Are there any #Mastodon API clients that only implement the Private Mentions part?
I’ve been curious about an app that looks and feels like a messaging or email app, but just for PM’s. Having played with the APIs before, I feel like a basic thing might not be that difficult to write? 🤔
@darth It’s kind of a weird use case, but I use Private Mentions on my accounts a lot. Sometimes, the way that timeline gets rendered in various UIs / clients makes it hard to find stuff, and old messages with important info get pushed way, way down into the depths of the app.
I just think it would be really handy to have an easy way to retrieve, search, view, and compose messages.
It’s so messed up that OS vendors just assume it’s okay to throw ads onto your desktop or your phone. My Samsung just started throwing them in my notifications, and there’s no way to turn them off.
I didn’t want to have to root my phone and install a different version of Android on it, but this is downright hostile.
I'll be streaming more Police Quest II in ~10 minutes or so. I'm a bit knackered today so don't expect a whirlwind entertainment spectacle or anything. (Boy, I'm really selling this, aren't I?)
This is how #Mastodon will whitewash their censorship. While #MastodonSocial now actively bans and hides the profiles of people advocating for Palestinian liberation citing “Holocaust inversion” they put someone on their board to appear like they care, who does not in fact, have a mastodon account:
@LALegault While I have my own criticisms of Mastodon as part of the Fediverse, I don’t really see this as being an outcome. If you release a federated, open source platform that people can run themselves however they want, you kind of can’t really put the genie back in the bottle.
As far as the whole “censorship vs moderation” debate is concerned, any instance is free to set and uphold any policy they want. Sometimes, their moderation team will fuck up, or choose the wrong option based on a limited context. That’s not exactly the same thing as what a corporate, centralized system with millions of users does when it blocks someone’s ability to be Heard.
It’s kind of funny to see people freak out about systemd, when Microsoft is building a moment-to-moment surveillance system.
I don’t doubt that this could be a useful tool, but the potential for harm makes it completely fucking dystopian. That it’s also a black box that you can’t examine the source code of makes it way worse.
@gellenburg FreeBSD is pretty great. I’m still in the Ubuntu world these days for convenience, but if Canonical keeps up with the bullshit, I may strongly consider it!
Do you ever get a sad pang of nostalgia about the place you came from? Do you look back at a town, and get sad about the potential it once had, and despair the decline it met instead?
I feel that way about Peoria, Illinois, and the surrounding area. It was once prosperous. As a kid, it was on the up-and-up.
But, that city has long been a symbol of its own problems: an abandoned downtown, companies that mostly offer dead-end careers, and a frustrated, depressed population that would rather live anywhere else.
After Caterpillar moved their headquarters, there’s been a black hole in the economy there. Cat used to employ thousands of people in the area - blue collar, white collar, you name it. It propped up everything around it - small businesses, restaurants, bars, and music venues.
That place just feels like it’s barely holding on now. It would take a lot of work to improve anything, from starting businesses to making transit more accessible to getting rid of food deserts. Everything depended on one company for like 80 years, and the layout and flow of things required workers to live in small towns half an hour away.
The Midwest in general just feels kind of fucked nowadays.
@onepict Absolutely incredible series. It was a great insight into what being at the center of the desktop revolution and the explosion of the World Wide Web was like. It’s also a great musing on failure, due to how we sometimes prioritize the wrong things.
@onepict I’d also go as far to say that the bean-counting tendencies of business makes it difficult for them to take risks or do things that are new and visionary.
We see that with The Giant, which was an engineering achievement, but also removed all traces of personality to instead focus on specs and releasing on time. What Cameron was originally doing with it was special, and different, and the unveiling of the Macintosh was a big realization for Joe that he fucked up.
When I was much, much, much younger - think late teens, so around 2000 - I would also occasionally casually misuse the word "rape", almost exclusively in a gaming context. I might be a boring 39 year old dad now, but I, too, was once an edgy pre-internet/pre-smartphone teenager, and while I was mostly a good person, I was also sometimes a complete fucking insensitive, uneducated, backwards idiot from a small redneck town in The Netherlands who had no fucking clue about the wider world.
Luckily for me, I've always had close female friends, and through their stories it became pretty clear using "rape" callously is not only deeply cringe, but also wholly insensitive and just downright stupid. Luckily I never used it often enough for anyone to have to point it out to me - think less than a handful of times with guy friends when talking about games - but as with everything stupid we do as teenagers, being reminded of it makes my gut wrench in sour stupidity and biting cringe. As it better well fucking should.
Anyway my point is normal people grow out of this in their teens, but it seems hachyderm.io is totally cool with using this word like cringe teenagers. Jesus fuck it's 2024, lads.
Due to the amount of days I’ve accrued in my leave balance, I officially was able to put in my two weeks’ notice with the United States Air Force today.
This is a weird time for me. I’m figuring out what my future looks like, and planning on going back to school full-time. Part of me is really happy, another part of me is sad, worried, terrified, burnt out, and depressed.
I had some amazing experiences, and met some incredible people. We made memories together. Walking away from that puts me in a really weird spot. I have to take time to figure my shit out.
One of my biggest fears about going back to school is this internal idea that I’m just not smart enough. I know it’s not true, but I frequently have bad dreams about being the kind of student I was 15 years ago: lazy, scatterbrained, and absent.
I have this enormous opportunity, but I’m scared that I’m going to waste it. I worked hard to get here. I’m just afraid of self-sabotage.
Trying out #Tokodon on the desktop, since I'm gradually shifting back to #KDE these days. So far it's...alright?
I've always loved the idea of a Fediverse client that integrates nicely with the desktop, while offering full access to whatever features that platform gives you. But, I'm hard pressed to find a client that does everything I want. 😅
A minor annoyance is that mobile clients like @moshidon are really, really good nowadays. Desktop clients, though? Some are great, but a lot of them feel like they’re five years behind, in terms of user experience.