Notices by Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social), page 5

@thefourthdev cheers; I'll mention it!

@aldomann I'm not great at analysis of that sort of thing -- people explain it to me and I say, oh yeah, that is good, but I don't notice it -- I'd like to believe that this is because they do such a good job with cinematography that I don't perceive it, but I think it's mostly me being unable to see :-)

@cathal I have just discovered that Pinafore (which I like, 'cos PWA) handles multiple instances (hooray nice one @nolan!) although not simultaneously (you've gotta explicitly "switch" between them), so I'm good for now :-)

@estebanm True enough! I'll give it a try, anyway :)

Well, now I have two accounts. So I'm likely to be talking about roleplaying stuff more as https://tabletop.social/@sil, I imagine, unless I get really annoyed with this two-accounts thing and abandon that.

I am not, it seems, the first person to ask this. Or even the ten-thousandth person to ask it, looking at the github issues list. And it looks like there isn't really a good solution. Some instances show their local timeline on their /about page (tabletop.social doesn't; I don't know whether that's admin choice or not); you can't follow a whole timeline from another instance (many bugs requesting this have been closed). The answer is: have two accounts. I am sad about this answer, but OK, fine.

@ted yeah. I really don't want multiple accounts unless I have to -- for utterly-completely-single-purpose-only instances then fine, maaaaybe, but I don't pigeonhole the stuff I write in that way, and don't really want to either. The app that lets me look at other timelines would be great, except I don't think it exists :)

@maloki I could, but I think that'd be hopelessly confusing :( For me and for others ("you're on Mastodon? what's your address?" "well, it's these ten different addresses depending on which things I write that you find interesting.")

@Denderix I can add a timeline for a whole different instance? That'd totally solve my problem; how do I do that? I can't see a way of doing it in the desktop web app. On my phone (Android) I use Pinafore, and I don't think that's got a way to add a timeline from some other instance either (@nolan will doubtless correct me if I'm wrong :))

@maloki I could switch, but I don't really want to; I don't want to exclusively be over there. What I want is, basically, the "federated timeline" but for just some instances (this one and that one). Moving over there seems a bit badly thought-out.

Mastodon help required. I've got an account here on mastodon.social. I'm interested in another instance, tabletop.social, which is about RPGs. What's the best way to get a sense of what's going on there, find a place in that community, etc? I can create a second account there, but doesn't Mastodon's nature mean I don't have to? I can browse their timeline (e.g., http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=tabletop.social&view=local) and follow individuals; is that the way to do it? Bit confused.

@gamingonlinux ha! I've got one too now. Didn't know Mastodon would verify links. :)

But... this is all new-Doctor unsteadiness, which everyone goes through. So far I haven't seen anything to suggest Whittaker will be bad, which I like. And the line about the sonic screwdriver now having Sheffield steel in got a grin. I was worried about Walsh, but he seemed fine to me. And I was glad Ryan didn't get a "now I can ride the bike through the Power of Heart now me dead nan's with me" scene like some crap Hollywood film. So, tentative thumbs up so far, I think. 2/2

So... not bad, I thought. Which is a good start for a new Doctor, since they always take a while. Felt a bit like mid-season monster-of-the-week filler rather than a Big Intro, which turned me off a bit since Whittaker doesn't seem as cool as 12/11/10 yet. And the crane-top "we can honour who we've been while choosing who we will be next" speech seemed a bit blunted by Chibnall using it to have a go at critics; he's justified, but don't ruin big speeches with it. 1/2

@garrett yes, I noticed that too :)

Had a brief look at Solid, TBL's decentralisation thing on the web. First impressions: I don't really get it, it needs UX design, and TBL's icon skills haven't improved since the early web in 1993 :)

@RAOF Ordinarily I'd agree with you entirely, but you're attempting to propose a standard, which everyone has to abide by by definition or it isn't standard :-)

I think it'd be reasonable to define "the RAOF HTML subset", though. Especially since one could describe that in OWASP Sanitizer language as Sanitizers.FORMATTING + Sanitizers.BLOCKS + Sanitizers.LINKS + Sanitizers.STYLES, for example. And then say "everyone should be able to rely on RAOFHTML" and make a sanitiser for each language.

@RAOF I still think that there's no one common subset that'd satisfy everyone, though :)

@RAOF OK. This is what OWASP do: see https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_%28Cross_Site_Scripting%29_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#RULE_.236_-_Sanitize_HTML_Markup_with_a_Library_Designed_for_the_Job for details.

@federicomena the hash in the filename has to be escaped in a URL, exactly because a hash means "begin the fragment identifier here" -- that's how one tells the difference