Notices by Hoppmester Fønvind Snublebluss (mikka@medic.cafe), page 3

@kaia As you know, the AVP does not have offload capabilities and the camera recording function is limited to 6s, showing a massive "recording" red light on it.

If some dude or dudette or whomever stares at you with a blinking red light on their diving goggles, that's a much larger warning sign than the current "I have my iPhone Pro in my breast pocket, camera facing outward, and I am looking at a newspaper" approach, or the button hole $29 camera I have at home.

I think we DO have a reasonable expectation not to be filmed, one that is broken by governments and people all the time, but I don't think the issue is a massive diving goggle that could provide great opportunities to some neurodivergent, sensory reduced, and phobic folk, among other things.

Muss ja vieles in CY lassen, weil zu schwer.

Aber das hier tut am allermeisten weh.

Shame, shame, shame.

@pfefferle Ja, Polylang. Sonst habe ich wenig gefunden, das nicht einfach nur Übersetzung sondern auch Trennung ist.

Nach langer Überlegung und weil das auf der Testreise echt nicht funktioniert hat, habe ich mikka.is wieder aktiviert. Substack und Ghost sind nicht dumm, aber beide haben so einen extremen "mach Geld" Fokus, dass Quality of Life Sachen einfach auf der Strecke bleiben.

https://mikka.is/

Ist WordPress, bilingual, kann alt-Tags für Bilder (Ghost kann das bei Gallerien nicht), etc. Und getrennte RSS Feeds für Englisch und Deutsch. Geile Sache, das.

Morgen kommt @pfefferle's ActivityPub Plugin drauf, und dann sind wir alle glücklich, oder?

--- the following translation is what an AI thinks I wanted to say ---

After much deliberation and because that really didn't work on the test trip, I reactivated mikka.is. Substack and Ghost aren't all bad, but both have such an extreme focus on making money with the site that Quality of Life stuff just falls by the wayside.

https://mikka.is/

Its WordPress, bilingual, can do alt tags for images (Ghost can't do that with galleries), etc. And separate RSS feeds for English and German. Nice thing, that.

Tomorrow @pfefferle's ActivityPub Plugin will be added and then we'll all be happy, right?

Dear fellow fediverse netizen.

If you find yourself more than once every six months needing a "thread" kind of function, meaning you want to write more than the standard 500 chars your instance gives you, please do yourself, us, and the fediverse at large a favor and find an instance that does not use those outdated, arbitrary, and artificial character restrictions.

The fediverse was built, largely, to transport all manners of media. The "Note" type can, technically, do much more than 500 chars, but should not ever have line breaks. That's what "Article" is for. Now, someone (cough, cough) thought it'd be cute to look like the Birdsite and used an impulsive limit to 500 chars while going against the standard and using the Note type.

That bell can't be unrung. But the moronic character limits can. Many instances give you more than 500 chars, use them. Threads in the fediverse don't work well. The Birdsite, historically an SMS service, thus the 140 chars, at least displays such threads in a somewhat legible manner. Many instances on the fediverse won't. Even if the very same mind that cursed one instance software with that idiotic 500 char limitation, would implement something to that effect, nine out of ten instance softwares won't.

Just write more. Find a place that does not infantilize you down to a guppy brain caveman conversation. Or, well, stay with those short grunts. But don't thread. Please.