social

Jan 4, 2025 ∞

Things Themes for Arctic

[Lemmy Thread](https://lemmy.world/post/23872498 ““Things Themes for Arctic” on the Arctic Lemmy Community”)

I’ve maintained a fairly prolific habit of “adapting” the color palettes of Cultured Code’s Things 3 (light and dark) for the various software in which I spend most of my time.

I was excited to have another opportunity to do so, recently, for my favorite Lemmy client! So far, I’m still fiddling with the Light version, but the Dark version is available below!

Dark

(The theme files below should be openable directly in Arctic, cross-platform.)

Dark Theme File Download URL
Dark Theme File Download Shortlink - https://dub.sh/arcticthingsdarkdl

Source

GitHub Gist

{ “accent”: { “errorColor”: “#FF3370”, “accentColor”: “#67ACFF”, “successColor”: “#4CBF60”, “warningColor”: “#FFD400” }, “id”: “F374ECA7-27A8-43F3-AA9C-E2929E456E9C”, “name”: “Things Dark”, “background”: { “groupedBackgroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “foregroundColor”: “#1D2229”, “primaryContainerColor”: “#252A31”, “backgroundColor”: “#171C22”, “secondaryContainerColor”: “#31596F4D”, “groupedForegroundColor”: “#2E333A” }, “text”: { “tertiaryLabel”: “#87919F”, “secondaryLabel”: “#787F89”, “linkLabel”: “#67ACFF”, “primaryLabel”: “#FFFFFF”, “placeholderLabel”: “#828C9BE2” }, “actions”: { “favoriteColor”: “#FFD400CA”, “markReadColor”: “#186289”, “collapseColor”: “#67ACFF96”, “editColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “saveColor”: “#4CBF60”, “crosspostColor”: “#4C4060”, “downvoteColor”: “#D1C58B”, “shareColor”: “#4DB1A7”, “replyColor”: “#5CA5FF”, “blockColor”: “#FC375E”, “upvoteColor”: “#1BADF8”, “subscribeColor”: “#4CBF69C9” } }

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Light

Light Theme File Download Link
Light Theme File Download Shortlink - https://dub.sh/articthingslightdl

Source

{
  "name": "Things Light",
  "id": "AFA2343E-D9A2-4AE2-B439-BB18789761DF",
  "actions": {
    "favoriteColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "shareColor": "#FFD600EC",
    "upvoteColor": "#0665B5CA",
    "subscribeColor": "#3AA89BE4",
    "editColor": "#FB4475E2",
    "blockColor": "#FB444FE7",
    "downvoteColor": "#CCBF7DE5",
    "markReadColor": "#BDE2D3E7",
    "collapseColor": "#94979897",
    "saveColor": "#BF54B1DD",
    "replyColor": "#4CBF62E9",
    "crosspostColor": "#3FBFB6E0"
  },
  "accent": {
    "errorColor": "#FF3370",
    "warningColor": "#FFD400",
    "successColor": "#4CBF60",
    "accentColor": "#1BAFF6F5"
  },
  "text": {
    "primaryLabel": "#15181A",
    "secondaryLabel": "#9399A3FA",
    "placeholderLabel": "#979DA5D7",
    "linkLabel": "#0069CD",
    "tertiaryLabel": "#C1C4C7DC"
  },
  "background": {
    "groupedBackgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "groupedForegroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "secondaryContainerColor": "#E1E4E9B1",
    "foregroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "backgroundColor": "#F3F6F7",
    "primaryContainerColor": "#EBEDF0CB"
  }
}

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Dec 15, 2024 ∞

Graber Goober Poster Why

(Forgot to conclude the story: I just immediately left the server.)

