Notices by Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town), page 3

@thomasp I don't know. I don't know how to do server management.

...that's why I outsource oslo.town hosting to masto.host 😆

Let me go and check the logs.

@thomasp I'm going to say this is part of the problem...

@thomasp I'm guessing its due to all the requests coming in from way over 300 servers at the same time.

You can see when the requests stop being successful and start failing. I think it triggers some sort of limit on the server.

#ActivityPub

My blog (@coxy) is hosted on a very small server package from the hosting company. It costs me about £10/month and does the job just fine.

Until I installed the #ActivityPub plug-in on #WordPress and now every interaction I get from #Mastodon to my WordPress blog takes the site offline.

:kakao_confused:

uBlacklist - a browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to block websites and entire domains from search results on Google, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Searx, Startpage.com, and more.

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs

via @andybaio

#GoogleChrome #MozillaFirefox #Firefox #AppleSafari #Safari #Google #Bing #Brave #DuckDuckGo #Ecosia #Qwant #Searx #Startpage

Going through a box of my late grandfathers belongings from the Second World War. 📦

There’s a lot of good stuff here with a lot of history behind it. 🤓

But does anyone have any knowledge of what these daggers are? Specifically the silver one. 🗡️

There’s something inscribed on the blade. I’m not sure what.

#History #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #WWII #Military #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Knives #Daggers

What if the real #Fedipact was that the whole #Fediverse exclusively set AOL.com as their homepage and used AOL for all their web searches from now until 1st January 2024 to really confuse #AOL employees when they returned back to work. They'd think it was 2001 again.

📈 📈 📈

@forteller @harald Firefish is the only one of those that looks okay, in my opinion. Not great, but okay. And there's not much app support for that, according to their website.

Peertube is trying, bless it. I want it to be good but Framasoft really do need to find some good designers.

@forteller @harald What I'm stating is not a problem exclusive to ActivityPub / Fediverse software, by the way.

The whole FOSS community has a design problem. Sometimes, just sometimes, you get a group of people contributing to an project who have enough design competence between them to make something look good, or they luck out and find a designer.

But so, so many projects have either bad UX/UI designers or (mostly) no UX/UI designers on their projects and it shows.

@harald Two reasons, really:

Main reason: It's beyond my technical know-how to self-host a server and so I'll use masto.host

Second reason: Everything that isn't Mastodon is under-developed and just a bit shit.

I like the idea of doing what mozilla.social is doing though and running a different front-end like elk.zone -- but that's probably not an option to me if I'm using masto.host.

@harald Haha 😆
Well, maybe so.

I have very specific UX preferences when it comes to web apps.

PixelFed is doing an okay job but really falls on its face with the UX of some core functionality.

Hubzilla has all the character of Bootstrap version 1 without any additional styling.

Pleroma looks like it was made in 1999.

Misskey might be okay, but they use Lolis to promote the software.

What am I missing?

@aral Always interesting to hear your point of view. 🫶 And good luck with the move 🚛 📦

So tempted to buy a #Nokia flip phone to help me disconnect over Christmas. 🎄

I went into a phone store and asked to see the Nokia 2660 Flip and they were SOLD OUT of all their dumb Nokia phones.

Man said that they are amongst their top-selling phones right now, to all ages:

- Old people that don't know how to use other phones

- Millennials who want to disconnect

- Gen-z kids who think its cool to own a 2000s-style phone

So, that was that.

#MobilePhones #Cellphones #Nokia #FeaturePhones #DumbPhones #Technology #FlipPhone

To be honest, I think I would like owning the hardware, but could not deal with the software.

There seem to be a few companies making "feature phones" again for various reasons, but none of them are investing in the software.

KaiOS, running on some Nokia devices, is very very slow for the hardware. Nokia's S30+ operating system is dated and very crap. Other feature phones on the market seem to use Android or another bad proprietary OS.

I think it would be very interesting to have a feature phone device that was running a nice OS; one that could integrate useful messaging apps - so you can still chat to friends using Signal + WhatsApp, that encrypted the data on the device, that could sync your contacts or calendar with other services...

Punkt's MP02 started to do this, but it seems they shifted focus to making a smartphone based on Apostrophy OS.

https://aphy.io/about

@ruari I had a MP01 for a few years and even used it for about 6 months straight.

MP02 looks slightly better in the software department; it at least has Signal integration (they call it Pigeon). But I am sure it's still super buggy.

I agree that MP01 was a let-down. I can't talk for MP02 because I haven't used it. Their new project MC02 seems odd; they have gone into smartphone territory.

https://mc02.punkt.ch/

@ruari Yess! What I don't understand about feature phones is that people say the phones released today are WORSE than the ones that we had back in 2004.

I don't get how they can be worse. 🙉 Especially when they say predictive text is broken (I see that comment a lot).

Here's me wondering whether it was always bad on feature phones, our expectations changed but the tech didn't. Or, whether it has actually gotten worse.

Anyway, this past month I've been dreaming of making my own feature phone.

@ruari I really like the look of the hardware on both the 2019 (rounder) and 2023 (squarer) editions of the Nokia 105.

Very simple. Slim and compact. Robust. No camera (because who needs a VGA camera anyway).

But yes, probably very much let-down by the software.

God jul! 🎄

#NorskTut #Allheimen #NorgesBank #Økonomi