@tezoatlipoca@mas.toI left my pet #Csharp #dotnet #ActivityPub project running overnight to see how it would handle HEAD requests overnight from UpTimeRobot (it did great).
I check the logs this morning and discover OMG what are all these I…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialWe've gone from the inverted information pyramid to the inverted quality pyramid.
Writers used to start with the most important information, and then taper down to details. But our sustained attention is no longer rewarded with more detail; now it's punished with detail-free slop.
Editors devote all their attention to refining the first few paragraphs. But the further you scroll, the more the initial AI draft shines through. Untouched by human hands, unread by human eyeb…
@alecsargent@social.linux.pizzaStop scrolling and read the following article about scrolling:
https://www.andreinc.net/2026/04/09/the-scroll-manifesto/
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaI now use ads on short form video feeds as a "stopping point" indicator.
Any time I want to be done with the endless scroll, I wait for an ad. Then I close the app.
I know someone is getting metrics on this somewhere. Maybe, it'll net me less ads in my algorithm. And it weirdly has helped me break the scrolling cycle, too.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialIf you follow enough accounts then quote posts can be a real problem as they scroll off the page of the advanced view before the quote gets approved.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighbo…
@robpike@hachyderm.ioI will always resent "scroll as zoom", making the scrolling function of the mouse do a zoom. You may disagree, but I'm not looking for a debate.
I remember a conversation with the PM of Google Maps when this was introduced there. I asked for at least an option to turn it off. Not only does it strike me as counterintuitive, its behavior embedded in a scrolling window is unforgivable. His response: "What else would scroll do?"
Gotta love product design.
@qbi@freie-re.deOHAI Mastodon v4.5.10
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.10
@waidler@bayerwald.socialDie Instanz https://bayerwald.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.5.10
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialThis surely is not the first interactive #powersoften
Egregious that it does not go microscopic.
https://universeatlas.org/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/die-leuchtenden-nachtwolken-sind-weiter-aktiv for some news coverage back then and the wider context.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-plans-default…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
by Gülru Necipoğlu (1996, 384 pages, free PDF download)
https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/9780892363353.html
@petaqui@masto.es
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen you accidentally push the right mouse button while moving the cursor down to a browser window, and accidentally perform a "scroll down" gesture which, as it turns out, was precisely what you were going to need.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineDon't want your Instagram profile used by anyone who wants to generate AI imagery with your likeness? Take action now:
"…to avoid…AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching…to private…Open…Instagram…tap…profile… then tap…3 lines in…top-right corner…Then, scroll down to…Sharing & reuse tab…section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta…toggle for Posts &…Reels."
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euJust realised Facebook locks you up and demands of you to sign up or log in to view my Facebook author's page, which is supposed to be public, after you scroll down a bit down the timeline. F!ck that, I am removing the links to it from my website.
@rasos@fairmove.net
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTo be clear: the Segway as released was •not• a very good product. But it was not a worse product than, say, the Apple-1, which was also clumsy, nerdy, impractical, expensive. ($3400 in today’s money and it didn’t even have a keyboard!)
Yet in the latter case the response was “This is the future! Let’s do this! Let’s figure it out!” And with the Segway, the response was “How mockable, nobody should ever try to build anything like this ever again!”
A crumb went down the wrong way with micromobility in 2001, and I’m not willing to lay that entire at the feet of one product’s marketing team. We collectively screwed up.
ETA: This •started• as a thread about e-bikes and e-scooters; scroll up
@eitch@mstdn.gsi.li
@lukem@hachyderm.ioOnly after a few weeks of using this mouse I discovered I can switch between smooth wheel scroll (aka rolling it like a fidget spinner) and a traditional 'tactile' scroll with just one button.
And now I can't stop switching between those two modes just because I can 😬
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaI have a pixel 6a... These days I'm starting to feel like Google and Android is somehow enshitified enough that I should switch to an iPhone. I feel like it's feed features just compose a generic doom scroll for me.
But maybe this is just an internet in general problem.
Just feels like there's no where to hide these days. Reading stuff on the Internet user to be long, thoughtful, and meditative. Now it's short, thoughtless and hypnotic.
@mikebabyak@musicians.today @waidler@bayerwald.socialDie Instanz https://bayerwald.social läuft jetzt mit Softwareversion v4.6.3
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caRE: #citizenscience
@servelan@newsie.socialI think there was an article on this in Smithsonian magazine - very cool tech being used, now aided by AI...
Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/27/1825220/scroll-burned-in-79-ad-volcanic-eruption-finally-deciphered-using-ai
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioOk - here's my #macOS (Tahoe) specific #steamcontroller #gaming #steam personal experience, having tried it out:
So - it works!
BUT
The setup process from Valve does you no favors. While their help guide (https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB#mac) has a Mac specific setup section - the on-screen setup in the Steam client itself does not help out Mac users at all
The guide mentions you need to grant Steam "Input Monitoring" permission - but until I did this, Steam didn't even agree the controller was connected (via USB directly or via the Puck)
And then the second permission "Accessibility" was explicitly necessary if you wanted to do a mouse and keyboard game and it needed to move the cursor (I chose Scritchy Scratchy as a test for this specific reason, especially since they just added macOS support)
Another downside: the default keyboard and mouse layout for the controller maps shoulder buttons to scroll up and down - but only a single increment per press! I had to reconfigure it to enable turbo/repeated scrolling events.
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