I cannot believe Alsobrooks might loose her race. Hogan was a horrible governor who somehow remained popular and will absolutely crush the national agenda in the US Senate — do you think we get Red Line support with the guy who killed it and harmed Baltimore for a generation?
Demon Slayer S1 E19 has an intense ending.
Hulu makes it so difficult to find the next episode of a show that I’m in the middle of watching. I’m not sure I could use the app anymore without the TV App.
@pratik yeah, I mean I scroll it for 5-10 minutes a day, but I appreciate the replies I get there.
Threads crossposting (still in beta) stopped working for my blog and I can say for sure that I miss it. Threads has succeeded a drawing in a lot of the people I know (in real life) where all other forms of post Twitter social media remains a space for the chronically online.
@pratik I think 98% of it is people underestimate how large a community has to be to find "their" community online. Think about how many people you're friends with from your metro area. The other 2% is people forgetting that virtually all the things they're against adding to MB due to the "virality" aspect or "performance" aspect are the things that make discovery and surfacing "quality" significantly easier.
Community with blogs necessarily places the burden on ourselves.
@briandigital the "firehose" is an administration-only view. It is not available to users.
@Havn confirmed that this post worked. It has div for gallery but I also just used regular markdown for the images (which is my preference over the shortcode) json.blog/2024/09/0...
@Ddanielson it’s ok to have preferences. It’s not ok to assume you have a right to have those preferences met exactly anywhere you go.
@pratik I think the best way to be unhappy in the current world is assume choosing one thing means not choosing another. 95% of frustration I see seems to come from that idea— one app, one service, one place, that gives me everything I want as a user and nothing I don’t.
The way to happiness is using whatever whenever based on what you want at that time.
@gregmorris pickup and drop more than drag, IMO. Swiping no, because I'm probably trying to go "fast" and the "bump" will make it feel like a speed bump. But drag and drop is a little "precious" on touch interfaces, so I think feedback is helpful.
Mental health victory: over the last few years I’ve worked hard to reach this place and I think I’ve achieved it– for the first time in a decade, my hobbies are important and fulfilling again.
@manton we significantly reduced all kind of problems we had with other transactional email when we moved to SES.
Mike is being thoughtful about why people don’t use Linux, but I’ll just be glib about it. The hardware sucks and the application software sucks.
@khurtwilliams it’s a separate app. Current version is now Reeder Classic and will keep being supported.
@pratik I’m not excited about one of my most important apps not being the one the developer is excited about. Existing and being supported doesn’t feel like enough. That said, I’ve got options.
This is much more about me finding the whole thesis of the new app utterly baffling and unlike any experience I’d ever want. I couldn’t get it less, though I hope it finds an audience.
I’ve been trying really hard to consider whether or not something is worth saying at all before posting. This is not worth saying, but I can’t stop thinking it: the new version of Reeder could not be less “for me”. I don’t get it at all, so I’m going to stay being the old man yelling at cloud now.
@leah I'm so happy to be wearing layers again. Looks like a great day.
@AlexKucera this would strongly point to that since that’s what the DNS lookup returns
@Havn if you don’t have new lines surrounding the short code while it’s in a div I think a lot of weird shit can happen. True generally for mixing html and markdown.
@manton @alexkucera dig is showing the CNAME pointing to the IP address. You need it to point to username.micro.blog (for me jsonbecker.micro.blog)
@Havn I don't think I've seen that issue before.
@thorgal Feedbin has the newsletter -> RSS thing which helps a lot. Otherwise, I will sometimes use another service, though I've very rarely needed that. Luckily, I have not found that RSS is "dead" by any stretch, and most things I want have it.
I was excited about what I had heard about JPEGXL. But this sounds terrifying.
The correct tax on unrealized gains is a strong estate tax.
@MultoGhost I really wish there was a solution that was light weight that I also felt understood well enough to maintain. I love the look, but it’s also felt just a bit too complex to get right without rebuilding the universe around it.
@pratik I’m glad we figured it out.
@bryan that’s fair, but far more about not liking what Micro.blog has chosen to do than not liking the IndieWeb ideas. In fact, you want exactly what IndieWeb folks have tinkered around with. They built a bunch of experiments and primitives that I think pave the way to have what you want, if that’s what you want. To be honest, what you want sounds much more like Tumblr + Echofeed than Ghost or Micro.blog.
@briandigital I agree— there was something a little stiff and stilted, but it had good ideas I’d like to see further developed and a good crew. Everything “wrong” with it could be worked through with time.
@Havn FYI there’s something strnage in how you’re doing these replies that seems to break threading on MIcro.blog.
@jtr I’ve never seen this.
@pratik if your goal is for people to see your replies I definitely think any form of limiting how public they are is likely to create trouble for you.
@pratik this one I see in MB and Ivory
Is The Acolyte the first time that canon Star Wars media was cancelled without a structured ending?
This issue about Bridgy getting “success” messages from Mastodon instances when sending them ActivityPub posts but those posts never showing up sure looks like something some Micro.blog users see.
When I say that Mastodon is not ActivityPub (and AP has problems) this is what I mean.
Apparently, sometimes it takes a bad dream to reveal fears I harbor. Or perhaps anger that’s still simmering.
Fox will never report on this. If they did, not a single member of the military nor their families would ever consider a vote for Trump.
Anyone who cares about foreign policy should be terrified of a Trump presidency.
I am the only person I know that doesn’t find bidets special.
I need to get back on my reading train — give me some good, fun, fast SFF <500 pages.
I don’t know why we have slow, bad service on the light rail because of all these Baltimore County stops where we refuse to do transit oriented development. Ever backwards.
Our HRV lease is up in about 9 months. I think it’s time to go electric. We’d lease again, I think.
Seems to me like the cars to check out are the Ioniq 5, EX30, and XC40 for not-astronomical, smaller crossover, 225+ mile range. What am I missing? Are there 25 model changes I should be aware of?
I still reply a lot on the internet, but I’m getting better. Just now, I read something I know the answer to, started to write it out, and then stopped. I thought, “Is this worth it? What are the costs to helping?” And I decided this time, too high.