Misty

Overseas Canadians: now that an election's been called, I recommend getting registered to vote from abroad right away. This applies if you're just going to be on a trip on election day too. I've done it before, when an election was called while I was on my honeymoon, and it wasn't a difficult process at all. Something cool about voting from an embassy, honestly. https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/living-abroad/elections-faq

I've had the new Mastodon notification UI on a botsin.space account for awhile now, and I still have no idea how to tell which notifications in the list are new and which ones are old.

I like the notification grouping conceptually, but in practice this UI seems much harder to read and make sense of. Aside from notification grouping, a lot of elements seem like a straight downgrade from the previous UI. I hope it's able to get some usability work going forward.

@ivory Spotted an author attribution in a story that printed as an unformatted array.

Medien: 1

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

@ivory I noticed that Ivory's search can't find posts from Misskey instances by URL. The search page on my instance's web interface is able to pull them up.

Here's a sample link: https://misskey.dog/notes/9s4bayl5qi

“If you are the stingray at the center of a pregnancy scandal, you are probably doing fine because you have no concept of social media.” https://defector.com/charlotte-the-ray-did-not-have-sex-with-a-shark-so-stop-asking

Mac and iOS users: update your devices ASAP. The new security update is a big one. https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/13/ios-16-3-1-macos-ventura-13-2-1-vulnerability-fix/