A little reminder to everybody on climatejustice.social (but it similarly also applies to all Mastodon servers).

If you're posting mostly in one language, please go to https://climatejustice.social/settings/preferences/other and set your primary posting language, if you haven't yet. It does not have to be the same as your interface language.

While you're there you can also filter languages. If you select any of the languages in the list, then only posts in that or those languages will display in public timelines for you. This does not work if people set their posts to the wrong language though.

If you regularly switch languages, please try to make a habit of manually selecting the posting language every time.

Apart from the language filters, some other advantages of setting the correct language:
* climatejustice.social and many other servers have a built in translation function, but it only works if the language is set correctly (this is especially important for moderators - you'll be making our live a lot easier)
* Alt text is also translated, so for accessibility, please always write your alt text in the post's language
* trends are language specific. if you set your posts to the wrong language, you could be spamming the trends for that language
* your account is recommended to people based on the set language(s) of your posts, if your privacy settings allow account recommendation
* if someone follows you and you post in different languages and actually set them correctly every time, they can go to your profile and select which of your languages they wand to subscribe to

Best Practices for Handheld Gaming Development | by Dean Hume. buff.ly/Ou9yKgL #gamedev #programming #bestpractices #accessibility

Best Practices for Handheld Ga...

Wow, that body is …… classy?! #bestpractices

https://www.europesays.com/2150749/ Penang delegation off to Austria and Switzerland for cable car project updates and research #austria #BestPractices #Bettmeralp #CableCarProject #ChiefMinister #ChowKonYeow #Delegation #manufacturers #MountainTourism #Nachrichten #Österreich #Penang #PenangHill #Suppliers #switzerland

Top 3 Critical #Security Recommendations for @arcgisxprise https://tinyurl.com/2uanw2zj

#ArcGISEnterprise #ArcGISAdmin #GIO #IT #bestpractices #GIS #esri #arcgis #WebGIS #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @esritraining @urisa

KQED: A Treasure Trove of Education Reports and Studies is Under Threat. “Initially, ERIC was spared from the department’s mass contract cancellations in February. But according to Erin Pollard Young, the sole Education Department employee who managed ERIC until her job was eliminated in March, the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE has since refused to approve disbursement of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/kqed-a-treasure-trove-of-education-reports-and-studies-is-under-threat/

My god, I just realized one of the simplest opsec things you can do (something I've been doing for years and don't even think about anymore) is set your browsers to open links in private/secure instances AS A DEFAULT.

If it needs to be opened in a window that you want to keep open or bookmark, you can always manually copy and paste it.

It makes no sense to be using a secure shared tool like cryptpad, if you're just gonna open it where you're logged in as you.

Remember the #SocialEngineering motto:
If there are people, there are security holes.

Check out this recent article on best practices for file uploads.

Popular approaches:
1. Uploading a file by itself, like adding an avatar.
2. Uploading a file with metadata, like a video with a title and description.
3. Importing a file from a URL, like an avatar from Facebook.

Best practices:
+ Check Content-Type and Content-Length
+ Secure file uploads

Read the full article: https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/api-design-basics-file-uploads/

#API #Development #BestPractices #FileUploads

By @Philsturgeon

surely one of you #infosec peers has a guide or article on why #VPN services aren't the privacy silver bullet they often advertise themselves to be. something that mentions you're paying co-conspirators to #mitm your own traffic in addition to lowering the reputation to that of your new address space?

Ich hab mir jetzt nen #pixelfed Account gemacht (@fiaskogaul@pixelfed.de) weil ich den Funktionsunfang und das Userinterface für #Bilder besser finde und nutzen will.

Ich weiß aber noch nicht so richtig wie ich die beiden #fediverse Accounts #coexistieren lassen soll.

Ich will die Bilder und Videos, die ich über Pixelfed poste über meinen #Mastodon Account auf Freiburg.Social auch ausgeben.

Wie macht man das am Besten? Gibt es da eine #bestpractices?

Mein Plan war erst mal meine Pixelfed-Postings zu #Boosten. #Crossposting will ich eigentlich vermeiden.

PID 1 Bash script for Docker containers explained line by line https://sirikon.me/posts/0009-pid-1-bash-script-docker-container.html

"The main vehicle of diffusion of that set of generic 'tools'—hard, soft & ideological—which modify the #BestPractices frontier for all, is the #TechnoEconomicParadigm.
It is #economic because each technological transformation brings with it a major shift in the relative price structure that guides economic agents…
It is a #Paradigm because it defines the model and the territory for 'normal' innovative practice, promising success to those that follow the principles…"

RE: https://toolsforthought.social/@billseitz/113150179254561434

We’ve documented “best practices” by which creators of Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI Services can improve the response time of end user’s requests along with GitHub repos with code samples.

"Optimizing Response Times for Generative AI Applications using Azure OpenAI Services"
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/the-llm-latency-guidebook-optimizing-response-times-for-genai/ba-p/4131994

Alaskapox virus renamed to avoid stigmatizing state and hurting tourism
https://www.science.org/content/article/alaskapox-virus-renamed-avoid-stigmatizing-state-and-hurting-tourism #Health #alaska #poxvirus #name #borealpox #BestPractices

New from me: Friction as a Fix.
Adding a little friction to experiences can help users slow down in those moments they may need to.
https://stribs.medium.com/friction-as-a-fix-4e6fc51f2d2f?sk=0afd86b1d6b4f00f8e1f2ae9dedf3048
(friend link)
#UX #design #bestpractices

I'm looking to switch from multi-booting my laptop to one linux distro that hosts purposed containers (work, personal, play, etc).

Any recommendations or ideas on the best way to do this?

I want to keep them separated and secured with different credentials, but minimize the pain in the ass that is rebooting and entering multiple passwords every time I want to switch contexts.

Virtual machines work, but they have a lot of overhead.

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New article:

Why you should avoid import * in Python
https://pybit.es/articles/why-you-should-avoid-import-in-python/

Covering:
- Why modules are great and namespacing explained
- Why import * is a problem
- A practical example where a function gets overriden
- The recommended way to do imports
- What PEP8 has to say about this
- Protection workaround, use __all__ to define your module's public interface

Habe ich in meiner Bubble #Podcaster:innen, die sich damit auskennen, wie mans am besten macht, wenn man plötzlich die Sprache seines Podcasts ändert oder mischt?
#BestPractices #podcasting #en #de