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deadsuperhero

@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org

Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

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deadsuperhero, to random
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Do you ever get a sad pang of nostalgia about the place you came from? Do you look back at a town, and get sad about the potential it once had, and despair the decline it met instead?

deadsuperhero,
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I feel that way about Peoria, Illinois, and the surrounding area. It was once prosperous. As a kid, it was on the up-and-up.

But, that city has long been a symbol of its own problems: an abandoned downtown, companies that mostly offer dead-end careers, and a frustrated, depressed population that would rather live anywhere else.

deadsuperhero,
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After Caterpillar moved their headquarters, there’s been a black hole in the economy there. Cat used to employ thousands of people in the area - blue collar, white collar, you name it. It propped up everything around it - small businesses, restaurants, bars, and music venues.

That place just feels like it’s barely holding on now. It would take a lot of work to improve anything, from starting businesses to making transit more accessible to getting rid of food deserts. Everything depended on one company for like 80 years, and the layout and flow of things required workers to live in small towns half an hour away.

The Midwest in general just feels kind of fucked nowadays.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Some days, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Weird question: can anyone recommend an email hosting service that is more or less just an inbox/outbox? No groupware or collaboration, just spin up a bunch of accounts and integrate them with your own suite of apps?

I’m really interested in using Nextcloud as a full replacement for Google Workspace in our organization. It’s really good! There are ways to automatically provision accounts in there, through SSO or other kinds of integration, so that new people get access on their first login.

But, almost every hosted email service is kind of trying to be their own Google Workspace alternative, with bells and whistles that I don’t really need.

deadsuperhero, to random
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KDE is almost perfect. But, when running on Wayland, Firefox and Thunderbird have super ugly notifications that act like a popup window?

Trying my best to figure that one out

deadsuperhero, to random
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This was one of the best features of #Firefish, and I constantly find myself missing it.

RE: https://mastodon.floe.earth/users/Rob200/statuses/112448871400335315

18+ thomholwerda, to random
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When I was much, much, much younger - think late teens, so around 2000 - I would also occasionally casually misuse the word "rape", almost exclusively in a gaming context. I might be a boring 39 year old dad now, but I, too, was once an edgy pre-internet/pre-smartphone teenager, and while I was mostly a good person, I was also sometimes a complete fucking insensitive, uneducated, backwards idiot from a small redneck town in The Netherlands who had no fucking clue about the wider world.

Luckily for me, I've always had close female friends, and through their stories it became pretty clear using "rape" callously is not only deeply cringe, but also wholly insensitive and just downright stupid. Luckily I never used it often enough for anyone to have to point it out to me - think less than a handful of times with guy friends when talking about games - but as with everything stupid we do as teenagers, being reminded of it makes my gut wrench in sour stupidity and biting cringe. As it better well fucking should.

Anyway my point is normal people grow out of this in their teens, but it seems hachyderm.io is totally cool with using this word like cringe teenagers. Jesus fuck it's 2024, lads.

deadsuperhero,
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@thomholwerda what the actual fuck?

deadsuperhero, to random
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Due to the amount of days I’ve accrued in my leave balance, I officially was able to put in my two weeks’ notice with the United States Air Force today.

This is a weird time for me. I’m figuring out what my future looks like, and planning on going back to school full-time. Part of me is really happy, another part of me is sad, worried, terrified, burnt out, and depressed.

I had some amazing experiences, and met some incredible people. We made memories together. Walking away from that puts me in a really weird spot. I have to take time to figure my shit out.

deadsuperhero,
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One of my biggest fears about going back to school is this internal idea that I’m just not smart enough. I know it’s not true, but I frequently have bad dreams about being the kind of student I was 15 years ago: lazy, scatterbrained, and absent.

I have this enormous opportunity, but I’m scared that I’m going to waste it. I worked hard to get here. I’m just afraid of self-sabotage.

deadsuperhero, to KDE
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Trying out on the desktop, since I'm gradually shifting back to these days. So far it's...alright?

I've always loved the idea of a Fediverse client that integrates nicely with the desktop, while offering full access to whatever features that platform gives you. But, I'm hard pressed to find a client that does everything I want. 😅

deadsuperhero,
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A minor annoyance is that mobile clients like @moshidon are really, really good nowadays. Desktop clients, though? Some are great, but a lot of them feel like they’re five years behind, in terms of user experience.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Hey. Let’s just pretend for a while that the Web is a much simpler, happier place.

Old Flash intro from Homestar Runner . com

caseynewton, to random
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With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

deadsuperhero,
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@caseynewton I know it’s beside the point, but

God damn, that is such a good headline.

deadsuperhero, to random
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This is my nine year old #beagle girl. Her name is Lori. She’s a diva, but my heart melts for her.

