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Eugen Rochko

If you had to use a simple, verb-centric sentence to describe Mastodon, what would it be?

Eugen Rochko

Why is the word for butterfly different in almost every language?

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DanielTux

@Gargron
Well, is it?
German and English both refer to making of butter (indo-germanic).
Latin languages seem to be similar, even farfalla might be a form of papilio. (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/farfall)
Greeks are on their own, with an ancient and current version.
So, seems like the same as with hand, manus, chira :)

PeHa5772

@Gargron in most languages I know it sounds good: in Dutch: vlinder France: papillon English: butterfly except for German, it sounds pretty horrible: Schmetterling (sounds like a 🦠).

Eugen Rochko

"Facebook and its advertisers are ‘panicking’ as the majority of iPhone users opt out of tracking"

9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/faceboo

:jeb:

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Henry Mico

@Gargron As someone who uses an Android, I can sense hope… or perhaps it’s just me?

Григорий Клюшников

It's nice to see this so-called attention economy in flames, at last.

As a user, I generally oppose the very concept of advertising anywhere at all unless that place is directly related to shopping. If I wanted to buy something, I'd go to a mall, thank you very much.

Eugen Rochko

Do you think it would be helpful if you could select which rule you think a post/account has violated when making a report instead of having to type it out by hand?

Eugen Rochko

I need to figure out which accounts (with permission) to feature in the App Store screenshots and I'm not even sure where to begin...

Eugen Rochko

Thanks to the generous help of the previous owner of the mastodon username on GitHub, our GitHub organization has finally been renamed to mastodon! 🎉

I know that changing the repository URL is a bother but I think it’s worth it and better done sooner than later. Tootsuite was not serious and had no connection to our actual name.

Eugen Rochko

It's been at least a month since the Spotify desktop app redesign and I'm still struggling with using it

Why is search behind another click now? I have to hunt down "recently played" in a random spot on "Home". I just accidentally clicked the green play button when I didn't mean to because I mistook it for a "scroll row to the right" navigation button because all of these things are single rows and you'd assume they scroll, right? But no, you have to click "see all" above

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GMate8

@Gargron I use it as a webapp, first it was weird and so on, but after time, I got used to it and I like it. The redesign was way far earlier accessible from web than the app itself 😉

Jens

@Gargron Spicetify can fix some of these problems: You can customize the Home screen by pinning segments like Recently Played to the top so that they are always visible or hide other segments. Highly recommend it if you're fine with running a modified Spotify client. It also has nice themes, support for add-ons, a better playlist shuffle script and some other nice things. github.com/khanhas/spicetify-c

codythedragonrude

@Gargron can we all just go back to buying physical media?

at least that was easy to figure out and did not require metadata collection via internet to use

Eugen Rochko

Next week we're going to get to the creation of the App Store assets/copy so I guess the release of the app is creeping ever so closer

Eugen Rochko

You won't catch me upgrading to Windows 11... I'll be using 8.1 until it's obsolete and perhaps even after.

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Birb Guard Gallus

@Gargron Over at where I work, at least one of our computers still has W7. (I think there's also one or two W8.1 computers there too.)

Eugen Rochko

I really like the new dark mode colors in the iOS app (latest TestFlight build). Have never been much of a fan of #000000 in system apps.

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Warlock :verified:

@Gargron am I missing something? I’m on the recent Mastodon TestFlight but I don’t see true black as an option?

Eugen Rochko

Do you play Nice Dream by Radiohead with the high string tuned to B or A?

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gravely

@Gargron i didn't know any parts of it had an altered tuning

Eugen Rochko

Just to confirm, there's no way to get Universal Links on #iOS working with a decentralized platform, right? Seems like it'd require hard-coding all possible domains into the app.

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KungFuDiscoMonkey

@Gargron home assistant uses a redirect proxy but otherwise i’m not sure it’s possible my.home-assistant.io/faq/

Tagomago

@Gargron This reminds me: would it be possible that the app is banned from the store because of some posts (from, say, "rogue" instances) being reported to Apple? This happened with some other fedi apps on Android iirc.

Moritz Dietz

@Gargron couldn’t you do something like matrix.to kind of links for mastodon?

Eugen Rochko

I am feeling absolutely fine but every person I've talked to (incl. social media) is expecting me to feel sick after the second vaccine so if I wasn't gonna feel anything I'm afraid now I might get it psychosomatically

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Atri

@Gargron I had a day of full body aches that made it hard to get out of bed. Recovered pretty quick after tho.

LeeViathan Leeviathan

@Gargron congrats. I plan on making wearing a mask in public a part of permanent habit.

clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Before my first shot I started developing a sweat and a sense of fever half an hour before I even got the shot, haha
Eugen Rochko

Are there any Siri Shortcuts you wish there were in the iOS app? Like presumably "New post" is one. Anything else?

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lefarfadet

@Gargron
"Any recent toot from X"
"Purge history"
"Refresh now"
"Austracize the heretics and let them fall in an abyss of despair and silence" (close the app)

Atri

@Gargron delete my last toot. For those times you need to quickly remove a bad toot

Eugen Rochko

There seems to be a GTA 5 game mod, or something, that seems to make HTTP requests directly to mastodon.social, with insane frequency. Intentional or not, it's basically a DDoS. The requests used to come with HTTP referrer "nui-game-internal" but I just found they switched their user agent to mask as a browser.

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healyn

@Gargron hey man, i'm not gonna read all this, but hope you're doing well

MrClon

@Gargron it's worse then DDoS, it's shitty code

Iron Bug
@Gargron that's weird. I haven't seen such requests on my servers. do they send them to mastodon.social only?
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