Posts by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #AMrbgHy8hfd8FMNY0m by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-08-24T20:10:53Z
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@art I'm just super stoked about this, but even the NYTimes is running headlines that really underplay what this is.We really need better journalism. If the NYTimes just took a breath and started writing about things that mattered more than the cancellation...
(DIR) Post #AMrbll8pfUbyAgzNFA by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-08-24T20:11:52Z
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@art Oh yeah, wait, I forgot the "colleges produce godless sodomites" angle.
(DIR) Post #ANIEZ9PxdWWsYVbYA4 by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-09-06T16:29:05Z
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@art 867-5309
(DIR) Post #ANOZKnZjI4vOXtxfYe by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-07-07T23:09:10Z
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#blog #blogging I really dislike the direction modern displays have taken. Give us better color, please.https://aflyonthewall.page/index.php/2022/07/07/dear-computer-display-manufacturers-anything-other-than-led-please/
(DIR) Post #ANOwyvct4gdk2oXiYy by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-09-09T22:15:02Z
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@publius A few display manufacturers tinkered with three color LED for awhile, HP one of them in their early DreamColor display designs.I never got to see one in person, but I bet they were nice.I tried a new display with LG's version of Quantum Dots recently, and it was better. If better is a 2 on a 1-10 scale and a typical midpriced white LED display is a 1.It's really a shame displays have fallen so far from their high water mark.
(DIR) Post #ANVOV3QhU4r63QRx6u by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-09-13T00:51:37Z
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@art It's really cheap too. Automated dialers, even the cheapest ones, can discern between a live person and a recorded message. This one just barged through and left that message.And didn't even give you the courtesy of leaving a return phone number to call. Aww.
(DIR) Post #AOKPcKKOZKwfMZFjKy by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-10-07T15:34:26Z
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@art I've been rather happy with the older version of Cinnamon that's packaged in Debian for over the last year. That's about the longest I've stuck with any desktop.I'm just ready for the next Debian stable release. I understand Cinnamon had an update where it brought in improvements from an updated Mutter, and there's been a lot of desktop-related speed (read: latency) fixes in there over the past few years.Which naturally Gnome gets first.
(DIR) Post #AOKPpgYtDQWS5IOzsu by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-10-07T15:36:51Z
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@art And you know, thinking a second, you know the very best thing about Linux as a desktop?How you select font rendering.The ClearType configuration dialog in Windows leaves a lot to be desired.In Linux, it's, "Oh, I'm using a DLP projector now" and go disable subpixel rendering. It's so much more straightforward.
(DIR) Post #AOL8K1P4geypOW5SCG by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-10-07T23:55:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque I've tinkered with NetBSD from time to time, and always got stuck on updates.Those base tarballs are never updated with security updates as far as I'm aware.They are only updated during the quarterly package updates.So you're pretty much left with a system that updates every quarter, regardless.I think the package documentation that has you updating your local CVS copy of the pkgsrc tree or downloading those tarballs came from an optimistic time.
(DIR) Post #AP2CaJvJACYdOHSJJg by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-10-28T18:35:43Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @quota_atypique But um, asking everyone to be polite on an electronic medium is impossible.See: BBSs, Usenet, Forums, AOL.It is IMPOSSIBLE.It's a monster of our creation. When it takes no air for your words to become amplified, it's like a digital social lottery that everyone likes to play.It's just that now - in comparison to USENET days - the friction to "react" to something has reduced, and measuring success if easier.Much worse now.
(DIR) Post #APdSmPtIySUQ0MGHI0 by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-15T18:01:28Z
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@art Feels a little like Mastodon is for small, slow-growing communities. I mean, it's designed that way from the start. But having a big influx really shows the boundaries of Mastodon, the way it's a "collection of small instances".
(DIR) Post #ARsyfDjiSrLu2pJs5Q by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-01-22T01:23:38Z
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@twylo It was cuter, say, three years ago.The comparison to early Slashdot is apt.I think the posts last peaked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11929396 , the restoration of a complete Xerox Alto (including software, a really great read through Ken Shirriff's blog series from if you haven't).And that was .. wow. Seven years ago.
(DIR) Post #AXYlMlzaDSwjb1Sr5c by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-10T17:30:05Z
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@pdt @ParadeGrotesqueI'm really in favor of federating with Meta. To be able to follow people I know IRL and respond to them through Mastodon is a big boon.Meta is probably doing this as a "hey look we're not Twitter" motion - AND Mastodon has a lot of big personalities and important figures here now.Whether they stay here or not is the open question.As for AI - I mean, posts on Mastodon are public and are available to be mined for AI. You're feeding AI with your posts right now.
(DIR) Post #AXcoSaZvh244jdVpQG by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-12T17:26:22Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @pdt I hate to be that guy, but that guide doesn't stop AI from mining your posts at all.Mastodon by it's nature is harder to mine. It has a smaller blast radius, is far enough out of the mainstream that probably nobody cares.But if you ever post to public, it's available to any siphoning process that's logged into that server. You'd have to forgo all public posts.Yes, it shows you how to limit who follows you, so that you could block everyone from an instance...
(DIR) Post #AXdAOf7t2b4YflvcSO by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-12T17:29:48Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @pdt which, guess what, includes people whose instance is Threads.There comes a time in life I think when I think most people realize that it has been easier to close doors on people than open them. When you notice that maybe you didn't even realize the important doors you were using are gone now.I know this is completely against SDF's ethos. But this is the feedback I have, after being a member of SDF for nearly 20 years now.
(DIR) Post #AXdAOfrcIZeUxbK8jg by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-12T17:31:45Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @pdt This conversation also pretends that blocking whole instances isn't a thing. I do that regularly.Not federating with Meta at all feels spiteful and short sighted.
(DIR) Post #AXdau2ohbiyvvua0Qq by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-13T02:29:19Z
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@ParadeGrotesque @pdt If someone wants to drink alcohol, do you think it's your right to regulate everyone being dry?Federating with Meta doesn't mean everyone on SDF has to be exposed. It's simple. Block it by default for everyone. I get it.Meta doesn't control what shows in the Federated feed. The users of SDF do. Saying we don't Federate with Meta is saying I don't have a choice to interact with Threads users in a healthier way.And frankly, nearly all of them are my IRL friends.
(DIR) Post #AXhfGvP2W03c34a7Xc by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-15T01:36:59Z
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@art Well, it just means that SDF memebers have followed a lot of people.We don't see all of the Fediverse.Which is a good and bad thing, I guess.
(DIR) Post #Aac0Aq7BuZiEnr4R4C by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-10T01:39:17Z
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@art I have no reason - but to make the matter more complicated... chiark, the server that hosts Putty, runs on Debian, and last year was upgraded from Jessie 32-bit to bullseye 64-bit in place (!!)https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/11840.htmlAlso, putty is available for Linux, too...
(DIR) Post #AtX9gIwFd660YQI9rs by chance@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-04-28T01:02:04Z
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@Ricardus I hadn't considered Alt-Text nor have I had any requests for it. To me it seems like alt-text is better suited when the photographs are a part of a larger page or presentation. So for instance, if there's a webpage telling a story with photos, and the photos depart some needed information, then alt-text is probably needed.But in this context? I'm not sure it makes sense. I'm posting photographs for the sake of photography, as a visual art.