Gregory's Server
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I like it! But it doesn't emphasize enough to my mind how much the platforms fight you on this Including the weirdness of how, for instance, Google will downrank things that it sees posted in multiple places And Corey is a bit infamous on here for doing his POSSE rudely, which makes him a less-than-ideal prototypical POSSEer
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  @maya i would say 6:19 is probably right on point for us. my partner likes to work out or do yard work immediately after office hours, then we make food. @maya I was just thinking about dinner times earlier today thanks to someone doing an AMA about life in Irish prison. Apparently they have to have dinner at 12 in the day. Bizarrely early. It might follow on from that being an old-fashioned rural thing here: dinner at lunch, evening meal then became "tea". i am >a decade into this moon-stars symbol so i'm not changing it, but if i had a time machine i might tell young maya to spend more time sniffing around the interesting unicode blocks before she commits virtual nightclub where you're required to register a sequence of alternate avatars with descending poly counts that the server can force-toggle, to enable them to keep the graphics load manageable as more people join. the final option: a small glowing orb. people refer to how crazy an event got by how many attendees were reduced-to-blob
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@maya the see me blobbin'. they hatin'. we don't mind, we blobbin' to the blump blump blump of the beat  @maya unironically though, a vr hangout with strict LOD requirements would be swag as fuck
i would consider allowing for a billboard instead of a blob though @maya this literally happens at the club i work in on Second Life, the LOD settings are automatic but when an event is really popular we all have to dial back our settings and everybody is reduced to what is called "jellydolls" which are colored silhouettes, or glowing orbs (the final form,) i try to check for signs of life when deciding whether to follow a site but i gotta tell you if you've commited to a non-gregorian lunisolar timekeeping system i will follow without bothering to translate the dates to see if anything's been recently added/changed (there are title attributes that show gregorian dates on hover) (i love this site) https://jortage.com/ takes the "duplicate every image across every fedi server" model and deduplicates as possible at the media storage level self-hosting an instance and outsourcing media storage has been for me a nice balance i just upped my contribution a bit thought you should all know about #jortage  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full this is, like, predominantly serious and useful and all that, but "steep learning curve" slipping in there feels like an authorial peeve and i see you and you are valid i'm really happy y'all over at merveilles are trying out lemmy for merv.news let a thousand link-aggregators bloom So I have browser-brain: "everything is a tab" works really nicely for me. At work, I will often pop open a tab of the internal paste tool to approximate a vim buffer as a scratchpad. Is this common? Is there a way to shove my actual terminal application inside the browser tab interface even though I recognize this is an abomination? someone braver than I am should write about the upsides of "friendship ended with native now browser is my new OS". (I have found almost every electron app more domesticable within the browser) if the caldav sync actually works between ios and nextcloud this might be the most polished ux i've been allowed since i started self-hosting lol i am pretty sure my fiance has filed all of mastodon into a box in his brain labeled βmaya twitterβ colonialism and capitalism: bad https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169 "Poverty alleviation and gains in human health have historically been linked to socialist political movements and public action, not to capitalism." i love it when you get a near-literature-review to say fuck you to steven pinker today hacker news is talking about goats so instead of getting huffy in the comments I am going to share goat facts with y'all i grew up on five acres with cashmere goats (and one milk goat!) courtesy of my parents being extremely cool as a open web fan, the amount of really great stuff locked in facebook hurts my soul. like we joke about it being terabytes of minions memes, but the local gardening tips I'm learning there are unmatched. to some extent I think that's because the UX is easy enough for very non-computer people to use. i wonder if you could leverage email somehow just because... well, just because I bet these folks also know how to use email. the screenshot i would like to pointedly share with many of the online landscaping/gardening advice resources i am finding Today in "rural lifestyle does not want to acknowledge how subsidized it is by non-rural society": "Modern government regulationβin the form of building codes, food safety codes, zoning regulations, minimum wage and social security for occasional labor, and town council restrictions on landscaping and animal keepingβcan increase the marginal cost of home production of food in areas affected by these restrictions. " yeah wow those damn food safety codes every time i write myself a bookmarklet to modify a webpage in some only-maya-cares kind of way, i experience the user-extensible computing environment people claim to want. i can't hear your complaints about javascript i'm too busy living in the future i wonder if bookmarklets would make a good intro programming project -- I've gotten a *ton* of mileage out of just "grab elements from the DOM, iterate through them, check a condition, and delete/hide/style them if they match" in different contexts. initial musing on robin sloan's spring '83 protocol idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/12/robin-sloan-spring-83-initial-musing.html there is non-mastodon activitypub social media and it would be cool if there were more, but let's not kid ourselves about the numbers welcome new people if you see a bunch of posts admonishing you to use this site in XYZ way, please don't feel scared off people are mostly talking indirectly to each other who have been here longer it's fine to figure stuff out over time 12
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my favorite part about this recurrent trend is that it picks up new elements each time it comes around. the british arts and crafts movement arguably shades into art nouveau and is very loud about its premodern influence. you see that alongside the occultism of the golden dawn. so in the 70s we get midcentury medieval but also https://cari.institute/aesthetics/gay-nineties-revival and they go together more than people think (plus another big era of occultism)