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Mar 19, 2024

Unusually, i'm tooting this from my primary Masto account atm, rather than posting it from my active #Friendica account, which i began using as my daily default #Fedi instance since late January. I'm having yet another of those tedious grass is greener debates with myself on which i'd prefer to be my ongoing daily fedi... Masto or Friendica, Friendica or Masto? Sigh.

Friendica has heaps of nice bells & whistles not present in Masto [even with #GlitchSoc], which ofc is why i've been using & enjoying it. Otoh, there's some cool features in Masto not in Friendica which i continue to miss there, not least being #SlowMode.

Most of all though, if there was a single feature which is THE defining one i just strongly prefer not losing, it's the simple easy very useful post-creation box in Friendica [see pics], with its GUI icon-driven formatting tools, and its excellent Preview tool. Every time i've tried to "come back" to Masto, the complete lack of this has inevitably propelled me back to Friendica. Clearly i strongly wish the Masto Devs would incorporate this!

Aaaaaaaand yet, it still continues, sigh...

Peeps, dubious proto-creeps, it's simply not gonna work 🙄. Nobody gets to #Follow without my #approval, & nobody gets approved if, like this dimwit, you don't lift a finger to even semi-hide your ill-intentions. 🤦‍♀️

Life has taught me that strangers are bastards, until & unless they demonstrate they're not. Behaviour like this does not soften my harsh #misanthropic view.

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀

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Nov 5, 2023

Woohoo! 👍

#Windscribe #VPN #Linux #GUIApp

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Oct 25, 2023

If any peeps might be unsure of, or curious about, the #TreeStyleTab #AddOn in #Mozilla-based #browsers, hopefully this might help you to decide. The pic shows my current tree [more info in #AltText] in my lovely #Floorp #Stable 11.5.0-1 The following #CSS pertains to the aesthetic style of my TST.

/* "Show title of unread tabs with pink italic font"
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item.unread .label-content {
  color: #ff93fe !important;
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 12px;
}


/* "Add private browsing indicator per tab" */
.tab.private-browsing .label:before {
  content: "🕶";
}
/* Show Private Browsing tabs with distinctive green background [Meeeee 20/2/19] */
.tab.private-browsing .label {
  background-color: #00ff7f;
}


/* "Highlight active tab. This makes the active tab very noticeable increasing its height and modifying the color and font"
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item.active tab-item-substance {
  height: 20px !important;
}  
tab-item.active .background {  
  background-color: #aaaaff;
}
tab-item.active .label-content {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 14px;
}
tab-item.active tab-twisty,
tab-item.active .label-content,
tab-item.active tab-counter {
  color: #5907FF;  
}


/* "Change styling of pending (unloaded) tabs"
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item.discarded tab-item-substance {
  opacity: 0.75;
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 12px;  
}
tab-item.discarded .label-content {
  /* color: #818162; */
  color: #FFEB3B;
}


/* "Control font-size of background tabs" */
tab-label {
  font-size: 12px;  
}


/* "Show scrollbar in the tab bar rightside"
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x
   ***Meeeee 17/10/22***: I've now DISABLED this, coz i found it breaks a more-preferred mod ["Custom scrollbar colors #2911"].
:root.left #tabbar {
  direction: ltr;
  overflow-x: hidden;
}    */


/* "Show scrollbar with regular width" */
#tabbar {
   scrollbar-width: auto;
}


/* "Custom scrollbar colors #2911"
   "It can be controlled via scrollbar-color. The first value is for the thumb, the second value is for the background."
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x 
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: Hmmm, this seems to NOT work, neither with my colours, nor Dev's. 
   ***Meeeee 17/10/22***: Aha, it works nicely, once i disable mod "Show scrollbar in the tab bar rightside" */
#tabbar {
  scrollbar-color: #aaaaff #5500ff;
  /* scrollbar-color: red blue; */
}


/* "Change tab height #236, #2389" | 4/6/21: Needed coz of new FF Proton UI design, which otherwise enlarged everything. Also, use TST's `Photon` theme not `Proton` theme, for best control.
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item {
  --tab-size: 17px !important;
}
tab-item  tab-item-substance {
  height: var(--tab-size);
}


