Allene @arlowrey@octodon.social
Writer of heroic sf/f, Objectivist, gamer, and lover of life. Blog https://allenelowrey.com/
"Coder, what is best in life?"
Coder: "To crush your issues list, see them disappear before you, and to hear the merging of their pull requests!"
Hey Masto writers! I just saw that Duolingo is taking submissions for short pieces of fiction, $500 if they use it. If you write, check it out - if you know a writer, please boost or share with them! Let's get some cash opportunities to our talented Mastopeople!
https://stories.duolingo.com/call-for-stories/
#writers #writing #fiction #smallfiction #shortfiction #story #shortstory
Anyway, Brett's car was totaled today. He's fine, his wife is fine, their little girl is fine. But he's a school teacher trying to support a family. Did I mention that? He teaches elementary school special education, in spite of the fact that it barely pays anything.
His car was totaled. Insurance is going to cover some of it, but not enough for him to replace it with something reliable. Listen to some of his music and, if you like it, maybe buy some, or tell someone else about it so that he can get a new car.
Oh my god, so many people recommended me books for my bingo that I decided to make a new post to list all of them. You can title it Self Published Mastodon Speculative Fiction Books.
Its going to be thread so please check it whole out, also rt of visibility to promote writers if you want?
#amwriting #fantasy #scifi #writing #books #creativetoots #selfpublished
New here? Not sure where to start? This intro by @noelle might help out:
https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969
Also I'd like to send you a quick "hello" and a note that if you're on octodon.social that our beloved administrator is @CobaltVelvet. She runs this place and keeps it tidy.
It's also not free as in beer so if you'd like to keep this place running please feel free to help out her Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
(note: I'm not an admin here, I just like this place)
Hello fediverse! https://lib.reviews/ is a free/open/nonprofit alternative to proprietary review sites like #Goodreads, #Yelp, #IMDB.
It plugs into #opendata sources: #Wikidata, #OpenLibrary and #OpenStreetMap (OSM integration is very basic at this point). Still a long way to go but we have a small community and lots of reviews already. On GitHub at: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews - IRC: #lib.reviews on irc.freenode.net - Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#lib.reviews:matrix.org
Really good post on Stoicism that DH found this morning: https://www.artofmanliness.com/2018/04/09/5-ancient-stoic-tactics-modern-life/
**Biometric Apps Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web**
This is a bad idea:
1. You can't "reset" your biometrics like a password.
2. Biometrics aren't hashable. The end result is they're less secure than other forms of authentication. (If you don't understand what this means, you're not qualified to have an opinion on this matter.)
3. You can't control what happens to your biometrics once they're in the hands of a 3rd party.
Please re-Toot.
This is amazing, we evolved the alphabet from pictograms to highly stylized characters to letters and now we're going full circle by incorporating emojis such as 🐂 that thousands of years earlier became "a" and 🐟 that became "d"
So shoutout to @CobaltVelvet and all the others making Octodon a good home for us to hang our hats. Thank you.
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"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."
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This is my everyday.
