Cory Doctorow is just sitting on the Fediverse using it correctly "Your follow list is your job, you don't like it, stop following me" and people keep getting mad at him.
And honestly, I love it
Follows aren't endorsements or solidarity, they're "I want to read the things you say"
@mcv @hypolite With the character limits we have over here he could just put the whole blog post up at once, his current method is kind of a mess for this medium. I'm interested in hearing what he has to say but I don't know if I can manage what he's offering here.
@AGTMADCAT :verified: @Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard I guess he's doing it this way because it's tied to his posting on Twitter, so he uses the same format, considering Mastodon is supposed to be similar to Twitter.
But what if Twitter dies? Or he follows the Twitter exodus? Then it might make more sense to customise it more for this platform.
@mcv @hypolite I was thinking that he's already putting it up on his website as a single blog post, so he could just grab that text chunk instead. Tooling re-use definitely makes sense though.
@mike @silverwizard Is there anyone who follows him and for whom this way of posting works well? Because it would be a shame if he posts all these long threads and nobody reads it.
I love his threads, FWIW both content and form the only thing that I'm finding annoying is people's insistence in "teaching" him how to do what he's already doing. I admire how cool he is about that. I'd have long lost it. now, if I were in his shoes, I'd probably have scripted the thread-posting long ago, using some CLI tool such as toot. heck, I'd have written the script and shared it with him if I used Mastodon myself
The hardest part of computers is that people keep making bad things to make them easier, and then trying to justify the bad things rather than replace them
@silverwizard I saw this pattern summarized like this about AI: Tech: We are creating X Critics: Valid concerns Tech: We'll address these when we get there! Tech: *creates Torment Nexus* Critics: Alarmed concerns Tech: Welp, cat's out of the bag, there's no going back now!
I honestly try to avoid using Linux, and if I'm using linux it's because I need to use linux weird idiocy, and so rarely use its extra pieces. So no idea.
Oh awesome! I love BSD but I had trouble figuring out how to use it, and now that my new computer is ARM I can't seem to get it to work at all. @hypolite
Yeah, FreeBSD and NetBSD arm support is complicated since dtbs are a pain Arm efi is gonna make this better once it's done, but for now, the support is pretty good with the recent releases
I snapshotted a zpool with 1.5 fee TB, and now 0bytes are free on, and so I can't delete the snapshot, can't send the snapshot, and can't delete a dataset
It's a 4disk RAIDZ2 and it *looks* like I can't add more disks? Is there a secret to adding disks to the vdev?
if you have any datasets with reservation or refreservation set, you may be able to reduce them to make space free. I’m not optimistic that this will work, but may be worth a shot.
Nonono, a cold spare is a flashlight sitting next to a fresh unopened package of batteries on a shelf in the closet. Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
Last night in a bid to see a walrus (at our three year old's request) we watched a show called Dangerous Waters on curiosity stream.
The Walrus search sent us to S2E1 and this show is the greatest bad reality TV show.
They wanna cross from Alaska to Russia on jetskis and spend the first half-hour of episode 1 discussing how prepared they were. Their MREs, their jetskis maintenance, the oil changes, the fuel cans.
They get to their first town on schedule, and spend hours knocking on doors asking to crash on someone's couch, they didn't think to arrange a hotel.
Stupid, but ok, fine. They can camp.
So they do it! They cross the Berring Strait! They land in Russia and!
THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY DETAINED BY THE RUSSIAN BORDER PATROL!
They spend the next episodes talking about how the low grade hotel they are held in is a gulag and being conspiratorial about their jetskis being searched.
FreeBSD recovery plan: Ignore the fact that whenever I snapshot my zpool the disk goes from 1.5TB free to full, snapshot Make a recovery USB and put in server Make a small NAS with a rockpro64 and put an 8TB mirror on it Move the server data to the rockpro so backups are close, cheap, and up to date Remove storage card, replace, attach to disks manually Try rebooting and hope to fuck my pool works on the new storage cards If not, restore from backup
@silverwizard Finish Mando, skip Boba Fett and Kenobi, then go straight to Andor.
Andor is the best Star Wars. Boba Fett sucks, Kenobi is all fan service. The Mandalorian is cool, and certainly cuter than Andor, but Andor better on every single other measure.
Well, Andor starts a bit slow. I guess that's the one downside it has. They released the first 3 episodes at once for a reason: that second episode with just lots of character development isn't a great moment to have to wait a week.
@silverwizard Then take your time, wrestle your way through Boba Fett and Kenobi, in the knowledge that the light of Andor shines at the end of the tunnel.
Why yes, company that I expect to do business with exactly once in my life, I would love to create a special account on your website just for you and then get told that you won't let me access the thing I've already paid for because you don't like my name.
LifeTouch, for grad photos. To access anything from the actual photo session (paid for up front before you get the chance to pay more for prints) requires a session ID (from the receipt they gave me when they were taken), an access code (from the "OK, we finally updated our database" email), *plus* the name of the person the photos are of. I had to call customer service, and give them the information, and they told me my name was misspelled in that database (but not as recorded on the receipt) and what to tell the website to get it to let me in.
