I completely agree with your assessment especially with how most social media these days really dumbs down the entry level effort needed to participate in discussions.

And to your point, participating on a BBS (which usually requires a more specific interest and consequently a similar engagement level) will generally reward you with a community that is more civil, friendly and worth frequenting.

I use Jshelter alongside Ublock. They’re a good combination.

Trying to fly in Chuck Yeager’s Flight Simulator and not experience vertigo 🫠.

AOL was ‘everywhere’ especially in the mid to latter '90’s. Their advertising push coupled with so many hours of free Internet access upon installation made them an early titan of Internet service access.

“JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations.”

“During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

I think you’re confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.

Agreed.

I don’t particularly care for streaming services either, and the reason I mentioned that app was because I use it to essentially “rip” music from Spotify, download it to a folder and then use another music player app to create custom playlists. It’s the closest option I can come to without having the actual CDs to rip from.

And the iPods were indeed great little devices that had plenty of storage and made customizing playlists easy and enjoyable. Those were the days 😉.

This was a great series to be sure!

Like you, I have unfortunately lost the physical CDs over time which I also used to rip to my pc and copy to other places as well.

However, I did stumble across an app called Spotiflyer which I use to download songs/albums from Spotify (and other services) for free and then listen to them offline. It’s great to have locally stored media vs. having to be chained to online services.

That being said, I haven’t listened to that Billy Holiday album, but you’ve got my interest piqued and I’ll definitely check it out.

Yeah, I feel the same way.

I found a Spotify link. I’ll see if that works.

Well, that explains things 🙂

I don’t think Jerboa supports ‘native notifications’ which means it relies on other services (such as Google Play Services) in order to push notifications to your phone. Some applications (such as Fairmail, F-Droid) don’t rely on Google’s services and use the OS’s native notification abilities.

Actually, you made a claim without any explanatory information, and people (such as myself) were seeking clarification.

So, you’re making an assertion that you cannot validate or prove.

Next time, try asking a question first if you are uncertain about something instead of leading with a statement that could be calumnious.

If true, this is a bit disturbing. However, I run uBlock in my browser and don’t recall seeing any blocking attempts when on this instance. Do you have any specific details?

It cannot be…Hal 9000 and SDF have synthesized and are taking over!

https://youtu.be/Wy4EfdnMZ5g

I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. They’re a decent size that makes them noticeable without being ostentatious.

If I make it out that way, I’ll be happy to slap a couple on there 😉.

https://sdf.org/store/

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No worries. The Fediverse is a complicated beast 🙂. My understanding is that the @ symbol is a way of directly responding to that person and can also be used by others who see the post to actually identify that person. So say you have 20 followers - when you create a post all of your followers would see it and the person you contacted with the @ symbol.

But if you’re wanting to mention that person or bring more attention to them for a wider audience, then you would need to use # with words that are closely associated with said person.

For example, you could create a post to mention SDF as so: “If you’re interested in #retrotech and #Unix like systems, then I would recommend checking out @SDF.”

In this example, you would want to use relevant hashtags to reach a wider audience, and you’d want to tag the correct person with the @ symbol so people could connect with them.

At least, that’s how I would go about it. Hope this helps.

Everything is moving so quickly these days, and the exodus from other failing sites along with the expectations of those transitioning from them is creating a crescendo that is just unrealistic.

So many people have been working very hard to keep up with all of these new and increasing demands (and they ought to be credited for that), but what is lacking is patience for those working behind the scenes.

They’re doing a great job, but, for God’s sake, give them some slack!