Notices by Nelson (skyfaller@jawns.club)

My Gmail is unusable. It's all marketing emails, donation asks, and possible scams. It's necessary to log in to endless accounts that I've built up over decades, but that's exactly the problem, every service I've ever signed up for wants to send me automated emails.

I kind of just want to delete it, but I'd lose access to most of my online life, and if I ever order anything online again, the process will just start over again.

If I ignore it, I might miss a crucial #email alert.

What to do?

@stumblewyk There was that brief weird period where dozens of Philly sports accounts did invade Jawns.club. They all came at once and outnumbered the tech nerds for a glorious moment. Not sure why they all left again, really, I imagine Mastodon was too confusing or not sporty enough, but I have no hard data.

I guess if you could find any of them and ask them why they came and why they left, that might be useful info.

@jaz I've gotta ask: why isn't FediCheck already open source? Alternately, why should we trust a proprietary product to support our open source projects, when it is a centralized single point of failure that could disappear this quickly?

Honestly I assumed that as a non-profit part of the Fediverse, IFTAS work was all open source, and I was shocked and disappointed to discover that it is not.

@evan It would be great to replay this day a zillion times until I can speed run solving the climate crisis

@mcneely There was this recent thread about shelters: https://epistolary.org/@vees/113642182768353673

Some of my favorite non-Philly-specific custom emoji on Jawns.club, for transfer to a GoToSocial server via "Steal this look":

:anarchopunk: :antifa: :BLM: :covid19: :nice: :no_covid: :nocars: :yesbike: :all_the_things: :is_this: :picardfacepalm: :thisisfine: :ben: :gritty: :grittyreact: :pothole: :firefox: :inaturalist: :mastodon: :rss: :servo: :signal: :tux: :wikipedia:

@alcinnz I'm not sure I know enough to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, but have you seen iocaine?

https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

@alcinnz This explanation helped me understand the motivation for iocaine:

> This has the downside that I need to redirect explicitly, so unknown agents will not be trapped (while they will be caught in Nepanthes' maze!). On the other hand, it means that my content is unavailable for AI crawlers in the first place - at least to known ones.

https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01JHRNX1KFQV19AVTB54ZFB8EZ

Welp, I deleted my Whatsapp account, I deleted some Facebook pages, but I'm stuck at trying to delete some of the Instagram accounts I've made for various projects because I can't seem to log in to them. They send me a code through my email, I enter it in, Instagram seems to accept it, but then the page just hangs forever. Adblocker is disabled.

I guess if I can't log in to an account then maybe it doesn't matter that it exists? But it's the principle of the thing.

For #FollowFriday, here are folks new to fedi, arriving on #Pixelfed, taking photos in #Philly. Please welcome them!

- @ShagrinaInk
- @Mich
- @huskybydesign
- @Flat_Pluto
- @rebeccatesler
- @jerkjerkson
- @theduchess
- @thetaoofmike
- @Jessicalibor

I don't know them or how good their pics will be, but I do want them to feel at home in our virtual neighborhood. Let's help everyone leave Meta/Instagram.

Also please be patient because Pixelfed.social is struggling under load.

#Philadelphia

@valhalla Ooh, I think you win the thread. This is a very good way to make the sorting decision, and it also supports the majority vote of sorting with music CDs in my collection.

@ohmu @jonah Fastmail may have a union, but they laid off 60% of the bargaining unit in the middle of contact negotiations: https://union.place/@fastmailunited/112672408714595554

So I don't know how much power the remaining union members have left, or whether I would cheer Fastmail. Ask @fastmailunited I guess.

Comic book geeks! Suppose I want a print copy of Amazing Spider-man Vol. 1 #537:

https://comicnewbies.com/2013/05/10/captain-americas-civil-war-speech/

What's the best way to get that? Should I just track down that specific issue? Is there some omnibus containing it that's a good deal? Is it worth getting all of the backstory that set up that scene?

#Marvel #CaptainAmerica #SpiderMan #CivilWar #ComicBooks

OK nerds, what's the best email client on Linux?

I'm interested in both GUI and terminal email clients. I consider them to be in separate categories, not competing with one another.

Until recently I've just been using Gmail webmail + official clients because I'm a creature of habit, but I'm trying to transition away from Google. Currently experimenting with Migadu for email hosting.

#email #linux

Which e-book reader / e-reader is the most sustainable / ethical?

I assume FOSS & open hardware / firmware is a high priority so it's easy to repair and maintain. There may be other factors.

I have an Inkplate 6 (open hardware based on salvaged Kindle parts) and supposedly it is possible to turn it into a usable e-book reader: https://hackaday.com/2021/08/20/inkplate-comes-full-circle-becomes-true-open-reader/

I haven't tried this yet, it's on my to-do list.

I find its reliance on Kindle parts concerning. Anything more independent?

#eBooks #eReaders

I bought golden #flaxseeds to eat to try to increase the omega-3 fatty acids in our diet. Now what?

Do you eat #flaxseed? How do you eat it? In what dishes? Do you grind it up first? If yes, how do you grind it?

#flax #omega3 #vegan

@janneke Yeah I'm preaching to the choir on Mastodon, but if I asked this on Facebook I'd only get responses from people who have failed to leave :P

The question isn't when you left Facebook, but how. Did you just delete it and wave goodbye? Did you try to bring other people with you in some fashion? How do you deal with the people left behind on Facebook?

I finally got back in to my #Facebook account (after months of having lost my 2FA). Obviously I've survived for months without Facebook, I don't need it.

I want to phase out all of my corporate accounts and focus on supporting communities that aren't giving money to Trump (the way Meta is). Suppose I want to start by eliminating Facebook.

Anyone have advice for leaving Facebook? I don't want to lose touch with old friends from high school, many events are only posted on Facebook, etc.

@nora Frankly I think toki pona isn't a good thematic fit for kobolds. I don't see why they'd be into simplicity.

What I know about kobolds without looking them up:

- ruled by dragons, which I take as a lack of ambition or a history of oppression, otherwise they'd rule themselves
- very social, live in large groups
- love shiny objects and collect them, like dragons or corvids

I'd expect they speak draconic, which likely has many words for treasure, or a trade language for acquiring shinies.

I take it back. My droid luggage would never survive the crush of people boarding an NJ Transit train at Penn Station, it would end up like Hitchbot.