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starbreaker

@starbreaker@social.lol

#author by choice
#programmer by necessity
#metalhead by the grace of the witch

Everything I want you to know about me is on my website.

Blog posts show up here via #EchoFeed.

Posts to status.lol show up here, too.

I don't speak for or represent anybody but myself, and nothing I post should be considered factual unless independently verified.

I post for my own entertainment. If you are not entertained, mute me. I will neither know nor care.

#nobot

fiat iustitia ruat caelum

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laurahelmuth, to random
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Anthony Comstock was even worse than you might imagine. His soldier-of-Christ, misogynistic work to punish the fallen and blasphemous never really ended, and now it is having a horrifying revival https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-comstock-act-originated-with-disregard-for-womens-lives-it-still-does/

starbreaker,
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@laurahelmuth Shit like this is why I think the French approach to secularism should be imported into the US. Public life should be exorcised, God should be consigned to his heaven where he can do us no harm, and religion should be as private as masturbation. (Don't do it in public or around children.)

robb, to random
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Starting to think the custom og images I use are more hassle than they're worth.

Like if I toot a post I've done, the title is there anyway so the image doesn't really add anything.

starbreaker,
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@robb I have one image for every page and post, and that's only because Mastodon insists on aping Twitter.

cory, (edited ) to random
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Now: a personal assistant in your pocket.

Soon: a used car salesman in your pocket.

starbreaker,
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@cory As long as it's not a televangelist in my pocket.

molly0xfff, to fediverse
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"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."

is this feeling... hope? https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/

#ActivityPub #Ghost #fediverse #OpenWeb

starbreaker,
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@molly0xfff In my case, it's not hope but defiance. I don't believe my website counts for much, or that independent operators alone can break the spell of network effects and liberate people who prefer their digital chains, but the power of Satan compels me to press on regardless; every day my website stays up is itself a small victory.

starbreaker, to random
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Hi, @robb, I'm fiddling with and I may have tripped over a bug.

I'm trying to connect my headlines RSS feed at https://starbreaker.org/feeds/headlines.xml, which appears to be valid (https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstarbreaker.org%2Ffeeds%2Fheadlines.xml), but instead of {{ summary }} grabbing the contents of the <description> element it ends up blank.

Has anybody else reported this?

starbreaker, to random
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Since @robb had written something similar, here's something I wrote about customer sentiment analysis last year.

http://starbreaker.org/blog/rants/would-you-recommend-us-to-your-friends/index.html

"What businesses should be asking is not whether I would recommend them to my friends, but whether I would warn my friends against them."

murmel_social, to fediverse
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📢💰We will run an experiment of drastically reducing the price of our monthly subscription from $4.99/m down to a mere $1.99/m. That's a 60% price reduction! Of course, the 30-day free trial remains, too.

To make the lower price stick, we'd need to get as many people to try Murmel as we possibly can.

Please, help us spread the word throughout the #fediverse. We'd love to get a boost from you. Please, smash that 🔁 button! 🚀🙏

https://murmel.social/

starbreaker,
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@murmel_social I lost interest when the marketing copy on your website mentioned .

Pay human beings a to curate or GTFO.

starbreaker,
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@preslavrachev @murmel_social

Fair enough, and perhaps I was a bit harsh earlier, but I don't trust recommendation algorithms either.

One of the reasons I'm on Mastodon is to avoid recommendation algorithms, and since I know how to follow individual users' RSS feeds your service doesn't provide anything I'd value.

jbaty, to random
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I'm mad at the trend of creating giant social media (open graph) images for blog posts that don't otherwise have images. They're basically ads.

starbreaker,
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@jbaty Yeah, they basically are. And they don't even use standard meta tags for their link preview, as I was telling @cory yesterday.

This is where I disagree with the #IndieWeb approach. The open web should not cater to social media; it was here first. Social media should be catering to the open web.

starbreaker, to Deathmetal
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@cory, since you're into , have you heard of from Germany?

https://disillusion-official.bandcamp.com/album/the-liberation

starbreaker,
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@cory I've also been into this album lately.

https://crone-de.bandcamp.com/album/gotta-light

starbreaker,
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@cory Also, this is an old favorite of mine.

https://sonsofcrom.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-tower

starbreaker,
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@cory My dad was big on ELP, Renaissance, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, early Genesis with Peter Gabriel on vocals, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, the Allman Brothers, and the Marshall Tucker Band. I got heavier and weirder from there.

He couldn't stand BOC because Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper got way too much airplay, but I got into them because of songs like Black Blade, Astronomy, ME-262, and Flaming Telepaths.

robertdalton, to StarTrek
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starbreaker,
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@robertdalton At least I didn't end up with my head on backwards.

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