Notices by Sorin Davidoi (sorin@toot.cafe), page 6

@sexybiggetje Not that I know of.

@shellkr Indeed, but hopefully in a couple of months when this reaches stable no more hacks will be needed.

@crushv Don't think it has been officially announced yet. It should appear in "These weeks in Firefox" over at https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/ at some point. I've found out about it via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460456/Experimental_features#scrollbar-properties.

@charlag On top of all this the debugger is also very slow.

Yesterday I got that warning that a script (something-with-codemirror.js) was slowing down the browser. CodeMirror wasn't used on the page I was debugging, but then it hit me - it is used for the debugger editor.

Maybe it was a mistake to base it on web technologies?

@zatnosk Just curious, why did you go with warp?

@cjoseph Yes, there are plenty of accessibility issues opened for the web application https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aaccessibility

@shortcake There is some talk about ActivityPub (the same technology that powers Mastodon) being the next chapter in content distribution, but even if that is the case it will be a long time until it will reach ubiquity.

Been trying to add streaming support to Maud (HTML template engine written in #Rust) for the last couple of days. I though that wrapping my head around macros would be the major blocker, but it turns that working with futures and streams is what gives me a headache.

Took a long break from contributing to open-source projects but I finally feel like it's time to slowly get back into it.

Started today with two pull requests to Mastodon:
- Use same-site cookies to mitigate CSFR attacks (on top of the CSFR token that Mastodon already implements)
- Send Clear-Site-Data header when logging out, which instructs the browser to delete the cookies, storage and cache

@tdemin Looks nice indeed, will keep an eye on it!

@nolan There is also an integration for TestCafe (seem a bit abandoned but works pretty well) https://github.com/helen-dikareva/axe-testcafe

@nolan @somelaniesaid aXe is the first thing I use when testing/improving accessibility, it is really useful to get a lot of basic things out of the way before testing with a screen reader.

@baldur @baldur Nice, but a bit weird that someone who is an instructor and wants to "help you master vanilla JavaScript" uses strings as errors 😐. Opened two pull request.

@djsundog @drahflow Thread pinning would be nice but wouldn't really work with other clients (e.g. Pinafore).

Having a separate column (same way we have it with Direct messages and Favourites) would be even better, with the replies showing up in the notifications (with the possibility of turning them off, same setting as the other notifications).

Would be really nice if one could subscribe to threads. Very often I see posts I am interested in following but then forget to check them later for replies.

@zyx Yeah, that might very well be the case. Thanks for looking into this!

@zyx I fully understand that the ML models (and the entire backend) is closed-source, no argument about that.

My question is what is the point of having a public repository for the extension if it only contains the minified code? Anyone can obtain that by debugging the installed extension.

Is it for transparency? No, since you can't easily inspect the code.

Is it to accept contributions? No (see comment to my issue).

The only reason seems to be to provide a sense of transparency.

@mconley 👀 🔥

@zyx Hey! I was wondering if there is something Mozilla could do about the fact that the code for Advance is not easily accessible (they only publish the minified version). I opened an issue (https://github.com/LaserlikeInc/firefox-addon/issues/72) and wrote about this in the feedback form (https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/Laserlike-Feedback-Survey) with no result.