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Hey @Bri, I hate to shove another bug on to the #fastSMBugPile, but the displaying of quoted posts on mastodon is apparently borked. I just came across one that displayed as, and I quote, "Quoting $account.display_name$: 08:16:37," The time there is my own local time in 24-hour format, but I have my quoted post template set to not display that at all. No idea what's going on there.
Hey @Bri, when I attempt to pull up the timeline of scheduled posts in #FastSM, I get this as an error.
Error in jdking92's Scheduled Posts: mastodon_status_to_universal() got an unexpected keyword argument 'scheduled_at'
Any idea what might be causing this? Also, would you consider adding a keystroke for the invisible interface to update profiles? Maybe win+shift+alt+p? Either that or control+win+shift+u could work.
I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".
Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.
Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-f….). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.
It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.
If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.
ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.
I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
Wow, what an upset! In a shocking turn of events that no one saw coming, Firefox crashed randomly, then had an update to install when I started it back up again. Hey, Mozilla, it would be amazing if you could make it so my browser doesn't need to crash just to install an update. Or maybe it's something with NVDA. Who knows.
FireFox update procedure is weird anyway. At work another tool manages program updates, and sometimes when I want to open a new tab it just goes, FireFox has been updated in the background, you need to restart blah. Like how can it be so urgent, let me just open my tab and restart whenever I feel like it.
@sesivany I think you presented #fingerprint reader support in Fedora few years ago. How difficult would it be to have alternative PIN combination with fingerprint? I would like successful f.p. scan to change password box to pin input. But pin could be something 4-6 letters. Instead of letting me in right away, require me to type a lot shorter password. Sort of PIN windows has for local logins too. How difficult might it be? Are there known blockers? #PAM modules architecture maybe?
never tried it, but I think it could be doable in pam.d config. If you put there something like: auth required pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass auth required pam_fprintd.so
But it's something you'd have to investigate. As I said I never tried it myself. I use password for the first login and then fingerprints for unlocking the lockscreen.
I got a bunch of battery-powered Zigbee-connected IR receivers/senders October last year, which were just sitting idly on my desk. This evening, I powered one up and learned it the IR commands to turn on/off my soundbar and my TV. Now I can automate my home a tiny bit more, basically binding my soundbar state to my TV state all the time and dropping the requirement of one additional remote. One step closer to making my Unfolded Circle Remote 3 my only remote of the house.
No old wooden barn tonight, as @jmd2000 is feeling very tired and low on energy. In the meantime, you can check out hkcradio.com/oldwoodenbarn to listen to, and download older archives from the show. See you next Friday!
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Wow, my work was cited in a Chinese Marxist journal by Liu Yang (刘洋), a PhD candidate at Fudan/Frankfurt. His article uses my 'Copyfarleft' concept as a key part of his argument for "knowledge socialism."
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