@pandoc my website is https://notes.yip.pe

the build script is listed in the index, as a polyglot file: it builts itself into an html file along with the other pages. each html file has an .md file source that just needs the extension changed.

so, because deno kinda follows web standards i may at some point some day be able to host the static builder in the browser as well as run it offline in a terminal. one day

@pandoc i use pandoc as part of a static website build using Deno. I think this will let me switch out the system command shell call to a wasm call.

@neil

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@ptoothfish they should take it up with the english language authorities who most definitely treat the two words as effectively interchangeable

@ptoothfish i post something to this effect semi-regularly and i almost always get pushback from people. It boggles me

Regular reminder that the “block” feature of mastodon most likely does not do what you think it does, especially if you are used to block features from centralised social media services.

First of all, “block” is not a feature buiit into activitypub. it is a feature that was hacked in after the fact by mastodon.

when you block someone on mastodon

1. follow/follower relations are removed

2. maybe sometimes, but inconsistently, notifications from the person are muted, sometimes, inconsistently, posts out in the wild from the person are hidden from you; enforfced by your own server.

3. a block activity is published. This information is not private, and blocks on bluesky being public is not a point difference fediverse users get to brag about

4. What other servers do with that publically published block activity is entirely up to them. It might be to honor the block by hiding your posts from the user, if they happen to be a user on the instance. It might be nothing. it might be making your attempt to block a visibly published post for the purposes of increasing harassment efforts towards you.

5. every time i have pointed these things out some dude who has studied the activitypub protocol way less than I have usually comes along to try and correct me. When I prove them wrong they throw up their hands and declare that if i post on the fediverse I should have no expectation of privacy, respect for my boundaries, or respect for my consent and I am foolish for wanting better designed protocols

6. one of the co-authors of activitypub then usually slides in to apologise for the mess

@futurebird i know how to pull youtube playlists into google sheets using the youtube API.

a google form could accept urls from other services. a gscript could generate an html file with all the videos paginated and embedded, and a bit of playlist magic.

a webintent link next to each video can autogenerate a fediverse hashtag to post to. maybe something like #yt_[videoid]

a small script can pull and embed the rss feed for each hashtag

this is all possible but much harder if we avoid google services; but we’re already using youtube.