@erosdiscordia @naugeleh Here’s Catsby doing his somersault-in-a-box thing
@mav I remember doing some server-side JS work in Netscape Livewire as a baby webdev. Even had to borrow my boss' credit card to buy an SSL cert, which was shockingly expensive then
@ernie On windows laptops with touchscreens, I tend to turn it off in bios 🤷♂️ I think I’m with Jobs.
@ernie I guess that’s my thing: when trying to ignore it, it often gets activated accidentally and causes a mess. So I’ve come to just disable it entirely.
On a tablet right under my fingers, it works for me. But on a laptop with a screen pushed away a few hand-widths by a keyboard, it’s an awkward reach involving elbow & shoulder. (I think that’s why I’m with Jobs about the arm falling off and all that)
I guess if you use a tablet more and a laptop less, you might have different expectations & habits?
Catsby joins me in morning light therapy and steal some oatmeal
I don't exactly know whether this SAD light therapy panel helps, but I do know that the cats seem to like sitting in front of it like a sunbeam
@eevee I think there was a period where Chrome was provably better than Firefox in benchmarks on speed & memory.
But, that was only if you considered a well-used Firefox with a years-old profile with all the accompanying accumulation of history data & suchlike. A freshly-installed Firefox was a more neck-and-neck, but lots of folks switched over to Chrome from an old profile, had a positive experience, and stayed there.
I guess an irony is that Chrome seems not particularly free from similar grunge when it's been well-used for awhile. (I have no numbers to back this up, though.)
Anyway, I'm not sure how solid this is as an explanation for the shift, but such things are rarely entirely sensical.
@thomasfuchs Heh, yeah, Portland, OR is amazing to me for many reasons but sun is only one of them for like 5 months out of the year
@daniel Yup! That's what this ring is for. It's also kind of a meta-referential exploration of rings as a thing I'd like to make easier to build. (i.e. I think eventually there should be more fediverse rings for other groups of folks)
So I have a notion to build a mastodon bot that runs on scheduled Github Actions. For interactivity, it could check notifications every hour or so, rather than being always-on and watching the streaming API.
The harder notion, though, is what would it be good for with such high latency in responses to messages? It'd be like a play-by-mail game rather than a command prompt.
Without interactivity, it would be a pretty simple announce-only bot, say for a static blog or narrating project releases. That's useful at least.
@zrail Well, a nice thing about a Mastodon bot - versus a "bare-metal" ActivityPub bot - is that the Mastodon instance gives you an inbox. Mastodon is the store-and-forward utility, and a bot can request accumulated notifications via the Mastodon API just like a human user would on e.g. a mobile app
This is also where I want to play more with GoToSocial and maybe get back to building my own "headless" ActivityPub service.
Lots of useful functionality in a low-feature, lightweight store-and-forward service that's less like a full-blown social site and more like an old-school SMTP+IMAP server for email
@darius Well, Mastodon checks the messages and stores up the queue. The bot just hits the notification API and processes through the list
@mavica_again I can't vouch for the qualities (and maybe you've already seen it) but the shape of something like this seems promising https://www.getzola.org/
@darius Yupyup, it seems novel to me after spending so much time soaking my head in a bucket of direct ActivityPub protocol 😅
@mavica_again Oh yeah and I guess in golang world, Hugo is popular? https://gohugo.io/
You ever drop something not entirely important and it lands in a mildly inconvenient place and you’re like “welp that’s going to stay there for years unless i spend the next 15-20 minutes retrieving it”?
@evan how’d you know? 😅
This is enhanced by the fact that I haven’t the strongest facility of object permanence
Although, ironically, if & when we move house and I rediscover such lost objects, I often summon up a perfect recollection of how that thing got there after not having thought about it at all for many years
Someone just called me humble. It was complicated feedback to process. While I do intentionally try to attenuate ego, it also feels counter to purpose to pat myself on the back about it. (I was happy to hear that they'd tell me if I overdid it and needed to be more assertive) 🙃
@thegibson @xenophile ohai! 👋
@Rob_T_Firefly :blobgrimace:
@joshua KNEEL BEFORE ME BUT YOU CAN'T BECAUSE I'LL BE KNEELING THE LOWEST!
@daniel I keep meaning to watch more Fry & Laurie, going to have to go look that one up! And here's a new page for you on the ring. The about page talks a little bit about how it's good for use as a "verified" profile link, but that's optional of course
https://fediverse-webring-enthusiasts.glitch.me/profiles/daniel_coop.lol/index.html
Huh, this Elk web client for Mastodon is not too shabby! https://elk.zone
Also I have noted an uptick in the use of the word "shenanigans" by members of my team at work and this cheers me
@erinbee :oof: that song comes on every now and then in playlists and on streams and half the time I have to switch to listening to something else even though I really like it
@socketwench LOU Dustbin of Terror
@socketwench GSV Planet of Mild Discomfort
(ironically a very pleasant place to live)
@socketwench Part 4 of 12
You know, I really thought more albums and games would get made with QSound. Instead, we've just got like, Super Street Fighter II and a Paula Abdul album
@e_er1n @JessTheUnstill @Fennia@infosec.exchange
Please forgive me if I'm blundering in way outta my lane, but "likes learning about things" is about where I am as a cis dude on this stuff but also "likes to see folks happy" is high on my list
(but also customizing your meat mech is fascinating & rad)
Weird thing: back in 2007, I posted a positive review of a dentist on Yelp. Just got a notification today of a comment from that dentist thanking me for the review. I did really like that dentist. Too bad he's 10-12 hour drive from me, these days 😆
There was even a short period where I still saw that dentist after we moved back to Michigan from California. Just so happened that I flew back to CA regularly enough for work that I could catch an appointment while I was visiting. It was a very silly time.
@datadivajf Whenever I think of ST:TMP, I think of footie-pajamas, because that's what I wore when my folks took me to see it at the drive-in. I fell asleep before the last 20 minutes of the movie and was so mad that I never saw the ending until years later!
@kusuriya Maybe just for awhile? For a thrill?
@kstatz12 wtf, i ask myself questions about code i just saw 10 minutes ago that i wrote myself. i guess I'm telling on myself though
@kstatz12 I'd posit that if you're not asking yourself that, are you really programming?