Tales from the Bitface

@Mtt Thanks, I’ll give that a try.

@louie I see, thanks. I’m impressed with people like you who can notice something like that. Though if I had noticed it, I’d probably have thought it was deliberate, like a shadow effect.

@Mtt I’m just wondering if there’s a way in Mythos to turn off the non-scrolling header. I’m not keen on those.

@louie @nickheer Can you explain what it is you’re seeing about the AirDrop icon? It looks fine to me, but I don’t know what I should be looking for.

@manton Looks good. The one thing I would ask for is the option to make it a titled post by default. I can write enough to make the title field appear, and then cut & paste as necessary, but it would be nice to just have the movie title be the post title from the start.

How would the link work, then? I’ve just realised my posts from the Letterboxd feed don’t have links back to either the Letterboxd post or The Movie DB.

Maybe the template post could have a title and also the text with the link, and we can adjust?

I do know I’ve more or less stopped using the books feature because the untitled posts don’t fit with the way I like to write about the books I read.

@gregmoore What are those? I don’t recall seeing them. Except maybe in trailers, but would they show a trailer for the episode you’re watching?

@help Cheers, I’ve done that, and the version is now 3.7.2 (218). We’ll see what happens at the next update, I guess. Thanks.

@help I’m having trouble updating the Mac app. Every time I check for updates and tell it to install I get the dialog saying “Extracting update…”, and it just hangs forever.

I’m on quite an old version of MacOS, 13.7.8 (22H730), because this 2017 MacBook Pro can’t run anything newer. But other apps still update OK.

My current Micro.blog version is 3.6.5 (195).

@FALLLYRICSINCAPS Is that meant to be Nyarlathotep? I didn’t know Mark was a Lovecraft fan, but I suppose it’s not surprising.

@bugshaw.bsky.social Happy Birthday!

@lmika Ah, thanks, yes, now you say it, I do remember talk of all that kind of thing.

i still use XML every day at work, but literally only in POM files for building Java projects.

@lmika @manton I thought the semantic web was just marking sections and articles and such as those things. Never heard it mentioned negatively before. That multiple-XML documents thing does sound like a nightmare, though.

@manton After a recent trip to Canada, I’d love to see one in London (there is one, in fact, but not convenient for me). I hadn’t heard they were US owned now, though.

@jasraj Yes! Great wee film, and somehow I’ve forgotten to write about it, so thanks for the reminder.

@danielpunkass Wow! Was there a piano in the class? I’m guessing not.

@manton Sure, if it’s no trouble. Thanks.

@canion That’s a good point.

@manton “Private mentions”? Like, you @- someone and only they know about it? How does that work? What does it even mean?

@karochan3 It is a killer set, isn’t it?

@drwalt ‘Osama Bingo Laden’ does have a certain ring to it, though.

@manton Trouble is, if it’s behaving the way he says, he won’t see that.

@manton Yes, yes, yes!

@thedimpause Good Lord! That take me back to seeing adverts long before I was old enough to drink. It works wonders, I gather.

@jasraj Don’t use them myself, but one thing I learned when I was on jury duty a few years back: incarcerated people use them with contraband phones. I suppose they can record when they get privacy, and send when they have a signal.

And the corollary: police and prosecutors can use them as evidence!

@duckrowing Ha! You should try (well, you shouldn’t: nobody should) the PoS Dell I have to use for work. As soon as I connect my Thunderbolt dock, it bluescreens.