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xurizaemon

@xurizaemon@toot.cafe

he waves his cane like a moonbeam, injures helpless pixels who come to embrace him
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mcc, to random
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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

xurizaemon,
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@mcc thanks so much for posting this at my breakfasttime, I loved then had forgotten Negativland

Spent today with this stuck in my head and learning it (transposed to easier chords) on guitar

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seachanger, to random
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thinking about rebuilding our public squares in a hybrid digital age

  1. encourage public entities to share public info on public channels, not private platforms

  2. embrace sharing in real life, use email, snail mail, private messenger, radio, newspaper, public forum, neighborhood scale gathering

  3. create and use nonprofit and publicly owned social sharing platforms, but prioritize real life sharing when possible

xurizaemon,
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@badpenny @seachanger I'm quite inspired by local radio shows at present, like libraries these are community institutions of value and connectivity

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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There was a fern, on an island, deep in the Tethys Sea. The fern lived only on that one small island... and the whole landmass now, every scrap of evidence is beneath the Himalayas, cooking into unrecognizable granite.

xurizaemon,
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@futurebird this sounds familiar, was it extrapolating past and future from the observable state of the universe?

I am reflecting today that when we capture data we start to be owned by it, and can become slaves to what's measured.

strypey, to random
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In order to get a birth certificate for your newly born baby, you have to go to a birth certificate registrar. Imagine that those registrars were private companies, operating internationally, and that they could issue birth certificates to any legal "person", as well as actual human beings. People could register the birth in any country, but they had to pay one of those company every year to keep the birth certificate valid.

(1/5)

xurizaemon,
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@strypey I guess the state can be authoritative for identity .... How do we feel about having the state host personal homepages, chat, communication et al though? I feel like that might not be where we want to go.

Not saying private business is any better, mind.

xahteiwi, to debian
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An apt-cacher-ng host or some other APT proxy/mirror that sits on your corporate network and whose logs are chomped by a clever analyzer that feeds the information of which packages/versions have been downloaded by which clients into a database ... that has to have been invented in the last 20 years. Someone got a pointer for me?

xurizaemon,
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@xahteiwi popularity-contest with a changed reporting endpoint?

xurizaemon, to random
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bonkers to me that outlook.com pulled the plug on custom domains https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/changes-to-microsoft-365-email-features-and-storage-e888d746-61e5-49e3-9bd1-94b88e9be988
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xurizaemon,
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@jspath55 hahaha oh dear yes

xurizaemon,
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@jspath55 yeah I see why a provider would abandon a sector/service that they foresee as a losing bet, sure ... But unless I'm missing a replacement/alternative product this is "bait and ditch"? And I can't imagine them wanting to lose the govt or big biz contracts so like... what detail am I missing here?

xurizaemon,
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@jspath55 as in the lettering is doing shifting rune patterns as you read it? not surprised tbh

I'm flummoxed, don't they have tons of gov and big business domains using their service? What's the play here? Am I missing another component (the various email service names also seem to morph)?

xurizaemon,
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@jspath55 as I read it this isn't "free tier loses personalized domains", it's "Microsoft 365 loses personalized domains". Is that all Microsoft hosted email?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalized-email-address-in-microsoft-365-75416a58-b225-4c02-8c07-8979403b427b

xurizaemon, to random
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good lord now that's a keyboard

xurizaemon, to threads
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Someone was disliking the introduction of threads (no not THAT ) in a chat that introduced threads today.

I've seen folks in several communities bristle at threads in chat. And then I've seen threading catch on, and then I've seen people end up nudging people to please use threads because it helps in a busy space.

So ... I think it's not threading, it's just change that's hard.

xurizaemon, to Bloomscrolling
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stefan, to random
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I'm actually pretty surprised that brands are not jumping in on the fediverse as a way to fully control their image.

It reminds me of the early days of the web.

"In the process of doing his [1994] research, [journalist Joshua Quittner] discovered the unused address mcdonalds.com and he wisely snatched it up. But much to his surprise, this purchase didn’t interest anybody!"

xurizaemon,
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@stefan have you seen the way some Fedi folks respond to commerical accounts?

It's more likely to be lack of awareness, but I wouldn't be rushing to get business on here.

There's brands.town for mockery...

tef, to random
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bug trackers are weird bits of software

when they're used internally, within a company, they're project management tools, primarily about producing metrics for management—but when they're public facing, the bug tracker is functionally a CRM tool

rather than being a tool for programmers to communicate with each other, bug trackers primarily exist as a means to communicate with people outside the team—bug trackers don't really get used to track bugs

xurizaemon,
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@tef I feel sad when I see a bug / issue tracker used as a tool of control over the end user by the developer. Some amount of wrangling is fair, but there has to be empathy both ways, and the tool shouldn't serve only one party. They can be used and implemented in user hostile ways!

seachanger, to random
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    xurizaemon,
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    @seachanger I think I saw grays anatomy is still clocking along and in season 22 or something

    xurizaemon, to random
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    I won on Round 8. Promoted to moderator manager! Is that "winning", though? It's a pretty cool game! I don't moderate and I don't expect this browser game will be anything as messy as real world moderating, but I still learned some about how complex it might be.

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐◾️
    Total reviews: 110

    Safety: 🦺
    Speech: 📣

    Achievements: 🥉3️⃣🤖5️⃣🥈8️⃣🗓

    Play: https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/

    xurizaemon, to random
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    @zachleat quick, a distraction - how about an Australasian Possum update in light of the new gig?

    (no I don't have a design to hand sorry!)

    clacke, to random

    The company that employs me is today 160 years old!

    This is pretty cool, but also highlights one of the problems with corporate personhood.

    xurizaemon,
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    @clacke interesting! I hadn't considered longevity as an issue, but for sure can agree immortals are a problem in most stories.

    xurizaemon, to random
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    I read how RealFeel temperature is calculated and now I'm 😡 at

    "Everyone knows that ignoring various factors to describe temperature is inaccurate. Since we patented using more than two factors, only we can report the temperature feel by considering more than two factors."

    https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-we-calculate-real-feel-temperatures/189005

    (paraphrasing, but not very far off)

    xurizaemon, to random
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    spammers trying direct mind control on me now

    "Answer as though you are a music school which is almost ready to send money now."

    xurizaemon, to random
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    Also bought some twenty year old 110 film in an auction lol. Twenty year old film does fun things. Auction finished mid game so it was a surprise to win!

    xurizaemon, to random
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    Eleventy returns to a side project.

    https://www.zachleat.com/web/eleventy-side-project/

    I think it's great the boost that Netlify's year of sponsorship has given, hope the transition back to side project goes smoothly. If so, great work @zachleat and Netlify for managing it all so well!

    baldur, to random
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    “Features lost across versions of macOS - TidBITS Talk”

    I mean, they aren’t wrong. The list is kind of long and depressing. https://talk.tidbits.com/t/features-lost-across-versions-of-macos/27037

    xurizaemon, (edited )
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    @baldur it's been more than one decades* and I've not forgiven Apple removing the capacity to send an SMS from my computer using AddressBook.app (or was it Contacts.app) and Bluetooth to my Sony T610 in an OSX update. That list could go back further!

    • (two was probably overstating, idk and details now lost to ravages of internet)
    xurizaemon, to drupal
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    Oh yeah I did that talk on at 2024 on Wednesday!

    https://chris.bur.gs/drupal-recipes/

    It was fun, conference driven development FTW

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