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It's like my instincts are all wrong. Social media has broken me: I'm like an addict, wanting that dopamine hit everywhere. ๐\n\nSave me, Yarn.social, from myself! ๐๐ซ
@darch Actually, that's a really good point. A really good point.\n\nHow did I not see that? :-)
@thecanine It's also lazy stream of consciousness writing, of course. No editing a birdsite thread!
@lyse \n\n๐ jenny, you say ๐\n\n๐ cc @movq
@maya Hear, hear!\n\nI also note that their definition of responsible innovation includes nothing about the environmental impact of scaling the necessary compute power for V/AR to their world-dominating user base.
@lyse\n\n> ... I just mark them read...\n\nOoo, now that's the sort of killer feature that leads to adoption. ๐ค๐
๐ข\n\nCool. I'll make sure to pull my posts off before upgrading. As you say, @prologic, the community has spoken! :-)
How To Fix Social Media ๐ข Readup link, including a direct link to The New Atlantis piece\n\nOne of my comments: \n\nI will leave it to others more well read to comment on the originality of this piece. I do, however, agree with your overall assessment of it, up to, but not including, your opinion on his proposed solutions.\n\n> Social media companies, and those who produce content on their platforms, should operate not under a liability shield that isolates them from the public interest but under a set of rules that makes them responsive to the public interest.\n\nI do think there is merit in thinking about these companies differently, and the idea of scale being the trigger -- tipping them over from 'private' to 'broadcaster' -- while hardly trivial, is not nonsensical, in my mind. A decent place to begin a discussion, surely.\n\nI think the parallels with history are, frankly, uncanny, and, well, humbling. The needs of public haven't changed -- I myself have really struggled to find the information I've needed, particularly early on in the pandemic -- nor have many of the challenges in this space, once one compensates a bit for the sheer scale of everything today.
@prologic Guilt, mostly, that I (hastily) bought a three-year subscription last year and never use it. ๐ write.as is a good service, but, now, given what I know and want to learn, even if I wasn't happy with my pod's excellent blogging platform (for some odd reason), my next choice would definitely be generating something static with mkws rather than a hosted service like that. Oh well, live and learn.
@prologic ๐๐ I had good source material and inspiration from you all. ๐
@adi Ah, that makes sense. (Need my bed, apparently.) It's been more than a year since I surveyed the tildes, but, no, not that I'm aware of.
Anyone played with Etesync as a Nextcloud alternative?
@adi Ah, wasn't aware there was one behind that; project's bedevilled me, particularly on ARM; maybe they'd be a good avenue for support then. :-)
@fastidious Ha ha. I'm just a bit... compulsive, I guess: I wanted your busiest accounts to be listed under my follows without a domain; I've now achieved that.\n\nI'm a sad, sad man. ๐
Now I feel silly. That all works. I think maybe I just needed to stop following all the accounts and start again. :-)
Ah, OK; just saw your message, @prologic. :-) (Aren't you supposed to be sleeping? ;-) )\n\nSo, to complete the test, this is supposed to mention the arrakis account: @fastidious
OK, I've now switched the order of the fastidious accounts I follow, with arrakis first: testing mentions; as I compose this, it's the twtxt.net account I'm trying to mention now @fastidious
Ah, interesting. I picked your arrakis account from the list that popped up after typing the at-sign, but that didn't actually translate properly upon posting: yarn picks the first match in the list, it seems. :-)
@eldersnake That's it, yup! Sorry @fastidious I was actually thinking about quoting emoji, since it's a bit of a kludge, using image tags. :-)\n\nAnd sorry about the lack of follow too. I thought Arrakis was dead! Glad to be proven wrong! :-)
@adi ๐\n\nBut don't worry: it isn't like I'm trawling yarns for receipts or anything. ๐
How I Knew I Needed to Quit Instagram ๐ข Readup link or NYT's paywall\n\nCompares Instagram to alcohol: for some, attempting to moderate use is doomed to fail.\n\nI like the analogy, but I think it has the potential to heavily misrepresent just how many people can 'safely' handle social media. (Or maybe I only *think* I can safely handle alcohol. ๐)
Upgraded to v0.4.1, and changed the emoji I use at nfld.uk to match the new favicon. :-)
Ah, yes, complete on my end as well. That was smooth! Cool. And, yw! ๐
Tried out Revolut for the first time. Pending, at the moment. :-)
@prologic Ooo, I see. ๐ Yeah, I've been having problems with Nextcloud, and wasn't totally happy with it even before that.
> The world's best reading app. \n> \n> The internet broke reading. We fixed it.\n\nJust bought a subscription.\n\nI've been watching, with interest, from the sidelines for a year now; it feels good to be contributing.
@prologic Huh. Aged pretty well, I'd say. ๐ I think that other platform you linked to recently has a more polished version of this message, but, yeah, pretty pleased with that, as my havin' a go. ๐
@movq Oh, lovely choice of tipple. ๐\n\n@https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Not much use to you now, but a great Czech beer memory for me was visiting 'tank' pubs in Prague, where you could get unfiltered Pilsner Urqell from just down the road. Wonderful!
