danhon

danhon, 3 months ago to random

hello I have I created some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-actually-really-serious images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or, so help me, funny

1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience
2. Do not reply with a software suggestion
3. (multipart) This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.

YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message.

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danhon, 7 months ago to random

in other news, when you search for "urgent care" at your health insurance provider's directory, and the database clearly includes opening hours for each provider, PERHAPS PROVIDE A WAY OF FILTERING FOR AND PRIORITIZING THE ONES THAT ARE ACTUALLY OPEN

danhon, 1 year ago to random

worst thing about a new house is choosing a new ssid

danhon, 10 months ago to random

Threads is totally the Westfield Mall of social media.

danhon, 3 months ago to random

the whole "don't worry, inflation's fine!" to mean “the economy is doing ok why are you complaining” is a massive example of directly contradicting peoples' day-to-day experience when:

• things do cost more, still
• horrific layoffs are happening

and there’s personal experience of an increase in shitty bureaucracy and shitty capitalism (see: enshittification) that just makes life harder

[cont]

danhon, 11 months ago to random

omg it's 2023 and someone is posting how to style RSS using xslt have I fallen down a time pit

danhon, 8 months ago to random

OH: you designers were so busy asking “how might we?” that you didn't stop to ask “what gives us the right?”

danhon, 11 months ago to random

Never buying a house again without some sort of mmWave terahertz high res scan, thumper-style underground survey and a fully reconstructed digital twin going back until the land was first stolen wtf

also still figuring out how to do GitHub for houses and document version changes

hell just having a place to take pictures of everything

danhon, 2 months ago to random

Software and finance

• killed the radio star
• started the fire
• will let you down
• will make you hurt

danhon, 4 months ago to random

computer on every desk and in every home
computer in every pocket
computer in every pocket and on every wrist
computer in every pocket, every wrist, and in every ear-hole
computer in every pocket, wrist, ear-hole, and on every face

danhon, 3 months ago to random

I'm gonna be that guy and point out that when people say "the Fediverse" what they probably more specifically mean is "what's implemented by Mastodon, a social network built on top of ActivityPub" and that for certain conversations, this matters.

danhon, 10 months ago to random

So public institutions understand that all their Twitter accounts are now only visible to people with Twitter accounts now, right?

danhon, 9 months ago to random

oh nothing, just a reminder that mitch mcconnell is going to be receiving healthcare that he thinks other people will never, ever deserve

danhon, 3 months ago to random

If your code of conduct hasn't grown from "don't be a dick"to thirty pages of clearly written explanatory notes along with actions taken over the last 15+ years then are you really running an online community*

• no you are not and for the avoidance of doubt the above is a super good sign that you are doing a good job

danhon, 11 months ago to random

The Starfleet vessel USS Citation Needed, a secondary support science vessel tasked with verifying and replicating new scientific phenomena and discoveries.

danhon, 1 year ago to random

You know, I bet a whole bunch of "onboarding people to Mastodon is hard because of the choosing an instance thing" could be mitigated by letting instance users generate and share invite codes to the instance they're using, which are effectively just links to that instance's signup page, but see how they'd already feel different?

danhon, 3 months ago to random

So you're telling me these Bluesky invite codes I've been holding on to as an investment are worthless now. Well great. Just fucking great. What the fuck.

danhon, 4 months ago to random

this is probably the best place to ask:

what're the exact steps I should take to stop using pinboard and switch to something else?

1. 68,731 bookmarks in pinboard
2. I use the pinboard bookmarklet in macos safari
3. I use/pay for full text search
4. I add bookmarks on iOS from the share sheet using Pushinpin.app
5. I browse/search my bookmarks on the pinboard website (e.g. Pushpin can't handle my 68k bookmarks)
6. bookmarking needs to be fast. extensions are slow on macOS Safari.

danhon, 4 months ago to random

Now services revenue can increase in three dimensions!

danhon, 3 months ago to random

So I see TED invited Bill Ackman and Bari Weiss?

danhon, 3 months ago to random

Considering a Hallway Track titled “Snow Crash Was A Warning, You Idiots”

danhon, 5 months ago to random

Wanna know a big reason why sending email to, say, 15k people costs a lot of money/effort/time?

Would you be interested in learning about the difficulties of assuring delivery into an inbox when there's, say, only two major email providers who just do whatever they want?

danhon, 11 months ago to random

I guess the era of cheap APIs to build platforms is over now that cheap money has gone and all those platforms need to focus on profitability, it's kind of like ppv doubling down on increasing fees.

danhon, 11 months ago to random

Hot take: spatial computing née virtual/augmented reality will be super depressing for information workers (sic), never mind everyone else, because all information work is still broadly document-centric, which means windows of things that still broadly look like bits of paper.

danhon, 8 months ago to random

Reasonably sure that the rumored Apple Chromebook competitor is going to be more like an iPad than a MacBook, in the sub $800 price points.