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No, I'm not a wizard, though we have similarities I just have #ADD real bad.

- we disappear for periods of time and come back with new clothes
- we obsess over small things and will go on about them
- we usually like a good pipe now and then
- sometimes when we talk it's like we are speaking in ancient tongues to most people

One thing I find fun is seeing people underestimate me and seeing the change in their face and poature when they reevaluate their assumptions.

At my first local meetup in like 5 years. It's wild how the scene has changed completely and it's nice to see some familiar faces despite it.

Thunderbird's spam detection thing is hella busted. Kinda wish there were fewer features.

Yep! Google is labelling all Gemini sites as malware!

This is completely unbelievable, downright anti-competitive, and evil.

Google is literally trying to kill an entire protocol!

cc: @deadsuperhero


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I’ve come up with the term “software rebranding” to describe software changes for change’s sake that nobody asked for and are forced upon us for no apparent reason, much like corporate name and logo rebranding, which is almost universally a failure but continues nonetheless.

Maybe the postal service should offer email?

I’ve been thinking about how I could have email service that isn’t a constant battle against Google over deliverability without having to use Gmail/Outlook/etc. and all the evil bullshit that entails.

Maybe there’s other providers who have the reputation and resources to deal with this but it to me thinking: if the postal service can deliver mail to everyone with a mailing address, why not have them do the same for email?

I know historically they were competitors, but I think that time has long passed. Aside from giving everyone reliable email it could also be a way to get back to internet email standards and get companies like Google to handle internet email properly. It has the negotiation benefits of something like single-payer health insurance.

I’m sure there’s downsides, and you could always have additional, privately-owned service addresses for that.

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

Lol gonna ads a cron script to reboot my pixelfed instance every week since mariadb randomly locks uo every now and then if I don't and I'm too lazy to actually fix it

Every day the yearning to pivot to and grows deeper.

Neat info about how outside of DNA and gene therapy, cells can be induced to grow different structures using bioelectrical stimulus.

vids.rawbit.ninja/watch?v=NjTs

look ok it's very simple!

I just want a body that never tires, a mind that never rests, and a soul that never hardens. I want to be left alone to my thoughts and craft while always surrounded by friends and loved ones and praise. I don't want anything to ever change and I don't want progress to ever stop. give me the lifespan of an immortal with the appreciation of every passing moment available only to the condemned facing the gallows.

that's all I ask.

you never really realize how many charging-only USB cables you have until you try to program a fucking arduino

Got a salary review thing at work this month. Documenting all my responsibilities and weekly/monthly routine. Jeeze. I have a lot of hats. I remember back when I was an office drone and just had to juggle timelines and two three devs with their own features at a time. At least stuff is more stable than the 4 years of solo dev I was doing before.

@mauve is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about lots of subjects:

* distributed.press and our social.distributed.press AP implementation
* sutty.nl : a static site generator CMS
* their distributed press integration
* peer to peer activitypub loading and our FEP for it

Join us in March? fediforum.org

Quick new post about making the headings of HTML tables "sticky":

"Please Make Your Table Headings Sticky"

btxx.org/posts/Please_Make_You

#html #css

Survived six meetings and 8 context switches and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.

One of the neat innovations of the is that instead of having a large central instance database everyone pulls from for their clients, each user has a personal database of just the things they got sent. From there they can pull data from people they follow and replies using the ActivityPub client-server API. This means that the data you see has a higher social context to who you interact with rather than a grab bag of whatever folks throw onto the global timeline.

Maybe the real ActivityPub compliance suite is the friends we made along the way.

evil thoughts re: spam 

One cool thing is that you don't need to set up a mastodon instance in order to run a spam campaign. If anyone wants to give me a million bucks I could whip up a tool that'd require fedi as a whole to go allowlist.

Context switching so fast it blurs into a single context.

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