@prologic Ah, interesting. I see the new one on my desktop, while the app still shows me the old one.
@maya Agreed. :-) I need to check out her latest show, come to think of it.
@thecanine I remember one of those chat, bridged to Matrix. :-) Cool! And, as @prologic said, happy to have you here. ๐
@thecanine How did you find us? I, of course, remember you from Matrix, and then, the Fediverse.
@adi I've enjoyed the privilege of travelling Islay, sampling her wares. :-)\n\n@https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt> lol
@adi Whisky here. A fav too: Ardbeg Ten. ๐๐ฅ
@lyse lol. To be fair, that was taken ten years ago, versus fairly current lockdown scruff. ๐
@prologic Happy to be an unintentional tester! ๐
\n\nCool! I guess this was around Wolverine Issue 7_X_, where the adamantium is pulled from his skeleton. Love a bit of Kieth! Mark Texeira is still my favourite Wolverine illustrator (e.g. below), but this is pretty darn cool. :-)\n\n
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@thecanine Fennec. Huh, strange.\n\nAh! But Pale Moon interprets an apk file as a zip archive on my desktop. It still downloads it fine, though. Maybe this is a case of what default application opens zip archives on your phone, and how it's been configured to grab apk files as part of that. If you could pull that association apart, and have apk files trigger your package manager instead, you'd probably be good to go.
@thecanine Ah, well that might be something to do with your browser / download client then; View Raw shouldn't present anything as compressed or anything other than an apk file, as far as I'm aware.
@prologic Yeah, I grabbed app-release.apk off your Gitea instance. Seamless. :-)
Oh, and follows work in the app too now! I don't know whether I've ever been able to do that. ๐
@prologic I think there is certainly an element of human nature in this, and how we choose associate. It's when others make decisions on our behalf that limit the breadth of options we will likely choose from that problems arise, in my opinion.
s/didn't/did/\n\n_facepalm_\n\n* Drinks more โ **
> ... Segregation is not merely the result of individual decisions, devoid of history or power relations. Schelling himself concedes that individual decision-making might be less pertinent than de jure or economically induced segregation and, furthermore, that โthe lines dividing the individually motivated, the collectively enforced, and economically induced segregation are not clear lines at all.โ Take, for example, the role of real estate agents in perpetuating residential segregation today, more than fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Real estate brokers regularly make assumptions about their clientsโ racial preferences before steering them away or towards certain neighborhoods, arguing that it โfacilitates the sales process.โ Under market incentives, the responsibility for segregated outcomes is thus deflected onto individual consumers.\n> \n> Like real estate agents who curate the possibilities their clients can access, todayโs algorithms selectively recommend online content in the name of increased convenience for users and, of course, larger profits for tech companies...\n\nAre we forming online communities or self-segregating?\n\nHaven't read this behemoth yet, but I didn't like that point.
@prologic Oh, and About in the menu is very convenient! ๐
@prologic re my crash: unclear. I'm slowly becoming aware of some automated, systemd-initiated restarts on both RPis. Further investigation needed.
@prologic Wicked! Worked, and Settings works again too. :-)
@fastidious @prologic @news Cool! Are you still hosting this on your files server too? Aurora Store (I don't use Play directly) still lists the latest update as 17 Oct.
@eldersnake @prologic Thanks again for the help on this. FYI, my meta.json was empty, but my config.json had maybe 179 bytes in.
@gbmor Neat! Where will store the source code?
That menu is a great idea!
@maya ๐ฏ%\n\nIt's no recipe for sanity, what we have now. I'm genuinely worried about my kids.
@prologic Seriously! @laz is gonna get sick of me pinging him on every platform we share, thanking him, but... Well, I just love it! It's on nfld.uk now, for cryin' out loud! :-P Particularly because I spent quite a bit of time reading Hayek over the last few years and came to the conclusion that we really don't share much of a worldview... How wrong I was!
Agreed, @kt84! :-)\n\nI mean, part of that is being a small community of higher than average intelligence, of course... lol! ;-)\n\nBut I think you deserve lots of credit for building software that has time to reflect built in; I honestly think that's hugely important, and I'm glad that we've preserved it through this rebranding / enhancing.
