"To lose one election to Trump may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose twice looks like carelessness.”
-- not Oscar Wilde
But seriously, the fact that it seems to be close says to me it's already irretrievably broken.
"To lose one election to Trump may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose twice looks like carelessness.”
-- not Oscar Wilde
But seriously, the fact that it seems to be close says to me it's already irretrievably broken.
@futzle Never heard it before (but I have now).
That’s the downside of the post-vinyl era where tracks are just tracks, not part of an album. Some of my favourite songs are the little gems that I found because you used to put on a record and listen to all of it.
@futzle So not Heat Shock Proteins?
@elzbethmrgn Ah yes, Winnie the Pooh. I also sometimes use the expression “These are the wrong sort of bees” resulting in some confusion.
@thomask I used to particularly like this about Time Machine backups when I was a Mac person.
Of course it's much the same mechanism as snapshot with linked files.
@futzle ...and so nice of the Ballarat area to burn so we can have a spectacular sunset.
@georgetakei Yeah, but he also said "It’s so surprising to see it here..." as if that makes any sense either.
It's not as though any of these were carefully chosen words. It's just random, stream-of-consciousness drivel.
@kottke Interesting how a playlist like this dates me.
My peak music time was the seventies and by the early eighties I had pretty much tuned out. I recognise less that ten percent of these songs - take out Queen and movie themes and it's almost none of them!
It wasn't till my son was in his late teens and I started to hear bands like Garbage and Radiohead blasting from his room in the nineties that I reconnected at all.
@evan I can ignore most ads I can’t block if they are not egregiously intrusive.
I started watching a performance of a piano concerto the other day. One minute into it there was a jarring ad for… dancing walnuts or something. I had to assume that behaviour was going to continue so I abandoned the idea.
No better reminder that the ads are the point, not the content.
@elzbethmrgn Me: “I’m just going to pop down to Bunnings to grab something. Won’t be long”. Wife: “Ok”.
Two hours later: Me: “I can’t believe you fell for that”.
@ericgregorich Agreed. For a while I had a relatively small list of feeds, and I would keep reading at night till my eyes bled because “there’s only ten more before I ‘finish’”.
I soon realized this was making it less enjoyable. I started adding everyone’s feed I found interesting till there was effectively infinite posts. Now it’s just a continuous stream of content I get joy from. Much more satisfying.
@jsonbecker I think having both works: a separate category for those who want to find the meatier posts, and intermingled in the feed so that others can discover them serendipitously.
@futzle micro.blog doesn't seem to support Mastodon DM, but I'll help you out with this chore if you like.
I'm in Mount Evelyn. I can pick up if you're this side of town or let me know what the postage comes to and I'll PayID.
@jsonbecker I have books set up on micro.blog too and it works fine, but I’ve also been playing with Bookwyrm as a federated application.
To be honest it’s mostly so I can play with something new and explore how federating (otherwise unrelated) applications fits together.
@chrisaldrich I have mixed feelings about emojis. What's the end game?
Are we trying to have a pictograph for every word and concept? That seems like a odd and ultimately futile quest.
@gr36 exactly how I've felt.
My first thought was "100 million users - this might be the tipping point to start the network effect surge".
Then I realised... Meta. They ain't doing this to put themselves out of business.
@futzle Good grief, no. That's the last thing I'd want to encourage.
Yes, this would be a great step forward.
How would you picture non-ActivityPub federations like Matrix fitting in? Or is that outside the scope?
@jsonbecker We’ve ditched the whole idea of gifts for adults in our family and virtually everyone was utterly relieved.
The notion that you’ll find the perfect gift they didn’t even know they wanted, and will hug you with joy on Xmas morning is a fantasy. It’s much more likely to be nothing more than a grueling charade of mutual obligations that result in a lot of money poorly spent and more stress than joy.
That sounds cynical, but I have nothing against the extended family getting together for a nice meal. It’s a great time for us; I just don’t see why Kmart needs to be involved.
@TildeGartenzaun Well, that was a depressing, but unsurprising, read.
It certainly supports my concerns around corporate motives for “joining” the Fediverse vs embrace-extend-extinguishing it.
Regardless of the Threads devs (possibly well intentioned) pleas to trust them, there is inevitably the path to enshittification for the Fediverse.
@pluralistic It looks like the HTTP 303 redirect from lost-cause.org to craphound.com was temporarily not redirecting to https for whatever reason, but it's fine now.
Book purchased. Looking forward to some subversive bedtime reading.
@pluralistic I assume I'm not the first to point out the TLS security warnings on these links. (I did look for other comments)
They look pretty scary to most people (as they should) and they will likely put off some of your potential customers.
@ryanbooker I'm in this boat too. I'm retired now but still actively coding and messing about with systems, but it's not as though the code is approaching the flawless ideal I'd have hoped for.
Still, the "nice feeling" @manton mentioned – that little dopamine hit – is what has made it worth plugging along for nearly fifty years now.
@manton I use Beeper and I love it, but I can't help feeling it is skating on thin ice wrt ongoing support for protocols like WhatsApp and iMessage. The large vendors won't hesitate to obfuscate their protocols if it is technically feasible and they can get away with it.
Of course, in the meantime, Matrix as a protocol gets out there and perhaps it will worm its way into people's consciousness as the one that doesn't mess you about.
@odd You're probably thinking of Rich Communication Services (RCS) where the message is sent over the Internet rather than squirreled away in the signal path of GSM like it is done for SMS.
Apple have been resisting this because, Apple. I believe they may be relenting on this though.