Posts by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #AIe2CoautmrDaEvdOy by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-04-20T14:41:05Z
       
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       @jens @humanetech @bob @TerryHancock the earliest incarnations of what became "activity streams" (which in turn became the foundation of ActivityPub) were layered on email+MIME and Atom respectively, in both cases with the intent of "progressive enhancement" of an existing transport/channel, giving a potential fallback to a generic presentation for clients that didn't support the extra structured data.
       
 (DIR) Post #AIe2CqMoJClJ54LOgy by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-04-20T14:45:46Z
       
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       @jens @humanetech @bob @TerryHancock unfortunately that principle was basically lost in the final JSON incarnation, since the focus shifted toward providing a vocabulary for point-to-point integration between silos via partnerships, rather than on defining general functionality for the general internet. One of my big regrets about it and a big part of why I burned out of there at the time. 😖
       
 (DIR) Post #AIe2CsPMifzhPZYSx6 by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-04-20T14:46:43Z
       
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       @jens @humanetech @bob @TerryHancock Hopefully there's new momentum to get to something like this within the Fediverse now though; perhaps Mastodon's interpretation of ActivityPub is now the "fallback presentation" for the next generation, as email/MIME and Atom were for the early attempts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AL26opGQYRg8S49TbU by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-07-01T02:02:41Z
       
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       @Paradox @Rasp Practically, I'd bet it used to be a multi-use bathroom with separators around the toilet and somebody felt it unacceptable to have a non-gender-binary facility designed that way, and so took down the separators while keeping the porcelain.Personally though: I am perhaps irrational about touching as little as possible that isn't my body when I'm in a public restroom, and so I will typically choose a urinal over a toilet, given both. 🤷‍♂️
       
 (DIR) Post #ALOpx86hCE6puYAFg8 by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-07-12T01:05:35Z
       
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       @wolf480pl syncing one source to another as video passes through has been proven in the past though: Amigas with genlocks in the days of standard definition analog, and NeTV with HDMI more recently. Relies on all but one of the sources being able to sync to an external signal as you say, though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AOjDLrfD8OHrzQ4zcu by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-10-19T14:44:39Z
       
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       @zeab same old story: the original Activity Streams efforts got derailed by similar "big company" problems; they favor designs that suit a world where there are only a few big companies implementing and interop is driven more by business deals than protocol, so implementation complexity is fine.I predict that if this goes anywhere then it won't be long before only big company instances can practically participate, similar to the state email has gotten into. 😖
       
 (DIR) Post #AOqGXTRYfba0JedltA by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2022-10-23T00:23:28Z
       
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       @wolf480pl @fifonetworks when I'm making a one-off thing without any form factor constraints I tend to solder into these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/571Similar principle as veroboard but with more convenient predefined connections for the sorts of things that you might make on a breadboard.With that said: I use these partially because I already have a bunch in stock from when Adafruit bundled them with other orders
       
 (DIR) Post #ASBnkdJROPmTK6e8Su by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2023-01-31T01:42:09Z
       
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       @teleclimber @gabriel It's not for want of trying! Many times there have been proposals for things resembling "pagination" for feeds, including an IETF Standards-Track RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5005.htmlThe problem is that implementations rarely support them. 😖
       
 (DIR) Post #AUmno9EvXTfjX56jpo by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2023-04-13T20:35:06Z
       
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       @JLW_the_Jobber @RL_Dane @krishnadraws @sotolf @benjaminhollon @floppy @Wyatt @petejohanson @PacoVelobsI don't know about built-in left-side keypads, but I initially bought a keyboard with no numpad at all and later learned Blender so I bought a separate numpad-only "keyboard" that I plug when needed.I put it on the right, but no reason it couldn't be on my left!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVLXRb6sxBQ0ZnAX0S by apparentlymart@mastodon.online
       2023-05-05T13:33:46Z
       
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       @supernova @kravietz @harriettmb @bobjmsn When you act as someone's proxy you receive a document similar to the one you take to show that you are entitled to vote, which states that you are a voter's designated proxy.I assume therefore that the proxy uses their ID to prove they are the proxy named on the card, and then the card says for who that proxy is allowed to vote.(I have used a proxy in previous elections, but not this one.)