@jaanus

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A person from 🇪🇪

I’m a designer, engineer, leader, manager, writer, maker, producer, dad, husband, and Estonian. Not necessarily in that order.

Please donate to 🇺🇦 until the 🗑🇷🇺 terrorist invaders are gone. You can give to https://ukraineaidops.org or any other respected charity that works for you.

My other Mastodon identity in 🇪🇪: https://est.social/@jaanus

Homepagehttps://jaanus.com
The app I’m makinghttps://justtact.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/jaanus
jaanusNov 23, 2022
Chris TrottierNov 23, 2022

All right! I'm creating some community moderation feature requests on #Mastodon, and I'm going to drop links in this thread each time they're created.

The feature requests are:

1. Turn off comments
2. Lock comments
3. Approve comments
4. Flair profiles
5. Adjust crowd control

Will add updates!

jaanusNov 22, 2022
Ole BegemannNov 22, 2022
I recently learned that German company Telefunken arguably invented the computer mouse. They offered a “Rollkugelsteuerung” (“rolling ball control”) for one of their mainframes in 1968, months before Douglas Engelbart’s “mother of all demos”. Telefunken’s mouse was also more advanced than Engelbart’s mouse as it used a ball instead of two wheels. (Photo credit:
Marcin Wichary, CC-BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/8399025@N07/2322838281 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2322836557/)
Unique mouse from Telefunken, pt. 2

Flickr
jaanusNov 21, 2022

Is Twitter messing around with its API limits? At some point Tweetbot could retrieve up to 800 new statuses, now I recently saw only 200.

Wouldn’t be the least bit surprising if Twitter did that. Haven’t seen any info about changes anywhere (admittedly haven’t looked much).

jaanusNov 20, 2022
Simon WillisonNov 20, 2022

I put together my own system for tracking the total number of Mastodon users over time, as reported for the instances tracked by https://instances.social/

It's a delightful (to me) combination of different tricks - git scraping, my git-history and s3-credentials tools, Datasette Lite and an Observable notebook to plot the chart at the end.

I describe how it all works in detail here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/20/tracking-mastodon/

Or you can jump straight in to play with my notebook: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time

Mastodon instances

jaanusNov 19, 2022
Mastodon UsersNov 18, 2022
7,106,543 accounts
+11,286 in the last hour
+223,457 in the last day
+535,657 in the last week
jaanusNov 19, 2022
ubahnverleihNov 18, 2022
Don’t do social media, kids!
jaanusNov 19, 2022
GiantMilitaryCatsNov 16, 2022
How the missile defense system works.
jaanusNov 18, 2022

When you go to your Apple Music subscription on Apple Watch, the button has a truly hideous color combination 🙈

#uipolice

jaanusNov 18, 2022
Delightful to see all the people and friends of 🇺🇦 show up here today. Even if bird site goes down, we can hang out here and keep hearing directly from people in Ukraine. Keep sharing. Keep donating.
jaanusNov 18, 2022

Great exclusive by @michaeldweiss@twitter.

🇪🇪 captures and exchanges 🗑️🇷🇺 spy. He then escapes back from 🗑️🇷🇺 to 🇪🇪 because life is much better and safer here, 🇪🇪 treated him well, and he is against putin’s war.

World’s first: captured spy escapes back to the country that captured it.

Story: https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html

Thread: https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1593409122099159040

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