Notices by DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 18:33:41 JST 
DCent
@shnoulle ✨ 🎆 Happy New Year to all Fediverse peoples with a special mention to the GNUSocial crew! 🎉✨ 🧨🎇 ✨
The best humans are on Fedi, and defending it from actors who, in many respects, seek to turn fedi into a replica of a certain dot-con. Unfortunately, I feel like work needs to be done in 2023 to prevent that from happening further.
Thanks for the links, Admin. What is the situation with DMs on here. Are they working yet? No pressure. It would just help in some ways. My internet connection contract ended oddly and unexpectedly and so I'm hoping to do some DMs. -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 02:45:46 JST
DCent
Hi @administrator,
Re: git push --set-upstream origin limitedUpdate_mostlyCenterFix
remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://git.elbinario.net:8000/gnusocial/elbinario.git/'
Feel free to use the latest username I just provided as my password? -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2022 02:12:37 JST
DCent
Really loving that the Back button in the browser seems to work with GNUSocial as expected now, going back to the cached rather than reloading the page. It's extra convenient because the page is also scrolled down to the correct point too, so I can resume reading from where I was on the page. Brilliant!
Did you make that change, @administrator? -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:42:51 JST
DCent
BTW @administrator, would you like me to re-upload the CSS patch for Elbinario Theme that properly centers the website or do you know how to use the previous one?
Basically the last (17th) hunk that tries to remove the badly encoded character can be removed or even ignored. You can fix that badly encoded character by simply re-typing the last few characters in that line yourself.
Its an issue in itself that a badly encoded character is in the CSS, so we should seek to fix that immediately. Apply my patch after. It will complain about the 17th hunk but you'll be able to ignore it (because you'll have already fixed it yourself).
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:39:07 JST
DCent
Oof, mastodon now forcing people to switch on javascript just to view a person's fediverse profile? Will it be optional so instances can choose whether they force js?
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 20:39:06 JST
DCent
Re GNUSocial (@administrator @lxo):
Can pages have a longer cache time? What I've noticed is after I 'like' a person's post for example, and a new page is loaded to tell me the 'Like' was successful, I hit 'Back' in the browser but the page from earlier is not cached so the browser is forced to fetch a new page for the server; 100% of the time (so far) that page has been identical, no need to request a fresh page. I think this needs to be fixed to improve experience for both end user, that must wait for the fresh page and the server that must do 3x more work (on average) for zero benefit; a 5-minute cache time would fix this.
Also, images in posts should be enlarged in a new tab when they are clicked, not when the little link above the image is clicked. Currently clicking an image does nothing, and it's poor UX, I've put this past a couple people now and they seem to struggle with the UI. In all fairness, the little link above the images is only clutter, it is not even useful as a caption because it is often truncated.
Are these issues listed for GNUSocial v3? If not, I'll be interested in someone being so helpful as to copy-paste into it. -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Oct-2022 10:51:04 JST
DCent
Hi folks,
I spent some time producing some more CSS improvements for GNUSocial.
I noticed that my CSS from last time is plonked at the end of the existing CSS. That's cool for testing in a limited sense, but in one case, it's needed that the CSS is worked into the legacy CSS. If you need me to edit the original CSS file in the repo, I'll make a proper patch.
If you wish to patch yourself, its all commented so it should be fairly easy. If not I'll make a patch.
The new CSS will be forthcoming. @spookie @administrator @puppetmaster @senooken -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 22:07:48 JST
DCent
Thanks for your very helpful response. It's not at all too much.
If the aim is to get to about 500 ish I can understand why you would be concerned about lengthening the time period for unused accounts.
One of the issues with people not responding to email reminders could be that a temporary email was used, or setup, to register.
(BTW I think my DMs on here are not working. I sent you one to test a couple days ago.) -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 21:15:51 JST
DCent
I attended the public meeting today at Forestville Reserve where Jayne Stintson MP explained a few things related to the development of the old LeCornu site. She did not say anything publicly related to the wasteful overpass that would destroy 70+ trees and the amazing park for generations (see picture of tree loss).
I did try to secure a Q+A session at the end of her short explainer but the event was designed not to have one.
Authorised by Dario Centrella #trees #parks #greenSpace #wildlife https://gnusocial.net/attachment/e85ccd2cf3bb3bf3bd16a270b91844d5a3e6c26f43add9139c7e80d9c8035321/view -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 21:00:51 JST
DCent
I do sincerely ask the Honorable MP to please be more kind to people in future and don't interject so rudely. This was the first time we met and it was not convivial. I want Leader St to develop with sound leadership. The problem I see is a State Government beholden to other vested interests and possibly donors and /not/ those of Unley residents. For example, if I'm elected mayor, the 30-Year-Plan for Greater Adelaide will not be recognised by me, and I will seek to have it unrecognised by council.
Also, it should not be your major concern how close a person may live to a subject site, but of the content of their arguments. Please think long-term about what we really need in Adelaide and Unley.
Authorised by Dario Centrella #manners #adelaide #auspol -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 20:32:42 JST
DCent
Today at a public meeting. I appear to have 'rubbed' a State MP the wrong way, which was /not/ my intention.
