OK, I'm fed up with #Pixelfed 
@pixelfed. I think I'm done with it once this year's #dailyphoto is over.
Last night I [bumped again](https://qoto.org/@tripu/106091353468149241) into the issue of collections being limited to 18 posts. So I created [a new collection](https://pixelfed.de/c/422147543041479526) with the idea of splitting my 30 photos of April between [the old](https://pixelfed.de/c/415513620799474040) and the new collection (15 + 15).
Issue: because of the new UI, posts have two valid URLs now; eg `/i/web/post/<POST>` and `/p/<USER>/<POST>?fs=1`. When I tried to add a few photos to the _new_ collection by pasting their URLs, it didn't work. Until I realised I had to use _the other_ URL.
Issue: when I tried to remove the last 3 photos from the _old_ collection, the “edit” pop-up didn't even show me those. Until I realised the pop-up takes its data from the page itself (not from an API call), and because of the infinite scroll on the page, unless you have scrolled down _before_ trying to edit the collection, you won't be able to edit but the first bunch of items.
Issue: once I understood that (and I scroll until the end, then click to edit, then select the last 3 photos), the dialog box says _“Select a Photo to Delete”_, the button is labelled _“Delete 3 photos”_, and if you dare to click it, a confirmation pop-up says _“Are you sure you want to delete this?”_. NO, I'M NOT SURE. Are you going to _remove these photos from the collection_, or _delete them_??
A couple more useful and up-to-date comparisons of #messaging #apps:
* [by Kuketz IT-Security](https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html)
* by @thenewoil: [detailed](https://thenewoil.org/messaging.html), [chart](https://thenewoil.org/messaging-chart.html)
If, like me, you were frustrated by the @eff’s Secure Messaging Scorecard being outdated for years now, go check Mark Williams’s Secure Messaging A...
@przemek@berserker.town
Well, then they've messed themselves up: women can have penises, therefore women can rape!
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@tripu 👍 “Your teams are full of talented and capable people doing what they do best, but they need space to do so. By better understanding how they want to work together, how meetings fit into that, and where meetings do and don’t add value, you’ll minimize the need for useless meetings.”
Stupid opinion since I haven't read the article, but from the outside the case for #cliodynamics looks to me as weak as the case for #technicalanalysis: systems so complex and rare as the History of countries and the price of stocks can't be “predicted” by looking at past trends and patterns. Perhaps if we had had already millions of years of History, millions of nations with good written records, and millions of traded companies over the same long period of time — perhaps then some reliable patterns might emerge. And I'm still doubtful, given what little I know about #chaostheory.
(Just a hunch; epistemological confidence: low :)
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Don't you love easter eggs
curl -L http://git\.io/unix
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Some suggestions, in no particular order:
* [A Confederacy of Dunces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces)
* [Book of Longing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158005.Book_of_Longing)
* [Chess Story](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59151.Chess_Story)
* [What Do You Care What Other People Think?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5548.What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think_)
I liked them all — and they are either very short, quite funny, or are split into short independent bits that can be read in isolation.
(I was going to add [Lying](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869177-lying) to the list, but I saw you read and liked it too 👍)
#JonathanHaidt at his best. Well worth the (long) read, as a very comprehensive overview of the mess we're in.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
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elon can have twitter but he can never have my website
> _“[#ElonMusk] echoes a long-standing interest by [#JackDorsey] and others at #Twitter, including new CEO #ParagAgrawal, in a future version of Twitter that's ‘#decentralized’. A #web3 Twitter, if you will. […] Users will be able to configure their own #moderation, no centralized authority.”_
https://marker.medium.com/the-elon-musk-rollercoaster-of-volatility-9c3fcf0f413d
Not Invented Here? Guys, we have the #Fediverse and #Mastodon already! (No need for #crypto BS for this.)
> _“Bitcoin had turned out to be practically the opposite of untraceable: a kind of honeypot for #crypto criminals that had, for years, dutifully and unerasably recorded evidence of their dirty deals. By 2017, agencies like the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division (or IRS-CI) had traced #Bitcoin transactions to carry out one investigative coup after another.”_
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/de-anonymizing-bitcoin.html
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
I know! In fact, I used “fatherhood” and not “parenthood” because I was afraid that a mother would (rightly) mock me for “complaining”: “oh… so your coffee is too cold now? Poor thing! That's a real nuisance, unlike pregnancy! Or childbirth! Or breastfeeding!” 😅
Of course being a parent involves bigger sacrifices than watching your toast get cold while you take care of a kid… It's just that sometimes I truly find those little things more annoying than the big responsibilities 🤷
I know that you didn't take my toot the wrong and that I don't need to explain myself 😉 And yet:
MUCH RESPECT FOR MOTHERS 🙌
