To be honest, DRM on books is just stupidly ineffective, which I can prove, even by pointing out that this very book can already be downloaded in PDF from quite a lot do "book archival sites".
I'm not going to just throw the PDF up here, as I don't think the author deserves that, but if you want a DRM free copy, you can throw him the $15 somehow and either read it in browser at booksvooks.com or download the PDF from z-lib.org.
@fastidious@lyse Not just my phone, I had other people load it on their Android phones and it always load this way too, so it seems to be an Android related thing. π€
@prologic I guess Android might be getting a little shiba-phopic lately. First they replaced the shiba emojis with some generic mut, that just blends in with the background in Android 11 and now you can't even load up the shiba model from Google without it twitching like this. π
*It's not just my device either, the model from that link seems to work fine on all kinds of devices, but friends who also tried loading it on Android also had it glitch like this and work on their computer OS.*
@fastidious I get that, but here the government already stores all those certificates in a separate database, so they have all that info already, just prefer us carrying another damn thing around.
In Sweden some company suggested a microchip implant to solve this problem, which was the point where I lost it, as we are now coming up with the stupidest of solutions, to the simplest of problems.
If the database is also a problem for people, just make ID cards with chips in them and store it on there - locally.
@fastidious I have somewhat of a problem with it BECAUSE it is a paper or a stupid and broken phone app - both of those things are unreliable. A paper gets wet and turns into mush and an app stops working when you need it the most or once you run out of the battery.
We live in the 21th century, so don't tell me we don't have the technology to link the certificate to the ID card, or another thing we already carry and give the people checking them some device that can check that.
@prologic Not this one. It's pretty nice for a web app, but it lacks the option to show a grid or use custom colors, so it'd be hard to use for the stuff I do, but since it is on GitHub, someone could add those options eventually.
Speaking of things on GitHub, there is this great pixel placing game there at https://github.com/chetbox/place where everyone who visits the site it's running on can place pixels and thus they can all create art together, or fight for control of the limited canvas, depending on the community. Since you are into hosting all kinds of things, maybe you could host a canvas for Yarn, to see what this community can do with one. π
@fastidious I still live in an apartment with the rest of my family, so I don't have any dogs. I wouldn't want to make dogs live somewhere, where they don't have enough space to be happy either way.
Even if I ever find a place that'll be more suitable for dogs to exist at, I don't think I'd ever get more than two of them, so you don't have to be concerned about me ending up as an insane person, becoming one with some wild pack of dogs. π
@lyse I usually do my art one pixel at a time and a filling tool, but here I cheated a little, by making a 25x50 canvas with the white text and putting six of them next to each other and only than coloring some of the litters in, to add the big CAW "on top". π
Tools are Pixel Station (Android only) for drawing and the web app at imgonline.com.ua/eng for edits.
Just finished making a new banner, though sadly most sites (including this one) don't really support profile banners anymore, so I'm at least submitting it as a picture.
Sorry for the lack of activity, I'm having to deal with exams and other university stuff. Also if you're wondering what those letters mean, they're my less known nicknames "Canines Always Win" and "Year Of The Canine". π
@prologic Despite me still hating both this and NFTs, which I'll probably hate forever (or as long as they keep being ab-used for "art"), some at least moved from Ethereum to Solana (https://solana.com/environment), which I don't know too much abuse, but it seems to be a lot less energy hungry. π€
@prologic@homer is probably right that they'd loose more losing the slots, than losing the money. Still this way of keeping the slots seems insanely stupid and wasteful, if the planes really flew and weren't just entered into the system to meet the requirement or what not.
@fastidious Who would I even be trolling? I'm not trying to make you angry, it's just some friendly banter and you can't deny that there is some truth to it, especially when it comes to smaller projects that have no way to monetize (especially if the developers themselves don't have Apple HW).
I'm not claiming Android is perfect either and I hate Google for many reasons, but we are at a point when you're more or less forced to choose the better trash - in many ways.
@fastidious You can call me a troll all you like, but it doesn't invalidate my point, that Androids sideloading (that idiots like Tim Cook love to go against) and more developer friendly environment, led to there being good clients for XMPP and Fediverse, as someone would come out and make a solid base, that others would fork and expand upon, eventually turning it into something that fits the needs of the community. On iOS everyone always starts over, making their shitty little things and than you wonder why none of it feels finished. π
@fastidious I don't know for sure, but according to the text on their GitHub, it should be able to run, when the browser is in the background and give some kind of notifications (sound if I remember right). I can't confirm any of it, as I've only ever used it for quick checkups and use blabber.im for like 99% of my time on XMPP. So I wouldn't recommend Inverse as your main client, especially not on mobile.
