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You could YIFF! on yiff.life, if you prefer. A lot of instances change the verb.

>> It wont "work" for the same reason everyone doesn't host their own email service. It flies in the face of a broader cultural movement we have: specialization of labor.

Define work. By many valid metrics, it's already a resounding success.

Release #100.

Yes! I use Scrivener. It exists because the developer needed a better tool to write novels. I end up too disorganized trying to write with other tools like word processors or flat files.

I managed to write a 25,000 word story in a word processor once, but it was such a jumble that I just closed the file and forgot about writing for a few years. I know now there are ways to organize with folders and spreadsheets, but now I do most of my writing on the phone. Scrivener's binder makes that easy on a small screen.

It's the new making money blogging by blogging about making money blogging.

Is a ship that big bothered by anything less than a hurricane?

I put in bisexual. It returned those colors, but also returned the colors for the pansexual pride flag. https://picular.co/bisexual

I wonder what kind of magic is going on under the hood.

Apple Maps lists a whole bunch of data providers. OpenStreetMap is among them.

I've probably seen more furballs in ~2 years of Mastodon than I did in years of furry Twtter.

10,000 prototype apps/mockups sprung up (a good thing) after mastodon.design popped up. Some of them are bound to launch with this feature.

I've gotten a couple of these in Instapaper from Bloomberg, but most articles work fine.

No one really knows a general "right" thing to do. Even someone who's found a right thing can't be much help if they just say what they did right. The best you can do is avoid doing the wrong things while probing around for a right thing. It's a way of thinking called inversion.

Try 100 things while avoiding common pitfalls. One of them will probably pan out.

>> "Granted, even this information gets tainted: narcissist parents, for example, might come across as their parents being nice, but them not being nice to their parents."

You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat someone they don't like. Some people get downright cruel with people they don't like, and it's a huge red flag because some day they may find reason to not like you. You're just setting yourself up to become a target once you find yourself on their bad side.

You sometimes see this when someone's hating on a public figure. They insult the person's weight, appearance, and speculate about their sexuality. I am never surprised when these people turn out to be abusers and harassers.

And if you just want a one-person instance, there are managed solutions like masto.host.

At least someone is.

From the iOS security guide PDF (https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....):

>> "To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor cannot initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures."

Is this vaporwave?

A good native app is still preferable. I understand, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

I'm looking forward to it. It's fast now because it's at least 4x more powerful than my old one (going by benchmarks), but I won't turn down 40% more. Especially if that translates to better battery life doing average CPU-light stuff.

I take more photos now that I can just pick the thing up to a powered-on screen--I guess it uses some gyroscope and accelerometer magic--and swipe from the right.

Replacing my 3 year old Moto G3 with a 3 year old 6S Plus was one of the best calls I've made in years. It's a weird feeling being current on an older phone, and knowing that it's got at least one more OS update coming. I know it's flagship vs. budget, but the way the Android phone began decaying before it even got here was still inexcusable.

I'd never really used an Apple device before, so it was easy to knock them for this thing or that, but I wouldn't go back after actually seeing how their philosophy works.

So they want to shove their shoddy recommendation engine into the few interesting things I find. I don’t think they thought this through.

For the friend who has everything.

You might like https://playvicious.social/. The impression I get from his toots is he's trying to carve out a space where marginalized people, and especially people of color, can just be without having to deal with unsolicited opinions since you can report and expect that someone who understands will deal with it.

Tooting is a more wholesome activity. Tweeting is an inherently performative act due to the nature of the platform. To toot is to be.

Nope. Hbomberguy suggested it jokingly, and then it was done.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/100419966679180204

Not everything is a cynical ploy. There are still pure and wholesome things in this world.

I had to stop using Reddit with the recent redesign. There's no way to get at a community you like without being stuck on the platform. The growing ActivityPub ecosystem is different. I can hop over to another instance and still talk to the same people.

I can't do that with /r/DaystromInstitute. It's lost to me because I don't want to deal with Reddit. Maybe it's less intuitive--and I think nerds give average users way too little credit--but I prefer it to losing access to a community over platform decisions.

Preventing this damage without a speed limit was the function of Voyager's moving warp nacelles. I think they solved it without moving parts in later designs.

No one asked for a citation on the widespread claim that exposing bad ideas to the light makes them go away, or at least decline in popularity. It's stated and taken as truth, but no one provided proof that it's true. I matched the standard of evidence applied to the original claim.

It might be wise to actually investigate that bit of "common sense" before betting the future of the world on people's ability to deal with a flood of misinformation. Maybe I'm wrong. No one bothered to back it up with evidence though. Start there, not with my response to the claim.

You could wisely point out I claimed there's research, and I could at least provide it. The research I've seen tells me this won't help since people tend to discount research that goes against their beliefs, and use research that supports those beliefs as reinforcement. It won't do you any good if you start out with a strong belief in the unsupported original claim, as seems to be the case with most people I see here making it.

This thread is a good example of the "sunlight is the best disinfectant" fallacy.

It is debunked by research. The thread has countless instances of it. In each, someone goes to the trouble of debunking it. The "exposing bad ideas reduces their power" camp is unmoved. The "the research says you're wrong" camp is unmoved.

The false notion is firmly wedged into the public mind because the research came too late. I don't know a good way to prevent this while not shutting down good but unpopular ideas. Letting Nazis, goofballs, and fascists on to all the big social media platforms has obviously not reduced their numbers.