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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

The fourth horseman of the #Apocalypse. Apocalypse, Salisbury 1240-1250. BnF, Français 403, fol. 9r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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• The fourth horseman of the #Apocalypse. Apocalypse, Salisbury 1240-1250. BnF, Français 403, fol. 9r. #medieval #MedievalArt

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Currently posting from Openvibe, an app that unifies my Bluesky and Mastodon feeds.

Technically, it's fine but spiritually it's disorienting(?) I don't know where I am.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Look…

Mastodon/Fediverse is always going to be more complicated than a centralized app. But the thing is, it doesn't actually have to compete with them. Fediverse is here for people who actively want to pay a little price of learning for the freedom it offers.

And with that, the UX here is really not that bad. Probably could be better, and probably will. But UX is almost never so important to be a game changer.

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183231bcb@transfem.social wrote:

PSA: Most internet users do not know that there is a distiction between an email provider and an email client.

Gmail users believe the only ways to access a Gmail account are through the official web client at mail.google.com, and the official Gmail app for iOS and Android.

Yahoo Mail users believe the only ways to access a Yahoo email account are the official webmail client and the official Yahoo Mail app for iOS and Android.

Outlook users believe the only ways to access an Outlook email are through the Outlook website, the Outlook desktop app, or the Outlook mobile app. Outlook's inbox search feature doesn't work very well, so as far as most of the internet is concerned, there's no reliable way to search the inbox of an Outlook email account.

Additionally, most email users are completely unaware that their provider blocks emails from other providers that violate their terms of service. They don't know that different email providers may have substantially different moderation policies.

At my university, student emails use Gmail, while faculty emails use Outlook. IT wanted to move everyone to Outlook, and the students revolted in protest, eventually convincing IT to change reverse course. Faculty members are also asking to have Gmail, though we aren't as organized as the students.

The primary reason cited by both students and faculty for preferring Gmail over Outlook is that the user-interface for the Gmail website is much better than its Outlook counterpart. As far as most people are aware, that's the only difference between email providers.

We are explicitly allowed to use 3rd party email clients, but very few students or faculty understand that that's a possibility. Some of my colleagues are amaze that I have the ability to search my own email inbox, since Outlook's search is broken unless you use a 3rd party client.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because if you try to explain the fediverse to someone by saying federation works "like email," you have to understand that most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

If you tell someone that fedi instances are like email providers and that your instance is transfem.social, that creates three expecations in your audience:
1)The main, or possibly only, way to access your fedi account on a desktop is through the transfem.social website.
2)The main, or possibly only, way to access your fedi account on a smartphone is through the transfem.social app. This app is completely separate from the apps that could be used to access a fedi account on another instance.
3)The primary difference between transfem.social and other fedi instances is the UI of the website and app.

Without further explanation, those three incorrect assumptions are going to make it very confusing for them to learn to navigate the fediverse.

When you install a fediverse app on your phone, it asks you for your instance. Most newcomers to the fediverse have never been asked for their provider after installing a client app. When you launch the Gmail app, it doesn't ask you for your email provider: it assumes you are using Gmail. If someone gets confused as to what they have to do, it doesn't help to tell them "it's like picking an email provider," because, as far as most people know, it is not how they picked an email provider.

The situation on the desktop is a little better. Almost every fedi instance hosts their own web client, just like major email providers. Newcomers who are told federation is like email expect to access the fediverse from their provider's website, and that's exactly what they can do.

Even so, if a typical email user thinks fedi providers are like email providers, they are likely to get confused in choosing an instance. People decide between Gmail and Outlook based on the UI of the web client. They likely don't even know the moderation policies of different providers are different. You can certainly use your preference in UI to decide between Mastodon, Akkoma, or Sharkey, but once you've chosen which software, how do you pick an instance?

If you're reading this message, you likely chose your fedi instance based in part on the community, moderation policies, the instance URL, knowing the admin, or some combination. But most people did not take those factors into consideration when choosing an email provider. Telling them "it's just like picking an email provider" isn't enough to help them.

