Notices by Space Catitude 🚀 (terryhancock@realsocial.life)

@evan

It really depends on the ad. Some are well-made and fun to watch.

But to watch basically anything they want to shove in front of my eyeballs, stealing a minute of my finite lifetime..? That's going to cost.

#Monsterdon

It's nice that Doctor Who is on the case, I must say! :tardis:

@darnell@one.darnell.one @darnell@flipboard.com

I mean, there would be a certain truth to that, were it in any way relevant to anything he were doing.

But everything he's doing is systematically sabotaging and undermining the country. We're being stripped and beaten and left for scavengers to consume after we're too weak to fight them off.

#Monsterdon
Mysterious singing is never a good sign in these stories...

That's how they get ya!

@RamenCatholic

I very much like to make arguments for things on a basis of "enlightened" or even "unenlightened" self-interest, because those are powerful motivators -- even for people who purport to decide on the basis of ideals (because quite a few, even of those people, will betray those ideals in secret, if they don't see the benefit to themselves).

There are a number of good systemic, ethical, collectivist, individualist, and pragmatic arguments for UBI. It's a very robust idea.

@mloxton
I think that, as with other words, like "Christian" and "feminist", there is a "No True Scotsman" problem with "Capitalism".

Most of the people hating it use a different definition than most of the people supporting it.

So there is a great deal of mis- or dis-information due to equivocation.

Unfortunately this pattern of moving goalposts by redefining words has become very popular on both Left and Right extremes.

So it becomes hard to speak intelligibly about the subject.

@lanodan @neauoire

Don't walkie-talkies work on a CB band..? It's been awhile, but I seem to remember them working on one or more of the lower CB channels. 🤔

@Lazarou @lytta

Yeah, it's pretty cheap -- burlap sacks, some fake vegetables and leaves, and thread. Bit of skill to produce the weird mouth shapes. 🤔

Banning TikTok because of their Chinese connection is extremely dumb policy.

This is basically the Russian model of internet regulation: OUR propaganda is fine, but not those *foreign* people.

It's just nationalism.

And hasn't that turned out great for us all?*

They do some nasty stuff, just like Facebook, YouTube, Google, X/Twitter, Instagram, etc...

Ban THAT if you want, not who's allowed to do it.

[*Yes, for the affect-impaired, this is sarcasm.]

I think we need a Fediverse Family Tree to show the relationship between the various platforms. 🤔

I doubt it's widely known, for example, that "Iceshrimp" Is a fork of "Firefish" which was a rebrand of "Calckey" which was a fork of "Misskey" -- which was an original microblogging platform prior to being adapted to ActivityPub for federation.

It'd be nice to have a chart that laid out these relationships. But I fear I will have to draw it myself.

@alcinnz

IMHO, "apps" are just a way to circumvent security measures in browsers.

But I LIKE my security measures!
:raccoon_cool:

I'm seeing a lot of talk about #Pixelfed this week. Many regard it as a viable alternative for Instagram.

But it also works very nicely for a graphic art portfolio site, which is closer to how I'm using mine:

https://px.filmfreedom.net/@lunatics

For this, the "Collections" feature is very nice. I have collections for "Tests", "Stills", "Characters", and "Design", and I can add more.

And there's a "Portfolio" view, accessible from my profile.

More restful than a site always pushing stuff on you!

Interesting -- I pasted the URL into my own PeerTube search bar, and so now, I can watch @karen and @pluralistic on my *own* PeerTube server:

https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/q1AAL629GYMFtN6nCy15WE

How about that?

Has anyone come up with a good #Wordpress solution for putting #Fediverse sharing links on articles, yet?

Right now, my Wordpress still shows these "share to" link icons -- but in addition to being dated, it's not obvious to me how to make this work for Fedi platforms, since platform, instance, and user all need to be given (maybe some kind of Cookie could remember the user's preferences?)

@cstross @fatsam

Yep. That's the big one. The past wasn't better, but I sure was younger.

Medical billing in the USA is utterly ridiculous.

You get a statement that says, bascially:

We billed $725 to your insurance.

Your insurance company said "nuh-uh", you can only charge us $50 for that.

Then the insurance company pays $40.

And then they still bill you $10.

So... $675 just vanished into the ether, but it's absolutely critical that I pay $10.

Because, we absolutely could not have the abomination of me getting something for free, just because I already paid for it, could we?

Oh, by the way, this is for a routine blood test that probably took the technician doing it no more than five minutes.

We actually got separate bills once for "a shot" and "administering the shot", as if those were separable.

Oh, also, they've spent hours of clerical time and at least a few dollars in postage to send me multiple bills and reminders to get me to pay the $10.

Honestly, I'm kind of hoping to cost them more in process overhead than they get from the bill, because I don't want them to profit from this bullshit (and hey, at least some clerk is getting paid for it, right?)

@Zumbador @actuallyautistic

One thing that works for me is setting up relational triggers and "compatible tasks".

At some point, I noticed that the time it takes for a kettle of water to boil is just about enough time to load the dishwasher. Both tea and dishes need to be daily, and I want the tea.

This avoided two BIG problems:

1) starting the kettle, getting bored, walking away ("just for a moment") and all the water boils away.

2) Never starting the dishes, so they pile up to doomsday

I guess I have an expectation that if you don't change anything, software should just work when you boot a system up again, after a few months of inactivity.

But this does NOT work for web software, because we have built in these global, centralized dependencies.

So certificates expire. Or software handshakes are out of date with some centralized repo, and somehow this is my problem, even though I haven't changed anything.

This just intuitively seems bad and fragile to me. :welp: