@kentonvarda.com That is a fair point. It is also not very cohesive in a âI donât know what you want, but Iâm required to say somethingâ way. It managed to cover your grammar, the source of food insecurity, telling you âjust eat somethingâ (which is how I respond to family members who say theyâre hungry), and tops it off with a funny video.
@kentonvarda.com I really hate to defend an AI model, or Google, but you did not give it much to go on here. I wouldâve assumed you were telling the machine you were hungry and wanted it to suggest food near you.
Rental car company absolutely tried scamming me. Obviously they didnât 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 âwhatever you haveâ 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 đ
@heidilifeldman@bridge.twtxt.net Guess itâs not unclaimed anymore. đ€
(#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 Thereâs no way someone didnât notice this when putting it up.
@StillIRise1963@bridge.twtxt.net When it happens, the worldâs problems wonât go away, but it will look a little brighter.
is there an etiquette to twtxtâing? am i flooding?
oops typo tagging @sxb@tilde.club
iâm aging ⊠before my very eyes
@xsb oh no ⊠Iâm 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: iâm 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 didnât like itas much. and thatâs what i prefer on my laptop term
s/but/and/ â 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, Iâm Insteon for the same reason, but Z-Wave would be my next best choice. It doesnât clutter up network bandwidth and in Insteonâs case is too dumb to compromise, the devices donât even have firmware updates.
Replacement wifi adapter for my main laptop arrived todayâŠ5 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 heâs 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 đ
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/
Weâre 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. Hereâs 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
thatâs an hour to only travel 16 miles
Going to see Cory Doctorowâs 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. đ„
(#pwczntq) @bender@twtxt.net is macOS 26 running smoothly? Iâve 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
HTMLâs Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag
https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag