Sam Wight :verified:

Urbanists.Social admin

Literal communist. Cyclist. Queer. Questioning gender. ADHD.

TypeScript, Ruby, Elixir, and Rust. I learn stuff for fun.

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2024-07-15 06:01:16

Biden will have to drop out now not only because he's an old carcas held up by 3 raccoons and a turtle but also because dumb Americans will spread conspiracy theories about him controlling the secret service and direction them to do an assassination.

2024-06-28 05:02:05

Oh my god there's no way it was this bad lmao I have to watch it now
@npub1je7…0rgu https://press.coop/@nytimes/112692486152554451

2024-06-28 04:57:32

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@npub1mmf…eknq I wonder why this is so hard to explain to liberals lol
Its not like if project 2025 or whatever it's called happens minorities will just take it all willingly.

2024-05-16 04:38:57

Queen
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/112/448/918/912/983/958/original/d5a687a91f4d1519.png

2024-04-15 21:17:33

Can I please work at one of those places where everyone uses email instead of slack lol

2024-03-13 04:13:45

So I'm volunteering for Crisis Text Line and I've honestly found the training very helpful for my personal life so far. The Good Contact Techniques are so, so incredible.
One of the ones, Strength IDs, is helpful for if you are talking to someone and they're self-deprecating, or feel like they're not good enough.
You identify a strength of theirs that you've noticed based solely on the info they've given you in the convo so far. And that makes it more credible.
https://www.crisistextline.org/blog/2019/11/25/what-are-strength-ids/

2024-02-20 04:42:27

I am strongly considering moving away from Mastodon in the medium to long term future because of Eugen's absolutely abysmal handling of the spam situation and lack of prioritization of proper mod tooling.
#FediBlockMeta #MastoAdmin #admin

2024-02-18 18:50:07

Citadel now includes the most recent post in the report it makes when you suspend for spam! This gives more context to the admins of the instance the spam account is on.
Thanks for the idea @npub1cru…avww!
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/953/980/685/908/912/original/298ea46dd0838b61.mp4

2024-02-18 17:30:22

The other funny thing I've discovered today is that Eugen actively deletes replies to him, not through reports, but by going in and deleting posts in the admin panel.
My reply to one of his posts is not visible on Mastodon.Social but I received no report on Urbanists.Social about it lmao.

2024-02-18 17:02:20

For those of you that are like "Submit a pull request to Mastodon instead of complaining", what you don't understand is that pull requests to Mastodon do not get merged lol.
There are almost 400 pull requests open rn on GitHub. Some of them have been open for more than 5 years.
If Eugen does not immediately approve of a pull request and it wasn't a feature he was going to implement anyway, it does not get merged. It just stays open until you close it with no comment from him.

2024-02-18 16:34:02

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@npub1e0a…eww0 Domain limit. Add a domain block and limit the domains where it's happening.

2024-02-17 21:43:41

Introducing Citadel! Citadel is a tool for Mastodon admins that makes it quick and easy to find + suspend spammers in one click!
Eventually Citadel will have more tools, but I wanted to get this out ASAP to help server admins.
It's a client-side app, no server. Everything's all in your browser.
Give it a shot: https://citadel.samw.dev
View source: https://github.com/samwightt/citadel
(also note that after you log in you will ned to reload the page)
#MastoAdmin #FediBlock #FediBlockMeta #Admin #Spam
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/948/999/110/850/907/original/ca9b361063804602.mp4

2024-02-13 03:47:39

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@npub1g7t…n6x7 @npub1qag…9gyn @npub1efu…6upq @npub1mc0…6pml The developer of this is US-based and is not making money off of it, so it doesn't apply lol.
This is doing absolutely nothing different than what federation already does. Federation vacuums up your data and sends it to another server. That is how Mastodon has always worked. This is no different.