Anecdotally…

An opportunity to compare transcript generation between Microblog’s and the “Apple Intelligence” transcripts now available in Voice Memos:

I guess it must have been um in 2021. I don’t know why it feels like it was so long ago uh when I first heard about well, not, but I first heard of Of course the the name blues sky had been tossed around for a long time. That’s why I had heard about it. uh The first time anything that I ever saw anything tangible, it was a discordite, of course, and what I did was that I immediately went in there and uh I think, well, the discussion that was happening that I remember it was about the protocol specifically. um and I literally just linked to activity to the main activity pub site. I think I linked to activity pub. rocks uh, and and it was just like, you guys know about this, right? Um, and I swear to you, like, uh and it was kind of like frantic. It was like sincere like wait, hang on a second because that’s the way that that uh activity pub shit. um the actual foundation of to centralized social that’s been around for um I was going to say decades. I guess it’s probably pushing it a little bit, but a decade and more. um It’s been developed on and refined to a point where it is like it is the thing. The technology, like is a and I guess I should appreciate that more. I guess the technology had already been established and from my perspective, it continues to be I mean the dream of social media seeing the first time I said this before a million times, but like seeing a pixel fed post in line on a masted on feed I remember that that thought like holy shit, this is literally what I wished for all along. um like shit. I wish that like the the technology barrier that um proprietary barriers between me and and whatever I wanted to express in the service, I wish that I could um barriers maybe not the right word, but actually is just like the dream. And like I don’t know anything technically about the AT protocol because I am not like enough anything that’s kind of intentional. I just don’t have ruin my brain, but, you know, all these years, what I’ve heard from people again about their hesitants, so mast it on their their bad experiences on mastodon have been because it was difficult. uh but like seeing some of those same people um literally have their username, their bluesray username stop resolving for a second. uh But I don’t know. I don’t understand. And I guess it it’s just and it just fucking sends me and I don’t know why. I don’t know why. um but redundancy, I guess, is just really alarming and also I don’t know. um I heard a friend got their account their blue sky account suspended uh and I didn’t follow up with him so I probably should actually the other day, but it seemed like he that that happened without explanation um and uh there’s just no meaning behind calling yourself open source and if if that sort of thing is going to happen um also like practically speaking, if decentralization is what anyone in the in the blue sky project genuinely want it I still have yet to hear an explanation as for why they wouldn’t have there just is none there is none other than money and the difference between m Macedon and blue sky is that blue sky took ventures money. uh and it’s just strange to me and irritating a hell to hear um I don’t know I don’t know anything about Jake Raber, but uh, like hearing her go on about uh the things they’re doing in a meive Patel interview that he did recently. um and he just I love Neai. But like once again, that was I mean, and and decoder is his business podcast. So like I can’t even like that’s is very explicitly about business. uh so and organs or whatever. um so I guess I can’t but like you got to interrupt her. Anyway, so okay, so what happened with that disord thing? I went in there, uh linked activity pub dot rocks and was like, guys, you know about this, right? Like woo, hold on. wait a second. uh and then like the response was I mean, I remember it being I didn’t read it because it began with you know, the essence was uh well, but and I was just like, yeah, I got Bill, thank you to everyone who created activity problem. And I’m like not it is not loyalty for the sake of I just really love the brand um because I it’s just I don’t understand. I don’t understand um and I and I suspect once again that literally your only barrier, I guess I should just be more explicit about it. Those of you who um found herself migrating this blue sky. Okay, I’m gonna exempt anyone who has to do social media, for their livelihood, okay? Because that just doesn’t count, then you have to go with other people. There are people. That has to be that’s a whole different consideration. But like uh like you definitely what you mean by it’s it was hard is that it’s genuinely nonprofit and you get the same sickness that I suppose still have um but like damn uh it’s so disappointing. and uh isolating, I guess. And frustrating, but, um yeah. I’m sure it’s gonna grow great. Um

Sep 17, 2024 ∞

"Tumblr iOS Architecture" Deck from 2014

https://engineering.tumblr.com/post/93985550454/tumblr-ios-architecture

Aug 4, 2024 ∞

Glass Profile Ingestion

As much as I genuinely enjoyed my free trial + then some paid time using Glass, I’m just not able/interested in image capture right now to continue paying $6.99 a month for it. I was pretty excited, then, to discover that micro.blog’s macOS app offers support for importing the .zip profile export files Glass creates, and to report that I have imported 18 images from my profile to this blog successfully.

Here’s an example.

Jun 21, 2024 ∞

Marquis Trill's First Twitter Space

Some time in late Summer 2021, I stumbled into another of the handful of nigh-inconceivable conversation opportunities which Twitter Spaces would offer me.

