Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
“You keep dismissing these notifications. Do you want to stop showing them?”
At least it asks.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications on sight because I don’t need them, and it would be extremely useful to stop them from interrupting me.
Sometimes I dismiss notifications because I do need them, but I don’t need to follow up (at least not on the phone), and the notification is all I need.
Photographers who shoot film: Where do you buy film? Where do you get it developed?
My son found my old manual SLR camera and I was showing him how everything worked…. without film.
This has been an incredible week for them.
Both on Photog.Social
Twilight on PixelFed.Social
Orange clouds on PixelFed.Social
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?
I’m still getting used to having reading glasses, but it’s starting to be automatic that when I sit down at my computer, I pick them up.
I picked up my sunglasses by accident.
This LCD monitor is polarized horizontally.
That’s a little extreme for “Dark Mode!” 😎
Fiery #sunset. One of those moments when you can’t stop and pull over to take a photo, but you can pause at a red light.
The next day:
I saw photos of this same sunset from at least 3 other people in the LA/OC area that I know or follow – but because we were all in different places relative to the landscape and clouds, and took the photos at different times, they all ended up looking different.
Pink clouds and blue sky, coastal cliffs, trees, buildings, orange clouds…a real mix.
Took the laptop home. It’s still going. And because the time estimate keeps swinging back and forth, the only way I can tell it’s actually working is sticking a Post-It on the screen to see if the progress bar has moved in the past hour.
Would it kill someone at Apple to show a percentage? Or break the bar into segments?
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books
A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.Sergey Savitsky, an engineer, is accused of stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, the Sun reports.
In the past 5 minutes, the progress bar on FileVault has shown 9 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, 7 hours, and “More than one day remaining.”
Because macOS isn’t willing to say, “I have no idea, it’ll be done when it finishes.”
Ambiguous typo: Thuesday.
@WelshPixie As long as the truck doesn’t get *too* tired…
(I saw this about 10 years ago, during a traffic jam, so it was actually possible to take the photo. Source: https://hyperborea.org/journal/too-tired/ )
@trini Wow. I don’t remember how much it got into that in the one book I read, but I imagine that would really start grating on me after a while.
I do remember him telling a story at a convention about late in the first book’s publishing cycle discussing “wait, the monarchists are the good guys, and the Republic of Haven are the bad guys. How do we fix this?” And they found a page where they could add “People’s” without messing up the page proofs.
“The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed by a series of unplanned interactions. This unplanned chain of interactions creates a sense of being “pulled” deeper into the digital space, making the user feel out of control.”
Overloaded! Someone was trying to move boulders on wooden pallets for landscaping, and they seem to have been a bit much for the pallets to handle…
Comments from Facebook:
Jim Vibber: Possibly. The pallet underneath looks okay, and the band around the boulder *might* be tight. I wonder if the upper pallet was intentionally smashed to keep the boulder from rolling back and forth during transportation.
Oct 28, 2018, 3:12 PM
Kelson Vibber: Hmm, that could be it.
Nov 1, 2018, 3:25 PM
@KelsonV So I can boost a Pixelfed photo on Mastodon, but I can’t find it in hashtag searches. Let’s try replying!
Also, if I add one of the hashtags to the reply, like #halloween, will it start show up in searches on Mastodon?
Braaaaaains!!!!
Surprisingly simple #brain #cupcakes suitable for #Halloween or any sort of #zombie event. The hardest part is actually getting the icing the right color.
On PixelFed.Social
Shared on Wandering.Shop
Argh! I remember when setting up file sharing between a Linux computer, a Windows computer, and a Mac computer all *worked*!
I finally gave up and used scp.
Wow: Fraudsters bought up a bunch of apps that use in-app advertising, tracked user behavior, then used bots to mimic that behavior to generate fake traffic to the ad network that looks like real users’ activity, making it hard to screen out the fraud & allowing them to collect ad revenue. :blob_dizzy_face:
Given the amount of energy this stuff uses, I’m not convinced.
“Add Climate Change to the List of Things Blockchain Is Supposed to Solve” 🙄
