14:22:39 <njsg> Sompi: google already had a different image search, I had been getting that one for ages now, no zoom, no direct link (links to containing doc instead). may be because I've been identifying as IE6 to google.com
14:24:38 <njsg> so it might be just a matter of testing a different Fx UA string for google and see if it loads, but it's possible their reason to change was, for a change, that someone actually checked the dependencies
14:25:18 <njsg> but this is the same google that messed the window.performance code in Translate...
14:26:06 <njsg> (they checked for the base feature, but did not check fot the >Fx-1xx one...)
14:26:19 <njsg> (w
14:26:30 <njsg> (has since been fixed)
16:28:25 <ahmadjaafari> hi
16:28:54 <njsg> hi
16:29:16 <ahmadjaafari> what this
19:27:58 <tomman> https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon/-/issues/36#note_2174004561 haha, the Brutaldon dev (several MONTHS later!) told me to pound sand
19:28:27 <tomman> (please open the ticket on a Chromeist browser, Gitlab is again broken here because of their latest pointless load of Chromeisms dumped into production)
19:28:50 <tomman> "This is unlikely to be a feature any time soon.
19:28:51 <tomman> Nitter works because there's a single site to go to view public feeds. The fediverse has no single home like that, making it much more complicated to view public feeds from instances. Brutaldon is structured to be a client for mastodon accounts, and as such you'll need an account to use it.
19:28:53 <tomman> In addition, I worry that would make brutaldon a tool for block evasions. So such a feature is even lower on my priority list.
19:29:14 <tomman> TL;DR: "get part of the hivemind, or you're a troll"
20:00:42 <njsg>  
20:55:59 <njsg> tomman: I think that's a new developer, or perhaps new maintainer, don't have things within reach to confirm right now
20:56:42 <njsg> as for the blocks part, I call it perhaps a consequence of trying to be a clone of TSNFKAT, or of these "social media" networks in general
20:59:15 <njsg> the concept of blocks shows up there, and indeed that doesn't make much sense when things are public. I'm not sure such an argument should prevent brutaldon from allowing public access, as far as posters have the ability to require authentication of some sort (but even then, if something is not follower-only with follow requests enabled, does the whole thing of expecting blocked people not to see it make
20:59:21 <njsg> sense? also, if authentication is the only thing, then one can always get another account)
21:00:08 <njsg> now as for requiring an account: doesn't the interface offer ways to read feeds (at least tags and the local feed) without an account, and posts too?
21:01:58 <njsg> tomman: btw, if it is convenient for you: http://threadtree.xyz
21:02:20 <njsg> that one offers an advantage over Mastodon (the clients) and Brutaldon: proper threading