Kinda want a browser extension that would replace all mentions of "X" with "Twitter" in news articles

It's been 0 days since I last got cloudflared

How I see the Bluesky bridge debate:

— We're on a decentralized microblogging network open to everyone, owned by no one! Finally!
— Hi all, I used the open protocol of this network to bridge it to another network that would also soon open up to everyone.
— No! Not that kind of open! You can't do that!!!! I did not give you consent to publicly rebroadcast my public posts! How DARE you!

#Smithereen is about to become GDPR compliant 😅

I like my approach with deactivation period better than what others do. For example, @pixelfed deletes accounts immediately and it turns out people change their minds on this stuff sometimes.

#activitypub

Oops, I broke everything on grishka.me because I initiated its transfer to a cheaper registrar last week and it only actually transferred today... and the NS records carried over. Pointing to servers that no longer know about this domain. Fixed them now, but I wonder how long the cache invalidation would take.

Deutsche Bahn is fully meeting my expectations so far

Thinking of it, M1 iPads are almost like running DOS on an AMD Threadripper.

Almost, because DOS would at least allow you to run arbitrary unsigned software and even write your own.

Everyone adding "in the EU" to all those Apple news like it's a real insurmountable obstacle. It's not just for the EU. It's for the entire world. Stupid malicious-compliance geoblocks are meant to be bypassed. I'm sure someone will figure it out in like an hour after the beta comes out.

Remember how nearly every social app in the early 2010s had photo filters?

Modern phones have some really powerful camera hardware. For example, on anything but the crappiest cheapest Android phones, you can obtain full-size raw HDR (10- or 12-bit) images straight from the sensor in real time. I wonder what kinds of filters that would make possible 🤔

Still having a hard time getting over the fact that it's 2024 already

A question for those who might want to run a #Smithereen server in the future — is support for S3-compatible object storage for storing media files a desirable feature? I'm refactoring media file storage anyway so could as well add an abstraction layer that would allow this sort of thing.

#activitypub

While I'm currently working on many (and I mean many) New And Improved™ moderation tools in #Smithereen, I also added a tiny user-facing thing because clicking CWs one by one was tedious to say the least.

#activitypub #mastodev

Oh no, example.com now forces https

Please, stop calling Twitter "X". There's no such thing as "X", it's still Twitter, has always been, will always be. You can't call things single-letter names even when their stupid CEO insists you do.

"Remastered in HD" is the curse of music videos on YouTube. Not only is the quality often terrible because the source material was not HD to begin with, it simply ruins the nostalgia. I *want* analog video artifacts, I even want contemporary music TV graphics superimposed on the thing, it's all an integral part of the experience.

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#GitHubUnwrapped

Their webfinger endpoint (/.well-known/webfinger), which is essential for federating with Mastodon, is still not up tho 🤔

IT corporations remind me of some of my relatives. They are also incapable of remembering those of my preferences that they don't like, instead asking me same things over and over again and acting very surprised every time, despite knowing me for several decades.

IT corporations remind me of some of my relatives. They are also incapable of remembering those of my preferences that they don't like, instead asking me same things over and over again and acting very surprised every time, despite knowing me for multiple decades.