lolbat

@lolbat@fosstodon.org

Edmonton Alberta based player of board games and collector of odd Mac apps. Writes for a hobby and does odd jobs around the house. Feeder of local dog

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lolbat, to Facebook

Everyone who thinks that Facebook should be given the benefit of the doubt and that their service should be allowed to federate because there will be good people using it should be required to federate with gab.com to show their commitment to open networks.

andyn, to random
@andyn@social.lol avatar

I couldn’t agree with Gruber more on this take actually. I’m equally no fan of Meta, but preemptively blocking their entry into federation seems like a dick move on the face of it https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

lolbat,

@andyn If you know that a punch is coming why not try to avoid it? Defederating a Facebook instance limits the reach of people willing to use it and thus limits the potential harm Facebook can do. Lets not forget what happened to Jabber.

carnage4life, to random
@carnage4life@mas.to avatar

I’m seeing bits and pieces of rants by various server admins in the Fediverse that are upset at the idea of big companies building ActivityPub compatible services.

This is really weird to me given many of us have been advocating for social network interop from the OpenSocial days but that got distracted by widgets/gadgets.

This comes across more like gate keeping in the same way nerds don’t want their favorite bands or hobbies to go mainstream.

https://calckey.social/notes/9g6tq8dysxqagm4n

lolbat,

@andresmh @dwgill @carnage4life So you’re willing to risk everything on the off chance that 3E won’t work this time?

grimalkina, to random
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

I'm so tired of the way that so many otherwise really interesting essays end with 3 Bullet Points about Things You Should Do. They're usually generic and kinda pointless and often massively out of tone with an otherwise thoughtful piece of work. I doubt they create any change.

lolbat,

@grimalkina Is it something added to increase Google Page Rank perhaps?

lolbat,

@grimalkina There are many annoying things that people add to articles, recipes or online stores because Google wants it as part of their analysis. The TOC at the top of articles for example.

heyfluxay, to random
@heyfluxay@retro.pizza avatar

I haven't watched a Star Trek series and years. But I might have to jump in and try Strange New Worlds and Picard.

lolbat,

@heyfluxay Really couldn’t finish the second season of Picard. Watched the first two episodes and never went back. It just seemed like every TNG storyline jammed into a single series.

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Do any of you have a “to do” list app that you really like? Ideally one that would ask questions eg “what is a task you need to do?” … “is it a multi step task?” … “are there things you must do FIRST?” etc.

Basically a linear question tree that then makes a to do list. I’m thinking of making one this summer but it probably already exists.

lolbat,

@futurebird @Verso I use an outliner for that sort of thing. What platform are you using?

benjaminhollon, to random
@benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org avatar

I tried to troubleshoot issues with two printers last night and all I have to show for it is a cyan thumbnail.

lolbat,

@benjaminhollon Now you can pretend that you have voted somewhere interesting like India or Indonesia. Or Texas

jbzfn, to random
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

Tried to pronounce "autistic" during an [en] interview, it was interpreted as "artistic".

Only caught it afterwards, when asked about what type of art I liked.

Not that type of "Man of Culture" 😅

lolbat,

@jbzfn On an episode if the IT Crowd one of the characters talks about his girlfriend saying she thought he was on the “artistic spectrum”.

colepeters, to random

Weekend plans

lolbat,

@sarajw @colepeters Maybe it is a spittoon and he is planning on eating them?

lolbat, to apple

Messing around with a cool new photo processor from @retrospecs . Very nice control over dithering and blending levels

PICO-8 (Dither: Bayer 8x8, Blend mode: Normal (Conversion) - 50%)

Created in #Retrospecs for #iOS - https://8bitartwork.co.uk

benjaminhollon, to random
@benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org avatar

Watching Star Wars: A New Hope with my family. I giggled at the line "Only Imperial Stormtroopers are that precise." XD

lolbat,

@benjaminhollon They really did mess that line up

thelinuxcast, to random
@thelinuxcast@fosstodon.org avatar

I'm honestly okay with Meta doing an ActivityPub thing of their own. Will it drown out the rest of the Fediverse? I don't know. I know some people are claiming that it will, but I don't think it will be that bad. First, who spends so much time in the Federated Timeline? The local will remain just your instance and boosts from others, so that's not an issue. And then you have your home which is only people you follow.