2024-02-03 20:41:50

Why can I still not quote post on a platform in the year of our lord 2024?
Mastodon has to let go of the small minority of critics of new features that turn them to shit. Take a look at the GitHub and see what I mean: there are clusters of users who sockpuppet on issues and push for the default experience to remain the same because 'privacy' or 'features will be abused!'.
That can't happen, otherwise Mastodon will die.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111869157545251360

2024-01-29 21:28:37

I would never be able to take my job seriously if I worked for a company called GULP
@npub1ywy…cksd https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/111841350616586112

2024-01-08 00:05:20

I cannot believe I need to say this but software engineers are not engineers, we have none of the training and ethics courses and accountability that real engineering requires and that does not make you educated enough to EXCAVATE A MINE UNDER YOUR OWN HOME

2024-01-08 00:00:33

This is a tunnel girl hate account

2023-12-29 17:41:51

Cyclist pro tip: if you want to keep your bike from being stolen, add some bumper stickers from Etsy to it
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/935/390/549/322/original/c576161eb6cc209e.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/935/535/658/222/original/63220f1e47d7ad45.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/664/935/658/662/363/original/4606b8e5919ce264.jpg
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2023-12-28 20:49:48

Should I make my own Mastodon client in Flutter or React Native

2023-12-28 01:00:04

Crazy how the solution to most of the world's problems is to end capitalism

2023-12-18 05:01:13

Apparently this is the worst tweet of the year lol
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/599/659/858/162/666/original/7c954a790ed599d7.png

2023-12-13 19:57:45

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Oh god who is this about

2023-11-10 01:53:07

Soooo Israel has destroyed all the children's hospitals in Gaza and that doesn't strike anyone as being particularly a problem????

2023-10-26 19:40:08

Kink at pride? Discuss.

2023-10-26 19:38:13

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That includes stuff like nonbinary people, polyamorous people, swingers, the kink community, gender abolitionists and more.
It means supporting ALL of that. Not marching in the corporate-sponsored pride parade with white cishet gay men once a year.

2023-10-26 19:36:47

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Queerness by definition is something you are always going to be uncomfortable with.
Queerness encompasses all of the socially unacceptable consensual sexual and gender-based identities and practices at the margins of society.
Support for queer people doesn't mean you support your two white, cishet male neighbors who are married and have a kid.
It means you support those at the margins and help normalize their identities and practices that don't harm anyone.

2023-10-26 19:34:26

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I hate to break it to you, but gay marriage was a tiny, small concession and isn't that big of a deal to most queer people. Laws are not the thing we're most worried about, we're most worried about norms that your pea-sized understanding of what we go through enforce, forcing us into easy-to-label boxes that are packageable for the mainstream.

2023-10-26 19:32:36

Soooo many liberals assume that just because they support gay marriage that immediately every gay person thinks they're amazing.
But then they enforce rigid heteronormative boxes on gay and trans people and become offended and confused the minute queer people don't fit in.

2023-10-24 03:26:30

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@npub1xsr…a7m8 That just sounds really really sad to me.
I'm in a very good place right now at 24. I was extraordinarily lucky to get where I am now.
But if someone had done that to me at the age of 18, when I still felt like a literal child, instead of helping me work towards and achieve what I wanted to do with my life, I'd feel really really fucking hurt and our relationship would be pretty severely impacted.

2023-10-24 03:23:06

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I don't have kids, but there's just something so fucking hurtful about, the minute they turn 18, being like "Hey, this is the way the world works. I know I have the resources to give you a safe refuge away from the capitalist hellscape we live in. And I love you. But instead of helping you while you're still vulnerable and helping you while you're still growing, I am going to be the first of a series of bloodsuckers and exploiters who you will deal with for the rest of your life."

2023-10-24 03:19:51

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Also c) you're using it as a crutch.
You're literally capitalizing your relationship with them. Instead of talking with them and working with them to find agreements living conditions-wise that are amicable to both of you, you are making a demand of them and exploiting them. You're using it as a crutch to not have to do hard work.

