Please Mastodon, would it be so difficult to add a button or some kind of more obvious clickable area to select a post that doesn't contain text?
In the below screenshot, I have highlighted the area I need to click to see this @nightjar post.
Surely I can't be the only one who has desperately searched for this space to click?
"Help, I'm stuck on the roof of Rick Astley's house."
"Of course, but why did you end up there in the first place?"
"I was running from the police"
Joke adapted from a post by @dgar
I have a physics (or perhaps maths) question that one been thinking about for a while, and I'm hoping someone here could shed some light on it.
Why is it that everything in the universe appears to fit in a scale that is on the order of roughly 10-80 to 1080? In maths, you can easily come up with problems where the solution goes way beyond what exponential notation can describe (Grahams number is one such example) but in the real world, everything seems to fit in 100 orders of magnitude.
Is there something fundamental that causes this? I know this might be more philosophy than physics, but surely people have thought about this?
OK, this is somehow not at all unexpected.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya
I notice people posting about trying to get a job, so here's hoping that an appropriate candidate reads this.
My employer is looking for someone with devops skills (Linux, databses, networking and development) who's willing to work in Singapore.
The job involves supporting customers (mostly banks) running financial software.
Let me know if you want to know more.
Not sure what hashtag to use for this, so feel free to boost.
Web hosting advice
I am moving the Kap website. It's all static content (although i might want to put some dynamic stuff on there at some point).
I have a new domain name for the site, so when I change it, I want to put it somewhere that isn't super slow for everybody outside Singapore to access.
Suggestions? I don't need much storage at all. If at all possible, I'd like to avoid big tech and I'm willing to pay a bit extra to do so (but not too much).
Good self-hosted streaming device suggestions?
For the last few years, I've had a Chromecast connected to my TV, because it's a convenient way to stream Youtube as well as Jellyfin.
For the last 2 days, Chromecast has been down globally, and Google is of course not saying anything. Will it ever come back? Who knows! It's not like the users are actually customers or anything.
I've already moved a lot of my stuff off centralised services, but I have to admit that I never really thought much of the Chromecast, it just worked. But, perhaps I should thank Google for showing me why centrally managed services are a really, really bad idea.
So, what should I replace this with? The two things I need to be able to stream is, as mentioned above, Youtube and Jellyfin. Netflix would be nice too, although less important.
The main requirement is that it does not rely on any service that I can't self-host.
Am I crazy, or didn't the Mastodon timeline use to show replies by people you follow, even if the reply was not to you?
The only times I see replies in my feed now is when someone boosts them. It wasn't always like that was it?
So, I've been trying out Wayland for a few weeks. How many years has it been since everybody were saying that it's time to ditch X?
Well, if that's the case, why am I seeing this?
Can someone tell me what's going on here, and why I should be using this thing?
So I was listening to the @jeffgerstmann podcast, and he was talking about Warframe.
Now, I've played it on and off since it came out, but I don't think I put in more than 10 hours of hameplay total so I've only got to the second planet or something like that. It's fun to just run around a shoot guys for a while.
I've heard that there is more stuff in the game, but I was stiss surprised when he just casually mentioned that you can get a horse in the game.
The what now?
Oh and then he said it flies.
You can get a flying horse. In Warframe.
What?
@ben please explain Warframe to me.
A lot of otherwise interesting Youtube videos are using compute narration these days. And I hate it. The narration is good enough to sound real, until it doesn't, like a maths video I saw just how that pronounced Leonhard Euler's name as Leon Hard, and later, it states that "even numbers are a multiple of 2", except that the TTS system interpreted the word "even" wrongly. And so on...
Listening to these is incredibly grating, and it's even worse when you can tell that the actual content isn't just ai slop.
@ben which character in asrd is the cuddliest?
You asked once whether a specific enemy is cuddly, but we need to know which one is the most cuddly.
Ok, I have to ask. What is pumpkin spice? Pumpkin has absolutely no flavour, so what is it? White pepper in pumpkin shaped containers?
I decided to walk back via an old part of the city.
I'm using Outlook 365 using their webapp. It's generally fairly acceptable (which is high praise for a Microsoft product). But...
Why in the name of everything that is holy do they format the dates in US format? Neither my OS, nor anything else is set to US locale, and I've searched through all the Outlook settings and there is no way to change this.
"US cultural imperialism" is a term I really want to through around right now.
A toot by @csepp astutely phrased a UI design rule as: "state should be visible".
That reminded me of one of the best (worst) examples of this.
In Excel, when editing a cell, the editor can have two different modes:
You switch between the two modes by typing F2, but there is zero indication of which mode you're in.
Have you ever wanted to move the cursor in the input field and instead you moved the cell? Well, there's your reason.
Why on earth Microsoft has releases an uncountable number of versions of Excel over what, 30 years? and never even thought about adding perhaps a little outline around the cell when in one of the modes is beyond me.
Are we going to see a new next generation (nexter generation perhaps) with 7 of 9's crew?
Star Trek has been doing good stuff lately, so I'd welcome this.
@TechConnectify so I was watching the most recent episode by @TechConnectify about contactors. Interesting episode, and I learned a lot.
Now, in it it is said that the lights in the house dims when the AC turns on. I have never seen this in any house. Is this something that happens more often in the US which uses 115 V?
Why can't you shorten "we have not" to we'ven't?
