Gregory's Server
 Oh wow THANK YOU @Claire and @noellabo for the v3.3.0 feature "Add unread notification markers in web UI". For those who can't parse the understatement, one thing this does is: if Mastodon is not open in your desktop browser and you get a notification from someone, when you open Mastodon there will be an accurate notification count. (btw Hometown users, expect a Hometown release with v3.3.0 features by the end of the week. I am currently testing here on Friend Camp.) I feel like following Twitter bots made a lot of sense because my Twitter timeline really benefited from the regular absurdity/cleansing. But my Fediverse timeline is pretty much entirely things that I want to read, rather than a litany of fresh horrors punctuated by friend updates. This makes bots I follow here feel a lot more like unwanted noise.
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 @darius on :birdsite: I used to follow the big ben bot as a reminder that time has passed and I should do something else than infiniscrolling; here the bots I follow are fun pieces of art  @darius I tend to only follow people who I wouldn't mind reading 100% of their tweets. So I've always made my bots post once or twice a day instead of the common once an hour or so - I don't want them to babble constantly. Little robots I program to leave me a present at an appointed time to help me mark time and make it through the day.  The exact reason I unfollowed a bunch of "public pages" on VK. Also the exact reason why Smithereen won't have them, and more precisely the ability to post on behalf of a group, in the first place.
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@darius I really do miss these little programs that did one thing and one thing acceptably.  @darius hash tag #whynotboth (at once). i feel like auto transcription has such amazing potential. i love sending voice messages to people, async communication, but i also want to attach an index of the contents, for fast reading, as a courtesy. @danbruno (sent this the other day but with the wrong permissions so you couldn't see it) do you think we'll ever get anything as zany/good as this in any Trails game ever again?  Back in the days of AOL Instant Messenger, whenever I would message "thank you" to one of my friends he would reply with "yw" and for literally years I thought he was saying "yeah whatever" and I thought he was kind of dismissive and maybe a little rude
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 @darius I’m so excited to have found a convenient method of deploying nix on remote machines. Can’t wait to get rid of my last Ubuntu box, just before the snap disaster becomes unbearable. @danbruno Ys 8 is 60% off on Switch so I am finally going to try a modern Ys game (I recall playing Ys on SNES as a literal child and bouncing off)
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Getting members of the medieval bourgeoisie to sell each other out... flipping burghers Alex Gaynor made this tracker that shows you detailed updates on votes in uncalled states as they come in to the NYT data feed https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html While I am gutted about the mayoral race here (I wanted Ted Wheeler out), I am glad that as a state we decriminalized possession of essentially all illegal drugs, which some estimates show will reduce drug-related imprisonment for possession by about 90%. Also the state measure to (eventually) legalize production of psychedelic mushrooms is cool too, I'm excited to see how it affects PTSD therapy. is anything is anything too hard for god  dunno, probably is relatively |
Here is a custom karaoke video I made of Madvillain's "Great Day" a few years back.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8Q1A6VIp8C6zV1a4Y-UPLrVS5Qdtkag/view?usp=sharing
@darius oh no!