2023-10-24 03:17:10

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There's this trend in the US of parents charging their kids rent the minute they turn 18 and then saving that money for a down payment on a house later.
And that is weird and disgusting for two reasons:
a) You are literally exploiting your kids. Landlords are exploitative.
b) You are controlling your kids and removing their agency. Instead of teaching them how to save money for what *they* want, you are imposing your will on them.

2023-10-24 03:14:41

People who charge their kids rent are fucking weird.
There is a difference between having your kid helping you cover living expenses vs. controlling them by taking money from them you don't need and doing something with it that they have no say over.

2023-10-23 03:18:24

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#scifi #reading

2023-10-23 03:17:31

Children of Ruin is getting SO FUCKING GOOD
I literally can't put it down. I want to fucking cheer. This book is everything I've wanted and more and I'm only halfway through. BRILLIANT.

2023-10-22 22:35:49

What android apps are absolutely essential for a newcomer?

2023-10-22 22:31:54

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@npub1y98…7wt0 @npub1vmf…hqvv Wait what's a RAT test? I took a store-bought one.

2023-10-22 19:50:33

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Again, just want to reiterate: Urbanists.Social is not going anywhere. If anything, I will now have more time to dedicate to it for improvement.
If you need any help offboarding from Odd.Town, please let me know, but seeing how there are only about ~40 users total I don't think there's gonna be a ton of people needing help 😅

2023-10-22 19:48:24

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We follow the Mastodon server covenant on all of our servers, which requires us to give you a three-month notice before we shut the server down. While the infra on Odd.Town is something I'm proud of and has been able to run remarkably well hands-off, the longer it keeps running the more risk there is of security vulnerabilities or higher costs. So I'm making the decision to start that shutdown period now, rather than several months from now.

2023-10-22 19:44:04

Hi folks,
Odd.Town, the Firefish server I've been running under the Urbanists.Social umbrella, will be shutting down effective February 1, 2024.
Unfortunately the infrastructure supporting it is kinda a mess, and between being unemployed + starting a new job, I haven't been able to find the time to clean it up. There's only about ~40 users total, and cost-wise we're paying ~$40-50/mo for the whole server. So it unfortunately is not sustainable.

2023-10-22 19:04:22

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@npub1tm2…3mm8 Oh cool, good luck and hope it gets passed!

2023-10-22 19:02:03

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@npub1tm2…3mm8 What's issue 1?

2023-10-22 16:27:30

Woooo my yearly pneumonia bout has now returned, yayyyyy time for a month of coughing

2023-10-21 03:06:10

New pfp
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/270/790/284/681/417/original/ee0626ea239c9d97.jpg

2023-10-20 22:57:13

It's hard to believe this server's been open for almost a year, wild

2023-10-20 22:56:42

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@npub1a8e…ywga Oh wait, I thought this was about their AI-generated articles. They were testing a feature a bit ago that would let you contribute quotes to an AI generated article.

2023-10-20 22:52:16

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@npub1a8e…ywga I've been invited to contribute to some of these before and they're so fucking weird. Genuinely confused why anyone would contribute.

2023-10-20 22:36:57

I really want to stop being sick, being sick sucks I hate it I want to go see Halloween movies and haunted houses and shit

2023-10-20 22:36:10

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@npub1ht0…292h it's an AI generated image :)
Here's a SpongeBob skyscraper in Chicago
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/269/731/763/960/868/original/385998b66b5c93c6.jpg

2023-10-20 22:28:03

A look inside a Spongebob-themed house I found on Zillow
Would you live here?
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/269/696/597/535/888/original/bd4d0bf534a4b2eb.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/269/698/133/429/886/original/df3c9ec3f41fca3c.jpg
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2023-10-19 19:06:47

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@npub1vmf…hqvv I mightve just gotten sick, but I got the shot Monday, felt awful Monday night, and then have been feeling progressively shittier since then lol.

