Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online), page 8

Are there any interesting creative challenges running during the early months of the year?

https://challenges.stefanbohacek.dev

#challenge #CreativeChallenge #ArtChallenge #MusicChallenge #WritingChallenge

I haven't watched the debate last night, and don't really plan to read much about it, other than this short summary, which was a good read with lessons beyond the debate itself, on how to deal with narcissists.

"But if foreign leaders could figure out how to manipulate Trump’s self-absorption, so too could his domestic opposition."

https://www.vox.com/politics/370942/harris-trump-debate-who-won-bait-kamala-donald

#UsPol #trump #harris #debate #psychology

I know this is how the #fediverse is supposed to work, but it's still pretty sweet to see it in action.

A post I made on Mastodon showing up on https://beehaw.org/post/15964400.

Good opportunity to donate to your server's admin to keep them going!

(Or your friends' admin, if you self-host.)

#FediverseSustainability

Oh wow. Cohost is shutting down.

"So, what happened? If you’ve read our financial updates, you know that we have never been profitable."

https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down

#cohost #SocialMedia

@rolle I really like that being here doesn't feel like I'm compromising my values. I know that not everyone who's still on Twitter/X is a bad person or wants to support Musk, but then they have to reconcile their beliefs and their actions. And I like not having to do that. Same for being on Threads and knowing the history of Facebook.

@rolle This is not to say that the fediverse is perfect, I've been pretty vocal about many of the issues we're dealing with here.

But I honestly believe that we can work through them, together.

Interesting new instrument.

"The Demon Box amplifies ambient electromagnetic interference, letting you explore nature’s chaos and uncover hidden musical potential. It transforms noise into the seeds of new sonic possibilities."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TanECYXpF1I

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eternalresearch/demon-box

#music #MusicalInstrument #kickstarter

This was a fun exercise, but I'm also hoping to address any lack of tools that might keep organizations from joining the fediverse.

Hence using donation tracking as an example.

In my recent tutorial, I showed you how to make a Mastodon bot that posts data from a spreadsheet.

In this follow up, let's add a chart!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-mastodon-bot-with-google-sheets-and-apps-scripts-part-2/

#tutorial #mastodon #MastodonAPI #AppsScripts #data #dataviz #charts #GoogleSheets #CreativeBots

In the light of this news, it's even more important to support other fediverse platforms and server admins and moderators.

#fediverse #FediverseSustainability

https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/113084852319192699

Bummer. I've seen a few posts here and there talking about #firefish shutting down over the part few months, but now it's official.

"Firefish will enter maintenance mode"

https://info.firefish.dev/notes/9xsukr38m3komd63

#fediverse #FediverseNews #SocialMedia

Thinking about starting a new fediverse community, or running your own personal server?

Here's what you might want to know: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-running-a-single-person-mastodon-instance

And some ideas for a domain name: https://literary.domains

I've also made a fediverse sharing button https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button/ and an embed plugin for WordPress https://stefanbohacek.com/project/wordpress-plugin-for-fediverse-embeds/.

#fediverse

I made a few small updates to the site to make it easier to browse events, and link to them.

For example, here are all the recurring music-related events.

https://challenges.stefanbohacek.dev/?search=%23music

@music

#music #MusicProduction #MusicChallenge

What are your favorite monthly/weekly challenges?

https://challenges.stefanbohacek.dev

#challenge #challenges #MonthlyChallenge #WeeklyChallenge #ArtChallenge #writing #WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #coding #CodingChallenge

And now you can add each event to your calendar, so that you don't forget to join!

https://challenges.stefanbohacek.dev

Well, if anyone wants to share this with their Brazilian friends:

"O fediverso é vasto. Ele é formado por milhares de comunidades com milhões de pessoas como eu e você, que querem se conectar e compartilhar."

https://jointhefediverse.net/?lang=pt-br

#twitter #x #brazil #fediverse

Missed this yesterday!

"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the van and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van

via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/113042496976107440

#arpanet #history #otd #internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge

@botvolution Yeah, definitely looks better in 4.3.

I do like how the missing alt text icon is now more prominent, but I do wonder if this is enough to get people to add descriptions to their images.

I actually opened an issue addressing this last year.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731

#mastodon #MastodonBeta #accessibility #AltText #UXUI #design