One reason why squashing moths is a bad idea is that they can stain the surface they are on, especially if it's drywall. Scrubbing the stain after the matter usually makes the stain worse.
Instead of squashing moths a preferred method it to use an electric fly swatter and zap them in flight.
When moths are on the wall they have a tendency to fall/jump downwards. With this knowledge one takes the swatter while being live (active) and slowly travel upwards until one barely touches the moth. In the best case the moth will jump down and get instantly zapped. In the case it flies away, the racket is in the position to quickly flick the wrist and zap it in mid flight.
@barefootstache O...M...G
Why the fudge would you write this stuff man... Such a clever person and "LifeHack" about moths...
And no need advocate killing moths or using electric fly swatters... just makes it worse.
What a waste of your talent and knowledge dude... though I accept may you might need to go through this phase before you go to greater things,., 🚀 but just oh man
Can I give you something better to do? Y/N/M ?
Can I pay you to do something else?
(honestly / genuinely)
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☑️ Make the Mastodon backup of posts (JSON file from export) into another format to show posts AND it's picture in offline viewer / browser (currently Mastodon export is not human readable or connecting the pictures offline)
⬆️ Really would help people I'll 100% credit and shout your name since you like adding / modding / fixing things like in OSM
"Can I give you something better to do? Y/N/M ?
Can I pay you to do something else?
(honestly / genuinely)"
Depending on what you have exactly in mind?
"Make the Mastodon backup of posts (JSON file from export) into another format to show posts AND it's picture in offline viewer / browser (currently Mastodon export is not human readable or connecting the pictures offline)"
Are you just looking for an offline clone? And/or how complex are you imagining the whole app?
@barefootstache Yes or very similar. Something that takes my JSON backup and gives out something more human readable .
The minimum is to see the basic post and picture (together) like I can now... (paginated ideally not AJAX style infinite scroll)
Or saving each post as a file that I can open (like a saved email or Wodpress export) with picture inside (not downloading from web). Name for each file could be from CW title or first line of post or first 10 hashtags.
Not looking for a big app - more to convert JSON to something useful and then as many bells and whistles to tweak on top.
@freeschool something like a twitter card?
@barefootstache I was also thinking more as simple HTML output with picture... so I can load in any browser new and old.
I didn't know what Twitter Card is before I looked it up now - seems it's a way of presenting tweets and perhaps loading details from a website post to a tweet post.
Interesting probably more for loading Wordpress to Toots but just as basic output the pictures at the top and the text next below it (perhaps thumbnail for pictures or only if above certain size).
There were similar attempts to do the same for Mastodon. From the brief look of some projects, they didn't get that far.
Before discussing the initial result and eventual purpose/goal of the project, we need to search the web if other attempts were made or even exist.
Thus I purpose that you search the web and see if you can find any software that can process or read "Activity Stream 2.0" (the underlying schema of the JSON).
If none can be found or the quality does not align with your vision, then I will write up a first draft of an action plan.
From what I have (not-)found so far, if we make a tool for Activity Stream in general, each actor (social media platform and more) can theme the output to their liking.
@barefootstache Mastodon Importer / Converter / Activity Stream stuff / JSON stuff
Spending a few hours today looking for stuff...
I also asked a lot of people before and sent posts out on and off for months...
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BEST so far as JSON viewer is this:
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https://bovine.social/mastodon/
BUT HAS
1/ SHOWS NO PICTURES / NO EMBEDDED PICS
2/ IS A SCROLL FORMAT (INFINITE SCROLL makes it practically hard to re-find post or load it more directly needing to re-scroll)
But works to show posts in readable format - literally add your exported JSON and you get output...
