Dave The Web Guy
Downtown Train
04/21/2024
I went downtown for a showing of "Civil War". Here's a quick shot of the Buffalo light rail (or subway, depending on where along the system you're filming). I haven't been paying much attention for the stunted line of about 5 miles, but if they miraculously get the money to proceed with expansion plans, it's game on.
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Did I Fix the Bug?
04/14/2024
This is just a test post to help fix a problem I have with Battle Blog's instant publishing system not rendering media properly on some RSS endpoints.
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Lazy Saturday
04/14/2024
Meet my two cats. Gina, the long-haired one, I adopted from the Ten Lives Club, a cat rescue organization operating here in Western New York. Skinny Pete, the gray one, was adopted by my friend neighbor and I, with me eventually taking full responsibility, from our front porch where he lived comfortably for a year in one of the cat houses we put out there. He's very socialized somehow and he and Gina have bonded and get along extremely well. As this lazy Saturday picture might suggest.
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Broadcasting the Broadcaster
04/10/2024
There I am in this Channel 7 (Buffalo) news piece live streaming the aftermath of a police chase. It's my hobby. Now, let's go around the room and tell us all a little something about yours.
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Not Sure They Thought This Through
04/08/2024
"Retire the Red Shirt Way". I see this ad tagline all the time by Independent Health and can't fathom for the life of me how it passed any focus group. Especially for the age group it might be targeting that is well familiar with that if you're the guy in a red shirt on any episode of the classic Star Trek, you'll retire by dying. I mean, look it up.
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Moment(s) of Totality
04/08/2024
Here's a sweep of the neighborhood during the totality of today's total eclipse. Despite the clouds, our particular vantage point provided just-in-time breaks in the cloud coverage to give us a steady lot of worthy peeks including a second or two of the totality's ring. But the best show was how dark it got.
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Eclipse Morning
04/08/2024
It's as cloudy as they predicted for today so far. But, there are hopes that the clouds will thin enough by the time of the eclipse.
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Unthinkable in 2024: I'm Going 100 Percent Blog
04/07/2024
Look at my social media postings across Facebook, Instagram, Threads and X.
The last postings you see at any of them are the very last you will see from me.
I want to go "100 percent blog" starting with this very posting. I want every impulse to blab and to experience any dopamine hits to result exclusively from this sole platform. And, I want that effort to live beyond experimental status.
I want to do this so hardcore, people who are used to seeing updates or what not through any of the social media outlets mentioned above, eventually, if ever, wonder what the heck happened to me.
"April-ish 2024?, wasn't that the last time Dave was around?"
I said I want to do this beyond anything resembling an experiment. But because in 2024's internet where all the world's power brokers want average people to forget about the liberty of the original world wide web, and thus this shouldn't "succeed", you as the wayward audience member should certainly view it as that.
Here we go then.
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Meta Makes Good on Promise to Join the Fediverse
03/23/2024
In an encouraging sign to me that the expectations of continuing a centralized web are beginning to implode, Meta announced that @Threads now integrates with the fediverse. Post via @Threads as your preferred platform now, and you will now be discoverable by people using other platforms. And better, if you leave @Threads because, say for example, one loose cannon takes it over one day and the service becomes unstable, you can take your posts with you.
This is a pretty ironic - and some argue, suspicious - move by Meta which is as company that is happy with the world believing that "Facebook is the internet" and thus antithetical to an "open web" - but there's really no outcome that I can think of today that isn't bullet proof against Meta attempting to exploit itself as the biggest port to the fediverse and somehow wind up "owning it".
For me, Meta is doing this because it realizes that the open web and its advocates aren't letting up and the future of digital traffic is decentralized. Or, put another way, going back to the way things were albeit perhaps more polished than the 90s web was. Sort of like Microsoft had to concede that Android was the best way to continue being relevant on the smartphone and now does all kinds of Android stuff with its Microsoft legacy wares.
In my video above I stress test what should be a simple thing to do, and, well, wound up being just that: Subscribing to an @Threads user (me) via Mastodon, the flagship port for the fediverse.
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- Meta's announcement that it has entered the fediverse
- Dave the Web Guy on Threads
- Dave the Web Guy on Mastodon
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demonstration fediverse threads
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