It's rather widespread so I almost didn't share it but they made so many flags I couldn't skip it. The repo is here. Check in the folder named Fediverse Packs to find the one for your instance.
Want some cool new #emoji for #Pride month? I've got a very interesting set to recommend today, the Yingmotes set by @mynotaurus
To be totally honest, I hadn't heard of #yinglets until yesterday. They apparently come from a web comic called Out-of-Placers. They appear to be some kind of mythical rat-bird, but you'd have to ask someone more knowledgeable for details.
What makes the Yingmotes set so interesting to me is that while you can just download and use the 17 emoji where the yinglet is holding a flag as-is, or customize them with your favorite SVG editor, the repo also has instructions and code put together to make it easy to customize the yinglet. I've never seen an emoji set with a helper script that lets you specify the colors of the fur, tongue, eyes, etc of the character in them then generate a whole library of emoji with that palette. It's an incredibly cool idea.
You can make a set unique to you so your scrunkly lil creatura is the one waving those pride flags even if your level of artistic talent is best suited for customizing config files.
One tip for instance admins who want to use them: don't use the emoji resolution, get the full size ones instead. The emoji resolution may sound fine at 128×128 but it can create problems when scaled again in reactions or MFM.
Changed my #OpenBSD writing-dedicated box from running #cwm to #i3wm -- I like cwm, but it's still a bit too mousey for my taste.
I also changed all of my fonts (both xterm and i3/i3status) to be bitmapped (the "fixed" font), so everything is looking REALLY crisp.
Maybe I'm getting quite crochety, but at this point, I think I'd much rather have a lower res screen with crisp bitmapped fonts than a crazy high-res screen and vector fonts.
The only thing I'm missing is #emoji. My i3status looks like
cpu 31% | load 0.80 | mem 9% | dsk 13.4% | net Gallifrey 82% | chrg 89% 0.00W | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
instead of
cpu 05% | 📈 load 0.29 | 28.5% | disk 59.7% | Gallifrey 67% | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
Funny little #emoji mixer I just came across: https://neomojimixer.com/
I just wish emoji reactions will come to Mastodon at some point... I always feel sad that users there can't see all the great emojis I use here on #Akkoma :neocat_cool_fingerguns:
It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" #emoji can be filtered on, for instance. And #❓ can be alternative for #AskFedi for instance.
First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the #emoji thread, but no emoji showing in #Mastodon at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.