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jmhorner

@jmhorner@eattherich.club

Senior Village Idiot at BottomFeeder LTD.

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c_reider, to random
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it has been 0️⃣days since someone took a shit in the pool.

jmhorner,
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@c_reider

Sorry... burritos. My bad.

Talia_christine, to random

Quite a few people I work with have this habit of ending emails with an ellipsis... I'm starting to think they don't understand how those work...

jmhorner,
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@Talia_christine

Perhaps you're just not waiting long enough...

:-)

jmhorner, to philosophy
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Tonight's is Fort Defiance [1951]

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/205556-fort-defiance

"It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown."

specter, to random
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hm I'm on Thunderbird 116.0b2...not complaining but I guess maybe scoop pulls from the dev builds.

jmhorner,
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@specter If it helps... I am using Thunderbird v5.0 :-)

jmhorner,
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@specter Heh, it is definitely before they added IRC. I swear I thought they put IRC in there around like v38 or so. I just keep installers for software I use so that when an application gets "awful" I can just stay behind.

As for "how"... I use Stunnel to provide the TLS connections, and everything else just works™. As for "why"... well, IRC is part of it, along with all the other junk they have piled in there. One of the biggest reasons is that all-one-colour non-system skin that makes it hard to tell which application has focus.

jmhorner,
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@specter I couldn't help myself... I think it was v15 when they added IRC support, which is only about a year after v5 was released.

https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/thunderbird_releasenotes/en-us/thunderbird/15.0/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes

jmhorner,
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@specter Oh boy... well, the v5 download is 18MB while the v115 download is 77MB. On initial startup v115 connects to:

location.services.mozilla.com
ocsp.digicert.com
live.thunderbird.net
autoconfig.thunderbird.net
support.mozilla.org
www.mozilla.org
start.thunderbird.net
thunderbird-settings.thunderbird.net
services.addons.thunderbird.net
aus.thunderbird.net
aus5.mozilla.org

which is less than some email clients, but is more than I would want from an organization that tries to sell itself as being concerned about user privacy.

I don't see IRC, Matrix, Odnoklassniki, or XMPP as being a core component of an email client. Mozilla should not be "partnering" with any email provider to suggest email services. There is of course the geolocation crap that gets deeper and deeper. Thunderbird "trusts" Cloudflare by default for DNS queries, storing reporting, and telemetry. Sending "technical and interaction data" is also enabled by default.

Side note: the request to have OMEMO support added to their XMPP client implementation has had zero traction in the eight years since it was made.

And what did they remove? The ability to search about:config on the value field. Someone spent actual time on not letting me search my configs based on what they are set to.

Finally, I don't like skins. I have a window manager, applications should just use it. Having a giant useless band of grey at the top of my applications isn't helping anything. :-(

Phew!

jmhorner, to philosophy
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Tonight's is Star InThe Dust [1956]

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/111942-star-in-the-dust

"The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law."

therightarticle, to random
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Where’s the media? Rescuers search for missing boat carrying 200 people https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/wheres-the-media-rescuers-search-for-missing-migrant-boat-carrying-200-people-352342/

jmhorner,
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@therightarticle

Nice... if you scroll down past the article they have plenty of garbage ads and links to their own articles, including one about OceanGate. I wonder if The London Economic will still be pushing stories about African migrant boat debris in three weeks? :-(

jmhorner, to philosophy
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Speaking of kickass... Tonight's is Trail Street [1947] -- with Randolph Scott and Gabby Hayes.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/103422-trail-street

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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Rad server roll call!

If you like your server drop it in the replies and tell us about it…

this helps us recommend good starting points to friends migrating over.

Please tell us about the moderation & safety as well if possible!

(Lol thx for boosting you guys but also pls let us know how you like your servers!)

jmhorner,
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@specter @seachanger Hey, that's me! I watch a western (usually from the 30's to 60's) most nights, and try to post a tmdb link when I can. 🤠

ETR is pretty chill. Nobody hassles anyone and I was made to feel welcome when I joined back in September. 👍

jmhorner,
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@specter @seachanger

Kickass! :-)

jmhorner,
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@specter @seachanger

Here we go, is this the right way to link my post?

https://eattherich.club/@jmhorner/110687184391973148

noellemitchell, to fediverse
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    jmhorner,
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    @noellemitchell Easy now, a post like that in here is bound to generate some interaction! :-)

    jmhorner, to random
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    A bee got stuck under my jacket and veil, pinned against my bare shoulder... and somehow, I didn't get stung. It also looks like the old queen is still in the new hive. If all goes well, both colonies will survive. If it doesn't go well, they'll both die.

