Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 27

@kensanata I have switched to Firefox Focus, and yeah that is annoying sometimes. But, overall, I feel like I couldn't go back.

@platypus Wow. So, I wasn't alive in the sixties, but I have to imagine that would have led to some amount of risk for her. There were predators in the 60's, and especially of young women, it seems naive.

Love how the pitmaster of the best BBQ in Texas didn't even know of the awards that she is winning. And that she's still the custodian at the middle school during the week. Small town Texas BBQ at its best. — https://www.dallasnews.com/life/texana/2018/08/17/soak-18-hours-smoke-fire-sweat-makesnows-bbq-texas-treasure

Hadn't heard about marketers being worried that the obsession with follower counts was leading to inauthentic interactions and hurting the impact of their influencer advertising. Has the potential to drastically change corporate social media. — https://marketoonist.com/2018/08/fake-influence.html

Texas English is the best English — http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2018/08/dumbed-down.html

@paperdigits you really should pin this to your profile, just in case.

Got an e-mail from someone who wants to do a "sponsored post" on Mastodon. I guess that means we've either made-it or spamers are getting better.

@tinker I think that's a good point, two minor thoughts:

The reason that Twitter is an issue is that you effectively have no relationship with them. You're probably just a low value content creator, they have a plethora of those. If you were a customer you might have some weight, you're not.

Also DMs can be read by the admins on your instance and the person you're sending it to's instance. You have to trust all the admins in that set.

Sad that the https://mnm.social/ collectors seem to be down. I really wanted to see this latest influx of users to the Fediverse in graphs.

My son was having problems with Steam on his account and asked me to help. I sat down and popped open a terminal.

"Oh my! You can send commands directly to the computer!"

@nervous_jessica do you cut the puzzles from the inside out or the outside in?

@pomological that apple looks so interesting, I've not seen one before. Anyone tried one? What do they taste like?

@pomological that apple looks so interesting, I've not seen one before. Anyone tried one? What do they taste like?

@Wimpress @diddledan awe sweet, I had talk to @popey about doing that. Awesome to know it works.

I had tried getting a desktop running in kiosk mode but all the helpers try to throw in a window manager.

@n8 I imagine they found that people having to actually use Git was a barrier to their adoption as a service.

@nervous_jessica the koi pond seems like a legitimate reason to me.

@mhall119 they were a "Public Editor" for a while, but even those seem to have gone away.