So happy I took the time to learn #Dataview. It's going to be revolutionary for my vault. It'll help me create main topic pages to keep track of my notes. I used to manually link every note to a "MOC" but I kept forgetting and found it tedious. This is going to be a "leave it and let grow" thing, and it suits my #ADHD brain immensely lol.
And how great it is that the #Obsidian anticipated our annoyance with YAML and come up with the properties feature? Genius.
That kroger has become a nightmare over the last 5 years or so.
GV, for being like the second most "pedestrian friendly" area of the city, has so many people that absolutely despise people walking or biking. It's insane.
Blinken seems wore down by the fact that Hamas is not surrendering and the world in a majority is standing with Palestine. The fact that this scumbag is still bleating about Hamas while his regime is facilitating a genocide really highlights that US is run by the most deplorable people to have ever lived on this planet.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese*
This is an "advance unedited version". Might want to stash a copy away someplace as global politics will almost certainly result in it being edited to placate various political constituents - if it doesn't vanish from the web entirely.
Biden has warned that an Israeli attack on Rafah — a city in the southern border of Gaza now inhabited by 1.4 million people and the last relatively safe haven for Palestinian civilians — would cross a “red line.”
Come on, in the literal next sentence in that interview, Biden said he would never stop supporting Israel. The man has no red line here.
After his poll numbers have tanked over the last few months, the only thing he's done is offer lip service to the people that oppose his unwavering support of Israel's war crimes.
I'd love to believe he could convinced to stop sending military aid, but if it hasn't happened yet, after 30,000+ innocent civilians have been killed; it's not going to happen. He's complicit in a genocide and he's dragging the rest of us unwillingly along with it.
Stop simping for war criminals, Biden can stop the US assistance anytime he wants.
Allow a site admin to set the default open state of the Activitty Filter widget
Fxed regression in public group delivery by hashtag and bangtag
Switched from "recycle symbol" to "public address loudspeaker" emoji for ActivityStreams Announce activities.
A number of changes to the UI for long content.
Moved "show more" arrow to bottom center instead of right top of post.
Changed theming of "show more" arrow so it stands out more as a clickable link
Removed scrollbars by default
Added "show more" to Directory and Community apps.
Added a setting in Settings->View to enable the vertical scrollbar if you desire it.
Provide a Repeat action on posts which generates an ActivityStreams Announce as an alternative to the embedded Share function
Provide a backup delivery to ActivityPub actors if their sharedInbox does not actually work.
The Register link on the Community page was corrected to work with non-Nomad stes. There is no standard for this link or discovery, so we'll just direct you to the site URL.
German language updates (Chris)
Fixed issue with Announce activities showing an edited date which was actually the edited date of the Announced object.
A handful of posts were getting delivered to the public stream when the public stream was disabled. Only the site admin could see these activities but they shouldn't have been there at all.
Updated Federated Search specification to note that our Opensearch endpoints are now OpenWebAuth enabled, granting web access to protected content and media that is made available through searching.
Incorrectly used actor url as actor id in rare circumstances (Mario)
Preliminary support for right-to-left text in bbcode and at the document level. A fair bit of work remains to fully support RTL text.
Document Service Classes and configurations (Bill)
Prevent group mentions from triggering a group delivery inside a nested share activity.
I think that brings up to date from last week's release. Cheers.
I think one of the things that helped keep r/synthesizers active was the automatic creation of weekly threads like “Friday Hangout”, where you could leave casual thoughts that might not feel worthy of a top-level post. So, why not try something similar here?...
Quick one... Really itching to get a push 3 for couch jamming and taking to practices. I'm really getting tired of lugging multiple synthesizers or laptop accessories.
@ChappIO Yeah, I've heard that the push is heavy and gets hot. I think for #2, my use case is not having to bring all of the necessary accessories that I would with a laptop - Get to ditch the audio interface, keyboard if I want to really pair down etc. But then, the battery life isn't nearly as good. Lots of things to weigh....
Like it or not, here's how I handle certain things often demanded by Mastodon users when writing my own posts.
First of all, a necessary explanation: I am not on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla. Even though it connects to Mastodon, it is neither a Mastodon instance nor a Mastodon fork. It's four years older than Mastodon, it's vastly more powerful than Mastodon, and it isn't based on ActivityPub, but on something more versatile and powerful again. ActivityPub is only an add-on that has to be activated by users on their own channels.
So when #Hubzilla got capable of federating with Mastodon after six years of existence, its developers did not bend over backwards and redesign Hubzilla to make it as compatible with Mastodon as possible while axing features left and right to achieve that.
#Hashtags: Yes, I use them. I use them for two reasons.
One, they make my own posts discoverable across the #Fediverse. There is no "secret sauce" algorithm handing people your posts on a silver platter. You have to take care of that yourself.
Two, people can click on my hashtags to discover other posts with the same #hashtag and find out what they are about.
For example, when I write about OpenSim, people who happen upon that post usually don't know what it is. I could explain it to them right there right then, but that'd just inflate the post. Or I could add the samelinks to each post which would not only clutter my posts and mean more work, but it'd irritate mobile users because they'd have to use their Web browsers.
Alternatively, I could use a few hashtags like #OpenSimulator and #OpenSim that people can click and see more posts about it, thus at least getting a rough first idea of what I'm talking about. And this is what I do.
This comes with another advantage: If you don't want to read about any of the topics I write about, you can block the corresponding hashtag.
