Mozilla is expanding its investment in the decentralized social media ecosystem Mastodon with today’s announcement it’s opening up its own server — or “instance,” in Mastodon lingo — into private beta testing. The company announced last year its plans to create and begin testing a publicly accessible instance at Mozilla.social, with the goal of focusing […]

Let us explore how we can build documentation for a multiplatform project using DocC.

The Web browser Arc has made a larger difference in jaded tech reviewer Adam Engst’s digital work life than any app in decades. Read his deep dive on what sets Arc apart from other browsers.

Owncast is a selfhosted streaming service that connects to the fediverse. I take a look at how this works, and talk with the creator Gabe Kangas.

Normally, I would not link to something for which I have not read the source story. In this case, I will make an exception, as the original is by Wayne Ma of the Information, who has a solid track record. I hope these two summaries are accurate reflections of Ma’s reporting. Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: The […]

Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple...

Around the year 2007, just after Thanksgiving, my grandmother noticed a tiny seed near the faucet of her kitchen sink that had somehow, implausibly,...

The Mac and the iPad are on a collision course, and they're both about to run into the brick wall that Apple has erected between them.

Base storage and upgrade pricing are pain points too.

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Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.

Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge.

In the early 80s, my mom worked a couple shifts a month at a little small-town food co-op that smelled like nutritional mummy. She brought home

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Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?

Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona. Mona, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is a power-user app through and through.

Winter 2023

A while back I saw a video posted by the educational tech YouTube channel ColdFusion, called "The Anti-Smartphone Revolution". The video ...

A major social media platform with no moderation team is a major social media platform with hilarious DMCA problems.

They are really going out of their way to say that they intend to kill QuickTime, and are being quite threatening and rude about it.

After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

Sit in the chair. Open the turbolift. Admire the LCARS.

On the day Sarah Oh got laid off from Twitter last November, her friend Gabor Cselle called with his condolences. Then he made her an offer: Would she help him build a better Twitter? Cselle wasn’t trying to reinvent the social media wheel. He just wanted to return to a simpler time on the ...

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