Notices by Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social), page 2

@Gargron Well the editor’ look and feel obviously changed today (in mobile Safari at least). When I tried to add an image all it did was replot the screen. So I posted just text without an image then went back in to edit the toot, and add an image then, and still couldn’t. Since then, like 90-120 mins later, I tried again to edit, and this time I was able to add the image. 🤷♂️

#Mastodon web-based toot editor all messed up. Can’t add images anymore.

@Gargron

@Gargron

It’s happened more than once in the past month or so. Will keep an eye out for any more occurrences.

This keeps happening. Is it a bug? or what?

Every now and then in my feed I see a toot by someone I do not follow. The toot contains no hashtags I follow. Nor is the toot boosted by anyone I follow. It just shows up in my feed.

Why?

@Mastodon @Gargron #mastodon

@aral @wellingtonrock

It’s crap posts and comments like these that makes me think, exactly how is Mastodon different from Twitter, eh? Because it sure looks like it’s home to the same kind of pile-ons of ignorance and cluelessness by a tribe of hooligan know-nothings seeking others of similar mind that made Twitter such a waste of time.

(And if you think this toot is defending Musk, no, this toot doesn’t mean I’m defending Musk, you ignorant git.)

@arstechnica Way to go Arse Technica, promulgating inaccurate information just as well as the mainstream media. Just once, I’d love to see a reporter get the story accurate. Just once!

@arstechnica

It screams climate crisis denial and climate inactivism on Toyota’s part. They’re so set in their old fossil ways they believe, or insist that?, their customers are too, and there’s fear to change from the comfort of the polluting, mecganical past. So they waste money and time on gimmicks like this instead of trying to beat Tesla to market with a ~$25K EV, which imho should be their priority.

@wonderofscience Anyone interested in spinner dolphins and open to a novel written about them could do worse then check out the book POD by Laline Paull.

@Ruth_Mottram @feditips @micron

"Choose a server and sign up" is the great barrier to entry for mass adoption of Mastodon, imho.

@arstechnica Reason 28746 why you could not pay me a billion dollars to use Autopilot or Full Self Driving in a Tesla. If he won't pay bills for rent, or other vendor goods and services at Xitter, who knows what he isn't paying bills for in the software and hardware teams at Tesla. (Plus, phantom braking is an ongoing problem for 3+ years with no fix, or even an acknowledgement from Tesla that it is a wildly dangerous ongoing issue.)

@torvalds You see ads on the NYTimes website?

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