Jonathan Rollans
@jrollans@jrollans.com
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.
Feature request: Could all the social network apps please put different light-colored backgrounds on the feeds so I can remember which one I’m looking at?
@ironicsans How about if we put them in the same timeline, too? 😉
@chockenberry 😮 Which app is that?
@chockenberry I remember now seeing the Kickstarter! I totally slept on that. Should have moved when I had the chance. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
@chockenberry How does Tapestry handle people who cross post to multiple platforms? Does it consolidate those duplicate posts somehow?
@pvanb Not yet, and probably not for version 1.0 (it’s a harder problem than it appears to be on the surface due to subtle platform differences). But it’s something we want to figure out…
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.
@grunfink I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.62 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26495
Currently the GitHub Continuous Integration checks are queued, so I don't know when that will complete or what the results will be, but hopefully it's just a delay in the process and doesn't reveal any errors.
Thank you for your continued improvements!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
I am loving it. Very happy to have made this my primary #fedi instance. sanfranciscan.org is easier to maintain thanks to podman, but we are still talking about 10-15 minutes of downtime.
If you were born before March 1994 then you're older than most people.
@NanoRaptor I’m younger than most medieval kings if they were alive today
@NanoRaptor and that hurt my feelings dot png
@NanoRaptor The math teacher in me immediately translates that statement (back, probably) to 'The median age of people worldwide is 30 years and 7 months'.
@wynke Boom. tha't's it. currently about 30.6 years. Close enough for a shitpost!
@wynke Tha't's is going in my compendium of fuckups this very minute.
@NanoRaptor You hadn't looked up the numbers before posting? I am very impressed.
@wynke Only the 30.6, and ran from there!.
I usually post it as "if you're 31 or older" cos it hovers around there.
@NanoRaptor I'm seeking refuge in the local medium age being 42,3. Being from 85, that still just about serves me.
I might consider a longer stay in Japan in the near future though.
@AngryAnt I have memories of feeling old that pre-date your birth!
@AngryAnt No really. I had an announcement on the radio that I'd turned 13 and was a teenager now, and I remember standing in the doorway of my room looking out at the world going "ungh. It's just going to get worse from now on isn't it?!"
July 1984.
@NanoRaptor I mean it was 1984 - I think an "ugh" was warranted in general?
@NanoRaptor ? Census 2021 had median age at 37m and 39f ... so roughly 38. That would make 1986ish the cut-off for "younger/older than most people" ?
@NanoRaptor no thank
@NanoRaptor there's so many words in English and you had to choose these.
@NanoRaptor What's most interesting is thinking about the deviations from that.
Where (geographically) is that true, and where is not true?
What are the contexts in appears not to be true? e.g., where do we simply skip counting kids? Where do young *adults* voluntarily fail to show up?
For example, the median *voter* in the *US* is around 50 years old, but the median (living) *person* on *earth* is around 30.
@jrollans we live in a dystopia.🤦♂️😔
@jrollans @Turnimunt fedidb.org
👍
Anyone got an idea?
@jrollans I use to have my own misskey server but than my main rig died.
might set one up again either next month or the month after that.
No ads. No trackers. No subscriptions. No Cost. Just wallpapers.
@BasicAppleGuy is not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
@BasicAppleGuy Shots taken!!!!
@BasicAppleGuy I can’t believe how bad the competition is. Maybe you should consider building an app…?
@BasicAppleGuy awesome wallpapers!
@BasicAppleGuy you should make an app 😉
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…
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.
@chockenberry Wait. I thought the popups were relating to screen recording services (i.e. like sharing your screen on a Teams call). Not screenshots.
Does it apply to screenshots as well?!
@leoncowle Anything that touches the pixels on your display.
@chockenberry But does taking a screenshot, using the built-in OS hotkeys, count as something that “touches the pixels”? It's the *OS* doing it, not an application.
@leoncowle Yes, that counts. In fact, folks have noticed that CI workflows that build projects and take screenshots from the command line are also affected.
The only exception is Apple Remote Desktop (VNC) because it has some very specific private entitlements.
@chockenberry Maybe this is going to end up being a backtrack like replacing mdnsresponder with the barely functional discoveryd.
I'm still mad about that.
@evilpeacock You’re welcome! https://furbo.org/2015/05/05/discoveryd-clusterfuck/
(I have it on good authority that this post got the backtrack in motion.)
@chockenberry
Time to dust off your silicon cape and do it again perhaps. I probably read this post with glee at-the-time, along with a lot of other social mentions and of course @daringfireball writing extensively on it as well.
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!
And… it’s got PCVR support and I will finally realize a dream I had when I was a young teenager. I will go to the islands in VR!
I guess there’s one upside to my deteriorating memory function. Like seriously, I appreciate being able to experience the things I love, again, for the “first” time. Hopefully the old memory bank doesn’t get any worse.
I of course will customize and upgrade it myself however.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688
Is there something already that runs yt-dlp on a server and outputs an rss feed / podcast of the results?
Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json
file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8)
for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.
Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).
On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications
server flag is set to true
, unveil()
is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail
binary and pledge()
doesn't set the exec
promise.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink
This release has been inspired by the album Eternal Embers by #Meltt.
I really miss the frequency of the rain storms where I grew up.
I'm running the following services myself, and your donations are increasingly important!
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Please consider donating at one of the links on https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project
Together we can achieve so much, your support helps us go even further ❤️
The answer is: 1 (doesn’t count though because he’s a threads tech engineer).
Working on a page for my #fediverse SVG icons. Anyone want to help make this page better? My CSS and HTML abilities are lacking...
The page is live at https://fediverse.wake.st
I have a @Codeberg repo here up here https://codeberg.org/FediverseX/pages
An important distinction is slowly being uncovered about the definition of the term "fediverse." Who is it that gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented? These are not easy questions to answer and if we don't do a better job describing ourselves, then the job will get done for us by people who don't understand the underlying values we hold. #fediverse #meta #threads
I’ve been wondering what I’m going to do in the not-too-distant future when my photo library is so large I have no choice but to pay for its storage somewhere.
Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt
file at the server base directory; see snac(5)
and snac(8)
).
Improved page position after hitting the Hide
or MUTE
buttons (for most cases).
Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS
define).
Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.
The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.
Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.
Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink
This release has been inspired by the song The Raven by #CarolineLavelle.
Here's a comparison of the 6-foot model (#StarTrekTNG's "Peak Performance"⬆️, "The Vengeance Factor"⬇️) and the 4-foot model ("Reunion") of the USS Enterprise-D, seen from similar angles. The 6-foot model shots re-use the same footage.
I quite miss the satisfying “kla-chunk!” sound they made.
Speaking of ActivityPub, anyone have some concise and simple breakdown documentation links handy? There’s kind of an overwhelming amount or information out there.
I’ve once again started the process of installing and setting up Nextcloud on one of my servers. It occurs to me that my Nextcloud instances always die a slow death. Something about that piece of software, I think, sort of just falls apart over time. This time I’m attempting to future proof it a little bit more than the previous times, but honestly I fully expect it to go about the same as usual. Then again, historically I have installed all kinds of plugins (or apps) and was running it on fairly low powered hardware. Setting it up on some decently powerful hardware on this go around though. I’ll also try to be more conservative with the app installs as well.
I might actually set up two separate instances and federate them together. Perhaps if I maintain multiple servers they’ll survive a bit longer? Or I’ll just be creating twice the amount of tinkering and maintenance for myself.