Every day for 25 years, Stephen Downes has written about edtech, informing an entire industry.
A quarter of a century of open...
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Fwiw, in design trends since the early 2000s buttons seem to have gone from glassy "pill" shapes (think Mac OS X "Aqua") over flat design shapes (Windows 😄 to "no shape at all" (just text, e.g. iOS 7), back to flat design with very round corners (lots of websites these days) and lately (e.g. iOS 26) back to glassy round shapes.
something, where I can clearly see that it is a button for clicking. Same for all other GUI elements.
Not this bullshit where you have to click on everything to check if it's an active element. Same for disappearing scrollbars and other similar elements
minor enhancements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly minor enhancements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly minor enhancements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly minor enhancements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly minor enhancements and bug fixes to keep things running smoothly
@cass
It does the minor enhancements and bug fixes or it gets the hose again?
Lisa Melton
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#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.
@neil that depends entirely on whether someone happens to enjoy being frustrated and confused.
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk True enough!
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
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A quarter of a century of open educational technology
Every day for 25 years, Stephen Downes has written about edtech, informing an entire industry.
Je faisais du rangement dans la maison de mes parents quand soudain…
@nitot Ca rajeunit pas Netscape ;-)
I realised after I hit "post" that it sounded a bit harsh, hence the apology.
@MiasAlt there is a lot to get worked up about. I know I'm worked up about it all. Labour have become such a disappointment.
Carlos Solís
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When it comes to ActivityPub c2s (client-to-server), I understand why it's unpopular and not widely supported.
Mastodon and Loops have wildly different APIs, and it would make no sense to try to adapt c2s for these platforms because then you have to duplicate validation and other logic, and for what?
The 2 people who actually use this?
A unified ActivityPub API for s2s would only work if every implementation handled every schema the same way, and again, difficult to get done.
s2s for the win
Carlos Solís
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Working in that environment, seeing as Google rolled out the idea of "cloud computing" meaning "you have no involvement or agency in your computing because we do it for you" radicalized me for much of the work of my career.
It was one thing to run a datacenter to index the world's public web information. I understood that, it made sense.
But watching as Google and Apple co-developed the idea that computers, which I cared about, got abstracted into toys and jewelry that had all your key computing done in a way you had no agency over... where I saw firsthand the kinds of churn of resources necessary to keep these things going, it made me want to fight for a different computing future.
@Gina come to the UK, we have depressing weather and a depressing economy
Oh
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@mavnn This all seems like very useful information, thankyou!
Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots
Universities promise no frontline duty and perks if students enlist in military.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/russia-pressures-university-students-to-become-wartime-drone-pilots/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@mastodonmigration tired bullshitters.
My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.
And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:
Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.
@cwebber The main motivations for using data centers are security, reliability, flexibility, and efficiency. A data center can manage power consumption much better than your typical on premises installation. Infrastructure can be shared by many users, which allows dynamic scaling without having to over provision on premises. It also allows users to share expert reliability and cybersecurity engineers.
Evan Prodromou
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🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨
The Fediverse is gathering in person once again — and we’re inviting the community to take part!
FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web — and we are now accepting session proposals!
We're looking for:
• Talks
• Demos
• Lightning talks
• Panels
Got a project, idea, experiment, or story to share?
📩 Submit your proposal: hello@fedicon.ca
(or DM us on the Fediverse)
🗓️ Submission deadline: May 31, 2026
🎥 Watch last year's talks: https://spectra.video/c/fedicon_videos/videos
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More about FediCon 2026:
📅 When: August 6th–9th, 2026
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RE: https://techhub.social/@fedicon/116500456409160887
🎟️ FediCon tickets are now on sale!
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See you there?
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FediCon 2026 is coming up! Follow @fedicon@techhub.social for info.
I'll be there hosting a panel.
Also hoping to do a presentation on "The Fediverse Isn't..." a non technical presentation on how we should view the Fediverse and not stop at just remaking the old walled gardens.
