mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

So are there any open source hybrid smart watches that anyone knows about? My expectations aren't high but figured this is the better place to ask. I do love my Withings watch but am wondering if there's other alternatives to using some of the features rather than connecting it to Google Fit

@zkat for what it's worth, hearing from ppl like you who have been at this longer and still feel that same way is definitely reassuring to those of us with less experience.

@pleb @aral this is awesome thanks for the link 👍

“Many people today believe that you can’t understand the American Revolution without understanding anything about Haiti. You can’t understand the American Revolution without understanding anything about what was going on in the Spanish world.”

From an interview with Professor Julius S Scott III about the interconnected nature of the Atlantic trade, and it's impact on Black culture. http://www.publicbooks.org/julius-s-scott-iii-1955-2021-the-common-wind/

#history
#VastEarlyAmerica

Ok Fediverse, one thing I absolutely love about the Birdsite is watching historians and other academics share their work in public to improve our understanding. I think I'm just gonna start cross posting some things I find interesting as I come across them. Maybe we can make a new hashtag? For now I'm gonna just reuse one from Birdsite that Dr. Karin Wulf created.

#history #VastEarlyAmerica

@emanuele @aral @e88 would DMs still be open to the sysadmin of the recipient?

@aral @e88 basically the idea of a single user instance is trading moderation control for local (instance) interactivity and just planning to federate where you want?

I can understand the appeal in that

@e88 @aral what's the benefit of gearing an instance for a single person? A social activity feed for one seems counter intuitive unless I'm missing something.

Really excited to try out Mimic 3 Text To Speech engine by @mycroft_ai when it comes out here soon. Looking forward to seeing how much of an improvement it is and hopefully try it offline too.

Trying to imagine what my next job would be thinking about the parts of my current job that I enjoy. I really love open standards and #webcomponents. Lately I've been digging in more to #ally standards as well. In the past my work has focused on bundling, developer tooling, and trying to improve CI processes.

I think if I was to try and sum up my work it's that I like enabling teams and individuals to go faster.

@aurynn @atomicpoet services are going to go after broader market share so the amount of harassment they are willing to accept will always be more than what a community would accept. They won't care if users fall thru the cracks as long as they create enough new users to replace them.

@aral is there a different analytics platform that offers everything that businesses need to build a sales funnel? Does Plausible do this? (Are they on the Fediverse?)

I have no clue what this entails bc I don't do any sort of "business intelligence" work but this seems to be an essential feature to convince ppl to take a jump.

Really wanna replay Persona 3 again on handheld. When's it coming to Switch

@cassidyjames we paid an astoundingly stupid amount of money for what is essentially a plastic shot glass for our daughter to learn to drink from (at least to my sensibilities). If you've got them lying around already that's a great way to reuse something that would otherwise go in the trash!

I love #webcomponents but the serialization of a boolean to a string always throws me. Anyone have a good way of handling this that they really like and want to share?

Been working on a component library with Storybook JS. Are there any best practices for adding a story around typography? I want to display font and headings to make sure they're correct but this seems harder to accomplish than expected....

@aurynn aren't you a mod?

Those of you who use a cross posting service with Birdsite, which one do you use and why?