Chris Young 🇰🇪 @XopherY@octodon.social
Horrified and embarrassed American
@S0rceress0 Good to hear. Thinking about switching my family from Verizon to Fi. (We all have either Nexus or Pixel phones.) Mostly worried about coverage.
Anybody use #ProjectFi ? Opinions?
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@XopherY It seems very common. Thankfully my mobile app lets you change it. I definitely find black text/light background easier to read
@CobaltVelvet Figured as much. Thanks.
Do all instances have a dark theme on the web version or just octodon.social?
Kind of wish I could change it to a light theme. :neutral_face:
Politics, Syria, Trump Show more
#Mastodon is a weird, wild place right now. it's fresh and invigorating and I kind of love it.
Keep Tooting, everyone!
Random sysadmin tips:
SQL is a great tool but it's also highly destructive if you just forget a WHERE. Just remember to BEGIN; a transaction when you're playing with it, you can then COMMIT; after changes or ROLLBACK/quit.
Since PG is so great, you can even change table structure within a transaction and test changes.
@MarkBennett Yeah, it doesn't seem to automatically. You have to pull to refresh.
After using it for a bit I can't decide if that's a bug or a feature.
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It seems like a big structural risk to Mastodon is that unless you're running your own server you're essentially trusting the stranger who runs the instance. Not just to act in good faith, but also to keep the server running.
Today's been a rather sad day for the world. People died and by the look of it, many more will too.
The USA fired cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase overnight, which Russia has responded to by pretty much cancelling the non-aggression pact.
And then there was the incident in Stockholm - which of course the media will claim was worse as it was "our people" (meaning western white people) that were killed.
This is all going to end badly.
Free speech doesn't mean you can be an asshole on someone else's platform that they've allowed you on to.
Free speech in the U.S. means the government can't silence you. This platform isn't run by the government - local, state, or federal.
Play by the rules or build your own platform (on your own dime).
Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").
Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.
Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?
@pzmyers Yeah, it takes longer than that to get to Finnish death metal.
@snype "potential", dammit.
Spring is coming. 🌱
Bring on the tulips and daffodils! 🌷🌷
