@bea Part of me wants to express offense at this. But, that part is overruled by the other parts which can find no flaw in this statement.

@scronide Yeah, I've still got every blog post I ever wrote, all the bad poetry from high school, (I think) every digital photo I ever took, and all the MP3s I've ever ripped from CD or otherwise.. uh.. acquired.

@sil @ondra @twipped If I recall, I mostly just processed incoming messages in-memory for automated replies or follows or whatnot. I did write some JSON flat files to track follows, because some bots would occasionally send a message to a follower.

But yeah, for an instance for myself I probably would have written them incoming messages also into S3 as JSON.

New outgoing posts went in as a public-readable pair of HTML and JSON representations in S3 - also flat files, but one happened to work in a browser more nicely.

So, yeah tl;dr not too far off from "11th but activitypub". Most of the resources involved can be just static flat files

@OutisMetis exactly. :fingking:

@karadoc Hmm, that's a good question. Might even need whole new qualifications for celebrity on this thing

@Ciaraioch advanced users will tell you about the enfilades, granfilades, spanfilades, and poomfilades

@brook @phildini Bring enough beer to share?

Someone mentioned a "thread ripper" on a podcast. I haven’t had any coffee yet. For a very brief period I was confused how one of these could be useful in a computer

@couts@mastodon.social yeah, I don't think "the brands" will land here in any way famliar to other social media experiences. There's no ad sales department here and small instance admins will probably just go "lol baleeted"

Haha, I bet this guy smells like my kitchen compost bin on garbage day.

(if The_Gibson demanded an $8 fee to unlock a day of elon trashing, I might pay it every now and then for a treat)

@allie "nesting partner" sounds so cozy!

Hugops to every single mastodon instance sysop out there.

I know that some of my motivation is to score clever-boy headpats. Which, you know, that's not always useful. Been trying to wean myself off that juice since elementary school.

And also, bunches of those threads are a mix of venting and early grief stages that aren't actually asking for help. So, best to let the urge pass.

I keep thinking some of the confusion sounds like boomers who refuse to abide an ATM or a grocery self-check. This frustrates me in general but also is a cheap source of feeling superior. And, again, some good points made re: usability and whatever.

The big thing is, though, who cares? Folks are talking over here. It'll work out as it works out. It doesn't need promotion or cheerleading.

All that said, I do feel like there's an interesting clash of expectations to be played out which feels "boomer flavored" to me:

Folks feel entitled to some level of service & consideration from unpaid strangers who don't owe those folks a thing.

And, in fact, the unpaid strangers are a little perturbed that the folks wandered into the party empty-handed and started raiding the beer cooler.

@martyn Well, hmm, it looks comfy and you're pulling it off, so you do you

Not to say I'm a paragon of a party goer, but I will at least try to be nice & funny & occasionally pitch in without kvetching about the host's upholstery

I also kind of hate the ageism of "boomer" but we do have a rich field of memes around the pointedly entitled obstinancy of folks who anecdotally fall into the generation before mine. But, I think folks of all ages can be "boomers"

(also, if you want to yell at me for using lazy-meme language for toxic lols, that's fair)

@Bjaardker Apropos of almost nothing, I used to use "Mr. Gruff" as my avatar on LiveJournal!

@faho That's a good b-side from Deee-lite

Lunch time. I'm considering these noodles. I last had them in June and I've been a little afraid of them ever since. These are hot. Not "haha american" hot but "you know what you're doing, sign here on this waiver" hot.

@nelson @Vaguery hmm, i keep meaning to get deeper into things doable with activitypub. Like, "tweet-like post" is just one very-well-used object type. IIRC, there is a link type that can be sent out like a shared bookmark

@simon I'd be lying if i denied feeling this too. That was one of the appeals to me of ye olde blogosphere too

Begun the flaming spicy madness has

added some spinach & sausage & cheese because that's how i want to go out. See you space cowboy

@mcg indeed.

@spottyfox @SpicyNugget You might find these at a local H Mart or something, but also Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FF81JTS/

@maddiefuzz Oh, these are super keen!

@jrconlin :blobgrimace:​ https://myspace.com/lmorchard

@jrconlin I kind of hope Tom is off enjoying life as a hermit in a mountain cabin

@anaulin Yeah, I'm trying not to be a jerk or rant all "well actually" style at folks, but the "safety" on a big site is really just crossing fingers to be lost in the crowd.

Maybe the big site has a carefully-constructed backend admin system with logs & audits & many eyes keeping each other from being creepy, but it's not necessarily more trustworthy than somebody you kinda know and who doesn't want to be a creep

I have survived my lunch with clearer sinuses and a greater appreciation of life

@thegibson dang, it has been way too long since i actually watched this and not just looked up random clips 😅

Pool on the roof must have a leak

Oh dang I forgot Massive Attack was on the Hackers soundtrack

@siege I love that Morn's toots are entire paragraphs of silence

The last time I was in the zone like this, i think i tripped the house breakers

HACK THE PLANET

MESS WITH THE BEST
DIE LIKE THE REST

@maddiefuzz That's actually the second movie in a week in which I've heard that line, having watched The Crow a few days ago 😁

@alexwinter@mastodon.social :blobwave:​ Welcome! I just saw your face in The Lost Boys last weekend!

@jacqueline this catalogue seems relevant to your interests, if you don't already get it! Comes all the time now because I bought one (1) tool years ago but now i want all the tiny tools

@jeff@newsie.social One of my first tech jobs in college was a paycheck from a local BBS that turned into an ISP and web host. It was a weird grungy time I think we've gotten too far from for more than nostalgic reasons.

happy #caturday, everybody's tired out from a long day of catting