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I'm trying to remember what phone menu I was stuck on recently that played …

I'm trying to remember what phone menu I was stuck on recently that played audio of a slightly muffled clacking keyboard between voice input and the response, as if it was a real person typing my question into their computer and not a recorded voice hooked directly into the system.

On one hand, it didn't fool me for a moment. And was kind of off-putting. On the other, at least I knew the call was still connected while I waited.

#ux #phoneMenus #voiceUx

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uspol/scotus: How weird is it…

How weird is it for
(a) Gorsuch to be the swing vote and
(b) Gorsuch and Jackson to co-sign a dissenting opinion?

(Basically, whether you think you need to summarily kick people out at the border or not, you can’t justify it as keeping covid out of the country.)

No surprise, the rest of the “conservative” majority voted to force the government to keep doing it, while the liberal judges agreed that the policy should be allowed to expire.

https://wapo.st/3GrwTBj

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*sigh* my main desktop’s heat issues have caused it to shut itself down during …

*sigh* my main desktop’s heat issues have caused it to shut itself down during akmod compiling twice now.

I think I’ve reached the limits of replacing thermal paste and adding fans.

Probably time to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer cpu/mobo combo that can either handle the higher temperatures or produce less heat under the same load. It makes more sense than water-cooling a (checks release date) 10-year-old CPU.

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Followup the next day after Rimu pointed out that something’s got to actually be *wrong* with the hardware for this to happen.

You’re absolutely right!

Your reply inspired me to try one more time to check the fans — and this time I noticed that the CPU fan didn’t seem to be drawing as much air as I’d expect.

I’ve always cleaned the outside of the heat sink. But the INSIDE was completely clogged with dust!

It took a while to clear it out, but now the box is humming along at temperatures in the solid *middle* of the range doing things that had made it spike up to well above max before! #

For future reference: I removed the CPU heat sink and fan, and fired bursts of compressed air through the sides until I could see through it clearly from either side and looking through the fan. #

Been stress testing it by running multiple BOINC tasks while simultaneously updating all the steam games on the Linux box and Windows in a VM, with Gmail, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pinafore and OpenStreetMap tabs (plus others) open in Firefox, and it’s…just working. Like I’d expect it to.

Yay for compressed air and finally looking in the right spot! #

Hot take: No ActivityPub software should have to write implementation-specific code to do basic federation …

Hot take: No #ActivityPub software should have to write implementation-specific code to do basic federation with another program. The fact that a program, even a work in progress, can follow Mastodon but not Pixelfed means that something is broken in either the spec or the ecosystem.

I don’t mean one app implementing videos and the other not, or one app implementing edits and the other not. I mean both servers implement some feature, and each can federate with itself, but not with each other.

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For example, the current alpha version of GoToSocial can follow Mastodon, but not Pixelfed. That shouldn’t be *possible*. They both speak ActivityPub, so no matter what extra stuff Mastodon or Pixelfed does with following, they should have the base functionality in common — and whether GTS handles the extras or not, that core functionality should work with both or work with neither.

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Edited the OP to make it clearer that I’m talking about the server-to-server federation over ActivityPub, not the user-interface-to-server communication over whatever API the server uses.

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I’ve been slowly redoing parts of my personal website

I’ve been slowly redoing parts of my personal website over the last year or so, continually pulled between two extremes.

1. I want to make everything federate with everything else so it’s as interoperable as possible, from #ActivityPub to #IndieWeb!

2. I want something that doesn’t add any attack surface on top of the webserver, that loads and renders super-fast, and that can be zipped up and tossed on an S3-compatible bucket in the event of financial trouble or untimely demise.

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“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”…

“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”

…that involves generating a public/private key pair and sharing the public key around, signing your messages, connecting to different relays…

People coming from Twitter are confused about *picking an instance* of Mastodon. I think the barriers to entry might be a little higher on this.

https://www.nostr.directory/

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Pokemon Go, Scatterbug/Vivillon

“Hmm, I need more #PokemonGo friends in different regions if I’m going to collect more #Scatterbug / #Vivillion types. What was that site I visited a while back for sharing Pokemon Go friend codes?”

*searches for “pokemon” in bookmarks*

“Ah, https://pokemongofriendcodes.com . That makes sense.”

On that note, my trainer code is 2658 1380 0806 and I play as Magikarpaccino.

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