Rental car company absolutely tried scamming me. Obviously they didn’t have the car I reserved, so they wanted to upcharge me like 40% for a nicer car they had… I was able to edit the reservation online while standing there to “whatever you have” for the same cost as my original reservation.
I walked out with the same car they wanted more money for at the same price I had booked for.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115531491817897878The latest engineering (and whole team) update is here 👀

@heidilifeldman@bridge.twtxt.net Guess it’s not unclaimed anymore. 🤔

(#wmnfghq) @bender@twtxt.net i am split between registrars .. isnic is only managed by the country registrar. the others i have at regular reseller

I am not dead. promise.

@RichardBrockie@bridge.twtxt.net They break your device, and they give you the privilege of buying another one from them.

@Viss@bridge.twtxt.net There’s no way someone didn’t notice this when putting it up.

@StillIRise1963@bridge.twtxt.net When it happens, the world’s problems won’t go away, but it will look a little brighter.

is there an etiquette to twtxt’ing? am i flooding?

oops typo tagging @sxb@tilde.club

i’m aging … before my very eyes

@xsb oh no … I’m in a normal brightness room, not quite direct blinding daytime, and light theme looks good

dark mode forevah!

catppuccin latte was great for that. the muttrc color file i found on github, not so much

weird thing: i’m open to light themes now. partly maybe aging eyes, but for sure bc my last home office was so sunny

anyway, i just tried catppuccin in mutt, and didn’t like itas much. and that’s what i prefer on my laptop term

s/but/and/ – though loyal already implies unquestioning

after years of loyal but unquestioning solarized usage, dracula theme feels so good

stoked to have cobbled together a mutt config that feels mostly-right

ngl, little relieved that while reading computer things instead of going out for a quick push on my skateboard, it must have rained briefly

@jordan@bridge.twtxt.net @vkc@bridge.twtxt.net Yeah, I’m Insteon for the same reason, but Z-Wave would be my next best choice. It doesn’t clutter up network bandwidth and in Insteon’s case is too dumb to compromise, the devices don’t even have firmware updates.

Replacement wifi adapter for my main laptop arrived today…5 days early!

hi @lafe@tilde.club and thank you!

hello, @threatcat@tilde.club!

hello, @threatcat !

helooooooo @sxb@tilde.club!

Just testing out twtxt!

Props to him on nailing messaging tho. Essential activist skill, and he’s crushing it

ENSHITTIFICATION the book I guess lays out a framework, but the references are all his own covered territory

Kinda hit a wall w/ messaging tho. In the last few months I read INTERNET CON and CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM, and listened to the CBC podcast

OK, glad I made the drive. Seeing Doctorow speak with the same speed + enthusiasm you hear on his audiobooks + interviews is pretty cool

Thank you to all of the contributors to Mastodon 4.5! As always, we also appreciate your donations and support as we continue to build a better social web for everyone.https://joinmastodon.org/donate

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115503006012708370We recommend that server owners update their Mastodon installations to bring these improvements to their communities as soon as they can. There are a lot of great updates, now ready for everyone.

Among many tweaks, and some polishing of the web interface, Mastodon 4.5 also now supports the use of native emoji 🎁

Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.

The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.

Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5

car dependency and car culture ruin Miami for me

that’s an hour to only travel 16 miles

Going to see Cory Doctorow’s book talk, but loathe having to drive an hour to get there

thanks @lafe@tilde.club!

init to begin it

Der einzige Spielzeugladen der Stadt wird zum Jahresende geschlossen. Das muss man sich mal vorstellen: Eine Stadt ohne Spielzeugladen. 😥

(#pwczntq) @bender@twtxt.net is macOS 26 running smoothly? I’ve heard some issues with memory for the first release (docker related IIRC)

(#43tf7cq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Kommt auf meine Leseliste. Ist ja eh bald Winter.

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/ryanair-flight-landed-at-manchester-airport-with-six-minutes-of-fuel-left-flight-log-suggests