Catsby wants me to remind everyone that he is also hungry

Dinner for Anchovy

Heh, so pointing a 1500W space heater at a cat carrier around the clock to keep Anchovy toasty in an uninsulated shed during 35F weather turns out to be just stupidly wasteful.

Only really meant it to be an emergency measure before cobbling something better together, but then the week got away from me. Gonna have to fix that.

(like, I knew it would be wasteful, but then I finally got around to doing the napkin math and whew lad)

(at least I'm not mining crypto out there)

@Macross Ah, cool, I was just starting to look at like chicken coop stuff to stick in an insulated box

@phire Yeah, we almost put a normal heating pad out there, but worried about possible uh fluid release incidents

@maddiefuzz Yeah, I think the only saving grace is that the heater is pointed almost directly into a blanket-swaddled cat carrier. So most of the heat goes in there. (Or at least a lot of the heat.)

Still, yeah, it's... suboptimal. That space heater can never heat the whole shed

@aendra Dang, that's a neat outfit, sweater 💯

@autumn ohhh dang, this belongs in a museum

@antijingoist Because they can and there's little consequence yet

Merry Kate Bush to all who celebrate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0IRI5wdzI

Weird ideas burbling in my head. Maybe a little go server that can be multiuser (but few users) per instance.

Post via bookmarklet, browser extension, or DM from another fediverse account. Maybe login via a DM'd magic link?

Emit activitypub posts for new links posted, ingest activitypub posts from followed actors for federated link sharing.

A SQLite DB per user with one shared DB for aggregate views. Want your data? Here's your DB file for download.

Maybe try a federated search thing where a query is gently requested against the instances of folks you follow.

Pretty sure there are other projects like this, but it seems like a lot of the ones I've seen are more like Reddit-a-likes. One of the things I liked about delicious and pinboard is that they don't center on discussion, they center on shared resource discovery and vague categorization

Like, on delicious, you could include your commentary about a link in the description you post. But, that was about it. There wasn't a discussion forum thread attached to each link, with all the trolly goodness that affords.

IIRC, back in the day, Yahoo! was pushing to add more "social" and chat to delicious, but we pushed back on that a lot. We kind of leaned into "antisocial networking"

Also, it occurs to me that an interesting thing about HTTP signatures in activitypub-land is that I could build a federated search query API on instances which can limit access to identified remote users.

Like, the GET query could be signed by the remote-requesting actor and the instance could allow/deny the query based on whether e.g. the remote actor is a mutual follower with folks on the instance.

@autumn @nobletrout @silverwizard @binder @thegibson I mean, you could totally set up a relatively modern SynchroNet BBS with a web telnet client and stick a wav file on the page that modem-screams on connect

@dkoneill Oh, yeah, I've had a pinboard account since the beginning. Also worked on delicious for awhile at yahoo

https://pinboard.in/u:deusx

@dkoneill (though, admittedly my usage has trailed off over the years 🤔 )

Part of my thinking about a pinboard / delicious thing is I started paying more attention to my RSS reader. Which, in turn, makes me sorta want to revive my old hobbies of read-blog-share where I'd filter the crap I found on the web into shared links. Grit in the gears of my process has kind of taken me away from all that

Like, I found a thing, I want to share it, where do I put it? Just pasting URLs into toots feels like it would annoy folks. But posting them to a shared collection of links in a different channel feels more purpose-built

I also remember, once upon a time, when there was a vague glimmer of Yahoo! considering being a competitor against Google, we tried pitching that Yahoo! should lean into human-powered search indexing versus Google's machine-powered search crawler as a qualitative difference. I don't think it went very far (for various interesting & valid reasons) but I always think it could have been neat

@brennen @pb Yeah, like in my mind for this thing, the stream of activitypub posts would be more of a federation / replication stream. The interface would be collection navigation & search. Maybe handy to monitor a tag stream or RSS feed for novelty.

@sivy Yeah, exactly that. activitypub would be the background chatter, not the primary UI

@mc Yeah, that's one of the more reddit-a-like options with discussions attached that's not extremely appealing (to me), though I have occasionally been interested in getting an invite

@mc I guess part of it too is that it can be as nice as the people participating :)

@danhon So if I ended up building a thing, a linklog account could pipe into a thing that presents itself as a delicious-y collection

@george witchcraft!

Anchovy is hungry. Also confined because contractors are still using the shed

@collette Lately, I'm trying newsblur.com and liking it.

I tend to go on cycles between things I've written myself, Tiny Tiny RSS, and an assortment of other sites. But, NewsBlur is happymaking for me at the moment

@graydon Yeah, it was kinda apropos but 🤷‍♂️

@yaypie I do remember sitting in conference rooms talking about how to wire that sort of thing up from the delicious end but not getting a whole lot farther than handwavy "improve search results" goals

@researchfairy Geethooob

Anchovy is now free of carrier confinement and contemplating dinner

@vertigo @freakazoid @JenWojcik@mastodon.social I think some instances have suspended all of mastodon.social by default and selectively decide to unsuspend accounts when local folks request it

@mattl I kinda feel like the freenode takeover was a stake to the heart. That and Mozilla's IRC channels used to be my main reasons to stay connected, and they've all gone to Matrix now

@JenWojcik@mastodon.social Yeah, it's also weird because "suspended" has local meaning, so an account that looks suspended on your local instance doesn't necessarily mean that account got suspended on their home instance

In the spirit of "The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel", I would like a phở hose fed in through my window from somewhere just slightly across town.