Cyberdog

Derp, you're right - it was finding an OpenSSL binary that MacPorts installed. Explicitly doing `/usr/bin/openssl version` shows `LibreSSL 2.8.3`.

I'm guessing you're on macOS 13? The machine I'm on now is still on 12.6 (`Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0`), and `openssl version` reports `OpenSSL 3.0.6`. Glad to see it if they made the switch in the new release, though.

> Lemmy is a socialist project.

As in the project itself is socialist? What does this mean?

Its defiantly against the do's and donts of English, yes, apostrophe's seem to be the most mistaked parts of English. Also my favorite cigarette's are Marlboro 100's.

Some third-party fediverse hosts allow you to point your own custom (sub)domain at the instance they operate for you; you can also just set up your own instance.

Not sure what Let's Encrypt would have to do with this, though.

I think you might be conflating the activity of instance admins that run Mastodon with the actual developers of Mastodon, which isn't fair. Similarly, the developers of Chrome shouldn't be held responsible if people use Chrome to browse CP and terrorist advocacy sites.

I don't see why this is a tragedy. Yes, broadly speaking, instead of a single fediverse, there is a "free speech" fediverse and a "safe space" fediverse with little federation between them. But if the people on the safe space instances are happy with that, and the people on the free speech instances are fine with that, then what's the problem?

If you really find it upsetting, you could set up your own instance which won't be on anyone's defed list yet, then just be careful not to post anything that will piss off either side.

There are many different Fediverse apps you can try; you don't have to stick with the official Mastodon one.

But I personally just use the web interface of my instance myself, the rare times I view it on mobile.

I don't have an answer for that since I'm not an expert with the protocol and I've really only used the microblogging/"Twitter-like" aspect of it. But at least in terms of that, the front ends are compatible with each other when it comes to sending and receiving messages.

"Near the wall" is quite different than "against the wall, intentionally."

And that he hit the back of the car in front of him right before crossing the finish line makes me think he wasn't entirely in control, either.

Discord and other Electron-based chat software provide very little practical improvement over IRC for the purpose of discussion while requiring 10-100x the resources.

I presume this tactic will soon be ruled illegal by Nascar, especially if it's going to start happening regularly in future races.

The most important note of this release is that Zig is now self-hosted; it is capable of compiling itself.

I've been learning Zig as a side project for a couple months now. It's been kind of hard since I don't have a lot of experience with low-level coding and Zig is a bit less user-friendly than Swift, but the folks in the IRC channel (and yes, its primary real-time chat community is an IRC channel, not some Slack/Discord nonsense) have always been super friendly with this newbie, right up to the project lead himself. I really suggest you give Zig a look if you want to have some fun learning a new language.

Try the article reader mode in most browsers first. A lot of these things keep the page content in the DOM, but just add garbage on top of it to make it difficult to read. In cases where content has been actually removed from the page, viewing the page source - not the current page structure, but the actual page source code that the browser downloaded from the server - can also work.

Disabling JS is kind of an extreme step since it will affect every open tab in the browser, so if you have something playing music or other audio in the background or something like Slack open and waiting for important messages, they will likely break.

If this were to happen, then wouldn't people just start "checking out" on Thursdays?

I'm not an expert on the details of the protocol, so I can't give you a good answer to that. I believe it's just a matter of Mastodon not accepting messages that it knows it won't be able to display correctly. But other "microblog"-oriented Fediverse instances can exchange messages with Mastodon instances just fine.

Think of Fediverse as akin to the email system, where there are thousands if not millions of different servers out there hosting email and exchanging them to each other.

Now consider Mastodon as an email client which is hosted on a web site, like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. That web site gives you an interface with which to interact with the network of email servers, but people using other servers with other interfaces can still see messages from each other; someone using Yahoo! Mail can send and receive messages with someone using Gmail.

The difference is that Mastodon is open source, so that anyone can download the code and run their own Mastodon instance (whereas nobody can download and run their own Gmail instance), but that instance can still exchange messages with instances running any of the several other Fediverse interfaces there are out there, such as Pleroma, Misskey, Soapbox, etc. (Unless an instance at either end has "defederated" the other; that is, the administrators have configured it to not exchange messages with the other server.)

I said nearly-proprietary. WebP is technically open but nobody would give a crap about it if Google weren't promoting it.

Don't hold your breath. Big G would prefer you use WebP and their other nearly-proprietary formats nobody wanted but they are pushing into wide use through the might of operating the most widely used browser.

But maybe if enough people finally stop using their spyware browser, there will be some hope.

Mastodon is just an interface for the larger Fediverse network. It does not control the network any more than Microsoft Outlook controls the email network.

Similarly, email is a "nazi friendly" technology. Are you going to not use email because of that? It's not reasonable to base every choice in your life around whether a "nazi" could potentially make the same choice.

The solution is mentioned above. Unironic nazis/white nationalists/white supremacists will only last long on free-speech-oriented instances which are likely to be defederated from any instances which explicitly disallow hate speech. Pick one of those latter instances as your home, and you will most likely never see a "nazi" on your timeline unless you go out of your way to go hunting for one.

This more or less has already happened, though there are more than two "groups" depending on how you define such things. Broadly speaking, there are free speech instances which allow edgelord teens to come in and N-word their hearts out (as well as do more mundane things like question the mainstream narrative on elections, the pandemic, and, yes, this Pelosi story) so long as they don't do anything actually illegal, and there are more regulated instances where "hate speech" is explicitly forbidden. As the instances in the latter group don't like the practices of the former group, the former insulates from the latter by defederating those instances, meaning that insances in both the former and the latter can generally only federate with each other. (Then there are the pro-MAP/CP/lolicon instances, which are generally defederated by both of the previous groups and also can largely only federate with each other.)

Whether you think this is a good thing is up to you, but it does seem that both groups of people on either side of the Great Divide get what they want from the system, so I don't really see the harm in it.

Obligatory reminder that Mastodon is a user interface for a defederated network commonly called the Fediverse, and that referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" is like referring to the web as Chrome.

Spitting into the wind at this point, I know, but it still bothers me.

I found a picture of myself on that site. I don't remember taking it and I don't remember sending it to this site, but apparently I did both of those things at one point in my life. How bizarre.

https://sidetalking.com/page-1.html - In the red shirt with the game.com.

Working fine for me on both Safari and Firefox on an M1 Mac.

Regarding user control, I suspect you could get at least "pause" functionality to work using the checkbox trick to disable animation if the box is checked.

https://css-tricks.com/the-checkbox-hack/

Was just about to mention this.

You might not need SCSS. In fact, you never need SCSS (or SASS or any of the others). ("hot take" airhorns sound effect)

I used to pay rent with Zelle. It maxed out at $500 per transaction, but I could just do a second transaction to make up the difference. Same recipient, same day.

Not really sure why they're branding it as a console when it's basically a portable Pi, and therefore far more versatile than "game console" implies. I suspect that will cause some confusion among potential customers who initially just see it as a game engine runtime.

Any word on No Man's Sky?

Neither can I; there's no "わたしあと" in Jisho or d.goo. Just searching the net returns this page: https://www.kankou-gifu.jp/spot/detail_6769.html where it's written as 渡し跡, which would translate to something closer to "the ruins of a crossing" and seems to be used literally for a marker designating the former location of a river crossing ferry.

Maybe this isn't Japanese, or maybe it was made up by a non-Japanese speaker who searched for the words "me" and "after" in an E-to-J dictionary and then mashed them together. I'm leaning towards the latter.