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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions When creating a new #Deck layout, is there a setting i can use which, for whathever number of columns i've set for an individual deck, evenly distributes them across my tab's width sans-scrollbar by auto-adjusting their widths? Atm i've only achieved my desired appearance by tediously trial-&-erroring various column width pixels til they all fit; eventually i succeed, but it's terribly inefficient. I had thought the "flexible" option should do that, but it seems not to. 🤷‍♀️

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

This one just cracked me up. 🤣

https://www.thefarside.com/2023/08/03/4

Hot off the press, the very first edition of the Desert Island Times caused the newspaper to quickly fold. #whimsy

The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Thursday, August 3, 2023 | TheFarSide.com

A cartoon from The Far Side® comic strip by Gary Larson from Thursday, August 3, 2023 | Transcript: NED IS A WHINER

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Aug 3, 2023

Each time i look in again on my still-newish #Firefish account, hoping to see some of the disappointing bugs resolved, i'm very quickly saddened again by apparently irrelevant toots appearing in my #followedhashtags #antenna. The picture shows a typical example. I do NOT follow those tags, so why is this toot here in my Antenna?

Then, i wondered if maybe, all this time, i might be fundamentally misunderstanding how to properly use Antennae for following tags. The closest tag i do follow, & whose toots i absolutely do want in this t/l, is #Linux ... by which my intention was that full word, but only that full word, not also that word as part of a longer tag. This pictured toot, https://firefish.social/notes/9hy57g0wn9nfkh0x, does otoh include tag #Linuxulator. Is Firefish's Antenna algorithm looking for all occurrences of my #Linux tag, even if only a fragment of a longer tag? If so, how can i stop it doing that, & make it only search for my literal tags as-is?

Btw, apologies to Vince -- i'm not trying to be mean to your fine toot; tis just a good example of how my Antenna is either incorrectly functioning, or instead my erroneous usage of it. Your toot is lovely, i'm sure! 🤗

Vince (darkain) (@[email protected])

LMAO I just got so pissed off at running Linux utilities under Windows Subsystem for Linux and it throwing nonsensical errors, that I just moved over to FreeBSD's #Linuxulator. ALMOST everything "just worked", except had to recompile one binary natively for #FreeBSD ;) .... And now... I'm considering compiling the entire utility suite natively for FreeBSD and making it a new port...

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

For reasons summarised in my OP, til further notice i'm now reverting to Masto as my daily client [albeit definitely still retaining this shiny new Firefish Instance account, just not actively using it nor even looking at it on a daily basis]. In the brief time i've had this account, various peeps have been kind enough to #Follow me here [are you all masochists or something ? 😜]. If you somehow, incomprehensibly, still wish to keep up with my meandering moronic musings & banal baleful bleatings, fyi fwiw, my active Masto account is @MsDropbear42. See you on t'other side... or not 🤭

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions #FirefishVsMastodon #SlowMode #Firefish

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 31, 2023

EDITED | For reasons idk, my initial attempts to send this toot when i first wrote it a couple of hours ago, repeatedly failed with an incomprehensible error msg. Eventually i had to delete all my CW text, replace it with just "tbc", at which point it did Send. Then, i edited it, & replaced "tbc" with my original CW. That also Sent ok... or so i thought. Just now, viewing it from Masto, only the first temp edited version has federated there, not the corrected update; wtf? Hoping this umpteenth attempt now might work...?

Nope! Getting cranky now. @MsDropbear42

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Firefish's GUI & hugely granular Settings are a pretty different beast from #Mastodon, so i've had heaps of learning, setting up, fiddling & finessing to do. I've reached a point now where it's seriously good, in many ways a far better UX than in Masto... & yet sadly, i believe that for now i need to leave it alone for a while & return to Mastodon as my daily socials client.

Fwiw, self-notes i've just scribbled down for my later reference.

1. Atm impossible to stop timelines auto-updating [no Slow Mode like in Masto], & this is stressful. Albeit they seem not to AU when already scrolled down from the top, phew, but if i'm reading the top toot the t/l can & does reload sans-warning & displace my toot being read by however many new toots just arrived. This is hugely discombobulating!

2. Atm no native way to globally stop Boosts appearing in my Home timeline [in Masto this is simple via one click]. I had to use the clumsy inefficient workaround of manually muting boosts for each individual account i Follow.

