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@hollie my bony butt and large abdomen would absolutely crushinate any phone left in my back pocket
@spaceraser Same. And I realize I'm a big person but there seem to be a lot of bigger folks now and Back Pocket Phone still seems to be so common, like how, where is the necessary hinge
Okay so today in the Things That Are Totally Normal But I Don't Understand It category (this could literally be a discussion series) we have:
Smart phones that you keep in your back pants pocket.
You don't lose them? They don't fall out? No one steals them? It seems like a recipe for getting your phone either stolen or cracked. Perhaps my butt is just too powerful. 🤔 (Reader: this was not her problem)
@hollie my bony butt and large abdomen would absolutely crushinate any phone left in my back pocket
dear lazyweb: a couple of years ago I ran into a really fantastic html/css very-beginner tutorial that I thought was amazing. It really went step by step and it was done by this guy who I think had accessibility needs and thus taught that part too?
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
EDIT: Thanks to @eramdam. The answer was https://htmlforpeople.com
Okay so today in the Things That Are Totally Normal But I Don't Understand It category (this could literally be a discussion series) we have:
Smart phones that you keep in your back pants pocket.
You don't lose them? They don't fall out? No one steals them? It seems like a recipe for getting your phone either stolen or cracked. Perhaps my butt is just too powerful. 🤔 (Reader: this was not her problem)
dear lazyweb: a couple of years ago I ran into a really fantastic html/css very-beginner tutorial that I thought was amazing. It really went step by step and it was done by this guy who I think had accessibility needs and thus taught that part too?
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
EDIT: Thanks to @eramdam. The answer was https://htmlforpeople.com
I started a new discussion thread on Loomio: [[Would Social.coop want to experiment with running a Bluesky PDS?]]
https://www.loomio.com/d/IF5MGpyU/would-social-coop-want-to-experiment-with-running-a-bluesky-pds-
@dphiffer something like this? ^
I'd like to understand what would be "good enough" for the community to feel like they can use existing mechanisms (e.g. blocking) to express opt-out.
I plan to boost tomorrow for extra visibility.
@dphiffer it turns out these are the supported opt-out tags:
https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057
So you're already golden with #nobots. #noai seems like one the CWG could recommend to users as it does what it says on the tin?
1/2 Last week at the #pkmsummit26 in Utrecht, I shared my work so far on how we can increase the likelihood of serendipitous events and eventually create serendipity protocols.
Here are the slides https://kvistgaard.github.io/slides/serendipity/pkmsummit-2026/
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@kvistgaard/116290829881603527
One thing I did not mention which makes PKM summit is an outstanding experience. And it's the simplest thing of all: ☕big coffee breaks ☕.
The best thing about any conference is talking with people. I have been to over a hundred conferences. Their coffee breaks are usually 15 to 20 minutes. Maybe there was one outlier with 30 min.
The afternoon coffee breaks at the PKM Summit were 👉 90 minutes 👈.
I don't want to formalize any of my work on mathematics. First because, as Emily Riehl notes, formalization tends to impose consensus. And second, because I find it boring. It steals time from creative thought to nail things down with more rigidity than I need or want.
Kevin Buzzard says "It forces you to think about mathematics in the right way." But there is no such thing as "the" right way to think about mathematics - and certainly not one that can be forced on us.
#PSA I plan to sign into https://Zeitgeist.blue on Saturday 4 April to see how it works. This is a new client that uses "bring your own LLM key" as an approach to distill/curate Fediverse timelines. If you want to opt out of any of your posts going through personal LLM inference, please unfollow me and block me by then.
**Update**: you can also add #nobots, #noindex or #noai to your profile and Zeigeist will ignore your posts: https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057. I hope you do this instead of blocking me, but both should work :)
I am going to use an Anthropic API key, and my understanding is that your posts would *not* end up in a corpus used for training after I do this; this is inference only, and in principle I will be the only one seeing the results.
If you have any concerns or need an extension for some reason, do reach out! I can also then let you know once I stop using the tool so you can optionally remove the block.
