Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
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).
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
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.
Apparently, Lego mini figures were relatively new when I had them as a kid.
https://geekdad.com/2018/08/happy-40th-birthday-lego-minifigure/
TFW you’re super-thirsty because you can’t bring yourself to go refill your water, only to discover when you finally do that it wasn’t empty in the first place.
@nolan I started college in 1994, and I was super-impressed by the pages I found “on Mosaic” in the computer lab, including this cool movie database thing…
Discovering I could use Lynx over a dial-up terminal was the first game-changer. Getting an actual dial-up PPP connection with a PC version of Netscape changed everything.
But yeah, I can attest to “on Mosaic” being a thing back then.
@kemonine I started w/usenet & mailing lists, then web forums. Launched a blog. Joined friends at LiveJournal. Picked up Twitter early on, followed LJ friends to FB.
Dabbled in MySpace, Google Buzz & Plus, & Tumblr. I’m technically still on G+ & Tumblr, but then I’m technically still on FB.
Quit comics forums when I realized they were making me angry all the time. Drastically reduced FB & Twitter over the last couple of years.
Mastodon feels like early Twitter, LJ & Geocities: optimistic.
Response to @gcupc’s request for opinions: timezones in web apps, geolocation by IP address
My preference is to store all UTC & use JavaScript to calculate the current offset from the client’s clock, and not worry about which time zone since they may move.
Secondary preference is to calculate using jstz and allow them to override.
But given these design choices, I’d say go with UTC default & allow them to set it manually.
I do think the push for HTTPS is the way to go, but as this article points out, it’s not without cost – especially for those with limited bandwidth, high latency & high packet loss, like rural users on satellite internet who can no longer cache locally.
https://thenextweb.com/news/securing-web-sites-with-https-made-them-less-accessible
#https #accessibility #internet #web
But it does mean we need to find another solution for spotty connections (you can’t change the speed of light!) that *does* work with HTTPS.