mattswift

@mattswift@mastodon.social

Just a guy who lives in Wigan, England - He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

Administrator of Ephinea #PSOBB, owner of the Ragol #PSO server and the #PSP2i wiki.

Huge #PhantasyStar nerd.

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gamingonlinux, to pokemon
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

The Pokémon Company confirm investigation into Palworld https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-pokemon-company-confirm-investigation-into-palworld/

mattswift,

@gamingonlinux I suspect this is a bit of a nothingburger - you can't patent a concept and I'm sure Nintendo is aware of this, but they felt like they had to respond to all the "fans" messaging them about this.

I would expect nothing to happen here.

Daojoan, to random
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

It's time to ditch the chaos of Slack and Discord communities and make a return to the organised, focused world of forums.

They aren't obsolete.

They aren't real time.

They just fucking work.

mattswift,

@Daojoan I love forums, and I really wish people would use them, but how do you get people to use them?

I have a couple of forums for a couple of video games, that used to be active before Discord happened, but even though they still exist (they never went anywhere!), people just stopped using them.

The people who made forums active - the "always online" people - are those who vastly prefer Discord for its real-time communication aspect, and as such, people just don't find things on forums.

protonmail, (edited ) to random
@protonmail@mastodon.social avatar

Here's a recap of the Proton Pass features launched in the past 6 months. What would you like to see next?

👪 Securely share passwords with anyone
🌐 A dedicated web app
💬 Localization in 13 languages
🤖 Sentinel account protection
⚡ Improved auto-save and auto-fill
🔢 2FA TOTP autofill
💳 Credit card support
🔒 PIN lock
🔖 Pinned items on iOS
🔤 Custom fields
#️⃣ Password history

mattswift,

@protonmail Fingers crossed that desktop apps includes support for Linux!

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

E3 is officially dead, and so is the version of the industry it was made for

Direct online marketing, distribution made an expensive annual show unnecessary.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/how-the-internet-killed-e3/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

mattswift,

@arstechnica Has the show format really died, though?

Feels to me like E3 specifically has been replaced by other events for people to advertise, such as The Game Awards.

Mastodon, to mastodon
@Mastodon@mastodon.social avatar

Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

mattswift,

@pmroman @Greengordon @Mastodon Their own bio.

If someone's bio says something like "head of software engineering", it's probably not a good idea to try to "explain" something like git to them - they will 100% already know and it comes off as patronising.

Same if you try to "educate" someone on a topic like law, but actually they're already a lawyer, so your legal 101 is not helpful.

That's all it's about.

matthiasott, to random
@matthiasott@mastodon.social avatar

If you have a personal website: what platform, CMS, SSG, tech stack, or service are you using for it? Would you pick it again? How much technical expertise did it require to set up and make it your own? And do you have to do a lot of maintenance?

Once more – you guessed it – I’m asking for my subscribers. 😉
RT = 🎉

mattswift,

@matthiasott Plain HTML/CSS in a text editor, hosted on my own personal VPS - I tried a CMS but it felt like it was just too much for what I needed, and there's something somewhat relaxing and fulfilling knowing you did it all from scratch.

jonny, to random
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

Hey any journalists on here plz turn your public post indexing on, because most of you haven't and thats why people looking for public information cant find you.

Go to settings > public profile > privacy and reach, select "include public posts in search results"

Not all the fedi wants to be a public space, and thats fine, but some parts should be right now.

mattswift,

@marcel @Natanox @jonny Assuming you read it while browsing Mastodon, you don't need to remember it using the built-in search either. As long as your post reaches the other instance (which it will on any moderately sized one), it can be found through anyone searching it.

It's true that you won't reach the small instances most likely however, but I suspect people on small instances know how to find things they want.

mattswift,

@HeNeArXn @marcel @Natanox @jonny @buercher ah woops, I admit I have not looked at the docs for a while so I just assumed that was the page

Sheril, to science
@Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

isn’t “facts.” It isn’t “truth.”

It’s a dynamic process in which we’re always testing hypotheses & learning more about our world.

mattswift,

@Sheril I've always liked to think of science as an observation of the world around us. It simply explains how things work and why things happen.

It doesn't dictate any rules and its explanations are not infallible, just like how we change our views or understanding as new observations are made.

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

“Scrollbars are becoming a problem”

The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective evidence that the people who run tech do not give a single solitary fuck about usability or UX https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html

mattswift,

@baldur The minimap thing is so true. I only learned of their existence recently with Kwrite and Kate but I so wish everything had them. Fuck scrollbars, bring on the minimaps.

gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

What are you playing this weekend and why isn't it Armored Core 6?

mattswift,

@gamingonlinux No money :(

renchap, to mastodon
@renchap@oisaur.com avatar

Full text search has been merged in main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉

It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.

We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.

mattswift,

@developit @renchap All posts get indexed regardless of content, but only if the poster decides that they're indexed.

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by the question (do you mean a non-indexable post, or an indexable post with no text?), but image-only posts will be searchable using has:image.

gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

Loving the new hashtag styling on posts in Mastodon 4.2.

