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In particular, I wonder whether it would make sense for Mastodon servers to allow you to subscribe directly to RSS feeds or boost/bookmark posts from RSS feeds. AP and RSS aren't the same, and two way comms like replies couldn't work, but probably there's some way to do a mapping that makes sense.

I'm not on the RSS train in general, I've never managed to make it a useful part of my life, but established news sources seem much more willing to set up a passive RSS feed than join the Fediverse.

Maybe RSS could finally be something useful to me if I could access it "inside" Mastodon.

In general, it seems like long term the Fediverse would benefit from a standard way of talking about, addressing, or embedding in AP feeds (for example as boosts) "external" resources, not just RSS but things like Bluesky posts or exotics like Scuttlebutt. I know ActivityPub has many capabilities Mastodon doesn't support so maybe a version of this is already in the spec.

type of girl whose favourite genre of music is MIDI synthesiser demos

“please, before you kill me, I gotta know — what’s with all the aquatic puns?”

the mafia boss takes a long draw from a cigar

“you axolotl questions”

the audio cd is a beautiful standard because it is something truly rare in the field of technology: it is complete. it set out to solve the problem of distributing audio, and it solved it so completely that it will never be obsolete, because it delivers quality far surpassing what the human ear can make out. for the last four decades, audio has simply been a solved problem, thanks to the cd.

garnet's face is the reaction of every trans person when a friend they thought for SURE was cis comes out as trans. I DIDN'T KNOW I COULD BE SURPRISED BY ANYTHING AGAIN AND NOW I'M MORE SURPRISED THAN I'VE EVER BEEN

a veritable buffet of choice peridot faces this episode

Spent the last week debugging rotations, translations, and ultimately, transformation matrices, to get this to FINALLY work. Per request of @sjpalmer1994

SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

Here are some random photos from my archives, this time from late 2016

(Fun fact: The tapas sign is from a restaurant in Malaga which had multiple signs bearing very, very long rants about how they are the best restaurant and every other restaurant's paella sucks)

I feel like someone must have done this terrible #linguistics joke before, but I've never actually seen it.

this is what people mean when they ask “can it run doom” right,

i'm living the dream with the yamaha portatone psr-350 🎹💾🎶

No fake news

#archeology #colonialism #decolonize! #art

How to understand hardware implementation details in your machine.
1980s: Read a manual called Principles of Operation.
2020s: Solve a jigsaw puzzle by putting various sources of information together, like marketing materials, PC hardware review articles, programming blogs, mailing list and source code, microbenchmark results, research papers, and sometimes a tweet from the chip's chief architect.

A passenger airline client is developing the complicated scheduling tools to ensure that pregnant employees can minimize working in states with actively dangerous restrictions on reproductive healthcare. Pilots also need to rethink where to divert if a passenger has a prenatal medical emergency.
The nearest airports are not necessarily places where care can be provided. This is a major safety, moral, and reputational risk, and it's damned shameful that we have medical "dead zones" in America

life has its moments