Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
That said, I can definitely think of times when I would want to discuss someone else’s blog post/article/whatever *without* reporting back everything I say.
And times when I wouldn’t want to see everything *they’re* saying when they link to something of mine.
I also like the idea of boosting a blog post and having replies federate as comments.
We’ve all been trained by FB to discuss on the network instead of at the source. That fragments the conversation, and while sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes it helps to, well, centralize.
Everyone who’s asked me for help using IFTTT with Mastodon has asked *here*, not on the blog post, so they haven’t seen other people who had the same problem & how they fixed it.
One thing I’m looking forward to as more types of networks join the Fediverse: boosting across networks instead of cross-posting!
It seems more natural to post a photo to a #Pixelfed instance & boost it here than to post the same photo & caption in both places.
17 U-turns and 2 lefts on the same signal is a sure sign that something was designed badly a block or two away.
As of today, I’ve posted more items on Wandering.Shop (my current main instance) than I have on Mastodon.Social (where I first joined the Fediverse).
A few scenic shots taken around the Long Beach Convention Center during Long Beach Comic Con over the past weekend.
The first is a new walkway that connects the main entrance to the convention center with a theater around the far side.
The second is a building lit up by the sunset reflecting off a building behind me.
The third is a mural on the side of the convention center *under* the theater.
#photography #LongBeach #California #City #LBCC2018
Something I like about the cosplay culture on Instagram is that if you didn’t get the person’s name/handle, people who do recognize them will tag them or politely ID them in a comment so you can credit them.
10th year of the con, still smallish but very comics & art focused (unlike other “comic cons”).
7YO was fascinated by the droid builders as always, and played a lot of laser tag. Wife cosplayed as Prof. Trelawney. I went to see Marv Wolfman & Christopher Priest talk about their careers as writers and editors. We bought some art cards, prints, toys & discount books.
Blog: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/09/long-beach-comic-con-2018/
Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157700841439474
#lbcc2018 #ComicCon
How is it that every time I take exactly two photos of a subject, one photo is sharp, and one photo has the right color balance, and it’s never the same photo?
At least I can adjust color balance…
Daytripper is amazing.
I quite liked the original Elfquest.
Fun Home is really good.
Planetary is a fascinating exploration of superhero/scifi tropes, but works best if you know the references.
Transmetropolitan is really good, but not everyone’s cup of tea.
Sandman is epic, but start w/the 2nd collection & go back for part 1 if you like it. It took 8 issues for the series to find its voice. So while the first collection establishes the setting and characters, it’s a very different tone from the rest of the series.
Astro City is a great reimagining of superheroes, hopeful & standing on its own.
Oh, and Hark! A Vagrant! is a lot of fun also, especially if you like literary and historical humor. It’s a collection of unrelated comic strips rather than an ongoing story.
I’ve started listening to the Graphic Audio adaptation of 52, and I can’t get over Booster Gold’s totally surfer accent, dude.
It’s always amusing when a source file has been changed so thoroughly that the only thing git blames on the previous committer are the curly braces.
In response to concerns that someone could set up a phishing subdomain on a legit primary domain
@jessmahler @rowan @ibagail @DialMforMara @Anke They’d have to alter the registry info (either at the registrar itself or by controlling the network that the target user is on) in order to set up another subdomain and actually get it to function. If they can do that, they don’t need the subdomain – they can alter the records for the primary.
@ibagail The owner of example.com automatically owns http://www.example.com, whatever.example.com, blah.blah.blah.example.com, etc. In the case of YouTube, YouTube.com is the building and www is one floor of the building.
They can let someone else use some floors if they want to, but no one can just grab http://www.youtube.com
That said, it is possible for YouTube to set up different websites with and without www. It’s not common, and most sites choose not to in order to avoid confusion, but it does happen.
Question for other tech folks:
How do you usually pronounce the .war extension (for web application archives)?
I’m always torn between pronouncing it as “war” and pronouncing it to rhyme with “jar” since it’s derived from both .jar files and “archive.”
I can.
Um, now what?
When I first used Instagram, I really wanted to be able to upload photos from my camera & type captions with a real keyboard. But it’s been built around uploading from phones since the beginning, and it just doesn’t lend itself to any other use case, even when you can get it to run on another form factor.
Plus phone photos are a lot better now, & it’s just as easy to transfer pics from the camera to the phone.
In the specific case of Instagram, the website doesn’t offer full functionality: you can browse & update your bio, but you can’t add new photos.
I haven’t tried any game apps yet, partly because I just got an underpowered one to use as a second laptop. (I figure if I get nice hardware, I want a real OS.) It’ll be interesting to use touch apps w/a trackpad…
But I’ve had success with utility apps for Dropbox, KeePass & a VPN.
I was surprised that the Android layer was thorough enough for a VPN app to work, but after looking around the Chrome app store a bit, I think Google decided it was better to leverage the more mature ecosystem than try to push something that never really took off.
…I’ve also seen it as “…jumped over the lazy dogs,” which both solves the s problem and implies some impressive jumping skills for the fox.
This toot brought to you by trying to figure out just how many songs on a Bonnie Tyler compilation were written by Jim Steinman.
I was just wondering about this the other day. New Horizons has taken its first images of its next target (after the amazing Pluto flyby a few years ago), Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69. It’ll reach the object in January.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/now-well-beyond-pluto-new-horizons-sees-its-next-target
@jaycie @anthracite I’ve manually created a slow lane column by using lists. It’s a pain to set up, but it’s at least doable.