Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social
#Emacs, #Wiki, #Switzerland, #Biology.
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My toots expire after 8w.
Ok, I give up after going through my following list for 45 minutes, trying to clean up nonexisting and migrated accounts...
Using the list in the Mastodon pane UI is nearly impossible (jumps back to the top after selecting an account). When logged in, you can use the /following page on the public web UI with additional functions - there's an "unfollow" button on there.
The button is missing for migrated accounts though (why?), and anyway there is no indicator on account reachability.
Huh. TorrentFreak wrote an article about #peertube
https://torrentfreak.com/peertube-a-censorship-resistent-youtube-alternative-180623/
More #bitlbee developments (i.e. the bitlbee-mastodon plugin): we should finally have better control over toot visibility. There's a default setting per account, commands to post new toots using a non-default visibility, and replies use the visibility of the toot you are replying to, or your default, whichever is stricter. Testing appreciated. 😜
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Bitlbee_Mastodon
Make sure you test the *develop* branch!
Your Sunday dose of existentialism:
"When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable."
«There's a horrible conceit gaining ground that websites present someting called "content". I like to think of it as an amorphous, tofu-like substance. You cut it to whatever shape you want, and then pour some kind of syrup or gravy called "social" on top to give it flavor.» – Maciej Cegłowski
http://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm
This is giving tofu a bad name! I was a vegetarian for 20 years. Tofu is great.
social media meta, caring for Show more
EU immigration, rescue ops in the Mediterranean, non-profit orgs Show more
I hope all those responsible for the separation of children from their parents are tried and convicted for kidnapping.
Here I was thinking we were already treating immigrants as badly as possible but no, every year it’s getting worse. Shame on us for voting these people into power. Even if we did not, individually, we did, collectively.
The US president tears children from parents, and in Europe his imitators dehumanise migrants. We know where such hatred leads
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/22/trump-world-1930s-children-parents-europe-migrants
@gargron I just saw this on joinmastodon.org: «Without an incentive to sell you things, Mastodon allows you to consume content you enjoy uninterrupted.» I wondered whether we can change “consume content you enjoy” to something more human like “read posts you enjoy”. Or “see the things you enjoy: posts, pictures, videos, comments, it’s all there.”
Capitalism makes sure all deed are done with maximum misery. Sell as high as possible. Buy as low as possible. Haggle until you tire. Work until you can no more. Those are the affordances of the system. To enjoy yourself and the time you’re given on this earth needs resistance. You need to resist. You need to resist the temptation to exploit yourself and your fellow humans. Resist and enjoy what little time you have left.
This is for @cj and friends. Just a fountain in the old town of #solothurn.
I agree. Masto if perfectly capable of being a ‘social’ blog tool right now. Just needs needs more characters, some rudimentary formatting syntax, and a slight layout change away from these silly colums. Done.
#Discord re-set this flag automatically during the last update. If you don't want it scanning your computer and uploading that info to their servers, check your privacy settings.
This is awful.
I always felt like snappy/flatpak/appimage were stupid ideas, but didn't exactly know why.
Then someone wrote this article
http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/
and suddenly it all makes sense.
@Karneolius Check my and TL of @tinker @vagnes and @jerrys
Also below of list of some recent interactions/TL posts:
@gilscottfitzgerald
@jeff
@stringlytyped
@SandPaper
@liquidSw0rds
@jotbe
@crowd42
@darrenpmeyer
@dildog
@dustofgoat
@eff
@StephenLB @galaxis
@stevelord
@rainmaker
@AlainODea
@cypherpunk
@Viss
@mastor
@Aaron
@lattera (and also bsd.network)
@sillystring
@ng0
@canadianbryan
@dethos
@0x4464
Mainly EN in this list though.
#infosec
3) A large part of Medium’s success with the average Jan Doe is it’s stellar usability and aesthetic. If you don’t match that, forget it.
4) There are a lot of trolls on Medium for commenting reasons. Desiring a M model for commenting reasons may backfire. Not everyone wants to entertain comments.
5) A blog post is not ‘longform’ (unless upwards of ~3K words). Why not just custom extend Masto’s char limit to an equivalent of 500 words?
I’m seeing chatter about needing a federated blog system for ‘longform’ based on Medium, for the main reason blogging needs social to survive.
I don’t think that’s an entirely solid argument.
1) It sounds like mimicking centralized blogging for the sake of it, and a lot of people I know don’t like Medium because it is a ‘club’ model.
2) What’s a matter with installing a foss blog system (e.g. Textpattern) and sharing posts in a separate Masto account? Like you would do on Twieter.
Cont...
remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
