Nick Doty @npd@octodon.social
@rowan I have this vague inkling to work on an ActivityPub server implementation in Python, and see that smilodon has already started this using Flask. Could I help hack on it?
Q: what to do about the blog?
A: just fucking post on whatever infrastructure you've got
http://bcc.npdoty.name/what-to-do-about-the-blog
Hey y'all. Are you reading this right now while logged into octodon.social?
Do you have a dollar a month to spare?
If this is you, SUPPORT YOUR ADMIN by funding this instance:
https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
Running servers COSTS ACTUAL MONEY and doing it right is not simple.
We've got a good home here, let's help ensure the costs are, at minimum, sustainable. Beyond that there's still a lot of work to do, but you can help out right now, and your help WILL MATTER.
Boost if you think trains are the best method of transit.
🚃🚋🚞🚝🚄🚅🚈🚂🚆🚇🚊🚉
Talking about how the federated social web can intrinsically resist abuse, hate speech and attacks.
When did I last visit __?
A fun exercise, using Google location history data, some code from @amac@twitter.com and some manual calendar reviewing.
https://octodon.social/media/45mq-DgSp50dYe7ymfA
Current fascinations:
* that paperclip game everyone's talking about
* _Anna Karenina_
# tech I'm excited about
- conversational UI
- federated social Web
- bicycles
# tech I'm not excited about
- TV etc.
- smartphones
- smartwatches
- VR
- home hub speaker/microphones
an ongoing list: https://npdoty.name/tech.md
@sandro @cwebber we have this on the agenda for tomorrow's teleconference, which you're welcome to join:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2017JulSep/0020.html
the agenda is a little packed, so I'm imagining that'll be a brief overview discussion and we can continue in email or subsequent meetings.
Is anyone collecting/doing research on the phone automated alert system in the US?
How often are alerts sent in different geographic areas? Who sends them? What do users think about the system?
Would it be useful to do a broader privacy review of ActivityPub and Mastodon-federation?
/cc @cwebber @sandro
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2017JulSep/0018.html
A frustrating transit day:
BART trains running on a delay due to an earlier issue; multiple trains to Richmond at the same time, but, not announced, the regularly scheduled one ran slower. Missed my bus from the Bart station: I guess I was standing at the wrong stop. Waited at a bus stop for AC Transit 18, inexplicably running every 30 minutes instead of 15 as scheduled, but after multiple delays on NextBus, the next bus just decided to go out of service, with no announcement.
A future I had not expected: I get an automated email alert about a low depth high magnitude earthquake in North Korea, and then check newspaper websites to read up about the latest underground nuclear weapons test.
Crowd singing "this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine"
A helicopter looms above us.
#nohatesf
Black lives matter: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only three words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud and the Bible find this statement utterly impenetrable. The idea seems to threaten profound, barely conscious assumptions. A kind of panic paralyzes their features, as though they found themselves trapped on the edge of a steep place.
— only slightly edited, "A Letter from Harlem", James Baldwin, July 1960
MAKE SOMETHING THAT MATTERS
https://octodon.social/media/O0FHlPwq1dLzWOQo3CU https://octodon.social/media/w98PuxN2YuhkK19XOBw
(CTSP has t-shirts!)
"Before we decide what is or is not medically sound, we must demand answers to the most obvious of questions: Why this, why now?"
— an essay on #eggfreezing
https://twitter.com/allynbenin10di/status/898296169872277504
... this is decentralized version control; as far as I'm concerned, no remote should be considered original or otherwise apotheosized.
Why are documentation authors obsessed with forcing you to name their git remote "origin"?
