julian

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[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 5 points 5 days ago

miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com everything in Hamilton is sketchy if you're not from the Hammer 😝

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you live in the GTA, you should definitely check out The Cotton Factory! Cool art and makerspace.

Unfortunately in one of the sketchier parts of Hamilton, but that seems to be par for the course for these types of places.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 2 points 1 week ago

ussmojave@startrek.website yeah, I'm watching it now! It's pretty well done.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

To be fair, Human music theory is also weird.

A lot of what we teach our kids about music theory is rooted in the firm foundation of "it is this way because it just is, so just remember it."

Like why is the circle of fourths and fifths the way it is? Because it just is. Remember it. When you're learning key signatures why doesn't the key match the signature (D major is F# and C#,. but Bb major has a Bb and an Eb?!)? Because it just is. Remember it.

It's no wonder music theory gets completely lost on kids. It doesn't make any sense!

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 3 points 1 week ago

sir that's just a picture of Eddington.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 3 points 1 week ago

melroy@kbin.melroy.org oh sorry to hear that :frowning: hopefully Dan hasn't moved on from FediDB already.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

melroy@kbin.melroy.org I think you have to open a PR to their repo to get it updated?

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@iso@lemy.lol what's a "lemmy-like" PM :laughing: I think this explains why I can't log into the site.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think the FEP process is overly complicated for what it is, but it's definitely helpful if you have multiple implementors on board.

The easiest (but least accessible) solution is to document something on your own site, but that lacks the social proof that a finalized FEP has.

Just some food for thought 🙂 I'm looking to create an FEP for cross posting and would love to get the entire threadiverse dev community involved.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

@rimu@piefed.social interesting, how does this differ from tags?

Edit: I see the other post you made. I'm interested in this but hoping you'll write up an FEP for this so it is more easily implemented by others.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@melroy@kbin.melroy.org NodeBB here, agreed.

It really is the most succinct nickname to describe the type of software we are... and I feel that outweighs possible association with Threads.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 6 points 1 month ago

It's pretty wild how wide-ranging these tariffs affect small scale manufacturers with in and out of the United States.

I've been hearing scattered reports across different industries all saying the same thing:

  1. They have 60 days or less of inventory remaining.
  2. They cannot order more because nobody Stateside will pay for those items at prices increased to offset the tariffs.

For companies with razor thin margins, even 1% changes the calculus. A 145% tariff is already well over the point of no return.

 

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Tonight I set aside some time to listen to @johnonolan@mastodon.xyz on @mike@flipboard.social's DotSocial podcast.

A lot a lot a lot of what John says mirrors the very same potential that many ActivityPub devs see as well. There are far too many points in that podcast that made me nod my head in agreement (and wish I was a third guest too!), but there was one that was incredibly timely:

Mike: ... you've been thinking about actually embedding the whole article in the ActivityPub post, which is a mind-blowing thing... it's not a link to something else... the whole article is in the post. John: Yes, this is something that makes perfect sense but is somehow completely new, which is weird... Mike: You can have formatted text... images? video? John: ActivityPub is fairly agnostic, you could in theory shove almost anything into it. The question is what is the client on the other side prepared to receive? Do they have some way to display it? John: If we get platforms in the ActivityPub network to start innovating with content types, it might cause those things to be adopted and it might drive the standard and what it is possible to display

Emphasis mine.

John, Mike, this is almost word-for-word exactly what the Forum and Threaded Discussions working group has been working towards! The main problem is we need buy-in from implementers to push this forward.

We can do this, we can send richer HTML across the protocol in such a way that all those things you two mentioned — in-line images, embedded videos, tables, etc. — can all show up as intended by the sender.

We've got commitment from (but not limited to) representatives from NodeBB, Discourse, and WordPress, and having Ghost and Flipboard sign on would help push this forward just that much more.

Let's do this, let me get you caught up with the state of the protocol re: the Article object type. Let's chat (but publicly, since I can't receive DMs here on NodeBB).

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