Notices by Russell (zimzat@mastodon.social)

@dalias I wonder how close that would get to what the Android permission system tried to become before they realized it hampered their ability for the ad model to track users. Cross-API functionality was weird that way too: For an app to pause music/sound/the game you had to give it access to monitor phone calls/state? eek.

Some tried to mock or sandbox denied APIs so apps continued to function.

Browsers are also a variation of that type system model. If you squint hard enough.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115639524737510178

@jernej__s If you paste the link in a reply and give it a moment it'll offer to convert the link into a reply quote post(?).

@thomasfuchs Agreed; the official mastodon clients are somewhat limiting. I'm annoyed you can't do time-limited mutes on their Android client.

(apologies for the extra large image attachment; I don't have anything smaller handy on this computer)

@whitequark I recently went through a similar change. My old mail server was getting long in the tooth and, rather than upgrade the distro and potentially break all the configs in subtle ways I've forgotten, I searched for mail servers written in Rust and switched to Stalwart. It's been ... fine? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They make setting up all the things fairly easy (spf, dkim, dmarc, tls) with decent docs so I'm hoping future version upgrades will also be simple and painless.

@bruces I ran a prototype game on a custom engine and ... well, once a Queen or Rook piece gets to the back row of the pawns it's game-over because the pawns can't move or capture toward the side or behind. As soon as a pawn captures a State piece diagonally it opens a hole in that column for any State piece to sail through unopposed and wipe the board of them all. I don't think even a stale mate is plausible because if the State sacrifices even one piece the rest make it through totally fine.

@_elena I started using the Phanpy client for Caturday photos on Mastodon as it offers a media view similar to the example. I don't plan on posting a ton of pictures so I think this works for me, but this may not be ideal for others.

It will be interesting to see if someone can create a client that can handle the best of both or if we should segment accounts by media type. I know I'd dislike lots of videos in my feed because that's a different kind of interaction. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@dalias Wait, what?? Wow. He's been an advocate for workers rights and all that, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised an economist comes with a blindside. Economists seem to be perpetually shock-faced every time socioeconomics explains some long-standing economic mystery. 😞

I haven't been following his content closely; do you have a handy link to the immigration piece? [totally fine if not or you'd rather not, I'll run across it at some point]

@dalias This sounds similar to a coworker's phrase of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast". It was used to point out taking time to do things like maintenance and architecture aren't slowing us down but instead making it easier for us to go faster in the long run. Unfortunately it's very difficult to convince multiple layers of management, and sometimes other coworkers, to go 'slow'.