Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
@ClaraListensprechen4 yep. In Firefox on Linux it's Tools > Browser Tools > Web Developer Tools.
@ClaraListensprechen4 it's a browser tool that lets you edit a page's HTML live, debug executing javascript, inspect network traffic, and a couple other things. It's intended to provide useful information for a developer trying to troubleshoot a problem with his website, but it's widely useful beyond that.
@ClaraListensprechen4 can you pop into the developer console, network tab, and see what URL it's trying to reach (probably giving you a bunch of 429 responses)?
@freemo I've had something similar before, but it's been a long time. I stopped using the federated tab on account of it being way too full of low quality content that made it hard to find anything useful + nsfw things I didn't want on my screen.
The federated tab is very much drinking from the firehouse in terms of content, and Mastodon has a default rate limit of three hundred API calls per five minutes (i.e. one per second, on a five minute average). I dunno if QOTO changed that - we have some things like post length limit that are better than default - but there's some limit, anyway. My working hypothesis is that just fetching the new posts gets pretty close to whatever the cutoff is, but doesn't bust it; and sometimes the web client has to make additional API calls that blow the budget. The quoted post mentions that a video came up, so fetching the media file is a plausible additional step that could be to blame.
I believe there is a "slow mode" in the settings. Maybe try that and see if the problem goes away?
@mitch yup. And imagine trying to explain the problem to a receptionist who doesn't know or care what HTML means and is just focussed on getting you to fork over the $35.
@mitch y'all know some people read the plaintext and never even see the HTML?
I got an email saying my appointment was cancelled and I'd have to reschedule. Annoying, but whatever - until they called me to try and ding me for a no-show fee. Turns out their marketing dingbats just edited an existing email to avoid having to compose it from the ground up, and they changed the HTML attachment but not the actual text of the email. And their starting point was the "appointment cancelled" message. >:(
Klye
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Im #Iran wurden Anisa Samieian und ihr Ehemann Vesal Momtazi, zwei Baha'i, wegen „Propaganda gegen den Staat, Beleidigung des Islam und Vermittlung abweichender, dem Islam widersprechender Überzeugungen“ zu jeweils 3,5 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt.
Die #Bahai -Gemeinschaft ist eine der am stärksten verfolgten religiösen Minderheiten des Landes.
@nomi subject/object pronouns, not subject/possessive. Feminine singular third person just happens to use "her" for both. So full sets would be
I/me/myself/my/mine
Thou/thee/thyself/thy/thine
She/her/herself/her/hers
He/him/himself/his/his
It/it/itself/its/its
We/us/ourselves/our/ours
You/you/yourselves/your/yours
They/them/themselves/their/theirs
but conventionally we just shorten it the first pair.
I'd like to see the second person singular come back!
I've got the current #CFL season up at http://www.sportsclubstats.com/football/Canada/CFL.html . Please review it and let me know if I entered anything wrong!
Also some of the historical seasons aren't displaying properly - can anyone figure out why? #CFLoM
@msprout that's a very interesting idea. I recall there was some guidance on using social media responsibly - I'd be intrigued to see how that gets interpreted from the standpoint of operating such a service rather than just using it. As a mod here I can tell you it always ends up messier when you have to enforce a policy than when you draft it.
@msprout understandable. I figure that since the library already has a website, getting a subdomain is typically free and you're likely to have some always-on hardware handy to run a service like Mastodon - so the extra cost isn't much, maybe an SSL cert for your subdomain, and the recurring extra cost is even less.
@msprout I think the ideal would be for your library to fire up its own instance and give its librarians accounts. Sort of like how you get a company email address at your job.
@msprout apparently they all broke as a consequence of Twitter no longer serving content except to logged-in users. I wonder if this is what will push corporate accounts onto the Fediverse - it's no good for a company to say "watch our Twitter feed to learn about upcoming sales/flight delays/we're coming to your neighbourhood" if the general public can't do that anymore.
Klye
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Just watched a piece on a Dutch newssite about a guy who started to learn to read and write at a later age because his little daughter was starting to read too and he wanted to be able to help her out.
And I found it pretty striking what he said at the end when he was asked what that felt like:
Freedom. It felt like a lot of freedom.
Education is important, folks!
Klye
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Iran's Top Sunni Cleric Says Baha'i Rights Must be Respected - IranWire https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https%3A%2F%2Firanwire.com%2Fen%2Fnews%2F117605-irans-top-sunni-cleric-says-bahai-rights-must-be-respected%2F&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGmFiNTY1NDNmYjgzZGRjNmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0GLYcJFKRrJufpKi3Evz9m&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IranianRevolution #WomenLifeFreedom
I really wish TSN would use some other method to indicate the team in possession of the ball. Simply colouring the down and distance isn't helpful when the teams are represented by such similar shades of red. #CFLoM
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social @cfl someone explain to me why the PI flag was thrown on the TD play but not the convert? The defender had a whole handful of the receiver's sleeve
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the far north burbs of chicago are a land of beautiful landscaping and elegant evening lighting shining onto massive homes.
surely the queen of landscaping & evening lighting in the north burbs is the baha'i temple of wilmette, one of my favorite places in chicagoland.
i got to visit it at night the other day. as you can see, it's extremely fabulous, with (extremely elegantly-lit) fountains and (extremely well-kept) gardens all around. i particularly like the herby/cedary smells in the gardens.
for an added bonus, i wandered into the wilmette yacht club (the dinky gate was literally wide open) & got a view of the temple from among the yachts. it seemed fitting for the north burbs (which is also a place of *private* landscapes).
as for the temple itself, my brother (a concrete enthusiast) tells me that it's made from white concrete with multiple kinds of quartz mixed in as aggregate so that it reflects light & shines.
coming from hawai'i to the flatlands of illinois, it seems obvious what they were trying to do: they built themselves a sacred, glowing mountain. they were like "well, no sacred mountains around here. let's build one!" and i think they accomplished their goal. people love it, gravitate to it, and it gives most people a feeling of awe. (in the language of hawai'i, i would say it has a lot of mana, or power). it's strange to have that toward a human-constructed object, but i guess it's something...
learn more about the temple: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/a-vision-in-concrete/
@Diggler67 during the preseason there was a call - I can't remember which game, unfortunately - where the call on the field was RTP for a low hit, and it was challenged and upheld. That was an error, in my opinion, because on the play in question, the quarterback had been flushed from the pocket. At that point he's legally a runner, not a passer - and you can't have roughing the passer without a passer! It's perfectly okay to make a shoestring tackle on a runner, even if he is the quarterback. It's RTP, not RTQB.
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