Notices by Mike Harley (obsolete29@indieweb.social)

Hey android folx how the hell do you scan QR codes? In using #calyxos

@fury as someone who taught themselves (and is still learning) HTML/CSS, I love tips like this.

Oh no I noticed bandcamp updated their terms of service. Should I be mad about it yet

Is the official mastodon app still not on f droid? Search there has always been kind of hit and miss for me so maybe it's just not coming up

I'm still extremely skeptical of providing my cell phone number to companies for 2fa. I worry more about the company using that as a unique bit of information to link me across services.

I wish there were a search engine, complete with their own infrastructure, and not just something built on bing/google, that was run by a non-profit. The model I'm thinking of is Wikipedia.

Search has been captured by corporate interests. That's not good for consumers imo. GAM should be prevented, by law, from entering into agreements to support their big tech monopolies in the search area.

Hey #fediverse, can you recommend any digital artists who are taking commissions? I want to have a digital portrait of myself created for us on social media.

Metallica introduced me to metal. Before that I was really into AC/DC but I distinctly remember the world premier of One on MTV in 1989. It was an event and I made sure I was in front of the TV at the appropriate time. Kill em All was the first album I ever bought with my own money quickly followed by Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. I love the Black album and everything before it.

What band got you into your fav genre?

@tagomago oh? I run snikket server and client on my android phone. I was able to install the client on ios fine a few months ago. Admittedly, I don't use ios anymore and have not tried the client since.

@tagomago Yes. Nearly 100% of my friends and family were on imessage so that's big a huge problem. When I tried the xmpp clients on ios they just didn't work well, especially notifications.

Does anyone use xmpp or matrix to message with non tech friends? Or family?

I understand that signal is problematic but it's a good messaging app with a grest experience that's approachable for non tech users. It has modern features that people expect in a messaging app.

New blog post --> How I manage my imposter syndrome

#GoodMorning #NewBlogPost

https://obsolete29.com/posts/2022/05/02/how-i-manage-my-imposter-syndrome

@m2m yeah man I've looked at it a few times and it just feels pretty complicated for me. :(

@tagomago You have a ⭐ too!!

I'm very liberal with my likes and boosts here on Mastodon. If I read something that I enjoyed in some way, I will probably like it because I want the person to know that I liked it. So here's a little dopamine hit for you. You're welcome.

I'm liberal with boosting because I feel that the Fediverse in general has challenges with discoverability since there's no algo. I boost things I like and find interesting because maybe my followers will to.

Be mindful by donating to your instance admins imo

@codewiz

Should I be mad about Cloudflare or are they cool?

Hot take: I think the government should support and donate to Mozilla. Firefox could be the people's browser. Free. Open source. Available to all. The government could mandate that all websites built for the government must work with Firefox. Ideally, Mozilla could stop taking Google money and stop trying to figure out how to serve us ads in order to raise funds. Is anyone advocating for such an idea?