box464

box464, 6 months ago to random

TikTok, I’m not going to buy that gift wrapping cutter so just give it up and let me watch dog videos. Ugh! Makes me want to go do something productive.

box464, 6 months ago to til

#TIL that this George Harrison song is “When we was fab” and not “When we was fat”. It’s been 30 years.

https://youtu.be/AVu6nPTVbBQ?feature=shared

#Music #Lyrics

box464, 6 months ago to random

Over the past year, my digital interests have really boomed. When I sit down at my computer, I'm finding myself having to ask "What should I work on right now?" and the answer is now "The thing that would remove the most stress from my life" followed by "The thing that would bring me the most happiness". Sometimes those are one and the same, but not always.

MariaTheMartian, 6 months ago to random

If it says MAP in their profile that means
Minor Attracted Person or Masquerading Asshole Pedophile.

I just had to look that up.

Block and report
Block and report
Block and report
​:blobvomiting:​

Also, leave Follow Requests Require Approval toggled on and check profiles carefully.

futurebird, 6 months ago to random

"Going anywhere for the holidays?"
"Yes, upstate."
"Plane or car?"
"Oh Jesus no! Train."
"How long will that take?"
"9 hours. But my vacation starts when I get on the train, not when I get off the plane. It's much less stressful."
"You know... I can see that..."

Folks, I may have a made a convert today. Let's be real. Driving is work, and flying is torture. A train ride, might seem "long" but did you count all the time you spend getting to the airport, the security checks? The silly rules?

box464, 6 months ago to fediverse

I had a 10 hour road trip today, so loaded up on podcasts - for the most part, they were related to the ActivityPub/Mastodon and extremely interesting. Sharing the list of episodes from my #Postmarks instance. Lots of big names in the fediverse here.

If you know of any more, please reply with your suggestions and I'll add 'em to the list.

https://bookmarks.box464.com/tagged/Fediverse/podcast/roadtrip

#FediDev #Fediverse #podcast

damon, 6 months ago to random

People can be disappointing. Tonight while taking our little ones and the dogs for a walk to big German shepherds came out and attacked our dogs. I had to use what we had to defend ourselves as my daughters watched in horror, they are 6 and 3 years old. Fortunately, I got them separated enough but my 6 year old tried to return b/c she wanted to protect our dogs. My wife was screaming for help and no one did anything. A lady, who turned out to be the owner called her dogs inside. She was dismissive and told us that their dogs don’t attack and that they’re trained support dogs. Her husband came out saying the same thing, as if we just made up a story smh. I kept my composure, I did what I could’ve to protect my family. I love dogs but if they would’ve harmed my children I would’ve killed them.

box464, 6 months ago to fediverse

Spoutible offers investment opportunities to users, raises almost $250,000 in a day. Some users didn’t realize it was an investment, thought it was a donation…

Has Mastodon ever raised $250,000 in a day? How do we make that happen?

https://wefunder.com/spoutible/

#Spoutible #Fediverse

gabek, 6 months ago to random

Owncast release days are good days.

Unless they're bad. Then they're not good. Hopefully this is a good one.

https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.1.2/

cheeaun, 6 months ago to random

Finally trying out the Wayback Machine Tweets archive tool https://archive.org/services/wayback-gsheets/archive-your-tweets

I thought it'll copy all posts into the "archive", but it actually generates a CSV file of links from tweets.js, to be uploaded to Google Sheets, then batch process them one-by-one.

I have 51K+ posts, but CSV shows 37K+ links. When importing file into Google Sheets, it has a limit of 40K rows.

I thought the batch process will take few hours, but… turns out it'll be roughly 16 days 🫠

mordremoth, 11 months ago to random

Internet search sucks now.

Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.

But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?

My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...

What if web search results were organized not by "how many ad dollars did this site generate for the search company" but rather something like "someone you know directly tagged this site, and someone twice-removed tagged this other site so it's lower priority"?

#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment