Kelson (Tech and Testing)
@KelsonTalksTech@snac24.keysmash.xyz
New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
Added some (partial) support for Event object types.
Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink
@grunfink I submitted a PR to update MacPorts' snac to 2.53 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23996
GitHub Actions CI passed OK!
As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it will be up to someone else to merge it.
Thank you for your continued improvements and to khm and kvibber for their contributions as well!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
@grunfink Totally unexpected yet welcome:
Someone else submitted a PR to improve the MacPorts' snac Portfile to work with older versions of gcc and tested on a version of OS X I haven't used as a "daily driver" in years:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/23999
My approach with newer code on older OSes has typically been to install newer C compilers such as recent clang/llvm but there are many ways to get similar results!
TIL that @organicmaps has a (very WIP, but still) desktop app, and so now I can produce side-by-side comparisons. Voilà the query for "café" in #Toulon
Note also how the information is shown much more explicitly on the OrganicMaps view. The google map only becomes useful to #bike / #pedestrian once you zoom all the way in. Somehow their designers seem to be afraid of contrast or sth. 🤷
I just love how #OSM is so much better, thanks to all involved! 🫶
@organicmaps note that google returned only SIX results here. Out of which one is out of business and one is a duplicate. Which leaves us with four.
@organicmaps returned ~25 results, and while not all of them are strictly-speaking cafés, most of them would be fine to sit down for a coffee, or have an obvious relation like having "Café" in the name.
It's insane that google even fails to find shops like "Columbus Café" which is a french competitor to Starbucks, and which they *do* know about.
Note also that I as a user can (and do) use this map as a note-taking device: every time I find a shop that I'd like to re-visit, I make sure I have them on the map, incl opening hours and other contacts. @streetcomplete and @everydoor are great tools for this, but @organicmaps also allows doing this straight from the app! 😍
This way, every time I write some of this down for my own use, everyone can profit from it.
As always, @mmasnick, has an article that makes sense of what's going on with social media protocols today and the Jack Dorsey interview about his leaving the Bluesky board and funding Nostr.
@KelsonTalksTech postmaster general <--> postmaster specific axis
Origins of Unix
IEEE Spectrum article on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix.
This was an interesting read, especially for the cloak-and-dagger tactics they had to resort to not only to create the OS in the first place, but to do things like distribute bugfixes (because management was afraid that distributing bugfixes would be considered “support”). Literally on the level of “go to the mailbox on such-and-such street after 2pm.”
(Rescued from my Google+ archive)
Using AI to turn body-camera videos into police reports is worrisome given that some AI have been shown to "hallucinate" facts, or summarize events inaccurately, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Phoenix’s 12News. https://www.12news.com/article/tech/artificial-intelligence-police-reports/75-bab7ec96-5521-40fd-a716-6f4ea908f815
Dillo Resurrected
OSNews reports that Dillo has released a new version for the first time in almost a decade!
Now there’s a blast from the past!
Dillo (as in armadillo) is a super-minimalist web browser for Linux and related systems that’s especially useful on low-end hardware. I used it for a while back in the early 2000s, though not as my primary browser. It was great for reading documentation, though, because it was so fast (and docs usually don’t need JavaScript (and if they do, they shouldn’t)).
I haven’t really kept up with it since 2009 or so, not long after the the major 2.0 release, but I built its RPMs for a while. First on my desktop for RHL/Fedora, then on multi-boot partitions to build for older versions and other distributions like SuSe and Mandriva, then using User-Mode Linux (an older virtualization system). I later moved the build system to an expendable frankenputer after an OS installer trashed my partition table. The last set of RPMs I built were for Fedora and RHEL back in 2009. (These days, with containers and modern virtualization, it would be *so* much easier and safer to do all on one box!)
Apparently the project stalled in 2016 after one of the main developers, Sebastian Geerken died. A few years later, lead developer Jorge Arellano Cid just stopped posting online. A couple of years after that, the domain name expired and was picked up by a spammer. (I should see if I still have any links to the old site on here and update them.)
It’s sad to hear that Sebastian passed away.
I hope Jorge is okay and just off-grid somewhere.
This year’s new project has brought it up to date with modern SSL/TLS capabilities, which is a much bigger deal now than it seemed to be in the early 2000s, as well as improved CSS support and other improvements. I’ll have to try out how well it handles today’s (static) web. I bet it’ll run great on the PineTab2!
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2024/05/dillo-resurrected/
@KelsonTalksTech i've got one news site i'm following via fedi, which is .@arstechnica -- their posting rate isn't too overwhelming but i find that i always end up not just boosting their post but making my own post so i can add some commentary to the link.
and informal "quote boosting" (linking to their post instead of to the direct web site link) is more annoying for everybody because mastodon is so hit or miss about showing the link preview
:D le sigh
@KelsonTalksTech .@arstechnica also they put tracking links in the posts which irks me, but
hate the game, not the playa
And link preview is one of those things that should be simple, but ends up not being.
I should see how Akkoma's quote boosts show up on other platforms.
I'm just glad that blockquotes are finally supported on Mastodon. That was IMO the biggest issue with their HTML sanitizer. Lists, bold and italics, and code blocks are nice, but blockquotes and formatted links are really bad to strip out!
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It was 69% complete, right below the threshold. Since then there has been no significant change. If you are a K-9 Mail user and a native Korean speaker, please consider helping out.https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tb-android/-/ko/
(via https://mastodon.online/users/thunderbird/statuses/112406352172983453 )
What call?
Oh, I had one go straight to spam about a minute ago.
That I didn't get an alert for.
Because IT WAS SPAM.
Which means I don't need any alerts about it.
Including your request for feedback.
The dangerous Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA now has a House version, and some lawmakers are seeking to attach the bill to must-pass legislation. Legislation of this magnitude deserves to pass—or fail—on its own merits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill
FediTest is progressing. Major update this week.
Blog post: https://feditest.org/blog/2024-04-30-update/
Want to try the work-in-progress? https://feditest.org/docs/quickstart/
And hopefully make this one something that will be less distracting.
Still going to post some tech stuff here though.