I very much dislike being offered advice when I'm struggling, especially in regards to things I already know. My sister and mom and all my friends and immediate family know this, but my aunt and uncle and cousins are trying to help this extremely stressful situation by offering advice on topics that I am more knowledgeable about then them (mostly only because I know the situation better). It's like not bad advice but I'm stressed and I don’t want to hear it and the last thing I need is multiple calls per day giving me the same advice and asking for updates.if I have something to report I'll share it.
Winter is cruel because I need to take vacation before EOY, and therefore can't take vacation in January easily, and therefore I have my stuff to play with during a time when I don't have time to play with it, and I have time without the new stuff
Seeing more bullshit "HTML is a programming language" discourse, and uh, damnit
HTML meets some definitions of programming language, but would be way less useful if it was used that way.
Stop gate keeping Programmer as the only Good profession and understand that other roles and jobs are as valuable, and as part of the tech ecosystem. Programmer is not the Best Job or the Good Job, it's a fucking role and people who don't do it aren't lesser, so telling a designer they're a programmer because HTML is fucking patronizing and degrading to *their actual skills and profession*.
HTML is not a programming language... but web site design where the lines between "content" and "interactive user interface" is verrrry blurry absolutely requires the discipline of a programmer.
Arguably, anyone suggesting HTML, in and of itself, is a "programming language" says more about their notions of software development and "programming" than it says about HTML. Srsly.
HTML should not be equated with "Web site design" nor "web application development" because you can absolutely design a Web site and hardly use any HTML at all.
the <script> element is HTML of course, but it's not a program, the javascript INSIDE it is a program.
<h1> is not an instruction. It means nothing without a specific piece of software, and the fact that the rendering of content wrapped in <h1></h1> is not consistent across user agents and can be altered by also-not-html CSS or JavaScript reinforces that in my mind.
PHP is not HTML. PHP can contain bits of HTML for rendering.
HTML in and of itself is not a programming language.
My dad gets psychosis sometimes on account of refusing to take medication and there's not much I can do about it, but goodness I wish *I* didn't get wrapped up in his paranoia and unreality because I need half an ounce of trust to help him out of this wretched situation that I literally could have completely solved for him if he'd let me in any earlier at all...
This rubber fingertips for going through large stacks of paper would be awesome for makers who wanna hold down a loose wire with their finger directly to the battery
The thing that fucks me off about substack is that I wish I could just pay someone money and they send shit to my email. But instead I need to sign up for a thing.
Can't they just make a shopify store or a WooCommerce store and send emails to my email?
It's bizarre that someone in charge of marketing can be so unbelievably tone deaf and unaware of their customers. Either she, or someone, is intentionally trying to damage Raspberry Pi's brand (like Elon with Twitter?), or they just got a massive deal with a surveillance company and a requirement for the deal was to get rid of all their privacy-conscious customers.
@silverwizard It's not just about the cop. I can totally understand hiring him if he's got the skills they want. The issue is firstly how they present him ("look at all this cool privacy-invasive spyware you can make") and secondly how they respond to questions from the community ("bye bye" *block*).
And then claiming it's about pigs in a blanket without a content warning. It's a completely surreal level of denial. I don't understand how anyone can double down on a relatively minor mistake in such a totally destructive manner.
I don’t know how it's even possible but I keep oscillating between being okay talking to nobody, being completely fine with nobody being available to chat some days and then others being a complete wreck of loneliness that it hurts
Yeah - the is one of the cases where my ear damage is 100% holding me back - I need a lot more lyrics forward for good music - since musically just doesn't work for me, and Kent's lyrics (seem to me) to be more to merge into musical motifs, which just sound like soup to me
Come to think of it I did listen to "If You Were Here" and it immediately annoyed me that they had the line "If you were here, if I was there" when it should have been "If you were here, if I were there" to match the Swedish text's intention. Doesn't bode well for the translations overall.
Yeah - I think the sound is more important, and I'm very ok with that. But it's definitely a place where I'm gonna continue my Hedonistic Melancholy surge though
I can't really do that style of music, since, uh, ear damage.
I need strong beats and lyrics, because more complicated musically tracks just don't work for me. I can't distinguish notes because my ear drums are a mass of scar tissue and I've lost huge amounts of cilia to stuff.
For melancholy sounds and crisp lyrics I can recommend Hellsongs. They sing AC/DC, Iron Maiden and other metal covers in a melancholic and light melodic way, and for me it's usually been the first time I actually heard the lyrics. 🤣 They call it "Lounge Metal". Richard Cheese, Paul Anka and Dick Brave have done that genre too, but Hellsongs do it in that kind of Cardigans, Pomplamoose singer-singwriter way instead of a more Big Band Jazz direction.
It's been a while, I've been hiding out away from people because of covid, had mostly toddlers for company, and watched as abilify tanks my ability to read (and watch tv and anything that requires staying still) and it's really messing with me. I just want to be able to think and talk about interesting things again
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