@prologic You won't find a good XMPP client for iOS, even on Android it's only blabber.im that I find usable enough for what I need from a phone client.
Something that was not yet mentioned here is https://inverse.chat, which is a web based client that can run on almost anything and it's good enough for what it is.
It can even be used on a phone, but it is by no means a pleasant experience, but than again, what even is pleasant on the iOS. π
@servusdei I guess that's something to look out for in the future releases, but I wonder where it'll be placed for us, who have turned off the centered icons. π€
@lyxal Guess the bar widget proved to be too useful and therefore had be removed from Windows 11. It is technically still there in the widget menu, but there is no way to put it on your bar, making it way less useful. π€
@movq Maybe it's not a flaw, but a feature. They just want you to enjoy those pics in all their glory, like I do with my art, refusing to compromise it's quality, even if it only ends up being used as an icon somewhere. π
@prologic There needs to be some irl Yarn event in the wild, during the Australian winter, so us European people don't melt, if we can somehow get there. π
@fastidious@lyse Yes, that's the right name, don't know how I managed to forget it. I don't have one myself, but we have one that's kinda similar, at the place where my grandparents live.
I still relate to the story though, as I sometimes also just get hats for fun, like the Santa hat, that I got just so I could wear it to school, during the last week before Christmas. It might also come in handy, if he ever decides to travel to some place where it's cold. π
Ok, here it is. The new profile picture based on the Russian Subway Dogs game. π Not too new years related, but I had to find some excuse to spend the time making it yesterday.
@prologic Not as malicious as Googles giant "agree to everything to use this site" popup, that is now spreading to many other sites and if your browser is configured to keep you anonymous, you have to deal with it every time you visit one of these sites. π
@fastidious It's not of the i-kind and I'm happy to confirm, that it still has a headphone jack, despite it being a model that just came out this December. π
@prologic Yeah, I remember that, just wondering if it shouldn't be moved from the long term plan to current plan, as the current app seems even harder to update, than what it'd take to make the new from the site, unless I'm missing something. π€
@prologic In fact the mobile site might now be at a point, where if modified to be always logged in and maybe few other small changes, it could just be turned into the new phone app, just adding a bit of magic "app code" around it. π
@prologic No problem. I just hope the app can get some of the new web features or at least the correct cross-pod mentions with correct spacing some time soon.
@prologic It's already an evening here, so I don't think I'd use it today anyway, I just wanted to check things and found out that I was logged out and getting this error message, when trying to log back in.
@ullarah Puffin Browser, so not even really a browser. The sites are rendered on their server and that server is, as far as I can tell, running something based on Chromium 79. π€
@prologic Yeah 22, but I forked the app from an older project, maintained by someone, who worked at Spotify, at the time. Maybe that's one reason why jQuerry was still there, but Bootstrap is still used a lot these days and all versions older than Bootstrap 5 (the newest), still require jQuerry for some of it's things, like the sliders used in my app.
@prologic Yeah, this is probably the best way, other than the icons being in an unusual order, rather then the logical "reply, fork, edit and trash". π€
@prologic I not only remember jQuery, I still use it for the sliders in my old Spotify playlist making app at https://spup.giltch.me along with the newest version of Bootstrap 4. π
It was originally using some ancient version of jQuery, that didn't even work on phones without a workaround and some old version of Bootstrap 3, but I do everything I can to keep it safe and up to date. Maybe one day, I'll even force myself to rewrite the jQuery part out of it, but it definitely won't be any day in the forseeable future. π
@fastidious Yes, but there are many contributing factors to inflation, so some countries and currencies are effected more than others. Therefore there is value in having alternatives, be it other currencies, stocks, precious metals, art or whatever else people put their wealth into (Internet coins included - maybe). I'm also not saying that money is related to happiness, as I myself would much rather died poor and have my work remembered by the world, than die rich and be forgotten, making my life overall meaningless.
@prologic As I said, I think it's good to have some alternatives to money, especially when the inflation strikes and the governments money printers go brrrrrrrrrrr. I don't think Bitcoin is the ideal alternative we need and I'd prefer some better kind of a stable Internet currency, everyone could pay with online.
