Notices by Jari Pennanen (ciantic@twit.social)

When I reboot Linux, I'm still amazed at how fast KDE desktop loads. As soon as I see the taskbar it is functional.

When I visit Windows, it takes a minute after the desktop has already loaded, for everything to function normally. Launching apps are still waiting for useless background services to load etc.

#Windows #Linux #KDE

Then again, maybe I should try Pop Os, they are writing their own compositor in Rust. I don't foresee myself writing anything in C/C++, aka "technical debt", unless it's disposable.

#Rust #PopOs

Well, that was a scary 15 minutes. I installed Pop Os! to a third hard drive, but it *also* changed the boot order in BIOS automatically. For a while I thought I hosed my Windows installation as my computer is set to boot to Windows UEFI by default, now it was Pop Os!.

I might need to buy RTX 5080 or something to use Pop Os!

#PopOs Nvidia drivers don't work with GTX 1070, it just gives error. The non-Nvidia setup gave low unusable FPS in desktop.

Secondly it tried to set my second monitor to 144Hz in lock screen, and since GTX 1070 can't run it at such highrate it went totally garbled. It could be set to lower HZ in desktop though, but that didn't affect lock screen.

Tried Cosmic 24.

#System76 #PopOs #Linux

@tchambers @jolla SailfishOS is more Linux based than Android (they do make hardware as well.)

It does have Android compatibility layer, but it has same problem as @GrapheneOS in that app makers are being bullied by scaring about "security" to do Play Service Integration checks etc. which makes those Android apps not work in there. Usually the banking apps.

Given the absolute insane rage over Google's Android decision (already 1806 points in HN), there is an opening for an alternative phone platform.

Maybe @jolla's Sailfish OS could get wind on their sails from this? https://sailfishos.org/

#Android #Google #Sailfishos

@jwildeboer @AboutSignalNL Can't support Signal until it allows to block all messages or contact requests from non-contacts.

Telegram has a similar 'feature', it's worst feature an instant messenger can have, constant spam requests if your phone number is known.

#Ukraine and #OSINT community is migrating to #Bluesky

I don't know what happened in #X lately but something

#Twitter #TwitterMigration

Ordering replies in chronological order is not a good general solution, it amplifies reply-guys, and doesn't give good context for the reader.

Ideally, it should be configurable for each user, but here is a general idea, order of replies:

1. Replies from people I follow
2. Replies from people who follow me
3. Other replies without questions
4. Other replies with questions

This could be used as a basis for filtering as well, if you don't feel like answering, then hide all questions.

#Mastodon

@matt Every time I look at Threads, it's @tchambers advocating to turn it on for people. Which is good, but this is completely backward.

The whole idea seemed that Meta was building a service from the ground up for federation so that everyone who joins Threads would be automatically in. I wouldn't care if they had some other way like RSS turned on by default, but they don't. It's a silo right now. Geeks will get it, but nobody else.

Maybe they have decided to extinguish without embracing.

@simon I don't think CORS is real security, Mastodon has no CORS restrictions and things are going just fine. If you write a native app the CORS does nothing to prevent access.

I believe CORS was invented to prevent alternative web UIs for big apps (e.g. Gmail).

@youronlyone @silsinn9821 You are correct. Even *@example.com is valid.

"The userpart consists only of Unicode code points that conform to the PRECIS IdentifierClass specified in [RFC7564]."

"Code points in the range U+0021 through U+007E, i.e., the (printable) ASCII7 ("K") category defined under Section 9.11. These code points are "grandfathered" into PRECIS and thus are valid even if they would otherwise be disallowed according to the property-based rules specified in the next section."

#Mastodon decision to have a new flag for search is shooting in the foot. #Threads posts are not searchable (don't have indexing), because their engineers didn't get the memo about the new ActivityPub flag. @jessel

What I realized is that Vision Pro is unlike many other Apple products simply because of its shape and form.

For iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, they've all had roughly the same shape and form from the beginning. Just slight adjustments like weight and size, corners etc. but if you put the oldest and latest side by side, you'd recognize them.

Whereas Vision Pro if it were to succeed needs to change its shape radically. It's a lot like early Mac in this regard as well.

#Apple #VisionPro

@codinghorror @thomasfuchs You should blog it! I don't think @Gargron would mind, he has already taken a lot of criticism.

Some of Mastodon's web UI deficiencies are simply the effect of "not seeing the solution after working on something for a long time", so having alternate takes could help. Mind you Mastodon is already a very old project, so the priorities aren't seen the same way as these newcomers.

More organizations providing data should learn from #Mastodon. You don't need an API key for public endpoints if you are using rate-limiting.

I'm looking at EU's Transparency Platform RESTful API and it requires me to send email to get API keys, it shouldn't be necessary, if the content is public, make it publicly available!

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/content/static_content/Static%20content/web%20api/Guide.html#_authentication_and_authorisation

#EU #Transparency #Data

I wonder if there is any good managed #WordPress? Feels like every time we migrate to one, it gets sold, get crappified, and then it can't even do basic shit like closing the site automatically when `$ wp core verify-checksums` has been showing a shit load of extra files like a892982.php for days.

If you sell managed WordPress, it should for a very minimum do automatic updates for plugins and check for viruses. I know I could roll sufficiently well on my own, but I don't run servers (anymore).

@tchambers This is a bit frightening:

"Even longtime podcast listeners, who used to prefer Apple Podcasts over YouTube by a healthy margin, are converting. The Cumulus study found that 26 percent of podcast consumers who started listening more than four years ago use YouTube the most, compared to 19 percent for Apple."

#Podcast

@GossiTheDog I'm waiting for "groups" mentioned in the roadmap also.

Potentially it could connect communities between servers like shared local timeline, but not sure how it will still function.

@rcarmo I did searches in Bluesky, this is what I noticed.

I searched "Rust" and got nothing of interest and sparse posts from Bluesky, but Mastodon gave bunch.

But with searching "Trump" you get more results in Bluesky than in Mastodon.

There is entire communities split on different apps right now.

Threads is what it is, but I hope it soonish federates.