@dphiffer something like this? ^
I'd like to understand what would be "good enough" for the community to feel like they can use existing mechanisms (e.g. blocking) to express opt-out.
I plan to boost tomorrow for extra visibility.
#PSA I plan to sign into https://Zeitgeist.blue on Saturday 4 April to see how it works. This is a new client that uses "bring your own LLM key" as an approach to distill/curate Fediverse timelines. If you want to opt out of any of your posts going through personal LLM inference, please unfollow me and block me by then.
**Update**: you can also add #nobots, #noindex or #noai to your profile and Zeigeist will ignore your posts: https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057. I hope you do this instead of blocking me, but both should work :)
I am going to use an Anthropic API key, and my understanding is that your posts would *not* end up in a corpus used for training after I do this; this is inference only, and in principle I will be the only one seeing the results.
If you have any concerns or need an extension for some reason, do reach out! I can also then let you know once I stop using the tool so you can optionally remove the block.
I found this [[racism pyramid]] in Hachyderm's [[rule explainer]] page interesting: https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/rule-explainer/
TIL burning crosses is overtly racist -- apparently the KKK is/was into that in particular. I would have taken it to be just anti-Christianity without knowing this.
I like how you can still find the occasional bit of #humor hidden within a Wikipedia article :D
> We believe alliances of people with shared identity and purpose, working together over time, is the fundamental unit of community power and actually is the only form of power we have that the billionaires don't. We want to create technology that creates physical, material, sustainable community infrastructure, not just replace one set of tools for moaning online with another, or have our success measured by app installs or clicks.
Geeks for social change
https://gfsc.community/state-your-assumptions-gfscs-philosphical-foundations/
Beautiful and yes, let's keep working to go there. :)
Does anyone offer migration of your Google Photos over to Nextcloud as a service, retaining album data, and if so how much do you charge? TIA
RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116334160971449579
This is an excellent question and highlights a weakness in nextcloud. Migration tools to help you migrate in, and between nextcloud instances are next to non existent. You'd think given the push for digital sovereignty, nextcloud would be trying to make this really easy. But no. It's a massive barrier to uptake.
1/2 Last week at the #pkmsummit26 in Utrecht, I shared my work so far on how we can increase the likelihood of serendipitous events and eventually create serendipity protocols.
Here are the slides https://kvistgaard.github.io/slides/serendipity/pkmsummit-2026/
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@kvistgaard/116290829881603527
One thing I did not mention which makes PKM summit is an outstanding experience. And it's the simplest thing of all: ☕big coffee breaks ☕.
The best thing about any conference is talking with people. I have been to over a hundred conferences. Their coffee breaks are usually 15 to 20 minutes. Maybe there was one outlier with 30 min.
The afternoon coffee breaks at the PKM Summit were 👉 90 minutes 👈.
For years I have been affectionately teased for my love of notebooks and stationary. Which is FINE, families gonna fam, I dish out all that I take, rest assured.
But an hour ago Jupiter was like, “You know, I really want to start cooking, and have a notebook where I put recipes,” and I was on it like white on rice. Here, want to check out my blank notebook collection and pick one? They did. Want to use my corner cutter to round all the corners? They did. Want to use my rainbow of index cards and specialized hole punch to make colored notes for your sections? Want this cute food-themed washi tape? Want me to write up tonight’s soup recipe? YES!
They were just standing at the kitchen table, putting their notebook together using all my stuff, and they’re like, “Mom! This is so cool! You’re so magical!” And I’m standing there with the gazillion-watt glow of my decades-long niche nerdy obsession saving the day, and being loudly recognized and appreciated about it. 😂
@hollie this is glorious!
Does anyone offer migration of your Google Photos over to Nextcloud as a service, retaining album data, and if so how much do you charge? TIA
RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/116334160971449579
This is an excellent question and highlights a weakness in nextcloud. Migration tools to help you migrate in, and between nextcloud instances are next to non existent. You'd think given the push for digital sovereignty, nextcloud would be trying to make this really easy. But no. It's a massive barrier to uptake.