Marquis Trill - someone I’m still not 100% convinced I actually remembered from the ~2012 Twitter Epoch - decided to just fuckin go on Spaces one day for the first time. And - as per the nature of Spaces - I guess I just hopped in the mf too.

Eventually in this recording, you’ll hear me pipe in… and continue to intermittently throughout its duration. I remember being genuinely fascinated with the experience in the moment, but it’s not exactly easy listening (shame) in retrospect lol.

Here’s the metadata from the Space I retained, though I doubt it will ever be actionable again:

Title: “Financial Freedom and Success! Let’s talk about it. Come ready”
Original Spaces URL - [https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdKrVzWDvlKXAnnouncement](https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdKrVzWDvlKXAnnouncement)
Original Tweet URL - [https://twitter.com/6BillionPeople/status/1422696022220886016](https://twitter.com/6BillionPeople/status/1422696022220886016)
Original Patreon Post

May 16, 2021 ∞

Is Sienna Guillory my Mom?

in This Present Time I can have regular interactions with my adolescent celebrity crush that I *actually* would not be able to convince my 14-year-old self are real. not because of their significance but the opposite.

calling her mom is like... the only even remotely reasonable outcome, btw. she *is* a mom several times over, now. and 46.

and by "crush," i mean... at least 30% of my total cumulative mental energy was spent repeating "I am so in love with Sienna Guillory" for *years.*

imagine telling that person "one day, you're gonna wish her happy mother's day every year in a text box. she will call you 'bub.'"

I'm pretty sure it would make him suicidal.

(but the outfits would save his life at the last moment.)

Nov 23, 2020 ∞

Too Much Freedom (Thread)

AMERICANS:

FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH 'FREEDOM' YET?

I am so fucking sick of Freedom. Freedom sucks. Freedom doesn't work. I'm tired of trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. PRISON would be refreshing!!!

swap me out for a family of immigrants. it is long past my turn to serve some time.

you are all screaming about how you feel your "Freedom of Expression" is in danger so much that it has become the entirety of what you have to express. am I really gonna have to be the one who shuts you up?

here's a VC pitch that actually aligns with the public interest: give me $20 million and I will erase the digital presence of hate groups on the web within 18 months via weaponized DDoS. the free exchange of ideas has fucking failed dude. it's time to try a muzzle.

the UK doesn't have these issues. their response to the WBC? *banning them from the country and blocking their website* cbsnews.com/pictures/banne…

somehow "Personal Freedom" equates to "you must give me what I want or you're breaking the law."

sorry I'll stop...

i just don't know how folks continue to dwell on these ridiculous abstracts from 250 year old documents. they should have been allowed to turn to dust.

Nov 18, 2020 ∞

Thread on The Social Dilemma

Notably missing from both the film and this interview: not only have these issues been discussed and researched for decades, now, but a biome of alternatives to EVERY SINGLE CRITICIZED COMPANY/SERVICE EXISTS and HAS EXISTED for years. bit.ly/3fd3Xxn

there is a search engine that is basically just Bing except most of the profit generated by the adtech goes to PLANTING TREES. (Ecosia)

there are decentralized social networks (Mastodon, Diaspora) that often OUTPERFORM the proprietary big boys because they're still incentivized to craft the HIGHEST QUALITY experience rather than the most lucrative.

the only reason you haven't heard of them is that the Big Bad Monopolistic Incs OWN AND OPERATE the tools you'd normally rely on to search them out and Tech Journalism has literally moved in with the people they're needed to keep in check. (they all live in California)

it's ridiculous that we're still listening to the people who created the problem as they ruminate on solutions to the problem. (I would've just commented on Medium, but OneZero is paywalled so... sorry.)

and uh yeah... once again, I did my best to articulate these arguments and more in my most recent Post. bilge.world/the-social-dil…

Jul 14, 2020 ∞

Writing About Facebook is Overwhelming

still working on my post about Facebook. it's over 7500 words now...

sorry.

so far, I've used the word "Facebook" 135 times.

I'm pretty sure I'll have it up before the end of the week. and then I will never have to write about Facebook again...

10,000 words now... I think I need to take a break. definitely should be able to wrap up, polish, and publish tomorrow.

