Notices by Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social), page 2

@feditips
Yes, slow mode is how I run, to avoid the earlier problem of it moving my location when coming "Back" from drilling down into a post.

Slow mode being on is why I have to click to see the new posts.

@feditips
That was only happening for a couple of days around Aug 6 when I posted the complaint. It hasn't been doing that lately.

What it does still do is this: when at the top of my feed (in slow mode) I click to see the new posts, it drops me at some random point between where I was (the topmost toot visible pre-click) and the newest toot post-click (i.e. somewhere in the middle of the newly-visible toots).

I'd rather it left me at the last toot I already read, with new ones above.

@Peg33
"Wait until Republicans find out that Kamala Harris becomes president if they impeach and remove Biden."

This reflects my "insurance" theory of VP choice by Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush (though it didn't work for Nixon).

@GW

@feditips
The behavior on mastodon.social (using Firefox on Linux) changed yesterday and is still broken today. After drilling down into a post, when I return "Back" to my "Home" display it does not return me to where I was -- usually it goes to the very top (most recent posts) of the feed.

This despite me being in "slow mode" (it does still show me the "n new items" prompt at the top).

This is annoying because I have to then scroll down trying to find where I was.

Why is this happening?

@garbageman @Teri_Kanefield

No. Military officers are prohibited from obeying illegal orders. There was some uncertainty about that for a while, but they started to make it clear, as I noted in this tweet I posted June 9, 2020.

@anarchopunk_girl
Predating Neuromancer, I would offer that "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner (1975) was proto-cyberpunk.

"...is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

@gerrymcgovern
Aluminum production consumes a lot of electricity. Is the CO2 emission being attributed to aluminum production due to that electricity being generated using fossil fuels? If so, then the problem reduces to the larger problem of the transition to renewable energy.

@Mary625 @feditips

Fedi.tips can you enlighten us?

@Mary625
@feditips
I'm new to fediverse also, so I'm not sure exactly, but I have an idea. It thinks you're not logged in, because my link you followed points to my account on mastodon.social, and you're on newsie.social.

Let's see if this works: can you click on my username at the top of this post and get to my homepage? Then click on my "Threads of poetry and lyrics", then "Threads of lyrics" at the bottom of that, then finally the "Insurrection Breath" link?

@Mary625
That doesn't seem right. What happens? Are the boost and like buttons greyed out for you?

@Mary625
Insurrection Breath
(To the tune of Locomotive Breath)

[thread]
https://mastodon.social/@weaselx86/110654214305215039

@feditips
I tried to reproduce the problem last night (leaving the tab open and idle for several hours) with the console open including the "network" option enabled. It did not recur.

But today there were not any omitted ("...") posts, either, which was part of what happened yesterday. (I don't really think that is likely to have had anything to do with it, but I don't know)

Until it happens again I'll assume it was a transient problem, probably load-related.

@feditips
That could be the same problem, though in that description the user was trying to post, whereas I was merely trying to read posts.

@feditips
Yes, if I correctly understand slow mode to mean I have to click on the "51 new items" at the top of my "Home" page to have them appear. That was the first click I did after several hours idle. The second click was on the "...", which resulted in the "rate limit" message.

(I think setting slow mode was what I did the other day to make it come back to the same spot I was reading when returning "Back" from drilling down into a post.)

@feditips
Yes.
(Firefox on Linux)

@feditips
On mastodon.social, after several hours away from my browser for sleep, I returned to see 51 new notifications pending. I clicked on that and a bunch of them appeared, but some were missing, replaced with "...".

When I reached the first "..." I clicked there and got some message at the bottom-left of my screen saying "Rate Limited, try back in [5 minutes]".

Why? Is that a bug? It seems pretty ridiculous to "rate limit" me for two clicks in eight hours...

@Dogzilla @vikxin @Radical_EgoCom @hosford42 @Benfell @duckwhistle

Wealth concentration is an inherent property of a capitalistic system.

[thread]
https://mastodon.social/@weaselx86/110735532603549131

@feditips
For verification, what field do I put the link with rel="me" into on my github profile page?

@feditips
I figured out how to verify my mastodon account from my github profile page. There were two problems, solved thus:

(1) Just put the simple mastodon page URL into the github profile "webpage" field; do NOT use the html source mastodon gives you on the profile/verify page.

(2) After doing (1), delete the github URL from the mastodon profile and then re-add it, to force it to try again to find the link in the github page.