box464

box464, 23 days ago to random

I'm gay/cis and in some situations, passing for whatever straight means if you don't look too close at my sparkles.

But not when I visit my rural hometown.

I know what it is to be bullied. To be dismissed by loved ones. That sinking feeling you get in your stomach when you realize you don't feel safe somewhere.

I also know that is nothing in comparison to what others continue to battle.

Safe spaces are precious things and even I forget that sometimes.

It's good to be reminded.

box464, 24 days ago to fediverse

Tonight I implemented something "just because" on my version of @Edent ActivityPub educational server. Some platforms will pick up a profile background image and display it along with your banner and avatar.

In your webfinger record, add this little bit at the root of the file and wallah. Akkoma is picking it up, at least! It's fun to play around.

 "backgroundUrl": {  
 "type": "Image",  
 "url": "https://{your-domain}/{image}.jpg"  
 },   

#Fediverse #Webfinger

box464, 24 days ago to GenX

My brain decided to bring up this memory for no reason today. Cereal box records. Back in the day, kid cereals would add cardboard records on the back of their boxes. You could cut them out and play them on any normal record player. The grooves were made with thin plastic and songs were pretty short.

Sound was horrible. But fun.

https://youtu.be/DCb9IfndLz8?t=52&si=ZdEciuWE1c2DFZ0d

#GenX #Records #Retro

box464, 24 days ago to random

Basil Fried Rice at a local Thai place. Didn’t want it to be bland so went with the 3/4 spicy level. 🔥😳🔥 I now know my limits.

dimillian, 24 days ago to random French

Bon appétit!

box464, 24 days ago to random

A stormy morning. This bed has glued me in and I’m not budging.

box464, 25 days 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, 25 days 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, 25 days ago to drupal

Drupal has an ActivityPub plugin…since 2019?!

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

#Drupal #Cms #ActivityPub

box464, 25 days ago to ScoobyDoo

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

#ScoobyDoo #AirPods

video/mp4

box464, 25 days ago to random

😍

gedeonm, 25 days ago to random

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

box464, 25 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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?

ChaosKitsune, 29 days ago to random

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