I COMPLETELY missed the Twitter hack... guess this means I'm already doing much better about not getting distracted.

well... I forgot to discuss VK, so it might actually be tomorrow before I get it up... I know hundreds of thousands of you were counting on this essay... I know you've spent three whole days now just refreshing my blog... I'm so sorry.

update:
so I was just about ready to conclude what I had to say about VK when it occurred to me that I should try searching for the original Russian expression of the word (ВКонта́кте,) which revealed a whole new story...

turns out, the only conversation about VK in American media, at least, is as a haven for Nazis who've been banned from Facebook. apparently their pilgrimage began around 2016. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

this investigation by bellingcat (which is absolutely CHOCK FULL of Nazi imagery - please take care) examines a whole host of neo-Nazis who maintain profiles on both sites, and are just way more explicit about their ideology on VK. bellingcat.com/news/2020/02/1…

imo, the fact that NONE OF THIS was visible in search results for "VK" and "VKontakte" indicates that search engines are still kindof dumb.

to be honest, I have no idea what to do now. literally all of the Facebook alternatives I've argued for have an association with terrible people for one reason or another.

in some cases, it's the fault of the services, I agree. VK should definitely not be allowing some of those fucking images.

in Mastodon's, though, articles like this really let it down. Gab stole the PLATFORM - the SOFTWARE, not the network. the vast majority of instance admins came together within hours of the announcement to make sure their servers didn't federate with Gab. vice.com/en_us/article/…

and yet the headline still uses the term "home." something like this would've been way less misleading: "The Biggest Far-Right Social Network Moves to Nazi-Free Twitter Alternative's Platform."

very discouraged. as of this moment, retirement looks great.

here's a draft if you'd like to read it early for whatever reason. documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?ur…

and here are my notes so far. cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/10…

what is the best answer, going forward, to combat the tendency for alt-right, neo-Nazi, and other hateful groups to seek refuge on "alternative social media?"

well, I took a break from writing about Facebook... to write about why I'm taking a break from writing about Facebook. extratone.vivaldi.net/covering-faceb…

WELL. I do love the burn in this comment:
"Complaining about how it operates is a little like going to someone’s house party because all the cool people were there and then complaining that the bathroom isn’t ergonomic or you wish their pool was deeper and had a diving board."

Sep 19, 2015 ∞

E

E
— Skrillex (@Skrillex) May 15, 2010

It came to my attention today that my good friend Sonny Moore (commonly known as Skrillex) Tweeted “E” from his BlackBerry at 0732 CST on May 15th, 2010. If I’m ever given the opportunity to interview him, I’ll begin by questioning his choice in smartphones. (Can you imagine how awful the Twitter for BlackBerry client must’ve looked in 2010?)

From what I’ve sampled of his art, I’m confident he’s an emotionally intelligent man, and probably not house producer Joel Zimmerman (commonly known as Deadmau5.) The most arresting evidence supporting this supposition is hair. Sonny Moore is not house producer Joel Zimmerman. I could be wrong, of course, but that’d only mean that both Sonny Moore and house producer Joel Zimmerman possess a slightly above-average ability to slow time and examine us as we obliviously go about our lives in slow motion. It could even be possible that house producer Joel Zimmerman is examining my big ole' ears at this very moment in mild distaste. I guess I’d be able to hear him if he scoffed, but I think it would be down-pitched and extraordinarily terrifying.

Considering, allow me to tangent shortly and ask house producer Joel Zimmerman to keep any newfound otorhinolaryngological judgments to himself, if at all possible. If you must speak, Mr. Joel Zimmerman, please try your best not to frighten me.

Lots of individuals in my circles frequently chide Skrillex about his alleged misunderstanding of corporeality. While it is true that he’s been known to occasionally forgo performing at events in favor of desperately demanding answers from his audience to questions like “how big am I?” “how are we able to breathe in here?” and “who is the whispering lady who turns off the sun?!” I don’t think he is befit of such a reputation. In fact, I think Skrillex’s ability to make his irresistible clanking is one we should all aspire to hone. While we are kept on edge sometimes by the day-to-day stresses of contemporary life, Skrillex is able to clank them away and see the world from the broadest, slowest perspective - as a demigod.