I suspect the lack of widespread understanding as to how email works also contributed to one past piece of fedi meta. During the some of the big waves of users joining after leaving Twitter, some of them were absolutely outraged to discover an instance could block another instance. Several of them said some variation of

I thought Mastodon instances were supposed to be like email providers? Can you imagine how absurd it would be if your email provider told you you couldn't send a message to someone because of who their provider was?

These newcomers use Gmail or Outlook, and they were completely unaware that their email provider already does exactly that.

The TL:DR is that if you are explaining the fediverse to a non-tech person, "it's like email" is not a sufficient explanation.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The "actually, the economy is doing great" rhetoric has got to be some of the worst messaging from democrats ever.

It implies, as liberal messaging often does, that poor people are too stupid to know if they're struggling or not.

It completely ignores the many ways corporations exploit the poor that are invisible to the upper middle class.

And mostly, it simply isn't true outside a subset of Americans.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

fix this, break that, rinse and repeat… done for the day, pretty much back where I started with the UI, but…

also made *solid* offsetting progress in the user account self-management subsystem. now have smoothly running/tested 2 connection pools: one for the SessionStore objects in a key/value datastore (redis), & one for user account data objects in a JSON-oriented datastore (mongodb).

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• cat, staring at a painting which looks like a window to the outside on a Fall day (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

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• Geoff Garin @geoffgarin.bsky.social If you spend your whole campaign disavowing something, you can't claim afterwards the voters gave you a mandate to do it.
• @Arr The last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on us over and over

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seabikeblog@social.ridetrans.it ("Seattle Bike Blog") wrote:

The New York Times is giving a murder their “both-sides” treatment. What the hell is the matter with you?!? Someone kills a person with their car, and your reaction is to be like, “Some people think murder is bad, but others don’t like bike lanes, so 🤷‍♂️.”

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• Death of Cyclist in Paris Lays Bare Divide in Mayor’s War Against Cars Paul Varry was run over on a city street in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage, as bikers and drivers choose sides. (remote)
• It sent a shock through Paris, a city striving to transform itself into one of the great cycling metropolises in the world: a bicycle rider, crushed under the wheels of an SUV in a bike lane just a few yards from La Madeleine, the landmark neoclassical church, in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage. A murder investigation has been opened, and last week, Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the Paris City Council in a minute of silence for the cyclist, Paul Varry, a 27-year-old who was also a cycling advocate. Ms. Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party, delivered an emotional speech in which she signaled she would continue to roll out her famously aggressive policies that aim to drastically reduce the role of the automobile in Parisian life. “I am truly angry,” she said. “The future does not belong to cars.” (remote)
• An outpouring of emotion over Mr. Varry’s Oct. 15 death has put a spotlight on the dangers facing cyclists in a city that has seen an explosion in bikes and cycling lanes in recent years. But it has also underscored the frustrations that motorists increasingly feel in a place that has chosen to limit the movement, speed and parking options of cars. In recent weeks, as cycling organizations, spurred by the death of Mr. Varry, have demanded more protections from aggressive drivers, others have complained about Parisian bikers themselves, some of whom have earned a reputation as dangerous risk-takers. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.

Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Alright you animals, you asked for it. Don't say I didn't warn you:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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• current vote totals. "NOW" is winning in a landslide, so here goes nothing... (remote)

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muan ("Mu-An") wrote:

> DOM events are like a lightening strike: … And that entire traversal is synchronous. 🤔 ⚡

👩🏻‍🍳💋

From: @myobie
https://indieweb.social/@myobie/113509315478195653

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Ok, I've got 6K words burning a hole in my blog on "If Not React, Then What?" (Plus another 3K+ words in footnotes). When should I publish?

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handmade_ghost@sunny.garden ("handmade ghost") wrote:

I spotted this wizard on the outskirts of my neighborhood while out walking the dog this afternoon. It looked almost as though the water had frozen around em. It's been a hauntingly foggy, icy day out there--beautiful and nearly silent with cold.

