@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[denny@boing.world]

@Edent Now I understand how you financed your early retirement 😉

[edent@mastodon.social]

@denny this time next year, Rodney!

[floatingonion@cyberplace.social]

@Edent Over the holidays in Canada I saw a few people controlling what looked like heated socks from their phones. So that's definitely around.

Interesting that the office robot was supposed to be from the now defunct iRobot.

Fun list to work through with hindsight.

[tink@w3c.social]

@Edent PerlBod and I had some fried egg crisps over Christmas, and some prosecco flavoured ones. The former were surprisingly OK, the latter absolutely ghastly.

[abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es]

@Edent @drlucyrogers Shared it on !newzealand

[rachel@norfolk.social]

@Edent doesn’t even open for me

[jwarlander@mastodon.nu]

@rachel @Edent Did.. uh.. did you take the site down by way of the Mastodon Horde, Terence?!

[jmb@mastodon.me.uk]

@jwarlander @rachel @Edent I think he mustofdone!

[robert@irrelevant.me.uk]

@rachel @Edent
Nor me. Has mastodon DDoSd it?

[philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com]

@Edent Oh dear.

[zonuexe@phpc.social]

@Girgias @Edent

Sorry I missed your mention for a few months.

“Suimasen, sore o torasete kudasai.”
(Excuse me, let me take a picture of that. / I’d like to take a photo of this. Do you mind?)

Whenever you decide to return, I hope you enjoy Tokyo to the fullest again!

[gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent Should have been a radio button field.

[railmeat@fosstodon.org]

@Edent

I hope this is mockery, otherwise I am missing something.

[netopwibby@social.coop]

@Edent This sounds like me. I told my wife a few weeks ago that I need to get out the house for these same reasons.

[drlucyrogers@mastodon.social]

@abeorch @Edent @newzealand thank you

[nathanael@exquisite.social]

@Edent i pay rent and refill my prepaid phone credits with bitcoin

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@Edent Uhhhhhh... that behaviour is _illegal_ under GDPR. You're _required_ to be able to utterly blast _your data_ to smithereens. Reddit's solved this... (I've been eyeballs deep in GDPR for _weeks_ because some Amerikaanse klootzak won't delete my data...)

Which is depressing af b/c I was _considering_ Matrix as an alternative in light of Signal's insistence on AWS US-EAST1... but what you just pointed out makes it a non-starter...

[edent@mastodon.social]

@stonebear2 Signal is fine. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

[haagch@mastodon.online]

@Edent There's a lot of things that suck in matrix but it's the one ecosystem that actually makes accessing it easy (hence the spam problem, perhaps).

For example, what's signal's official stance on how users without Android or iOS should create an account?

[haagch@mastodon.online]

@Edent Not to discount your experience with whatever official app was used, but the Element web client has been consistently worked wherever I had a web browser (and in the past the Element android app), even if slow and sluggish.