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Mastodon character limit is such a weird concept and useless and pointless I can't believe is still there. People who want to say more than a paragraph need to split it into "threads"...insane!
Look:
How the fuck you get to read and interact with a post divided into tens of comments.....
This is silly as fuck people.
If you have no character limit, guess what, you can still make short posts. But not vice-versa.
It is beyond me why this is still a thing in 2025. Artificial limitations.
Man I LOVE Friendica! A proper way to make posts and interact with people. And yet not many are aware of Friendica and how awesome it is.
@Meredith Whittaker you should either move to a Mastodon instance without character limitation or try Friendca. You can even use our node social.trom.tf - and that's for anyone else who is bothered by this artificial limitation of Mastodon.
maybe because limits have some benefits: it is interesting finding ways to express ideas in concise way. Also makes messages clearer for readers when things are short. But my mastodon instance in particular have very high limit set, basically unlimited ☺️ So I believe its a choice to limit or not by instance admin.
I've heard this argument that it may force people to be more concise...idk if true, I've seen many silly short posts, maybe it incentivizes to post a lot more just because you need to make short posts only. In any case users should have control over this when they want to make big posts. Else they end up posting a massive thread of posts basically, which is super hard to follow and engage with. Terrible.
the Mastodon instance can configure the character limit to be longer. It is so annoying to tell people who have never tried Mastodon before that you should check the character limits on the instance you choose to join because that could make your life easier or harder if you like writing long posts. Yet another inconsistency that people have to be aware about which complicates use of the software.
The Mastodon software should have a million character limit and instead offer a separate window in which to view long posts, and otherwise only show the first paragraph by default.
@ramin_hal9001 Yeah I don't like the fact that my Mastodon instance has a character limit. But I also have an account on Friendica to post long stuff when I want to, so that's how I manage.....
@Tio @Meredith Whittaker Yeah, as a neurodiverse person I really struggle to read long "threaded" posts. Something about the UI visual divisions causes my working memory to stack dump as I move between each chunk, making it take 4X as long for me to read it and to lose context badly. My brain over here trying to hold each post in working memory like the "why cant i hold all these limes" guy meme. 😆 It's miserable.
I created a Sharkey account & found out no, no good for watch parties (you can put hashtags in "antennas" but that only gives you a tiny, random-seeming selection of posts with the tags)
It totally depends how connected with the rest of the Friendica that node is....that's all it matters. You can try our instance social.trom.tf and see how it goes.
"if an admin can extend the post size limit in Mastodon then that's a cool feature"
I learned it is not a feature to extend post size limit in Mastodon, but a hardcoded value in code, which is very difficult to change depending on deployment method, but possible. They should make this a feature.
And talking about friendica, it looks outdated (the original theme), which does not provide overall confidence, if comparing to new highly extensible, innovative and beautiful bonfire (for example, a flavor of it for scientists: openscience.network/)
I think the main theme was updated recently...we also have our custom ones trom.tf/social/ and others made some that look like a more modern version of facebook gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf…
Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.
Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.
I was going to use the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' but, given recent years, I suspect the literal meaning of that is 'make a small token effort to avoid it, unless doing so would impact the economy or cause inconvenience'.
Now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics and for Patreon donors on our Discord server which you can join at toplesstopics.org/chat ! Today's project is to draw some "erotic fanart" from whatever fictional media franchise I'm currently obsessed with--maybe some Genshin Impact Gooner Pin-ups, maybe some giantess fetish Lady D art from Resident Evil! Come hang out and see!
There are people who hate art precisely because its value isn’t tied to utility or productivity.
We call them Philistines.
Philistines only crave comfort—technology, convenience, consumption. The idea that art might make you a better person offends them. Even worse if the art doesn’t flatter them.
What defines a Philistine is their demand that art serve an immediate function. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it as worthless.
I only knew Philistines as meaning from bible studies (raised Christian, i'm non-practicing). It's very narrow-minded to be that today!
It's a very fitting label for the people who also dislike literature and music too (as apparently creative writing and some forms of music, according to them, serve no use other than "entertainment")
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@Crissy There’s a book that goes into this in far more detail called Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset, written just before the Spanish Civil War. He called Philistines by another name: mass-men.
