Notices by DopeGhoti (dopeghoti@infosec.exchange)

@br00t4c @GottaLaff
We're increasingly in an era where the façade of there being a 'quiet part' is a misnomer.

Pleasantly surprised to hear Nominee #Harris specifically mention and enumerate support for the citizens of #Gaza at her #DNC speech. Also very pleasantly surprised to see her ASL translator (but sadly only hers) translating the lyrics to the music that are being played rather than just signing "Music" or just swaying in time.

#Accessibility #USPol

@notroot @darnell @badtux
That's the great thing about the #Fediverse - one application or another may not work well for you but another just might, and all those applications that work well for different people can all work together to let people who thrive in different applications thrive separately, together.

The public went down to the old bank
Looking for low interest rates
But the APR
Went way too far
It was usurious on its face

#BuyNowPayLaterASong #HashtagGames

It's pretty darn cool how #Mastodon has built-in translation for posts in other languages. I barely speak a word of French but just had a nice interchange thanks at least in large part to that feature. Never could have done that on the birdsite without popping open a translation service window.

@Rasp
Beyond missing the point, it seems unfathomably uncouth too. Just as socially outlandish as approaching anyone and asking "what is your birth gender?" would be. Outside of, say, an endocrinologist's office (and I will freely admit ignorance as to whether it would be justified even there) I can't comprehend how it out to be anyone's business other than one's own.

Anyone who asks such things can be trusted: to be the jerkbag ey has just demonstrated emself to be.

@ryanhoulihan
After I did some light lexohistoorical reading, any time anyone plays this card around me ey will thenceforth only be addressed as 'thou', since 'you' is a plural form of address and using it in a singular context is obviously incorrect after all.

A nonzero number of times, the lightbulb came on.

@ryanhoulihan
For the first question, would you accept "Yes, if they want to"? I'd hate to force anyone to play a sport in which ey had no interest. (:

@RickiTarr
In no particular order:

• Back to the Future: One of the few filmic takes on the genre that does a reasonably good job of being self-consistent with respect to causality, while still having nods to stepping on butterflies (e. g. Twin Pines Mall→Lone Pine Mall).
• Primer has an obligatory place on this list.
• Red Dwarf has, for all that it's a sitcom first and SF second, some excellent takes on time travel sprinkled throughout its run.
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, once you get past all the farcical bits, has some excellent "this is a time travel story" beats. "Remember to set this Deus ex Machina up later on so that we get out of this tight spot we're in right now."
• Arrival has a great closed information temporal loop.
• Babylon Five has some really good long-form temporal hijinks.

@forteller
Can confirm I too am seeing no change to the affect of trailing tags on posts such as yours.

@OhNoSheTwitnt
How utterly, completely, and in all other ways shocking.

No, wait, the other thing.

@elke
IMO emacs is a fantastic operating system that only needs a good text editor to be complete. (:

@captaincalliope @gabek @owncast @streaming
I wonder if the time will come that an #Owncast stream can be shared by #ActivityPub and watched in #Mastodon inline with the post with the same ease as an attached .GIF or video?

@Natasha_Jay
"I set up an account, saw nothing on my Home feed because I never Followed anyone or any tags, assumed it was a ghost town, and left" is probably an all-too-common story.

But I don't know what the solution is other than maybe making the Local feed the default, but that has its own problems.

@Natasha_Jay
Depending on the size, population, and followership of your instance, the Global/Verse feed might be an intimidatingly firehose-like torrent which some might find to be a turn-off too. But I really like that on the 'Verse your feed is what you make it, not what some zillionaire or eir chosen algorithm makes it.

@hypolite
I actually do, provided that the new traversal methods are more interesting than "walk fast" (as they are in AV). I certainly can understand how it would be a minus rather than a plus to some though.