Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

@realcaseyrollins@civiq.social

No, not until Opera version 12 or so -- until them, Opera had always been an independant team, pushing the envelop and innovating a lot.

Their browser was wonderful, and a favourite for Power Users at the time. Great customization option, they invented many new things now spread to other browsers, like Mouse Gestures, for example.

Part of the original Opera team left and now run the Vivaldi browser project, where they continue the tradition of catering to power user and customization galore.

Vivaldi is sadly a bit Chromium based too, it's difficult to pursue an independant rendering engine nowadays. Even Microsoft gave up on EdgeHTML, which is a very nice one.

@Hedieh @realcaseyrollins

When your so-called 'open source' only runs on a #surveillance machine that is #proprietarysoftware (which is what #microsoft #windows is) https://www.ghacks.net/2019/12/16/pinner-is-an-open-source-program-that-lets-you-access-your-favorite-files-folders-applications-and-urls-from-one-place/

seeing a lot of domainblock-related statuses flying around

thought i'd put my opinion of it into words. imo instance-level domain-blocks are a last resort for instances being run in bad faith. most of the time, you shouldn't have to use them. whilst i see why you'd want to prevent unwanted interactions from reaching your instance, a user-level domain block will usually suffice.

whilst it is true that some instances are home to some monumentally awful people, they're (usually) quite a loud minority. even the infamous kiwifarms is... idk, mostly agreeable enough? most of the time?

i don't think it's worth preventing people on your instance (who are probably important to you) from finding friends in places that you may not personally like frequenting

things ihatebeinga.live has done to get cancelled:
- posting too many cute anime girls
- being far too tame and lacking in drama
- having well-behaved bots that don't follow anyone
- allowing speaking to nice people from wherever they might be
- enforcing a basic and created-and-agreed-on-by-users ToS

truly despicable behaviour, domainblock needed

AP WAS A MISTAKE

Why I quit Twitter — and you should, too - From Discover on Google https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/why-i-quit-twitter-and-you-should-too/

I never actually got around to deleting my twitter account, which claims to have 5309 followers (most of those must be bots, because I had closer to 4000 when I stopped using the site in 2017) https://mobile.twitter.com/technomancy

every so often I log back on to post about the fediverse, but I have no idea if that's actually helping because ... I don't actually use the site, so how would I tell?

has anyone else kept their account active to try to raise fediverse awareness? does it work?

looking for prior art: has anyone used the fediverse as a platform for interactive fiction or similar storytelling models?

@realcaseyrollins@civiq.social @shibaprasad

I prefer apps when they use a common protocol - Mastodon apps, IRC clients, XMPP programs, etc. That's even true for non-social media: I prefer IMAP clients to webmail pages, dedicated music players to streaming webapps, and so on.

Apps that speak some opaque undocumented protocol on the wire are much less welcome - a browser parsing HTML may give me less interface control than the above examples, but at least it doesn't hide what it's doing.

I'm convinced there's no current way to get the sound on my new laptop to work in #Linux. It's only a 6-month-old model. I've tried a few hda_intel_snd configurations that worked on similar models 8-12 months ago, but nothing works yet. The sound does play but some frequencies crackle, so it probably doesn't know what some pins do? I can't do anything more without applying patches, & I don't want to risk breaking the speakers so I'm just gonna wait a few more months. (Model: #Asus GL531GT) #Alsa

Fun fact: #Asus has the worst-labelled modes in the #Alsa documention: https://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt 😛 asus1 through asus8 have the same non-description

"FASHION" by Virgil Abloh - From Discover on Google https://www.leathercaresupply.com/blogs/knowledge-base/fashion-by-virgil-abloh

Except Reddit (Boost for Mobile) I like using Desktop web version for almost all social media outlets. Is it only me or anyone else feels the same?!

Lunch time

Lately it's been weird because I've been worrying so much about the weather being so nice in late December and worrying about what this means

but this is also the reason this is the best winter I've ever had, in a way

Ex-Christian publication editor who quit says he had 'no other choice' after pro-Trump editorial https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/politics/napp-nazworth-christian-editor-trump-cnntv/index.html #CNN #news #global #bot

Why Startups Fail. In an infographic.