As for the guy, I don't feel too sorry for him losing the thing, but I feel sorry that he got it to begin with. It's the exact same thing as a lottery winner losing their winning ticket. The knowledge, that you could have been that rich, if you didn't make this small mistake, must be something that haunts one for the rest of their life.
@fastidious Iβm pretty sure that if you turned it into $SAND tokens and put them on the blockchain, claiming that each token is baked up in value be a dollar worth of sand you physically own, the βcrypto brosβ would buy all that sand in a matter of minutes. π *Posted again, because it looks like it did not mention you correctly - again. Looks like the mobile app likes you even less than you seem to like it.*
@fastidiousβο»Ώ@fastidiousβο»Ώ I'm pretty sure that if you turned it into $SAND tokens and put them on the blockchain, claiming that each token is baked up in value be a dollar worth of sand you physically own, the "crypto bros" would buy all that sand in a matter of minutes. π
@ullarah I red through most of it and think that at least all the changes mentioned here would be an improvement, compared to what we have now and make this default theme pretty great in general. π
@fastidious Yes, the way it now looks on your pod is exactly what I wanted it to be! Sorry for not replying earlier, Iβm sick and spent yesterday in bed.
@novaburstβο»Ώ@tilde.cafe I know you're not using it directly, but you're seeing our replies now as well as replying to them. During the whole time I was following your old file, you never even said anything. π
I would like to start a thread on the potential improvements to the profile pictures in this theme and for everyone to add their opinion under this issue I've opened up, to explain my position in more detail: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/594
@lyse As an inugami, I'm pretty high in the canine hierarchy, so I'd hope those K9s would switch sides, if not to honor their overlords, than at least out of purely practical reason. It's no-doubt easier to bite a few officers, than trying to fight a 120cm high (180 sitting) mythical canine, that can claw you open in one swing of a paw. π
@fastidious I guess... Well the theme we have now is fine and while I'm never happy with circular profile pictures, because they limit the space an artist is able to use, I know this is a battle we're not going to win without the ability to go back in time and stopping whoever first came up with them.
The border isn't as much of an "art crime", but I fell like it still, at best adds nothing and at worse interferes with the border often drawn in transparent images, which I can also live with, but I'm by no means happy about.
I don't think we disagree on too many things tbh. My main point is that the profile pictures on those kinds of themes look better in my opinion. The fonts are obviously something we'd need to make more consistent, if we wanted to move in that direction, the hash would also most likely look better on the very right and exist in the same line that the time does and yeah, the hamburger items should probably be a bit further from he logo indeed.
The thing where we might disagree is that I like the way this "next" button and double lines look and you don't, but that could probably be sorted out too.
@prologic It was not on a codebase level. Some Mastodon/Fediverse instances still federated with Gab, even after the backlash. It was Gab who decided to remove the federation from their code and "go their own direction" (read "no security updates").
@eldersnake Well he has an unofficial account on Gab, that he posts on through some other service and he bought one of the right-leaning YouTube alternatives, changing it's ToS afterwards, to allow less "free speech".
I think he doesn't want to do the same with Gab, because of Gabs bad reputation and many technical problems, thanks to it's insane founder (who probably wouldn't even sell it). Funny enough, his thing seems to have even more problems than Gab, so far.
@prologic Nor can you trick those dumb investors, to sink this kind of money into a Yarn pod, as there is no opportunity to mine money back out of it and despite what these people preach, none of them are really in favor of decentralization, because people in different pods, might have a different opinion and we can't have that on a "censorship fighting" platform, can we?
@prologic Well shitty tech start-ups, with the name of some shitty celebrity attached, always make a shit ton of money - before failing, most of the times.
As for the moderation, during the day or so long test run disaster, people critical of the site or those involved already got the ban hammer and the ToS prohibit quite a bit of speech too.
@prologic 5 versions behind, but damn, there is something about that color scheme and square profile pictures with rounded edges, no outline and that theme in general, that just makes it look great! π
@xuu It looks pretty similar to a overcomplicated crypto-scam, which is probably what it is. I don't have much faith in anything anymore, but I doubt the Internet is just going to degrade into it all being this. π€¨
@movq Maybe I'm somewhat biased, because I had to use the bullshit implementation in Microsoft Excel, but I can't imagine the real thing being much better. π€
Well my original nickname (different from my actual first name) was "cikarin3" - reference to the ΔikarΓ squirrel and my favorite number, back than I joined the community around Dishonored Wolf, so I started using a pixelated wolf as my avatar, that later evolved into the current shiba-looking inugami mascot and was using all kinds of canine related nicknames, or just the word canine/dog in different languages, so it eventually just stuck to me and I became "The Canine".