2023-10-19 18:57:28

Y'all this COVID shot is no joke, you have been warned

2023-10-19 18:42:56

So I started using Ad Nauseum as my ad blocker. It's Ublock Origin but instead of just hiding the ad it'll also click on it.
These are all the ads it clicked on in the span of a few hours this morning. Also I have it set to only click about 1/2 of all ads.
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/263/152/490/523/838/original/7e8aa459bac01a45.jpg

2023-10-19 00:46:13

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I just had someone on my feed saying that anyone who listens to these doctors or agrees with their point of view is "listening to terrorists".
That is fucking disgusting. It's disgraceful. I don't know if I've ever seen something more insulting.

2023-10-19 00:45:20

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Here's another doctor at the press conference calling it a war crime and placing the blame on Israel. He described absolutely devastating destruction and death occurring.
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/258/912/424/859/546/original/ea6d8ab370bf252c.mp4

2023-10-19 00:44:20

Here's what happened today after the hospital bombing in Gaza.
Doctors at the hospital did a press conference surrounded by the corpses of the hundreds of people who were killed in the bombing.
One of them was holding a dead child.
They called this a 'war crime' and placed the blame on Israel.
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/258/904/830/864/477/original/0993aa2b5e59a8ef.mp4

2023-10-19 00:32:02

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These doctors literally did a press conference today surrounded by the dead bodies. One of them was holding a fucking child.
Israel's Prime Minister has a deleted tweet cheering the bombing of the hospital by the IDF.
Israel has already done this to multiple other hospitals with very little warning.
Have some fucking decency. Calling the innocent civilians trapped in this "terrorists" and refusing to listen to their eyewitness accounts is fucking disgusting. It's just disgusting.

2023-10-19 00:29:56

Yeah I'm sorry if your take on the hospital explosion is "Hmm yes I'm going to listen to the unreviewed and unverified reporting directly from the IDF's mouth right after it is released, when they have lied about things MULTIPLE times on the record before, when they've already announced and followed through with bombings on several other hospitals so far"...
Then I don't know what to say to you. You're just a fucking idiot supporting genocide.

2023-10-16 00:40:57

Please dear God let me shit that is all I ask for

2023-10-15 01:38:32

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@npub1rhr…gh5p @npub1x76…2qpx Also it is a pain in the ass to moderate any news around this shit because disinformation spreads SO fast.

2023-10-15 01:29:35

Playing whack-a-mole with zionists spreading tons of misinformation

2023-10-15 01:21:00

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@npub1w5c…f6rp @npub1zdp…vqv8 If you haven't yet, listen to the podcast Blowback. A lot of this has been happening for decades, just without a good excuse.

2023-10-15 01:16:17

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@npub1rhr…gh5p @npub1x76…2qpx It is fucking insane how many reports I receive from Zionist users on other servers on really simple statements that shouldn't be controversial like "Genocide is bad" or some shit.

2023-10-15 01:13:57

Mastodon is really nice because I can say
"Israel is committing a genocide of the Palestinian people and they shouldn't be surprised or shocked when violent acts are committed against them (by a group they created) because they are leaving the Palestinian people no other option"
and because I'm an admin nobody can take that down lmao

2023-10-13 19:54:18

Holy shit he ATE https://youtu.be/ZhGl8McrOHo?si=j86xQ-3afk-gnhiK

2023-10-12 20:03:19

Hello from FediLab on Android
I am loving Android so far lol

2023-10-11 02:25:01

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How is committing a fucking war crime and openly announcing you're going to start a genocide of the Palestinian people that you've trapped inside of the world's largest open-air prison (not my words, the words of Human Rights Watch!), "Israel's legitimate right to defend itself"?
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/214/004/311/570/947/original/a68fb7a51037bdc7.png

2023-10-11 02:19:12

The US created al-Qaeda and Israel created Hamas
I'm losing my fucking mind
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2023-10-10 16:48:53

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@npub1j7y…23ds As a moderator, I ban Nazi, conservative, and fascist content when I see it. But to a liberal thinking in a solely two-party mindset, anything that is outside the norm of what they're used to very often looks the same, so it gets reports (I used to think this way).
And they get a LOT of reports lol.
So I think that's where they're coming from.

