@cheesegrits I've given up on penance and come to terms with eternal damnation.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 23:09:49 EDT Mark Shane Hayden -
Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 23:07:11 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @stephen to complete the look it should have an animated .GIF of a yellow sign with a little dude digging at the bottom... now celebrating "under construction" for 20 years!
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 20:23:45 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @stephen LOL yeah I was forced to deal with imagemaps, and no they weren't the least bit accessible at the time 😝
I mostly did back end work writing handlers in Perl to deal with them...they were a pain in the arse in that respect too. Imagemaps were used for more evil than the BLINK tag.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 20:19:44 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @stephen ...for example, a text reader might read the leading paragraph of an article, then half a navigation menu, then rest of the article followed by more navigation. And the sole reason is because they stuffed all the pieces into table cells to "fit the jigsaw" and make it look pretty.
Hence the advice (and tools) to ensure "linearity" of content.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 20:15:46 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @stephen there was an era in Web design I call the "JPEG Jigsaw" era which was prevalent from about 1997 until 2005. This was when Web design made extensive use of HTML tables and chopped up bitmaps to force their content to confirm to designs better suited to fixed print layout.
CSS support was inconsistent and limited, and web designers still thought like print designers. Often what looked right visually would not stream through text readers in the right order...
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Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Mar-2018 01:04:17 EDT Nate Cull Please boost if you would like this site to get more traction
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 20:06:34 EDT Mark Shane Hayden It's
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 16:14:46 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @Nik0n @jerry well since it wasn't a DM you said it to more than just your one follower lol
When you toot in public more people hear it than you realise 😜
I may or may not still be talking about Mastodon here 😏
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 14:51:53 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @ajroach42 @tek @daggertooth @Gargron I don't see how FOSTA can be effectively enforced or how it is even constitutional TBH.
How does Mastodon differ from, say, email servers or chat/IM servers for example? Much if not most of the content it hosts is generated by users outside its domain, and effective moderation would require severe intrusions on privacy and info security.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 14:32:46 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @guerrillarain Here is something I am currently baffled by...
I am a regular on Quora (basically a Q&A forum for any who might not know) and I can't figure out why so many people put the effort into putting up questions there that have direct answers which can be found easily with a simple search.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 13:12:15 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @nolan The biggest thing this article did was remind me of what an UNcool Gen Xer I was 😜
I mean, I was kind of a slacker and had no aspirations to sell out but...honestly I had next to no flannel and was not really into any of that 90s music lol.
Maybe because I was a farm kid, a bit older than the author etc? But the guys in Reality Bites I found pretty obnoxious and a bit of a poor reflection of my generation...the annoying hipsters of their time.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 12:12:34 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @Gargron @banjofox I do dereferencing of incoming stuff but still store as jsonb. Parsing can be annoying but thus far I rely on PostgreSQL to do some of the heavy lifting and the activipy library provides a bit of a wrapper around all that too.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 11:42:50 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @Gargron @banjofox If you DO want a clean object oriented architecture or a fully defined relational schema I would recommend not trying to create an "all things to all people" implementation and support strictly what is needed to meet the requirements of #aardwolf
Which means just deal with just specific entity types to federate with other aardwolf servers and clients and "notes" as required to interact at just a basic level with #mastodon #pleroma #peertube etc. to start.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 11:32:48 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @banjofox @Gargron ActivityPub (well ActivityStream entities in general) do not lend themselves to either object or relational mapping (and ORM is right out lol).
In my futzing around with AS in Python I have just stored such entities in a PostgreSQL table inside an indexed jsonb field rather than create a full on schema for the various entities so far.
As for the Python side I'm playing with some non-OO approaches. I gotta put that out there in my git repo some time soon.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 11:17:11 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @maloki @mulander I'm thinking there wouldn't be a way to know if you were silenced since that still allows federation and is more of just a timeline filter.
But maybe it would be possible to determine at least some of those who have suspended based on rejected POSTs to those servers appearing in your logs?
Besides that I'm not aware of that ability at the user/ui level. Would be nice to know at the administration level though.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 08:44:58 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @luciferMysticus More cheese than what? 😒
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 00:55:52 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @Fairlady_Z tfw you find a neat little instance just as it is contemplating shutting down 🙁
I host my little instance on a VM that lives in a server in my garage. I'm sure hosting it on a $10/mo vps at OVH or something is probably a far more robust solution but I like having physical access to the metal 🤓
Hmm...hosting an instance focused on cars from an actual garage would be oddly apropos tho 🤔 lol
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2018 17:51:50 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @danie10 something like this could be useful even if you are not a Facebook user since there are so many Web pages with Facebook trackers on them that could potentially send telemetry about you back to the mothership whether you are logged in or not.
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Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2018 16:50:45 EDT Mark Shane Hayden @KitRedgrave Probably not. I think IBM would have maybe maintained a niche market share like Apple has today with its Mac computers but in the business world. Maybe. Remember the PS/2 line?
Back when the PC was first reverse engineered open architecture systems like S100 bus running CP/M were still commonplace and the open systems vacuum would probably have been filled by something like that and evolved along a similar path to what we have today.