It's been over a year now since my last blog post. #Today I started working on a new one about my adventures with #org-mode. As an experiment, I'm trying to compose the post itself in org-mode, and then export to HTML for the site.
Depending on how reasonable the resulting HTML ends up being, this might be my go-to method of composing blog posts going forward.
Friendly reminder to folks on Fedi: the engagement *you* see on a post might not be the engagement the *poster* sees.
Take my silly polls, for instance. I occasionally see comments saying "you'd have more responses if it said [variable]".
Those commenters probably can't see the responses, so they assume few are responding.
My last poll has over 1200 responses, but federation might not show *you* all of them. And that's OK! But don't assume what you see is what others see here.
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Another aspect to this is replies. You might not see every reply to a post. It isn't like centralized social media... it's more like how you might miss some replies to an email chain if you weren't included.
This can fool us into thinking a post doesn't have nasty replies, or replies answering the question, or replyfolk being replyfolk, etc.
(It can also fool us into thinking Fedi feels safer than it can be for some of us, but that's a different topic.)
When I first got here, I incorrectly assumed that everyone could see what I saw.
Nowadays, as a poster, I try to keep in mind that the audience for my toots might not see the replies. Leaving space in the original post for clarification edits can help reduce redundant replies.
Grace toward Fedifolk is another thing, and I can't teach anyone that. But patience is a virtue and keeping in mind that not everyone here sees what you see is going to serve you well.
If I want to see what you're seeing and any conversation I might be missing then I select "Open original page" from the post menu and that takes me to your server.
At least I think that shows me everything.
@mackaj Not everything. It won't show you things from servers I've blocked, and things I've said privately. Also, I believe AUTHORIZED_FETCH can kill that but I'm not sure.
If I say "I don't want my server to host content from [bad server]", I don't think you're going to see it via "open original page". At least, that's what I observed in my testing, I'm not an ActivityPub dev and I only admin for myself.
Absolutely the nature of the Fediverse uniquely contributes to misunderstanding, but "Not everyone sees what you see" is good advice for writing in general.
Misunderstanding is very common. Even in the best case when writers avoid poor word choices or other blunders that lead to miscommunication, readers often interpret words differently, skim, and miss context.
This effect is even more pronounced in longer forms of writing, where there can be as many interpretations as there are readers.
One other thing that doesn't always get federated is edits, I've had to explicitly search for a post to get the updated version [1,2]. But maybe the Mastodon official clients do something that Brutaldon doesn't?
[1] social.sdf.org/@njsg/113369896…
[2] social.sdf.org/@njsg/113357134…
@alderwick I doubt it. If I tell my server "ignore [bad server]", I don't think you're going to see those replies here, but you might see them on a server which federates with [bad server].
I'm pretty judicious with my blocks, too. I don't give servers much benefit of the doubt if I'm getting hate from them. After that I don't see those nasty replies but sometimes folks think they're "helping" by DMing or emailing me the worst of it.
I love how you freely block arseholes on sight, but I thought that the whole AUTHORIZED_FETCH config setting was to prevent servers you've blocked from ever seeing your posts, whether directly or indirectly? That's a real bummer if it doesn't work that way (but I'm making the assumption that you've turned it on).
(Obviously this doesn't help with folk taking screenshots and DMing or emailing you, but I thought Mastodon at least had the above feature.)
@alderwick AUTHORIZED_FETCH seems neat, I don't think I've deployed it yet just because I haven't had time. My previous server did that, I believe, and I would need to do some research to figure out the ramifications.
What I would prefer TBH, is allowlisting servers instead of blocklisting the baddies. As in "these servers are great and I want my posts/replies to appear there" and "every other server is to be treated as potentially hostile with limits". But I don't see it happening.
This can have many different effects. I have taken you at your word regarding the stuff you're putting up with here, and occasionally I feel like replying with something supportive. But since I don't see many replies it feels like I'd stick out in an empty room, which discourages me given you're often complaining about the volume of attention you *do* get.
So instead I usually just hit the "like" button and keep scrolling.
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@Life_is do you know if you get the real proper number when the notification comes through for a poll ending?
Or is that just a timer on your instance rather than sent from the asker's instance?
TBH there are some polls I'd like to get completion notifications without voting. I'm not in the population of people who can answer but the results might be interesting.
on an even more granular note, there can literally just be replies missing
I saw person A say something, then person B reply something that seemed weirdly harsh in response especially when it seemed like A and B agreed
Turns out I couldn't see person Z's post in-between them that B was replying to, which made the reply look like it was to A.
on here you have 5 replies and 8 boosts.
I was aware of this problem and honestly I dont like that it is like this. I want to see the real amount.
@sakura I understand why you feel that way, I felt it too at first, and sometimes still do.
A thing I try to think about with Fedi is that a side effect of decentralization is that the data about who reacts to what isn't "owned" - whatever that means - by all parties. What my server does is my business, what yours does is yours, etc. In that sort of network, we might have to let go of certain expectations.
But that feeling sucks sometimes.
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@paradoxmo It uses the word "sheen" on the website, but the colour actually changes depending on the angle it's looked at from, which is why a photo would never do it justice.
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Welp, I had hoped this would arrive before the Canada Post strike. I guess not.
That's unfortunate.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
#retrocomputing #unix #vintage
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writing a guestbook entry on a pdp11 isn't something you can do every day.
Great idea 👌
@mvilain I'd never heard of this, and DuckDuckGo isn't telling me much. What markets did the DECDataSystem target?
(I used 11/70s early in my career, though. RSTS/E and 2.x BSD.)
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
XorCurses - github.com/jwm-art-net/XorCurs…
Greed - catb.org/~esr/greed/
CurseofWar - a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwa…
Liberal Crime Squad - lcs.wikidot.com/start
StarLanes - github.com/mmpub/StarLanes
chroma - level7.org.uk/chroma/
pokete - lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
There are a few different tetris, pacman and sokoban clones.
GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.GitHub
gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire
Games of No Time To Play
So much fun can be had with a scripting language and a terminal emulator.ctrl-c.club
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully.
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...GitHub
bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
I think I have this in acceptable condition for someone else to try it... git.sr.ht/~rlonstein/wordwhiz-…
A rewrite of a little word tile game I first wrote in 2011 inspired by the Wordsmith game in my first Tivo.
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
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21 Peerless ASCII Games - LinuxLinks
Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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