Notices by Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)

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@foone based on the fact that a) you are posting this somehow and b) you are foone, I assume where this thread is going is an NDIS driver that does tcp/ip over activitypub

@hynek @offby1 @brettcannon I am still pretty optimistic. About mastodon, anyway. If I'm being clear-eyed about the whole thing, I do not think that any of us are particularly qualified to predict the success of social networks. But we're definitely not in a death spiral yet.

c.f. the old "Linux on the Desktop" joke; on the one hand, a big failure to achieve its stated goals. On the other hand, the Steam Deck.

@brettcannon bluesky funding, the latest Musk outrage lead to a huge boost in bluesky user count, while mastodon stayed flat. Plus there has been a huge amount of posting about plushes, which comes across as poorly timed at a moment where mastodon is so badly losing the race for twitter refugees

@hynek @brettcannon

nerds: you moron. patreon is unsustainable. you are not raising enough money to fund this site. you will destroy us

eugen: okay how about I sell merch to supplement it

nerds: you absolute fool. fix this bug that *I* care about, that no one will pay you for, instead. your plushies will not sell

eugen: okay I will market it aggressively.

nerds: shut up. i hate seeing these promotions all over my timeline. no one will buy these anyway

eugen: we are selling out immediately

@hynek @brettcannon personally I am _trying_ not to get too mad about the plushies because there is a reading of the Discourse that goes like this: 🧵

@foone augh oh no, on several levels

what device is this?

@foone https://www.iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#description

@NanoRaptor "double-degauss floppy eraser" is a phrase so cursed that it makes my teeth hurt

Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

Which means it's also time to remind you that you can subscribe over at https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph to support my open source work and stuff like https://blog.glyph.im/2024/09/python-macos-framework-builds.html if you find that sort of thing useful!

It's Friday, time for the Patreon update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-111994982

it's always just a little bit frustrating when I have to do one of these with mostly "here's some stuff that's in progress" and no big flashy new stuff to announce, mostly because my adult #ADHD addled brain cannot accept that some things take more than a week

@Gargron no, I posted the link about 10 minutes before I saw this. It's a bit inscrutable to have caching periods that long and no visibility into them. Please consider adding some kind of inspectable metadata somewhere, "preview last generated on" or somesuch, so that site authors can do something more than reloading a lot and hoping

@Gargron so, I tried adding this metadata to my website when I first heard about it, and it didn't work, but I didn't realize that I needed approval. I just added my blog to that list and saved my profile and I still don't see it. How do I debug this?

The Python Code Coverage Discourse:

@hynek — don't use codecov, it keeps breaking intermittently, it wastes so much of your time, here's an easy zero-maintenance solution

also @hynek — oh btw every time the US has a holiday expect 100% of your CI using this alternative to codecov to start failing, here's a page-long annotated timeline of when and why that happened

@foone my sarcastic jokey defense mechanisms all crumble in the face of blatant injustice like this, I have nothing for you but “I am so sorry”. This fucking sucks and you have every right to be furious about it, if anything you seem positively sunny and gracious given the circumstances

@foone this has _got_ to be some kind of crime, right? like, not you having the wav files, but the fact that someone gave them to you. a HIPAA violation at the very least

@foone 8 years old?!! Is it in an industrial laundry facility in continuous 24/7 use? Are your clothes made exclusively of tungsten ring mail? What HAPPENED to this thing?

@foone feels like this might be a little too high latency for an input device for DOOM