The idea behind this book is that mass-men and authoritarianism go hand-in-hand. And I would agree. Elon Musk, for example, is the consummate mass-man. He has no appreciation for aesthetics beyond utility, spectacle, or status.
This, by the way, is why the Cybertruck is so awful.
thanks for sharing about the book & concept of mass men.
What's wonderful (and antithesis to the Cybertruck's shock value and hideous looks) is the Porsche 911, which balances performance with aesthetic coherence developed over decades of refinement!
My takeaway from learning about this is genuine excellence, thoughtful design, and authentic human connection is possible when we are being respectful and kind to all.
The situation in North Gaza is beyond catastrophic. Entire neighborhoods are being wiped off the map — home by home, street by street. People have no electricity, no clean water, no food. Displaced families are sleeping on rubble. Children cry from hunger. Disease is spreading. There are no hospitals left. No aid. No safe zones.
The bombing never stops — and the world remains silent. What’s happening in North Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis. It’s a stain on the conscience of humanity. If you're reading this: ↪️ Please share 💔 Please donate if you can 📣 Please speak out for those who have no voice
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Now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics while I show the hypocrisy of gender-based censorship by drawing areolas on sexy female game and anime characters that ALMOST already show their breasts!
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Hello Fediverse I want to make a short announcement about the social.trom.tf Friendica instance run by my friend @tio
Currently that instance is going through a big server migration process and it will take a couple of hours for it to get finished. So if you mention or send anyone messages during this time it might not reach them.
A whole new meaning to "spin dry"Connextras experiment: https://youtu.be/0xLzDF7PZW8Original video: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8Other stuff:Technology Connec...
Still waiting for that angry letter to the toaster manufacturers or some kind of follow up to your video about the best toaster that isn't made anymore 😀 Every time a new video comes out on your channel I'm hoping you'll come back to that. The biggest cliff hanger in your catalogue 😁
Any chance you could make your stuff visible on some other service? I find YT increasingly unpleasant to use. Nebula is the one I already subscribe to, if you want direct income.
Bribe: I'll join your Patreon if you do it. I have zero problem giving you money. I have big problems giving YouTube anything including eyeballs.
@nitpicking Videos are now being uploaded to Patreon and can be watched there. However, Patreon's video quality sucks compared to YT.
I know many people (especially here) loathe the idea of giving Google any money at all, but if there are creators on YouTube you like, YT premium functions pretty much like Nebula does. It's the main reason I haven't considered joining Nebula, it feels like a mix of Patreon and YouTube Premium but with extra steps.
@nitpicking I could have quite the conversation about my thoughts here. I have a lot of stuff in my mind regarding affordances of platforms, gatekeeping of streaming services, discoverability and audience, algorithms, etc. etc.
On balance, I'd still rather be on YouTube and supported directly via Patreon.
@nitpicking Listen, the fact that Google owns YouTube makes me more than very nervous, but YouTube's moat is what it is because they pay creators for their labor.
Peertube might work as a 3rf platform, but there are 3 BIG problems with using peertube: * Its yet another site to upload to * the decentralized nature has attracted awful ideals(far-right mainly) on many instances, although you could probably find a well moderated instances * i dont think you can monitize the content on there
I've heard Seattle gets pretty damp for similar reasons to Blighty. Maybe they're the ideal US target market?
Although TBH I've used a refrigerant dehumidifier in England with no problem whatsoever. The defrost cycle has to kick in every now and then in the winter but once that's done it's back to business as usual. (That was in an inhabited space though, not an unheated cellar.)
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Now if instead of a little electric heater we could attach the pipe feeding hundreds of kWh at 60-70°C to a dehumidifier box, that'd be sweet for all the "cold and wet winter" countries.
Is that enough of a temperature rise?
