Important tech tip for Slack users not sold on the new "design"

If you hard-refresh Slack Command-Shift-R, and then type Command-Shift-S, you get an extra vertical sidebar that disaggregates your individual slacks.

Thanks to @snarkout who has improved my life for the better, this day.

Mastodon accounts can reach people outside the Fediverse by using posts with public visibility. There's a guide to post visibilities here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/

Anyone can see a public post through links to the post, or posts embedded on a website. Here's how to embed a Mastodon post on a website:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodon-posts-on-a-website/

Mastodon accounts can also be followed by non-members through RSS readers, just add .rss to the end of a profile's web address (for example https://mstdn.social/@feditips.rss).

We must return to physical media. We must return to book.

Get my new book HERE 🔥 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/presents-feelings?ref=9en8rc

A really annoying dark pattern I see over and over:

- start using an app or service
- agree to receive notifications such as “your car is here” or “someone replied to you”
- time passes
- app or service starts abusing notifications to get me to engage via promotions or even plain advertising

Often my easiest recourse there is to turn off the app’s notification privileges.

Abusive, short-sighted, and dumb. You’re never getting that permission back.

Attention people of The West:

I think they are crumbling under the pressure. Maybe skip the fireworks? If only to save the Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources from losing the last shreds of their sanity.