Why am I registering all of these weird domain names?
Because ICANN.
Does anyone have experience using git to maintain two separate versions of something (ports for different platforms) that nevertheless share some core code? Is there a reasonable way to do this? (Submodules???)
Really though, why does mastodon have to be the "twitter killer"? Can't it just be a thing?
Capitalism makes it so natural for us to rhink in terms of scarcity that usually doesn't exist or doesn't *have* to exist.
Introducing Anbox - Android in a Box -
https://mm.gravedo.de/blog/posts/2017-04-10-introducing-anbox/
Book bus day today. Saw this and got to thinking: when technical people assume leadership roles, how often will they concentrate on learning and improving as leaders when they've previously only focused on technical skills?
Do we support and encourage our line #management to succeed adequately?
With #followfriday comes great responsibly.
Don't go spamming my feed.
Boost this comic for visibility.
Before the #followfriday stampede.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/follow_friday
Back in the good ol' Twitter days the hashtag #FollowFriday was very useful.
Today will be a good day to dig it up.
Boost this awoo around the fediverse.
@bcrypt Most SDR platforms (except for special-purpose RFID ones like RFIDler or Proxmark) can't operate down to 125 kHz, but HackRF One can sniff it at close range with a loop of wire connected to the antenna port.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repgaohMfIA
Also it is possible to use a sound card plus a couple components on a breadboard, but I still haven't finished that article. :-)
If we can get people using an open, decentralised social network instead of a proprietary centralised one, maybe one day we can finally get people to write their blog posts somewhere other than Medium
This guy is having a tough time right now https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1002
Disclosing "cellphone contacts and social-media passwords" goes beyond having "nothing to hide". It jeopardises other people that trust you.
I can tolerate the TSA pat-downs, but you can't ask me to make decisions with the rights of others.
FYI Nostarch has a humble bundle going on right now. 15 bucks nets you a crap ton of python programming books. Nostarch is a VERY good publisher.
Interesting to see mastodon.social toots arrive here faster than on mastodon.social timelines. The reason for that is rather simple - mastodon.social only needs to send 1 request to each instance per toot. The instances take over from there. On the other hand, locally, it has to deliver the toot to all the followers individually, which is the hard part on a large userbase instance.
Sooo, is someone working on mastodon support for oysttyer yet?
hypothesis: if too many early users sign up on mastodon.social instead of other instances, federation will end up becoming a second-class feature. (imagine what email today would look like if gmail had existed in the 90s.)
other instances need to be able to compete with mastodon.social for growth, or https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177 should be implemented.
Hmmm, great, how do I write <at>alech<at>octodon.social without it getting shortened into @alech? ;)
I meet with a Chinese grad student weekly for him to practice his English. We talk about politics, food, culture. It's fun. Today I sat down and he had a serious look on his face. "I need to ask you a question. My wife was invited to a . . . baby shower. She found out it's a party, but will there be . . . water?" Only after I explained did I remember the old 'terrifying if literal' twitter joke.
OH my god, they're getting rid of Unity. PRAISE STALLMAN.
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