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Rip greg newby. I once emailed the project gutenberg copyright clearance team because i had a weird question about a book where the text itself was public domain but the book was retitled after the 1929 cutoff date and he got back to me with a detailed and helpful response in like half an hour […]

cashier: "How are you today?" me: "Hyper-fixating. you?"

People will look at Bluesky, which is primarily centralized, and think this is superior to properly federated services because it acts the way they expect: every action is magically atomic. (And perhaps they desire the American-dream-like promise of fame and discoverability) You're not going to […]

It's 2027. The AI has starting to generate video content directly to the algorithm, which no longer finds human content interesting. The feedback loop collapses into a black hole. Humans can now finally go outside. Some take up knitting.

I am VERY much open to feedback on this project. It is in very early days and I'm sure there are a million great features that could be added. The project's Github is the best place to file feature requests: https://github.com/berkmancenter/activitypub-fuzzer/

I think multiple years of having a mental health dip and then taking care of my partner when it was their turn has been bad for my "social media career"... nobody knows who I am anymore! Silver lining, of course, is it is now time to reinvent myself.

I use LISP to script all my tasks because I want to be perceived as highly functional.

My org had to let go of an engineer because they were outsourcing their work. They were caught because: 1. They started to suddenly pronounce a South-Asian employee's name 'correctly' (even when they themselves pronounce it differently) 2. And folks started to hear their own words echoed back […]

I spilled a little coffee on my keyboard and now pressing the Right Arrow triggers a restart of my computer. I've never been more motivated to use VIM navigation in MY LIFE. You use 'HJKL' or YOUR UNSAVED CODE DIES.

this rubygems stuff is wild!! and brings up evergreen concerns about how to keep community codebases under community control and how to sustainably fund them.

People keep saying 'We must end political violence' when I think they should mean to say 'We must end all gun violence'. Annoying.

Forget the dentist, I'm most afraid of the optometrist. They make you commit before you can read the fine print.

always nice to see any Cuomo lose

Understanding the world right now feels as futile as using Vim with the caps lock on.

[uspol, worldpol, iran] I've been working with some folks in Iran in efforts to boost CS education access there… such great heart and energy toward progress that I don't want threatened. I'm heartbroken at what's happening right now-- especially at how easy such nonchalant US leadership finds […]

Why I am a Vim user. :blobcatcoffee: #mastocats #catsofmastodon #catsudon

Has the German language invented a long word to properly express my exhaustion at constantly wondering if something I see or read is real?

My career as a programmer throughout the years: :blobcatcoffee: 2000s: negotiating typos in the source code of textbooks 2010s: cursing aloud my own typos 2020s: being dumbfounded by the typos overconfident robots introduce in 'helpful' boilerplate

I don't trust programmers that put the `++` in front of the variable name. They're hiding something. :blobcatcoffee:

I had an interesting conversation with an artist recently who said they are able to price up their art and still sell right now as long as they bring the original canvas in with their prints... provenance is valuable-- tangible authenticity in the era of AI working *for* them... at least in a […]

*military jets keep flying low over my house* this is why everybody hates you

The media continues to drive the AI hype machine by depicting the end of work as though AI can replace creativity (and doing so implying trade work is thus uncreative) and without/silencing debate to the contrary. They do it because it is compelling and scary and it beats talking about the real […]

What college students should understand is that if your university is afraid of losing national science funding because our government is run by clowns (and your chancellor is shopping for clown noses) ... wait until those same universities see what happens if you don't pay your tuition […]

lots of folks startled by the fact that universities aren't actually a liberal haven... since they are controlled by conservative, corporate industry boards. still... very wild to see so much aggression toward student politics!! I mean... what the heck. I don't think the universities can […]

Mew Mew being a permanent kitten. #mastocats #catsudon #catsofmastodon

Some of my European colleagues learning that we don't get May 1st off and remarking "but it's about an event that happened in the US!?" --- *takes a long breath* WELLLLL

I hope Francis is getting some joy wherever he is right now at just how funny I thought this recommendation that I read this 4 day old article was. Forget Easter-- the following Eastertide is VERY DIFFERENT for him! I wonder what he has learned! I […] [Original post on archived.software]

Folks will continue to litigate the federated social web because of some fever dream of what they think early Twitter was like when, in reality, the idea of a massively scaled, fully moderated, global social network will absolutely Never Ever Happen. It's not a flaw if it doesn't get there-- It […]

I'll watch The Pitt, but only to see if somebody says "yinz" and if they talk about the devastating effect that the monopolized medical industry's aka UPMC's tax-exempt non-profit buy-up of property in spite of its incredible profits has had on the Pittsburgh culture and economy. :blobcatcoffee:

Video game and console companies should cease to litigate emulation and instead should open essential ROM/BIOS data and sell their older software in a DRM-free downloadable form and give back a decent portion of the profits to fund open source emulation to maintain a prosperous ecosystem and […]

There's still a really long way to go to baby goat time on my farm (about 6 weeks until the first due dates). But the world (and me) needs some cute baby goat pictures right now, so please enjoy this ridiculously cute picture from last year.

A disk failure caused my copy of Totoro to get corrupted and it infinitely repeats a few seconds of the film right when it starts to rain. Right now, my partner cannot sleep without turning on THIS SPECIFIC VERSION which I can NEVER get rid of now because […] [Original post on archived.software]

This is just how he sunbathes. He's living a great life, I think. #catsofmastodon #mastocats #catsudon

My partner got their first "replace 'marginalized genders' with 'women' so we aren't too political" request on their run-of-show from a sponsor. the fight to be an enby continues anew!! 🙃 :blobcatcoffee: 🙅

Yet another worrying state bill, this time in my home state of Georgia, targets librarians to remove their protections so as to criminally charge those who distribute "harmful" content to minors. Considering the term "harmful" is left undefined, it's likely, if this is passed into law, to be […]

I won over the stray porch cat! Her name is Harriet Odette or "Odie" for short but I call her a little munchkin. #mastocat #catsudon

It's said that Press is the fourth estate, but I count libraries as a core part of that idea and any threat to them is as critical and significant as a threat to the other.

I made a little tool that lets you search the full text of all published Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. https://fep-search.glitch.me/ It does so privately in your browser using a neat in-browser elasticsearch-type-thing called FlexSearch: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch

Breathing a sigh of relief each and every day when I see my Ukrainian colleagues post a message in our work channels. I can't even imagine how one can function at all. I'm not confident that I have that much strength.

I'm unironically watching every single variant of Hamlet ever recorded in order to get my mind off of the doom and gloom of every day reality.

[tech a-hole harassment guy] Ah, it's the 8-year anniversary of the time Jason Calacanis stopped following me on the bird site which he did just to harass me and anybody I wanted to uplift there. Hope he's not influential *checks* gawd dammit to hell. I just want people to experience […]

I'm a bit of a "shadow" Twitch person ... helping to produce a few front-page events and such and integrated in a few communities. Twitch makes... interesting decisions. (and Kick makes much more questionable decisions.) I'm very interested in exploring the self-hosted / federated / […]