Ian Brown @hummingrain@wandering.shop

why hasn't anybody taken the intro to the activitypub standard more literally and built software that lets you request and lend physical books via the fediverse

Did you know you can browse #DrmFree eBooks directly on Kobo?

(They seem to have buried the link nowadays, but it still works)

USA
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free

UK
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/p/drm-free

Canada
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/p/drm-free

France
https://www.kobo.com/fr/fr/p/drm-free

etc.

To get your local version, click on any of the links above and choose your country and language at the top of the screen (where the flag is).

(via @damko@diasp.org)

See also DRM-free Kobo search:

https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/

#DeleteAmazon #eBooks #Books

Don't torment the #cucco , they'll get their revenge! #dnd #legend of zelda
Text-only version can be found on my tumblr here: http://xigzagoon.tumblr.com/post/177150987815

LET"S MAKE MASTADON WHOLESOME AND AUTHENTIC INSTEAD OF EDGY AND IRONIC

RETOOT IF YOU'RE WITH ME

MIKE PENCE'S WEBSITE GOT HACKED IM SCREAMING http://www.officialmikepence.com

"Oh boy I want a Cis Am" said no one ever

I wrote a crate for helping you gracefully end a tokio-based application upon receiving a signal

https://crates.io/crates/safeword

#rustlang

Here's a blog post from last year from Nolan Lawson, developer of Pinafore. In it, he succinctly explains what Mastodon is, how "instances" work, the Fediverse, and why Mastodon philosophically is not, and will never be, the birdsite.

It's an enthusiastic but ultimately realistic overview, and I think it's a great starting point for recent arrivals who are still trying to make sense of it all. https://nolanlawson.com/2017/10/23/what-is-mastodon-and-why-is-it-better-than-twitter/

Rare self-pimpage. Apologies.

I've just completed the latest episode of my shortform #gaming news #podcast - it's a bonus series that runs alongside a less frequent full length panel podcast.

https://anchor.fm/clod-of-war/episodes/NewsClod-17th-August-2018-e21j1h

I'd normally post to birdsite first... but y'know.

P.S. Be Nice. ( I know you're nice, you're mastodonians \o/ )

[Accessibility] Screen readers like #HashtagsLikeThis, but the Mastodon UI only offers #hashtagslikethis

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/8241

Add your 👍 if you've got a Github account and you agree that this needs a fix!

#CasDoesGithub

What I wish I had the spoons for:

Making a "How do I find cool people to follow?" specific guide that covers trawling timelines, clicking cool users, looking at their boosts and follow lists, repeating, etc

and how to paste things in the Search field to get to exactly where you want to go for favs, boosts, follows, replies etc

If someone already wrote a guide like that hmu and I'll <3 and boost it

HEY EVERYONE! WE CAN SAY "FUCK TERFS" NOW

BOOST TO SAY "FUCK TERFS"

Hello new folks moving to Mastodon: If you can, look at hosting your own instance (either just for yourself or maybe for you and your family).

@mastohost is awesome

(@indie and @laura are both hosted there and I will move my own self-hosted instance there when I get a moment)

Remember: the more instances there are, the stronger the fediverse is. And wouldn’t it be nice for you to be the one making the rules, exactly as you want them, instead of Jack or some mini-Jack (an instance admin?) ;)

mastodon did not spring fully-formed from the head of a demi-god

mastodon was built. by people like you.

mastodon was built by the people who used it, the people who gave feedback, the people who worked hard to find problems and the people who worked hard to fix them.

mastodon was built by the people who imagined it and the people who did the thankless hard work of fucking up a dream by bringing it into the real world.

think about that.

me_irl

I spent a decade thinking about how Twitter and Facebook could fix themselves instead of thinking about how we should express ourselves and build relationships online. We all did. Imagine what we could have built instead.

"but how would we know people wont just steal everything from stores" says the capitalist as she scans every item for purchase at the self service

Changing random stuff until your program works is "hacky" and "bad coding practice", but if you do it fast enough it's "Machine Learning" and pays 4x your current salary.