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@freemo

I spent an hour with the toddler and infant watching https://youtube.com/@msrachel. The 6-month old liked this, too. Definitely made me think of @DrFreemo #BabyTalk #ChildAboos

@marcolas For URL shortening I've used #yourls https://yourls.org/ for years. They are open source and, being PHP, work fine on my shared #BlueHost hosting.

Upgrading the PHP version on my sites broke my URL shortener. Rather than reverting, I finally did what it has been bugging me about for years and upgraded the system. Now I am back to being able to take a url string in #emacs and, with one keystroke, convert it into a #ShortUrl off one of my domains, which I can then check stats to see how much my link was visited. Of course, as soon as I finished the upgrade it was telling me, "There's a newer version available."

I also just discovered the "always hide media" option

I used to think it silly how many #images were #sensitive on #Mastodon. Then I realized it's not just for trigger warnings and objectionable content, but to respect the structural integrity of people's streams. There is a lot to say in favor of being able to move down your feed without images blatantly wrestling for your attention all the time. Probably it shouldn't be misnamed "private" but maybe just "hidden" #distraction #QuietPeace

Stupid #javascript errors. Forgot I needed to insert single quotes in my transpiling. But THEN I found out that you can't have - dashes anywhere in variable names in js. My #Clojure heart is really #hiccup ing in sadness.

apparently magic.link now requires blockchain for its solution. Yech. I didn't sign up for this.

I just made my first #emacs #orgmode file attachment. I attached the to-be-printed eventbrite tickets to an event occurring in a few weeks. That looks handy!

@RTP good job for Zoom responding and, apparently, acting upon this issue

@freemo as a linguist and a many-times parent, I endorse the spirit of this message. I wouldn't go so far as to call it abuse, but it is definitely not helpful to the children.

@rap1ds awesome! I experience a conflict in #clojure between leveraging the awesome interop power with its hosts (Java, Javascript, etc) yet holding as "inferior" or at least suspicion non-Clojure code

Whoa -- somehow I was joyfully surprised that #Piped can play live #YouTube broadcasts!

For a while I wondered how to change my #emacs modeline in a destructive function call; then I rethought the situation, read the code, and just turned off the destructive behavior. Ah, the glory of #OpenSource!

@david_megginson

my morning playlist is the music to Newsies, so I have a casual awareness of some of that.

True that the entire economic state of news has changed; nonetheless, I prefer the Newspaper Box model to the News Delivery model. The box model -- which is no longer inconvenient to digital users -- is a clear win to privacy and freedom from invasive algorithms, spam, and black box news-feed tweaking.

That tweaking is the sort of thing that makes feeds non-reproducible ("I read a thing this morning and can't find it now") and non-shareable, not to mention unknown forces "tailoring" the feed to what they believe users want, which inherently promotes clickbait and ideological contention.

Give me clean #RSS !