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harmonicarichard

@harmonicarichard@techhub.social

On the web since 1996. I am currently playing with PHP. I also play with Harmonicas but I can't play songs yet.

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WillRobinson, (edited ) to random

Being a mom in the US is dangerous—and wildly expensive:

More new mothers die in the US than in any other rich country. Several times over. The US has a maternal mortality crisis. ...

Giving birth in the US is insanely expensive ...

America remains one of exactly two countries that don’t mandate maternity leave ...

A lack of accessible healthcare

The cost of childcare in America is astounding. ...

harmonicarichard,
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@WillRobinson The American Dream has been replaced with the American Nightmare. Gun violence inflicted on children, matricide and more. The US needs to recalibrate it's compass.

jeff, to internet
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    harmonicarichard,
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    @jeff The answer could be quite simple. "Do people know that a government official tweeted this information?" If the answer is no, then that's when there is no value in staying.

    ernie, (edited ) to random
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    Twitter is straight up recommending a space hosted by Richard Spencer. I can't remove this. It's stuck at the top of my timeline

    EDIT: I have determined this was because a journalist I was following decided to listen in. (This is a situation where, if you’re reporting, you might want to pull out your secondary.)

    harmonicarichard,
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    @ernie you can close the twitter tab or app. I do.

    rolle, to fediverse
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    The only thing we currently don't see on is the media, especially local media. But I kinda don't miss the media being entangled in social media so much. It often doesn't bring any extra value to it now that I think of it.

    Seeing the handles like this make me think "oh, they're on Twitter, I wonder what they are doing there" and that's about it. I probably wouldn't follow push-style posts anyway.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @rolle Imagine if they were all on substack and each follow meant another series of e-mails. Substack is really noisy, even when you don't visit the site.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    I wake up to the damned coronation. I find it offensive.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @jeffjarvis Brexit and Drumpf were far more offensive. The king is primarily decorative.

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    A whole lot of Twitter applications (for using the API) have been shut down recently. Mine included.

    Trying to find out why is pointless. There’s nobody left to answer you. You don’t even get an email with a poop emoji.

    It’s a fucking ghost town, running on fumes.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @Green_Footballs Musk paid 44 billion to dedtroy twitter and rename it x. Corp.

    MariaTheMartian, to random

    The character viewer has mahjong tiles!
    When will I need to type in mahjong tiles?
    I don't know but I love it!
    🀞🀛🀓🀕🀎🀋🀟🀝🀌🀊🀜🀡🀠🀘🀙🀤

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian I like to play Mahjong. I even considered buying a physical game set until I saw the price.

    MariaTheMartian, to random

    PIXIES - DIG FOR FIRE

    🎵 "No, my child this is not my desire."🎵

    https://youtu.be/xekfBhiqfig

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian i have seen them play live twice.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian A friend was a fan so we bought ticketss to see them at Arena in Geneva when they started touring again. A few years later I saw them at a music festival where I was either a volunteer or camera operator for a web company. I don't remember.

    MariaTheMartian, to random

    The Calckey Effect:

    Calckey induced insomnia during your first week at Calckey.

    You will stay up all night customizing and learning the features of Calckey while reading introduction posts.

    This is the way.
    🛸 👽

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian I finally read it as calc key, not calcey. After spotting my typo I finally found the right site.

    MariaTheMartian, to random

    OK I'm up.
    🛸

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian Good Morning.

    nucliweb, to random
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    Use media to define a media query to load a responsive image

    The browser loads the image.jpg in the mobiles version, the image-wide.jpg in tablets resolutions or bigger, and the image-ultrawide.jpg will be loaded in screen resolutions bigger than 1200px

    harmonicarichard,
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    @nucliweb Is what you are demonstrating a more elegant media query? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queries/Using_media_queries

    jpmellojr, to random
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    A new generation of clickbait websites populated with content written by AI software is on the way, according to a report released Monday by researchers at NewsGuard, a provider of news and information website ratings.
    https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2023/05/ai-generated-clickbait-websites.html

    harmonicarichard,
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    @jpmellojr I feel that this is nothing new. Spam blogs have been around for decades. The challenge is to determine what is spam from what is not spam. People think that AI saves time but it doesn't, when we see how much extra content we have to sift through, to find something worthwhile, let alone written by a human.

    MariaTheMartian, to animals

    Apparently Coco has hunting in her genes.

    She is half poodle. Poodles were originally duck hunting dogs.

