Notices by Harris👍Trump👎 (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)

#YouTube users - is it just me, or are you all seeing #unskippable 2-3 minute ads now? Start for me in the last 24-48 hours.

If you reload the page -- because no "skip ad" button -- you *sometimes* get to continue on but more often than not, you are put back to the start of the video. A 3-minute ad in a 9-minute video seems ... excessive.

I am in Canada (so need to test via VPN) and I am logged in with a Google account.

@joshuafoust

Leaving aside all the mElon trash, I am annoyed by the people that think SpaceTwitter is "better" than NASA because NASA never caught its own boosters.

Well, no - that wasn't a mission objective. The objective was "beat Soviets to Moon". Designing a reusable booster to do that would have distracted from that goal.

@econads @Jorsh @joshuafoust

Lol

https://youtu.be/g79K-R7xTFo?feature=shared

@evan

I don't consider YouTube social media. Yes, I comment on videos occasionally, but mostly I just watch videos because, you know, it's a video-watching site.

If someone boosts my post, that's cool. But I don't need to see it *again* in my timeline.

If someone boosts some other post by someone I follow, that's cool. But I don't need to see it *again* in my timeline.

Please add this to the list #Mastodon peeps.

@mousebot @n8chz

Mostly, I use just a browser, so not a client thing.

This isn't a setting I can control through prefs, is it?

Sometimes I do use #Mastoot on my iThings but that's a completely different thing, I realize.

@BeAware @impressdivinity

*fewer

#PossiblyMorePedants

@wilw shouldn’t hold back. Let it all out, man.

@thomasfuchs

You didn't say, but I assume you mean iPods with actual disks, right? None of these "chip" things.

@futurebird @GreenSkyOverMe

A band-aid would be expansion to at least 13 slots ... won't "fix it" but might moderate some of the worst excesses?

@mattblaze @longobord

If you're 20 and it happened years before you were born, it hardly matters if it's 60 years ago or 160.

#relativity

@GossiTheDog

"Seized the domain name" may be overstating it. .af is the country code top-level domain for Afghanistan (much as .tv is for Tuvalu). The Afghan government has control over who can use that cc-TLD & they've changed the rules.

Now, of course, it's the *%W# Taliban, so it's not like they are going to be in any way sympathetic to… anything… but it *is* their ccTLD.

Since you can actually buy a TLD now (new & kinda breaks the hierarchical nature of the DNS…), just buy .asfuck.

@Gargron

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Let's hope that flows in the correct direction.

#TrustNoBillionaire

@va3db @zazzoo

There are actually commercial systems that use ~45 MHz for reasonably reliable long distance comm paths using meteor trails ...

https://meteorcomm.com/history/

@feditips

"have all-powerful leaders" ... OK, well, in some sense yes. What they have is owners & no matter how benevolent when the platform starts, eventually the Money People arrive & then everything becomes about "shareholder value". If extracting every last quantum of value from the company kills it ... well "free market" & off they go to do the same at the next place.

AFAIK (and may be wrong!) there is no prohibition against for-profit Mastodon instances. Same could happen at one.

@mattblaze 2023-03-14 is a perfectly logical ISO std (even for ISO).