There are also other two not that used canine related nicknames CAW (short for "Canines Always Win") and YOTC (short for "Year Of The Canine" and a reference to the other fancy sunglasses emotes, that are usually called "Year Of The...thing") and as I said many other canine related jokes. π
The https://tube.mills.io site is kinda falling apart @prologic , video importing returns 502, I tried uploading something else and when the uploading finished, I got another 502, tried again and than I see it there twice. I opened up an issue about the importing, but might still need you to delete the newer upload (with the nonse name). And here is the working upload, to see if I can finally get videos to work here. π
@ullarah To be fair, if I read the site correctly, that money gets you the both the first and the second Mordor game. That's not so bad, if you can find a way to still run them on your PC. π
@prologic If I was you I'd be more concerned about the Australian governments idiotic views on social media that everyone keeps making fun off: https://youtu.be/Q87qmE0WtIs It's times like these, when I'm happy I at least don't live in one of the countries already in he dystopian future era, where the government can just cease your account and post anything they want on it in your name.
@prologic I see it in the app just fine. This was in browser at university with light theme on, but I guess I could have just had a brain shortcut and not notice it. π€
@fastidious Don't know if that is necessarily expected when forking. I usually just get the hash (with no nickname) when forking from the app, so with forking the thing you get might be more of a lottery. π
Also I guess my arguments about the protocol and crypto aren't the strongest, but the truth is that I just don't like the fact that it's just another similar protocol and similar crypto that I want to have absolutely nothing to do with.
It's the same as brave browser, I'd never download it, because I want a browser, not adware, crypto-wallet, torrent client and other garbage I do not like.
@prologic At least when the mobile app does it, it happens rarely and only when the app gets closed. Today it happened on the website itself, two times in the row, when I was sending a response while in the Yarn.
I don't know if it would have happened a third time, because after doing it twice, I just sent it from the app.
@prologic I just thought it was trying to be too many things at once, I don't want a new crypto currency thing, I don't want another SMS and calling app, when I already got Truecaller to block annoying people from calling me. They also preach open-source and yet parts of the app have been close-sourced already.
Still none of this would have been that much of a problem, if the whole thing just wasn't too little, too late. When I tried it, only one person I know was willing to give it a chance, as it's not that revolutionary and most people already got burned by apps like Keybase in the past, so at this point the solution isn't another app that will probably be bought by someone and go to shit like all the ones before it, but rather a protocol like XMPP, which has many clients and can't just he bought and abused.
@fastidious I agree with the first part, hopefully it indeed becomes more widely uaed.
I don't use Signal, when I want privacy I use XMPP, at best with OMEMO encryption in DMs. But that's obviously not something I'm able to use talking to most people, so at times I have to use the garage like Facebook Messenger, MS Teams or Discord.
With Discord I still kinda like a lot of things about it and wouldn't even call it garbage, if the company wasn't so money hungry.
Speaking of garbage, this is the third time I'm writing this reply, it keeps logging me out when I try sending it, if it happens again, I'll stab someone. πͺ
@fastidious Ah, so it is better when Google and Apple have two incompatible standards for this kind of messaging and some other companies using Android use neither and thus most messages are just basic, ancient and un-encrypted SMS? Or are you a backdoor enjoyer?
@lyse Me when I find myself crossing an international border, close to midnight, using free bus WiFi, spammed by messages from people, telling me that the server hosting my web-apps is down. π *Only happened once so far*
@fastidious π Not really. I'm an ideal world the standard for safe messaging would be open and universal, with no potential for backdoors. In this idea world Apple and similar companies would have already went bankrupt, over the shit they tend to push. π
@deebs Yeah, it's a story as old as time, I remember when I joined KeyBase. It had private messages, place to link and verify your social media and keys, later they also added some weird crypto integration and than it got bought by some Chinese company and the privacy went right out the window. So I don't really trust these new services asking for a phone numbers and offering weird crypto integrations that no one ever asked for. I gave Signal a try and didn't really like it. Telegram was a tiny bit better, but still think it's not even work to keep it installed on my phone.
