“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.
“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.
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.
10 years ago a young Mountain Lion crossed two freeways…
10 years ago a young #MountainLion crossed two freeways and began a life in Griffith Park, a semi-wild area in the hills of #LosAngeles. #P22 became a trail-cam celebrity, outlived life expectancy for wild pumas and inspired a #wildlife bridge across the 101.
Waning health prompted biologists to bring him in for a checkup, but he was hit by a car first. Injuries & chronic illness were too much for him to survive in a sanctuary, and he’s been euthanized.
I should clarify in case the ALT text isn’t visible – the attached photo from the LA Times is of P-22 in better days, spotted on a wildlife camera.
https://www.latimes.com/story/2022-12-17/stunning-photos-of-l-a-s-celebrity-mountain-lion
I've been mostly offline today, but I've been laughing at #JohnMastodon memes for …
I've been mostly offline today, but I've been laughing at #JohnMastodon memes for the last 44 minutes!
I, uh, should probably stop that and go to bed.
FINALLY If you’re trying to use the Linode marketplace build for mastodon, you need to …
FINALLY
If you’re trying to use the #Linode marketplace build for #mastodon, you need to fix some permissions in one of the #docker containers.
Otherwise it’ll fail on uploading media, accepting follows, possibly more.
Run this:
docker exec –user root live_web_1 chown -R mastodon:mastodon /opt/mastodon/public/system
That’s weird. I woke up my desktop and the tab with the Linode control …
That’s weird. I woke up my desktop and the tab with the Linode control panel was on an oauth URL with “429 Too Many Requests”
Did Fedora (and/or the Linux kernel) add an equivalent to Apple’s “Power Nap” while I wasn’t looking?
I hope it wasn’t spending all day trying to refresh a graph while the system was mostly asleep.
Huh, maybe too many JS timers had stacked up when I suspended the box this morning and they all hit at once.
Either they blocked my IP or they’re having their own problems, because I get the same error in both Firefox and Vivaldi, and only one of those was running earlier.
…
Well, whatever it was, I’m back into the panel now.
🤷
Yeah, I’m pretty sure my Pixelfed photos aren’t shilling malware
Yeah, I’m pretty sure my #Pixelfed (similar to #Instagram) photos aren’t shilling malware. But Twitter won’t let the links through anymore citing “safety.”
I’m on there as KelsonV at Pixelfed dot social
Oh, right, DHMO = Dental HMO, not dihydrogen monoxide
Oh, right, DHMO = Dental HMO, not dihydrogen monoxide
I always mis-parse AD&D insurance at a glance too
5 of the 6 native pollinator-friendly plants I bought from a local conservation society last …
5 of the 6 native pollinator-friendly plants I bought from a local conservation society last month are doing well. The sixth is at least still alive.
Better than my previous track record of 1 out of 4 for the spring round. But the survivor has gotten well-established!
I think it's a mix of transplanting them at the beginning of the rain season and making sure I got them all before the roots had a chance to get too pot-bound.
I cannot find where I saw it mentioned today, but the minimalist ActivityPub server #snac2 …
I cannot find where I saw it mentioned today, but the minimalist ActivityPub server #snac2 by @grunfink looks interesting too.
Tell me you’re a thin-skinned whiner who can’t handle criticism without telling me you’re a thin-skinned whiner who can’t handle criticism.
Tell me you’re a thin-skinned whiner who can’t handle criticism without telling me you’re a thin-skinned whiner who can’t handle criticism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/
tech jargon
Found myself using the phrase “I pulled down a recent master”* with version control at work and…that sounds like something totally different in a non-jargon context.
*long-running internal codebase
IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to …
IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to a technology that saw its rise and fall a century ago…”
The Tech Is Finally Good Enough for an Airship Revival
https://spectrum.ieee.org/airship
#airships #ISeeWhatYouDidThere
Long post about full timelines
Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration, I’m finding that Mastodon has become a firehose. I used to be able to pop in once or twice a day and scroll until the point I left off, but that’s no longer the case.
I don’t want to drop any of the people I’ve followed, but I’m beginning to wonder if it might be worth going back to my old scheme of having topic-focused accounts on different instances as a way of keeping my view organized.
The downside, based on my previous experience, is that having multiple accounts feels like having multiple social networks. And in a way it is! And then of course there are always the overlaps in topics.
Maybe I’ll try that Linode pre-built Mastodon server. Or maybe I’ll try setting up something smaller like GoToSocial or a Misskey fork.
Or maybe I’ll just set up alts on thematicly-appropriate instances like a normal person 😜
I’ve disabled boosts from a few specific people who tend to boost *a lot*, which does help – but there’s that same problem of missing the next layer out.
Lists do help, but the UI for managing them still sucks, and you have to basically make one of the lists your “home” feed instead of, well, your home feed.
Cloudy with a Chance of…
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: New tech leads to an economic boom, but politics and greed downplay scientists’ warnings of long-term dangers of this man-made climate change until disaster strikes.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: A tech company without ethics, run by a nerd who grew up to become the bully he despised, ruthlessly exploits a fragile ecosystem for profit, regardless of damage to endangered species or what remains of the island’s society.
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/05/cloudy/ #movies
Seems even more apt now than when I originally posted it.
One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.
One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.
Fastrack registered my transponder in one lane and my license plate in another lane, somehow ended up not charging me at all, and the agency that manages those roads sent me a violation.
But I have to resolve it through the agency I signed up with, not the one that sent me the violation.
They’ve assured me they’ll fax — yes, fax — the information over.
Now that I think about it, it’s a federated toll network – each instance manages a certain set of roads, and they all communicate with each other through a common tech platform.
ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles …
ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles *within* the web app on #Mastdodon 4, but I hadn’t looked to see that the *actual* post and profile web pages do not actually contain the post or profile content, just JavaScript and the metadata to load it.
In essense, Mastodon profiles and posts are no longer actually interoperable parts of the web. Or as #indieweb puts it: #jsdr
IMO the web has plenty of room for both applications and documents. Applications can be applications, and they can certainly include documents. I’m not objecting to the overall web application UI.
But a document should be reachable *as a document*.
Aha, there is a Github issue:
visual #migraine, weird
I’m fortunate not to get the actual headaches, but I have other #migraine symptoms on a regular basis, including the visual distortions. For me it’s usually an open curve, with the line filled with zigzags flashing different colors, that starts at the center of my field of vision and moves to the periphery.
Last night I had one start *during a dream* and persist when I woke up. The weird part: the curve was rotated 90°: Open downward in the dream and leftward when awake.
Also I think it might have been grayscale in the dream (with full-color perception of the rest of the dream) and color when I woke up, but I’m not 100% certain
Why doesn't anyone in the #StarTrek universe just *go around* the Great Barrier at …
Why doesn't anyone in the #StarTrek universe just *go around* the Great Barrier at the Edge of the Galaxy?
This pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.