Fellow Micro.blog theme builders, sorry for the spamming, but just a heads-up that you might be interested in following or leaving feedback on this one. cc: @amit @cdevroe @ChrisHannah @endonend @ericgregorich @ezellwrites @mandaris @mikehaynes @Mtt @pimoore
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@sim0ne Yay, freedom! 🥳
@pimoore 🤘
@dave You’re probably looking for the link on the bottom of the Edit Sources & Cross-posting page.
@jean Yes, some entries won’t count as neither screenshot nor photo. New grounds, indeed. 😊 But I’m a total newbie to image generation, so you can hopefully identify my fakes if you want to keep them off the curated collection.
And if I go ahead with this, I will be transparent about which images are fakes once people have had a chance to guess.
@maique 🙌
@chrislott Thanks! There’s no way to change the sorting today but it’s something I would like to support in the future. The default ordering is by relevance, using an algorithm based on BM25.
@sim0ne Yeah, it’s quite a challenge to find DRM-free ebooks, but they are out there. I wish there was a one-stop shop, like Libro.fm for audiobooks. Some stores, like Kobo, offer DRM-free downloads when publishers allow. Here’s one example, scroll down on that page and you will see Download options: EPUB 3 (DRM-Free). It might be worth visiting the author’s website as well. Cory Doctorow, for example, offers DRM-free downloads.
When reading classic literature, remember to check sites like Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg. If the book is old enough to be public domain, you will almost certainly find DRM-free downloads there.
The original author of DeDRM stopped maintaining the plug-in a while back but there’s a fork available in active development. It worked fine for me the last time I needed to remove DRM protection from a book, but that was back in March. So I don’t know for sure that it would work today.
@janasemrau Sehr gut! I love how you got something out of that HTML course, twenty years later. 😊
@renevanbelzen Love it! Made me think about the Game Boy game Pipe Dream.
@amit One concern might be the risk of being exploited by big tech and loose out on opportunities, money, or social status in the future. Or all three.
Being a part of the open web and sharing stuff for free can come with huge benefits. Take yours truly as an example: I’ve published texts, open source software, tutorials, video guides, and more online for 25+ years.
Through all these years, humans have found my work, liked it and reached out with job offerings, speaker request, and friendly chats. I’ve gotten a lot of value from my web presence, both socially and monetarily.
Venture capital backed startups, large language models, and robots crawling the web won’t reach out with opportunities, quote your work or give you money. Heck, they won’t even reach out for a friendly chat. 😊 They will just benefit from your free labor and go about their day.
I’m privileged enough to not care too much about that myself, but I can see why some have concerns and feel threatened. They are worried about a future where, instead of reaching out to the human whose work we appreciate, we will reach for a generative model and ask it to emulate said humans work instead.
Then there’s probably a chunk of humans out there not thinking about the effects on economic and labor at all. They just don’t want anything to do with “AI”.
@jtr 🥰
@mcg @greghiggins @vincent @skoobz Yep, use that plug-in or a theme with built-in support for Open Graph, like Tiny Theme by @mtt.
@rmdes Oui! There is more than one way to edit robot.txt on Micro.blog. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you and remember to check that it actually works the way you intend by visiting /robots.txt on your blog.
@jtr robots.txt in a Micro.blog context is sparsely documented in Search engine indexing. An OpenAI-specific discussion with an example is over at the Help Center. I’m thinking about writing a plug-in to make this a little easier…
@pimoore My guess is that the code responsible for scrubbing away most HTML from replies needs tweaking.
@pratik Sorry, I might missunderstand your question, but links (a elements with href attributes) are allowed on Mastodon.
@JohnPhilpin Yeah, just like the Micro.blog timeline, Mastodon only allows a subset of HTML elements.
@JohnPhilpin Striking! 😊
@JohnPhilpin @manton Oh, yes, using HTML in replies is quite an adventure. 😊 There’s maybe definitly inconsistencies there.
Sometimes it helps to update the reply (it did, for this one).
