Notices by Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)

@zacchiro Very sorry for your loss. Lunar has left behind quite a legacy. @lunar

@baconandcoconut The Trevor Project is amazing. It's no exaggeration when I say they probably saved the life of a teen close to our family. That's a great suggestion. Keep being amazing, as always.

@jerry I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Continuing public service cat pictures. This is a twofer - two shots of the Wonder Twins, Sir Wobbles (orange cat) and his sister Cupcake. (black and white cat). #CatsOfMastodon

@slothrop @zacchiro Hear hear.

TBH I don't drink much at all these days, but I'm definitely not committing to anything for Nov. 5th. No matter what happens, I think I'm going to do a bit of drinking that evening.

But, of course, I support other people's choices - if someone wishes to make November a dry month, more power to them. It's a totally reasonable choice. I recommend a good club soda with lime, a craft root beer, or some boba tea. (My daughter got me into that. Good stuff.)

Authenticating to a website, 2010: Type in username and password

Authenticating to a website, 2024:
- Type in username
- Look up 20-character password in password keeper
- wait
- Prompt for 2FA token
- Dig out phone
- Unlock phone
- Scroll through 50 services to find 2FA token for website
- Type in 2FA token
- Success
- Receive email alerting you to the fact you've logged in
- Six weeks later: receive email telling you service had been compromised eight weeks ago and you must change password.

@killyourfm I think they'd have considered that a high compliment.

I *really* do not love how @Discourse sites grab Ctrl-f for "search this page" and turn it into "search this topic" or whatever.

Your website does not need special behavior for universal functions. I will absolutely never want my browser shortcuts hijacked, I don't care how special or amazing you think your replacement feature is. It's not. It's an annoyance. It no longer does what I expected it to do.

(Yes, I spend a lot of time searching Discourse sites & this always bites me.)

@juliaferraioli any chance this will be streamed / recorded?

@secbox @Tutanota @Vivaldi But AFAIK, Vivaldi is not, sadly, open source.

I've tried it a few times, but keep going back to Firefox for this reason.

Mozilla: We can sync your bookmarks, passwords, payment information, history, open tabs, and addresses!

Me: Great, could you sync my toolbar customizations so I don't have to re-add the home button and remove the annoying spacers every time I install Firefox?

Mozilla: Absolutely not.

Reminder to folks who participate in open source projects and want those projects to get coverage / eyeballs:

- Release announcements should describe whatever the project/release is/does. Don't assume readers know this.

- Release notes should be human-readable. That means describing new features and changes in a way that makes sense to potential users, not just contributors and existing users.

- Screenshots: If your application has a GUI, include some! Users want to see before downloading.

@Gargron any idea where it’s coming from, or why now?

@kfogel A lot of orgs use another company to do email blasts and they're scheduled in advance.

So they export a set of contacts and then the other org schedules them and sends it out. If they update their db today you might still be queued up for something that's going out in a few days.

Just learned this morning that Bram Moolenaar, creator and maintainer of Vim, passed away recently at 62. I’ve been a user of Vim since my 20s, so even though I’ve never met Bram his work has been an important part of my life.

https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/08/05/w-gnu_bram_moolenaar-md/

@charliejane I think I’ve lost track of the original Joker comic origin story. The Tim Burton Batman origin is my head cannon.

But, yeah. I think the Joker movie was trying too hard to be a love letter / retooling of “The King of Comedy.” Your view would’ve made for a better movie & story.