msdropbear42

@msdropbear42@venera.social

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

Stuff:

  • She/Her.
  • Straya born, Thailand reborn.
  • Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness.
  • Posts autodelete @ 3mths.
  • For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, else i'll Reject.

26/8/23: After testing pretty intensively over recent days & nights, i've decided now to give it a go as my new daily home. There's been many accounts, & a couple of ones, since i decided to venture into the Fediverse last November, but none of them quite captured the full Goldilocks essence of what i desire in a Fedi client. Will this one be it? 🤷‍♀️

2/9/23: Unfollowed all my hitherto * hashtags, as just too depressing & pointless 😭

13/9/23: I've broadly enjoyed my UX with Friendica, & admire many of its nice UI features & functions. However, i realised today that many of my posts from my venera.social Instance seem not to show up in my old Mastodon Instance. Whilst i completely recognise that Masto is NOT the Fediverse per se, it's become an important part of it, & i regard it as non-negotiable for my Friendica posts to federate more widely. Hence, from now, til further notice, my primary Fedi home reverts to @MsDropbear .

21/9/21: Ha, flip-around. Have now decided to make aus.social my new daily default [geez i seem to be very flighty!]; @MsDropbear84.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

luciedigitalni, to random
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Just remembered to get the recycling bin out and the truck came a few short minutes later.

This is going to be a good week

msdropbear42,

@luciedigitalni Noice! 🎉

There's so much about how the universe works that's utterly incomprehensible to me. Here's a recent one, for instance.

Last week i had someone come over to do some extensive tree trimming. He did it, pretty well afaict, & ofc it generated heaps of residue. He spent much time cutting up the smaller stuff & stuffing it into my council green wheelie bin, til it was as full as a goog. He kindly offered to wheel it down to the street kerb for me. I said ta, & he did; i accepted that i'd possibly have silent opprobrium from some neighbours at my bin being out there for the almost week it would need before its designated "bin day" arrived again.

The next morning, opening my blinds, i was gobsmacked to see the bin had been emptied. It was still several days from the "right" day.

I give all credit to environmentally-conscious space-aliens (oh, & ofc also to ). Nothing else is remotely plausible. 🤪

z428, to helpers

I'm then and now experiencing a strange behaviour in Friendica web (frio): Having a post with a longer thread below, I expand the thread and interact (like, reshare) with some messages in there. If I do that, more than just once a few moments after that interaction the display somehow seems to "scroll" or "jump" or reposition, not sure by which pattern, in some cases the comment I interacted with being scrolled to back or bottom, in some cases scrolling up or down the thread. Seems to happen on all browsers I tested so far, and somehow feels related to clicking, say, a "like" thumb and the background activity triggered by that being finished. Am I the only one to see that? Anyone else? This isn't really a big deal but a bit annoying as you again and again lose track of where you were.

msdropbear42,

@z428 It happens to me a lot, & tbh it's pretty exasperating. Because of it i frequently lose my reading place in my network timeline, & need to manually scroll up & down to "rediscover" where i was. This does not happen in my Masto* account.

I have a [non-technical, entirely guessed] hypothesis. I suspect that "interacting" with the subject post somehow "triggers" to then check for new items in the fediverse, to insert at the top of my timeline, which then abruptly displaces my "reading point" down by the number & size of new posts added.

  • If true, i would mention this; Mastodon allows users to avoid this unpleasant inconvenience, by an optional setting in Preferences. When enabled [which many Masto users do, afaik], new toots are prevented from automatically entering the top of the timeline & displacing it down, instead generating a small notification atop the timeline noting the availability of new content. Then, at a time chosen by the user, they can manually click that actionable notice, which loads the new content. I really wish we had this in Friendica!
Melpomene, to mastodon
@Melpomene@erisly.social avatar

Thinking about moving instances; feel a bit isolated where I am. Any suggestions? , , ?

msdropbear42,

@Melpomene Not only

, , ?

