OK, clear. I'm a newbie and do enjoy people talking about it.
Is there a lack of quality, because can't see why people talking about this on social media would be considered a bad thing.
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
@erlend@Techmeme@tchambers was trying to see if there are any client apps that have started playing with this API yet. I wonder if you can see any of the ActivityPub work from the API yet
Trying something new by creating '#gameassets' for content creators on video platforms. These will all be animated, 4K and CC0 (public domain) licensed. Will come in a variety of themes including gamedev, programming, pixel art and game engine specific ones!
@Radgryd Still working on them! This pack is a bit more difficult for me as I have to do research on what's industry standard, in an industry I don't particularly work in hah
@kenney Ooh, I'm so excited for them because I LOVE your style! I just thought I'd missed them or they were on your Patreon or something. Please shout when they're ready because I'm gonna pick them up wherever they are! :pika_sunglasses:
@JamesGleick Faulkner did this within a single novel, The Sound and the Fury, in four parts voicing three different character points of view (of different but overlapping events) and only ending with an omniscient narrator story.
@JamesGleick Peter Watts's short story "The Things" provides the Thing's perspective. ("Who Goes There?", The Thing from Another World, The Thing, etc.) I recommend it to anyone very interested in the Thing, but only AFTER reading everything else, because it WILL change your view about it.
@notjustbikes don’t know if you mentioned this before in one of your videos, but apparently Spain has introduced 30km/h speed limits on most urban single lane roads back in 2021, decreasing the number of traffic deaths considerably. I’m in Salamanca now and it seems to be working fine, most drivers stick to the rules and 30km is also the speed limit on most double lane roads in the city. https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/speed-limits-towns-20220517101946-nt.html
@hayify surprisingly that didn't come up in any of my research on 30kmph cities, but it's great to see!
I think like most thing urban planning, switching to 30kmph speed limits gets a lot of pushback, but when it's actually implemented things go fine and the majority of people like it.
@notjustbikes yeah, i agree. I have been perfectly happy with the decrease to 30 in Amsterdam. Feels a bit weird on roads that weren’t designed for it but you get used to it and it definitely feels a lot safer.
@JamesGleick@pbump Nothing wrong with a can of Monster & some vitamin B. Don't forget the old stage trick of putting a little vaseline on your teeth so your lips don't stick when you get dry mouth.
I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.
Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.
@erlend yeah, sorry all.. it seems like something is keeping the domain name from working on some networks. I’ll see if I can get it squared away this morning.
@dajb excitedly following the #OpenBadges project! We’re working on something that’s very aligned. Give us a few more weeks and I think it’ll become increasingly self-explanatory.
It's a crime because Mastodon is a beautiful thing.
A miracle, some ways, BOTH technological and social. The successful federation, the macro-moderation it enables, the thriving volume of instances.
The fact that as a truly evil plutocrat bought a commons and then began deplatforming its journalists, Mastodon could provide a truly workable alternative.
Extraordinary.
BUT: Mastodon is its own worst enemy.
Its querulous, joyless norms will set a ceiling on its impact.
I'll wait for the experts to weigh in on this, but it's hard to keep trusting Mozilla when it buys an advertising company that claims -- contrary to essentially all available history of the genre -- to protect user privacy.
@rzeta0@dangillmor As an amateur browserengine dev I recommend webdevs avoid relying on JavaScript so its easier to develop alternative engines. Seemingly a tough sell...
Keep an eye on Dillo, Netsurf, LadyBird, & Servo. Or I'm developing my own. Or there's several commandline options!
But still keep Safari or Firefox (even if you don't like Mozilla's actions) on hand in case a site needs it!