Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

I think for many users, if they lose their posting history when moving to a new server, they have less reason to stay here instead of moving to a new network. If they're losing everything anyway, why not move to bluesky or something else?

The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!

I'm thinking about this because I saw a Mastodon server of eight and a half years shutting down, which is leaving its migrating users in a very awkward position if they have years' worth of posts that are being lost.

It's not, to be clear, the server admin's fault - they don't control Mastodon's feature set. It's squarely the responsibility of Mastodon to supply the server migration tools necessary to resolve these problems for its users.

Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)

Using Codeberg a little more is making me appreciate how *performant* it is. Reminds me of GitHub a decade ago.

Normally I feel like "it reminds me of a decade old site" wouldn't always be a compliment, but GitHub's UI performance has degraded so much it's a breath of air using something that feels this snappy.

@tef Incredibly restrained way of saying “go fuck yourself”

Great response here from Quakers in Britain when they received an anti-trans letter about their trans-inclusive bathroom policy: https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re-statement-of-policy-on-provision-of-trans-inclusive-facilities

@Sbectol But as the response makes it clear, very few of them. They had the numbers to back them up that the transphobes are an extremely tiny minority!

Chip and PIN technology is known as crisp and PIN in the UK

@darius Yeah... "people can't pick up on style" seems like a very real thing. I should probably learn how to better communicate it to people, because when I see an image and instantly have a "this is ChatGPT" reaction, I should make sure I can communicate to people “this is probably AI, here's how you can tell, you can't count on checking the fingers anymore”

@mcc YES. And, honestly - the "reposting images without credit" instinct is essentially the same thing that AI image generation is anyway. Formless content where the creator and original context doesn't matter, just something to fill the feed. We should move away from it either way

I think part of it is just that people have a concept of what AI image generators can do that's stuck in 2022-2023, and if they don't see one of those tells they assume someone had to have drawn it. But also I think a lot of people just... don't pick up on overused styles? So even if a particular piece of software renders images and text in exactly the same style every single time, people will see images in that style constantly and just not think anything of it?

@cwebber FWIW this is in the senate and not parliament, she’s been trying this for years without success. My hope is this doesn’t even make it to parliament for a vote

I think the weirdest discovery on social media in awhile is that even staunchly anti-AI people apparently can't recognize the "ChatGPT house style" of images

@mcc Uhhhh. Yikes

@mcc My wife tried buying smart bulbs once. I tried flicking them on and off to watch how slow the light up time was, and accidentally flicked the exact pattern that factory reset them. We didn’t buy smart bulbs again.

Anyone out there might want the board out of a PS1 Dual Shock? This was taken from an old padhacked arcade stick that’s being upgraded, and it’s still got wires attached.

Back in the day this model was popular for padhacking since it’s compatible with tons of stuff and you can remove the analogue sticks, but… don’t know if anyone still *does* this kinda thing anymore.

I keep seeing people be confused or even aggressive about how worried some Mastodon users are about quote posts, but I can actually explain it pretty simply: some people were on Twitter in 2014-2015 and were on the receiving end of the world's worst harassment A/B test. So I don't think it's surprising those people ended up permanently associating the quote post feature with that.

Basically I think it’s good when a cat makes a noise

You know, I sometimes feel like I'm being kind of a bitch by refusing to subscribe to Substack newsletters, refusing to share Substack links. But this is why. Substack is a right-wing social media platform that uses its token left-wing writers and apolitical newsletters as cover. I don't want any part of that.
https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842