Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
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
Interesting article on using CRISPR tech on a genetic disease clustered around Donegal
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/crisprs-quest-to-slay-donegal-amy/
Not changing its hostname to that, but I think that's going to be its blogging name from now on.
Also just realized I should call the computer, which I've upgraded piece by piece since 1994, the Chip of Theseus.
Just realized I solved a computer hardware problem involving dust on the same night that I watched the #HisDarkMaterials finale.
Wow. #HisDarkMaterials totally nailed the ending
Incredible photos of bizarre waves on (of all places) Lake Erie. Constructive wave interference plus wind.
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.
Yes, brain, thank you for pointing out that when the machine overheats, it's not cool at all.
On a related note, how cool is it that I'm still running a CPU design released literally a decade ago and it's totally responsive and runs smoothly even with gaming? (except when it overheats)
*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.
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! #
Stumbled on this amazing #APOD from 2014
#aurora #nightsky #mountains #snow
Photo credit & copyright: Max Rive
Um…okaaaay…
I guess if I ever need to post an emoji of The Dread Dormammu shrugging…?
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.
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.
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.
TIL that I can choose which tabs are visible in #Tusky …per account!
That means I can replace the firehouse of a Federated tab on my main account here with a list, and I can remove the empty Local tab on the single-user instances I'm testing, and so on.
Crescent moon and Mercury as seen a few nights ago. Venus had set below the hills a few minutes earlier. Not a great shot, but “the camera you have…” and all that.
Finally settled on this #GulfFritillary #Butterfly as my best #photo on Flickr for the year. I like some of the other photos better for where I was, or what I was trying to do with the shot, but I think this came out better overall.
Other candidates include a squirrel, autumn trees, and black-and-white sunbeams, but this was the most attention-catching at a first glance.
Someday I’d like to run into some more local #PokemonGo players just so I can tell PereUbu that someone around here gets the reference.
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.
This is further complicated by the fact that all the software wants to be the only thing at the root of your website, takes extra effort to put it in a subfolder and have it actually work, and why would you want to have a mix of static pages, blog, and microblog in different places on the same hostname?
“If you release our guy's info, we'll release the info on your guys that they already release on a regular basis!” is kind of a weird threat.
