@jenn @404mediaco same!!

@textfiles Thanks, I hate it

@darius man that RSS flow is such a fun idea. I wish I could recommend it to friends!

I do think 2010 was the last year I kept anything close to an active blog. Twitter absolutely ate that energy up for me instead.

@darius Twitter definitely was a factor for me as well. 2010 was the last year of my Mom's life which impacted me, and after that it was Instagram that took over for me (backfilled into my blog). But my own blogging is making a comeback. https://artlung.com/visualization/

@darius I’m not afraid to ask the hard questions here

What the heck is sorrel

I guess one thing this does for now is prevent a "user at racialslur-domain" from liking it and causing a moderation headache

@darius ah oops i read it on threads because i assumed you were blaming threads people for not reading

@darius

DuckDuckGo: Three text ads at top, image row, then Gutenberg piece listed six down but Wikipedia box prominent in right sidebar at top.

@darius mo' bi-dick

@darius I’m always curious about the feedback loops of that system. How many people paused, noticed, and highlighted that passage themselves because it was already called out as a popular highlight?

@darius Just having the pipeline to record what people have highlighted strikes me as extremely creepy. It is why I have never been a fan of medium.com

@darius I would like to know if you then go on to highlight unpopular stuff or give in and become the 439th.

@darius Abd the after dark version, Steamboat Willies.

@darius can’t believe you would exclude my child who loves the arts

@darius But is it a self-sealing STEMboat?

@darius PNW is biased toward Oracle

Here is a #Hometown release for those sticking with Mastodon v3:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v3.5.19%2Bhometown-1.0.8

I will note that I expect the Mastodon team to stop supporting security releases for v3 at some point, and I'm not going to be able to implement those myself, so basically once Mastodon stops maintaining v3 I'm going to have to stop as well. So I encourage admins to make a plan to update to v4.

@darius Thanks. On it. Should it be git checkout v4.0.15+hometown-1.1.1?

Thank you @jasmin @misty and of course @Claire for your quick work.

@darius thx!

@darius Thanks :)

@darius Mr bean is my uncle

@darius

@jkottke Mr Bean by Bush - video for you!

@darius i love this. Thanks for sharing. i used to watch mr bean with my mom as a kid. Watching the intro to the show now it occurs to me they are implying mister bean is some kind of angel kicked out of heaven, kind of makes the whole thing even more funny.

@darius

The browser extension:

"Local CDN"

Means, you will not have these types of issues, but also it improves browsing speed, while also improving privacy.

Take it a step further and import the settings from Local CDN and add them to uBlock Origin, and it gets even better.

The more you know...

@darius ok so believe it or not o got a really helpful answer almost immediately.

TLDR it’s not down, but the url being used to test should be more specific to get the right answer.

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto //should always return a 200

https://fonts.googleapis.com //not necessarily going to return a 200

@darius im just an internet bimbo, no idea how this works but my brother is in tech and is a mentor to me. We talk a lot. And shit is definitely wierd lately

@darius do not care of? lol

Okay #Hometown admins, if you're still on Hometown 1.0.8 (compatible with Mastodon v3.5.x) you should install this security update:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v3.5.17%2Bhometown-1.0.8

@darius I appreciate you so much Darius!

cc @somnius

@darius Jfc, and I thought hearing Nirvana in the grocery store was depressing.

@darius nooooo

@darius Hearing Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols at Walmart recently did this to me too