@darius if wordpress did ads like squarespace they would have gotten the bangles singing this on a tv spot no question

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YES. This is EXTREMELY AGGRAVATING, and I absolutely cringe when I see people do it in the wild (which happens far more often than it should).

@darius That is actually a good wisdom. On reflection, I've probably done that myself more than a few times.

@darius one of my favorite internet people, Alex Steacy, got so fed up with people doing this to him that he made a comic out of it.

@darius A while back I dug into the origins, IIRC I found an archive of Usenet control messages or something like that, and it looked like net.motss (as it was before the Great Renaming) had to be newgroup'ed twice because a rogue admin deleted it after the first one.

Unfortunately I don't think I had the presence of mind to save info on that for future reference.

@darius I remember that; I had the name explained to me by my boss at the time. (Dave, I think?)

@darius this is great

@darius 11/10 would read

@darius This is really great. Thank you for sharing.

@darius I'm pretty happy with the smaller, easier to talk in room that Mastodon is. Like moving from a huge hotel bar to a neighborhood bar.

@darius literally? I hope it would be well ventilated.

@darius It's kind of sad how frequently this is actually true. I'm more on the consumer end of this than the developer end, so it's even more frustrating from my point of view. Especially when it's the first one in the list that is the one they eliminated.

@darius yikes!

@darius :oof: true

@darius have you tried spacemacs?

@darius Emacs: Identifying Transness and the 'tism for over 40 years.

@darius

Ah, the growth of the AI equivalent of the human centipede continues apace!

@darius mad computer's disease is on it's way, then.

@darius this is a serious risk called "recursive pollution." See https://berryvilleiml.com/results/BIML-LLM24.pdf

@darius The one time I saw them live, it was while they were promoting Hello Nasty. They played T in the Park, a music festival in Scotland. I'm old.

@darius I made a "No Sleep til Brooklyn" reference the other day to my driving cross country child. That's song is turning 37 this year

@darius that'll be that modern music that I don't hold with.

(I seem to go back about 40 years.)

@darius Read your book when it came out and really loved it.

@darius hey man, I had a gamedev blog you knew of back around '06 called "Shoelace Shader guy" and you remembered that when we met up at GDC later. Anyway I've pinged you via your contact from but I'm not sure if that's even connected to an email you check anymore but you seem active here. I'm reaching out on behalf of Intel (though it was my idea) to have you on a separate show talked about JA with other Intel employee JA nerds, ideally while their current giveaway is still running ;)

@darius also I vaguely recall contacting you again at the time you either announced the book or after I read it via the Boss Fight Humble Bundle (was the highlight for sure, the first main reason I picked it up) and yeah it was great. PS I just rebought JA2 again so I could try out the JA2 Vengeance mod which integrates both WF and JA1 mercs, new portraits + new towns and story. Practically a sequel in its own right. Bit overwhelmed by it now in a good way. Looking forward to ur JA3 thoughts

@darius please add me to the chorus of ‘thank you / damn you’ 😅 I’m so hooked

@darius love/hate it/you! 😜 I think the only way for me to stop playing it will be to burn it together with my phone

@darius Just downloaded this. This might be trouble, it has really good onboarding and sucks you in quick.

@darius This would be an absolute dream!

@darius really love the idea of breaking out of this binary thinking, and there are some great replies that make me have some hope that this may be the third path that has the right balance. some sort of Threads "condom" that protects community interests in the fediverse but still allows *some* flow of intentional information between the servers

@darius I really like this idea!

@darius Some of those CVEs are absolutely vicious. I thought log4j was bad!

@darius got the update running well on niagara.social. Really quite lost on how to actually find the nginx config file that to add those hardening lines to though (using proxyed external object storage). Any ideas #mastoadmin ?

Hello again #hometown admins -- there was a bug in Mastodon's security patch that caused issues in the admin panel when viewing remote accounts. They released a fix about 15 minutes ago and I am working to get a Hometown release with that fix very soon.

Lol federation aside the site is showing me mostly content from people I don't follow so uh don't expect me on there very much

@darius I'm surprised to see a sort of neutral stance from you friend, I expected you to be more "fuck Meta". I'm curious to hear more detailed thoughts on it if you've written on it anywhere?

@darius I'd love to see something like List behavior for selected servers. Makes something like a sandbox for posts originating from Threads (or wherever) so it shows up in a separate column on Advanced View.

Tangent: Would also love being able to add people I don't follow to lists as on Twitter. Useful for noisy accounts that I don't want in my main feed.

@darius this is great! I used it to throw this together:

https://twitter.cassidyjames.com/

@darius Do you know of a good version of this for Mastodon posts, or a way to fit posts from my Mastodon archive into this format so I can host both in one giant searchable archive?

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People really need to just abandon twitter.

Stay on twitter only enables fascists, bigots, racists, and assholes.

Delete twitter and never look back.

@darius That dude is either Team Lead of a deep-cover SCP containment team, or a walking SCP himself

@darius Darius

@darius booooo

@darius but I believe the proper term is "googled with bing" 😁

@darius also: fire starter

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- fyre festival

@darius You left out fire bender. 😁