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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green rocket launches also affect global weather. Not enough research explores their impact.
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@richardazia@indieweb.social
mastodon 4.7.3On the web since '96. My blog is now a fediverse instance.
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Joined October 23, 2020
My favourite "algorithm" is dynamic, ongoing conversations. I want a forum atmosphere. I want to feel like this is a chat.
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@randahl@mastodon.social It's a shame that in 2026 an old man attacked two countries for oil related reasons.
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@nickofnz Society has used wind, sun, and water power for millenia. I'm glad that the current oil crisis is occuring when the alternative is ready for use. Electric cars, heat pumps, solar, wind, hydro... even clean burning wood pellets...
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@bagder@mastodon.social So no ochre paintings or charcoal prints on cave walls for your documentation efforts?
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@michael@mountains.social Have they been checked after winter for loose stones, cables that need to be replaced and more? A few years ago I joined such an event on the Moléson. It was an interesting experience. It gave me a deeper understanding of VF safety norms.
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@adele I could test it with a wordpress, and classicpress instance later. (Possibly tomorrow).
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@mastodonmigration This, in my eyes, is another reason not to use YouTube. They have questionable design patterns. YouTube stopped being the underdog a while ago. We need to diversify away from YouTube. @jeeynet
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@Documentally And I felt unlucky for having two punctures out of three bike rides. Did you have three bits of bad luck. If you did you're through. Good luck from now on.
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@Documentally@mastodon.social I was thinking of white balance, different image processing, and other reasons for the images being different. It's nice to see photos of a crescent earth, for a change. It's one of the photos I saw, related to this trip to the moon.
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@anewsocial I have just been playing with the Activitypub plugin, Eleventy and Bridgy and decided to go with a simpler solution for now. I am moving away from WordPress due to their increasingly "content farm" attitude to blogging. I believe that social media should be a social network that is "sticky" thanks to friendships and conversations rather than viral infections. (deliberate imagery).
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@psf@oldbytes.space Vibe coding is going to hit Apple app developers and Android app developers hard. I miss the "free" web, when we were passionate about sharing, in the 90s, and community in the early 200s. I don't like the mercanary 2010s and 2020s.
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@cybette@mastodon.org.uk it’s either the htaccess file or the webfinger. I removed the webfinger file and modified the htaccess and my blog became visible once again.
Staying Within the Optimal Form Range
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-05-09-staying-within-the-optimal-form-range/
Creeping Utilitarianism on the Fediverse
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-05-05-creeping-utilitarianism-on-the-fediverse/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/116556651501930786
Back in my day we had web forums with 20-30 active users, and we had real conversations with real people. In the early days of Twitter those conversations continued and engagement, and conversations were the social lubricant. Now we look at metrics, because spending socialising isn't seen as having adequate ROI. Can you imagine the absurdity of today? Social media is dead for me, because what pleasure is there in quantification, over conversation?
A Ride to Morges and Back to See Tulips
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-04-28-a-ride-to-morges-and-back-to-see-tulips/
RE: https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/a-twenty-five-hour-investment-for-a-book-club/
I think it's better to choose shorter books for book club discussions, given the limited time available for discussion.
The car I drive/drove has 63,000km. The bike I ride has around 39,000...
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@matt@writing.exchange For me, the goal of online social networks was to connect with people in person. I find that, in the post social media age, Strava and Meetup.com offer that. The age of Social media is over. Your sentiment, in other words, today, is rational.
The Fediverse Stats Paradox
The more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both. Blogging shouldn't be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don't want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and…
http://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/the-fediverse-stats-paradox/
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@cybette@mastodon.org.uk "So, why do you have your own domain?" ""So that people can @me ;-)" @me@joshuastrobl.social @jolla@techhub.social.
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@cybette@mastodon.org.uk I've been playing with fediverse federation over the last few days. I finally debugged how I de-federated my blog by accident.
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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Yesterday I went for a walk at the foot of the Jura(Franco-Swiss), when the clouds had been replaced with sunshine and I could hear the tinkling of water drops falling to the ground, from twigs and branches, once the sun had melted the frost. You could have been tricked into thinking it was raining.
Navigating with the Garmin Instinct 2
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-05-04-navigating-with-the-garmin-instinct-2/
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@cybette@mastodon.org.uk Over 800km last month, and 3900 since the August service. Local means something different when you cycle regularly. It's an interesting transformation.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116567740131374080
So when he said "I love football" it wasn't an act.
On Extroverts and the Stifled Online Conversation
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-04-27-on-extroverts-and-the-stifled-online-conversation/
On Assessing a Whatsapp Community Correctly
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-04-30-on-assessing-a-whatsapp-community-correctly/
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@Documentally@mastodon.social it horrifies me to see that car traffic is so dense during a petroleum crisis. That looks like smog, on a global scale. People can’t live without their cars. The pandemic didn’t help them kick their addiction.
The Subtle Transition to Strava
https://richard.azia.info/posts/2026-05-06-the-subtle-transition-to-strava/