he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for http://lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim; tootfinder
I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation
@lmorchard Your bullet firmware will need to be updated before firing. Please do not load or unload your revolver during this process. Expected completion time 117h 39m 54.22186s
@lmorchard Just a short hop to "Your oven will now give you progressively larger electric shocks every time you touch it until you make both dishes. Brought to you by Del Monte!"
Went to try to read a thing on "MIT Technology Review" and got intercepted by 3 different popup modals and a banner before I managed to scroll 1cm through the page. The title of the piece was "How to fix the internet" and I already closed the tab.
@lmorchard opened up a site to download something in a new tab, finished what I was doing and opened the new tab to be greeted by a full page survey asking me if I had found what I was looking to download. Dunno, it might be behind your survey, might not. It was also *mandatory* that I fill in my details *if* I wanted to be contacted about my feedback. I was not polite
Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."
To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention - or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole "paradox of tolerance" folks like to shop around in debates.
Surely you can't possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?
Gruber says: "...the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. ... to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime."
"The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open."
The point of an open protocol is to help folks build what they want to build. Not an obligation to welcome everyone into their house.
If I have a full beer keg and you have a tap that fits it, that doesn't necessarily mean you're invited to my barbecue.
Like, you know, it is within the realm of human possibility to just not actively build a half-abandoned combination shopping mall / conference center that lets anyone wander in and use it as a venue for complete fuckery
@lmorchard I need HTML. And JavaScript. Non-free. Heavily obfuscated. To pass fucking verification. And not gonna go through, I am already banned by Cloudflare anyway.
I feel like the older I get, the more curmudgeonly I get. But, I feel like I'm getting curmudgeonly not in a "fuck you assholes, get a job" way and more in a "fuck you assholes, take care of each other" way.
We have this Cattris thing, which is like Tetris pieces made of cardboard for cat scratching. Cosmo has transformed himself into a tetromino #cats#tetris
@lmorchard the macromedia flash intro is laughing from the grave
@lmorchard glad I'm not the only one who hates that.
@lmorchard am stealing this phrase, despite the fact that I do enjoy the hurdy-gurdy on occasion ... :)