Edit: found one, but it's for greenhouse-scale operations
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Is this the same technology tumble dryers use? I've got one that collects the water in a tray. Getting the notion to weigh my next load of washing and see how much water is collected now...
that might be the first time I've heard "quintuple" 😲 Thanks for the funny alternative subtitle comment though. BTW my Bosch washing machine (SBD6TCX00E) uses silica gel technology too for better drying of plastic materials, surprisingly on Eco mode, and it also smells awkward (not bad) as you noted.
can’t seem to find any on Amazon.it so probably we call them something else, but: would one of those be a sensible alternative to a space heater for the bathroom? Turn it on, warm the place up and get some humidity out while showering?
Hi, I really enjoyed your video. You mentioned several times that the desiccant dehumidifiers are better in colder environments because of the ice problem in other dehumidifiers. Could you give a quantitive value for that? Are we talking sub 20°C or sub 15°C?
if there just was some technology that could move 5x as much heat energy than it consumed electrical energy... e.g. from the condenser straws to the wheel heater thing.
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Rotary desicants are of some (if limited) use in some parts of the United States. I live in an area with lots of streams, rivers, creeks, swimming pools, and a few lakes, so humidity can be quite high in the shoulder seasons. My garage's dehumidifier suffers from the freezing issue during spring and autumn when I normally need heat, and the garage isn't "plumbed" for the HVAC system, so I might end up getting a rotary desicant at some point.
Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.
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Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then *you must have their consent to do so*. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.
How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?
You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.
Boom!
No cookie notice necessary.
What’s that?
But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?
Good.
Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.
Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.
If I hosted my own private analytics tracker (something like Matomo (née Piwik), e.g.) just so I could have funny numbers to look at because I like to look at numbers but do nothing meaningful with them, would that require a cookie banner?
I'd pondered about just having a static notice in the footer of my site that just says "This site uses some functional cookies and one (1) tracking cookie for a self-hosted analytics dashboard because I like to look at Numbers™."
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I wonder if "femenazi" has been running out of favor as an insult because the kind of people who used to use it have decided that nazis are good, actually.
Unpopular opinion: you can't call your establishment "queer friendly" if you require femme-presenting people to cover their nipples but not masc-presenting people.
UBI is unconditional and universal. We can build support for it by removing work requirements from any existing program and/or making any existing program universal and paired with higher taxes on those with higher incomes. When it comes to amount, I'd like to see any unconditional universal amount. #UBI
Outside the tech world, everyone talks about public figures like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, and others. However, those in IT or with CS background know that people like Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Alan Turing, researchers and mathematician are the ones who truly built this industry. Sadly, they don't get enough credit or movies. People these days worship grifters and I think it is really sad.
I mean, if you Google "topless inequality" you can find plenty of posts about it (after you sift out the porn). But most of these articles are years, even decades old, yet you'll notice the patriarchal oppression of "female nipples" continues unabated. huffpost.com/entry/nipple-cens…
Words, water, and a vicious insult to Lancashire.The Technical Difficulties are:🟥 TOM SCOTT: http://tomscott.com - https://instagram.com/tomscottgo🟨 GARY B...
does the "si" tracking parameter in that link have a purpose for you as a creator, like do you get to see who came to your video via what medium by sharing a unique identifier to each platform?
Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering
My mom taught me that people are poor because they were too lazy to help themselves get a job. To give them money would just let them not have to work, and they would go buy beer with it.
Now that I am poor due to being disabled, I know the truth. I am poor because I did not get the help I needed.
Independant human, a lie. We all still need help. Sometimes people need the help because they CANT do the things to get out of poverty.
Some of us cant work, because there are no jobs they can do.
the whole puritanical poor = lazy = deserves scorn and abandoning is a curse. Like even (used to at least) Catholics considered it a person's responsibility and a moral good to help poor people.
But in some cases, we are not alloed the help, by policies set upo that seem so incompatible with the truth of our lives. They try to make it simple, black and white, cover everyone, but these policies are not suitable for everyone, as some of us suffer under these restrictions, like how I cant get married unless I want to give up my income, so we remain together, unmarried. Many of these policies are to blame for the shrinking the quality of our lives.
This is the perfect example of why in this trade-based society things get fucked. Because people are focused on trading, making a profit. And these idiots did just that. Cut corners, then cut their lives short and of those who paid for their scam.
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