Notices by Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)

@ntnsndr so far I have only seen this done in slack and it seems wrong. What if you intended to overwrite the selected text with the contents of your clipboard instead?

@cwebber I've read your entire article, thanks so much for such a detailed & thoughtful writeup. It was very illuminating as I had not come across any discourse yet that really got into the weeds about DID implementations and so forth. I was also not aware of your proposals regarding Ocap. This is interesting stuff I want to try to understand further. I am glad that you are thinking about these pain points with current fedi implementation, we're all feeling them and I hope they can be addressed.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc Also I should mention this works like a + alias, you don't need to log in to their site more than once ever to use it. If I were to write an email address like myalias.1.myusername@spamgourmet.com it will forward one email to me and then shut down. You can allow up to 20 emails this way, or log into their dashboard to add a sender to an allow-list so their emails won't increment the counter.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc I'm only aware of the one domain. It's an old service that's been operating continuously since the year 2000, I don't know if multiple domains were really trendy back then.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc There is a free service for making burner self-destructing forwarding emails at https://www.spamgourmet.com that's been around for a long time. I use it sometimes but honestly Gmail spam filtering is so good nowadays I haven't bothered much unless it's something sketchy.

Okay, I am very reticent to pull off this particular band-aid but let's say hypothetically I wanted to replace #AWS with another managed host of some kind, mostly for low-traffic static asset/site hosting with HTTPS, and maybe periodically running a #Minecraft server or something for very cheap, maybe bulk data archiving (glacier), any suggestions for companies that don't suck or are at least less bad than #Amazon at comparable cost?

#DevOps #AskFedi #AskMastodon #AmazonWebServices #WebHosting

@ntnsndr #Alt4You Screenshot of linked publication header. Logo for "First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the internet."
Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.

Please consider adding alt text to your images, it helps keep the fedi accessible! Feel free to use or adapt this alt text.

@ntnsndr Sorry I don't think I have time right now to be involved although I think this is a worthwhile endeavor.

@ryanhoulihan In general I agree with you although recently I have actually been finding uses for the "metaverse", not in the big Meta corporate bet aspect of it, but more for niche online communities meeting up in VRChat. I'm in a Star Trek meetup group there (we have our own uniforms and words but visit other worlds too.) It's also very popular with the furry community and there's definitely some overlap. But yeah I don't think this is really what Zuck had in mind, lol

@steve Welcome to the Fediverse! As you are new here, you may not know this, but many people here will not boost images without alt text to help keep the Fedi accessible. I will add an #Alt4You: "Cartoon caricature of a smiling white, masculine presenting person with brown hair, blue eyes, and a grey blazer with a red shirt and blue tie. The name Steve appears to the right."

Feel free to edit your post to add this alt description or adapt it as you see fit.

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @stefan@gardenstate.social @tchambers This is cool!

@kissane and @darius are working on a fedi governance study, you'd have to ask them about its status and if they would be OK being included in this.
https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/fediverse-governance-successes-gaps/

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2

@ljrk Shout out to the original ENIAC programming team: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.

I watched some interviews with them at the Computer History Museum. This doc also looks cool:
https://eniacprogrammers.org/

I have heard that some black women were also involved with this project but sadly this has not been well documented and information about them may have been lost in the historical record.

@thomasfuchs Not sure if this qualifies as "obscure" but the first digital camera my family had was a Sony Mavica that wrote directly to 3½" floppy disks. Some of those old photos I took with it are still online, being served up by a PC my dad has been using as a webserver since around that same time period: http://www.bambi.net/eliot/a1.html

#Radiohead #Puns

#Mastodon Advanced Search Guide and Operators by @luca:
https://lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mastodon-advanced-search-guide-and-operators

Been wanting something like this for a while, I didn't know there were advanced search operators not documented in the UI!

#FediTips #MastoTips

@bgtlover @cwebber It is on PeerTube: https://share.tube/w/k6zcRg7zbR1BRvuedseTGZ

It was linked in the original post but it's easy to miss since it was on the same line as the YouTube link.

@evan
Qualified no.

Metapreference: Strong Yes

Actual preference: I may not like Biden too much but you bet I'll be voting for him in the general. Protest votes are severely punished by our current electoral system, especially in close races. We need to fix a broken system before we can meaningfully fix much else, IMO.

@parismarx Hm, I wonder if this might run afoul of the FTC's new rules banning non-compete agreements.

@dosnostalgic #Alt4You
1: Doom splash screen showing doomguy shooting guns
2: Starting area of E1M1: Hangar level
3: Shareware upsell screen advertising additional episodes for $40 with screenshots of new game content and ordering hotline number
4: Pre-quit screen berating player for not ordering Doom

Thanks for the great content. Please consider adding alt text to your images in the future. It helps keep the fedi accessible and many people including me won't boost without it!