2023-10-10 16:47:47

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@npub1j7y…23ds Yeah generally there is a high amount of reports for anything that questions narratives or is slightly outside the bounds of what is generally considered the liberal norm in the US.
It's like people think that if you don't 100% side with that shit, that immediately puts you on the 'other side' of the argument when what you're really saying is 'hold up, no, I don't know if I agree with everything you're saying'.

2023-10-10 16:45:11

A list of things I think are generally bad (in case people accuse me of being a 'red fascist' or a right-winger):
- Homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, classism, xenophobia, et al. Discrimination bad.
- Capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, fascism, Nazis, wars
- Murder, oppression, violence, terrorism, et al.
- Conservatives, libertarians, centrists, and neoliberals.
- Small government, homelessness, lack of solidarity, etc.

2023-10-10 16:41:17

What about this do y'all not get lmao
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/211/710/149/865/857/original/ac7467c9f73e55c8.png

2023-10-10 16:38:44

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@npub1v9w…7my9 To be clear I don't really care (not trying to be flippant) because this is a moderation decision. I scanned through the article, googled the news source, and confirmed it was decent.
After what happened in Cuba, Iraq, North Korea, Vietnam, Guatemala, and others, I have a blanket mistrust of popular narratives surrounding US intervention pushed by state department press releases.
I'm not going to spend my free time going through every post with a fine-toothed comb.

2023-10-10 16:34:36

Fucking. Stop it.
If you overuse the report button like this, it leads to me just blanket resolving shit. I do not have time to go into each individual report and look at the merits of both arguments and decide rulings based on that.
People are allowed to question the US state department narrative of the war in Ukraine. US state department narratives are routinely wrong. Argue amongst yourselves, stop making me win your arguments for you. Fucking Christ.
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/211/679/477/322/334/original/cff454c03173d0a4.png
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/211/680/477/317/659/original/d91072e1472d9b85.png

2023-10-10 16:31:14

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@npub1j7y…23ds I don't know anything about it and I literally do not care. I am not here to resolve disputes about what's going on in Ukraine. I am *constantly* receiving reports about this one user because they are saying something that does not straight up 100% agree with the narrative the US state department has manufactured. They are a leftist otherwise and that gives me enough reason to leave it up. I wish libs would resolve this themselves instead of reporting shit GOD.

2023-10-10 01:56:38

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War is bad. Invasion is bad. But pretending Ukraine is an innocent country that’s done nothing wrong ignores the reality that the US has funded Nazis for *years* inside the country. There is no other explanation after what happened in Canada with that old Ukranian Nazi fuck.

2023-10-10 01:54:46

To the people who keep fucking reporting this to me, stop it, I am not taking it down. Consortium News is a reliable news source (spend five minutes googling Robert Parry) and this is a good article as far as I can tell. I’m sorry you’re having to confront the reality of the situation that the US (or whoever we back) are almost always not the ‘good guys’ in our wars and that reality is more complicated than you want it to be. Ugh. https://urbanists.social/@miasmo/111194320126995541

2023-10-09 05:24:58

Free Palestine and fuck Israel

2023-10-09 05:21:48

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I am actually begging mastodon to consider being spicier because I do not want to use Bluesky and fucking hate it and I do not want to use Twitter but am forced to

2023-10-09 05:21:08

Also fuck Israel, free Palestine, Israel is an apartheid regime, a two-state solution has been tried and fucking obviously does not work. Personally I think a country committing apartheid and murdering Palestinian citizens at a rate 10x that of the reverse should not be handed any reigns of power. It’s Palestine’s land, give it to ‘em.

