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.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

joins in with the werewolves, because it’s fun.

Arooo!! Arooooo!!!

msdropbear42,

@dgar

joins in with the werewolves

Dgars of London.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

I wasn’t going to toot because I don’t have anything to toot about, but then I decided that I would toot, and this is that toot.

msdropbear42,

@dgar The fediverse equivalent of work for the dole schemes painting rocks.

msdropbear42, to helpers

@helpers @tag@relay.fedi.buzz

Hello. I have several #Friendica Saved Folders, but i'm struggling to deduce some usage aspects.

  1. How can i edit existing folders to rename them?
  2. Due to various reclassifications i've made now two folders are empty, & i shan't use them again; how can i delete them pls?

Thanks.

msdropbear42,

Well it's exasperating. Those two empty folders simply refuse to go away. I tried an experiment; i took two random posts, & saved one to one of these folders, t'other to t'other folder. After visually confirming that both folders now indeed held these posts, i then manually deleted each post. Ofc this is supposed to then automagically remove the now-empty folder, in each case. However, it does not; both folders seem to be nuke-proof.

I shan't lie; this is irritating.

msdropbear42, to auspol

Taylor Swift Unveils New Outfit for Sydney Shows

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour heads to Sydney this Friday with the singer set to reveal a stunning new set of outfits for the asbestos-ridden city.

Insiders say Swift will take to the stage in a figure-hugging hazmat suit for the first part of the concert, before changing into dazzling sequinned polypropylene coveralls as the show progresses. Throughout the show, Swift will also wear a series of purpose-designed full face silicone respirators, each one representing a different era of her career.

Swift’s promotors say audiences will hardly notice any difference. “There may be some slight rasping noises as Taylor comes to terms with her breathing apparatus, but we don’t think it’ll affect the show,” a spokesperson said.

Sydney Swifties say they are excited to see their hero on stage in her new costumes. “Oh my god I can’t wait to hear her do Blank Space while wearing a breathing apparatus,” one fan said.

theshovel.com.au/2024/02/22/ta…

msdropbear42, to climate

This is great news.

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-22/end…

We should celebrate.

How should we celebrate?

Yes, i know; perfect.

We shall the fsck outta this forest!

luciedigitalni, to random
@luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

In a welcome development, it appears my energy distributors have finally employed someone who is capable of accurately reading an analogue meter

msdropbear42,

@luciedigitalni That's all i've ever had. I'll be long dead before anyone would bother replacing it here, i imagine.

ada, to random
@ada@blahaj.zone avatar

@supakaity and I encountered this fine fellow this evening.

msdropbear42,

She indeed looks fine.

msdropbear42,

@ada I can't, but, with all topics that i see, i reflexively push back on everyone's / anyone's default presumption of generic male, instead rewriting as female, just to make a point. Tis all just part of my lone tilting at windmills against the despised .

TLDR; you were collateral damage in my eternal conflict 😜

msdropbear42,

@ada When i initially read your post i was already aware that many animal species adorn the male more luridly than the female (which, i add mostly in jest but not entirely, is also another instance of wretched ). I contemplated thus not responding, but alas... wherever i see windmills, i "must" tilt. 😜

Very lovely pic, regardless!

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Don't call me Shirley.

msdropbear42,

@dgar Hospital?

msdropbear42,

@rdm @dgar It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now. 😊 ✈️

msdropbear42, to helpers

@helpers Hello. Could someone pls clarify this uncertainty i have wrt expiration of my posts?

Will those selections per the pic above achieve my aspiration of deleting all my posts after 30 days unless Notes, Starred AND Saved Folders? The first two i'm confident about coz they're explicitly mentioned, but the latter is not mentioned at all. So, as i have multiple Folders, with carefully curated posts in them, it's important i do what's needed to retain them indefinitely.

Thanks.


