Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
Updating snac2: 2 minutes

#fediverse #mastodon #snac #snac2 #activitypub

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.

I don’t drink coffee, but I completely empathize with this.

Just submitted a bug report here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html

You might want to do the same.

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Feedback for Apple Maps with the following field filled in: Subject: Gulf of Mexico Feedback Type: Incorrect Business or Place Info Details of Issue: It's not spelled correctly. Comments: This is ultimately a test to see who will fall in line with the authoritarians of a fascist movement. You've failed the test. It seems like a small thing, and maybe it is, but what happens when these same authoritarians start asking for my personal data? At some point, Apple is going to need to stand up to this bullshit. Sooner is better than later.

Getting the “real work” done…

I just can’t grasp the notion of maintaining privacy on a completely open network protocol.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

http://repebble.com/

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.)

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Admin #SelfHosting

Just feeling nostalgic I suppose.

New artwork for the office! #AI

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Framed concert from MAD magazine, or "M-AI-D" in this case with caption 'Giving AI the middle fingers" and an image of a hand with six fingers giving the middle fingers.

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.

#mastodon #fediverse #decentralization

https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/

#technology #apple #meta

(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

#books #science #technology

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) thinking. Tesla is seated in a dimly lit study or laboratory. He wears a dark, tailored suit, complete with a high-collared white shirt and a neatly tied bowtie, reflecting his elegant style. His slender frame and sharp features are illuminated by soft, focused light, emphasizing his high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and slightly furrowed brow.

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.

#Space #Politics

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STATEMENT This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization. We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some -- perhaps many -- may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe. /‘g/ == 427, fee . : Presidenf of the United States of America < 2 2 THE WHITE HOUSE, June 16, 1977

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

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Diagram with large number: 2.7.123 First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

The only way to make sure you don’t contribute to things like this is to not participate in public internet social media services.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

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.

#Privacy #Microsoft

Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #space #Astronomy

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New York Times from Sunday, November 23, 1924. A headline reads: Finds spiral nebula are stellar systems, Dr. Hubbell Confirms View That They Are 'Island Universes' Similar to Our Own.

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.

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralisation

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.

#snac #FediverseSoftware

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.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

#snacAnnounces

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?

No ads. No trackers. No subscriptions. No Cost. Just wallpapers.

https://basicappleguy.com

https://lemmy.world/post/19608194

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: 🤯

#riven #indiegames