@chpietsch I keep the layer of shelf liner with all the stickers on it as a souvenir from the old laptop, though
One thing I like so far on the fediverse is that I've yet to see a Very Important Dipshit post something followed by hundreds of "notice me senpai" responses. Could be I haven't stumbled upon the right threads yet, but 🤷♂️
@retroist@mastodon.social For most of last winter, my wife & I would binge How It's Made for a few hours every Sunday morning
@retroist@mastodon.social Hahah we kept making fun of Tewksbury's predilection for turtleneck sweaters
Tinkering around with writing yet another RSS/Atom feed reader and I'm amazed at how many folks are serving up multi-megabyte feeds that contain the entire posting history of their site.
@socketwench Well, typically, folks only offer the latest 5-15 items from their site in an RSS feed. It's usually intended as a window on what's new, not a full paginated view of the site.
That said, the Atom feed format does offer a pagination mechanism that can be used in RSS 2.0 feeds.
@mossop@mastodon.technology @ozten@mastodon.technology @jrconlin The funny thing is I used to get that complaint about filling up the feed on Twitter back in the day 😅
@ozten@mastodon.technology @mossop@mastodon.technology @jrconlin Also, I did kind of write a story about cloning myself via machine learning back in 2013
Oh, and we'll see if this RSS reader turns out handy:
What I'm planning to do is make it work entirely from GitHub and run via Actions. The "database" will be just plain JSON files and it'll build some static HTML files as a personal newspaper with every run.
I've got one that almost does this now, but it's a little too complicated. It uses SQLite as a database and runs on a raspberry pi in my basement.
@jshmlr I think Wordpress does a more reasonable thing with default limits. This seems to be from newer static site generators where someone forgot to slap a limit on a loop
@zuckerberg @thegibson I was disgruntled until you said "hacker daddy"
With all the hubbub about how Mastodon instance admins can read your DMs, I wonder if folks know that when you carpool to work the driver can tell where your house is? Maybe folks don't carpool anymore
@mforester So far, I've been spending between 20-60 minutes on the writing per day. I've occasionally combined it with a session on an exercise bike and write on my phone. I gave myself a goal of 300 words or 20 minutes, but I've not quite let myself off the hook yet at 20 minutes. (Maybe I should)
I do tend to get to it by the end of the day, but I'm really trying to fit it in much earlier. End of day means it starts to feel like a chore and that risks kind of wrecking it for me. I'm hoping I'll get faster and earlier at it as I keep practicing.
Last night's creative writing exercise, wherein this guy dreams of the open road. Trying to not make every single writing session end up as fantasy or scifi, even if I kind of want them to
@rgegriff I've seen some scaremongering threads over on the birdsite. The gist seems to suggest that while big companies have many eyes and audits and accountability, a little Mastodon instance is one admin's power trip plaything. Which I mean, a) that's shocking optimism about large teams and b) get to know your admin a little I guess?
@amy Usually, there'll be an About page with that info on your instance. Looks like yours is @david though they may delegate to other folks also
@amy It's kind of a thing I don't think folks are used to looking for because big social media sites are enormous voids that offer no one identifiable for a chat :blobderp:
@amy Oh but also, my admin is @thegibson over here at hackers.town. IIRC he said hi as mayor when I first joined up :)
@mossop@mastodon.technology Oh yeah, that too. I mean it's all just database rows, I don't think(?) there's end-to-end encryption going on in these parts
@amy I started as @lmorchard@mastodon.social and then tried to run my own personal instance. One day, I accidentally deleted the database storage for my instance (oops) and moved to @lmorchard@toot.cafe. Then, someone (I forget who now :blobsadleft:) mentioned there were cool folks in hackers.town - and there were - so I requested an account over here. Seems like a thing for folks to eventually migrate around, keep multiple accounts, etc
@mossop@mastodon.technology @jrconlin It's been awhile since I last poked at the activitypub stuff, but I think in a nutshell:
When you post a DM from your home instance, it eventually does an HTTP POST to an inbox resource over on the away instance. The request is signed with a key associated with your account, so the away server can verify it's you who authored it. And the message is marked private, so it doesn't get replicated to public feeds.
Very, very dumb and possibly wrong summary, but it's all just HTTP POST and mysql DB rows
re: New mastodon user tip
@erosdiscordia Oh! I forget you can do that here! I've wanted that feature over on the birdsite for ages
@bsletten@mastodon.social 🤔 🤔 🤔 :thinkspin:
@CleoTheBirb lewd!