box464

box464, 4 hours ago to random

I've got some thoughts about how the tech world ignores the needs of users with cognitive disabilities like dementia. Hit me hard this week.

There are degrees of dementia. Some people live with mild or moderate forms for years and deserve respect, dignity and as much freedom as we can offer them. That includes access to the internet.

#Dementia #SocialWeb

box464, 5 hours ago to random

Today I learned you can add iOS emoji stickers as image attachments in most of my fediverse apps. Who knew?

My dog Miss Maddie looking cute as a puffy sticker

box464, 6 hours ago to drupal

Drupal has an ActivityPub plugin…since 2019?!

https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub/

#Drupal #Cms #ActivityPub

box464, 6 hours ago to ScoobyDoo

I got this Mystery Machine AirPods case. Jinkies, it’s perfect.

#ScoobyDoo #AirPods

video/mp4

box464, 7 hours ago to random

😍

gedeonm, 7 hours ago to random

Saw my first Cyber Truck in the wild today. Poor schmuck.

box464, 14 hours ago to random

Oh what a lovely little park area. 🐍 👀

A park with a small pond, green grass, picnic shelters in the background, and trees under a clear sky.

julian, 1 day ago to random

There have been some scattered discussions I've seen over the past year that mention that @pfefferle's WordPress ActivityPub plugin federates their blog posts out as an as:Note, and that the only reason this is done is because Mastodon only treats as:Note (and as:Question) as a first-class object and relegates anything else to a fallback handler that takes a short snippet of the content, and shows a link back to the original source, thus losing any in-app benefits (boosts, replies, etc.)

Whether this is actually true or not, I do not know. So that's why I'd like to ask Mattias — or anybody else with some context — here.

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For reference:

• as:Article: Represents any kind of multi-paragraph written work.
• as:Note: Represents a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length.
• as:Page: Represents a Web Page.

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I have also noticed that Lemmy, perhaps out of principle, sends out an as:Page for new generated content, and only the replies federate out as as:Note. It has unfortunately led to some assertions that Lemmy's federation is "broken", even though it is arguably not the case.

@nutomic, care to weigh in?

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I don't even blame Mattias for opting to send everything out as as:Note.

End of the day right now it doesn't matter how Mattias or Nutomic represent their higher-level collection of data, because Mastodon is the largest implementor and neither they — nor anyone else I know of, for that matter — treat anything that's not as:Note or as:Question specially.

But that ought to change. The question is how, but this WG is not at the point where we start throwing around decrees and making up standards.

What's important to me right now is what the landscape looks like right now, and why that is the case.

N.B. The discussion here will eventually make its way to online real-time discussion at one of the future WG meetings.

box464, 1 day ago to homelab

This week, I was working out of town and wanted to see if I could survive on this little Chuwi palm sized mini pc. The answer is yes…barely.

I’m not very tolerant of slow response rates on my daily system and that WAS there if I had Teams, Slack, three browsers, vs code and a zoom meeting going all at the same time. But it survived.

#HomeLab #SpareParts

box464, 1 day ago to mastodon

It’s good to know Bluesky has the same issue explaining the concept of Unlisted…I mean…Quiet Public…I mean…Discouraged visibility…posts.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #UnlistedPosts

davidbures, 1 day ago to random

Well boys, just booked my first flight ever. It will happen on Monday.

I’m kinda nervous 😅 I’m not afraid of dying on it, but I’m honestly only scared of…getting sick. That, to me, is a fate worse than death 😵‍💫

box464, 1 day ago to ukteachers

Visiting family and found this kit in the closet. I think it was my nieces so the nerd runs deep around here. “Ages 8 to 108” 👵🏽

#Toys #Education

seaotta, 1 day ago to random

Font Awesome raised $721,620 to build an open source library of web components. Their goal was $30,000.

I need to collect my thoughts and put it in a blog post but I'm curious what the community's thoughts are on this because that is not a trivial amount of money.

As a web platform PM working in open source and trying to find ways to get funding for projects...was this good marketing? Is it selling a different solution to what's already out there?

box464, 2 days ago to random

Doing some family tech support and ran into this dialog. First time I’ve ever seen a piece of software tell me to remove it! Following its advice.

box464, 3 days ago to random

It’s 2026. All platforms are now at least partially federated, including TikTok. The U.S. government turns its eyes to Misskey and bans it.

What issues would they have to overcome to make it work? Who would they even call to a committee hearing to grill?

Truly asking because I don’t think it would be impossible, just more annoying and time intensive to implement.

box464, 3 days ago to fediverse

Been on the TestFlight of this one. @feeeed is incorporating content from everywhere. While the configuration options says “Mastodon Handle” any fediverse handle I’ve thrown at it works so far.

PeerTube. Lemmy. Firefish. IceShrimp. Friendica. Threads. All alongside blog feeds, Reddit, YouTube, news services, personal photos, birthday reminders and more. The only thing missing is the ability to interact - like or reply direct from the interface. ❤️🥳

#FediApps #Fediverse

A video of an iPad showing the feeed app. A Catodon.social account is added to the feed and shows up immediately, alongside personal blogs, photos, pixelfed accounts and more.

box464, 3 days ago to random

Just found this custom @MonaApp icon today and it’s a winner winner chicken dinner.

#MastodonApp #FediApps

ChaosKitsune, 3 days ago to random

If anyone has any more useful key plugin ideas I'm listening.

box464, 4 days ago to random

It's been a Final_FixedFinal_FinalUpdate_Updated_Revised_Corrected_Fixed.csv type of day.

dtgeek, 4 days ago to TikTok

Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24137638/senate-passes-tiktok-ban-bill-divest-bytedance-foreign-aid

#TikTok

lumaa, 6 days ago to random

I, again, have not been very active still, but I have excuses to explain this:

• I’ve been having a lot of ups and downs recently so that’s not very good.
• I was sick for a few days, and I probably still am a little bit
• I’ve been having terrible sleep lately, usually sleeping 5 or 6 hrs per night to 3 or 4 hrs per night.

Anyway, I’ve seen people following the @Threaded account and I’m very happy that it gets more and more traction, although things haven’t moved a lot lately, due to the reasons given above. I’ve mostly been working on side-projects and/or private projects (that will make me earn some buckaroonies aka. Euros.)

Before I leave once more in my shack, here is a good, recent #IndieRock, song you might like: https://music.apple.com/fr/album/calling-after-me/1734187714?i=1734187905

#Threaded