@pimoore Yes, it should, as long as it renders into a s or del element in the RSS or JSON feed you’ve set up to go to your timeline.
@JohnPhilpin Yes, probably, in most cases. 😊 But it’s important to understand that del does not guarantee your text to be strikethrough. It represents deleted text, and it’s up to browser vendors, web designers and developers how to style that element. For example, deleted text could be shown as red, or light gray, or blurry instead. Or not at all.
s, on the other hand, literally is the strikethrough element. So use that if strikethrough text is what you want.
Trying one’s best to use the semantically correct element is good for accessibility as well. Tools, like screen readers and refreshable braille displays, might convey meaning based on the text’s underlying semantics.
@JohnPhilpin @pimoore Both are fine to use, but semantically they represent different things. s is for representing stuff that is no longer relevant or accurate. del is for representing text that has been deleted.
@renevanbelzen @news @pimoore s is not deprecated, but strike is. When in doubt, check the HTML Standard.
@cdevroe Love this! I’m also in the static first camp.
@toddgrotenhuis Yes, that’s probably the most common method. They are called kräftmjärde here (we use this one). For more active fishing, one can use a hand net like the kids in Carl Larsson’s painting.
@cdevroe Image Capture, maybe?
@miguelmanalo Enjoy the show! We went yesterday and had a great time.
@ppel Yay! 🥳 Thanks for checking it out.
@khurtwilliams The experimental feeds @pratik mentioned is available over at micro.blog.via.dahlstrand.net.
@Mtt Hey, sorry for my late reply. You can get a list of a post photos via .Params.photos and the avatar URL is available via .Site.Author.avatar. Is that what you’re looking for?
@g 🥰
@ndreas Låter som en bok i min smak, den hamnar överst i att-läsa-högen. Tack för tipset!
@ndreas Okej, jag använder JavaScript för att göra det svårare för automatiserade spamrobotar som letar efter e-postadresser på webben. Men om adressen du använder redan är publikt delad på annat håll, kan du bocka ur Obfuscate email address (to mitigate scraping) på inställningssidan. När din blogg har byggts om är JavaScriptet borta och då bör länken fungera även på jobbdatorn.
@ndreas Ah, spännande! Vad är det för inställning? Gissningsvis är det inget jag kan göra något åt, men jag försöker gärna arbeta runt blockeringen om det går. 😊
@ndreas Sköj! Några teman har inbyggt stöd för mina insticksmoduler men det du använder, Alpine, kräver extra handpåläggning. Du behöver skapa ett custom theme (om du inte redan gjort det) och klistra in en kodsnutt. Följ instruktionerna under rubriken Include the Reply by email link in your custom theme och hojta om du kör fast. (Du behöver vara inloggad på Micro.blog för att länken ska fungera.)
@SamHawken You can reply with images using Markdown syntax like this: .
@jean Happy birthday, Jean! 🥳
@ndreas The comments-on-your-site-sphere is pretty packed. If you don’t care about privacy, Disqus is probably the most well-known provider. If you don’t mind paying for a service, Commento is a leaner alternative that does not track visitors or show them ads. And there are more options out there (some are self-hosted). AlternativeTo.net lists a handful.
I see others have recommended a couple of my plug-ins as well. Let me know if you need assistance setting them up.
@mandaris You’re welcome! It looks like your experiment was a success. 🙌
@bjhess Clicked through to the latest issue, saw a photo of a soldering iron, and instantly subscribed (via web feed). A newsletter about weird old + future internet sounds tailor-made for me.
@cygnoir Hey! 👋 Thanks for the report, this one stumped me too for a while. Long story short: turns out, the raw bookmark feed the plug-in consumes can contain “empty” entries. I’ve pushed a new version (0.11.0) just now. Hopefully, the empty blocks will go away once you’ve updated.
@vincent Happy birthday! 🥳 I’ve tried 37 on for a couple of months now, and I must say, it’s a pretty good age to be in. 😊 Hope your day is filled with happenings and people that make you happy.
@g Glad it worked out. Thanks for the donation. 🙏