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@Shufei It would be easier to make it "this is how we do notifications for JS users" than it would to make it an optional feature. I don't currently have an idea of CPU or RAM overhead.
I may poke at it in a feature branch once I get some side project time...haven't actually had that kind of time in a while, though.
ultrageranium
#Stallman and to some extent the structural constitution of the #GNU project and the #FSF that solely revolves around #rms' vision of the world and society—with absolutely no room for other opinions—has always been problematic. It's indeed not new at all. It has overshadowed and prevented the development of free software to be more culturally diverse and a more politicised effort. Similarly, his dogmatic attitude has created throughout the years a situation where free software communities are having a hard time to be self critical and are effectively unable to evaluate the nature of their discourse. Ultimately, there has been increasing cognitive dissonance between the values they believe sharing and their actions, with sometimes quite aggressive response to even the slightest form of criticism and critique of anything related to software/user freedom. At best, criticism is deflected by tweaking the terminology and the language used, and if needed new definitions of words are created to defuse problematic statements. Hopefully these kind of exposures and open discussions will help move forward work on software and cultural freedom, in general, and not lead to complete implosion.
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@Shufei What it would be on the backend is another server that runs and talks to the Mastodon streaming API to fetch your notifications "live". On browsers with JS enabled, notifications will be push rather than polling. You'd get notifications sooner, with less power and network use on the client side. But deployment gets more complex (that second server).
Nothing would change for non-JS users; you get notifications only as a side-effect of page updates.
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@jkb🤦♂
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I'm pondering whether to use Server Sent Events to make notifications push rather than poll. The client side impact is basically nil. But it adds a dependency to the server, and complicates deployment (if you're not using the development server, you have to run and monitor a second server alongside the existing WSGI server). I'm leaning towards "no" because I want it to be easy to deploy.
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@MmeLibertine It was so much fun, even with small child wrangling involved. We dressed up a little (my spouse wore her PhD. robes and a stripy tie, my eldest wore a Hogwarts student hat, I wore a stripy scarf, youngest carried a plastic sword). The animal rescue place was there for the owl, but they also had a possum available for petting. There were a couple of amazing Beaubatons student cosplayers, and an older couple as Snape and Bellatrix.
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As we talk about "demetrification" today, a gentle reminder that #brutaldon has never displayed counts for likes, boosts, or follows.
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@vicorva I enjoy the microfiction that you post here.
eden
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Full Reading (ASMR)
I sang of chaos and night
Thems brings tidings of autumnal bliss :blobcoffeeraccoon:
emsenn of Teraum
Today, since I'm going to an #IWW meeting, I'm wearing my favorite shirt I've ever designed! I made it for Wobblies who were involved at Occupy.
It's a cutesy sabo-tabby (the IWW cat), next to an acrostic of #ACAB, which spells out "All Cats Are Beautiful."
Those in the know might know that's not what ACAB always means - sometimes it means All Cops Are Bad.
A cool nuance toward this other spelling-out is that a cat is a worker who's damn good at their work and likes it. So yea, ACAB!
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@thornyonmain I haven't watched it yet, but oh no.
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@thornyonmain Classic animation style, plus Jessica Cruz! Yes, please!
Procedurally Generated Kawa
Today is a special #roguelike day!
Since it is both Friday the 13th and a full moon, the good and bad luck cancels out which makes it safe to play #Nethack!
source: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Time
hat tip @0xabad1dea (who doesn't seem to be using that account, so really @0xabad1dea@twitter, but who's counting?)
Cyborgneticz Ghost Edition
@bgcarlisle I found it very important to tell you...that I just out that Elim Garak, one of the best side characters, is canonically pansexual - making DS9 the queerest fucking show
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
“Move fast and break things” is an abomination if your goal is to create a healthy society.
This is the least of what is written here that should be heard, from yet another voice telling us things that we all know but do too little about.
h/t @ceejbot for bringing it over from twitter for me to see.
https://medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630
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@kaniini Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
phooky
Going back through the old Tired archives. I'd forgotten how good-- and prescient-- it was.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990224223007/http://www.tired.co.uk/archive.html
"And most of all we don't want to be American, we don't want to live in the valley, and we don't want to work in start-ups."
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St Crispin's Mental Hospital Is A Creepy Old Abandoned Asylum In #Northampton https://www.britainsdecays.com/st-crispins-abandoned-mental-asylum-in-northampton-is-apparently-haunted/
tarqa
just saw someone panhandling, but instead of a collection jar their sign just listed a GoFundMe. not trying to shame them. just perpetually horrified by the society we live in that made this possible
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