pretty choppy and laggy.

I excited to announce Notepad.exe 1.0! It's a fantastic notepad that empowers you to execute your code seamlessly. #Swift #iOSDev

https://notepadexe.com

@spitfire Thanks for the advice 😊. I might reorganize my Sunday to visit Nowa Huta.

@spitfire I hadn’t planned on it. Would you recommend it?

Starting today, I’m taking a few days off work to explore Kraków. Time to relax. In my free moments, I’ll be scrolling through your photos. I’m often really impressed by your work 🤩. I’ve also been wondering if it’s possible to do some coding on an iPad. Turns out, it is! And it’s actually pretty nice - using VS Code in the browser, installed as a PWA 🫣.

@liaizon Have you never visited vernissage.photos (or any of its pages) before?

@liaizon This might be caused by the fact that a few weeks ago I changed the location of the files. And it seems that browsers remembered the old CSP settings in such a way that, unfortunately, to load the new ones, it’s necessary to clear the cache for this page in the browser. 😬

Today, Sanah’s new album was released. It’s Polish music - sung poetry. I really love how the poems of the greatest Polish poets were performed. And the LP edition is beautiful, a large fold-out booklet with every lyric and photos. Bravo, Sanah! 🎶

@refelet I have the exact same camera model and a very similar issue with light streaks. Do you have any idea what might be causing it? I replaced all the seals, but it didn’t help. Strangely, it doesn’t appear in all the photos. https://mastodon.social/@mczachurski/114162043107398616

What's new in Swift 6.2? A whole *ton* of stuff – raw identifiers, Collection conformances for enumerated(), method key paths, backtracing, weak let, Observations, InlineArray, and of course a big batch of concurrency changes too. Want to see it all in action? Click here: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/277/whats-new-in-swift-6-2

The last couple of weeks have been super intense with all the work on #Vernissage. I added some cool features and fixed a few bugs here and there. Now I just need to catch my breath and take a little step back. I’ve already picked up a few new rolls of film that I’m excited to shoot 🤗. And the exam session is coming up fast too 🫣.

To take a short break from fixing bugs, I decided to add a feature I sometimes miss when out shooting street photos - the ability to share a personal business card. It can include more sensitive details than a public profile here or elsewhere. More info in the article below. I hope this feature will be useful to you as well.

https://vernissage.photos/news/7498822567340280755