Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
I found this old post I wrote on how Marvel or DC would have milked Lord of the Rings as an “event” comic book, with tie-ins, spin-offs, and character spotlights…
…and realized it’s not that far off from what the Hobbit movies actually *did*.
What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
@LOLspam I’d forgotten just how many of these quotes were weird euphemisms.
Interesting: Plume authors and blogs both show up as profiles in Mastodon, but (so far, anyway) I can only follow an author, not a blog.
Cloudflare is launching a gateway for IPFS.
On one hand, I’ve thought it was a cool idea since I first heard about it. (And now I’m thinking of that cache problem with HTTPS sites and high-latency connections.)
On the other hand…it’s a lot easier to remember and type ‘example.com/whatever’ than a hash value.
@Virelai Yeah, that’s one reason I’m keeping mine around after moving to this one. I also have it following my alts on smaller instances, to make sure their hashtagged posts will show up at least in mastodon.social
@Virelai I believe it searches posts that the instance you’re on knows about already, without calling out to other instances. So it’ll show you hashtagged posts from:
– the local timeline
– remote users that local users are following.
– remote toots that have been boosted or searched by URL on this instance.
@VirelaiI’ve found that searching on a small instance like booktoot.club turns up fewer results than searching wandering.shop or mastodon.social, but if I search for a hashtag on a bigger instance, then copy the URL of a toot over to the search box on the smaller instance, the smaller instance will find it the next time I search for that hashtag.
Smart UI on Instagram: if you start to unfollow someone with a private account, it reminds you that if you change your mind, you’ll need to request approval again.
I know it’s not done yet, but when I saw I could boost from PixelFed, I had to try.
1. Follows, likes & replies don’t federate back to Pixelfed yet.
2. Replies do appear on my profile here & on the OP on Mastodon instances where I am following this account.
3. Neither the OP nor replies show up on Mastodon instances where I’m not following this account.
4. I can search the OP on another Masto instance, but it doesn’t see the replies.
It’s an understandable typo, but the “lethal level” and “legal level” of a substance are *very* different things!
At least one hopes so…
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).
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.