Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

well if i manually do the oauth stuff i can at least point a json blob at a masto

pls ignore

do any aside from the official Mastodon app support posting via Shortcuts? it’s the only one i’ve found and even its support is lacking (no CW; no unlisted visibility)

※ Note: I’m quite happy with my current app and don’t want to pay a subscription fee just for this feature, but a one-time fee might be worth it if it’s good.

i don't like that i had to learn what this means

printf '%s' "$$(echo '<![CDATA['; cat $1 | tr '\000\013\014' '\032\011\012' | sed $$(printf '%s%b' 's/]]>/]]]]><!\[CDATA\[>/g;s/\xEF\xBF\xBE/�/g;s/\xEF\xBF\xBF/�/g;$$!s/\r$$//g;s/\r/\n/g;$$!s/\xC2\x85$$//g;s/\xC2\x85/\n/g;s/\xE2\x80\xA8/\n/g;' 's/[\001-\010]/�/g;s/[\016-\037]/�/g'); | echo ']]>')"

fine but like, why are you posting your code on a website designed to maximize drive-by contributions from complete strangers then

but at the same time there are fairly indie, single-developer projects out there where the person in charge actually knows how to listen and communicate and it CAN work; there are projects i am subscribed to on github where i read about every message because the discussions are largely good and interesting

and then there are the projects run by people in tech who just wanted to make their idea a reality and selectively communicate with people who either already agree with them or meet some notability criteria they respect

“what if we made developing software like social media but minus any features which make managing social communities easy or good”

i do actually think github is bad but in the way that i think if the people who ran notable project githubs instead ran forums, they would be the saddest, most depressing forums around, whereas github just normalizes it

“i used to think github was bad, but actually it’s just that tech culture is bad and lots of tech people use github”

apparently the U·S recently vetoed a U·N vote for a ceasefire, as they do

« Secretary of State Antony Blinken once said of the war in Ukraine that the targeting of heat, water and electricity was a “brutalization of Ukraine’s people” and “barbaric.” The Biden administration should acknowledge that the same holds true in Gaza. »

imagine if google only indexed pages that human users actually visited and then clicked a button saying “i found this helpful”

some folks in a slack talking about how the rise in LLMs has led to an increase in web spider activity and i’m just like what if we didn’t allow that

“wouldn’t that kill google?” yes, that would kill google

i think a lot of the problems of the internet would be solved if they just made it illegal to run a web crawler of nontrivial magnitude

tolkien wasn’t tolkien by being an ideas guy

“by writing my magnum opus, i will establish myself as the world’s next Tolkien!!” buddy, if you want to be the world’s next tolkien u first gotta get a Ph.D. and write like several articles or translations of folklore

oignyoun

an exception to this is domain-specific technology when the people in your domain are both largely good and numerous enough to maintain most of the necessary components of their ecosystem, which is why i work in library tech, but