Posts by noracodes@weirder.earth
(DIR) Post #AMu9fUlZQJOKPADFi4 by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-26T01:30:33Z
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Hi! I'm Nora Tindall, moving from @tindall. I've been on the Fediverse since January 2017, and I've made lots of friends here. It's got its problems, but I really enjoy it.I'm a software engineer by trade, and I spend a lot of time thinking about things like computing culture, building accessible programming environments, and computer art.I'm also an electronic musician, a pagan, a radio amateur, an anarchist, and queer.Thank you for welcoming me here! #introductions
(DIR) Post #AMu9fWnlr6L8iZG2Pw by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-26T01:33:39Z
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Followers: if you're locked, and I followed you on cybre.space, I'd appreciate it if you'd approve my follow request.Thank you!
(DIR) Post #AMvEESfxmVZT21TjuK by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-26T14:04:13Z
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just introduced my boyfriend to "the missile knows where it is" (someone referred to it in conversation and I felt he should be let in on the joke) and he gave me the most disappointed look
(DIR) Post #AMw4WKhNNH0V7TyyLg by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-26T22:02:06Z
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guess who's about to be vaccinated for monkey pox
(DIR) Post #AMw4WLF3M3wgnvjrqC by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-26T22:06:29Z
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funny to realize that the mpx vaccine I'm about to receive is, basically, the original vaccine, to the extent that the virus in use is called "vaccinia"
(DIR) Post #AMzsjZPxXSkziWDmOO by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-28T19:48:22Z
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Had a good convo about this on Twitter, and to be specific, I think it's evil to: a) build a centralized, closed, network-effect based service which b) is accompanied with a marketing campaign designed to move people away from existing services and c) requires the use of a client with significant stability, efficiency, and accessibility issues which you ...
(DIR) Post #AMzsjalcWPg5tzManI by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-28T19:49:01Z
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d) ignore bug reports for and e) not only in policy but in fact ban people for replacing with their own clients that better serve their needs, which do not in fact cause spam or reliability problems for your services (and certainly not more than your own client).All this, in addition to absolutely sucking the air out of the room for other services, is a negative for the world. (e.g. Discord gets $1b, Matrix $50m)
(DIR) Post #AMzsjbnmfr0F6zNpo0 by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-28T19:49:49Z
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But at the same time, discord is obviously important to a lot of people. It's important to me! I just think we deserve better, and Discord as a company is actively making it impossible for us to get that.
(DIR) Post #AMzyTdszl19ifPagZE by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-28T21:03:02Z
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@freeplay @Zergling_man@birds.garden @iska d'you mind untagging me? Thanks.
(DIR) Post #AN02t9PE6VUTTq5MWm by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-08-28T21:20:18Z
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folks have raised the point that "discord is better than nothing" and i suppose that's true but we didn't have nothing before discord and we wouldn't have nothing without discord
(DIR) Post #AOtuxvF1EJJzLp6Hdg by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-10-24T14:39:50Z
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the experience of torrenting
(DIR) Post #AOxFqpeUIE1UV7LyD2 by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-10-26T04:02:00Z
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Looks like Gitea might be turning to cryptocurrency nonsense in the near future."To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions."https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/
(DIR) Post #AP2M7xedMf1Rl3lx44 by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-10-28T18:20:48Z
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I did some computations regarding the sustainability of fifthwebsite a.k.a. Cohost. I'm curious about folks' thoughts on this, since I know I have some followers who've worked on big web platforms.https://cohost.org/noracodes/post/149125-some-computations-re
(DIR) Post #AP42tXbptRWg75nI5Q by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-10-29T14:48:17Z
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So I figured I’d look into what all Cohost’s webapp entails. This is a bit of a long thread, full of links to copies of what my personal browser receives from their site at this point in time. Strap in!
(DIR) Post #APBE4ASLjcn0d4AD0y by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-02T02:51:13Z
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i think some of the disconnect around the fediverse / mastodon is because people want Twitter but Differentto me, this has always been a place to build a community in a space that's smaller and cozier
(DIR) Post #APCruMYw3mcgbY5FKK by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-02T21:50:39Z
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Fedi server that, upon attempting to make a public ( 🌐 ) post, prompts you with the old USENET text:"This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire populated world. Your message will cost the network hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing."
(DIR) Post #APE7CCezJBWJZlq6kK by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-02T22:23:07Z
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Actually, for those who don't know, USENET is not just the first federated social network, but the first scrappy open-protocol clone of a proprietary one, too. It was started by university undergrads as a kind of pirate version of ARPANET with spare computer time and stolen bandwidth at universities that couldn't afford access.
(DIR) Post #APESlmADOeSYrTFWLo by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-03T14:10:28Z
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who decided to call it "the consequences of struct padding" and not #[repr(C)]ussions
(DIR) Post #APGIrZiTygScljK9jc by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-03T19:21:39Z
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portable TV rf input bapple
(DIR) Post #APGN6tEA7OpZRQhT5k by noracodes@weirder.earth
2022-11-04T14:31:08Z
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there are two options when it comes to open protocols for social media: implement them, or insist that anyone who cares about what you have to say join a community chosen by you, using software picked by you