govuk-puppet VS Mastodon

For usability and accessibility check out https://www.gov.uk/

Look up adjusted net income on www.gov.uk

Start by checking the registration plate on www.gov.uk to see if the car is MOTd and insured. If they are then I would probably not think too much more about it. If the car is not MOTd or insured then it probably suggests that they're up to no good and as a good citizen, it is your duty to dig further. Maybe try walking past the car and see if you can see what they're doing in the boot and maybe just start up a general conversation with them by asking if they have a light or if there is a shop nearby??

The visa checker on www.gov.uk is the authority here: if that says you don't need a transit visa then you don't need one.

From the www.gov.uk website:

The supplier advised -If it is for my own personal use, it is eligible for VAT relief because it is being used as part of a system that includes a PC customised for my needs "Assistive technology involves the pre-installation of specialist software which is specifically required by the disabled individual. Where such a purchase is made, the complete system will be defined as designed solely for use by that disabled person, and will be eligible for the relief."Reliefs from VAT for disabled and older people (VAT Notice 701/7) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) -If it is for work related tasks- then VAT may need to be paid, but supply of equipment for employment related tasks should be dealt with by my employer. -But this may lead to ownership issues. If the Trust buys the program do, they own all material produced with the program?

I'll throw https://www.gov.uk/ into the ring here. Heard it's one of the best designed websites for disabled accessibility.

Work. I've tried to integrate e-reader devices into my workflow before and failed. I'm too used to OSX, and find other environments frustrating for work. I use a MacBook Pro in combination with a Mira e-ink monitor (I work on the design of GOV.UK).

Your DBS certificate for application ******** has been issued by the DBS. If you need any further advice or information go to www.gov.uk/. dbs

Refer at Visa decision waiting times: applications outside the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) to know visa processing timelines. VFS Global will notify you when the passport is ready for collection.

Interestingly there is some discussion for Mastodon with people asking the limit to be smaller, which raises the question as to the purpose of alt text, and how to properly handle larger text lengths in screen reader programs.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12268

Through the Fast Forward program, we give free services and support to open source projects and the nonprofits that support them. We support many of the world’s top programming languages (like Python, Rust, Ruby, and the wonderful Scratch), foundational technologies (cURL, the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStreetMap), and projects that make the internet better and more fun for everyone (Inkscape, Mastodon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Terms of Service; Didn’t Read).

Mastodon DMs have absolutely no privacy: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

For a decentralized protocol doing things right is much more important than doing things fast, it is very difficult (and in a lot of cases impossible) to break backwards compatibility.

Postmortem on what happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884

The v1 API of Mastodon limits the size of the tree that it will expand for users who are not logged into the server: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/statuses_controller.rb . I am guessing that this or some similar limit applies to threads being returned to unauthenticated users of the web UI. It just arbitrarily stops expanding the replies at some point, including the main thread from the OP.

If a thread is truncated, users expect it to expand automatically and autoscroll when you hit the bottom. In my desktop browser, that does not occur, and there is no indication that there is more to see. This is the situation of the web interface as of Mastodon version 4.2.5.

The issue is very sensitive to observer conditions. If you are logged into the server, the behavior is different. If you use a Mastodon app instead of the web, the behavior might be different. As the tree expands, the cutoffs become different. If you look at the thread on a different Mastodon server, the tree is different because every server has its own view of the Fediverse.

HN needs a best practice for linking to Mastodon threads in a way that provides a consistent experience to HN readers. The average Mastodon server would be crushed by hundreds of HN readers grabbing the entirety of a huge thread all at once, so this might involve some thread-unroll-and-cache service. I tried https://mastoreader.io/ but it did not solve the problem.

Alternately, we push changes into the Mastodon web UI to warn users when they need to click to see more and assume that people will get used to the navigation.

Suggestions?

Fixed in Mastodon v4.2.5 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.5

>You can defeat the Affero clause by putting the software behind a proxy, for example

Could someone elaborate on this? This is NOT my understanding of the license, and it seems absurd considering e.g. Mastodon is AGPL but the standard install requires a reverse proxy[1]. If using a proxy defeats Affero, why would the Mastodon team do this? Are they stupid?

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/dist/nginx.co...

Mastodon is free and open-source. Go ahead and add the flag:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING....

Didn't say anything about freedom of speech. And again: I'm not the one to talk to. I don't have any strong feelings on the topic, but if you do, you should take it somewhere that people who can do something about it will see.

I tried to find an existing discussion to help get you started, but couldn't. You can start one here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues

It's easy to sit here on Hacker News and say "they should just..."

Coming up with a standard for an international project will be a long, noisy discussion. You'll tread on internecine conflicts you had no idea about. Old wounds from past related discussions will come out. People will soapbox.

This is why I have no interest in discussing it. It probably won't go anywhere in a place where it actually could. It definitely won't here.