    She is half cocker spaniel. Cocker spaniels are used to flush ground birds, like snipe.

    When we go outside, she squares her body off and stretches her neck out long, at attention, primed to bolt.

    When I say GO she bounds across the yard in 4 great big leaps and goes looking for the squirrels who taunt her everyday.

    The hunting instinct is very strong in her.

    I should have named her Artemis. Damn.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian The next puppy will be called Artemis.

    atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediversenews
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    harmonicarichard,
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    @atomicpoet One of the key flaws of BlueSky is that people follow, without conversing first. It reminds me of Plurk. It's a network where you get your ego stroked by follows, but end up feeling lonely because interactions are rare. I don't want followers, I want conversations.

    atomicpoet, to random
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    In all this talk about whether AT protocol will "beat" ActivityPub, I just remembered something...

    Jack Dorsey rarely hangs out on Bluesky! He prefers Nostr!

    😮

    harmonicarichard,
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    @atomicpoet I'd flip the question. If AT is good, why isn't it integrated with Wordpress yet? ActivityPub has a clear advantage, after being implemented into Wordpress via the plugin.

    jerry, to random
    harmonicarichard,
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    @jerry Bluesky has a way to go before being a Mastodon competitor. it has 40,000 users, compared to Mastodon's million+

    MariaTheMartian, to random

    When someone says they hate cats
    ​:blobhaj_knife:​
    The fedi

    harmonicarichard,
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    @MariaTheMartian I like cats, I can read their intentions, unlike with dogs.

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    Huge news 🥳

    WordPress now has 3,000 ActivityPub plug-in installs.

    Which means that on a per node basis, WordPress’s install base is appr. 25% comparative to the size of Mastodon’s install base.

    If I were to hazard a guess, WordPress is now the 2nd largest Fediverse server software in terms of active nodes.

    In terms of Fediverse server installs, it’s more than possible that WordPress could overtake Mastodon.

    https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/110258116938066671

    @fediversenews

    harmonicarichard,
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    @atomicpoet @fediversenews This makes me very happy, because I happlilly use Wordpress as a Twitter and Facebook replacement. This confirms I had the right idea.

    esther, to random

    Love it when people say they need an SUV “because we’re a big family”

    …

    A typical SUV has 5 seats, same as typical compact cars have had for many decades.

    If you actually needed more seats, you’d be driving a van.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @esther I drove a Previa for a long time. Great seating capacity, and good for transporting bikes.

    pfefferle, (edited ) to fediverse
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    WordPress.org is counting 3.000 installations of the Plugin so far 🎉

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

    harmonicarichard,
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    @pfefferle I am one of those installations, although I have not done much with it.

    WillRobinson, to random

    Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

    Oscar Wilde

    harmonicarichard,
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    @WillRobinson "Should I stay or should I go?" "wake me up when you go, go" ;:-)

    rolle, to fediverse
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    My most used social medias in 2010:

    1. Twitter
    2. Facebook
    3. Foursquare
    4. Bebo
    5. StumbleUpon

    My most used social medias in 2023:

    1. Mastodon
    2. Instagram
    3. Reddit

    In the beginning of 2010 I was registered to over 150 social media sites. The rise of the social media were exciting times. There were rarely any algorithms, no TikTok, no Instagram for Android, no ads on Twitter.

    However, over the years everything went to shit. The social media sites died one by one and couple of the dominating players slowly shifted to platforms where your data was no longer yours, where you were the money machine. The sad thing is, most of the people didn't even notice this change.

    I'm really hopeful about the rise of the open Internet, , etc. We need this.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @rolle I complained and blogged about the change from conversations to hashtags in 2007, as well as about the emerging cult of personality, the idealising of million follower accounts. I was way ahead, with my criticism. I saw the flaws decades before others.

    harmonicarichard,
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    @rolle One of my other comments is that social media forgot about ROI for users. They focused so much on ROI for corporate and PR interests that they forgot that users need a reason to stick around.

    aral, (edited ) to internet
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    Spam alert: thegx.ca/forum

    Dear server admins,

    If you see an account named thegx.ca/forum (thegx@…) pop up on your servers please suspend it. Some bastard has been setting up spam accounts all over. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve blocked and it’s getting annoying.

    #meta #fediverse #mastodon #spam

    harmonicarichard,
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    @aral
    Bastards is an acronym for "Boring annoying stupid troll accounts requiring dedicated silencing". ;-)

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