Dr. Edward Morbius 🔴 @dredmorbius@mastodon.social

It turns out that the reason the printer would print in B&W and not colour when connected to the router and configured via CUPS ...

... was that the colour ink cartridge was empty.

(Not usually my printer, not an element of it I'd been familiar with, though, mind the client /entirely/ failed to inform me of this /even after/ I mentioned that it wasn't printing in colour.)

Finally determined the problem by attempting to colour-copy something, bypassing all print configs.

Something that /would/ be neat would be a List + Hashtag combo. Filter by people mentioning topic (and, say, the accompanying thread(s)).

#Mastdon #Lists #Threads #Ideas

OK, these look like G+ Circles. They're receiver-only, they're not /communities/, and /all/ posts from the listed profiles show up. Hrm....

I'm trying to sort out lists...

Any tips / guides?

It is 2018, and I am wrestling with network printing. Again.

Sometime after the Heat Death of the Universe, some being consisting Soley of Pure Thought and Rage at Printer Configurations will be fruitlessly attempting to administer a networked document system.

So what's the word on #MastodonCloud?

@natecull @eliotberriot Thought on docFS: I argue that Emacs isn't /the/ answer. Though it's several parts of an answer-shaped object. This is a fair guide explaining parts of that, though I'm thinking there should be something better:

https://blog.fugue.co/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html

Seeing as mastodon.cloud seems down for a bit, I'm camping on .social for today.

And a conveniently-packaged pre-compiled list of sites guaranteed to fit the bill:

https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/

A Propaganda / Disinformation Site Banner for your Pleasure and Use

Have you ever said to yourself, "Self, I wish that I had some way of remembering disinformation sites online?"

Well, wish no more.

By way of Stylus[1] and CSS, with Cool Fade Animations, a banner that will pop up over a site in BRIGHT BOLD HIGH CONTRAST letting you know that THIS SITE IS PROPAGANDA, DISINFORMATION, OR FAKE NEWS.

https://pastebin.com/raw/eFQrTJaY

Actually, they kinda-sorta do: if use of a given platform is falling, there will be less resources dedicated to it.

You may be familiar with this in the specific case of landline and cable "cord cutters".

For dying media platforms, there's often a shift in advertising: the quality ads tend to leave, and the bottom-feeders arrive.

Awoo! It's @dredmorbius and @dredmorbius and @dredmorbius with Yet Another Mastodon Account: #YAMA