R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org

@rmerriam @freemo Interesting! Markdown doesn't have tables. Even CommonMark doesn't have tables. GLFM and GFM do.

But apparently #Qoto's pseudo-Markdown does too! The widths look fine to me, they just need some cell padding. And the alignment is wrong.

@mathlover Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see failwhales, maybe even for several days running. But remember that failwhales were common ten years ago, and Twitter kept growing. What fraction of Twitter's quarter billion users will abandon it forever if goes failwhale for a solid week in December? Surely less than half.

I think Musk's objective with Twitter is, as he declared in the TED interview, not financial. He'd previously declared an intention to start up his own press enterprise to compensate for what he saw as the bias of existing USA press outlets. (That's when the USA press started really going after him.)

Eventually he didn't have to start his own press enterprise; bought Twitter instead. Is Musk's tool for reshaping discourse in his favor. That will still work with only 100 million or 50 million users. Of course, better if doesn't lose too much money, but controlling memespace is key to controlling outer space.

@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Confusing Mastodon with a company isn't about being "tech-savvy" or not "tech-savvy". It's about treating a community of people as a community of people and not as a vendor or a machine.

Similarly, when you are using Facebook, it is to your benefit to understand that Facebook is also operated by human beings who can invade your privacy. Hiding those human beings behind a "smooth GUI", as you are advocating, obscures the power relations in the situation and prevents vulnerable people from protecting themselves.

@worldsendless @freemo Thanks! I wonder why I get results that are so much worse.

@mathlover Yeah, could be a big disaster for his reputation if goes badly enough. So far I haven't seen a failwhale or evidence of a drop in engagement, though, and is hard to imagine what non-operations problem would be worse than what Twitter already did before he bought it, like getting Trump elected president of the USA.

Advertisers do seem to be staying away, and that may be one reason he wants to move Twitter into more lucrative services like money transmission.

@freemo @worldsendless Does it work for you, at least to the point of successfully doing a full-text search over toots you've been mentioned in?

@freemo @worldsendless Also, even though you just now tagged me in a toot that says "markdown", text search for "markdown" doesn't return that toot either. I think free text search for toots is just broken, maybe there's a process that's not running that's supposed to build a full-text index or something.

@freemo @worldsendless The documentation that pops up under the search box when it gets focus says, "Simple text returns toots you have written, favourited, boosted, or have been mentioned in, ..." and this is a toot that I wrote, yesterday, so either it should have been returned or the documentation under the search box shouldn't claim it will be returned. But that second option is obviously a lot worse, just easier.

@freemo @worldsendless I can't parse that, but I haven't been talking about LaTeX rendering for two hours!

@freemo @worldsendless By the way, I hope I'm not hurting your feelings by criticizing your code. I appreciate that there are some beginnings of Markdown support on Qoto! I want to help make it better! (I just don't know where it is or how to run it outside of Qoto yet.) But the first step to making it better is cataloging its deficiencies.

yt-dlp has #Nitter support now!

$ yt-dlp --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en,es -f '[height<800]' https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057#m
[Nitter] 1595250835096621057: Downloading webpage
[Nitter] 1595250835096621057: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] 1595250835096621057: Downloading 1 format(s): 320
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 4
[download] Destination: Elon Musk - Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣 [1595250835096621057].mp4
[download] 100% of 484.92KiB in 00:12 at 39.13KiB/s

#ytdlp

@freemo @worldsendless Actually, if you count "newlines are ignored inside code blocks, but inside normal paragraphs newlines are treated as `<br>`" as two bugs instead of one, that post documents five bugs in Qoto's Markdown support rather than four.

@mathlover Probably so. I mean, they trust Tesla cars with their lives and their children's lives, and SpaceX with their lunar rendezvous missions.

@freemo @worldsendless Search on Qoto is also broken (finds no toot hits for the search "markdown", without quotes) but I was able to find my post on the matter chronologically by scrolling down to yesterday: https://qoto.org/@radehi/109385091125963094

This documents four or arguably three separate bugs in Markdown support, one of which is the one you mention. I've seen a fifth one as well that I can't remember right now, but finding three new bugs in the Markdown implementation while trying to find a workaround for the first one makes me think there are probably dozens.

So, there is a place to document these findings so they don't get lost, no?

#Musk plans to support #cryptocurrency transfers over #Twitter. Which, I mean, you can already post a Bitcoin address in your profile or in a Tweet.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23473447/twitter-will-let-you-send-crypto-to-accounts-alongside-normal-money-elon-musk-says

@freemo @worldsendless The Markdown support is also spectacularly broken, as we documented in detail yesterday. I'm glad to hear you're on a path to getting Mathjax fixed! Let me know if I can do anything to help.