2023-10-09 05:18:27

Look I use and love mastodon and run a server. But I’m stuck on Twitter because mastodon is absolute dogshit for figuring out what’s going on in my community, and it continually kneecaps itself by refusing to have any sort of an algorithm to help sift through the massive firehose of information on your feed. The community’s great but if I legitimately hear nothing about UAW or strikes or my friends here lol

2023-10-05 23:03:55

“Kermit the frog destroying a car with a baseball bat”
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/184/906/383/213/209/original/389602065bd23549.jpeg

2023-10-05 23:03:03

I swear to god elon is on a speed run to end any credibility Twitter has left

2023-10-05 00:29:53

The new DALLE 3 image generator is truly something else
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/179/581/672/443/378/original/4b24d8eadf7446e7.jpeg

2023-10-02 18:48:55

Frankly I'm shocked by how good @npub17f8…4nz5 is. I did 40+ changesets just over the weekend. The confirmation system is brilliant, it works collaboratively and won't ask you to confirm stuff other people have confirmed.
Also the fact that it's built with Flutter means iOS and Android get the exact same feature set.
Only thing I really am missing is the ability to auto-set city + zip code fields, I have to go back afterwards and edit those in iD.

2023-09-27 21:26:34

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For web apps:
- Build a static SPA with a backend api in Elixir or Rust. These will run on a toaster.
- Use a simple frontend framework that offers a lot of flexibility.
- Build a graphql API or an API with OpenAPI defs.
- Turn CORS OFF on the API. Make it easy for people to build alternative frontends without a server.

2023-09-27 21:24:51

Principles for building unstoppable open source software:
- Optimize for cost: both development and hosting.
- Build on top of a foundation with lots of flexibility.
- Build with what people are familiar with.
- Make it extensible: offer an open API, extension API, etc.

2023-09-25 21:26:50

I published a new post on my blog: TITLE - https://samw.dev/2023/09/25/mapping-stop-signs.html

2023-09-25 20:46:40

A TikTok account is using facial recognition to dox random people simply for clout with its millions of viewers. Takes requests from the comments.
- Author spoke to multiple victims who say they were "violated"
- TikTok refuses to remove because says doesn't violate policies
https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-privacy-is-a-taylor-swift-fan-tiktok-account-armed-with-facial-recognition-tech/

2023-09-25 17:38:48

AI therapy bots are creepy as fuck. Stop making them.
But if they use any of the major AI providers under the hood (which they all do), they all have very severe limits on the topics they discuss.
No drugs. No sex. No talking about your trauma. They are not adequately enabled to handle anything other than the same advice fucking Google will give you because of the content filters that OpenAI and Claude have on their models.

2023-09-25 17:35:31

Spammers are getting real creative with the names, I feel like they’re starting to run out of usernames lmao

2023-09-23 22:23:30

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I asked ChatGPT to generate a math problem that looks like gibberish to those in the field
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/111/116/799/746/171/125/original/2799f8dcf6c6e08a.png

2023-09-23 22:21:30

Can someone help me with my math homework
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2023-09-23 18:15:54

AI is getting scarily close to being able to generate images of Malort
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2023-09-22 02:14:44

Nice
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2023-09-21 03:56:52

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So like urbanists.social for sure isn't going anywhere, but I haven't been using odd.town as much and it hasn't reallllly gotten much buy-in. And I'm also just worried about my ability to support anything long-term that I put energy into.

2023-09-21 03:55:18

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Example is Odd.Town, I started it a month or two ago when I was hyperfocusing on it, and I've let it hum along pretty well for a bit now, but now it's requiring more maintenance than I thought. Rn I can't really bring myself to look at the Grafana (because I forgot the password lol) and everything's stored in a Terraform state locally and I don't really know anyone else who'd be interested in working on it lol

2023-09-21 03:54:09

Sometimes I feel like I can't do stuff consistently and can't be relied on for things
Like I am very good at starting new things but I have very few things that I have been able to consistently run. I'm only really able to run this server because it's all managed (thanks to our awesome hosting provider) and it integrates into my email system for reporting and stuff.

2023-09-20 20:41:42

This talk is fucking wild
Essentially there’s a transactional email provider that allows you to impersonate nearly any domain on the internet from CloudFlare Workers.
Insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnT15q_PS8

2023-09-19 14:53:37

Real time updates with graphql-ws work!!!
Shocked how good of a GraphQL client Houdini is. It's like Relay but Svelte.
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