@joncruz Hmm, looks like it's got some from here? Not the best but seems existant

@jepyang Oh dang, I miss all the strange laptops Sony used to make.

Also miss my purple magnesium VAIO PCG-505 with its whole 64MB of ram and 1GB HDD

I'd almost gotten a VAIO PCG-C1 Picturebook at the time, but figured I'd like the extra screen real estate

@jepyang The Picturebook was pretty chunky and cute though

https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-look-back-at-the-golden-age-of-sony-vaio-pcs

@danhon i fed some crows on my stupid walk, feels like i made some friends

Trying to tell myself that I could not try programming or learning or tinkering on any projects tonight.

Maybe I could read a book, not on a computer. That's still sorta learning, but different.

@elithebearded @joncruz I do wish that mastodon's (relatively) new edit feature included image descriptions, would make a fixup of that attachment easier

Paid for the tactically correct tip for Toot! awhile back but I may eventually upgrade

Shower thought: a fediverse bot that gives you a Logo interpreter and a little toot-sized screen to draw on. (Someone has to have done this, no?)

(also: bad brain, no more project ideas tonight)

It'd be like @bbcmicrobot but for Logo

@cinebox @apt There's, like... weird regional differences between butter sizes. But also collapse between regional butter inventories sometimes?

@ramsey @atomicpoet@mastodon.social @icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud Well, there is a client-to-server spec in ActivityPub, it's just that I don't think most of the servers implement it :/

(oh, but can't remember if it specifies login, and also it's quite a bit lower-level than Mastodon's API)

@Elucidating@mastodon.social @bbcmicrobot Yeah! It's great!

@ramsey @atomicpoet@mastodon.social @icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud Heh, welp

@craigmaloney NeXTSTEP: When scrollbars had divots

https://scrollbars.matoseb.com/

@davew@mastodon.social @scottjenson I've been thinking that servers implementing the Mastodon API as a de facto standard will probably be a practical solid layer atop ActivityPub. Have had some good experiences with GoToSocial, and there are a few more.

Kind of like how you would more likely install or use someone else's POP / IMAP / SMTP server to handle email, rather than bake the base protocols into your own app

@dokas 👋

Science and the Compulsive Programmer

from Computer Power and Human Reason [1976]

by Joseph Weizenbaum

(Whew wow. I forget who posted this recently, ironically I think it was in relation to the rash of folks building fediverse search stuff lately)

https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/Pages/Hester_James/HACKER.htm

@rolltime Went to a party at a polycule house of linux users once and there was an impromptu unconference on calendaring apps happening in the living room at one point. I'm not even making this up

@simon wait what? i had absolutely no idea

Oops, broke my bot for a few hours. That's one way to avoid ingesting too many toots

@ComradeRobot Looks like it's in the app store now, though I had to search for "Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots" to weed through all the other "ivory"s

Dang, sometimes I forget @shrubot is just generating text from a Markov chain. Some of these toots sound like fun writing prompts

@selviano @shrubot Every now and then, it spits out a "net boy, net girl"

https://toot.lmorchard.com/@shrubot/109727043344702854

@indutny I’ve had to sign Committer License Agreements (on paper even) for a few projects I’ve worked on, that seems not so weird? But yeah, that code of conduct, whew

@mdhughes @calcifer oh yeah! I totally remember buying apps for my old Palm III and later my Treo & Centro at like Real Software prices of $10-50 depending on the thing. Didn’t even have an app store either

@Crell Yeah, I think I'm leaning toward making the opt-in signals conservatively few and as explicit as possible.

And opt-out only follows as a revocation of previous explicit opt-in. (i.e. never an assumed permissionless opt-in) And there, maybe it helps to be liberal and accept many more signals to consider a user opted-out.

@Macross @mdhughes @calcifer i did buy a bunch but also shh :blobpoliceangry:

@danhon

This part right here, especially resonant in my noggin as I'm reading through @driscoll 's Modem World right now:

"The delicious (again) thing here is that with Mastodon being the sort of network that’s decentralized, more people than before are getting a much more visceral sense that running and providing software services costs money and that administering a community takes time and effort. It doesn’t just happen. This is more visible than ever before because, well, there’s a person doing it and they’re right there and can (and are!) talking to you, and you can talk to them."

@craigmaloney Sometimes I feel weird that I got blocked by him on Twitter and also wrangle Rails for work

@craigmaloney It is my least favorite of any web framework I've encountered. Some folks seem to love it, but for me it seems to have too much implicit magic and makes working in a big app so hard to navigate.

@aurynn as a reforming techbro, i hate to run afoul of that reaction but also glad it’s there. Sometimes it’s good to get bullied for ill-advised jackassery

@dymaxion @danhon Alas, in my US-ian experience, the software and data stuff ends up as unavoidable thanks to Insurance Compliance, even if I experience it only indirectly

@redoak tfw darmok

@dark_roast_ruth we literally watched an episode of Supernatural, last night, wherein this happened

Still trying to figure out in @ivory how to see the latest stuff in my home feed. A number will appear. Tapping the number makes it simply go away? Best guess I have so far is to just keep rapidly tapping the home toolbar button until it scrolls to the top, which seems to take 3-4 tries?

Lots of folks seem to have figured this out since this seems an uncommon complaint. I feel dumb

Like maybe “tap to top” is what I want? But tapping the top just opens a menu

@sayrer@mastodon.social yeah, for me the double tap seems to do nothing. Has to be a series of rapid taps

Ohh, I think I get why it seems like a “quadruple” tap for me: if I’m scrolled down the timeline, double tap scrolls to top but doesn’t load anything new. Another double tap loads new and scrolls to top again. At least, I think that’s what’s up

@robdaemon I thought I tried that, but i was tapping the camera notch. Which is, like, not screen. Works if i hit one of the “ears” 😂😂😂🥲