Jonathan Rollans
@jrollans@jrollans.com
My folks, Biden is the candidate. Not some magic imaginary unicorn candidate waiting in the wings. To pretend otherwise is just wasting time and energy. There is not some mystery person in a better polling position who’s going to appear who will do better against Trump.
No, he’s not many of our first choices. But he’s the nominee. Let’s get out of fantasyland.
@virtualbri Damn straight!
@virtualbri I hear someone recently describe it this way: It's not a marriage. It's more like having a choice of an in-flight meal between chicken, a plate of crap with glass shard sprinkled on it, and then asking how the chicken is cooked.
@camless From David Sedaris!
I also like this one, though I can't find the first source: "Voting isn’t marriage. It’s public transport. You’re not waiting for "the one". You’re getting on the bus. And if there isn’t one going exactly to your destination, you don’t stay home and sulk. You take the one that’s going closest to where you want to be."
@virtualbri yep! maybe I mixed two quotes.
@camless I think you pretty much got the quote, but Sedaris said it in more words. :)
"To put it in perspective, I think of being on an airplane.
The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of sh*t with bits of broken glass in it?’
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked"
@virtualbri Yep. They're both too old for the job, but one is also evil and crazy in equal measure.
@ocdtrekkie Yep! As probable war crime committer Donald Rumsfeld said: "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
@virtualbri Also, if he is too old... we know our backup already. Kamala Harris will do just fine. We still have *no idea* what sort of crazy runs the country when Trump passes. Considering Trump tried to have his last VP killed... anyone who wants that job is going to be a special sort of nuts.
@ocdtrekkie Exactly She will be a steady hand on the wheel with the right goals in mind.
@virtualbri @ocdtrekkie Say what you want about Rumsfeld (please), but he has some amazing quotes. “Unknown unknowns” is another.
@virtualbri Seriously, this. And the Libertarian candidate is not going to win. If you want a third party, start encouraging them to run downballot and build up.
@tptigger Yeah it's comical every 4 years how people expect a third party which has no presence at any level to be viable for the Presidency.
I'm all for more parties, but they have to start local and "build up" just like you said.
@virtualbri Yeah, but I have yet to see one be willing to put in the work to do that.
@virtualbri @tptigger
… and there needs to be ranked choice voting so that a vote for the third party doesn’t equate to a vote for the worst candidate.
@gdinwiddie @tptigger Right, but until that happens, we are where we are.
@virtualbri @gdinwiddie Exactly. You have to work with the system we have, not the one you wish we had
@virtualbri @tptigger Because even if they somehow *did* miraculously get the presidency they'd have that with no support from congress, and would effectively have nothing they could do.
@virtualbri
The former president is in Fantasyland. Don't know why more media isn't talking about that. My friends are. 😜
The idea of letting the Orange Turnip sell more national secrets to antagonistic countries should set everyone on edge including the so-called patriots, but here we are. (Among... so many other things.) And at least Biden has a competent VP, whether or not we agree with everything she's ever said or done too.
@virtualbri
He's my first choice because I know who has his back...
And I am guessing that being a vice president is a black job...😜
💙🔥 Biden -Harris 🔥💙
💙💙💙💙2024💙💙💙💙
@virtualbri Most know the far RIGHT lack any common sense but what some don't know is the far LEFT are equally deranged.
I was once in San Francisco & saw protesters scream at the top of their lungs & megaphone in Union Square about how evil Obama was & how he needed to be ousted.
One shoved a pamphlet at me which I assumed was some MAGA rant but instead to my surprise it was extreme far left, literal communist literature.
Now that same crowd has now been joined by the irrational & desperate.
@virtualbri Also, why are we not calling for the felon to drop out of the race?
Literal convicted felon! 🤷♂️
@virtualbri
Outside point of view: USA seems in a bad situation.
The whole political system seems very outdated, the fact that even just a third party is non-viable because either you get majority or you wasted time and votes is unsustainable.
Oh, fuck Trump
@virtualbri It's not a waste of time and energy. He debated and lost terribly before the convention. The literal purpose of a convention is to select a nominee. It's not too late to go a different way. If he gets the nomination I am 1000% for him, but it's irresponsible to argue we shouldn't even entertain this conversation.
@MisterMoo Did he lose? By who's standards?
@virtualbri
Thursday night, after the debate, I was terrified that Biden couldn’t do it any more. And I fell into a depression.
People saying “He’s the nominee” didn’t convince me to believe in Joe Biden again.
This clip did. And in my opinion, everybody who has any doubt about Biden’s capabilities after the debate should watch this 2 and half minutes of video. It is the answer to our concerns.
[Closing the President’s speech at the Rally in Raleigh the day after]
https://youtu.be/6QtISXR5nKo?si=h03qFe_sPlF8oRjK
@virtualbri About time. And next time, select someone younger!
@canleaf I was a Warren 2020 voter!
@virtualbri And I'm gonna vote for him. Period.
@virtualbri Unlikely.. my bet, he is not even making it for the second debate. All of a sudden he will experience some "Medical emergency" and will be replaced by Kamala. #uspol
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: 🤯
I'll release a new version ASAP fixing this specific bug.
I'm super embarrased. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@grunfink No problem! You're doing a great job, a small bug won't change it at all!
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
I'm intrigued by how L'ak's face changes into a solid state when he first takes of his helmet in #StarTrekDiscovery's "Red Directive". I'm looking forward to finding out more about his appearance! :-)
Is there something already that runs yt-dlp on a server and outputs an rss feed / podcast of the results?
fuck spotify in general and fuck spotify for getting involved in podcasting. they have text selection disabled in the episode descriptions on web so if someone in the podcast says something something "mentioned in the description" and you try to copy it you can't.
@liaizon its wild how many things are disabling text selection these days, on top of making all links into js only buttons that refuse to let you open in new tab easily
@dantescanline "disabling text selection now punishable by death"
@liaizon we dont need our own versions with open source code, we need to be deleting other people's code
@dantescanline sabotage on a massive scale
how do I subscribe to this podcast without spotify? is there really no open feed for it?!
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.
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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.
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can I explore this #globaltalk thing from an emulator? if so is there a tutorial somewhere?
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
@grunfink is there an SVG version yet or shall I make one?
@grunfink no problem I will make one!
@grunfink snac is the 90th icon now up!
I'm stunned that there are (at least!) 90 pieces of software related to the Fediverse...
@grunfink oh I have another hundred or so pieces of server software that I am tracking that don't yet have an icon! and thats not to mention client apps or browser extensions or weird integrations!
Wow so https://fediverse.wake.st has come along way today from how it started. Thanks to @daj for contributing a totally different design and implementing it. This is actually the first time I have ever gotten a pull request before. I have submitted a few for little things but never received one!
@jrollans your welcome! I have been working on it in some form for ages but I finally getting around to having it in a presentable place is really relieving. please feel free to note any errors or missing icons or whatever, and feel free to use any part of the project for whatever
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
Eine wichtige Unterscheidung über die Definition des Begriffs "Fediversum" wird langsam deutlich. Wer entscheidet, was dieser Ort ist? Wie werden wir repräsentiert? Diese Fragen sind nicht leicht zu beantworten, und wenn wir es nicht schaffen, uns selbst besser zu beschreiben, dann wird diese Aufgabe von Leuten übernommen, die unsere grundlegenden Werte nicht verstehen. #fediversum #meta #threads
I need to process more than 8TB of photos and additional TBs of videos…
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).
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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.
So if you see me start following you from here, you will know it is me!