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@Munish You can download or stream new, unplayed episodes on the watch over cellular or wi-fi without your phone. But it’s limited. You have access to one playlist of your choosing. You can’t, for example, search for new podcasts or go back in the archive for one of the podcasts you’re already subscribed to.

@kerim Well, that’s the beauty of the open web. It’s never really goodbye. 😊 People on Micro.blog can continue following you via ActivityPub and the other way around. So, hello! 👋

@maique It’s definitely a sweet spot for me. I have to adjust the size of the video playing and keep the proper distance from the screen.

@sonicrocketman Yeah, I get that, just saying that if you continue down the rabbit hole, there’s a risk you will soon want a robot to do the drawing instead of just drawing to a screen. 😉 And you will end up on #PenPlotter and #AxiDraw like the rest of us. 😅 (You’re very welcome, it’s a lot of fun!)

@torb Hei, and thanks for listening. 🥰 Yes, that’s right, dahlstrand.net is an external site built using Jekyll, but it could have been hosted here on Micro.blog. Jekyll and Hugo (Micro.blog) are very similar, and both can generate more or less any website (or web app) one can imagine.

So I say go for it! I’m sure @manton would love to see portfolios and other websites hosted on Micro.blog.

@Lappenihatten Har för dålig koll på begagnatmarknaden för att kunna ge rekommendationer men vill understryka det här med räckvidden, som @jemostrom nämner. Bestäm dig för vad du absolut måste ha för minsta räckvidd och se till att bilen klarar det i alla väder och temperaturer. (11 mil i mitt fall, för att säkert nå till sommarstugan utan laddstopp.)

Räckvidden som tillverkaren uppger är kanske inte osanning men är bara tillämpar i extremt specifika scenarier: lagom varm och vindstilla sommardag, i platt stadstrafik, låga hastigheter och utan passagerare och bagage.

Webbplatsen Electric Vehicle Database listar estimat som är mycket närmare sanningen än de siffror du hittar hos tillverkaren. Med en Hyundai Kona Electric kommer du kanske snarare 17 än 30 mil under vintern, till exempel. Är det en begagnad bil du köper ska du förstås sänka förväntningarna ytterligare.

Med rätt förväntningar kring räckvidden är det mycket större chans att du blir nöjd med ditt köp. Själv är jag supernöjd ägare till en MINI Cooper SE.

@jasraj Yay! Thanks for testing. Looks like you have an error message there that will go away if you set the Hugo version to 0.91 on the Design page. I think. 😊

@vincent Ah, you can’t? I’ve only worked with nginx and HAProxy for load balancing, which both supports custom error pages. Huh. Which software are you using? (So I know what to avoid. 😂)

@manton @jean Every time that error shows up, I feel a deep urge for a fail whale-like error page. Maybe something with Guinea pigs? 😊

@greghendrix I wouldn’t go as far as saying no matter what we do, but yes: privacy online is hard to get right. 😓 You are out of luck if the service provider has the keys to encrypt and decrypt your data.

To keep something secret from third parties, you and the person you’re communicating with must be the keys’ sole owners. That’s end-to-end encryption. Element, Session, and Signal are three alternatives for sending messages end-to-end encrypted.

@vincent Hehe, if you think about it for a while, you’re probably also guilty of bringing belongings to the toilet, even if you decide to leave the phone in another room. You may have a watch on your wrist. You could wear clothes. And so on.

You do your poopy business, hopefully, wash your hands, and then go on about your life. But it’s not like poop particles are selective and just attract to people’s hands. 😊

You should probably not do a web search for poop particles toothbrush. 😉

@TheRealChadwick Yes! It’s well-balanced. It simultaneously feels like a blast from the past and has everything one could ask for from a modern action-adventure game.

@gaelicWizard Ah, interesting, I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing. I’m still waiting for my archive request to be fulfilled. Will keep an eye out for truncated tweets!

@greghendrix These are a good couple of questions. 😊 I’ll try my best to answer them.

1. Yes, absolutely. Governments, for example. Last year, 23.9 thousand information requests affecting 54.9 thousand accounts were submitted, and Twitter handed out the information in ~38 % of the cases. They receive information requests from non-government folks as well. For example, during divorce proceedings, one party might be interested in what the other has been up to online.

Anyone who decides to compromise Twitter – as a whole or targeting individual accounts – may also be able to read DM’s. Data breaches and leaks happen all the time. Depending on the vulnerability exploited, DM’s won’t be accessed in all cases. One from the top of my head that did involve DM’s was the incident back in 2020. And the other incident in 2020. This year, the data leak affecting 5.4 million Twitter accounts involved personal data about anonymous accounts but no DM’s.