/* "Only show tab close button on hover #1448"
   4/6/21: Needed coz of new FF Proton UI design, which otherwise makes all tabs have the big ugly cross permanently visible. Also, use TST's `Photon` theme not `Proton` theme, for best control. 
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
#tabbar tab-item tab-item-substance:not(:hover) tab-closebox {
  display: none;
}


/* "Put closebox left side, even if I choose "Left side" style", https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#put-closebox-left-side-even-if-i-choose-left-side-style
   ***Meeeee 17/10/22***: See detailed back-story [today's date] down at the bottom of this customisation section.
:root.left tab-item tab-twisty {
  order: 10000;
}
:root.left tab-item tab-closebox {
  order: -1;
} */


/* "As little space before the tab name as possible."
   "The fold/unfold icon is not affected."
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item:not(.pinned) tab-item-substance {
  padding-left: 0px !important; /* !important is required when there are enough tabs to cause a scrollbar */
}


/* "Change tab border"
   Make the dividing line less prominent. 
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
/* Less visible tab dividers. 
   A black border with a very low alpha slightly darkens any color. */
tab-item-substance {
  border: solid 1px #00000012; 
}


/* "Hovered tab" | This makes the hovered tab noticeable by modifying the color and font.
4/6/21: On laptop, with a Light FF Theme, `white` is good below. On tower, with a Dark FF Theme, `black` is good below. Otoh, it seems that `green` is ok for both. 
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
tab-item tab-item-substance:hover {
  background: green !important;
  opacity: 1;
}


/* "Change favicon for "group tab"'s folder icon [SVG flexible-color icon]"
   ***Meeeee 15/9/22***: I updated this today from Dev's latest code at https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-for-custom-style-rules#for-version-2x */
:root {
  /* The "Default Browser" icon at https://design.firefox.com/icons/viewer/ */
  --icon-heart: url('data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path fill="context-fill" d="M8 6s0-4 3.5-4S15 5 15 6c0 4.5-7 9-7 9z"></path><path fill="context-fill" d="M8 6s0-4-3.5-4S1 5 1 6c0 4.5 7 9 7 9l1-6z"></path></svg>');
}
:root:not(.simulate-svg-context-fill) tab-item.group-tab .favicon-builtin::before {
  background-image: var(--icon-heart) !important;
}
:root.simulate-svg-context-fill tab-item.group-tab .favicon-builtin::before {
  mask-image: var(--icon-heart) !important;
}
/* header icon in the group tab's content area */
:root.group-tab h1::before {
  mask-image: var(--icon-heart) !important;
}

Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀

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Oct 23, 2023

I do not yet understand the implications of this setting, so this toot is an experiment to see what happens [i've just changed my Masto default toot privacy setting from Public to Unlisted, to try to compensate for the fact that i almost always forget to change it so, for toots where i'm replying to others' OPs, ie, i keep unwittingly breaking Masto /Fedi timeline netiquette]. However, now i'm wondering that if my OPs are unlisted, will this be nothing more than an exercise in me talking solely to me, hereafter? 🤷‍♀️ [rather like IRL, then]

#Mastodon #Privacy #Preferences #MastodonPrivacyPreferences

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Oct 23, 2023

@mike G'day Mike, hope you're well.

A few days ago i did [another 🤣 🤦‍♀️] #FediHop, & so some of the first accounts i added for Follows were my five fav chinwaggers per pic. I've been curious about this question for quite a long time now [given i've been thru this process many times 🤭], & so thought i might actually ask you now so i can understand [for if there's a "next time", 😉 ].

When peeps try to follow any chinwag #newsbot accounts, like i do, is the approval process automated, or instead require manual personal action? If manual, then i definitely see why it would take a few days. If automated though, should it still take a few days, like always seems to have been for me, each time i have hopped?

I'm not any server admin or anything, yet i'm still curious, ta. Also, btw, fwiw, i derive great utility from these accounts, so i wanna thank you for running them! 🤗

Comedy 🤣	TheGoons, MontyPython, RippingYarns, HHGTTG.
Political 💜	Left, Greens, Gaia, Peace, AntiCapitalist, SocialEquity.
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Psychopathy 💀	Depression, Social-Phobia, Despair, Fear, Misanthropy.
Philosophy 🤔	Atheism, Veganism, LGBTQI, PostOpTrans.
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