Notices by Polychrome :clockworkheart: (polychrome@cybre.space)

Just found out about Nitter as a way to read public #Twitter without going through their JavaScript madness and it's *so much faster*.

Just replace the domain in any twitter.com URL with nitter.net and it'll load it.

Alternatively consider using one of the alternative Nitter instances to reduce load on the main one: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

@purism I support anyone who works to spread Linux and freedom of computing to the mainstream but I have to point out that your decision to remove the ability to report abusive behavior on your instance is a bad move.

Abuse reports are a basic function of this network and disregarding this tool means disregarding the community at large.

Without the ability to let you know when one of your members is being abusive your instance will end up being blacklisted and that would be unfair to your paying users.

"Dark mode" is technically a downgrade considering we used to be able to theme the entire desktop GUI in whatever color pattern we liked and it would affect nearly every single application on the system.

Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.

Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.

Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".

MySpace has lost all music uploaded between 2003 and 2015.

There are no backups.

🔗 https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/7uiv8b/myspace_player_wont_play_songs_and_i_want_to/

Don't trust cloud services. One day Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr will be gone too. YouTube will shut down, and so will Google Drive, OneDrive and DropBox.

Always keep a local copy.

ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

New #RetroShare release 0.6.5:
🔗 release notes: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/release-notes-for-v0-6-5/

Most interesting to me is the new JSON API, IPv6 support and potentially faster file transfers.

Here's an idea: a #NoJS challenge.

Making a website? Avoid using JavaScript.

See how much of the functionality and design you were planning can be done using plain HTML, CSS and other web technologies that are now embedded in the typical browser without needing JavaScript code to do any of it.

Even if it seems impossible, look it up. It just might be possible.

There's so much stuff in there now, even a seasoned webmaster could be surprised.

20 years challenge: Slackware Linux.

@lynnesbian its so oval! :blobcatsurprised:

So Telegram can now support 200,000 group members and I'm like..

.. I wouldn't want that on a smartphone UX. Or even their PC client, given the UI design involved. :blobnervous:

Only workable scenario is if it's for unidirectional news publications and honestly we're better off using a mailing list at that point.

Thinking about how the 'person does not exist if not on facebook' situation happened, I think it's learned laziness: On Facebook you broadcast your life to the world and relevant people will see it VS having to get a hold of friends to talk with them.

This created a culture where you do not put in effort to update people you care about on your ongoings and it's entirely on them to be there and keep up to date.

20 years ago: "And in the future the internet will replace the need to have a telephone entirely!" 🖥️ :blobuwu:

Now: "You must have a phone number to access this website/service" ☎️

Science art 💜