By the way, yes, I put my hashtags in the text whenever possible. Reason: see "two" above. It's like links in a wiki article. Before someone complains in the name of screen reader users: I do use the Shift key, and I write my hashtags in CamelCase. After all, I'm one of the few Fediverse users who type with ten fingers on a hardware keyboard connected to a desktop computer rather than with two thumbs on a 6" touch screen.
#AltText: As of now, I add alt-text to all images I post. This requires manual BBcode manipulation, but I'm showing good will to support #accessibility.
On the one hand, I sometimes wonder if it's worth doing that in the first place, seeing as #VirtualWorlds are a very visual topic that might not be of interest for visually-impaired people. On the other hand, I've heard about blind people who use OpenSim through a special viewer with text-to-speech output that even allows them to walk and teleport around. And my memes may actually be of interest for them as well.
My main problem with this is that I can't be sure just how far alt-text for pictures from inside virtual worlds would have to go into detail for full #a11y compliance. In comparison with real-life photographs, there tends to be a whole lot more in virtual photographs that people unfamiliar with virtual worlds in general and this particular virtual world need a description and explanation for. Especially the "legacy" virtual worlds that weren't designed to run natively on VR goggles can be very detailed, and there can be a lot of stuff that simply doesn't exist in the real world.
For example, the Capitol and the Eiffel Tower are architectural and cultural icons; pictures of them don't require detailed descriptions. A picture of the Sendalonde Community Library does because nobody outside OpenSim has ever even heard of it. If I post a picture of the Eiffel Tower, mentioning it in the alt-text is sufficient. If I post a picture of the Sendalonde Community Library, I have to describe the building by rattling down every last one of its architectural features visible in the picture and include a description of the visible parts of its surrounding.
So if I describe only what's important in the context in which the picture is used, visually-impaired people may be disappointed that there's so much in the picture that they can't identify because the alt-text doesn't tell them what it is. But if I go out of my way and describe (and explain) every little bit that may be of interest for someone, a typical alt-text could grow ten times as long as a whole Mastodon toot.
By the way, I no longer include more than four pictures in one post. Pretty much all my followers interested in virtual worlds are on Mastodon, and if I post more than four pictures, they can only see the last four. If I need to include more than four pictures, more so if they absolutely require to be in a certain spot within the text, I'll probably write an article. This won't displayed in your Mastodon timeline as-is, though. You'll have to click/tap it, and if you're on a mobile phone, it will open your Web browser. Again, deal with it.
#ContentWarnings: They're called "summaries" on Hubzilla, but they work roughly the same.
I rarely write sensitive text that requires a #ContentWarning. This is not a personal general-purpose channel. Topics here are limited to virtual worlds, OpenSim in particular, and occasional posts about the Fediverse. I've yet to read from someone that either of these topics can trigger people.
As for pictures, yes, I could put them under a "summary" to hide them. But it wouldn't have any effect on Mastodon. All my pictures would always end up below, i.e. outside the #CW. You'd see them either way, with or without a CW, because the CW would only hide the text and not the pictures-turned-file attachments.
See, Hubzilla supports embedding pictures in posts. Mastodon doesn't. Mastodon doesn't even understand that. So what Mastodon does is convert pictures from everywhere that isn't Mastodon into file attachments and then attach them to posts. Below them. Outside CWs, because why would you CW a file attachment?
Here on Hubzilla, I could theoretically hide sensitive pictures behind three safety measures and have everyone else click at least twice, sometimes even three times before they see them clearly. First, label the picture itself not-safe-for-work, so it's blurred. Second, put the post under a summary. Third, add a keyword to the post, for there's a per-user app on Hubzilla that automatically puts everything containing at least one from a customisable list of keywords under a content warning (which, again, is NOT Mastodon's content warning, that's the summary; this is something separate).
None of these measures work on Mastodon, though. Even if I do all of this, everyone on Mastodon will get these pictures in plain sight right away.
#Threads: Why? I'm not limited by a 500-character cap. I can write tens of thousands of characters in one post. So no threading policy here because I don't do threads, because I don't have to.
You don't like any of this? Feel free to block me. Chances are I don't have anything to say that's of interest for you anyway, except that I sometimes feel like the only one in the Fediverse who can explain to the "Fediverse = only Mastodon" crowd how deep the rabbit hole that's the Fediverse actually goes, and what the Fediverse beyond Mastodon looks like.
Reporting me to the hub admins for moderation won't work. I'm not breaking any rules, not within Hubzilla. And neither I nor any Hubzilla hub admin can do anything about Mastodon's limitations and how it renders everything coming in from outside potentially unsafe.
@Oliphant of Wisdom I'm sure it is. I hope they plan on a way to migrate between the bluesky domains and personal domains or they're going to have some really angry people on their hands.
Sunday Discussion Lounge (6/25/2023)
I think one of the things that helped keep r/synthesizers active was the automatic creation of weekly threads like “Friday Hangout”, where you could leave casual thoughts that might not feel worthy of a top-level post. So, why not try something similar here?...
misskey!
Why isn't it so popular compared to mastodon? I just found out about it and it looks pretty mature imo, it's only popular with japanese people.
How to turn Audible aa3 files into mp3 files on linux?
I am using Linux rn and I want to convert audible files to mp3, so I can listen to them anytime, is there a way to do this? (preferably locally)...