Notices by Snaketember King Naga Calyo (dragonarchitect@rubber.social), page 2

@whitequark I'm curious: do you have some kind of article written up somewhere about how to self-host email?

Doesn't have to be explicitly step by step, but touching on all the bases of what one must do for a functional and reliable and spam-resilient self-hosted setup would still be quite useful. ^..^

@swetland I don't think I have enough context to fully understand this toot, especially since it seems like the mention of Arduino comes entirely out of left field right at the end.

Could you elaborate please, especially how Arduino is connected to this? ^..^;

(Cc @whitequark )

@jessew How to defeat node_modules:

Do not use node_modules. :)

(This is meant to be a joke. I bounced pretty hard off node.js because the documentation situation amongst node modules is so atrocious I can't get anything done, and my free time and cognitive effort as a hobbyist are far too valuable to waste on shit docs, so I stick with Python.)

@jessew To give node the fair shake it deserves: It's an interesting concept! Taking Javascript to the back-end certainly reduces the count of langs to have to intimately know for full-stack work by one, and that's an enticing offer to put on the table!

...... But it requires all of the third-party module devs to step up to the plate and document their APIs thoroughly enough to be usable without wasting unnecessary time on manual API discovery because node doesn't have an extensive corelib. >:(

@aral Genuine question:

If I hosted my own private analytics tracker (something like Matomo (née Piwik), e.g.) just so I could have funny numbers to look at because I like to look at numbers but do nothing meaningful with them, would that require a cookie banner?

I'd pondered about just having a static notice in the footer of my site that just says "This site uses some functional cookies and one (1) tracking cookie for a self-hosted analytics dashboard because I like to look at Numbers™."

@xgranade @whitequark In due fairness, I think its ultimate death would be inevitable, with the replacement of PATA/IDE with SATA, since CF is electrically identical to IDE but with two extra pins for power.

I literally have buried somewhere in a box in my storage unit a CF to IDE adapter that pin-for-pin goes straight from the IDE connector to the CF slot, except for two pins on the CF slot that branch off to a small 5V aux power connector.

@cwebber I had to restrain my autistic urge to be a helpful infodumper for the time it took me to verify whether this was an actual complaint in need of a helpful response or just sarcasm that would have gotten me blown off as a "reply guy" if I said anything at all. X.x

@puniko I get that this is a Swiss ad (PSA?) and not Dutch, but is this the infamous WEEWOO that I hear at the end? @ShadowJonathan

A Mastodon greentext:
> be me
> wake up to a notifications tab filled with boosts and likes of a toot I made
> Scroll scroll scroll scroll, wonder why it suddenly gained traction
> @ShadowJonathan boosted it

@foone This is so cursed my sides are in orbit right now 😂

@joepie91 "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is a response that you'd only get from a developer to shut down genuine complaints often made by users who are themselves not developers and never will be developers.

It's a callous cop-out at best and a refusal to acknowledge and address poor design or critically missing features at worst.

The fact that filters Just Work™ here on fedi because there is no ranking algorithm to dodge or game by mangling key words or names is a mental health godsend.

Please for the sake of your fellow fedizens, do not mangle names or words and use CWs for current events. There is no algorithm to derank your posts, and people like me can use the tools given to us to tend to our mental health.

Mangling filterable words to get around filters is an incredibly scummy thing to do here. Please don't.

I'm curious: Is it possible to directly side-grade vanilla Mastodon to the glitch-soc fork?

#Mastodon #GlitchSoc

@ShadowJonathan Linux is awesome but Linux also really fucking sucks sometimes

@foone I've been kinda doing that with my python dice rolling script, but with the added fun challenge of also being able to provide an optional statistics report including the polynomial generating function that gets all the useful probability stats if --verbose is set.

It's more meant to be a fun trip into the math of dice probability than being a useful dice rolling script, but I get a useful dice rolling script out of it as a bonus so hey presto.

Me: *watching a video about five Linux terminal emulators the channel host likes*

Me: *sees a terminal emulator I might like, goes to check if it has the config options I want*

Said terminal emulator: We've already changed how our app stores its config! It's not YAML anymore! It's TOML! 🥰

Me: WTF is TOML??? *looks it up* ....... what the fuck this is literally just Windows INI file format. 😒

@Mrfunkedude I keep my spare chargers around because I have a hobby that very occasionally makes use of one. 😂

Sometimes it's fun being an amateur electrical engineer in need of a standalone 5V or 12V supply, and wouldn't you know, random wall-powered DC gadgets come with those!

I have multiple friends who've already said hell no to this place after taking one look at it. THEY DID NOT HAVE TO LOOK VERY HARD TO FIND IT AND PEACE OUT.

It honestly makes me, a neurodivergent kink-positive queer furry, someone who ticks off MULTIPLE boxes of margnalized groups that Capitalist Social Networks tacitly make clear they do not want because we violate capitalist sensibilities, concerned for my own long-term future here.

I am frustrated.

I do not--DO NOT--want to have to go back to using Another Capitalist Social Network.

But there enough nasty and acidic "lefty" people here on Mastodon that they are literally ruining this network and making it hostile to anybody not a parrot of their ideological in-groups.

It stands to chase away people I am Very Much Interested In, or that I care about, who genuinely want what's best for this place.

@thomasfuchs @Elbrar Even back in the Before Times, Google or any search engine for that matter was not helpful if you didn't even know what key words to use.

I always hated being told to "google it" because if I didn't even know WHAT I was searching for, I was basically being told to get fucked. 😕

I never tell people to "google it". I either use my own knowledge of what to search for to get them what they need, or tell them the key terms they'll need for a fruitful search.