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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 18:20:33 JST 
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@shnoulle ✨ ? Happy New Year to all Fediverse peoples with a special mention to the GNUSocial crew! ?✨ ?? ✨
The best humans are on Fedi, and defending it from actors who, in many respects, seek to turn fedi into a replica of a certain dot-con. Unfortunately, I feel like work needs to be done in 2023 to prevent that from happening further.
Thanks for the links, Admin. What is the situation with DMs on here. Are they working yet? No pressure. It would just help in some ways. My internet connection contract ended oddly and unexpectedly and so I'm hoping to do some DMs. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 17:47:01 JST
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Due to some empty shelves in Australia in the new year, I made my own wholemeal bread ? recently and very encouraged by how well it came out. I might make it a regular thing.
Baked it for triple the time in the recipe, just to get a more enticing brown crust but /may/ not have needed to. Also did that very pretentious thing where one tears and dips the bread in salted olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Very, very enjoyable. I will not be surprised if this practice comes in handy in 2023 due to evolving problems in Australia. ?
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 02:00:27 JST
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A final message to Council, do keep flying the (blue and yellow) flag (pictured). You couldn't fly the Eureka Flag a couple years ago out of fear, but now it seems that fear is gone. Keep supporting them... it'll make for a shiny, new redemption story over decades to come when the children and grandchildren are left paying reparations (TIME, January 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20220710181649/https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/).
OPEN QUESTION: Has anyone heard the phrase 'Clever Country' used to describe Australia in the last decade? ? https://gnusocial.net/attachment/b7e2f1cc6a2d600ade795fc4360a0462a3d1b6cb13015fed6f5dd76e50dfc1c4/view -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 01:56:53 JST
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I remain hopeful that 6+ storey applications for Unley Rd don't come pouring in but in the past Mayor Hewitson publicly gushed over a trashy, 11-storey proposal opposite the Town Hall. Expect more murals, "follies" (silly nothing items in the public realm) that can be painted over and removed at anytime... gentrifiers love these and also hipster coffee shops for marketing their gentrification.
Let's all wish "bon voyage" to Unley Council staff who'll apparently travel to France ???? ?? on the Council dime to find a 'sister city' that "shares Unley's values" (quoting the CEO). Given France is powered by nuk☢lear, maybe staff will find a city with a nuk☢lear power plant and Unley can offer to take their waste too? (Let's face it, certain powerbrokers are actively conditioning us to accept nuk☢lear now, despite an SA Citizens Jury of 200 people voting against it.)
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 01:54:52 JST
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I congratulate the three other candidates, and yet I'm quite pleased that I was able to get 5% of the vote with a detailed, forward-thinking mandate that could upset many vested interests (and it really was not my best writing, also). I could've had a less-is-more approach but after receiving 31% in the last election, I felt a solid mandate was the least I should offer.
At this election, the Electoral Commission (ECSA) added "I do not live in the area" and its sort of (mis)leading. I would always tell people that I'm 2km away and they still engaged me. Also, a mile away is "in the area" linguistically. I didn't expect voters would vote on it but I'm told it looked bad. ECSA also stopped publishing candidates' website links at this election. Lastly, ECSA use both Microsoft and Google servers to provide content and on 8 Nov a supporter who used the website told me they never received their ballot papers ?. I expect the electoral system to continue degrading and thus see no reason to run in future.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 20:13:35 JST
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I look forward to hearing from @bonber in relation to setting up the git account. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 01:57:07 JST
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Hi @administrator,
Re: git push --set-upstream origin limitedUpdate_mostlyCenterFix
remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://git.elbinario.net:8000/gnusocial/elbinario.git/'
Feel free to use the latest username I just provided as my password? -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 03:17:44 JST
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@bastianallgeier Welcome to Fediverse! What part of it do you think people are finding "too weird"? Is it just that it's different? One things that I like about it is that people don't really seem to care who you are. If you have good ideas you will tend to have a good time. No "blue check" required. For example, here on GNUSocial.net, on my first or second day I offered some CSS improvements to one of the themes and @administrator graciously added them (btw, I haven't forgotten to do the other improvements, just busy with mayor candidate business and other life things).
