Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

"Back at the beginning of 2024, we discussed how regular communication needed to be a part of our team’s culture [...]"

Mastodon's Trunk & Tidbits development blog marks its first anniversary!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2025/

via https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114467967434430135

#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #DevBlog

Hey, if you struggle with writing good alt text for your images, you might enjoy following @alttexthalloffame, an account I run, for some inspiration, and occasional tips!

#AltText #accessibility

@tchambers Ah, what the heck, why not.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@no/114432823607704544

"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/

Full text: https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated

#OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #tech #computers #PublicDomain

Wishing our Canadian friends and neighbors up north best of luck! 🤞

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/410644/canada-elections-carney-poilievre-liberals-conservatives-win-results-trump

#canada #election #pol #canadapol

Congratulations to our Canadian friends and neighbors up north!

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-canada-election-carney-liberal-musk/

#canada #election #cdnpoli

Kudos to @ricci for doing a deep dive into answering two questions:

How decentralized fediverse really is?

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114396317436420669

And what would happen if government tried to seize fediverse domains?

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114412296355937121

#fediverse #data #analysis

Any high-follower (20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?

https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse

#fediverse #debug #HelpWanted #opensource

I should add that testing with 10k followers might be enough? The issue was reported by someone with 26k followers, and works fine with my own account, so that's about the range where things might start to break.

"There were no books on web design, no best practices."

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/

#TheWeb #internet #EarlyWeb #history #design #WebDesign

Some good #EarthDay news!

"The US hit a new record low for fossil fuels in the electricity mix last month as solar and wind reached a record high, according to new data from global energy think tank Ember. In March 2025, fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% (49.2%) of electricity generated, for the first month on record."

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-below-50-of-us-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record/

via https://universeodon.com/@MisterMadge/114377699494029590

#news #ClimateNews #ClimateChange

"No one single march wins demands or ends injustice. It’s really about building a sustained movement that can show itself as a political force."

https://www.theverge.com/news/652341/nation-day-of-action-50501-protests-50-states

via https://mastodon.social/@verge/114365969864621897

#news #USpol #pol #NationalDayOfAction #protest #protests #HandsOff #TeslaTakedown #FiftyFiftyOne

@HistoPol Ah, was that https://mastogizmos.com/ by @researchbuzz ?

Something that's been on my mind recently, and I've voiced it as a response to @sue, isn't it odd that LinkedIn, a website for workers, doesn't include ✊ as one of the emoji reactions?

Hm.

#linkedin #SocialMedia #workers #WorkersSolidarity #solidarity

"Activist group MoveOn is “estimating millions of attendees” went to the 1,300-plus scheduled events, with more than 100,000 turning out for the Washington, DC protest."

✊

https://www.theverge.com/news/644237/millions-protested-hands-off-estimates-trump-musk-doge

#news #USNews #USPol #HandsOff #HandsOffProtests #protests #democracy

Happy National Library Week!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Week

Some things you can do this week to celebrate:

- Get yourself a library card, if you haven't already, or help someone else sign up!
- Check out your library's free resources and services, or attend an event!
- Donate to your local library, if you have the means!
- Call your elected representatives' offices, and tell them why libraries are important to you and your community: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

#libraries #NationalLibraryWeek #books #reading #bookstodon

"These examples show that when democracy deteriorates, its fate is not sealed, and democratic institutions can be reclaimed."

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/four-countries-that-have-successfully-reversed-democratic-decline-in-recent-years

#democracy #autocracy

"As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this."

https://cybercultural.com/p/david-bowie-website-1995-1997/

#internet #TheWeb #EarlyWeb #music #musicians #DavidBowie

65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

#wikimedia #wikipedia #AI #GenAI

"thetrilliondollardinner.gov"

What?

https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114263375336442235

#TheTrillionDollarDinner #USGov #domains