blake

@blake@fosstodon.org

A software developer with a passion for the powers, rights, and freedoms of users. Developer of dahliaOS, LucidLog, Bodacious, and more. Sometimes tries to design and write. 19 M (he/him) from Raleigh, NC. Cool tech enthusiast.
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blake, to random

Today I learned Mastodon has a picture-in-picture viewer for videos in toots.

blake, to random

I've finally figured out how to block the Bird and the Alien with uBlock Origin:
||twitter.com^
||reddit.com^

blake,

@yawnbox In order to use Pihole I'd have to route all my traffic through a really small bottleneck (yes, I tried, on a 4gb Pi 4). Plus, all I'm really interested in stopping with these are the links I run across.

blake, to random

I'm now debating -- even more so now hearing that is cracking down on non-English: I occasionally want to try to join a conversation in a language I'm learning (German) -- that I might fully jump ship to my Firefish account @BlakeL.
Up to this point the moderation and pressure here has kept me in check but I'd very much like to stay on good terms with my community and moderation.

I like the freedom the Firefish software gives me too.

blake,

That being said, if anyone knows of a tech or FOSS oriented instance, please let me know -- that might be a much better place for what I use this account for!

blake,

@joel well my language is English so that's usually not a problem (:

blake,

@joel My replies are usually unlisted anyway, I understand the policy is in place for moderation's sake though: I've done the same thing! It would be nice to have a good compromise though.

blake,

@totoroot I haven't heard of any, or at least not recently. @kainoa might know better than I do of any known issues?

okpierre, to bluesky
@okpierre@mastodon.social avatar

The server recommendations (2 gb ram / 2 cpu cores) to run your own personal data server and federate with the Bluesky social network

blake,

@okpierre isn't that about the same as Mastodon?

blake, to mastodon

I think my least favorite thing about is that followers-only threads appear, broken, in your timeline. If you're following some participants but not others, you only see disconnected pieces of a conversation scattered throughout your feed.

blake,

@benjaminhollon I think you were involved in one earlier, mayhaps. 😉

blake,

@benjaminhollon I saw the beginnings of that thread but I'm not completely sure that's the one I saw.

blake, to random

If -- and that's a big if -- I ever decide to make a voxel game, I'm definitely using a .quest domain for the website. It's my favorite TLD, although .foo is a close second.

Fun fact: my website blakes.dev was almost blakes.quest. My dad gave the feedback that .dev sounded more professional and that's really the aim of my personal website so I went with that.

blake,

(I so wish I had more characters to play with; and quotes. Oh how I miss Firefish when I'm not on it.)

If I did that, it would definitely be in Godot 4, which has a plugin that can expose a Lua API, AND a voxel engine already.

I think since I don't know how to worldgen for shit, I'd be better off reviving Beyond the Blue (which has a .quest domain but no longer a website on it).

blake,

@benjaminhollon I have a few domains and only one of them uses a conventional TLD, blakeslabs.com. I picked .com so that I could use it to look reputable when (sending, but mostly) receiving emails at my masked address...

blake,

@benjaminhollon .io is a popular one too.

Have fun registering a .gov domain though 😂

blake,

@benjaminhollon That's true. .com alone is already $30 or so a year! I could be wrong but don't you have to be a registered non-profit to get a .org domain?

blake,

@benjaminhollon I was either misremembering, or remembering how expensive they were when I was younger, or maybe they have a first year sale. But blakeslabs.com did cost me, according to my receipt at Porkbun, $9.73.

blake,

@benjaminhollon .xyz too, I got several emails about them 😆

fuzzychef, to random
@fuzzychef@m6n.io avatar

Should I start a Mastodon instance that is just for OSS project official accounts? This seems to be a need.

If you manage an official oss project account and would be interested in this, please comment.

blake,

@fuzzychef I think that's the aim of fosstodon.org, considering advocacy is heavily discouraged here...

autism101, (edited ) to actuallyautistic
@autism101@mstdn.social avatar

Some autistic people find making phone calls extremely stressful and unpleasant and will avoid them at all costs.

Please don’t try and force your communication preferences on others.

image: https://shreyadoodles.com
@actuallyautistic

blake,

@Peace_out_art @Cassandra @vfrmedia I think there are thingies that connect it to the wireless phone network (maybe even reusing your mobile number?)

Verizon has something like this, at least: https://www.verizon.com/home-office-solutions/wireless-home-phone-lvp2/

dansup, to random
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

sup

blake,

@jr @panda @dansup I almost want to say it isn't federated at all, just attached to your account.

blake, to random

I write messaging protocols for fun sometimes. Today's attempt is called MMP (Micro or Manageable Messaging Protocol). I'll publish the first draft soon to gather feedback.

The idea is that it's built to interoperate directly with Matrix and XMPP (in different conversations, of course), and I'm thinking of reusing the same mechanism to enable external component bridges like both Matrix and XMPP kinda do.

blake,

@mike805 I haven't tested it yet so I can't say for sure but I believe extra fields go into an "unknown fields" area. So as long as the one, well known, common field is in that type, it should work just fine...

msteenhagen, to Futurology
@msteenhagen@provo.lol avatar

What could post-collapse be?

I wrote this a while ago, but it's getting increasingly relevant.

The thin connections that underpin the industry are too fragile to withstand an era of and , of rationing of energy and resources, of widespread , of international suspicion, and of unprecedented away from coastal areas and newly forming deserts.

In such a world, chip manufacturing will be reduced to a trickle.
https://msteenhagen.medium.com/what-could-post-collapse-computing-be-5711a9aa6111

blake,

@robcornelius @msteenhagen I like computers so it's definitely a bad/sad thing to me. I do think there's a LOT of work to be done to make good, calm tech work for everyone -- mostly just getting it into their hands, and getting rid of Big Tech dependencies (and planned obsolescence!)
I think good, local-first e-paper tablets would be a great development in that direction; oh how many times I've wanted to Ctrl+F in a textbook or manual!

blake,

@robcornelius @msteenhagen Hard agree that stuff like TikTok and most if not all of social media, for instance, is pretty bad for individuals and humanity though, and it definitely needs to go.

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