My new standalone @gotosocial server is set up, and I'm getting ready to migrate over to @kelson
I'll keep this as a backup, though – I can't quite bring myself to leave the 'shop completely!
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
My new standalone @gotosocial server is set up, and I'm getting ready to migrate over to @kelson
I'll keep this as a backup, though – I can't quite bring myself to leave the 'shop completely!
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Millions Of Cats
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/30/game-jam-winner-spotlight-millions-of-cats/
(In response to Tantek’s post on The Ephemeral Web, which he roughly equates with JS;DR.)
I think there’s a case to be made for deliberately (on the part of the author) ephemeral vs accidentally ephemeral as well. I look through my old social media posts and while some of them are worth preserving, a lot of them aren’t. And of course some people don’t *want* that permanent record. This is where things like Mastodon’s auto-delete feature, and the way you can easily set exceptions to keep some posts online, are useful.
This is also why I still take a PESOS approach a lot of the time: my posts on Mastodon or GoToSocial end up being rough drafts for a more polished article on my website.
New post: Using Thunderbird to Move Email to a New Account
Thunderbird can move messages from one IMAP account to another. Just drag and drop! But Gmail makes it a bit more complicated.
#computers #email #thunderbird #google #degoogling #gmail #howTo #techTips #defaang
New tech tip on my website!
Readable Email and Web Pages
It’s 2024. If you’re still designing websites or email like you would design an 8.5×11″ promotional hand-out on a sheet of paper, you really haven’t been paying attention to how people use the internet over the past decade.
#web-development #webDevelopment #css #usability #accessibility #howTo #techTips
Does #SpamCop actually still work these days? Since changing my email provider I thought I’d set up a reporting account there. But they kept IDing my host’s spam filter as the source. And every form on the site discards your input if you hit back – even from a *preview*. Configuring mailhosts kicked out a 500 error. Same problem with the error reporting. When I tried to create a forum account, it blocked all access to the forums while I was waiting for the confirmation email. π€¦ββοΈ
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I “signed out” of the forum that I wasn’t actually set up on, and was able to find that it’s a known issue with my mail provider…FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS
https://forum.spamcop.net/topic/44923-mail-hosts-does-not-recogize-all-mailchannels-hosts/
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Forum registration finally showed up.
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Oh hey, I can add my AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ handles to my profile. In case someone wants to contact me. By a service that hasn’t existed for years.
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Wait, ICQ still exists?????
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
Questions for people who know #ActivityPub better than I do:
1. How is #federation supposed to interact with HTTP #redirects? For example, if I import a post to a new account, and put a 301 redirect on the old location, should another AP instance interact with the post at its new location from then on?
2. Does anything actually implement it?
Wondering if it would be possible to do that with a few posts on a single-user instance I'm planning to move to a new domain in the near future.
On poll reports vs. showing up to vote: “Don't listen to the polls, they're trying to manipulate you, trying to make you confidently hopeful so you'll stay home because you believe the job is done, or trying to make you depressed and defeated so you'll stay home because the job isn't worth doing.”
https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/12/fear-hope-and-polling.html
Updated TV review on my website!
Star Trek: Picard – Season One
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I have mixed feelings about the first season of Picard. But later seasons have given me a new appreciation for it.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/tv/picard-s1/
#tv #starTrek #scienceFiction #sapience #artificialIntelligence #space #review
Regarding this aside in https://www.theverge.com/23655762/l4s-internet-apple-comcast-latency-speed-bandwidth : “I invite anyone whoβs used dial-up to tell me how soft I am and to reminisce about the days when every website took 10 seconds to load, uphill in the snow both ways”
Naah, the snow was only in December when people added those scripts to display falling snow on their web pages.
Oh, the rest of it? Oh, yeah. And of course stats, tracking, ads, and JS frameworks have been using up the gains in network speed ever since.
Your reminder that when a right-winger complains about antisemitism, they're talking about criticism of Israel, while when left-wingers complain about antisemitism, we're talking about prejudice against Jewish people.
It should be pretty obvious that these are not the same thing.
Just realized my blog is old enough to drink.
Nightmare Before Christmas – inspired mosaic made from pumpkins and squash sets Guinness World Record
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/southampton-farms-tim-burton-inspired-8849950
#halloween #NightmareBeforeChristmas #mosaic #pumpkins
I find it amusing that every time someone texts (or rarely, calls) my phone by accident because they typed someone else's number wrong, and I reply, “Sorry, I'm not ____, I think you have the wrong number,” they ALWAYS, without fail, reply with something along the lines of “Are you sure?”
Study observes plant communication via volatile compounds absorbed through stomata.
#science #plants #biology #botany #communication
“No one is sure why, but in 1898 Rufus T. Owens of Central City, Colorado (elevation 9,000 feet) decided to build a submarine, which he named the Nautilus. He and a few friends launched it on nearby Missouri Lake. They ballasted it with three tons of rocks. Owens intended to captain the maiden voyage himself, but fortunately for him, the submarine sank before he had a chance to climb inside.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mountain-submarine
#submarine #weird
Intriguing insight in this review of the Fairphone 5:
There are two main types of cell phone buyers – those who love checking out the new gadgets and getting a new phone, and those who “hate saying goodbye” to their old devices, who would rather not replace a phone for mere planned obsolescence because it still works *just fine* except for this one little thing that either can be worked around or *should* be fixable.
Fairphone is intended for the second group
https://www.theverge.com/23895548/fairphone-5-review-price-features
I’d love to get a Fairphone for this reason. But I also don’t want to get a new phone right now, for the same reason.
Here’s hoping what I’ve got lasts long enough for this model (or the next) to reach the US.
Told the WordPress survey that one of my three must-have plugins is the Classic Editor