Notices by DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city)

It seems like very trivial news. It's not. Japanese eels (unagi) are freaking delicious, Japanese people love them and Japanese people are driving them to extinction because they're so delicious and - until now - impossible to breed in captivity.
So, yes, this is important news to save the species (because don't count on Japanese people to stop eating them.)

And on a side note, I haven't eaten a single one in 11 years, and I love them too, and yes, I miss eating them, so I'd be quite happy if I could eat them again.

#Japan #nature #food #unagi

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/thejapantimes/statuses/111356034495808951

American gacha!

#Japan #America #Gacha #Gachagacha #Gashapon

@evan@cosocial.ca I'd say blogging is more difficult than podcasting. Hence the popularity of the latter. Blogging requires writing skills. Podcasting requires a microphone and that's all.

@pfefferle@mastodon.social Hi Matthias.
I found the source of the issue.
There's a checkable option that blocks profiles:
"Prevent discovery of usernames through '/?author=N' scans, the oEmbed API, the WordPress REST API, and WordPress XML Sitemaps"

Wordfence advises against unchecking it:
https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/brute-force/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#prevent-username-discovery

What do you think?

@pfefferle@mastodon.social Yes, I sometimes have this error showing up in the "site health" page.
What does it mean? This site only has one user account. I guess it's blocked by something then, but by what and how to unblock it?

I also noticed that on my other site (liminalweb.site) one user seems federated @David@liminalweb.site whereas the two other ones are not (but the backend tells me they are): @Gator@liminalweb.site and @BigKamo@liminalweb.site

@pfefferle@mastodon.social The one I tried today is: davidbilla.net and the user account is @david@davidbilla.net (but I had the issue on several blogs)

@pfefferle@mastodon.social Sorry to piggyback on the thread (I almost contacted you today Matthias) but if I understood right I'm having a issue with my blogs. The ActivityPub plugin blog profile works fine, but the user profiles don't (they don't federate). The Wordfence plugin may be what is blocking them. I'm not sure if I need to change a specific parameter in it.

@evan@cosocial.ca My question was rhetorical. 🙃

@evan@cosocial.ca What is an "ancestral homeland"? Your homeland is where you were born and raised. I know many Americans think that culture is transmitted in the genes, but do we want to enable them here?

Also, for quite a few of us (I'm tempted to say a majority on the Fediverse) our "ancestral homeland" is... our regular homeland?

It's weird how generative AI is so amazing with all the topics I don't know about, but always wrong with the topics I'm knowledgeable about.
Funny coincidence, don't you think?

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT

@evan@cosocial.ca In my case, I don't know if it's cultural or something, but when I think about clothes, I clearly separate "home clothes" from "outside clothes", and I don't really consider "home clothes" when I talk about clothing unless specified.

@evan@cosocial.ca Yes, I assumed "in public" my bad.

@evan@cosocial.ca TIL that pants were divided in hard vs soft. I had to look it up.

And then I wondered: do some people actually wear "soft pants" in public? And then I remembered that you have mostly a North American audience...

Le Japon, entre tradition et plastique.


#Japon #tradition #modernité #plastique

@evan@cosocial.ca How would it be unsafe?

The second one is High Heel Cats, because why not. Note that this is part two, so part one was popular apparently.

#Japan #Gacha #GachaGacha #Gashapon #Gachapon

It's time for some new WTF Gacha!!!

Starting with some cute animals reenacting Munch's The Scream.

It's actually a good occasion to maybe fix a misunderstanding that's been hindering you for so many years. In The Scream, the person represented is not the one who screams. They're the one hearing the scream and being terrified by it. Look at their facial expression, look at the hands on the sides of the heads.

😱

Now you know, and you're welcome.

(1/2) ⤵️

#Japan #Gacha #GachaGacha #Gashapon #Gachapon #TheScream #EdvardMunch #art

I just found out about WAFRN and... Yes!!!

(it's a tumblr-like that uses both ActivityPub and ATProtocol natively!)

https://app.wafrn.net/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProtocol

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Why don't you just migrate your account? Create the new account first, boost the unfinished conversations so you can continue them with the new account, and then migrate?
Also you can have a solo instance that is hosted somewhere if you can't deal with the technical aspects. That's what I'm doing with my Mastodon account. I advise SpaceHost or MastoHost.

If you know, you know... (if you don't know, you'll know in the next post of the thread)

#Japan #GachaGacha #Gashapon #Gachapon #Kewpie #Tarako