Keane Ingram keaneingram@identi.ca

D'oh!

They'd have to pay me a lot of money to get me to use MS Edge 😂

It's that time of the... trimester? again!

Last week I tagged the development version of Dianara, my Pump.io client as beta, preparing for the release of v1.4.0.

I have a few details to polish, but some wider testing would be helpful. If you can build from source, now's a good time to do so and test it. If you already run an often-updated version from git, feedback would be good.

The main changes since v1.3.7 include:

• Movable side panel and movable toolbar, after unlocking (left side of screenshot).
• Attachment icons will match the mimetype of the attachment, using your system's iconset (upper-right).
• Optional "activity icons" in the minor feeds (lower-right).
• Notifications will also make the window "demand attention", which usually results in some sort of taskbar/dock entry flashing in some way, in most desktops. Enabled by default, but can be disabled.
• Better zoom control in the image viewer.

(Full/current CHANGELOG file)

As announced, v1.3.7 was the last version to support Qt 4.x. Qt 5 is required for 1.4.0. The bad news is that, at this time, users of distributions such as Debian 9 can't build with the version of QOAuth present in their repositories, based on Qt 4. Current Debian Testing/Sid is fine though.

Test away, and let me know if you find any issues that are not listed in the BUGS file, or in the issue tracker.

Also, if you maintain any translations, now is a good time to update them =)

Cheers! o/

All I can say is... ugh xD

>> Keane Ingram:

“[...] Can't believe January is almost over, 2017 is going so quickly. [...]”

I always get that feeling towars the end of January xD

Are you sure you didn't dress up as the dean from Community? xD

Random comic

He probably just poops over the side of the sleigh.
http://xkcd.com/1464

Random comic

ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun Java(tm) JDK(tm) Update Manager Runtime Environment Meta-Updater, which is not available for your platform.
http://xkcd.com/1197

Congratulations!

Happy Birthday!

What an unpredictable Tour de France it's been so far. Several favourites crashed out in the first 9 days. 11 days left and not even in the high mountains yet. A lot of the 2nd tier contenders are going to be fighting for a podium place which should make for some spectacular viewing.

'Hello, Ghostbusters?' 'ooOOoooo people born years after that movie came out are having a second chiiiild right now ooOoooOoo'

http://xkcd.com/1393

...remember the Pump network is much more than that! ;)

Lots of things changed when identi.ca migrated from the StatusNet system to the Pump.io system.

Among others:

- Pump.io is not microblogging. You can post long texts, with some formatting and line breaks. Well, like this one! You can post short text if you wish, of course. Also, you don't need shortened URL's, and you can make pretty links.

- You can follow people from any other public Pump.io server, like microca.st, hotpump.net, fmrl.me, pump.jpope.org, etc. Start following some new people! You can take a look at this user finder, for instance. Or keep an eye out to see who your friends are following, in the Meanwhile feed ;)

Don't be afraid to follow people from other servers. That's what federation is all about, and that's our strength! If you've been scared by the "permission" message using the web, where you have to authorize the other server to post as you, etc, know that this isn't necessary if you use a desktop client.

- If you use the web interface, when you create new posts, they are not public by default. If you want to make a public post (currently recommended due to some issues with the comments), you'll have to add "Public" to the "To:" field. Try to make at least one public post, so people who see your profile can see you're active before trying to follow you. Ideally, if the post can be public, you should post it to Public; it works better.

- You can use several external web services with your account, like hip2.it, pump2status.net, or the "proof of concept" game, OpenFarmGame, to name a few. One of the strenghts of Pump.io is not being a monolithic beast, but instead, a lot of connected services an applications providing all kinds of features. Check them out!

- You can upload pictures, audio, video and other files in your posts, though the officially "supported everywhere" attachments are pictures, for now.

- There are already several pump.io applications (clients), for PC or mobile devices that can do more than what the web interface can at this point. I seriously recommend checking them out: Clients List.

- You can check out a "public timeline" at hubub.e43.eu, hubub.polari.us and equivalent sites, or from a client that supports it.

- You can check out a pseudo-user directory at inventati.org/ppump/usuarios.

- If your account was used for some sort of entity, like a free software project or organization, you can take advantage of tools like Spigot, to post to Pump automatically from your RSS feed, or PumpTweet, to automatically send your Pump.io posts to Twitter. And you can find more options here.

If you have any doubts about any of these points, please feel free to ask.

This list has been modified a few times, and might be modified again, because yes, you can edit your posts and comments in Pump.io! =)

Cheers!

o/

Edit: Posted as a blog post at CommunicationFreedom.

Spanish version at ComunícateLibremente.