Notices by tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website), page 5

@halcy @ieure @researchfairy @mike yeah, I was hoping to see our instance on the list but alas; they have a form for appealing being blocked but they don't have a form for appealing not being blocked, for some reason

@apLundell Star Trek diverges from our timeline either with the eugenics wars in the 1990s or the Toronto bridge attack in 2022, depending on which Trek timeline you mean, but in theory Fallout could diverge from a post-eugenics-wars timeline instead of ours?

@ieure @researchfairy @mike I mean it's basically the fediverse high score board at this point, yeah

@researchfairy @mike this list of instances banned by Threads is incomplete; you can help Wikipedia by [expanding it]

@sugar wait so I always get this backwards--a taur is like a centaur but times 100, right?

@alienghic oh nice; didn't realize octodon was on glitch

I didn't realize what a big improvement it was over plain text until I'd had it for a while and gotten used to it but now it makes stock mastodon feel pretty clunky

it also looks like allowing limited replies is on the roadmap for gts 0.17.0 which I'm really looking forward to

@alienghic oh, I mean you can use postgres if you want to, but I can't comment on how easy it is to use because I haven't tried that

I've been slowly shifting over from this account to my gts one, and I've noticed that being on a single-user instance makes you a much lower-profile target for reply guys and spam

I copied the instance blocklist from icosahedron.website into my own instance and that has served me well so far; subscribing to shared blocklists is on the roadmap for the next release but currently all it has is import/export of blocklist CSVs

I really hate the default mastodon UI so I've been using pinafore/tusky since 2018 or so, so to me mastodon and gts feel almost indistinguishable except for the fact that mastodon lacks markdown support, which sucks

@alienghic as far as "how annoying is it" I don't have to do anything except run `make upgrade VERSION=0.16.0` once every few months, and ctrl-c up-arrow in the tmux session

https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01J0HCCA23G8NFNRQFYV9RE03J

@alienghic I've been running gotosocial for @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org on a server in my home for almost 2 years now

it's ridiculously easy if you set it to use sqlite; basically dynamic DNS and NAT are the only complicated parts and those have nothing to do with gts and everything to do with "residential ISPs suck"

gotosocial just keeps getting better and better

@vladh good post but awfully weird at the end that he posits his definition of AGI-as-domination as a thing that could happen in the future instead of a thing that has obviously already occurred

(I guess one big reason is that I was less than a year old the first time I went to Bandung but STILL, you're never too young to learn about anti-colonialism)

I've been to Bandung several times but how am I just finding out abound the 1955 anti-colonial Bandung Conference today?

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

@rgegriff one of those guys where he's mostly useful as a calibration tool; if you have the same opinion as he does then you might want to reconsider

@sb yeah most of my builds are completely unlabeled; I forget why I bothered with labels on this one

@ifixcoinops I guess a Dan-Fixes-Coinops-brand laptop would be called a ThinkDad

@ifixcoinops I tried this a few years ago but with 3mm plywood instead of 3/4-inch

at the time it was nearly impossible to get an SBC board that would run on the kind of battery board that could do pass-thru charging; pine64 was the only contender and their boards tended to just randomly stop working after a while (no idea if the situation has improved since then but I should really look into it)

https://atreus.technomancy.us/markv

looks cool as hell tho

@ifixcoinops "I'm sorry, you want me to rub ... paper? on my ass?!? and you think that will make it CLEAN???"

@ifixcoinops it's the Bidet Dilemma but for computers

I kept this thing running for like fifteen years because it kicked that much ass

Nice tall 4:3 screen, 1400x1050 (in 2005!), Wacom tablet built right into the monitor, touchpad AND nipple AND stylus, swivel the screen around and turn it into a tablet, press a button and get a vertical monitor (!!!), pull out the optical drive and replace it with a bigger battery, it Kicked, the Ass

After 32-bit architecture no longer cut the mustard I went to a desktop and since then I've been sat around sighing and twiddling my thumbs with my laptop-buying cash bored in my wallet patiently waiting for laptop makers to come to their FUCKING SENSES

@ifixcoinops (I'm still waiting of course, but I do appreciate the mad shenzhen hacker collective that built a 2017-era replacement motherboard for it)