If you put them on an extra separate line, they get nicely styled.

Example attached

mattswift,

@gamingonlinux Bad (or good?) news: They already changed this, the bubbles will be removed next update and just become grey text instead. It seems some individuals thought they were too visually noisy and worse than before.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26606

See image attached.

mattswift, to mastodon

Looks like the pull request has been merged to become part of in 4.2.0.

Looking at the details:

  1. Public posts only
  2. Account-level setting, so all public posts show up in search, or none.
    2a. You can swap between these two states any time, and it will hide your posts, or re-add them to search.
  3. You can choose to have your profile or posts discoverable separately, it doesn't have to be both.

And of course, requires ElasticSearch on the Mastodon instance.

dimillian, to random
@dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

This is so nice, Mastodon web UI displays tags as buttons if you add them after a new line at the end of your post.

mattswift,

@dimillian For what it's worth, they are no longer buttons in the next Mastodon update, as Claire has changed them to be more lowkey:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26606

Image attached.

mattswift,

@dimillian Same actually, supposedly some people didn't like the buttons as "too noisy" but I thought the buttons were nice.

aral, to technology
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

If the thing you’re making wouldn’t exist if people had to opt in instead of having to opt out, maybe the thing you’re making shouldn’t exist.

mattswift,

@aral This kind of depends, I know this is about tech but here's a prime example: The UK made organ donation opt-out, because most people won't make the effort to actively opt-in. Would you disagree that was a bad idea?

Then there's things that people like which depend on consent from many users: Full text search for example. In cases like this, I like opt-either where you must pick your preference.

Most people are not informed about choices (or even look!), what we need is better information.

blogdiva, to random
@blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

FOR FUCK'S SAKE MASTODON, WHY CAN'T I FIND MY OWN POSTS?!?!

i should be able to run

@blogdiva search term(s)__

and find my own posts, not everybody and their fucking mother who has used @blogdiva on a post.

why is this impossible?!?

mattswift,

@blogdiva Hi, you can already search only your own posts in Mastodon and I believe it's been implemented for a bit.

Your search term needs to be:

from:blogdiva SEARCHTERM

Without the @, it's a standard search prefix that's common in search engines. I wish I understood how Mastodon sorts searched posts though, but I think it's becoming chronological soon.

Edit: I decided to double check, this feature has been in Mastodon since Feb 13, 2022, it's this commit here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/9a015e43ef173a3afc93cc1d06fd7f76adb8876a

ThePlant, to random
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    mattswift,

    @ThePlant @gamingonlinux tbh, I did some thinking about this and yeah, Proton itself is "just patches for Wine" (although it's a lot of patches that went upstream to seriously improve compatibility).

    However Valve integrated Proton extremely well into Steam, they helped get Vulkan off the ground, they helped the DXVK project, among other things, which got things going.

    It would be like saying Tim Berners-Lee didn't do anything for the Web because he didn't make "the Internet"

    mattswift,

    @ThePlant @gamingonlinux True!

    The real point though is that if Valve never got involved, we'd still almost have no games to play, and probably using some complicated management program.

    So whatever Proton actually is, Valve absolutely deserves a lot of credit for the state of Linux gaming.

    mattswift,

    @ThePlant @gamingonlinux I'm actually curious... whatever did you do to them?

    MastodonEngineering, to mastodon
    @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social avatar

    The second beta of 4.2.0 has arrived. We're getting there! See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta2

    mattswift,

    @seachanger @mikey @MastodonEngineering @fediversereport To clarify a bit further as well, if there are loads and loads of hashtags, it will also show a "+ x more" as well, so it can't take up an infinite amount of space. Here's the example from Eugen's first proposal for this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26260

    mattswift,

    @seachanger @mikey @MastodonEngineering @fediversereport True, although I'd question exactly how many people are using the web UI on a phone - probably looks fine on a desktop, maybe!

    MrDrumble, to webdev

    Is there no free way to test a website in Safari without an Apple device? Seems bafflingly but true so far. The Windows version was discontinued years ago.

    mattswift,

    @MrDrumble Unfortunately no direct way to do it.

    In regards to CSS, Firefox 117 and beyond in its dev tools will tell you when certain CSS is not compatible with other browsers (including Safari), but this can only get you so far.

    Otherwise you're going to have to spin up a VM, I think. Getting a macOS ISO file from an official source is quite difficult though.

    graue, to random
    @graue@social.coop avatar

    Finally, Mastodon is about to have a normal search function that actually works!

    Well, almost. You'll have to opt into it by making your account "discoverable," which is off by default. That's not ideal imo because most people will want to be found and not know to turn this on.

    Still, progress! You can also opt individual posts out by setting their privacy to "Unlisted."

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

    mattswift,

    @claudius @graue @spongefile Is this not possibly self-selection bias? The people who want to be found and seen by everyone tend to stick to the bigger social networks (which we should be trying to get them off for various reasons IMO!), and they bounce off Mastodon because they feel they can't be found easily, or cannot find others easily.

    People on the Fedi who don't want to be found already know how to make that happen, so I think the original assessment is probably correct.

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