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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@grishka Return an error that tells the client it's used an unsupported version.

By definition, the server does not know the semantics of the call the client made, so trying to guess and return something in the hope it's correct takes us out of the realm of engineering and into clairvoyance.

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@timbray

:cough:

Screenshot of a web page where the contents have been replaced by a notice saying "This domain has been seized by the FBI"

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@timbray You predict AI will be good at writing code except for "Low level infrastructure code, the kind I’ve spent my whole life on".

I strongly suspect everyone will have that prediction about the specific types of code they're familiar with.

Isn't this just another example of what happens […]

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@cheeaun Not sure I concur with the suggestion the quoting is typically associated with boosting. Feels more natural to consider it a "reply" variant (albeit one that starts a new thread).

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

@timbray @cheeaun

Tim, you wrote a whole blog entry that summarised the problems when abusers have tools to keep their abuse difficult to find.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/07/30/Invisible-Attackers

Invisible Attackers

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@thisismissem.social @coop Not according to https://blog.cosocial.ca/sign-up/. Flow appears to be:

1. Sign up for account as normal.
2. Wait for e-mail from moderators with instructions on how to pay, or pay directly at Open Collective.
3. Wait for moderators to confirm payment.

Sign Up - CoSocial Community Cooperative

Join CoSocial and be a part of creating a community-run and organized alternative to Twitter, our cooperative has open membership to all who are:

blog.cosocial.ca

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@thisismissem.social Possibly something @coop would be interested in.

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@timbray @cheeaun this is one of the first things covered in https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/21/Mastodon-Ethics

Is Moving to Mastodon Ethical?

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

@timbray @cheeaun I think there's been enough examples from e.g. BIPOC fedi users that sometimes cultural or safety concerns of the post's reader should trump the expressed preferences of the post's author.

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

@cheeaun Not 100% sure of the UX yet, but I expect there'll be a preference to let the user set the default quote behaviour, and a way to (Long press...? Additional menu options...?) also make a choice on a quote-by-quote basis.

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

@cheeaun I'm planning on providing users with a choice:

- native quote (if server supported)
- link to original status
- attach an image of the original status + link
- inline quote (copy original text, prefix with ">")

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Joe Steinbring :thisisfine: @jws.dev · 23d

I'm glad to see a new Map Men episode to watch over lunch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zte_vg0D8Z4

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

@jrm4 @stefan Any recommendations for specific features clients should have?

I've already implemented features like https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/02/28/2.10.0-release.html#anti-harassment-controls-for-conversations-private-mentions based on commentary I saw online. Would anything else be helpful?

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

"political violence" is a phrase invented by politicians to separate "violence against politicians" from "violence committed by politicians".

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Getting Republicans to care about gun control was always going to be a long shot.

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

Pretty cabinet is optional, it seems

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

Montreux going all out for Freddie Mercury's birthday weekend.

Freddie Mercury statue in Montreux, bedecked with flowers and assorted other items

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

#sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]

Indexing 233 datasets
with 927 uploads.

13416 peers, 8590 seeders sharing
216.8 TiB in 8514732 files.

Swarm capacity 1.0 PiB

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

@stux Some clients, like #pachli, show this info on the timeline, so you do not need to remember to check the account's page.

https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/07/30/2.15.0-release.html#combat-phishing-by-highlighting-roles-on-accounts

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

@eblu Your thoughts on https://mastodon.social/@pachli/115067940609027647 ?

Pachli (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] @[email protected] Thought about this a bit harder, and have a v3. - Remove the long press gesture (it's not discoverable), instead provide a checkbox to show the details - Shrink the search box a bit - Remove the insert button, since tapping the large emoji inserts it - Use the extra space to show the shortcode. If there's not enough space the shortcode scrolls

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

It's not often I have to bust out OBS to file a bug report... https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/441253579

Google Issue Tracker

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

This is four times in 24 hours I've had to kill Android Studio from the command line because it's become non-responsive working on #JetpackCompose for a single screen.

🤡

Android Studio after using #JetpackCompose. Typically this would show ~ "4GB of 6GB". It's showing ~ "4GB of 19GB", taken just before Android Studio froze.

On a workstation with 64GB of RAM...

Snippet from top(1). Android Studio using 23.2GB virtual memory, 19.2GB resident memory.

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

(I mean, when I was there the internal joke "This is Google. We don't just reinvent the wheel, we vulcanise our own rubber". I just never expected something like that would actually ship...)

Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

NowInAndroid, the "flagship" demo app for Android best practices, including #JetpackCompose, has to maintain a custom scrollbar implementation, because the standard Compose scrolling widgets don't include one […]

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Nik @nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

Android Studio memory use during normal development: ~ 6GB

Android Studio memory use while I experiment with converting one fragment to #JetpackCompose; ~ 18GB

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