3. The #Firefish paradigm afaict is fundamentally different to Masto in that for the latter, my Home t/l remains useful even if i Follow no other accounts, coz it's populated with my Followed Hashtags plus any Followed accounts. Given my strong preference is to follow myriad tags, but minimal accounts, that's great for me. Otoh in Firefish the Home t/l seems to be exclusively for toots from accounts i follow, ergo, if i choose to follow nobody, this t/l is empty.

4. As said, Followed Hashtags do not appear in my Home timeline. I had to create an Antenna for them, then display it as a parallel timeline. This causes me cognitive overload & partially duplicated reading work.

5. This one might be The Killer though. There's an official Bug re Antennas, whereby they only show a subset of the targets, but then repeat all these over & over as one scrolls down that timeline.

It's a great pity, not only that maybe the past 36 hrs might have been a waste of time & effort, but much more importantly, IMO Firefish in many ways is already a superior* UX than Masto... but its fatal flaws atm seem a showstopper for my needs. I'll keep the tab pinned but unloaded, & keep checking in every few weeks to see if improvements might have happened.

* eg, i love these aspects [non-exhaustive list]:

- 4000-char toots is great, compared to my current Masto's 1024. Furthermore, Firefish's #ContentWarning #CW equivalent allows one to "cheat", coz to my surprise & unlike Masto, text here is not counted for the total toot-characters used. Yay!
- The toot-compose windowlet in Firefish is substantially nicer than Masto, not least for its excellent Preview tool.
- The UI is super-impressively user-reconfigurable, making Masto feel positively Olde Worlde in comparison.
- Firefish's Search tool is truly powerful, vs Masto's highly limited tags search.
- The granularity of Firefish's Settings is astoundingly impressive & useful, so for a details-geek like me [eg, my love of #ArchLinux & #KDEPlasma, heehee], this is almost euphoric.
- Without the User needing to go to any external CSS etc hassle, Firefish's UI is already subjectively gorgeous ootb, via its plethora of native Themes. #FirefishSocialNoobQuestions #FirefishVsMastodon #SlowMode

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 30, 2023

I'm really enjoying this. I love a good quirky !

#BayOfFires #ABC #iView #TasNoir

Bay Of FiresSunday 30th July at 8:31 pm (57 minutes)
Road Kill: Public servant, Robin, is sent to Mystery Bay to investigate some suspicious records. Stella and her kids attend an uncomfortable dinner at Frankie's.
I can't go with you ! You're the one they're looking for !! 😱

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 30, 2023

From "About Firefish (f. Calckey)" in "Pages"

Hide boosts in timelines

From @demi:

1. Go to: Settings > Client Settings > General
2. Scroll down and look for “Custom CSS”
3. Add: .tkcbzcuz.renote.qtqtichx NULL (Bug #9897) (see original post below for the correct code)

Source: original post

Hat tip to @[email protected] for sharing!Unfortunately, i can't seem to find "Settings > Client Settings", hence can't even begin to try applying this trick. Where is it pls? Also, puzzlingly the various links don't work for me.

Is there any other way to hide all the boosts? 🤷‍♀️

#FirefishSocialNoobQuestions

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 30, 2023

The Stats Guy: The social demographics of same-sex couples, as revealed by the Census

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2023/07/22/the-stats-guy-same-sex-couples/

This week and next we will explore what the Australian Census can tell us about same-sex relationships. We will learn about the social aspects today, and next week we will look at the world of work.The Australian Census doesn’t ask about our sexual orientation. It does, however, ask about relationships within the household. When two adults of the same sex live in a household and claim to live with their partner we can conclude that they are in a same-sex relationship (the Census boffins call this the same-sex indicator).Since same-sex marriage is a new thing in Australia, we ignore all legal marriages along with all single people for today’s column and solely focus on de facto relationships.While this methodology isn’t perfect it still allows us to unearth heaps of interesting stuff. Our sample of same-sex couples consists of more than107,000 people. Millennials (born 1982-99 were aged 22-39 at the 2021 Census) make up 51 per cent of all same-sex de facto couples.Same-sex couples are more likely than opposite-sex couples to claim they have no religious affiliation. Considering the negative narratives around homosexuality in many a congregation and the fierce opposition towards same-sex marriage, this trend should not come as a surprise.Remember that this chart shows people in de facto relationships only. One big fat reason to be in a de facto relationship rather than getting married is opposition to organised religion or all religious beliefs.Throughout the lifecycle, same-sex couples are more likely to volunteer (probably not for a church). That’s likely the case for two reasons, fewer kids and negative past experiences. Nobody volunteers more than retired same-sex couples.What appears to be clear is that Australia is a much better and safer place for same-sex attracted people that many places around the world. Australia provides such an accepting culture to same-sex attracted migrants. This is something we should take pride in as a nation.The Stats Guy: How and where same-sex couples are re-shaping the workforce

