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switched to Linux
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@artsbypatrick Do you have standard rates that you charge? Do you have a portfolio anywhere?
My current idea is something like this (feel free to suggest changes):
Scene is outdoors. Guy in a MAGA hat is talking with other people who might be his family (woman, a kid or teen maybe wearing something that clearly signals LGBTQ+ affinity? maybe a younger kid has a friend who looks Hispanic), looking a little sad and bewildered (while also entitled, in the way MAGA-types can do). Off to one side are ICE agents in a cluster all facing towards each other and focused on something on the ground, unseen violence hinted at by their body-language.
The caption is something like "I don't understand why we can't all just get along!"
Possible alternative detail: the family is indoors, and the ICE agents are visible through their front window.
...is that the kind of thing you could work with? Thanks!
@EndlessMason There might be advantages to that, but I think it's probably best to have the UI draw a clear distinction.
Also, if they get the fedi-ID stuff working in Forgejo, then the admins wouldn't have to be on it as such -- we could just add their existing user-accounts to the "TootCat admin" (or whatever) project/team.
Nah, Vultures are on X-Twitter; chickens are on Facebook because they don't know any better.
@rnd I never noticed that the difference was a regional one :D I just generally insist on the more phonetic spelling if there's any ambiguity at all (and sometimes even if there isn't). ^.^
@EndlessMason Um... yes, it can? Anyone who's in the project can follow a ticket, make comments...
...and Forgejo does have hooks for notifying other apps (e.g. I get a Discord message for every issue update on one of my projects). A little websearching reveals that ActivityPub integration is definitely in the works -- apparently as a way of federating identity between instances, which means that at some point integration into the admin panel could become even easier than it would be now.
...but as far as I know, the Masto devs haven't even considered this.
@Researchbuzz I cleverly avoid this by always having exactly one place where I keep my drink.
This does mean I often have to take an unopened can back to the fridge, but at least I catch myself before opening it. ^.^
(Speaking of which... [notices unoccupied soft-drink-space])
@Lana I've always said that "trans-exclusive radical feminism" is in fact anti-feminist.
@MarkHoltom They've stopped hating the super-rich -- does this mean they've improved? :blobcatthinking:
@balloonpup One of the style-changes I make when I set up a wiki is dotted underlines beneath links (and also a faint shadow of the text, to make it stand out just a tad). ...fwiw.
The vanishing/superskinny scrollbars thing is just arggh 🤯 :blobcatupsidedown:
I'd also add "window margins that are wide enough to grab easily".
@briangweberphotography I have to really look closely at that in order to see that it's not a painting -- it is so nicely composed!
Well, that's the thing, really -- the admin reporting-panel makes basically zero use of the conversational code.
To be clear: I'm talking about what an admin sees when a user makes a report. There isn't, for example, any way to interact with the user about that report; if I want to do that, I have to DM them -- and then if I want to include the rest of the admin team, I have to remember to cc: an admin account which I have foresightfully created for this purpose, and everyone on the team who wants to see the discussion has to have the password for that account -- or else I have to mention everyone on the team explicitly, which has its own set of issues.
There are a lot of other aspects of a ticket-management system which would work nicely with the flow of managing a problem report but which are not present or are only partly implemented (in which case the Masto team still has to spend resources supporting them, even though they're kinda terribasic).
It just seems to me like it would be a time-saver in the long run for them, and a relatively easy way to give Masto a lot more functionality (especially (but not necessarily only) on the admin side).
Here's a thought: why doesn't Masto's moderation/reporting feature use some standard ticket-management tool like @forgejo ?
It's frustratingly limited as it is, and I'm sure maintaining its codebase adds to the overhead of maintaining Masto's codebase. Why not just integrate with a general tool that's already well-maintained?
Is there anyone out there who is good with cartooning and might be interested in taking commissions?
(The immediate need is for political-cartoon line-drawings, but now that I think of it I have other ideas that might lend themselves well to graphical presentation.)
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116900105665758613
This aligns nicely with something I've been saying for awhile: if we're going to have capitalism at all, it needs to be democratic.
That means that either businesses need to be restricted to a certain maximum size, so that they can still be held accountable, or else the governance of those over that size needs to be democratized.
@CptSuperlative The traps they lay are subtle, and costly to escape. I can't blame anyone who decides they aren't ready.
(Also, it's a systemic problem, not a moral failure on the part of trapped users.)
