So now Pocket is disappearing, what do people recommend to replace it?
I most value being able to find articles later related to tagged topics, so I can pass on good reads in articles or reference and cite in my own writing.
#Pocket #research #tagging #reference #alternatives
Oh, and ease of importing the Pocket csv file of saves into the new whichever would be useful comment to have too ... ?
I've made 10,000 posts on Mastodon since I joined just under two years ago.
Thanks and thoughts:
- I'm grateful to @admin for running this instance. I made a small contribution to the running costs, and you should do the same.
- Thank you to all who follow and interact with me.
- Thank you to the people I follow for providing so much thought provoking, entertaining, informative, and beautiful content.
- I wish more of the academics and journalists I followed on Xitter had migrated to Mastodon.
- There are times when I feel I am just talking to myself here.
- There are many topics on which I have opinions but which I do not discuss here, either because I am not sufficiently well informed to make a constructive contribution to a discussion, or because for some topics I do not think Mastodon is an appropriate forum for their discussion.
- Partly on account of its current rotten government and the appalling way in which it is currently waging war, Israel is an unpopular country on Mastodon, or at least in the parts of Mastodon that I see. Nevertheless and regardless of how many people here take offence, I will continue to defend the right of Israel to exist. A two state solution, Israel and Palestine recognized as two states living alongside each other, is not utopian and is the only way to ensure peace and dignity for all.
- I use hashtags and so should you!
IMO, #tagging is not that intuitive as it seems.
If you do follow my guide with 10 rules, you should get much more out of #tags as you do get otherwise:
https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/29/How-to-Use-Tags/
why is it so hard to tag someone on your friends list and the same instance? #mastodon #technical #tagging #friends
Planned to add file name descriptions and #tags to my recent photos while taking a train ride.
Unfortunately, tab-completion of my Python-based #tagging tool doesn't work at the moment and I have no idea why. This makes my tagging session an unpleasant one.
So I created a bug report for it: https://github.com/novoid/filetags/issues/74
The only thing that worries me is that it's my own tool, that has this bug and I don't know how to fix it. 
Could be related to #readline, terminal emulator, pyreadline version, ... 
Ja, har du det?
This is clearly a Blue Origin company car, with Jeff Bezos' space ship on it!
Image Credit: TheOnion
Latest attempt at building better documentation for https://thi.ng/umbrella (also to make it available offline!): Having noticed that recent versions of TypeDoc support extracting & merging of doc strings from monorepos, over the past few weeks I've been updating/cleaning docstrings in hundreds of source files across all 200+ packages and started building a small tool to assemble a single/mega-page documentation (currently ~4.3MB of just HTML). The tool translates existing docstrings and references contained therein (and still used for the existing API docs) to support proper cross-package references.
I've uploaded an early preview here:
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/
Please be aware that so far this is only an early stage prototype and only contains very limited docs. I.e. there are no generics/typeparams, no details about classes/interfaces... But at least I know now HOW to add this all, as well as all the additional metadata I've already got (currently still only available via other custom tools/examples).
For example, there're links to the tag-based browser[1] and I'm also planning to add the fuzzy doc search engine/index[2] to this new documentation... The tag browser integration still needs more work in terms of correctly matching package names to tags. The underlying system is there already, just needs more work in terms of actually doing/assigning the concept mapping. Since most package names in thi.ng/umbrella are very plain/boring (for a reason), for many (most?) packages this already works pretty well:
Example: Visiting the WebGL package docs: https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/#webgl and then clicking on "examples" for this package, then opens the tag browser for WebGL: https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/#webgl where you can then see all other packages and examples related to this topic...
More updates on this all soon! Excited! 
(EDIT: added screenshots...)
[1] https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/thing-browser/
[2] https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/rdom-search-docs/
#contentWarning and #tagging are very different
tagged content flows by at the same level of exposure
content warning hides content from general consumption, putting up an additional barrier to engage with it
for plenty of topics: sex, violence, etc, it is an utterly valid ask
but to ask someone to content warn something that doesn't require a content warn by any coherent rationale?
this is asking the world to bend to your personal preferences on contrived entitlement
yes: #tagging is a completely different story than #contentWarning and i agree with you wholeheartedly
it allows people who want to be engaged in the same content as you to find you
and the inverse:
it allows others who want to avoid the content you are engaged in to avoid you
and *that* is the way it should be
i am not entirely sure there is or ever will be a better option
If you do a lot with tags, it helps to have a tag that tags all the tagged things as well as all the things about tags and tagging. And you can easily do that with tagging.
I went with `tagx`.
"Tag, you’re it! What bookstores should learn from fanfiction"
This is an article I wrote recently about how the bookstore categories are not really helping in finding stuff you want to read and how I think that readers, authors, and publishers could profit from using keyword and trope tags instead.
(Also it has some advertising for #HeraldPetrel in between the text but not in the text itself.)
@bookstodon #FindingRelevantBooks #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #tagging #tropes #bookstodon #fanfiction #IndiePublishing #SelfPublishing #AuthorLife
This year my New Year's resolution will be to tag my posts with hashtags more often. I can generally keep a resolution if it is small and I think about it for the weeks leading up to the date.
A great resolution would be to use alt text for images. I did that one a few years back.
I really think this is like then, when CCC people stole money through online hacking (BTX) and noone could do anything about it because there was no crime yet to apply. (early 80ies, look up the movies about the foundation myths and stories of the #ccc)
I am eagerly awaiting the mass arrival of AI-generated videos and images about the shooter that are fake that will make real data look like fake. That could become a big push for laws and regulations requiring #tagging of #AI conten.
War gerade beim Finale vom #ScienceSlam #Österreich.
War lustig.
Vielleicht mache ich kommendes Jahr mit und gewinn den Scheiß. 
Melde dich zu meiner #PIM Lehrveranstaltung an der #TUGraz WS2024 an:
https://www.karl-voit.at/2024/05/23/pim-lecture-tug-2024/
Wenn du 2 coole ECTS brauchen kannst, bist du hier richtig.
Ich versuche mein Bestes, um deine (digitale) Effizienz zu steigern und dir mehr Spaß mit (digitalen) Workflows zu bringen.
Ab kommenden Freitag jeweils 14:15-16:00 am Campus #Inffeldgasse.
Es gibt noch ein paar freie Plätze!
Join my #PIM Lecture at #TUGraz WS2024
https://www.karl-voit.at/2024/05/23/pim-lecture-tug-2024/
If you're looking for 2 fun ECTS, you can enlist for my lecture where I try to boost your personal efficiency and your fun working with digital environments.
Starting with next week, it's every Friday 14:15-16:00 at the Campus #Inffeldgasse.
There are still some open course places left.
Hey fedi audiophiles 
Do you know any magical way to get the Year tag to save as and show as more than just YYYY?
Failing that, is there a viable workaround that you're aware of?
Our collection is all in FLAC, which we believe uses Vorbis comments.
The reason for asking is for the very few occasions where multiple albums are released by the same artist within the same year, but the album titles are not in alphabetical order.
We're looking for some method that will let us sort correctly by release year without breaking either of the music players we use (WACUP or PowerAmp).
Additional bonus points if anyone knows how to add an original release year tag, in the case of re-released albums.
https://www.europesays.com/1402332/ Banksy unveils ninth artwork at London Zoo #Art #artwork #Banksy #BanksyArtwork #birds #BreakingNews #gorilla #Graffiti #London #LondonZoo #News #Tagging #TheSun #UK #UnitedKingdom
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