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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 03, 2023
> Big changes are happening at Mastodon, the user-supported and advertising-free decentralized social networking platform that many are seeing as a Twitter replacement. The platform announced on Monday that it’s made it much easier for non-tech-savvy users to open an account in minutes, with other changes “coming soon.”
> The easier onboarding experience comes not a minute too soon. Another decentralized social platform that’s currently in beta, Bluesky Social, is betting that easy onboarding will help it grab enough of the people who have been turned off by the difficulty of signing up for Mastodon to turn momentum its way when it’s ready for primetime. Yesterday morning it looked as though Bluesky was going to win that bet; today it looks like maybe not.
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> New users of the social networking platform Mastodon no longer need to choose an instance before opening an account. The platform says that other new improvements are "coming soon."
> On April 30, 1993, CERN signed off on a decision that the World Wide Web – a client, server, and library of code created under its roof – belonged to humanity (the letter was duly stamped on May 3).
> "CERN relinquishes all intellectual [sic] property [sic] rights to this code, both source and binary form, and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify and redistribute it" states a letter signed on that day by Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber – at the time respectively CERN's director of research and director of administration.
> For close to thirty years, commerce has been at the core of how people use the Internet. Convenience and ease have multiplied over the years as people have benefited from the unprecedented economies of scale emerging from the digital marketplace. This global ecommerce scale-up has also created new challenges for consumers, such as how to make decisions like where to shop, which products to buy for a given need, and which vendor within a store to buy from.
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> I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Saoud and the Fakespot team onboard. Mozilla is planning to increase the investment in Fakespot, and I’m excited about the work we’ll do together with Saoud and the team to enhance the ecommerce experience for millions of people. This is just the beginning. We’ll be introducing Fakespot functionality to Firefox over time, and would love to hear your thoughts once it’s launched.
> PatternFly team has been working with “all hands on deck” on the version 5. That new major release is still scheduled for June. They have conducted two rounds of alpha testing so far and they’ve gone pretty well. Meanwhile PatternFly 4 has been in development freeze for a while as the team is focusing on the new version.
> **Cockpit has decided to go ahead with an early adoption of PatternFly 5. **The motivation for adopting PatternFly 5 can be summarized in several key points. Firstly, the early adoption of PatternFly 5 is advantageous for the PatternFly team. Secondly, as PatternFly 5 is still in its alpha phase, it is more receptive to significant changes. Thirdly, the high code coverage of Cockpit, with its integration and image comparison testing, provides confidence in being one of the early adopters without compromising product quality. Finally, PatternFly 4 is in development freeze, which hinders the ability to utilize the latest features and fixes found in PatternFly 5.
> It’s important to note that PatternFly 5 is not introducing drastic UI changes that the user would be able to notice, like the PatternFly 3 to PatternFly 4 upgrade did. It’s quite accurate to perceive this major release as an evolution of PatternFly 4, with enhancements and bug fixes.
> Some of the Cockpit team’s most awaited changes that have user impact from PatternFly 5 include improved dark theme support and using gap instead of margins for spacing, something that brings us one step closer to better RTL (Right to left) language support.
> A load test is one form of performance testing implemented to ensure your application works properly under an expected number of users’ requests. Let’s say you have a shopping application that allows users to buy clothes. On the launching day, you expect about one thousand customers to sign up for new accounts on the app every minute. To ensure the application can handle these user requests, you must write tests that simulate one thousand users signing up to the app every minute. These tests are called load tests.
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