Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.

I certainly appreciate the innovation in an era of reiteration.

Now that 4.3 is done, our focus for the next release will be on implementing the highly requested features of quote posts, as well as the ability for server operators to subscribe to managed blocklists, which along with our new initiative of pluggable fediverse discovery providers should make running small and medium-sized fediverse servers much more viable; and with Ghost entering the fediverse, further improving how long-form content from other fediverse platforms is displayed within Mastodon.

Personally, I’m looking forward to the quote posts. Hopefully it’ll make discussions easier to read.

Russ (Retro Game Corps) was so confident with his CEMU video he didn’t think he’d be a target despite everyone in the comments saying otherwise.

[…] so why were only Apple phones affected?

The answer, it seems, is because Apple recently defected from traditional quartz-based clocks in its phones in favor of clocks that are also made of MEMS silicon. Given that clocks are the most critical device in any computer and are necessary to make the CPU function, their disruption with helium atoms is enough to crash the device.

In this case, the leaking helium from the MRI machine infiltrated the iPhones like a “tiny grain of sand” and caused the MEMS clocks to go haywire.

Tooting the way you’d toot a horn/trumpet, or in this case an elephant trunk.

I can follow and see content from both accounts via the Ice Cubes app.

EDIT: I just realized you can’t see the posts in your timeline. I can only see as far as 2 days ago via my app, so unless you’re able to post an image more recent I can’t help out. Sorry!

I guess this ties into marketing, but I think rebranding the “fediverse” as the “social web” would be a good start. It has a broad neutral tone that I think is easier for regular people to latch on to.

I use it on occasion between Mastodon and Bluesky. My initial reaction was that I needed to organize my follows better so content wasn’t duplicating in the merged feed.

That’s a great point. Here’s the Mastodon donation link in case anyone was interested!

I think I could get behind an instance subscription, granted it wasn’t an obscene amount. I wonder what the upkeep on mastodon.social could be.

So basically sign-in with Google?

The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.

I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.

The map is impressive, yes, but that Lego storage area at the end 🤌🤌

Maybe next year we could reserve the center of the canvas to a fediverse logo to distinguish it from other canvas-like projects.

I’m interested, but that added shipping cost is not appealing.

Good advertising strategy.

Looking forward to catching up on architecture and design blogs that never made the full migration to Mastodon.

Gallacher later told 404 Media that the email was something of “a joke,” but reaffirmed the agency’s wish to obtain a Cybertruck before other agencies, even if more for “community engagement” than using it as a patrol vehicle.

In other words, we have too much money.

The first time our house was broken into and the thieves made off with our SNES and about 20-odd games. I still have some memories of going to the mall as a kid with my dad and brother excitedly lugging the SNES and Super Scope boxes through the mall.

The second time our house was broken into (different house and neighbourhood) years later the thieves stole my Gameboy Color, DS lite, and about 25 games between the two handhelds complete with every single box.

Some 20 years later I say I’m over it, but I still feel a knot in my stomach just revisiting the memories.