@marco That was a really helpful review! And a great format for it. Thank you.
@marco That was a really helpful review! And a great format for it. Thank you.
@cheri Thanks! I'll do it that way! But it seems like there should be a way to do it from the web...
@kaa So you don't need to log into Mastodon to do it. You can do it right from micro.blog! You can follow and talk to people on Mastodon just like you can follow and talk to other micro.blog users, and they can do the same for you (they just need to use your username to follow you from their end).
@Moltz That sounds about right.
@manton Glad it made sense!
@eli Whoa! That's a lot more power and versaility than I expected. I may have to set that up myself soon...
@manton One quick thought, and I'm not even sure how this would get implemented, but it would be nice to be able to set the "privacy level" of ActivityPub posts. I don't mean for there to be private posts per se (I know public posting on micro.blog is by design) but on Mastodon you can set different levels of just how public you want stuff to be and I think it'd be nice to be able to set that for my posts going over that direction. So for example I always prefered to have my posts be "unlisted." It's not private per se, but they aren't going to show up in global timelines, but they're still there for anyone to see if they want (and if they follow me).
In my mind it's sort of like using a robots.txt file to tell search engines how you want your stuff to be indexed.
Of course I know almost nothing about how ActivityPub works so I'm not sure how you send those flags, and how they get respected (or not) on the other end but it would be nice to be able to set how I want my posts to be sent via ActivityPub. I'm not really suggesting a set of options for each post individually, though I wouldnt' be opposed to that either, but just a default option would be great.
@manton this is great! I’ve been annoyed by my increasingly fragmented web presence, and trying to figure out how to use my own domains to handle this now I don’t have to start running my own Mastodon instance!
@DrOct I also always enjoy drilling down to the locality level on the official Virginia elections site: results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelectio...
@davextreme Quick minor correction. I actually have an iPad Air 2. Still I've had it for 4 years or so and it still works quite well. The battery life isn't quite what it used to be, and I've had a few odd issues here and there lately but it's still mostly going pretty strong.
@eli I haven’t seen it since I was a kid. Sounds like you feel like it at least mostly holds up?
@brentsimmons this is the best joke.
@omni Oh wow! The lunches you guy shave always sound great, but this has me really hungry now!
@davextreme Personally I think somewhere closer to Thanksgiving (just because it's roughly midway between Halloween and Christmas) is a better time. It starts just after Halloween, but a huge portion of the movie takes place over the months leading up to Christmas.
Though if we're being really honest, any time is a good time to watch it.
@davextreme Wow, Apple Music has really upped their web-player game. I can actually sign in via that little web player and play the full songs everything. Interesting! Also, the playlist looks pretty great! Though Sarah was saying the other day as we listened to an Apple Music Halloween music radio station that she feels like the B-52's Devil In My Car is a song that should be included on more of these kinds of lists (it's certainly more relevant that say, Bad Moon Rising as great as that song is).
@davextreme it sure does. And quite well!
@Verso I am SO in the same boat... my iPad Air is still going strong (with the occasional blip of problems) so I really can't justify spending the money but boy does that 11" look nice. Some day.
@JohnPhilpin Oh, I know what they were marketed for. Just saying it always seemed like there were some other potential uses for them that they never seemed to really support. I wonder about how much more successful they might have been generally if their use was opened up a bit more and made a bit simpler.
@JohnPhilpin I actually always thought iBeacons could have been an interesting option for use in home automation and HomeKit stuff, but they didn't seem to be widely available for consumers or easy to inegrate into such things.
@macgenie Fair enough! Honestly, I should probably have clarified that my rewatch of DS9 will almost certainly come after a rewatch of Voyager.
@davextreme Your kids are very lucky to have you as their father!
@davextreme I LOVE the idea of changing color tempuratures/colors in lights, but I agree that for now the reliability and usability just isn't there in smart-bulbs.
@davextreme I'm confident I could replace the various switches in the house and have everythng work as expected and reliably (it does in the basement!). With the exception of some of the lamps which I'd probably just leave on manual control in regular outlets to avoid confusion and usabiltiy issues.
@davextreme Also you got me looking at more smart switches again. I'm very happy with my Caseta set for the basement and figure I'll just keep going with that as I'm happy with the performance and compatibility (works with pretty much every home automation system). But I have to do some looking at my switches to figure out exactly how to install them in the various places (figure out which have neutral wires etc.).
I'm also still trying to figure out how to handle the porch light and fan, as those are both in half-size switches that fill one normal switch receptical. But I would love to have the porch light turn on around sunset and off around sunrise.