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pseudonym, 1 year ago to fediverse

Apologies for the spamming to anyone following me here (original) and on @calckey.social - it looks like the "import" of all my old posts from here spammed them out to everyone following the new account.

#calckey is under active development, and I think has a leg up over #mastodon , but isn't yet quite as mature.

I've already submitted to the issue tracker to not do this on import.

And as soon as the import finishes, please follow me over there as well psudonym@calckey.social

mattblaze, 1 year ago to random

Frustrating thing about mastodon/fediverse for posting photography: there's no way to control or even predict how an image will render. Whether it crops (and where), upscales, downscales, fetches a preview, etc, depends on the instance and app software being used by the viewer, regardless of what the poster does.

So if my images look weird, clicking on them will probably fix that (or at least show them as weird in the way I intended).

pseudonym, 1 year ago to random

Kid narrating a #ttrpg in the car.

Kid: Mom, you are a Unicorn.

Mom: OK.

K: You turn into a dog.

M: What?

K: You are a shape changer.

M: OK. I go inside and say hello.

Me: Ahhh! A talking dog!

M: Bark.

Me: Did you just say the word "bark"?

M: "No."

devxvda, 1 year ago to random

Hi, I'm actor Troy McClure. You might remember me from such movies as "You are reading this in my voice", "You are now blinking manually", "There is no comfortable place for your tongue to rest in your mouth", "You're producing saliva", "Your jaw has weight forcing you to manually hold it closed", and "There is at least one place on your body that itches"

malcircuit, 1 year ago to random

Okay, so Top Gun: Maverick is actually pretty epic

pseudonym, 1 year ago to random

For the most part, I think online #software updates are a fine thing. New features, #security fixes, all good stuff.

But it needs a good UX. Download updates in the background. Apply them in off hours when the user isn't doing anything. Give users control to opt out or suspend them.

The easy availability of online update mechanisms, in a way, drives the demand for constant, new product features.

A program that's fit for purpose doesn't need updates.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

pivoinebleue, 1 year ago to random

Missouri trans ‘snitch form’ down after people spammed it with the ‘Bee Movie’ script

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/21/missouri-trans-snitch-form-down-after-people-spammed-it-with-the-bee-movie-script/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL0pyc2Jsd3A2RUo&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK86lE2KqjndFTQJkQYMKe-cTg2nb3RTovqKmXPTLuzuz2S29knf-xlKOhogHn1KGzZ80vZzLNYg09BQeXi44l06tvUGZqUw-DaaHagaiZSHMp6TBl8eRNqYZvXu8g_69FkM2zX1ujSfqdX7Zm_2nQKVKU0r-PqoFRKgQm0UFQ_h&t=jz4fyIwRpVMnc1NzyPh5Bw&s=09

>But after days of TikTok and Twitter users spamming the site with gibberish, the tip line has been removed from the Missouri government site entirely. Instead of the online form, the link to the tip line now says that the page no longer exists.

ColinTheMathmo, 1 year ago to random

I've just registered with a professional organisation and received, in clear, my user details, including the password they generated for me. Along with the text:

"To maintain this security, you cannot change your password and we have no means of retrieving lost passwords."

!!!

This is horrendous ... incredibly bad practice.

From a professional organisation.

Mind-boggling.

Heliograph, 1 year ago to random

Just to emphasise the magnitude of difference between #billion and #million :

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.

#apropos #notsureyouknew

pseudonym, 1 year ago to fediverse

#mastodon vs #twitter

The attitude of gratitude beats enragement for engagement.

GreatDismal, 1 year ago to random

Trying to remember how Mastodon works. Glad it’s here, though.

18+ mattedgar, 2 years ago to random

There was a time when Flickr was an exemplar of whimsical, web-savvy copywriting. Now, not so much