I think it's hilarious they call him Gargamel

@Shrigglepuss And some of us stopped using Facebook because too much family was being too much on it 😅

@Macross I mean, it is now

@RadicalEdward corporations are just slow ai running on human brains

@andybaio okay, cassandra 😅

So I'm trying to pick up and finish a short story that I started writing almost 10 years ago. I had the notion to write some big bang ending with catharsis all around. Lots of notes left for myself toward this end.

But, I'm kind of sick of the story and want it done. Suddenly, the most interesting ending for the whole thing is one wherein the characters are sick of the whole thing and just sort of ghost out of the conflict together. And, actually, I think that works a lot better as an ending?

(I guess, spoiler alert for anyone who might ever read this story, should I a) finish it and b) not just shove it away in a drawer)

@thegibson oh oh i know who this is

@mhoye I think GoToSocial is a good candidate for this. Can use a sqlite database, seems to have its own self-contained queues and all that jazz, leans on web UI and clients from other projects.

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Wow, haha, literally 10 years for this story: I forgot that I'd posted a first part of it to my blog back then.

And since then, I rewrote the whole thing, essentially changed genres, and it doesn't even include that scene or character anymore

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2013/06/11/behemoth-part-1/

@sean atoms of carbon in the fuel combine with incoming oxygen as part of the process of combustion https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=82&t=11

@sean (also oxygen weighs several times more than carbon - and you get 2 oxygen for every 1 carbon dragged along as exhaust)

@mnl That's literally not documentation, though. That's community and fun and mentorship and maybe even the genesis of future documentation. Great stuff, different ways to share information, but that ISN'T documentation.

The whole point of written communication is to send information into the future. The person with the question doesn't have to be simultaneously present with the person who has the answer.

You ever just wanna... not?

I think someone just had a meeting with me and found it unpleasant, because I didn't match their energy.

I don't think I was, like, rude or nasty or whatever. I was just tired, matter of fact, and not entirely bubbling with friendly enthusiasm.

Like, sometimes, I guess, not having a meeting and instead doing things async in chat & docs means you don't have to deal with me being a bummer because I didn't put on my happy-face mask today?

I do know that one thing I am not always great at in meetings is participating in the emotional side-channel that folks use to build up team morale and general good cheer.

Like, I know it's a thing, and I know some folks need it. But, that's just pure expense for me, because I don't get my motivation that way.

So, if things are going a bit rough and hard decisions are being made, it's not a comfort to me to generate a rah-rah go-team we-all-gonna-make-it force field 🤷‍♂️

Sometimes, the comfy thing for me is figuring out just how bad a situation is - then we can fix it, then I can take some time off, then I can maybe appear reassuringly happier next time you see me.

@joshua Yeah, I do try to share that a lot. Of course, sometimes, I don't even know I'm feeling it until I roll into a meeting with resting-grump-face 😅

Of course, there's also that thing where, no I don't particularly like you but I don't particularly dislike you either - and our main reason for interacting is a shared interest in generating a livelihood.

But, asserting pressure on me to generate a simulation of liking you makes me reevaluate my particular opinion.

Eh, most days I fake it better, but I'm tired today.

@czottmann Americans are annoying sometimes

Just imagine: don’t

Hot take: absolutely not

Listening to a podcast were someone is talking about “brick and mortar” stores, but i keep hearing “Rick and Morty” stores and feeling confused

@tillybridges congrats!

Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."

To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention - or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole "paradox of tolerance" folks like to shop around in debates.

Surely you can't possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?

My dear sweet summer child, don't be a doofus.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

"The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open."

The point of an open protocol is to help folks build what they want to build. Not an obligation to welcome everyone into their house.

If I have a full beer keg and you have a tap that fits it, that doesn't necessarily mean you're invited to my barbecue.

@danhon ouch

@thelaughingmuse Sure, but also some folks join instances that offer certain moderation promises. So. the folks hosting those instances do make decisions for everyone on the instance (ideally) in accordance with those promises. That way, it doesn't have to be a constant repeated individual decision.

In fact, you should choose include that in what leads you to hang out on some particular instance.

@mikeash Years ago, I tripped and dropped a hamburger, and a co-worker pointed and said "GROUND BEEF"

I have never forgiven them

@atomicpoet @avividtale This is an interesting / frustrating (sometimes) feature of GoToSocial that I discovered was enabled by default: authorized fetch.

That is, an HTTP GET is a 403 unless the request is signed with the key of an actor and that actor is allowed to see the resource.

That basically breaks RSS feeds in general if enabled for those, since no reader supports it so far. But it's interesting for outbox and actor resources.

@thelaughingmuse Yeah, moving sucks, I got nothing for that. I'm tired of living in interesting times, most days