PresGas - BackupAtTheMoment1 @PresGas@octodon.social
At this point, this is a backup account. For now my primary is @PresGas
WV teachers on WILDCAT STRIKE painting the whole state red for another day! this is literally revolutionary. support the teachers!!! https://www.gofundme.com/wv-teachers-strike-fund
I feel I am in a mini-crisis regarding what to do/what am I wanting to do on #mastodon
Wondering if I should do another round of looking at other people to follow.
...or maybe dusting off another instance I have been idle on and adopting that to fraction out the different interests of mine. I currently have this for nerdy/light-politics and another for #TTRPG.
For all you #German speakers out there, looks like #Kurzgesagt has started doing videos again in german. I do like their balanced take on many topics and I know I learn a tonne. Is it good to get multiple translations of stuff like this!!
Hey nerds I worked pretty hard on this,
https://medium.com/tootsuite/this-isnt-about-social-media-this-is-about-control-112dea8a21fd
and I'm trying to help get more people on the platform. Maybe y'all want to read it? I am extremely vain but I think you'll agree with the premise.
#UnixPhilosophy on the web. I have been following planet #Mozilla for a bit and noticed this article:
http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2018/02/web-small-composable-tools.html
It was making me excited to start thinking about interoperable tools that just work together easily. He offered a sort of scratchpad for ideas. Take a look and comment (or suggest according to gdocs parlance)!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NSO_Nl426o5Wuv896qk7vLudbf-z9FQSZf8fDBWPlwk/edit?usp=sharing
Holy crap. Been sick and completely out since Wed. I feel like I did the timewarp, but not the fun one that they did on the Rocky Horror Picture show. I'd rather do that one...
@gunnar @kensanata I think what has been attracting me are the principals:
@gunnar @kensanata and there is yet another emerging tech I have been looking at:
Only glancing at it right now, but I am interested.
Coworker: I'm tired of being micromanaged.
Me: Let's unionize.
Coworker: I'm tired of working 50 hours a week and being on-call every weekend.
Me: Let's unionize.
Coworker: Our managers are doing some really shady things.
Me: Let's unionize.
Coworker: Why doesn't anybody keep the remote team in the loop?
Me: Let's unionize.
Coworker: Talking to HR isn't fixing anything.
Me: Let's unionize.
Coworker: But I'm scared of getting fired without cause.
Me: Then... Let's unionize.
I am almost at a point where I am thinking about scheduling times for social media and visiting masto and G+ when prompted by that. Just get all hard core on my time management...
I am drowning in #RSS and other #news inputs. I really need to shore this up or I will produce nothing because I am too busy consuming news. #newsbeuter / #newsboat will be my go to and I have whittled my feeds down to less than 95.
This, hanging out here and at G+ should be enough... I hope...
Reminder that Project Gutenberg Canada exists
The site is formatted like it's from 1994, but it's got dozens and dozens of digitised books that are in the Canadian Public Domain
If you like Neutral Milk Hotel or Jeff Mangum or just #lowfi #music in general, here is a little live recording of him at a coffee shop called JIttery Joe's:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpE07AYVwQQevcs76Et5zsLEH4KnAqdP
The little baby happily vocalizing in the background just adds to it.
My Grandad's advice for safe driving was: "Always remember you're controlling a potentially lethal weapon". I think it helped me to take driving even more seriously.
Perhaps it's good advice for us technologists too...
"Always remember you're programming a potential platform for bullying and harassment".
"Always remember you're designing a potential system for mass surveillance".
"Always remember you're deploying a potential tool for mass social unrest".
I have discovered that I have subscribed to way too many rss feeds (120 and about 5 of those are planets). I think it is time to think about it and do some cleanup.
I have been using newsbeuter, but miss brief (FF plugin).
Thought about planet-venus, but the above number is way too many IMHO. Anyone using this with as many feeds above?
From my 13 YO son:
"Bomb Cyclone?!?!? That's even cheesier than Polar Vortex!!"
Couldn't agree more, buddy. This escalation of atmospheric clickbait only leads to madness ...or hilarity...
Nevertheless, everyone stay warm.
Go switch to Signal.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a25736/signal-app-guide-how-to-use/
yeah, I'll wait.
You aren't in danger today, but someone you know will be prolly within the next 2-4 months, and using Signal could *literally* save their life.
Plus, you can send extra big gifs to your contacts, and it has encrypted calling.
Seriously, stop waffling and go switch, it will import your texts and nothing changes for your non-Signal contacts.
Have been playing around with #keybase and #rsync with about 30+GB of files. Some lesson's learned.
https://robertfreemanday.keybase.pub/#2018-1-3%20KBFS%20and%20rsync
Anyone else play around with this? Lemme know here!
Happy new year, and happy public domain day! :) Here's background on some of the works that enter the public domain as of today in Canada and the EU - and how decades worth of public domain works were stolen from the public by the United States Congress:
https://law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/
(Unlike the authors, I oppose copyright and patents on principle, but retroactive copyright term extension is particularly illustrative of the damaging effects of intellectual monopoly rights.)