Pic shows my venera.social/settings, section Expiration settings, with Automatically expire posts after this many days: = 30, & options Expire personal notes, Expire starred posts, & Only expire posts by others disabled, but Expire posts enabled.

msdropbear42,

Oh well, i suppose i'll eventually discover the answer in a month's time, for better or worse...

Free_Press, to random
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

Stop the 2 stall parking!

A short video that will eliminate problems with car parking

As you can see, parking even in a small area is very simple.

video/mp4

msdropbear42,

@Free_Press I'm sorry for being dopey, but i do not understand the purpose of this video. It simply shows someone parking a car. What deep secret am i somehow overlooking? 🤷‍♀️

nixCraft, to linux
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

How did the systems administrator find true love?

.... They grep'd for it. 🤓

msdropbear42,

@nixCraft Fixed it for you.

.... They grep'd for it.

18+ HardBeingGreen, to auspol
@HardBeingGreen@theblower.au avatar

Here we go again, a race to the bottom on boats and immigration

How long will these asylum seekers be stuck on Nauru?

Does anyone really believe people should be stuck in indefinite detention after doing their time in prison?

It's embarrassing

msdropbear42,

@HardBeingGreen One of the most egregious bits of this interminable canine-whistling bullshit that Speers pursued this morn, again, was the CRAP about "does the govt know the exact location of all these released murderers?". FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!

Look, Speers & all other creeps who keep doing this venal dogwhistle... lemme ask you the counter-question to illustrate how moronic & deceitful your strategy is...

Do you know the exact location of all Strayans who were convicted & served time for murder, then were lawfully released?

Well, do you? Fscken idiots!

michel, to helpers

Is it possoble to configure Friendica that way that in the timelinines only appear First-posts never comments on first-posts?
Sometimes a timeline is cluttered with comments from one first-post with a subject i'm not interested in.

msdropbear42,

@shelenn @michel Yes this is v desirable. I'm really enjoying my UX, but this specific aspect of its UI is one for which i wish they'd copy the Masto (?) way of doing it.

msdropbear42,

@roland @shelenn @michel In my venera.social account i use this setting...

...& i do appreciate that it helps, but at the same time it does not collapse entire threads into just the OP. That's the option i would like to also have.


Pic shows part of my venera.social account setting in venera.social/settings/addons, with my use of the option "Show more", & my character-value of 444 [="Cutting posts after how many characters"].

msdropbear42, to helpers

@helpers

Hello. There is a certain "network weirdness" that irregularly afflicts my use of in my browser. Most of the time this misbehaviour does not occur, but each time it does arise, i can never identify its cause, nor even any consistent pattern of other symptoms that might lead to uncovering its root cause. I also don't know if there's some esoteric setting in my Friendica account's Settings doing this, that i might have overlooked.

See the pic for a quick simple visual display of the symptom.

Pls does anyone have any ideas my Friendica does this?


Pic shows my desktop for network activity, with random bouts of my full available download & upload capacity consumed by my Friendica browser tab. Pic shows some breaks wherein both UL & DL revert to their normal "background noise" levels, & these occurred when i reloaded the tab, &/or when i closed the browser. Note that "background noise" levels are the norm for this tab; the weird activity is a small minority of the overall browsing time measured over months & years, nevertheless this problem still arises far too often for my liking.

ajsadauskas, to sydney
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

Can anyone here confirm the rumours that there's a park somewhere in Sydney that isn't covered in asbestos mulch?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/more-than-30-parks-across-sydney-to-be-urgently-tested-for-asbestos-as-residents-urged-to-avoid-mulched-areas

@sydney

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas Oh, fake news!

a park somewhere in Sydney that isn't covered in asbestos mulch

Such egregious falsehood... 🤭

So, yay capitalism?

msdropbear42,

@ajsadauskas Waiter, there's some mulch in my asbestos! 😞

jupiter_rowland, to random

Since the BridgyFed drama, there might be four more reasons for Mastodon users to want Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) out of the Fediverse. I mean, aside from their usual atrocities like their users writing well over 500 characters, using text formatting, quoting and quote-posting like it's totally normal. Because it is for them. And aside from no instance on any of the three having rules and moderator numbers on par with Mastodon.

