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Notices by Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com), page 5

  1. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 14:55:11 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    Bringing home the bacon.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 14:55:11 EDT from parlementum.net permalink
  2. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 14:53:35 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    All my wishes of better health Mike.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 14:53:35 EDT from hub100.retmesagxo.net permalink
  3. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 10:16:47 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    End of the world on September 23rd?
    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 10:16:47 EDT from hub.digio.space permalink
  4. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 05:47:32 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    @bob  Also closely related to playing a musical instrument. Practise and constant refinement.
    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 05:47:32 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  5. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2017 05:45:35 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    Hopefully I'll still be around and will take care of all this stuff, but just in case I'm not....
    Hmm, health? Just in case, ALL THE BEST!
    In conversation Friday, 22-Sep-2017 05:45:35 EDT from digitalesparadies.de permalink
  6. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 20:19:03 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin


    Aunty Entity: We call it Underworld. That's where Bartertown gets its energy.

    Max: What, oil? Natural gas?

    Aunty Entity: Pigs.

    Max: You mean pigs like those?

    Aunty Entity: That's right.

    Max: Bullshit!

    Aunty Entity: No. Pig shit.

    Max: What?

    The Collector: Pig shit. The lights, the motors, the vehicles, all run by a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig shit.

    Power prices puts piggery on the path to poo power



    A Victorian piggery operator is using animal effluent to save in energy costs.
    In conversation Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 20:19:03 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  7. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 13:01:45 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    I've noticed you seem to be in a hurry. That bad...?
    In conversation Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 13:01:45 EDT from sparklechicken.net permalink
  8. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 05:22:18 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    Couple of things just in case I run out of time,,,

    Pubcrawl has a few interop issues with Mastodon, but nobody is willing to look into why on that side. What I've done is to go back to the spec and all the latest working group decisions and I'm trying to implement it faithfully. If there are problems making it work, you may have to wait for a real communications project to try and federate with before things get solved. Once there's interop with somebody/anybody, you can branch off that to open federation to the walled garden. At the moment we're trying to be faithful to the spec so that somebody can read the spec and look at the packets and figure out who's implementation is buggered.

    Multimedia content is going to be sent as an 'Article'. There's a good chance Mastodon will never allow multimedia content. Fuck them. Try and find somebody sensible to work with. We'll send plain text and microblog stuff as a 'Note' which is what Mastodon uses. Attachments/images are all separate and appended to the end of the content, so this won't work at all for story-board narratives and signatures will break if you have to modify somebody's content to fit that representation. If you want to get support, look at News organisations of any kind. They know how multimedia content needs to work. The ActivityPub folks all have their noses so far up Eugen's bum that you aren't going to get any support from them and nobody therein has any experience with real world communications or federation issues. They're web people, and most are kids who've never done anything like this before.  

    Apple appears to have removed third-party cookies entirely in its latest browser release. This is a problem for decentralised permissions; but thankfully only applies to images and media elements. My thinking if other browser vendors follow suit is to re-purpose the 'sslify' module to proxy private photos/videos. These can and should be buffered/streamed. At that point it's probably a good time to abandon the social networking space and concentrate on content management, since openwebauth will still work just fine; but private media in your stream is going to suck up extra resources to proxy. It's still workable but not as elegant.

    Hopefully I'll still be around and will take care of all this stuff, but just in case I'm not....
    In conversation Thursday, 21-Sep-2017 05:22:18 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  9. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 22:45:13 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    @maiyannah My personal stance on this is #forktheweb ;

    which comes at a convenient time because of the subjugation of other W3C proposed standards. On the plus side, it means there are now no rules. On the minus side, it means that there are now no rules.
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 22:45:13 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  10. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:41:39 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    @Gargron Suit yourself. You can make any claim you want, but if it's a lie or half truth or requires a legal interpretation to be correct it could backfire.

    https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/17/twitters-custom-emojis-make-their-brands-debut-with-shareacoke/
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:41:39 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. Twitter’s Custom Emojis Make Their Debut As An Ad Unit With #ShareACoke
      By <a href="/author/drew-olanoff/" title="Posts by Drew Olanoff" onclick="s_objectID='river_author';" rel="author">Drew Olanoff</a> from TechCrunch

      A few months ago, I wondered out loud if Twitter was missing the boat by not charging for its custom emojis. I mean, brands want to spend money on ads. I bet they’re salivating over having their own custom emoji on the platform. Wonder no more. Coke has gotten its own custom emoji (previously called hashflags), the company shared with me last night.

      Until now, Twitter has only introduced these custom emojis for special events, and most recently to promote the upcoming “Star Wars” movie and the VMAs. That wasn’t part of an ad deal or bigger partnership like this, though.

      I spoke with Ross Hoffman, senior director of global brand strategy at Twitter about the possibilities for what I’m calling the “Cashmoji.” (AdMoji is a good one, too!)

      TC: Whose idea was it for the emoji/hashtag campaign?

      RH: Coca-Cola is a massive global partner of Twitter and they have been pushing us for some time on building a custom emoji (along with the creative agency of W+K). We know that people love using emojis and usage has been significantly increasing over time on our platform. This was a perfect opportunity to work with a nimble and smart marketer to make this happen.