    jmhorner, to philosophy
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    Tonight's is Four Fast Guns [1960]

    https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/188247-four-fast-guns

    swaggboi, to random
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    more like Metadon amirite??

    jmhorner,
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    @swaggboi how about mastogram?

    jmhorner, to philosophy
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    Tonight's is The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre [1948] -- not like I haven't seen it a bunch of times, but it is one of my favourites.

    https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3090-the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre

    "Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico."

    seachanger, (edited ) to random
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    the only argument we should be making for mastodon at this point is that you can post as much ass and vag as you want and as long as you mark it and use the CW feature no one cares because a)we own it ourselves and make our own rules and b) no one is trying to make this a safe space for Brands™

    jmhorner,
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    @seachanger

    I think

    "We also have asses and vaginas!”

    would be pretty acceptable. :-)

    specter, to random
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    nerds to their friends and family: hey it's not much but I have figured out how we can self-host the tools we use!

    their friends and family: Holy fuck! Yikes! Sounds scary and dangerous because there's no monetization or algorithm?!?!! Plus I don't recognize your brand and how can I follow my favorite TERFS?

    jmhorner,
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    @specter Seriously eh! I mean, what IS the aversion to things that are not made or managed by Maxi Super Mega Uber Corp? I feel like I live in some kind of backwards reality where rather than questioning how many necks Supercorp Inc stepped on to get where they are, people are skeptical of some asshole like me who has been bitching about digital privacy and security since he ran a BBS.

    jmhorner, to random
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    If you think that the proper unit of measurement for "success" is the dollar, the sterling, the rupee, the ruble, the digital coin, the peso, the schmekel, the shekel, or any other so-called currency... then you may have fucked up somewhere along the way.

    BrailleScreen, to random

    I just wanted to give a tip about those writing alt text.

    I thank everyone who does so! It makes my Mastodon experience so much more amazing!

    But a tip, though:

    If you are describing, say, text on a screen, it would be very appreciated if you describe not just the screen that exists, but what is on the screen. Here is an example.

    If you say, "A screen shot of my phone's screen, showing a post on Mastodon." it doesn't much help because I ask myself (since I cannot see the image) "Yes? What does it say?

    A better example would be, say:

    "A screen shot of my phone's screen. There is a Mastodon post that reads:
    'This is my amazing post!'"

    It really, really helps me understand the full context.

    jmhorner,
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    @BrailleScreen I have a web site that I have been maintaining for a couple of decades now and which has almost no readership. I often try to put a photo in each post to dress it up a bit, even though I know it may never be seen by anyone but random web scrapers. The site is manually generated, meaning I do not have some fancy editor interface like Wordpress and I do not use a static site gerator like Hugo. Because of this I have often allowed the file name to serve as my alt text out of sheer laziness.

    Since I am stuck in town today and it is hot and humid outside, I think I'll spend some time today improving my alt texts. Thanks for the motivation. :-)

    jmhorner,
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    @BrailleScreen As it turns out, this didn't go well. I just edited my most recent post and promptly opened it in LibreWolf browser to see the updated alt text... and it didn't show anything. I am accustomed to seeing a popup-when-hover block showing the alt text when I mouse over the image. I checked another of my posts and that one didn't show me a popup of the alt text either. So I used a little StartPage-Fu and found this Mozilla article

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/838888

    which basically says that Firefox does not use alt= for popup-when-hover text anymore, it uses title= instead. Could you please tell me if your browser application is able to use title instead of alt or as well as alt? I figure if I am going to do this, I may as well do it right. :-)

    jmhorner,
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    @BrailleScreen That would be awesome... thanks! I setup a test post here

    https://snork.ca/posts/2023-07-07-a-test-post-for-alt-text/

    and have made sure to include the filename, alt, and title with the image. I also have a caption that sits inside a CSS box which surrounds the image. I'd love to hear which pieces of that puzzle work best for you. I'd also love to hear which of those pieces you think would work best for someone using audio-based reading software.

    jmhorner,
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    @BrailleScreen Sweet, thanks! So although Mozilla is not going to play along, alt is more prominent in your setup, and I would suspect it is the same for many others. I'll continue to lean on alt rather than title. Much appreciated eh! :-)

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