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flancian

@flancian@social.coop

SRE by day, protopian by night. Chaotic good (well meaning) rogue.

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I used to cross post to @flancian via https://moa.party. I tried to be equally responsive and engaged on both networks and I believe in the importance of welcoming users from Walled Gardens into the Fediverse.

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Looking west from Hardbrücke

flancian, to random
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[[Kushinagar]] is, according to the Digha Nikaya, the place where [[Gautama Buddha]] "attained final nibbana" (died):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushinagar

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"How Google helped destroy adoption of [[RSS feeds]]" - Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds

I'm not sure it was a concerted effort more than it was caused by distributed disinterest, but a good read/summary here.

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In one of the weirdest turns I've seen in the commercial internet as of late, kobo.com makes you complete a double captcha every time you click 'buy'!

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What happened to [[Google]] to end up with URLs like this? :)

flancian,
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Can we fix it?

I think we can, but then again I'm usually called an optimist

discoursology, to ukteachers
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Nice reminder from Florian Waldow (Humboldt Uni) that "utopia" is spatial and not at all temporal. Today's usage as future-oriented should really be "Uchronia".

NW23 online seminar

flancian,
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@discoursology but then again if I don't have it wrong 'far away' and 'a long time ago/in the far future' are roughly equivalent in the multiverse, as per Max Tegmark and such? :)

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[[TerminalTextEffects]] Docs
https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/

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everyday with [[Lady Burup]]

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@katanova @ansate @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @sam @hollie @django FYI I'll be making some changes to join.social.coop tonight to renew the API key it uses to open registration bugs; @idmyn kindly reached out to let us know the previous key was expiring. There might be some disruption to the registration process but it should be solved tonight.

flancian,
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@katanova @ansate @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @sam @hollie @django @idmyn I made the changes but both before and after updating the token I only received an email with my test answers in the registration form; no matching bug in anagora.org/go/cwg/bugs yet unfortunately

flancian,
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@katanova @ansate @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @sam @hollie @django @idmyn so it might be that registrations will remain broken while we troubleshoot this :(

To compensate we could push a quick update to join.social.coop to tell users to reach out directly over email?

flancian,
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@katanova @ansate @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @sam @hollie @django @idmyn good news, after restarting the node process manually it worked :D we probably need to update the playbook.

So we're back up and running! :)

flancian,
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@katanova @ansate @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @sam @hollie @django @idmyn update: this is fixed :)

flancian,
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@django I think it would be -- e.g. requests processed/failures observed/etc.

flancian,
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@django then again, monitoring our actual instance better would also be useful :)

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@element why though? :) I would love to be able to open [[Element]] in different windows, as my workflow involves one workspace per project, and I would like to chat in several of them (in different contexts).

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Can you believe this Burup

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[[elk]] > most other fediverse clients I've seen

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It's happening, maybe!

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Look behind you,
A [[three headed monkey]]!

simon, to random
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Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

flancian,
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@simon me too, let's revolt? :)

I am particularly irked by 1. the tendency to hijack links by replacing every URL with a minified/obscure redirect, thus further attacking the 'readability' of the web and 2. the fact that some of them are believed to maintain lists of URLs that will 'shadowban' the post or the user if posted.

flancian,
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@simon my proposal to work around any linking limitations is to "just" define and maintain our own linking layer on top of all forms of social media -- in particular, using [[wikilinks]] to signal that the user means to link to an external knowledge base ;)

dynamic, to random

Another ongoing discussion on the forums is whether or not our instance should increase the character cap for posts.

I initially felt pretty favorable toward this idea, then agnostic, and am now finding myself feeling more negatively.

flancian,
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@dynamic right, I understand that direction of thinking I think; but I'm unconvinced it's enough to sway me. There'll still be a character count display, and people could presumably use clients that let them self-impose arbitrary limits (indeed, you could make the argument Mastodon should provide such setting -- alongside making the character limit itself a setting).

Also, note that Mastodon's UX should (IIUC) already provide a 'show more' link over a certain threshold when reading.

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This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer's specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

flancian,
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@enkiv2 thanks! epub/kobo friendly version would be even better fwiw :)

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