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thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Maker of nokotime.com • I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) • #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats •
BLM. Ally. He/Him.

I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.

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ActionRetro, to random
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Let's start a new social network. No formatting, no constraints. Just a blank canvas, any HTML tags you want. As many bouncy GIFs and blinking text as your heart desires.

We could call it TriGeoPod Cities.

thomasfuchs,
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@ActionRetro invite code pls

thomasfuchs,
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@ActionRetro I made a thing (13 fucking years ago) to bring back the <BLINK> tag btw, but no browser vendors didn’t want it http://mir.aculo.us/2010/07/21/bringing-back-the-blink-tag-to-html5/

thomasfuchs, to random
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“I wrote a long-winded reply to you, therefore you owe me a long-winded answer” is an interesting take

welshpixie, to photography

Worth racing down the beach in my socks for

12-24mm lens on a Nikon Z6, processed in Darktable

Vibrant pastel sunset overa beach with figures in silhouette in the distance. Peachy crepuscular rays beam through a bright gap in an otherwise cludy blue-grey sky, and the horizon is a warm hazy yellow.
A sandy beach that's speckled with little pebbles leads to a flat expanse of ocean with small waves, under a cloudy pastel sky with the clouds lit in peach by the setting sun.
Looking along a flat sandy beach and smooth glossy ocean at sunset. There's a lone figure in silhouette in the distance on the right, beneath vibrant orange crepuscular rays that beam upwards through a break in the blue-grey clouds.

thomasfuchs,
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@welshpixie ohhhhhh ahhhhh

tbeseda, to random

I think, like isomorphic JS (browser + server = same code), writing web UIs in Rust* et all from WASM is a red herring.
An interesting and noble pursuit, for sure. But I don't imagine great productivity gains or better user experiences. It’s a lot of tooling, config, and flailing.

*Does Rust need some GUI options? of course! but generating HTML in a browser with those DSLs has no ROI.

thomasfuchs,
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@tbeseda Why make some simple and easy when you can do complex and hard instead? :)

thomasfuchs, to random
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but you can be critical of more than one thing at the same time.

Like there's bad stuff about Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky. And gasp there's good stuff about Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky!

I know, wild, heady stuff.

thomasfuchs,
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@Recta_Pete I mean, yes, there's degrees of bad.

thomasfuchs, to random
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It’s always a people problem.

thomasfuchs,
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@dhemery @codinghorror Weinberg

thomasfuchs,
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@billseitz @dhemery @codinghorror His two "secrets of consulting" books are definitely classics

lrz, to random
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Since I finally moved over to Mastodon my social media usage has been reduced to 5 min a day (and some days I don't even read it). It has been such a positive impact on the mind. Twitter was really too much of an addiction.

thomasfuchs,
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@lrz not to worry, we’re all moving to BlueSky 😂

augieray, to random
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“Reported deaths from (have) fallen by 95 percent since the beginning of this year... but an estimated one in ten infections now lead to what is commonly known as , “which suggests that hundreds of millions of people will need long-term care.”

  • WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

People have convinced themselves that all COVID risks are passed, but only some have. More need to realize the long-term risks of repeated infections.

https://sgline.org/who-launches-new-pandemic-prevention-plan-as-covid-deaths-drop-by-95-percent-global-affairs/

thomasfuchs,
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@augieray And people get infected multiple times, each time there's a (conservatively) 1 in 10 chance; which means that after a few years, on average, everyone will have Long COVID.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Mastodon zealots: “Everything needs to be opt-in!”

Kris Nova: “I’m opting out”

Mastodon zealots: “No, not like that”

thomasfuchs,
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@Verso Many people on Mastodon are terrible is what happened.

thomasfuchs,
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@lofdev What causes this? Terrible people on the Fediverse cause this.

thomasfuchs,
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@crenfrow The solution is to aggressively moderate and ban the assholes. Unfortunately a lot of instances on Mastodon don't moderate properly.

This is what social media platforms really provide: moderation-as-a-service. Creating safe spaces for people.

Not different from say, a bar owner kicking out unwanted patrons.

jerry, to random
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@jerry The girl on the right should have a neckbeard.

seldo, to random

What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.

thomasfuchs,
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@mekkaokereke @seldo there’s a lot of pearl clutching going on on Mastodon right now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I think the main mistake BlueSky made was not setting expectations on sign up, e.g. a simple “This is an alpha version and some features aren’t implement yet: …. If you need one of these features please wait before joining.” message.

thomasfuchs, to random
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For some reason German has tons of fun synonyms for “Pedant” (someone who is pedantic)

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thomasfuchs,
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@HorayNarea Some of these synonyms are, let's say, generous

thomasfuchs, to random
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On BlueSky people seem to be excited about their platform.

On Mastodon people seem to be embarrassed about their platform.

(Please note this is unscientific and it's not my intention to hype or diss anything. It's just the vibes I'm seeing.)

thomasfuchs,
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@samf Are you actually on BlueSky?

thomasfuchs,
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@samf they’re not VC funded (currently they’re privately funded by the owner) and they’re a public benefit company (similar to Mastodon’s non-profit) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

thomasfuchs, to random
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Whoever creates a great social media app that supports multiple accounts across multiple networks in a unified timeline will make bank

thomasfuchs,
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@bnotwen and Adium :)

thomasfuchs,
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@colinm Should be no problem for social networks with open protocols, such as Mastodon (and other Fediverse apps) and for BlueSky

thomasfuchs,
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@colinm Twitter is out of the question, their API pricing is prohibitive.

mwichary, to random
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The first version of the Return/Enter collage for my book had 19 keys.

The final one will have… 99.

(It’s not just 99 different keys. It’s 99 different form factors. Maybe with some repetition – but not too many.)

thomasfuchs,
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@red @futurebird @mwichary I love this thing so much

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