i've had some non-tech folks asking me about mastodon recently and whether they should sign up. many of you might be in the same boat tomorrow during thanksgiving.
my answer to them is no, i wouldn't sign up. not right now anyway. quick 🧵on why.
If you're ever building a website for community services, I highly recommend looking at the GOV.UK Design System (design-system.service.gov.uk…). It looks "boring" but it is accessible and based on UX research to make it as easy to use by as many people as possible.
🚀We’ve just released GOV.UK Prototype Kit v13.0.0
Go to prototype-kit.service.gov.uk to find out how to install it.
It's a breaking release, and a biggie! The new version is more secure, and easier to use, update and extend.
Details in the 🧵...
While it’s interesting to watch your personal slow but continuous move to the right over the last 12 months or so, with morbid fascination, I think your belief it’s a general trend is wishful thinking
Im Kontrast zum Mut der iranischen Nationalspieler, die ernsthafte Konsequenzen für sich und ihre Familien befürchten müssen, wirkt das Einknicken des #DFB in Zusammenhang mit der #OneLove-Armbinde nochmal eine Spur erbärmlicher.
Wrote a blog on why AWS never dove seriously into blockchain. Features groovy pix from a trip to New York, which is part of the story: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/…
I still hope (and think it’s possible) this site might survive and actually do quite well *despite* its owner’s best efforts to ruin it. Of course the claim will then be it did *because* of it
I have a simple rule of thumb with new conferences… if you cannot easily figure out anyone involved with it in advance, you probably don’t want to attend, speak, or sponsor.
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
If you've downloaded your Twitter archive, note that the "Your archive.html" page renders links in your tweets as t .co links. If Twitter dies, so does the t .co redirection service.
See below to further preserve the links in your tweets.
Weggesperrt wird, wem man eine eventuelle Ordnungswidrigkeit oder Straftat zutraut. CCC-Aktivist sitzt seit Wochen in vorsorglicher politischer Präventivhaft. Wir fordern, ihn freizulassen! ccc.de/de/updates/2022/praev…