@prologic Yes, exactly. I mean, we were probably always this judgmental; but now we all have a platform to trumpet it from, solicited or otherwise!\n\n@https://tt.vltra.plus/user/laz/twtxt.txt> pointed me to this wonderful quote from Hayek that's particularly relevant here too, I feel:\n> [On true, and false, individualism, one] might even say that the former is a product of an acute consciousness of the limitations of the individual mind which induces an attitude of humility toward the impersonal and anonymous social processes by which individuals help to create things greater than they know, while the latter is the product of an exaggerated belief in the powers of individual reason and of a consequent contempt for anything which has not been consciously designed by it or is not fully intelligible to it.\n\nFrom *Individualism and Economic Order*, circa 1948. I wonder what he'd make of the Internet. :-P
From a chat on Matrix, where it seems it was one of my more coherent moments: ๐คช \n> โฆ Why canโt they just be individuals? Individuals with their own individual beliefs and their own individual reasons for having those beliefsโฆ\n\nAnd so just default to a stance of respect and courtesy. The fact is, most of your interactions with others will be very limited; approaching those encounters from a place of respect for the complexities of the human mind and an individualโs experiences and traumas costs you very little, typically.\n\nTo be human is to generalise, but that doesnโt mean you canโt push back against those tendencies.\n\n...\n\nWell, in the context of chat, it would be something like youโve just done: donโt put words in my mouth, based on my avatar, nick, grammar, etc., and instead ask me to elaborate on points of potential confusion.\n\nAnd donโt bring agendas to everything. Default to assuming that this is likely an interaction of hours, and people donโt change based on that, typically.\n\nYouโll probably get more from interactions that youโre open to, but, be honest with yourself: if you arenโt up to that, because it isnโt easy, then just default to respect and courtesy, which isnโt difficult, and costs you little. And then excuse yourself, if theyโre proper jerks. ;-)
@vain @prologic A few comments:\n\n1) I'm fairly new to devops, never mind k8s, :-P _but_ I found HashiCorp's blog post A Kubernetes User's Guide to Nomad really helped me get my head around where the 'nail' for the k8s 'hammer' is and isn't. (A similar page on the Nomad site generated a 500+ point discussion on Hacker News, btw, so I'll link to that too.)\n\n2) It's actually HashiConf this week, and, honestly, you'd swear _they_ made k8s for the number of times it's come up in the keynote alone! It's very clear they're changing course on their new product from last year, Waypoint, to ease the lives of k8s users. Your devs know it really well, but, I don't know, if you're planning on bringing on new devs at any point, something like this, that abstracts away a lot of the deployment architecture -- that, in my opinion ;-P devs should care less about -- and, importantly, from a sysadmin's perspective, means they'll be less likely to break k8s and all its bits that they currently 'mess with,' might be a good thing.\n\nI don't know; all devs probably roughly fall into two camps: those that *love* the idea of waypoint up to deploy, so they can get back to coding, and those who absolutely *hate* it and want complete control over the whole process, for every architecture they could be called to support at 2am. :-P
@eldersnake @prologic Oh, actually, yeah: the text to the right is nicer. (Guess that's why I went for it in mine too lol.)
@eldersnake @fastidious @prologic I didn't draw that myself, to be clear. ๐\n\nI did look at how I might be able to make a theme sensitive logo, like the current default, some time ago, without much success; but I do plan to revisit it.
@maya Fair enough.\n\nI've enjoyed her books, and a live talk too, but I don't think she, nor DiManno, are on the winning side here, taking a longer view.\n\nI read the article, and found it inflammatory, especially in its opening; lazily so. I also found its evidence to be a bit too anecdotal for my taste.\n\nThe fact is that we don't actually know what portion of the population she (unnecessarily cruelly, in my view) dismissed, in a world where people are truly free to choose how they want to live. Norms are the very definition of insidious.\n\nBut things are changing. I'm sure they are changing for men too. I, for one, would like to see a world free from dysphoria around gender and sex. It will come. Soon, I hope.
@prologic Ha ha! She managed an '8' the other day, but she's got a way to go before this level. ;-)\n\nI'm just doing my lazy serving through Miniflux again. There is a link to the original in there, but it isn't obvious, I'll grant you: https://sarahcandersen.com/
@fastidious Yeah, that's a lot of red text, to be sure. :-)
@stigatle re sharing, yes, please! Gorgeous additions to my timeline. ๐๐
@adi @eldersnake Cool. Yeah, first I'd heard of them, but you've piqued my interest. Very reasonably priced, with just $12 for shipping to the UK too!\n\nI didn't know that about the 3 series, @eldersnake -- I bought the official adapter for both of mine. Interesting.\n\nI'm rebuilding my Pleroma instance now, after which, I too am hoping my use case will again be in the 3B+ sweet spot; ditching the floods of fediverse with the old domain. ๐ค
@stigatle @fastidious @lyse Sorry: yeah, a unique, random string for each setting, that persists beyond restarts was what I meant (and didn't clearly state!).
@angel ๐\n\nInteresting. ๐ค I can see that as a genesis: remote notifications. Not sure the other use cases land, for me, but that's as likely because I'm thick, as anything else. ๐
@prologic Nice!\n\n(Does double-take)\n\nYou're following 584 accounts?! ๐ฎ๐ต๐คฏ
Seriously! My dad built houses for a bit, but this is next level!
๐ถ Would you trust a sperm donor from social media?\n\nBit of a clickbait leader, but the excerpts from the 'bookface as Ford' bit caught my interest. I need to read the piece still, but it feels like, those excerpts, at least, don't really address how the world has moved on from last century: I don't know that we'll ever return to that level of government regulation (in the west).\n\nI used to say that with lament; I just say it now.
๐ Thanks all! Took a lot longer than you might think, ๐ but I'm pretty happy with it. ๐
@stigatle I'm also having trouble completing Follows; doing it in the browser instead.
Oh, oops. And I'm actually following that account with the proper nick now, @fastidious. :-P
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