There may be technical reasons why this is bad, but I wouldn't know.

lolbat,

@thelinuxcast Meta is run by sociopathic twats. What positive reason do you think they have for adopting any standard?

molly0xfff, to random
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

🤔

lolbat,

@molly0xfff I wonder if the SEC lawyers just pin those covers up on a wall as a “to-do” list now?

danielpunkass, to random
@danielpunkass@mastodon.social avatar

Looks like Reddit messed with the wrong developer. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

lolbat,

@danielpunkass The best part of that whole post is just how much the Reddit execs are trying to cast dispersions on him as an excuse for their own shitty behaviour

brianhough, to internet
@brianhough@mastodon.social avatar

Heartbroken for @christianselig, for the community, and for the Reddit community as a whole. Without Apollo, my time on Reddit done - when the lights go out at Apollo on June 30, the lights are going out on my account, too. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/110509776951244000

lolbat,

@brianhough @heyfluxay @christianselig So there are worse things than being “Sherlocked”.

vwbusguy, to programming
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

Me: My backlog of projects is more than a little ridiculous right now. I've got to get caught up.

My brain: Hey, I bet we could write a #COBOL to #BASIC translator pretty quickly with a bit of #Python.

lolbat,

@vwbusguy Me: No-one could describe my working life in two sentences.
@vwbusguy: Hold my beer!

timbray, to apple
@timbray@cosocial.ca avatar

I think I’m one of the (few?) humans who could use the new Apple iFacePlate right now. I’ve got this project where I’m intensely editing a large complex doc, frequently accessing several other large complex docs (& browser) for materials. I have a big outboard screen, but still a painful amount of window shuffling. The ability to simultaneously display and read more BIG windows than any physical screen could manage would make my life way easier.

#VisionPro #apple

lolbat,

@timbray That sounds more like a problem with window management and task management on the Mac.

Are you using anything to manage/arrange your windows?

lolbat,

@timbray I was just going to come here and say “Noooooooooooo!”

Something like Moom

https://manytricks.com/moom/

ben, to random
@ben@werd.social avatar

The perfect programming language. https://github.com/TodePond/DreamBerd

lolbat,

@ben @timbray I laughed myself sick reading this and when my wife looked at me to see what was so funny I just had no way to explain it to her.

HumanServitor, to random
@HumanServitor@mastodon.social avatar

#meme #funny #old

lolbat,

@HumanServitor @cstross I commented to my partner once that the gossip magazines at the grocery store could be making people up and I wouldn’t know the difference.

Magda_Gippert, to neuroscience

Our paper "Prior movement of one arm facilitates motor adaptation in the other" is out @ #JNeurosci.

We show that the direction of a prior movement of the other arm is an effective cue to allow adaptation to interfering force fields. The brain seems to use kinematic information in learned sequences involving different body parts to adjust movements of the same sequence.

Also our data is pretty.

#motorlearning #motorcontrol #motoradaptation @sensorimotor @neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2166-22.2023

lolbat,

@Magda_Gippert @konstantin @sensorimotor Is that mapping specific neuron data by colour? It is very trippy

markmccaughrean, to random
@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social avatar

While you have to give credit to The Guardian for running Simon Evans' rebuttal to Rowan Atkinson's wibble about electric vehicles last week, it does beg the question of why they ran his opinion piece without proper fact-checking it in the first place.

Because you can be sure that Atkinson's genial celebrity status will ensure his views remain far more widely read & disseminated than the rebuttal.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-check-why-rowan-atkinson-is-wrong-about-electric-vehicles

lolbat,

@markmccaughrean @aburka Most media outlets are only working for clicks and social media engagement now.

TodePond, to random

figuring out how some curves should work...

lolbat,

@TodePond What math is that based on?

lolbat,

@TodePond I didn’t see the beginning of the conversation so I was curious if it was some sort of spline-based 2D math

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