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• Vertical photo of a striking, large, blue-grey heron with shaggy strands of thin feathers cascading from eir breast and cloak of wings as e hulks in left-facing profile in cold, grey water that is iced over just beyond where e stands. The strange, elegant, wizard like bird--a great blue heron--is looking out into the middle distance over the thick shortsword of eir bill, eir white face, marked with dark blue eybrowlike capping over eir small eye, calm and intense. E is almost perfectly reflected in the icy water below, the water and reflection marred only by the stipling of ice flecks and tiny bits of windblown detritus from the nearby pines. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

What does this button do?:

"Of course it being my car, I want to know what all buttons do, so I read the entire manual"

I can’t think of anything personally less relatable than the urge to read a car manual. But god bless people who do. https://blog.koenvh.nl/what-does-this-button-do-cm42u2oi7000a09l42f54g2pr

jwz wrote:

You guys, I found these amazing Black Friday deals on movies: https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=top100:48h_207

jwz wrote:

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I am looking for a front-end *designer* with a solid portfolio. I need someone skilled in UI and creating custom illustrations.

This is for a website project. I will provide a scope and accept bids for anyone reaching out who meets the above qualifications. Questions welcomed.

jwz wrote:

Not just Merely Dead Boys but Really Most Sincerely Dead Boys.

Roko's basilisk will have to wait a little longer for that new Stiv Bators record it requested: Hout says he'd tried to block the AI plan since August, but Chrome and Cleopatra are firm on...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdk

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

kicka$$!

finally got all CRUD (well, really INACTIVATE) operations for user account self-management subsystem class I write up & running & tested…

next up: get 2FA flow going.

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• little kid doing happy dance (remote)

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karttu@oldbytes.space wrote:

@slightlyoff Nice, but I still prefer http://wttr.in

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philipp@social.anoxinon.de ("Philipp") wrote:

@slightlyoff nice! Here is a similar service from Germany http://morgenwirdes.de/

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emk@kirche.social ("ᴇʀʜᴀʀᴅ ᴍᴀʀɪᴀ ᴋʟᴇɪɴ") wrote:

"Die digitalen Räume, in denen wir unsere Zeit verbringen, sind selten #Gemeinschaften. Sie sind #Märkte. Gemeinschaften kultivieren. Märkte extrahieren. Kultivierende treffen Entscheidungen auf der Grundlage dessen, was für die Gemeinschaft am besten ist. Extraktoren sorgen dafür, dass die Zahlen in die Höhe schnellen. Gemeinschaften können natürlich Märkte haben. Aber wenn Märkte die Gemeinschaft leiten, haben wir am Ende das #Internet, das wir heute haben."
@fromjason
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

countering right-wing tactics like FoxNews with MSNBC didn’t work either. the counter to misinformation & disinformation is *not* more information. (see earlier posts on ‘Nexus’ by Harari)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/us/politics/democratic-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk4.SrK7.R5PIi35r4BHa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

thumbs are a terrible advantage

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/11/29

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A whole lot of people selling the idea that they would "define the future" and "change the world" conveniently omitted that change is a vector; it has both magnitude and direction.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Finally received the results for my driving exam today. I passed! Getting a driver’s license in France was shockingly strict. The standards are ultra high. It took four months, including 35 hours of lessons! Both the written and practical tests had almost zero tolerance even for minor errors.

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dancast@wandering.shop ("DanCast") wrote:

Sad that the 5 lbs sugar free Haribo gummy bear bags are no longer available on Amazon. The reviews were priceless.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113546553529521263

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• Ida B Wells in 1892 on why she bought a pistol (remote)

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Louder, for the people in the back:

I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.

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fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

"'This equipment is supposed to save your life,' David Burchell, who has type 1 diabetes, told the BBC. 'And basically it broke, just showing a white screen, and I had a panic.'" Read the full article on the importance of software freedom in medical devices: https://u.fsf.org/448