Notices by Tony Hoyle (tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk)

@evan @OliviaVespera It seems to be more the other way.. people setup relays then find when you've got a few hundred people subscribing to all that data it's not sustainable, so the relay shuts down.

Means it can be hard to find active relays.. sites listing them are often so far out of date as to be useless.

As a single user instance I link to 6 relays which is probably overkill (I don't know of a way to measure how active each one is, to pare it down) and don't find it overwhelming.

@evan @OliviaVespera I'd expect a relay to firehose everything to me and it be my server's responsibility to do any filtering. Maybe others don't think of them the same way..

But as a single user instance they're invaluable, especially for hashtags.

@evan
I wonder if the response varies by climate.. Here there's just no need.

@evan How long is a piece of string? I've worked on stuff that I could poke once a month to see if anyone had any issues.. Big projects are sometimes run like commercial entities with multiple maintainers. And all points in between.

But they're not maintaining software in a state where it works for me.. it's not about me.. They're doing it because they want to, and I (and many others) happen to benefit from that.

@evan They're unpaid volunteers, not employees.

Whether I'll continue to use unmaintained software depends on whether it still works for me (or whether I can fork it and fix issues, but that's not an option for many). Mostly I'll find an alternative, of which there are usually many.

@evan 'As long as they feel happy with' which could be any of the above.

@neil Healthiest people you can eat.. grass fed.

@evan I can't find any reference to the earlier name anywhere.. do you have sources?

@Infoseepage @maxleibman Even in this *room* I regularly flip between 3 different browsers (gaming machine, laptop, phone). So many implementations assume a single device.. it's just not thought out.

And don't get me started on the implementations that require Windows, or Chrome, or both.

@ryanc I didn't expect colour graphics.. that is insane.

@GossiTheDog TBF there is *something* going on.. this is from A&A for example:

https://aastatus.net/42782

@godpod So many leopards, so many faces..

@mpjgregoire @evan Balance of power changed in Isreal. Ben Gvir can no longer force a deal to fall through.

@mpjgregoire @evan https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-says-he-repeatedly-foiled-hostage-deals-urges-smotrich-to-help-him-stop-this-one/

@georgetakei Some people count their steps.

My watch has given up on that and periodically reminds me to move.

@cstross @anon_opin @quixoticgeek They reduce the emotional commitment to nothing.. try one person today, find another tomorrow.. like trying new shoes.

@evan web+act links are url encoded on opening eg. https://acct.swf.pub/#web%2Bacct%3Aevan%40cosocial.ca

Which just returns a blank page.

Only chrome thinks it's dangerous though.. Firefox works.

In my username it just says 'failed to fetch' but maybe I'm expecting too much of an example :p

@nerb @human3500 @pluralistic When he gets a bit older you can hit him with this..

@GossiTheDog I'm surprised.. Normally it's said if the chip is already damaged by the faulty microcode then the only solution is RMA - the updates just stop it getitng worse.

@danieldurrans @neil Every single time you interact with a company there's some bleedin' survey about it.

Why are they so needy these days? It never used to be a thing.