I seek to resist Unley and Greater Adelaide becoming a highly fragile services-based economy with little-to-no productive or value-added business. I was explaining to residents that the bakery on Leader St was in the process of being rezoned for residential development.
The MP walked into the conversation and abruptly blurted, "You are wrong". She then went on to, what I felt was, gaslight me and the people that I was talking to.
Dear Hon. Jayne Stinston MP, this is what the State Government website says:
https://plan.sa.gov.au/have_your_say/code_amendments
ARCHIVED HERE (and pictured for future reference):
https://web.archive.org/web/20220913064644/https://plan.sa.gov.au/have_your_say/code_amendments
Authorised by Dario Centrella #leaderSt #bakery https://gnusocial.net/attachment/69ea6cf88459f7d3bc114eeb30779f5f1b3b7cada46c4b84332f75340d1aa2df/view -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 20:14:42 JST
DCent
Welcome to Fediverse!
It looks like we both joined around the same time but I had another account on Fedi, as 'me', in late 2020(?) when I spoke up against proposed overdevelopment on Unley Rd that was actually celebrated by Mayor Michael Hewitson at that time. The account must've been deleted because didn't use it for a year 😔.
(Also to @administrator here, its sub-optimal to remove accounts after a year. I understand why from a disk-space perspective, but even old toots can have a lot of value, for the person who spent time to write them and for the wider community, maybe 3 years is a fair compromise, it still allows deletion but allows people to make public statements that they can follow up with at a later time.)
Anyway, given your transition to fully-FOS and AGPLv3 license services, you may be interested that I'm now running for mayor, not just against overdevelopment but for transitioning council away from using proprietary software and services. 😀
Voters are encouraged to contact me here on Fedi or to IM me (XMPP) directly over I2P... slightly more effort but worth it.
Nice to meet you! -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 30-Sep-2022 05:27:20 JST
DCent
I'm struggling to know how it's possible to really block something like a profiler on things like public fedi profiles.
It's public so it really doesn't matter. All the above would do is say that my page is visitable by search engines which abide by rules in the 'robots.txt' file. Its likely that many won't or won't even declare that they are search engines/bots etc.
The problem is I don't have a big online presence like you might think, so things like this would help a lot. -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 18:07:01 JST
DCent
Hi @Administrator, I don't know if this is planned for GNUSocial v3 Settings, but would it be possible to allow search engines to find me in the interim? Currently the 'robots.txt' file is:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Would it be possible to add an "Allow" in there? Ie:
User-agent: *
Allow: /dcent
Disallow: /
It is important for people to be able to find my posts, moving forward. Also @lxo, I notice that you do a lot of public interest writing too and are on this instance, maybe you would like the same? -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 01:03:50 JST
DCent
You wrote:
> looking into publishing shortly, maybe even this week, an article about my legal struggles against banks' attempts to impose the use of tracking devices
I will be anticipating your work in this area. By "tracking devices" do you mean their closed-source apps? You will not be able to go far in my country without some billboard advertising about "loving" their app.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 04:57:56 JST
DCent
Yes, I very much hope so too! Thanks for the compliment 😀 -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 04:50:44 JST
DCent
Laws that require telcos retain all users' metadata (read: location and contact data) for two (2) years is proving to be the honeypot any thinking person knew it would be... and our government today are no wiser than past ones.
I'm looking forward to very private data about corrupt dealings of very powerful people leaking out.
Australia reaps what it sows.
One person put it well. Data is like uranium... valuable if you can handle it but toxic if it leaks out. A perfect metaphor. We need to ensure our data is not collected to begin with.
#auspol #metadata #australia #metadataLaws #privacy #cybersecurity -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 04:34:30 JST
DCent
Someone recently showed me a message on their phone from #Optus, explaining their data was hacked.
Ten million Australian's (almost 40%) have had private data stolen, which may include date-of-birth, license and passport details.
Since the stupid #DataRetention laws were enacted in Australia several years ago, I've been waiting for the spaghetti monster to show its ugly face. Now it seems we are doubling down on the ridiculousness, with new daft laws being rushed through Parliament to give banks more info on hacked people.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220925062238/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-25/new-security-measures-to-be-unveiled-following-optus-data-breach/101472364 -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 03:56:00 JST
DCent
The realisation that bitcoin and monero can only work if you can trust the technology it operates on. -
DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 03:06:41 JST
DCent
Although the "plan" is to replant the same number of trees in the area it will take decades for those trees to serve local residents and fauna and to provide the requisite cooling and tree canopy cover that we so desperately need to retain.
We can value the time and the thought that went into the proposal, but its not good. It's bulky, intrusive and dangerous in terms of its misallocation of resources. We need more space for urban farming and resilience, not wasteful paths.
Try again, please.
(IMAGE: Five (5) of the seven (7) regulated trees slated for removal and their arborist reports.) https://gnusocial.net/attachment/2398d539e2b409afd02e165b19935e3770af6d9ca70c5ca96a46a139a1f3836b/view
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