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stefan, 10 days ago to MountainBiking

Happy #WorldBicycleDay!

"The [2018 United Nations General Assembly] resolution for World Bicycle Day recognizes "the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transport.""

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

#bicycles #biking

stefan, 10 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to queer

Love this book dedication:

"For all the queer educators out there. You save lives simply by showing up."

via https://botsin.space/

#PrideMonth #pride #visibility #lgbtq #lgbtqia #teachers #books #bookstodon #BookDedication

stefan, 10 days ago to genart

Hey fediverse, just a reminder that I made a few dozen automated accounts that post anything from locations of libraries and parks around the world, live views from NYC, the ISS, or under the sea, book dedications, emoji polls, and lots and lots more.

https://stefans-creative-bots.glitch.me

Have a look, there's something for everyone!

#CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #ArtBots

jupiter_rowland, 10 days ago to random

I've got over 500 connections, most of which are on Mastodon. Yet, it feels like I've got much less reach in the Fediverse now than I used to have when I only had some 200 or 300 connections. This can only mean that especially lots of Mastodon users and maybe even entire Mastodon instances have muted, blocked or shadow-banned me. I wouldn't even be surprised if some public Mastodon instances have secretly muted or blocked hub.netzgemeinde.eu as a whole just because of my actions.

I can't really tell from the delivery reports, for one difference between Mastodon and Hubzilla is that Hubzilla rejects blocked or filtered messages at the server level whereas Mastodon accepts them and then discards them before they can be delivered to the muting, blocking or filtering recipient. Otherwise I think I could weed out a whole lot of connections.

And here's a list of reasons for which I've probably been muted, blocked or shadow-banned:

1. Posting over 500 characters. Regardless of whether or not I put them behind a Mastodon-style content warning.
2. Posting over 500 characters without a Mastodon-style content warning. That's because I simply can't put Mastodon-style content warnings on comments. Still, I'm pretty sure that just about everyone who has ever come across an over-500-character comment from me while using the official Mastodon app has taken countermeasures.
3. A summary in the content warning. Mastodon's content warning field is the summary field, but 99% of all Mastodon users don't know.
4. More than four hashtags. On Mastodon, more than four hashtags are spam, regardless of whether they're spread across a 150-character toot or a 10,000-character essay or at the very end of the post. Also, Mastodon largely doesn't know the concept of filtering hashtags, it knows filter-generated content warnings even less, and it knows the concept of adding hashtags in order to trigger filters another great deal less.
5. A few may still be upset about text formatting, even though I guess many mobile apps still don't show it.
6. Talking about virtual worlds, but the Mastodon users in question don't know how to filter.
7. Talking about the Fediverse, but actually talking about the Fediverse outside of Mastodon and/or making Mastodon look bad in comparison to non-Mastodon Fediverse projects.
8. Questioning Mastodon practices that are set in stone and never discussed on Mastodon such as certain aspects of describing images.

Essentially, this boils down to two points:

• not adopting the entirety of Mastodon's culture as a Hubzilla user
• not abandoning Hubzilla's culture as a Hubzilla user

All because the Fediquette is entirely defined by Mastodon users, most of whom at that point didn't and often still don't know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #MastodonCulture #Fediquette #Mute #Muted #Block #Blocked #NotMastodon

stefan, 11 days ago to history

It looks like parts of the original thread are broken, but the TLDR here is: Do you know the source of the quote:

"You don’t fight fascism because you are going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism."

https://waag.social/@MennoOng/112540224146722651

#quote #history #fascism #sartre

stefan, 11 days ago to random

@goodbye @MennoOng Perhaps this is from a book or an essay that hasn't been translated to English?

sara, 12 days ago to random

@stefan Hi! I realize this is a long shot but I tried remixing the glitch creative-bots project to make a little Mastodon bot, but it seems like it doesn’t work anymore and npm starts screaming. Are there any plans to maybe update it at all? (It’s fine if not, it’s free after all, and I’m sure you have more than enough to do!) 💛

stefan, 12 days ago to webdev

Finally had a proper look at @eleventy.

I really like that it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

I'm not quite sold on it for hosting blogs (yet), but I've migrated a few of my smaller projects for which I've used a simple node app (mainly to take advantage of templating).

Huge improvement in memory consumption! For example, https://simplepagebuilder.app went from 67.89MB down to just 6.07MB.

Nice!

#webdev #11ty #eleventy

stefan, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to internet

It was 13 years ago when I registered fourtonfish.com, which I've used as my internet home for the following 11 years, before switching to stefanbohacek.com.

How did you pick the domain name for your personal website?

#anniversary #internet #TheWeb #PersonalWebsite #DomainNames #poll

josh, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

Hey folks! I'm looking for examples of elected officials and people running for office who have accounts on the fediverse.

Know of one? Please let me know! Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

#USPol #CanPoli #UKPol

stefan, 14 days ago to random

"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/

#technology #automata #automatons

liaizon, 15 days ago to random

@southpoleviews is the perfect use of a fediverse bot! insta follow!

stefan, 30 days ago to music

Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/secret-places?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

#music #NewMusic #synth #soundcloud