Also worth noting is that “people that work at Twitter” is not static. You might decide that “hey, the current owner and the thousand of employees are 100 % good people and would never spy on behalf of a foreign country.” Okay, that’s fine. But what about the next owner and the employees of tomorrow? 😊

2. That’s not a totally unrealistic scenario you’re describing. Yes, the people owning your data can read it and decide what to do with it. For example, monetizing it, as Google famously did with Gmail until late 2017. (They read Gmail users’ emails and displayed personalized ads based on the content.)

> [B]ut is that different since Twitter is a company and the person running the game dev Mastadon server is just a person?

I don’t know. I guess Twitter would have more money and resources to defend itself in court should it break any laws. 😊

When it comes to conversations online that are not end-to-end encrypted, I think about them as a chat with a friend in a public space, like a cafe or a park. You have reasonable privacy, but there’s always a risk of someone overhearing your conversation.

@greghendrix On the other hand, that’s true for most communication we do over the internet: Twitter, e-mail, Discord, Slack, and so on. Server owners and administrators can always read your data. The only exception is end-to-end encrypted services, like Signal.

@pratik Are you sure it’s an actual JPEG and not just a HEIC file with a .jpg filename extension? (That was the case with David’s Shortcut.)

@ridwan RSS is an XML-based format, so no conversation should be needed. But the specific feed in your screenshot is only partially valid. That might cause all sorts of trouble, so we should eliminate the validation errors.

For example, using W3C’s Feed Validation Service, we can see the title currently being set to <no value>, and that’s not great. Try changing the title by going to Micro.blog’s Design page. From there, you should be able to change the Site title to something else.

Then, recheck the feed to see if something else needs fixing.

@yatil If you access Micro.blog via a web browser, you can hide posts from Mastodon folks with the following CSS: .post:has(.post_username &gt; a[href*="@"]) { display:none; }. Some browsers, like Safari on macOS, have built-in support for this. For others, you might have to install a plug-in like Stylebot.

@crossingthethreshold The pool photo is a HEIC file, not a JPEG. So the Shortcut is probably uploading the original image, not the one from your conversion action.

When editing, tap Show More in the Get Contents of URL acition (the last one). There should be a Key called file there; make sure the value is the JPEG photo and not the original.

There is no such thing as a silly theory. 😊 But a weak WiFi signal results in either a slow connection (the Shortcut takes a while to run) or no connection at all. Shortcuts notice if you’re offline, and you will get an error message: “The Internet connection appears to be offline.”

The reason why you get the question marks is that you’re uploading HEIC files. That’s not a file format web browsers support. You can download the question mark file and look at it on your computer. So the Shortcut has been working all the time – it’s just that browsers don’t speak HEIC. cc @pratik

@crossingthethreshold That gray square and question mark are almost certainly because you’re uploading HEIC files or another file format not supported by your browser. Try uploading a JPEG or PNG instead.

Regarding the other Shortcut: the Humboldt app may not be installed on your device.

@jmuscara @jean @help To follow a person, they need to host their content on their own domain or subdomain. Like example.com or example.tumblr.com. People hosting content under directories like tumblr.com/example/ can’t be followed. Also, there needs to exist a web feed (RSS, Atom, or JSON). Neither is true for the two examples you provided, unfortunately.

If you share a person you can’t follow on Mastodon, I will try to figure out why.

@crossingthethreshold Thanks for sharing. Both Shortcuts worked for me on iOS 16.1.1. Hard to tell why they are not on your device.

Regarding privacy and permission, the Shortcuts need access to your Photo library and make network requests to micro.blog. So make sure that’s the case by editing the Shortcut, hitting the ℹ️ followed by Privacy.

You can also try running the Shortcuts in editing mode. Sometimes that gives a clue as to where things go wrong.

Ensure the file you are uploading is a JPEG or PNG (not a HEIC). Also note that if you have more than one blog, the uploads might end up on one you’re not expecting it to. (The last one you selected in the web interface.)

As a last resort, try removing and re-installing the Shortcuts.

@pratik is right that it’s possible to design Shortcuts that only work on one platform or the other. But that’s not true for the two Shortcuts you’ve shared. They work fine on both macOS and iOS.

@ericgregorich Just like @manton, I’ve used custom style blocks in some of my plug-ins. It’s fast and easy, but if you have a lot of CSS, you might want to break it out to separate files. Hugo has a robust assets pipeline, so you can: have dynamic (template-based) CSS files, bundle multiple CSS files into one, process SASS and SCSS, run minification, and more.

There’s a minimal example on the page Creating a resource from a template.

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