Also

,

Wrt the former, fyi:
friendica.fediverse.observer/l…

heluecht, to helpers

I want to create a new functionality and I need some ideas. I want to add an option to contacts, so that their posts don't appear in the network timeline anymore. But in difference to "ignored", "collapsed" or "blocked" this has got no further consequences. It is meant especially for contacts that you want to aggregate in a dedicated channel. So for example you could decide to subscribe to a lot of news channels, but you don't want to see them in the network timeline, since they post that often. Instead you create a channel for them and browse them from time to time. Same could be an option for groups or for feeds.

This filter would work for threads that are started by this special account. I would try to expand this to posts that are reshared by these accounts or by threads that are fetched, because this account commented in the thread. (The last two parts could be more challenging)

My questions are:

  • Do you think that this is a good idea?
  • Could it be done better than an option on the contact page?
  • How could this be named, so that users don't misunderstand the functionality?
msdropbear42,

@hypolite @heluecht Yes

receiving posts from ignored and blocked contacts, which then become collapsed.

I discovered this yesterday & today, to my chagrin. Tbh i was unhappy, coz when i've decided that someone is so unpleasant that i never wish to interact [even passively] with them again, i was shocked & unhappy that they still show in my network timeline, albeit collapsed with warning as you said. If i had my druthers, i'd never see any aspect of them again.

ada, (edited ) to random
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Important poll time

Is your fediverse handle also a valid email address for you?

msdropbear42,

@ada Nope.

luciedigitalni, to auspol
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ICYMI the AUKUS nuclear submarine fantasy is over, already.

So can someone please stop Richard Fucking Marles from handing over billions of Australian taxpayer dollars to prop up the US submarine production facilities that will provide precisely zero direct benefit to Australian's national security?


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/us-defence-announcement-raises-questions-on-aukus-anniversary/103578408

msdropbear42,

@sister_ratched @luciedigitalni

on abc morning radio with PK

A certain leather jacket was on with her this morn, saying this as well.

sister_ratched, to random
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I've forgotten my hearing aids, AGAIN. I've had bright orange signs on the front door for 5 days and am already inured to them! I'll have to start setting an alarm for every time I'm going out. Grrrrr....

msdropbear42,

@sister_ratched @melissabeartrix Glasses broken.

Oh noes! 😱

18+ ada, to random
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I saw Dune 2 yesterday, and it somehow, it felt like it was too long and too short.

I've read a lot of classic sci-fi, but I couldn't get through the Dune books, so I didn't really know the storyline going in, yet the second half of the movie felt like it was jumping all over the place without really taking the time to provide context or explore the consequences/meaning.

Yet I also couldn't wait for it to end. Not because it was bad, but just because 3 hours in a cinema is too long for my poor ADHD self, and the wriggles were kicking in big time.

If they'd have turned it in to two 2 hour movies instead of a single nearly 3 hour movie, I think I'd have had a much better time.

msdropbear42,

@ada I read the series in my teens. I confess i found it a real slog; the rich dense lore was so overwhelming that i felt i was consistently wading thru literary molasses. I still have the same paperback set on my bookshelf now, but almost 50 years later, with fuzzy vision, shortened concentration span, & ever-declining cognition, the probability i'll re-read them now is zero. In the 80s, my 20s, a friend & i saw the original film. It was unambiguously one of the all-time worst films i've ever seen.

RickiTarr, to random
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Are you the person you always thought you would be?

msdropbear42,

@RickiTarr Yes & no. Prolly mainly no.

yanncphoto, to random French
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    msdropbear42,

    @yanncphoto She turned me into a newt!

    msdropbear42, to Trains

    Pretty amazeballs. Good on him, i tentatively think... 🤔🤷‍♀️

    metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/spend-8…

    I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

    Lasse travels 600 miles a day throughout Germany aboard Deutsche Bahn trains. He travels first class, sleeps on night trains, has breakfast in DB lounges and takes showers in public swimming pools and leisure centres, all using his unlimited annual railcard.

    The self-employed coder technically has no fixed abode and appears to really enjoy his unusual way of life, something which he chronicles regularly on his blog, Life on the Train.