https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2023/07/29/stats-guy-same-sex-couples-workforce/On average, same-sex couples are much more educated than opposite-sex couples. An impressive 49 per cent of same-sex couples have a university degree, compared to 31 per cent of opposite-sex couples.A look at the age profile of education shows that the education gap between same-sex and opposite-sex couples is narrowing. This suggests that in higher educated circles homosexuality was socially acceptable sooner than in less educated circles.Following on from this, it isn’t surprising that same-sex couples tend to work in more highly skilled jobs as measured by the official skill level associated with each job.As same-sex couples are more educated and work in more highly skilled jobs than opposite-sex couples, they should take home juicier pay cheques, right? Indeed, they do.The picture would be more complete if the Census directly asked for our sexual orientation. There are, however, reasons not to ask for something as sensitive as sexual orientation in the Census.One could argue that sexual orientation doesn’t matter for public policy (that’s the main reason we hold a Census after all), as we treat all people the same. I think the stronger argument has to do with the way people fill out the Census form in the household and that some same-sex attracted people haven’t disclosed their sexual orientation to their own parents or wider family.Also, from what age onwards should we ask about sexual orientation? The coyness of the Census to ask about sexual orientation suggests that despite huge social progress, as a society we still have a bit of catching up to do.#AusPol #Census #LGBTQI #demographics

What the Census tells us about same-sex couples

The Australian Census doesn’t ask about our sexual orientation. It does, however, ask about relationships within the household.

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MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 30, 2023

Long Live Rock N Roll Jul 30, 2023

Happy 65th birthday to Catherine Bush CBE , Born today 30th July 1958

"I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet."

#katebush #photooftheday

📸 Gered Mankowitz

MsDropbear42 🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈🐧Jul 30, 2023

#Introduction

[ took a little while to be ready for this Intro ; manually migrating "unofficially" from my last #Masto Instance to here, my first #Firefish Instance, was initially just an experiment of whose likely outcome i felt initially dubious, & so have been doing lotsa testing & steep learning-curve climbing til now. The following is more or less just unimaginatively recycled from said Masto ]

Hi. Fwiw, I'm a serially sad-sack social-phobic geeky Linux-hobbyist politically-left/green anti-capitalist prehistoric transwoman who likes to discuss tech especially FOSS & Linux, politics, news, literature, movies, whimsy, silliness, social + climate + environment issues, et al. At the drop of a hat i'll rail against RWNJ ghastliness, our self-induced climate + extinction crises, & opine that religion, capitalism & patriotism are historically + currently at the heart of most human + eco misery & devastation. I also probably won't be able to resist frequent quips about #MontyPython & #HHGTTG stuff. Did i mention #DoctorWho? Otherwise, i'm entirely unopinionated... 😜

Daily:

:kdelight: :plasma: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird:

Other times: :vivaldi_gray: :fedora_logo: :opensuse: :debian_logo:

Hmmm, firefish.social seems a bit light-on for #FOSS #emojis; hope i can fix that... 🤷‍♀️

Comedy 🤣	TheGoons, MontyPython, RippingYarns, HHGTTG.
Political 💜	Left, Greens, Gaia, Peace, AntiCapitalist, SocialEquity.
FOSS 💻	Linux, Arch, KDEPlasma, FirefoxNightly, Fedora, openSUSE, Vivaldi.
Philosophy 🤔	Atheism, Veganism, LGBTQI, Trans.
Psychopathy 💀	Depression, Social-Phobia, Despair, Fear, Misanthropy.
Otherwise 🌐	🇦🇺 🦘♀🌈