@elduvelle Thanks! The 10,000 character limit is certainly nice. My current instance has the same, but is currently running an older version of Mastodon that lacks search, hashtag follows, and other features.
I’ve travelled from Ireland to Finland via Germany over the past few days and I was the only one wearing a face mask in the airport or onboard the plane. In a pandemic! WTF, people? Do better! #CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask 😷
And before anyone says it, yes we are still in a pandemic. And no, it is not only my responsibility to protect myself if I’m worried about catching #SARSCoV2. The point is my wearing a mask protects you, and vice versa. Transport and travel hubs are major vector for transmission. #CovidIsNotOver#WearAMask
Not only is the goal of showing virtual screens everywhere wildly unambitious, it’s just an enhanced version of what we already had in the ’90s. #AR has the potential to create new, more socially engaged ways of working and playing. Bigger screens or windows hovering in virtual space, on the other hand, is the existing desktop computing paradigm on steroids. 🤷♂️ #Apple#VisionPro#UX
@kaplag That’s fair, though the interface paradigm for #visionOS is very much floating app windows in space. And lots of commentators are behaving as if a bigger display were the holy grail of computing. Yes, there is the opportunity for developers to offer bespoke alternatives, but so far it looks more of an evolutionary step than a revolution in how we interact with computers.
Dear security people: Is there any good reason in this day and age that an online order form should force me to paste my email into two different fields as some kind of "check"?
@annaleen AFAIK it’s simply to guard against mistyping an email address. Completely pointless as you can see what you are typing on screen, unlike a password field where the characters are hidden.
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
When multiple scientists independently come up with the same or similar ideas, we call it convergent discovery. What do we call it when multiple scientists come up with the same or similar bullshit?
We live in strange times. #Twitter is actively alienating its users. #Threads has blocked its own service to most of Europe. #Mastodon is the opposite of user-friendly. And #BlueSky invitations are as rare as hen’s teeth… Aren’t these supposed to be social networks? 🤔 #socialNetworking#informationSilos
@hirad@MaryPot@feditips Fetching toots on demand from a profile that it is being browsed isn’t unrealistic since it’s not necessary to fetch them all at once. Replies are more tricky, but it would make sense for the instance that holds the original post to cache these over time. In any case, I’m not criticising the implementation, but the user experience, which is partly a consequence of design constraints imposed by Mastodon’s federated structure and the ActivityPub protocol.