"Yeah #Threads is full of Nazis but what are you going to do, go back to Mastodon? They get mad at you for not using alt text in your pictures. That's like way worse."
Now that I think about it, a very useful technique for avoiding the unwanted attention from the sandworms in Dune would be to employ the use of Monty Python's silly walks.
#PeerTube 6.0 comes with a new feature: Chapters! You can now add chapters to your uploaded videos. Last night I did a live stream which was saved to a VOD. This morning, as I was saving it to my playlist, I went through the video and added chapter markers so that when people are watching, they can skip the boring parts. :D
A reminder that the guy who just got fired from OpenAI also wanted to scan everyone's eyeball with some sort of orb in exchange for Worldcoin, his pet crypto project. They told him that he was absolutely not allowed to do this in the US so he started spending a bunch of time in Africa and Southeast Asia in the hopes of finding enough suckers for his program.
One thing I've sort of felt about modern web development for years now is how far we've deviated from core web design principles when they were created the decades ago.
Now, I understand that it's expected for things to evolve and change over time. I get that. What I'm talking about is how, for example, web app designers treat web sites like infinitely malleable canvases from which they can create their custom masterpieces on.
People might ask, well, what's the big deal about that? (cont.)
In the somewhat common scenario (especially when dealing with large groups of people who are stakeholders in a project), you'll get often contradictory and competing ideas for the design of a web site. Links are formatted one way one month, then the next month they have new links but they want them formatted differently.
So you might get one set of formatting guidelines this time, but no one refers to them in subsequent design iterations. People keep making things up as they go along. (cont.)
You also get design requirements that make no sense, just because it's possible to do it. "We want our dates formatted with slash separators on this table, but in the next table we want dots." Never mind that only one of these options are relevant in a clients locale, and don't get me started on the whole accessibility issue.
It's crazy.
So yeah. I do like the flexibility the modern web offers but it sure does open the door to a lot of bad decision-making on the design side of things.
Occasionally someone brings up Lord of the Flies as some sort of real-life allegory of man's inhumanity to man, when it's nothing like that at all.
First, Lord of the Flies is fiction.
Not only is it fiction, it was based off of a real incident where a group of boys did get stranded on an island for a while until they were rescued. In the real life version, they all banded together, took care of the injured, and were in relatively good health when help finally arrived.
Hot take, Golding’s book is best read as a critique of western civilization than of people in some “state of nature.” The boys are shipwrecked while fleeing Britain during a (possibly nuclear) war. The Beast is a fighter pilot shot down in that war. They’re rescued by the crew of a warship that tuts the boys’ lack of civility while the ship is prosecuting a global war of destruction.
The boys aren’t barbaric because they lack civilization, but because their civilization is barbaric.
I don't mean to yuck on anybody's yum but I sort of feels like there is a lot of premature celebrating with regards to Trump's indictments and grand jury hearings. He hasn't been convicted yet, and he's still the Republican front-runner for the Presidential election. Hell, he's even beating Biden in some polls.
I'm not saying people shouldn't feel joy at his misfortune (I certainly do), but I sort of feel like people are setting themselves for a huge disappointment down the road.
@zalasur The November 2024 election will determine everything. Even if Trump's in jail by then, he can still be elected, inaugurated, and then pardon himself. At which point out experiment in democracy will be over.
About once a month or so, someone in my feed will come up with the idea to create a website that serves as a human-curated directory of the web and I'm like, ah we have reached full circle. We're now reinventing the Open Directory Project.
(Which I think is a good idea, but it's interesting to see people come back to this idea over and over again).
@zalasur (1) where are the little ones aimed at particular domains? (2) what would it take for directories to succeed today? and (3) wasn't ODP killed by corruption? (e.g. SEO spammers got many of the editor slots, the others didn't stay active)
@UP8 Technically, ODP was killed by the owner, AOL (or whatever was left of it), but yeah I'm willing to bet that part of the problem with maintaining that list is that SEO gamers and, increasingly, AI spam will make it onto the list despite the most diligent of efforts to keep it clean of that corruption.
Ugh, I think my old laptop may finally be dying. The Wi-Fi goes out and the only way I can get it to work again is by rebooting. If better work on moving my documents off of there. 😢
So people have been noticing that you often don't see replies to posts on Mastodon. This is especially true if the post originated from a user who's on another instance from your own.
How to rectify the situation? Go to the source. On Mastodon, in the "three dots" menu next to each post there's an option to "Open Original Page". This will open up the post directly from that other instance and you'll see all the replies there.
You can also do this from mobile, too. Tusky has an "Open in browser" option. There are other clients and most likely they all have the same option.
NOTE: Remember if you're viewing a post from another instance, if you try interacting with it you'll get a dialog asking you to verify from where you are logged in on, because the other instance does not know about you.
Of course, you can always go back to your native view and interact with it as you normally would.