The other thing I like is that the feed really is chronological. There is no defaulting to curated content, or content that some algorithm tells you to like. It makes for greater variety, and that's not weird... that's just life. Life should have variety.
You just don't know what you are going to see on fedi and that's a good thing. All you know is your admin is not too far away, if you ever need them. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 03:12:40 JST
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Not just an Urban Farm, but as I imply from my very poorly drawn horseback rider, we may be able to explore having the police horses here (on rotation) whose manure would help the compost. One of the Recycling Studios could be here as well as housing for the permaculture team (obviously).
Could we also fit the Police Museum here, set for demolition at the Parklands to make way for the new hospital, while ensuring a decent space for permaculture and the Recycling Studio?
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 03:07:06 JST
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DESIGN COMPETITION: Did you know that the humble Stobie Pole was invented by an Unley resident, James Cyril Stobie (1895-1953). He designed the stobie from off-cuts of railway line to reduce waste.
If elected I intend to run Character Design Competitions for characters based on local flora, fauna, mythology, archeology and other local stories. I intend for it to be in collaboration with our First Nations Peoples.
What kind of character do you imagine a stobie pole? Big and rough, slender and electrified, or something else. If you are a First Nations artist, how would you represent the sturdy stobie?
The characters will be posed around Unley for some insightful fun.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 03:07:05 JST
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Here is but one character that apparently has a bit of difficulty expressing itself with just its ivy brows and body language, without being able to change its facial expression. It enjoys a sport that involves balls of light.
Have a better design? Save it for a possible design competition.
What part of Unley, or First Nation's, history including natural history, would you like to see celebrated as characters in the public realm and as collectable figurines made from recycled materials?
#unleyCharacters #unleyHistory #stobie #fediArt
Originally posted Mon 7 Nov 2022 10:33:28 CET https://gnusocial.net/attachment/b7466f1454eee69356f0e315592b3beae07d075bc8245465568a8c618b4e498c/view -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 02:53:29 JST
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? SOME ELECTION HOUSEKEEPING: Yesterday, I erected my first signs for the election, having seen that voter turnout in the form of envelopes received appears to be low (see graph by ECSA, noting that this election we have an extra week to vote, so it may be okay).
? DMs on here (gnusocial.net) don't work. I will /not/ receive them. To message me directly use the physical address or qr-code on my delivered flyer (IM-over-I2P instructions here: https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7237970),
? A copy of flyer with personal addresses removed to limit spam (https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7351760),
? My thinking towards the consultation and zoning of the Mary/Arthur St site (https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7351567).
? Votes must now be hand-delivered to Council Offices by 5pm Thurs 10 Nov with scrutiny and count starting at 9am Sat 12 Nov ??.
Originally posted Sun 6 Nov 2022 13:56:31 CET https://gnusocial.net/attachment/30c29bbe5830da2797897ae40cca3424778cd979c608616ddabd48f07c444459/view -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 20:19:54 JST
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@fu @lnxw48a1 @lxo Thanks for your question, Ji Fu.
I'm putting this glyphosate-ban forward at the Mayor election so people can vote on it. Admittedly, a referendum would be best because I'm not a single-issue candidate, but a glyphosate-ban isn't controversial enough for that. This is not an agricultural zone, per se (though I do want to boost urban growing). The Council is the main buyer of the weedkiller. Individuals could arguably buy it outside the region, but I will seek to go after vendors selling food with elevated levels, just like Council randomly tests for other contaminants. I simply hope that by talking about this we can boost the drive to end its use.
@lnxw48a1 wrote:
"If we allow the sale of contaminated products (...), non-contaminated products will gradually be displaced from the market (...)"
