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On the Sustainability of Small Forums
by starbreaker in general on oct 3, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
Do you strip out EXIF, IPTC, and other metadata? That could make them even smaller.
I do now that you reminded me. Just had to add "-strip" to the relevant ImageMagick calls in my site's makefile ...
RSS
by starbreaker in community feedback on oct 3, 2023
<quoting=orchids postID=1514 threadID=139>
yeah using <blockquote />
's not a bad idea. and thanks for that link i know literally nothing about RSS, but these errors/warnings the validator is giving me are very easy fixes.
i'll try to get a patch out ...
On the Sustainability of Small Forums
by starbreaker in general on oct 3, 2023
quoting d-von:
All this in mind, I can't help but wonder if what we need isn't some kind of data frugalism, or perhaps digital conservatism?
At risk of sounding like a Republican, this isn't a technological problem ...
RSS
by starbreaker in community feedback on oct 3, 2023
<quoting=orchids postID=1511 threadID=139>
yeah mine seems to have trouble with that too. it's also removing line breaks (probably related to the same markdown issue tho) and the special <quoting />
tags, so posts that have quotes with them render a ...
is this thing on?
by starbreaker in welcomes on oct 2, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
Gotcha. The <base>
probably wouldn't have resolved that either, since the URL had a leading slash. The sitemap tag was wrong too. Thanks!
Glad I could help.
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1498 ...
is this thing on?
by starbreaker in welcomes on oct 2, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
Not sure what you mean. The button in the footer points to https://www.devastatia.com/personal_homepage/rss and that's where the feed is.
Sorry. I wasn't talking about the footer. If you hit "view ...
is this thing on?
by starbreaker in welcomes on oct 2, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1475 threadID=190> You can't harm the site by "defacing" it. I've covered all of the attack vectors I can think of. The defacement angle was just a gimmick. You can call it something else if that makes you feel better about it ...
RSS
by starbreaker in community feedback on oct 2, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
W00t! I just installed a simple reader that won't give me fits.
sudo apt install liferea
Nice.
On the Sustainability of Small Forums
by starbreaker in general on oct 2, 2023
quoting d-von:
I've been wondering lately how the shift to streaming has affected energy usage when compared to older tech like terrestrial or satellite? Any ideas?
I suspect that the use of streaming multimedia on ...
is this thing on?
by starbreaker in welcomes on oct 2, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1461 threadID=190> I'm currently running a gimmick on my site whereby any visitor can "deface" the pages by editing them and saving a copy. The original page remains unharmed, and I've taken all possible measures against actual ...
is this thing on?
by starbreaker in welcomes on sep 30, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1440 threadID=190> I liked your manifesto/rant/reply to some marketing bozo. I'm tired right now and not able to ponder things much, but I've bookmarked it to re-read in the morning when I'm more alert. It's highly relevant to ...
cohost
by starbreaker in general on sep 30, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
I had to look up "arrant," you wily wordsmith, ya.
I'm not sure where I had picked up that word, but I think it was some blog using it in the phrase "arrant nonsense". Either that, or perhaps I ...
cohost
by starbreaker in general on sep 30, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1455 threadID=204> I don't get a sense of community from looking at what is essentially a blank page. There's nothing there but some nice but rather prosaic artwork, two or three cryptic blurbs that might be actual user posts ...
TerminalStore - Gui programs go brrr
by starbreaker in software on sep 28, 2023
<quoting=dean postID=1422 threadID=206> Hello everyone!
I like to introduce TerminalStore! TerminalStore is a App store for cli programs only. This is the github repo. It is licenced under the GPL 3.0. Feel ...
Movies that would/could not be made today?
by starbreaker in tv, film, and video on sep 28, 2023
quoting NobodyFix:
Imagine if they had used a Theremin and other early synthesizers in the soundtrack instead.
I wouldn't mind seeing John Carpenter's Star Wars, but it's not like I don't have a copy of Dark Star.
On the Sustainability of Small Forums
by starbreaker in general on sep 28, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
Social media has turned the Web into a spectator sport, like television. There's a small group of influencers who produce content, and the larger group who consume it.
I'm not convinced this is ...
What are you currently reading?
by starbreaker in the library on sep 18, 2023
Got a few books going this weekend:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
I finished SOA last night. Ms. Miller clearly knows ...
link of the day submissions
by starbreaker in community feedback on sep 14, 2023
The BNR Metal Pages is one of the first websites I found when I first got internet access at college in 1996. It's almost 30 years old and still getting updates.
cohost
by starbreaker in general on sep 14, 2023
quoting orchids:
i'll....i'll get to work this weekend on finally getting the button to do this added to the site 😥
So, you didn't already have that in place? Luckily this place is sufficiently chill that I hadn't ...
cohost
by starbreaker in general on sep 14, 2023
<quoting=orchids postID=1393 threadID=204> https://cohost.org
anyone use this site? it's a social media platform that takes ideas from both twitter and tumblr, created by a few people who wanted to make a platform where people can more easily get paid ...
What are you currently reading?
by starbreaker in the library on sep 9, 2023
I've been reading The Satan: How God's Executioner Became the Enemy by Ryan E. Stokes. It traces the evolution of the Judeo-Christian Satan figure and explores how God's prosecuting angel became his enemy and a scapegoat for the evils of the world.
official labor day weekend thread
by starbreaker in general on sep 5, 2023
quoting Cat_wheel:
Not a yank so I don't know what labour day is about. What does it celebrate? (Labour perhaps?) My country celebrates in May.
A lot of conservatives in the US (like conservative Democratic president ...
good websites with no (or very little) context
by starbreaker in general on aug 29, 2023
I've worked in a place like this.
Game Recommendations
by starbreaker in video games on aug 29, 2023
I'm gonna recommend Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. It's got everything you need: big fucking robots with big fucking guns.
There isn't much in the way of narrative, what little there is comes as audio without a lot of cinematics, and the mission ...