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Johannes Ernst

The folks at @19thnews are committed to covering voting rights in this very important election - as they should. It's worth your time to take a look. If you have the means, consider supporting their work. 19thnews.org/2024/05/voting-ri

Johannes Ernst

"The application/x-www-form-urlencoded format is in many ways an aberrant monstrosity,"

Tell it as it is. From a WhatWG's spec.

url.spec.whatwg.org/#applicati

Johannes Ernst

This week we are starting an online Homebrew Website Club Europe (Morning Edition), timed to allow for participants from Europe, Australia, and New Zealand to join.

If you want to chat about personal websites for an hour, join us on Thursday!

See more information about the event:

events.indieweb.org/2024/05/ho

#indieweb #web

Mike Morris

@capjamesg So I guess participants in Africa should just do their own thing, then...?

Johannes Ernst

Meanwhile, in crypto-based decentralized social networking:

"Friend.tech Social-Media Platform’s Token Tumbles 98% After Debut"

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Johannes Ernst

So #Bluesky is looking for a new board member to replace Jack Dorsey who initiated the project, got it funded, then gradually got less interested and now dropped out without much explanation.

I'm afraid that is not a ringing endorsement of the project.

bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post

Bryan Whitehead

@J12t
I think Jack no longer being involved with bsky makes it more of reasonable social network option.

Michael Foster

@J12t @hello looks like good news! Jack Dorsey has been backing Nostr for a long time now. Great timing just as the bridge gets up and running

Trash Panda, mastodon edition

@J12t Jack is probably upset that Bluesky didn't embrace blockchains. He spends all his time on Nostr

Johannes Ernst

First beet #harvest of the year. I got to watch it, because when I don’t harvest them in time, they first get stuck and grow into my growing baskets, and then burst them. But otherwise beets grow really well in my backyard #hydroponics system.

This batch gets pickled, and works really well with things such as hummus.

project-springtime.org

Johannes Ernst

Somehow I got stuff done today. The todo list is noticeably shorter. Yay.

StarrWulfe (JLGatewood)

@J12t that makes one of us. It was smooth sailing until our 2 1/2 year old refrigerator decided it didn’t like keeping its insides nice and cold. In the middle of my daughter’s birthday dinner. Fun times 🍻

Johannes Ernst

So I got a whole bunch of 10-month old @chrismessina.me posts from Bluesky in my Mastodon feed today. Bridgy Fed must be working! But is that date mapping working as designed @snarfed ?

Johannes Ernst

I have a 3D avatar that's connected to the #Fediverse!

HTC's Viviverse virtual world turned on their Fediverse connection yesterday I think.

This is actually major news. HTC is a major company!!

Say Hi to @j12t@www.viverse.com !

Rule 34

@J12t@social.coop @evan @j12t@www.viverse.com Wow, this sounds very interesting! But I don't understand, what kind of updates will I get if I follow a Viviverse avatar?

Billy Smith

@J12t @j12t@www.viverse.com

The link on the original profile takes me to a JSON error page, though the main Viverse website is still working.

From looking there, it seems to be a VR-version of Gather.town. :D

gather.town/

Johannes Ernst

In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 #emissions under control, I have this graph for you.

This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.

Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.

Of course, it's not. It's worse, much worse. The growth is still growing!! It's not even constant.

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.ht

In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 #emissions under control, I have this graph for you.

This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.

Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.

Johannes Ernst

Looking at drill bit sets on Amazon. This one metric drill bit set has 25 bits, ranging from 1mm to 13mm.

Helpfully, Amazon points out it costs $2.20 per count.

Dan Lyke

@J12t at least it didn't give cost per millimeter...

Mike P

@J12t Now I am tempted to make a followbot followbot which automatically follows other followbots.

Johannes Ernst

Opaque algorithms are a funny thing.

Over on #Threads, my "Following" feed does consistently have more things in it that are interesting to me than my "For you" feed.

I've been observing this for a few weeks now, and it's consistent.

Seem the cost function might be optimizing for something other than what I like? Or is the signal not good enough because I don't "like" or such enough?

Johannes Ernst

On #WorldPressFreedomDay 2024, the 🇺🇸 has dropped to 55th on RSF’a index. rsf.org/en/country/united-stat
📰📉”After a sharp increase in 2020, #PressFreedom violations have fallen significantly in the United States, but major structural barriers to press freedom persist in this country, once considered a model for freedom of expression.”

Johannes Ernst

There are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the #Fediverse, and a bunch of other work going on as well.

So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!

If you care, you can participate, it's open for all (constructive participants). w3.org/community/socialcg/

Johannes Ernst

If you plant two plants of egg plant, as I did, did you just plant two egg plant plants, or merely two egg plants?

Johannes Ernst

I’m afraid if I say these are two egg plants, people will look at me strangely and then gently try to explain chickens to me.

Johannes Ernst

And if you get them as small plants from the store, where do they come from?

Egg plant plant plants perhaps?

Johannes Ernst

The French president is again thinking out loud about the circumstances in which the French would send troops to Ukraine.

Wish we'd live in a world where nobody would have to think about these kinds of things.

(in German) n-tv.de/politik/Macron-Erwaege

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