    ‘I’ve been living on the train as a digital nomad for a year and a half now,’ Lasse told Business Insider recently. ‘At night I sleep on the moving Intercity Express (ICE) train and during the day I sit in a seat, at a table and work as a programmer, surrounded by many other commuters and passengers. I travel from one end of the country to the other. I’m exploring the whole of Germany.’

    timrichards, to auspol
    @timrichards@aus.social avatar

    Caught some video footage of Anthony Albanese shaking hands with voters at the Dunkley by-election. We must be doing something right as a nation if the Prime Minister can rock up to a polling booth and chat to random strangers without anyone being too worried about his safety. Good to see.

    msdropbear42,

    @timrichards Did he forcibly grab peeps' unoffered hands & make them shake?

    Asking for a... talentless repulsive creep. 🤭

    msdropbear42, to auspol

    If the result tonight goes to , then i'm done with this country, hopping in my car, driving north, crossing the border, & moving to Canada.

    No, wait...

    BeAware, to fediverse
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    msdropbear42,

    @BeAware --> fyi @alfred @steffen

    msdropbear42,

    @BeAware @alfred @steffen Yes i apologise, i did that all wrong, i was only trying to let my instance owner be aware of your important info, but the way i did it stupidly looks like i was trying to inform you of Steffen, rather than the reverse.

    Need more coffee...

    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    Do you remember before:

    msdropbear42,

    @dgar Miffed that one of the options was not

    • yesterday
    ada, to random
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    Post from the tootnet.nl admin. Spam has been cleaned and registrations closed

    RE: https://tootnet.nl/users/tootnet/statuses/111991821630512146

    msdropbear42,

    @ada ???

    Susan60, to actuallyautistic
    @Susan60@aus.social avatar

    I can sometimes be slow to notice the elephant in the room & the eggshells on the floor (the problem that everyone carefully denies and manages so as not to upset anyone), but once I do notice, I want to confront and solve it.

    The problem in this instance is my MIL’s insistence that she & FIL continue to live in a house too large to manage on an acre of rambling garden in an isolated location at the top of a narrow windy road.

    Of course solving such a thing is not always possible, & if I’m not the main person affected, the person doing their best to support & manage the situation, it’s not my problem. Attempting to solve it might just make the situation worse for that person & leave others feeling judged & hurt.

    It’s a boundary issue, & one I struggle with.

    @actuallyautistic

    msdropbear42,

    @Susan60 My view is, as common to much of my existence it seems, at odds with "the vibe". If i were they, they me, i would like my wishes to be accepted by my fam & friends. Even if on any purely functional logic objective basis i might be losing my marbles & ofc sooner or later my physical capability to manage my place, i would like to just stumble along here doing my thing, in such manner as i can still manage even if externally dysfunctional, until i either cark it or cark myself. If i / they have expressed a strong preference to be left alone to do my / their thing, i would want peeps to just respect it, & bugger off.

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched @Susan60 As i said, i know i'm not of the vibe, but my logic is simple (& predicated fwiw on the identical thinking i used yonks ago when i created & distributed my specifying the range of circumstances in which i want no resuscitation, & indeed to have voluntary euthanasia if legal... or otherwise doable). It's simply this; if a peep makes important decisions about their future, decline, & demise, when still fully marbled, & fully aware that eventually various health & pragmatic problems will arise, but still makes said decision in full awareness of these, then... fam/friends should respect this & back off. I think that my attitude differs from the vibe coz unlike most, i regard existence as a bane not blessing, to be endured until one can viably exit, & not be interfered with to obstruct that aspiration. The vast majority don't concur, & i understand that, which is why i'm not advocating my position for the masses, only for those of like mind. Btw, i'm not trying to convince you & others, coz this is a matter of ideology & philosophy, but instead simply to explain an alternative perspective.