I adore this dog. She follows me everywhere, cuddles with me, and gives jealous looks / barks whenever I smooch my wife. She also regularly tilts her head back and goes “Bwoo!” as a greeting. ♥️

Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, staring blankly with big black eyes at the camera. She's sitting on a bed in front of blue pillows.
Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, looking apprehensively to her side.
Lori, a tricolor beagle with white, black, and brown fur, panting happily with her tongue hanging out.

deadsuperhero, to random
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Had to sift through my medical data for my various VA Disability claims, and came across notes from various therapy sessions. It was interesting to read old discussions from another point of view, but it’s a real can of worms.

hello, to bluesky
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It's now possible to connect and accounts together, and talk across a bridge! We get into the nuts and bolts of how it works, and what you can do to get started!

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/fediverse-bluesky-bridge/

deadsuperhero,
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@grishka @hello I’ll be honest, this didn’t use to exist on the site. I’m not totally sure wtf I toggled, but it’s unintentional.

deadsuperhero,
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@grishka @hello Figured it out, should be good now.

glukozavr, to mastodon
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Am I correct, assuming that @tootapp is dead app? On AppStore no updates for a year and I seems not to find any activity around it anymore.

Which client would be the most versatile to work with and maybe some other services with iOS app and alive?

deadsuperhero,
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@glukozavr I’ve heard that Sora SNS is great!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sorasns-for-mastodon-bluesky/id6450969760

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Most forks fail because you need a core developer to maintain the project

There are dozens of misskey forks, and most of them fail after a few months or a year (calckey ->firefish)

You can't just fork something and live off hopes and dreams

This is why I believe it's in my best interest as the core maintainer of Pixelfed to work with our community as much as possible to eliminate the need for a fork

Such a vibe when you reach this, I love it, fuck egos, we all equals, lets goooo 🚀

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup Yeah, I made a similar case about this recently. It’s one thing if you’re just adding features and having fun (CalcKey was a good example), but long-term sustainability for a project requires sticking to it, dedicating loads of time and energy to doing the boring, monotonous, unsexy stuff as well as the exciting hot new stuff.

I think writing a project from scratch puts a dev in the position that they can’t easily back out of development without shutting down completely. There is no upstream to dump work off to, because you’re the upstream.

dansup, to random
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Yeah I've seen a few fedi devs sell out, some sell soapboxes to presidents and others bring their failed misskey forks to the fintech world

The one thing they all had in common was they never actually wrote their own project, they forked an existing project and added some lipstick

Meanwhile us other fedi devs are still here, not chasing trends or money.

#notLikeUs

deadsuperhero,
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@dansup I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to “sell out”, if it means keeping the lights on, or putting a roof over your head. Sometimes, people get burned really bad from doing so much work for free. If I could make a living building for this space, I would 100% do it. But, I’m a shitty developer.

And I realize that your statement is more about Gleason and Kainoa, and what they’re doing. I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong for someone to pivot and pursue their own things, it’s just that one built hate speech networks while the other got seriously burnt out and decided to go do literally anything else.

Ironically, both people are the most successful case studies for forks of existing platforms.

deadsuperhero, to mastodon
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As a fun little experiment, @damon and I worked together to get a instance up and running that stores media on ! It was an interesting learning experience.

I don’t think we’re ready to announce anything yet, as this was in service of another project in development. But, there’s an increasing number of ways to host content on an IPFS node service, and tie it back to platforms like Mastodon using an S3-compatible API for Object Storage and some proxying.

This is all pretty rudimentary, but the big-brain realization is that a more robust version could be done by pairing Minio to s3x if we wanted to self-host an IPFS node with those specific features.

deadsuperhero,
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There’s some valid questions as to whether this brings decent benefits, of if it’s just a hype technology that’s mostly drawbacks. I’m not totally sure yet.

That said, I can think of a few narrow applications where something like this might actually be really interesting, like a Fediverse cache for URL and media previews for instances, or some kind of limited holdover service for media and data for an instance that’s bitten the dust.

Anyway, interesting learning experience, might be able to do something with it.

deadsuperhero,
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@ilja So far, the easiest workaround (that was surprisingly easy for us) was to use an Object Storage service that puts everything in IPFS, but serves it back with an S3-compatible API.

After a lot of bumping around and figuring out the pieces, it ended up working better than expected! In practice, though, it just works like regular Object Storage. A next step might be to try to make Mastodon serve back the CID and render it directly, instead of proxying the S3 endpoint.

onepict, (edited ) to random
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"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing".

Joe MacMillan
Halt and Catch Fire Pilot.

deadsuperhero,
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@onepict Absolutely incredible series. It was a great insight into what being at the center of the desktop revolution and the explosion of the World Wide Web was like. It’s also a great musing on failure, due to how we sometimes prioritize the wrong things.

deadsuperhero,
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@onepict I’d also go as far to say that the bean-counting tendencies of business makes it difficult for them to take risks or do things that are new and visionary.

We see that with The Giant, which was an engineering achievement, but also removed all traces of personality to instead focus on specs and releasing on time. What Cameron was originally doing with it was special, and different, and the unveiling of the Macintosh was a big realization for Joe that he fucked up.

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