One, they aren't based on ActivityPub. They're technically bridged to Mastodon. They're bridged one instance at the time, and the bridge is a plug-in on the instance and therefore part of the project. But still, it isn't that much different from BridgyFed connecting Bluesky to the rest of the Fediverse.

Two, since they aren't based on ActivityPub, they're aliens. Aliens of basically the same kind as Bluesky, only that they've mostly got those features that Mastodon has that Bluesky doesn't. But the BridgyFed drama isn't about Bluesky's features or lack thereof, and it isn't only about Bluesky being commercial either. It's also about Bluesky being too different in technology, functionality and culture. But let me tell you a secret: Bluesky is probably much closer to Mastodon than Hubzilla. I mean, I've already mentioned how Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) users "misbehave" from a Mastodon point of view. You won't see any of this come from Bluesky anytime soon.

Three, Friendica is already fully federated with Bluesky. It's a feature that was introduced with the latest stable release.

Four, speaking of Friendica, that allegedly "hate-fuelling" Fediverse News is a public group account on Friendica. Only that the user who started that particular thread is on Firefish, and Fediverse News only automatically forwarded what he had posted.

So where's the outrage?

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #BridgyFed #Bluesky #Bridge #BlueskyBridge

msdropbear42,

@jupiter_rowland Hi Jupiter. I learn new stuff each time i read your posts, it seems, but here i'm quite struggling. I seem to be entirely ignorant of most of the things you've mentioned above.

  • "the BridgyFed drama" ... 🤷‍♀️
  • "Mastodon users to want Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) out of the Fediverse" ... they do? OMZ! Why? I mean, yes i read & understand all your points about our formatting & character limits, but i had no idea this was causing some adverse Masto user conflict 😮
  • "aren't based on ActivityPub" ... OMZ, i nearly fell over at this one. I thought everything in the fediverse was predicated on this, in that that was how the fediverse was even a thing. Geez i am so ignorant. 🤦‍♀️
  • "Friendica is already fully federated with Bluesky" ... oh, well, this one i do dislike. Now i need to research how i can block ; i really want nothing to do with it, nor .
  • "allegedly "hate-fuelling" Fediverse News is a public group account on Friendica" ... sigh. I simply don't understand how i am so unaware. I am active each day in my account, yet somehow remain cluelessly obliviously ignorant of nuclear wars raging around me. Sigh.

@alfred

msdropbear42,

@scott Hello Scott, t/y muchly for taking the time to explain that helpfully for me. 🤗 At the risk of appearing even more stupid...

  1. "building a bridge between ActivityPub and AT Protocol" ... yes i had heard of that, but til now had been naively unaware of all the Sturm und Drang this is apparently generating, eg... "so angry that they are flipping out and dropping F bombs" --> to the extent that i am doing my several hours of daily fediversing, i spend all that time in my Home timeline, not in the local server nor global timelines, & in my Home i follow a very large number of , + a smaller but not negligible number of accounts. Clearly an unintended by-product of my curation has been to insulate me almost entirely from these apparent "range wars" raging beyond my purview.
  2. You listed twice, ie, in both of the "protocol camps". Is that a typo, or deliberate? If the latter, it might explain & resolve my confusion when reading Jupiter's OP, given somehow i had been thinking that Friendica is using AP.
  3. "Scuttlebutt" ... i love this, & shall now immediately begin searching for suitable instances i can join! 😜
  4. "far as Friendica federating with Bluesky, the administrator of the server would have to activate that" ... yes, that's exactly as i hoped it would be, which is why before, & again now, i have cc'd @alfred

Thanks again.

luciedigitalni, to random
@luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

Currently writing an application for a job I'm already doing (but with significantly better pay) which is surprisingly hard

msdropbear42,

@luciedigitalni Sincerely hope the incumbent doesn't give you a bad raz when they submit their independent appraisal to the committee.

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