Agree. Even people who shop ethically need basic protections against fraudulent claims/conduct (see Happy Baby).
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 20:19:53 JST
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(2 of 2) @fu @lnxw48a1 @lxo
@fu asked:
"Do you equally support governments making non-free software illegal?"
I'm seeking a mandate to begin Council's transition to FOS and move from dot-'cons' and 'dis-services'. Just yesterday I posted about some ways we can do this and help people make the transition to ethical software and services.
I also intend to start a fully-FOS, BTC/XMR friendly, non-lending public bank, called Un(ley)Bank. It would have its app on #FDroid. For those who are resistant to crypto but who still wish to have psuedo-anonymous transations online, I would like to see Un(ley)Bank adopt #GNUTaler also. (...yes. ? *slightly nervous face*)
(See flyer delivered to 40,000 approx residents:
https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7351760#notice-12758871) -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 02:12:34 JST
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Really loving that the Back button in the browser seems to work with GNUSocial as expected now, going back to the cached rather than reloading the page. It's extra convenient because the page is also scrolled down to the correct point too, so I can resume reading from where I was on the page. Brilliant!
Did you make that change, @administrator? -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:42:46 JST
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BTW @administrator, would you like me to re-upload the CSS patch for Elbinario Theme that properly centers the website or do you know how to use the previous one?
Basically the last (17th) hunk that tries to remove the badly encoded character can be removed or even ignored. You can fix that badly encoded character by simply re-typing the last few characters in that line yourself.
Its an issue in itself that a badly encoded character is in the CSS, so we should seek to fix that immediately. Apply my patch after. It will complain about the 17th hunk but you'll be able to ignore it (because you'll have already fixed it yourself).
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:38:45 JST
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Oof, mastodon now forcing people to switch on javascript just to view a person's fediverse profile? Will it be optional so instances can choose whether they force js?
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:38:43 JST
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Re GNUSocial (@administrator @lxo):
Can pages have a longer cache time? What I've noticed is after I 'like' a person's post for example, and a new page is loaded to tell me the 'Like' was successful, I hit 'Back' in the browser but the page from earlier is not cached so the browser is forced to fetch a new page for the server; 100% of the time (so far) that page has been identical, no need to request a fresh page. I think this needs to be fixed to improve experience for both end user, that must wait for the fresh page and the server that must do 3x more work (on average) for zero benefit; a 5-minute cache time would fix this.
Also, images in posts should be enlarged in a new tab when they are clicked, not when the little link above the image is clicked. Currently clicking an image does nothing, and it's poor UX, I've put this past a couple people now and they seem to struggle with the UI. In all fairness, the little link above the images is only clutter, it is not even useful as a caption because it is often truncated.
Are these issues listed for GNUSocial v3? If not, I'll be interested in someone being so helpful as to copy-paste into it. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Oct-2022 10:58:25 JST
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Hi folks,
I spent some time producing some more CSS improvements for GNUSocial.
I noticed that my CSS from last time is plonked at the end of the existing CSS. That's cool for testing in a limited sense, but in one case, it's needed that the CSS is worked into the legacy CSS. If you need me to edit the original CSS file in the repo, I'll make a proper patch.
If you wish to patch yourself, its all commented so it should be fairly easy. If not I'll make a patch.
The new CSS will be forthcoming. @spookie @administrator @puppetmaster @senooken -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Oct-2022 17:12:31 JST
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I get a lot of questions asking about my connection to Unley. I grew up in Myrtle Bank where family still live, went to school in Parkside with a grandparents in Parkside, and many fond experiences in the Unley library growing up, using it at one stage like an "internet cafe". I have great friends in what I consider to be The Town of Unley and even if I am not strictly living there right now, I consider it my spiritual home.
A trip to Italy in 2016 to see relatives and enjoy the country, moved me and let's just say it broadened my understanding.
We can learn a lot from Europe, but trying to imitate its population levels is fraught. One reason is we lack the tall mountains that provide Europe steady streams of water.
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