Nick Doty @npd@octodon.social

@aparrish it can be a real pain to "back up" paper notes, so if you misplace your calendar book you can irretrievably lose a lot of information on appointments.

I still make this trade-off and enjoy journaling and writing notes on paper, but it has been devastating on the couple of occasions that I've lost an in-progress paper notebook.

@gargron @rx14 it isn't strictly GPG key signing, just a public, signed record that it seems like the user of that key also appears to be the user of the associated social media accounts.

@grigs @nolan but is modality good for users? Users may feel that they "have to" grant permission in order to keep using the site, where before they could do what they wanted, which was to ignore the request altogether. If users start reluctantly clicking accept more than sites feel the alleged pain of denied permission, we could see a race to the bottom. #privacy

@torgo ah yes, sometimes the writing gets postponed by the fixing and fidgeting with software and infrastructure, I commiserate:
http://bcc.npdoty.name/what-to-do-about-the-blog

@solderpunk I think the centralization of social media sites (contra protocols, like email or Tor) and the conflation of servers and clients (Facebook/Twitter run the server and control all the clients) has confused the historical distinction between apparently neutral conduits of information and user-driven control of the information we see.

If we accept there is no distinction between the two, then anti-harassment and free-expression will appear to be in conflict. Let's not.

@rowan @sivy @cwebber "pylodon" sounds way cuter

@plesuvius no, not mine! It's from the book I've been reading: "Man the Technician", Jose Ortega y Gasset
See previous toot in the thread for another quote and citation.

> Because man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extra-natural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

Free band name: the Ontological Centaurs.

@rowan next PR provides documentation on running smilodon in Heroku (compatible with the free tier).
https://github.com/rowanlupton/smilodon/pull/91

Here's my mini-installation: https://smil-odon.herokuapp.com

> Is man a sort of novelist of himself who conceives the fanciful figure of a personage with its unreal occupations and then, for the sake of converting it into reality, does all the things he does—and becomes an engineer?

📚 from "Man the Technician", Jose Ortega y Gasset
#technology #engineer

@moz give it a try! I'm not sure whether the "goals" approach or the "mission statement" approach is more useful, but more people trying it seems like it would help us understand it better.

Here's my current goals document, what I call Doty Plan 2017:
https://npdoty.name/plan

I feel a little uncomfortable posting a link to this document, even though I've never put it behind access control. But maybe it's worthwhile to make our goals public.

Do others maintain a personal "mission statement" or a goals document?

* Bookmarks of mission statements (personal and organizational): https://pinboard.in/u:npdoty/t:missionstatement/
* Replying to Ben on his draft personal mission statement: http://bcc.npdoty.name/Re-a-personal-mission-statement

I like this model: donate money so that organizers can mail petitions with information and pre-paid postage to people in Florida, to put the restoration of voting rights to a statewide ballot.
https://florida.ourstates.org/
#votingrights #voting

@xor 👏

@cwebber I like the idea of chipping in to support standards volunteers in this area. Do you have a Liberapay account where I could toss in a little money in a slightly more efficient way?

@gargron I'm in for 1€/month.

I think for that minimal level I don't want rewards or tiers of access, just an efficient way to toss in some money to express support.

@gargron @propersquid in the updated blog post, they claim that they aren't pocketing all the extra money, you're just paying a fee on every pledge because they're going to charge every pledge individually, to make it easier to support/explain up-front charges to access patron-exclusive content.

So, Patreon is saying, don't worry, that huge percentage increase in money you're paying will mostly go to credit card companies, rather than creators or Patreon.