Notices by luna, only carbon now (luna@pony.social)

who called it a dinner date and not mutual mastication

so apparently glitchsoc has a feature that lets you share a post only to your local instance, and prevent it from federating to the wider fediverse

whether a post is local-only or not is made available to clients via the not-in-vanilla-mastodon local_only: bool field in the Status struct returned by the api

on the surface, this is a neat idea, however the execution is... something.

as far as I can tell, if a post is to be local-only, the glitchsoc frontend silently appends the eye emoji (👁️) to the end of the post body, and the glitchsoc server interprets this as the signal that the post shouldn't federate

what this means in practice is that if you're on a glitchsoc instance and you explicitly make a post that ends with that emoji, the post won't federate, regardless of whether you toggled the local-only setting or not

anyway apparently this is Nix, and, yeah, okay, I see the appeal

me reading some of y'all's posts

you can’t make this stuff up

internet’s been super slow so I decided to try fibre

downloads still take forever but my shits are amazing now

ask not for whom the taco bell tolls, it tolls for thee

me, poking around with the Konsole settings:

"oh hey you can hide the toolbar, neat!"

[the toolbar vanishes, taking with it the hamburger menu containing the option to toggle the toolbar back on again]

"oh."

the fix is Ctrl+Shift+M to show the menubar (and you can toggle the toolbars from there), or go via the context menu:

Thanks to this bug report for containing the answers, but also a "c'mon, dude" to this smug attitude:

Konsole is an app used by technical experts, and we assume that if you deliberately hide both of these UI elements, you know what you're doing. :)

Like, I get it, but also just because I know my way around a shell (as a long-time mac and linux-via-ssh user) doesn't necessarily mean I know my way around the conventions and nomenclature of your UI toolkit (as a first-time KDE user).

y’all ever buy a pre-owned game cartridge or mp3 player or something and the previous owner’s data is still on it, and for a brief moment you feel a sense of connection with that stranger through their lingering data, and a twinge of sadness at the idea of deleting it to use the device for yourself?

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/rachels-ipod/

hey did you know that since 2017, the PNG format officially supports embedding EXIF metadata?

did you know that even prior to that, because PNG is an extensible format by design, tools like ImageMagick could preserve EXIF metadata when converting to PNG by embedding it in a nonstandard chunk?

in the context of some of my recent posts, can you see where I'm going with this?

if i had a nickel for every time i've seen someone's self-hosted blog with unredacted geolocation exif in the images, i'd have three nickels from today alone

here’s how Bernie can still win the papacy

❤️ implementing file format parsers
❤️ reverse-engineering undocumented file formats
💔 reverse-engineering documented file formats because the docs are wrong

a lovely pair of honkers, if I do say so myself.

📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f/4
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200

i hope you're a fan of massive tits

📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200

the chemical storage room at every photo lab

you date emotionally unavailable men, I date geographically unavailable queers, we are not the same