Found myself using the phrase “I pulled down a recent master”* with version control at work and…that sounds like something totally different in a non-jargon context.
*long-running internal codebase
Author: Kelson Vibber
IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to …
IEEE article on a company trying to update airship tech, “floating a new approach to a technology that saw its rise and fall a century ago…”
The Tech Is Finally Good Enough for an Airship Revival
https://spectrum.ieee.org/airship
#airships #ISeeWhatYouDidThere
Long post about full timelines
Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration, I’m finding that Mastodon has become a firehose. I used to be able to pop in once or twice a day and scroll until the point I left off, but that’s no longer the case.
I don’t want to drop any of the people I’ve followed, but I’m beginning to wonder if it might be worth going back to my old scheme of having topic-focused accounts on different instances as a way of keeping my view organized.
The downside, based on my previous experience, is that having multiple accounts feels like having multiple social networks. And in a way it is! And then of course there are always the overlaps in topics.
Maybe I’ll try that Linode pre-built Mastodon server. Or maybe I’ll try setting up something smaller like GoToSocial or a Misskey fork.
Or maybe I’ll just set up alts on thematicly-appropriate instances like a normal person 😜
I’ve disabled boosts from a few specific people who tend to boost *a lot*, which does help – but there’s that same problem of missing the next layer out.
Lists do help, but the UI for managing them still sucks, and you have to basically make one of the lists your “home” feed instead of, well, your home feed.
Cloudy with a Chance of…
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: New tech leads to an economic boom, but politics and greed downplay scientists’ warnings of long-term dangers of this man-made climate change until disaster strikes.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: A tech company without ethics, run by a nerd who grew up to become the bully he despised, ruthlessly exploits a fragile ecosystem for profit, regardless of damage to endangered species or what remains of the island’s society.
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/05/cloudy/ #movies
Seems even more apt now than when I originally posted it.
One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.
One month in, my first glitch with automatic toll collection.
Fastrack registered my transponder in one lane and my license plate in another lane, somehow ended up not charging me at all, and the agency that manages those roads sent me a violation.
But I have to resolve it through the agency I signed up with, not the one that sent me the violation.
They’ve assured me they’ll fax — yes, fax — the information over.
Now that I think about it, it’s a federated toll network – each instance manages a certain set of roads, and they all communicate with each other through a common tech platform.
ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles …
ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles *within* the web app on #Mastdodon 4, but I hadn’t looked to see that the *actual* post and profile web pages do not actually contain the post or profile content, just JavaScript and the metadata to load it.
In essense, Mastodon profiles and posts are no longer actually interoperable parts of the web. Or as #indieweb puts it: #jsdr
IMO the web has plenty of room for both applications and documents. Applications can be applications, and they can certainly include documents. I’m not objecting to the overall web application UI.
But a document should be reachable *as a document*.
Aha, there is a Github issue:
visual #migraine, weird
I’m fortunate not to get the actual headaches, but I have other #migraine symptoms on a regular basis, including the visual distortions. For me it’s usually an open curve, with the line filled with zigzags flashing different colors, that starts at the center of my field of vision and moves to the periphery.
Last night I had one start *during a dream* and persist when I woke up. The weird part: the curve was rotated 90°: Open downward in the dream and leftward when awake.
Also I think it might have been grayscale in the dream (with full-color perception of the rest of the dream) and color when I woke up, but I’m not 100% certain
Why doesn't anyone in the #StarTrek universe just *go around* the Great Barrier at …
Why doesn't anyone in the #StarTrek universe just *go around* the Great Barrier at the Edge of the Galaxy?
This pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.
Neighbor: finds huge spider on the steps of our building, goes to get a broom …
Neighbor: finds huge spider on the steps of our building, goes to get a broom to kill it from a distance, just to be on the safe side.
Me: Gets my phone up close so I can take a clear photo for #iNaturalist
Another crazy idea: If I sign up to get information by email, wait until you …
Another crazy idea: If I sign up to get information by email, wait until you have it and then send me the info. Or post an update. Or something useful *in the channel I requested*
Don't send a content-free brochure with a note to *follow you on social media* just to stay in my inbox.
Crazy idea: the About box for an application should, in addition to credits, version number …
Crazy idea: the About box for an application should, in addition to credits, version number and company info, say something about what the application is for.
As terrible as the old remote interaction workflow was, the new method of showing a …
As terrible as the old remote interaction workflow was, the new method of showing a URL and telling the user to copy and paste it is so much worse.
Follow, reply, boost, whatever. The pop-up to send you over to your own instance was a pain. But the pop-up telling you how to work around it is like putting up a sign telling people how to get to the back entrance instead of fixing the door.
Holy crap, ClamAV actually released 1.0.0
Holy crap, ClamAV actually released 1.0.0
https://blog.clamav.net/2022/11/clamav-100-lts-released.html
I was using it in production 15 years ago and it’s been at 0.x.y that whole time!
The original veggie burger.‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test
The original veggie burger.
‘Surprisingly tasty’: putting Neanderthal cooking to the test
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/26/surprisingly-tasty-putting-neanderthal-cooking-to-the-test-recipe
I couldn’t quite get the color processing on this hidden bench the way I …
I couldn’t quite get the color processing on this hidden bench the way I wanted, but I think it’s interesting at least.
(Also: testing Flickr embeds)
This beetle landed on my car window as I was about to start, then climbed onto the top of the car. I had to look. (Too bad I don’t drive a VW Beetle.)
This beetle landed on my car window as I was about to start, then climbed onto the top of the car. I had to look. (Too bad I don’t drive a VW Beetle.)
I went on a hike today, up in the coastal hills…
I went on a hike today, up in the coastal hills near Los Angeles. I took a trail along a (dry) streambed up through a canyon, which is variously known as George F. Canyon or Georgeff Canyon. No one knows who George (or Georgeff) was – they just found it on an old map when they dedicated the nature preserve.
There was SO. MUCH. POISON OAK. You really do not want to stray much from the path here!
I just looked at the Archive Team twitter collection again — in the last couple …
I just looked at the Archive Team twitter collection again — in the last couple of days they’ve changed the thumbnail image for new collections from a bird with boxing gloves to…well… (warning, it’s a bit musky) 😂
NVIDIA's RTX 4090 card has been getting so hot its *power cables have been …
NVIDIA's RTX 4090 card has been getting so hot its *power cables have been melting*! 😱
Apparently it's hard to tell whether the power adapter has actually snapped in, and if it's just a little bit off, it can come loose enough to overheat.
#hardware #nvidia #weird #safety
Got a text message allegedly from my ISP about an soon-to-be-due bill that was roughly …
Got a text message allegedly from my ISP about an soon-to-be-due bill that was roughly *twice* my monthly bill, and click here to pay it.
Oh, hell no!
Then I remembered that last month they were revamping their online payment system and said they couldn't accept payments at that time, but wouldn't count them as late if paid with this month's bill.
Which means it's actually legit.
Still not using that link when I pay the bill, though.