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched @Susan60 Ta... & yes, re Susan's fam, timing is everything, but it might not be on their side here, sadly.

    msdropbear42,

    @Susan60 @sister_ratched

    just hoping that they don’t take anyone else out with them

    This is a really important point. The fact they still drive is ofc a high risk vector for doing just that. Goodness it's tricky!

    It's my own aspiration not to "take anyone else out with them", which is why my shortlist of ways to kill myself once i eventually find the courage to do so, does not include gassing myself in my home. It would be simply indecent & immoral if my action, post-cark, caused harm or death to others by the gas-filled house finding some ignition source i'd overlooked & exploding.

    In your OP you said...

    but once I do notice, I want to confront and solve it

    ...which is an understandable & IMO admirable trait. Given all that you've generously shared with us in this thread, it seems highly improbable that you will be able to do so in this case, no disrespect intended, given...

    denial & minimisation ... blithe denial

    ...& so it would appear that your...

    still be there for moral & financial support if necessary

    ...is perhaps prolly the least-worst outcome available, & thus i suppose your challenge/burden is to find some way to reconcile yourselves to it, despite your druthers, & knowing that emotional pain lies ahead in the near-term.

    Best wishes.

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched @Susan60

    Fascists is my generic term for RWNJs

    💯✅👍

    I've thought of a new descriptor...

    basket of deplorables

    ...shouldn't incur too much flack, methinks...

    msdropbear42, to random

    Hasn't 's badly miscued here in this editorial?

    smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney…

    The timing is awkward to say the least, given the murder victims' bodies atm remain unrecovered, the suspect afaik remains basically mum [keeping shtoom], & ofc the whole palaver of trial, evidence etc is still in the distant future.

    Even so, don't we already know two important, & uncontested, bits of info here that make Shields' decision to wrap his editorial of longstanding police antipathy to peeps around this latest tragic unnecessary loss of innocent lives, unwise at the very least, if not exposing him to criticism of drawing too long a bow?

    • the suspect is gay, along with the victims.
    • the suspect was until only very recently in a direct partner relationship with one of the victims

    As such, it just seems to me that Shields is entirely barking up the wrong tree here, by his blatant & repeated linking of this crime to the historical horrors of terrible cops' misbehaviour against queer peeps.

    Am i too far out on a limb here to suggest that it is extraordinarily probable the suspect in THIS case murdered the victims expressly coz of my dot points, not coz "i'm a cop, cops kill gays, ergo i must kill this pair"?

    IMO Bevan Shields has made multiple blunders since becoming editor, & here i feel he's made another.

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched Is it paywalled? I didn't know. OK, well, i won't copy & paste the whole thing, but i will quote the several specific paras i'm critiquing.

    Work in progress...

    msdropbear42,

    @sister_ratched

    The sickening alleged killing of two beautiful and much-loved young men on the eve of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has once again focused attention on the NSW Police attitude to the LGBTQ community.The intersection of crime and societal change is a risky conflation but there is little doubt that for many in Sydney, the horrific case has stoked deeply held feelings of distrust and fear within the gay community towards police due to a long history of victimisation.

    later

    Two months and four days later, as Sydney reeled from the alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies by police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon with his Glock service pistol, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb apologised for the historic wrongs.

    later

    we do think police should not march this Saturday given the pain and anger felt by so many following the suspected deaths of Baird and Davies.

    later

    A picture circulating widely over recent days of Lamarre-Condon marching in full uniform in February 2020 has left many deeply uneasy.The police officers who planned to march this year should not be punished for the alleged sins of a colleague, but their presence would cause an additional layer of unnecessary heartache at a time when those who knew and loved Baird and Davies deserve to be together in a safe space.

    Maybe i'm over-egging this, but it just seems to me that, absent of my two dot-points, his editorial stands on its feet as is, with legitimacy, however, we are NOT absent of those points, thus i feel he's badly wrong to include them here. The abhorrent historical hate-based violence of cops against peeps was, afaict, predicated on ideology & prejudice, not coz in each case the offending cop was also gay & also recently exited from a relationship with their victim, as pertains here.

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