Jonathan Rollans
@jrollans@jrollans.com
Location: 39.5501° N,105.7821° W
Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
Updating snac2: 2 minutes
@gyptazy That's not a dockerized Mastodon installation then I presume? Mine (family instance) probably took a lot less than 2 minutes tbh :D
(Not a Snac diss - that looks awesome, but the full Mastodon is also easy to self host)
@troed no docker here… it’s still just four commands but even upgrading rails etc just takes endless time :-/
And I think it’ll work with #snac2 without much effort, if any effort at all!
Bounce - by @anewsocial
https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/
Yesterday I logged in to check it out and everything was just, gone! Can’t remember a thing that was in there, so I guess no huge loss for me, but of course they announce they’re shutting down the day after I start using it again.
#Pocket #Mozilla
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket
ADHD Simulator: An otherwise standard open world game, but at any random point along a any side quest, you may suddenly become in a different place and set to a different side quest. Someone please make this. I would, but I just remembered I left my dinner in the microwave¡
I guess I was only 23 when that particular era ended though. I need to start posting some these old tunes.
I always loved the name of that band - Bus Hop - It was nonsensical and had no meaning; but it just worked for the sound.
How is ESO these days? I haven’t played in over 5 years. I would get a character about 15 hours in and just kind of stop. I’m not sure why, did it with at least 5 characters.
I just wish the it wasn’t called “AI”. Like when those “hoverboards” got popular a decade ago. They did not hover.
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Now I just have to continue unearthing my JavaScript abilities. They’ve been buried a very long time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/health/us-food-recall-list-2024-dg-wellness/index.html
Just submitted a bug report here:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html
You might want to do the same.
I just can’t grasp the notion of maintaining privacy on a completely open network protocol.
What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?
(I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)
Just feeling nostalgic I suppose.
Location: Las Animas
People just don't get Mastodon.
Even, in my case, people with a background in experimental art and political activism. I'm currently involved in endless online discussions about Mastodon vs. Bluesky, and people just don't understand what it's about and why one is preferable to the other.
The language of "instances" and "decentralisation" completely confuses them (and it would be much more helpful to use more understandable, jargon-free language such as "globally interconnected community servers").
Everyone thinks that in Mastodon/the Fediverse/a decentralised network you can only communicate and connect with people on your own instance, and doesn't understand that you can also post, read and connect globally across instances.
I am afraid that after 25 years the cultural hegemony of internet platforms is irreversible. Mastodon confuses people because it looks like a platform.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/
(By the way, your post turned into quality “content” for me, at least. Sorry… couldn’t help it.)
"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla died #OTD in 1943.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067
I watched the premiere of Travelers back when it first aired, not sure why I didn’t keep going, but I’ll give another go!
$19,266.09
That number is the cost per prescription receipt totaled and there could be subsidies or some other price-breaks that the state may get. Next I’ll see if can find out approximately how much the rest of my healthcare costs. It’s gotta be at least a similar number.
President #JimmyCarter created this message to travel on Voyager 1. It's still out there traveling at 40,000 mph, looking for a cosmic community to catch it and play the media.
The only way to make sure you don’t contribute to things like this is to not participate in public internet social media services.
To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:
"I don't care, I use Linux"
Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?
This is a systemic problem.
You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.
Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #space #Astronomy
Wanna help #PeerTube?
We need tests and feedbacks on our future mobile app!
Whether on iOS, Play Store or with an apk, download our test version and share your feedback on here: https://framaforms.org/peertube-mobile-application-release-candidate-1731599644
You have until dec. 8th to share, test and help us have a great release!
Just a reminder: everything you do on social media is public. Even if you delete a post on your instance, it can still exist on other instances, in the cache of search engines or private databases.
And yet it not only lets you post text and images and follow people on other servers... it interacts just fine with Mastodon, GoToSocial, PixelFed and most of the Fediverse while using hardly any RAM or processing power. And it doesn't even need cookies or JavaScript!
Very low admin tax, especially compared to Mastodon.
I'd like to give a shout-out to the author, Grunfink, who has been friendly and helpful whenever I've reported a bug or suggested a change.
Added a new user option to collapse top level threads by default.
Added a new disable_block_notifications
boolean field to server.json
to disable the notifications of Block activities.
Added a new strict_public_timelines
boolean field to server.json
to only show an account's posts and boosts (no trees) in public timelines.
Fixed repeated images in posts from some implementations (those that include an image both as an attachment and as an <img>
tag inside the post content).
Added a small HTML/CSS tweak to improve post previews from some implementations (contributed by nyanide).
Notifications for EmojiReact
activities now show the emoji.
New command-line action insert
, to insert a post by its URL in a user's timeline.
Fixed bad processing/rendering of URLs with two or more @ symbols.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
This release has been inspired by the song Subways Of Your Mind by #FEX.
i just read the absolutely saddest twelve-word short story
“The Church of Scientology has reportedly purchased the Jim Henson Studios Lot”
Anyone got an idea?
I just read a comment on a thread that said something to the effect of “I preferred the internet that wasn’t driven by profit focused influencers” and it made me realize that I loathe that profit-driven focus of social networks these days.
The new Vitals feature in the #iOS18 #Health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #Covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I started feeling bad the Vitals app showed “Outliers” in my sensor data. High body temperature, fast respiration, rapid heart beat, etc…
I assume data centers are frequently decomissioning server hardware as new more efficient hardware comes out. who gets the old stuff?
anyone have any intel on this?
The thing that really gets me about this screen capture situation in the next version of macOS is that it lays bare the hubris of security folks.
I bet they rarely take screenshots - all their work is low-level internal mechanisms. What good is an image of a SHA hash going to do them?
Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of developers working with designers, clients, managers, and other folks who want to see the current state of their work.
We take a shit-ton of screenshots.
On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven
On GOG: https://gog.com/en/game/riven
If you’ve never heard of this company or game and you like adventure games with well thought out puzzles, just get it!
Holy crap, the Riven remake DELIVERS.
On the one hand: it’s gorgeous, incredibly faithful to the original. So good. So grounded and sparkly and welcoming.
On the other hand: Cyan dared to make changes, with a lot of taste; sometimes big changes.
I use the “mindblown” emoji less than once a year, but after a discovery one hour into the game: 🤯
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