      TC: How did the two companies collaborate on its creation?

      RH: Twitter’s Brand Strategy team, Coca-Cola and W+K worked together on design, creation and strategy on launching this the emoji around the world. We have been working with Coca-Cola for years and this muscle memory in terms of relationships, brand positioning and KPIs allows us to move quickly on something of this scale.

      TC: Is this considered as an “ad unit”, meaning is Coke paying for this?

      RH: Part of our global alignment with Coca-Cola includes access to resources and first to market offerings and in this case, a custom emoji.

      TC: Are you planning on turning this into an ad product or offering it to others after this trial?

      RH: One of our core values at Twitter is #ShipIt. We want to test things and Coca-Cola was the right partner to test with here. We have established trust over the years and we are excited about the learnings we will get from this initiative. The data we get back will help determine the future on what we do with this as a product.

      TC: What metric of success, other than total tweets, are you looking for here?

      RH: We can’t speak for what Coca-Cola key metrics are, but what we generally think about for large campaigns like this are engagement, sentiment, adoption of the hashtag/emoji and total reach.


      ———-

      While Twitter wouldn’t share how much they were making off of this deal, it’s a pretty unique possibility for advertisers. I mean, who wouldn’t want their own custom emoji? It’s a hip ad unit. Where’s the custom Starbucks one for my mornings?

      Emojis have become a fun part of the Twitter experience, mostly because you only have 140 characters to express yourself, so the more you can say with less the better. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Clippers recruited one of its free agents on Twitter in probably the best use of emojis ever:

      ✈️🚁🚙

      — Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin32) July 8, 2015

      However, let’s hope this doesn’t end up like Myspace’s selling off of extra top friends spots as ad units, which was the service’s last hurrah for many.

  11. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:25:18 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    @Gargron To be blunt:




    How To Use Anyone’s Face As A Facebook Chat Emoticon
    by Josh Constine on TechCrunch

    https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/206870177-Create-custom-emoji

    http://smallbusiness.chron.com/use-custom-emoticon-yahoo-messenger-26896.html

    https://www.loudtechie.com/how-to-add-or-edit-whatsapp-custom-emoticons/
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:25:18 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Create custom emoji
      from Slack Help Center
      Whatever your emoji needs, you can make it happen with custom emoji.  Find all of the custom emoji on your workspace by clicking the  Slack icon in the emoji picker.   Create a custom emoji Here'...
    2. How to Use a Custom Emoticon on Yahoo! Messenger
      Yahoo keeps all emoticons in a specific directory, and you can add custom emoticon images to this directory. You can also overwrite the current, default emoticons in the Yahoo! directory and add ...
    3. How To Add or Edit WhatsApp Custom Emoticons
      By Bharat Khatri from Loud Techie - A Community for Bloggers
      A Step-by-Step Guide to Add/Edit Custom Emoticons into your WhatsApp. This will make your chat window featured with custom emoji.
  12. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:12:18 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    @Gargron First appeared as a plugin in Friendica in 2012, and is also available in red and Hubzilla.
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 20:12:18 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  13. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 01:51:50 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    The building is "going into lockdown". Still awaiting confirmation of what exactly this means. I may be turned away.
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 01:51:50 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  14. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 01:02:20 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    Because of the security fuzz or because you want to?
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Sep-2017 01:02:20 EDT from parlementum.net permalink
  15. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 23:53:31 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    Apparently next week the Duke of York is going to be holding a series of meetings downstairs. I might have to work from home.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 23:53:31 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  16. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 20:39:34 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    Should probably make it a widget and put it in the channel pdl. Can't believe I missed that one.


    This is done - so you can remove it in the pdl now and it is collapsed by default. Since it is a widget, it is easy to relocate to any page region. I'll leave the theming to those more suited to theming.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 20:39:34 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  17. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 15:55:47 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    Should probably make it a widget and put it in the channel pdl. Can't believe I missed that one.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 15:55:47 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  18. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 00:04:18 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    We did a lot of work on mod_display 2-3 weeks ago, most of it related to situations just like this - empty pages for content that we know exists and is publicly viewable. You should see a noticeable improvement in the next release.
    In conversation Tuesday, 19-Sep-2017 00:04:18 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
  19. Mike Macgirvin (mike@macgirvin.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 21:01:03 EDT Mike Macgirvin Mike Macgirvin
    in reply to
    Even with a properly-formed spec I think we'd still be having mastodon-related issues, but that's my inner cynic speaking.


    @maiyannah Implementing ActivityPub was easy. I did that a month ago. Trying to figure out what Mastodon is doing with the data we send has consumed the last month and will probably consume the next six. The last 3 weeks everything we sent (legal ActivityPub) vanished into the bit bucket. I've only recently seen data arrive intact at the destination and can start working through the other platform quirks. I've told people time and time again that federation isn't about protocols. It's about projects and all their quirky policies that aren't written anywhere but are critical to working communication.
    In conversation Monday, 18-Sep-2017 21:01:03 EDT from macgirvin.com permalink
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