Hurricane Priscilla sent a week of rain to the Southwest, which is generally great, but also brought a lot of flooding.
It also brought some lovely clouds! Here's a couple of shots I took on Monday as we came out of a movie (Tron: Ares, pretty but fairly dumb), just 10-15m after these were taken the clouds had darkened significantly and the rain started.
I can't seem to find documentation on what content types #Mastodon supports in the actual "status" content. I've seen posts with inline links and basic formatting, but don't know how to post them.
Fedi/Mastodon programmers... with the #MastodonAPI, and given a url to a post on any instance (assuming I have access to the toot from my account), how might I get my instance to fetch it and give me a "local" ID that is suitable for passing as the "inReplyToID" in a toot payload?
Wondering if I need to:
Would that be the "local" ID?
And now for something different from NovaColor: Understanding the Color Gray and Its Shades
I use NovaColor acrylics for my artwork, and love their occasional articles on the theory and history of pigments #art #painting #arthistory
Archiving our anxious fears as precious artifact
We make a Story
Stripped to bare words encoding our natures faiths and selves
These and all in grit and grim warning
Dystopia
Bleak grey hued rough hewn the view from future's window
Staring eyes in hope forlorn
Dust and ash the gifts our benefactors leave in progress' wake
Every memory and bright treasure stripped melted for coin
Mechanized servant eaters of all growing green feeling loving things
If not fled are fed
The shining things from heart head and gut once born now consumed
Our inner voice fed back become lies so sterile and ape'd
Semi-sentient vastly parasitic the collectives cancerous intent to only grow
Choked full on us it is us in the mill in the dirty grist
The fluttering trembling lights only ours to give are drowned in grasping dark
In mirrored certainty the self-satisfied boast ignorance toast ignorance
Read our troubled Story and see
Utopia
When people praise the lack of #viral content on Mastodon (or the #fediverse in general), it’s seems to be mostly white tech folks, happy for our clever bubbles to be left alone.
But for people who desperately need to be seen and heard, going viral on Twitter is one of the only ways for their stories to get told #BlackLivesMatter, oppression in the middle east, genocides in Rwanda and South Asia, the #metoo movement -- these movements couldn't be ignored because they grew fast and visibly, making it hard for them to be ignored, dismissed, or covered up.
The Fediverse as it exists right now would see these movements isolated, defederated, gated by content warnings, and probably DDOS’d by bad actors running malicious instances. ("Mal-odons"?)
I guess right now I don’t want to see posts and think pieces about how "content can't go viral" on the Fediverse (whether or not it’s true) is only a net-positive. For all its faults Twitter has been a positive force for social change and visibility in millions of people’s lives.
We must learn from it and ask how — if we are going to make a case for the Fediverse as an alternative to Twitter — we can be better while not throwing those of us in the most need back to the wolves.
What with Twitter (aka birdsite, hellsite, muskosite) flailing in the clammy hands of Dr. No, and interest in the federated web re-emerging, I figured it was time to review my own web presence and see what was the situation.
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Dear reader, it was Not Good.
Warning one was hitting this site from my work network and getting a BitDefender screen of doom saying the site was serving a keylogger. NOT GOOD.
Then the site - which was hosted on Linode and runs my own homegrown blog software, Goldfrog - went completely down. After some "where did those ssh keys get to, where is this thing anyway" I got logged in and figured out that my server had been hacked in some way, TLS and letsencrypt removed. I haven't had time to troll the logs for evidence as to how the server was accessed, but I downloaded them and have them set aside to look later.
Thus entered a week of figuring out once again how the heck Monkinetic is built and deployed, migrating the code from Github to Gitlab (which I'm more familiar with due to $dayjob), and refactoring the Ansible code that builds the server and deploys the blog/content.
Finally today I got it 85% done, which is pretty good for a full migration between hosting providers (I also moved from Linode to Digital Ocean where I already have some other services).
With the insanity on Twitter, I logged back into my Mastodon account on toot.cafe and enjoyed the huge stream of new folks migrating from Twitter to federated platforms (mostly to mastodon.social since that's the first/largest instance, but folks are making their way from there to smaller instances as they get more comfortable).
Apparently Mastodon 4.0 is out (release candidate) and they've changed the annoying-until-it-was-gone "Toot" to "Publish". I'd have preferred "Post" myself, but 🤷♀️.
Detroit, early 1980s, techno is invented by three friends who happen to be black:
High school friends Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May, known as the Belleville Three, are known as the creators of techno music. Kevin Saunderson is the person who made sure techno music got to the masses by 1983.
The History of Techno Music from Black Music Scholar
Techno came out of Detroit in the 1980’s as underground dance music and subculture. Techno music took technology and made it a black secret.
The three tracks linked on that page would play in any house club today. I'd've danced the crap outta these when I was clubbing. HT to https://playvicious.social/@paralithode for suggesting I google "black inventor techno".
#blackhistory #musichistory #erasure
(I may or may not be chairdancing to Tranzister right now)
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Folks, this is Sister Rosetta Sharpe, the queer black woman who invented rock and roll, before Elvis, Little Richard, or Chuck Berry were out of short pants
https://www.theroot.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-queer-black-woman-who-invent-1823198999
#blackhistory #musichistory #erasure
(Source: https://playvicious.social/@paralithode)
Continuous improvement and software automation https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/going-faster-with-continuous-delivery #bookmark #aws #cicd #testing #automation
to-show-or-not-to-show tags: mastodon,playviscious,ui title: Post Activity in Mastodon - to show or not to show twitter_id: "1232318268884389888" twitter_url: https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1232318268884389888
For the most part I appreciate the design decision that the #mastodon developers made to not show reply/boost/fave numbers on the feed lists, because it puts more focus on the content and less on gaming an algorithm for popularity or "engagement".
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but I also realize that this makes it harder to know if there are responses! For example, this post by Jun on #playviscious actually has an interesting thread that I'm learning from, but nothing in the UI signifies that there is more content to find connected to the post.
I wonder if there could be an additional affordance in the #UI that there are replies (boosts and faves not so much)?
21st Century Autocracy https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/11/21st-century-autocracy #uspol #autocracy #trump
Via old friend Jim Roepcke, from 2006:
Jacob G. Hornberger: How Hitler Became a Dictator:
But how many people know how Hitler actually became a dictator? My bet is, very few. I’d also bet that more than a few people would be surprised at how he pulled it off, especially given that after World War I Germany had become a democratic republic.
Although the National Socialists never captured more than 37 percent of the national vote, and even though they still held a minority of cabinet posts and fewer than 50 percent of the seats in the Reichstag, Hitler and the Nazis set out to consolidate their power. With Hitler as chancellor, that proved to be a fairly easy task.
I read this back when Jim first posted it in 2006, and a couple of times since, and it's even more apropos today.
"Those cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- probably George Santaya
Coda Hale on Work
Blogging is bookmarking – I scanned this post by Coda Hale and want to spend some more time with it.
Work Is Work
In which returns diminish
#work #enterprise #to-read
https://t.co/eZswwXOhUa
Blogging is bookmarking -- I scanned this post by Coda Hale and want to spend some more time with it.
> In which returns diminish