Went looking for a decentralised search engine, to see what was being worked on. Found "Presearch", and their "try now" button led me to perhaps the stupidest web page I've ever seen in my life.
#DuckDuckGo going down again (#HugOps to everyone there) has really reminded my how much my unconscious workflow depends on a search engine these days.
@emfhttps://www.emfcamp.org/attendee-content implies that if I want to organise a casual bar meetup, I can add it to the schedule for people to find, but there's no category for "gathering". (a) can I, and (b) if so what should I classify it as?
Rewriting the @manyfold storage engine underneath a load of running instances full of data is one of those scary things that's making me procrastinate rather a lot. But, once it's done, we'll get cloud storage support, which will be important for public instances.
Fun side-effect of building an intentionally-forgetful usage tracking app; sometimes randomly the web host restarts the app because of infrastructure maintenance, and all the data disappears. It's like a GDPR chaos monkey!
I find the recent trend for burned-in subtitles on things like Youtube shorts really irritating, mainly because most of the time they're WRONG. Is this a Tiktok thing or something? People are adding AI-generated subtitles and not checking them? I can't imagine how annoying it is if you're someone who actually needs them for #accessibility. Even content creators I actually like and who should know better are doing this. WHYYYYY.
@Floppy Indeed, I suspect maybe also Instagram Reels. They tend to have quite a bit of animation built into the subtitles (like current word spoken changing colour) which is really not great.
@Floppy Yes, I think a lot are autogenerated and not checked. But some is deliberately wrong to get around censorship by some platforms e.g. the various ways people of colour subtitle things like "white", "genocide", "racism" etc to avoid being banned or limited for discussing oppression.
Historically, I haven't like baked in... but, practically, it means subtitles are more likely to travel with a video when it get reposted/shared across different platforms (not by the original poster).
@mrchrisadams nice, thanks. I've basically got to the point with my home setup / Docker / K8s that I can do it all, and I therefore can't be arsed and want something to lazily manage it for me 😄