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When I was young, I fell in love
We used to hold hands, man, that was enough
Then we grew up, started to touch
Used to kiss underneath the light on the back of the bus
Oh no, your daddy didn't like me much
And he didn't believe me when I said you were the one
Oh, every day she found a way out of the window to sneak out late
She used to meet me on the Eastside
In the city where the sun don't set
And every day you know that we ride
Through the backstreets in a blue Corvette

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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.
#fastsmbugpile @Bri🥰
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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.

#fastsm @Bri🥰

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About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

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.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers


Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters

For a high-level introduction to data federation, as well as a comparison to other federated social protocols, check out the Bluesky blog.
docs.bsky.app
#fediverse #Mastodon #selfhosting #decentralization #selfhosted #bluesky #servers
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@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?
#fingerprint #pam @Jiří Eischmann
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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.

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For push notifications, we recommend #SunUp. The #Holos beta-14 version fixes an issue we had with the #UnifiedPush library. Remember to re-register if you're not receiving push notifications.

SunUp: unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…

Screenshot of the UnifiedPush Setup screen in the Holos app, showing a successful registration with the Sunup distributor connected and selected.

Sunup - Android

We created Sunup as a quick and easy way to use UnifiedPush that doesn’t require signing up for an account. This quickstart guide will walk you through the steps to get it up and running on your Android device.
UnifiedPush
#UnifiedPush #sunup #holos

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One of my discord community members put me down to t2bot.io and I’m looking at adding it to my Matrix and Discord server in the near future. Thanks @travisr I’ll see about diverting some of my BTC tips your way once I get this hooked up. You don’t happen to take XMR too do you?

t2bot.io

Public bridges, bots, and integrations. Visit #help:t2bot.io for more information.
t2bot.io
@TravisR

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I will worship the person or people who would do the following two things. thing 1: finally make hearthstone playable for the IPhone. Sometimes I have an urge for some battlegrounds and I'm not near my pc. Unity, maybe? thing 2: make a utility that will update or install stardew valley mods for you. I don't know, make a list of the most used ones or something and find a way to pull updates or fresh installs? Don't ask me, I'm just the one with the ideas.

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"#ICE does not move like the gestapo, they move like slave patrols."

This is home grown terrorism..

Source: instagram.com/reel/DTb2VBJkUim…

I can't unsee this now. I can't unsee slaver behavior in #ICE tactics. It makes way more sense, the Gestapo were copying *them*.

#America #Slavery #History #ICE #HistoricalContext

Ashley B on Instagram: "People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that’s our history. Local

414K likes, 6,840 comments - ashleytheebarroness on January 12, 2026: "People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else.
Instagram
#history #america #ice #slavery #historicalcontext

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Do you use D&D Beyond for your sessions and you hate how clunky and slow you would be with it with a screen reader? I've got something for you! I've started work on a browser extension called Enhance Ability (pun absolutely intended!) It does a lot to make the site more intuitive and bring your speed on par with a sited user who can just glance at information. Read the readme below here for a preliminary feature list. I've sent it for review on the firefox and chrome add-on stores, and I'll publish links whenever they're available. I'm happy to discuss or answer any questions here! If you like to sideload it or look at the code, or read for more information, visit on github! github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
Or the releases for packages: github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…

#blind #dnd #accessibility


GitHub - the-byte-bender/enhance-ability: A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond.

A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond. - the-byte-bender/enhance-ability
GitHub
#Accessibility #blind #dnd

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Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.

Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.

Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.

They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.

Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?

Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.

Good morning 😘

#corporate

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For #RSS on #Android I just switched from Readrops to #CapyReader. It both is able to sync with #FreshRSS server, but Capy's UI better suits my needs.

Readrops looks fine, but it feels kind of wrong when using it. Especially in article listings. It seems like they use wrong UI components for the task.

Capy's UI feels less cluttered, more text focused. I better orient in the article titles. So far good work @_jocmp 👍️

f-droid.org/packages/com.capyr…


Capy Reader | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A smallish RSS reader
f-droid.org
#android #RSS #FreshRSS #capyreader @jocmp
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