As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.
This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.
However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄
I've mentioned various missing movies, such as Dogma. (Which is apparently being held back by the Weinsteins.)
There's another one - a film that we voted as having the best (and funniest) sex scene ever filmed - The Tall Guy. It's not available. And what other movie contains a musical version of "The Elephant Man" with tunes such as 'Packing His Trunk To Go"?
This is another data point in my evolving belief that copyright protection ought not to be afforded to works that are not openly available under fair and reasonable terms and prices.
I think the funniest sex scene in the history of film is contained in the film, "Bad Words", where Jason Batemen and Kathryn Hahn are going at it in the hotel's broom closet...
Perhaps due to my own ineptitude at wrapping gifts, one of my fav techniques is to drop the gifts into a grocery sack, drop that bundle into another grocery sack, and use that indestructible fibrous tape to tightly bundle up the sack with a ridiculous amount of wraps of the tape.
You literally cannot rip open the gift-wrapping with your bare hands - you must enlist the aid of a pair of scissors and even then it's a bit of effort.
Unwrapping is fun again!
The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.
We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.
This is excellent news Mike. Following your original announcement many months ago, I actually thought this was the case and created a clipboard about for myself, lolz.
It took a bit, but eventually I figured out that such integration would need to wait for a later day.
I think that, and just speaking in generalities here Gabe, "botsin . space" is pretty much considered the defacto host for #Fediverse robots.
If nothing else, it's easier and more decisive to remove all bots from one's stream than placing the "nobots" hashtag in one's profile. One merely needs to block the host and be done with all bots - it's a shotgun instead of a mousetrap solution but hosting prominent bots elsewhere does complicate things for n00bs :)
The ML top-level domain has been removed from Freenom for almost a year, and is now a paid domain. For this reason, I was unable to renew it and moved the official instance to https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com
But someone has apparently paid and registered lingva.ml and is pretending to be the official instance. For the moment I haven't detected any suspicious activity but I wouldn't recommend using it just in case.
Why would you even think about doing something like that? Running a production service under that shady TLD? With all those people and services depending upon it?
Well, no surprises here.
A hard lesson learned I suppose. It's not like you don't know this was likely to happen. The Lemmy project placed themselves in the same similar predicament for what many have pointed out is the result of ill advised reasoning.
Anyone have experience setting up a wiki? My webhost (BlueHost) has four different wiki installs available and I have no idea which to choose: DocuWiki, MediaWiki, PmWiki, and WikkaWiki.
I'm reasonably tech-savvy. Not a programmer, but I understand shell scripts and basic HTML/CSS.
My goal is a wiki to organize and share campaign notes for my homebrew D&D campaign. Centered around a big map with links off to pages that expand on locations, people, factions, & history.
I think if you just start off playing with the #Tiddly family, you'll be more than pleasantly surprised and it will grow and morph to your own requirements.
The thing I don’t understand is, why on Earth or under it do sighted people seem to think that the only way to clean something is to scrape it with a fork, regardless of how they know that what they’re scraping with a fork is a non-stick surface, which can get damaged when scraped with forks. And they only seem to do this with someone else’s equipment, never theirs. I had to throw one Forman grill that didn’t have removable plates away thanks to someone doing that three years ago, this person being someone who worked in the apartment building I’m living in who should have known better, and now I’m having to figure out whether or not I can get spare plates for the grill I have now, once more because someone, this time a staff member at a hotel I was staying at during the time the lift in my apartment building was broken, decided “Oh, let’s get the fork out and scrape away, regardless of how a Forman grill’s plates are non-stick”. And when you confront them about it, they say “Oh I was in a hurry”, or “how was I supposed to know that’d damage the plates”? I mean, are george Forman grills really that uncommon these days, regardless of how I’ve seen them in multiple stores right up to the present day? And, of course, when you tell them they damaged the plates, they act like it’s no big thing. Of course not. At least not to them. They’re not the ones who have to deal with burger patties sticking to the plates, and they’re sure not the ones having to figure out if they can find replacement plates anywhere. Ok, rant mode disengaged.
If you like those George Forman Grills (um.... who doesn't like George Forman?), then considering I saw some here and there and these newfangled one's don't seem to much resemble the originals, perhaps scouring garage sales (or cough, cough, eBay) for those first generation one's might be a good idea.
But yah, using a metal utensil on a non-stick surface? hm... like those old Pace Picante Sauce commercials.... "Get a rope!"
So many went directly to storage for counter space.
> And they only seem to do this with someone else’s equipment, never theirs.
There's the crux of the issue.
No one ever takes care of our stuff like us.
It would be nice if they did, I always try to afford the respect for other people's shit the same as I would my own, but the reality is that other's don't respect our stuff like they would their own.