Notices by DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)

hot take: obsoleting <frameset> and <frame> in html5 and beyond sucks.

:ddg: when will browsers start dropping render support for html 4.01 transitional

in 1992 the median home price in the US broke the $100,000 mark for the first time. a few months later, it dipped back below 100k.

March 1993 is when it crossed back into six figures, and it has never dropped below since.

as of August 2024 the median home price in the US was $416,360.

I wonder what the average altitude of fedi servers is. how far above sea level is the fediverse in physpace?

the fediverse? yeah, I tried it, really weird interface for an MMORPG but some people really seem to dig it. I dunno. might stick around.

fuck around and build a nationwide mesh network out of decommissioned "your table is ready" notification systems harvested from abandoned eateries in abandoned shopping malls.

@roadriverrail you absolutely will not! More folk in town know me as Sundog than they do by the name on my driver's license. Probably 2-to-1 if I had to guess :)

@roadriverrail I will most definitely be there!! very excited to meet y'all!! :D yay!!

had a great day working the counter at Hemlock Bazaar today.

lots of folk coming through to browse and check things out and purchase gifts.

not so busy as to be unpleasant, but busy enough to never be bored.

and every day I work, there is always at least one person who comes to the counter just to tell me how awesome it is that we have a radical little bookstore going in Ellijay, and they always deliver it such hushed, amazed tones, as if saying it too loud will clue in the rest of the patrons to the fact that we're chock full of socialist and communist literature amongst the best sellers and the manga and the nature books.

it's really super cute and heartwarming. it's nice to have folk notice the intent with which books are selected and the joy we take in offering them to the local community.

highly recommend letting your friend give you a job working the counter at a radical bookstore if you get the opportunity. it's really a joy for me. I'm a lucky dog.

and those customers who happen to notice what we're doing, well, dang sure they always buy a book or two. sometimes a record. had one such person today offer just to give us a tip, just so he could support our efforts without us having to pay our suppliers out of it.

people can be really sweet. it makes it easier for me to try and be really sweet, too.

it counts. it matters. we can do this.

I mean, tell me it wouldn't be cool to drop a link to an album in the fediverse and have this happen

#mastodev #webamp

nothing says thoughtful like gifting someone the new book by the billionaire performer that was sold exclusively at the big faceless corporate big box chain store.

soon it'll be the sixtieth anniversary of the Alice's Restaurant Massacree

and that seems like the kind of time you could probably get a bunch of folk to show up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts with rakes and shovels and other implements of destruction

and they could probably have themselves a mighty fine time

and once they were starting to get bored, they could probably think of some other places it'd be useful to have a bunch of folk with rakes and shovels and other implements of destruction

and they could probably wander that way with a song in their hearts and an implement of destruction in their hands

and folks, that's when a movement becomes a revolution

fedi server that allows clients to post very rich html posts but takes the time to render it down to an image with alt text before sending the post to any mastodon instances so eugen can't neuter the design language of the post to oblivion and is forced to accept the image because it might be a cat.

mastodon took away paginated view of a profile on the web and turned it into an infinite scroll?

I gotta get off of this software.

@cwebber :thecheat:

this friday email six companies you've interacted with this year and inform them you've updated your terms of service.

if I ran mozilla webamp would be the default audio player in firefox rendered web pages.

https://webamp.org/

with milkdrop enabled by default, clearly.

if a fediverse server allowed its users to upload a post archive

and created new backdated posts for each, but did not send them out via federation (although creating them in a way that if referenced they could be interacted with via federation where appropriate)

and possibly marked them as imported/archive content

what potential problems would arise?