Notices by Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social), page 3

@feditips I did. Tried with DDG for android and with the default browser. Using Android 12

@feditips Nothing. There was no link to "install the app".

@feditips Well, I tried to do it, with Friendica. Didn't work.

Are there version constraints in that?

If you don't want to be compared with Nazis, don't behave like one. Don't talk like one. Don't think like one.

Quite simple, really.

@Gargron say hi to Adam Neely for me.

@feditips Custom emojis are usually very, very bad, though.

People just upload whatever images, not thinking that images small enough to accompany text have to remain legible to be really useful.

Even ordinary emojis can be too cluttered for their size, sometimes. Custom ones take this to the 10th power.

@feditips Hang on. Folks tell me the toot thing was to be deprecated. Some folks are embarrassed with the kiddy connotations, apparently. My instance replaced the "toot" button with a "publish" button, although my mobile app still uses toot. What gives?

@Gargron Been there, done that.

Sometimes you just open the hot tap and just use it while the water gets warmer and warmer, shifting to the cold tap if it gets too hot.

If hot water is too quick to come, you just use the cold tap. Or cup cold water in your hands and add quick spashes of hot water to it until it's warm enough.

@atomicpoet Ah.

Have a 100% raise, then.

@atomicpoet Wait.

You get paid?!

@atomicpoet Sleeping on the job... tsc tsc tsc.

(I'm joking of course)

@quinn I generically agree, but there's one word that changes a lot, and I mean a LOT: annexation.

That puts this in a whole other level, comparable only to the invasion of Chekoslovakia and later Poland by the Nazis. It's a direct attack against the whole edifice of international law built since WWII.

Nobody in the west did that.

@owenblacker @quinn True, but let's be frank: you weren't the only ones. That was pretty much established practice of both sides during the cold war.

(Not to mention the frequency of it backfiring)

@owenblacker @quinn Yeah, and that's one of the things that REALLY piss me off in this whole mess: by acting even worse than the US or the west overall, the Russians are managing to laundry out the vast assortment of western crimes in the eyes of many, many people, allowing some quite unsavoury people to pose as the good guys.

That in itself is a crime against humanity that should lead to the Hague.

The first step to leave and/or avoid the traps you're or would be in is to understand them. And in that, this article by @pluralistic is quite helpful.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/08/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks

@Gargron Hello, John.

@Gargron Kudos and congratulations.

I'm a bit confused with one thing, though: how does that relate to the 7 million accounts counted by @mastodonusercount ?

Is it just that there are 5 million inactive accounts, or is there more to it than that?

@Gargron Just a heads up, Eugen. Neil Gaiman is here now. And I'm pretty sure he'll be bringing in a nice little chunk of his 3 million twitter followers.

Just so you won't be totally caught off-guard.

@Gargron great job.

I'm not sure you are aware that whatever your optimization was it seems to have broken instance and federated timelines on tusky. Not complaining, just informing.

@Gargron It's OK, Eugen. We understand how the unexpected load can affect performance.

It's still much better than the early days in Twitter, with all those flying whales.

We can wait.