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Darius Kazemi

My current publishing software is a combination of this 3 line script that turns a markdown file into an index.html file (add header to file, append converted markdown to file, append footer to file):

gist.github.com/dariusk/0bf5fb

and then a more complex cron job that reads a google spreadsheet I keep containing blog metadata and generates an RSS feed off of it

Not sure I'd recommend the rss piece of it to anyone but the publishing workflow is nice.
22 April at 16:37 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

A little piece of personal internet history. I found an old blog post from a friend in Dec 2009 about how bloggers are moving to Twitter.

> It seems that change is in the air at the moment, as a huge number of people are reassessing their relationships with their blogs this winter. [...] In some respects, a lively blog might be [...] a five year mission, at most. However, I also suspect that it is Twitter which is causing a lot of the reconsideration right now"

onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_g

A little piece of personal internet history. I found an old blog post from a friend in Dec 2009 about how bloggers are moving to Twitter.

> It seems that change is in the air at the moment, as a huge number of people are reassessing their relationships with their blogs this winter. [...] In some respects, a lively blog might be [...] a five year mission, at most. However, I also suspect that it is Twitter which is causing a lot of the reconsideration right now"

22 April at 16:22 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I do think 2010 was the last year I kept anything close to an active blog. Twitter absolutely ate that energy up for me instead.

22 April at 16:23 | Open on friend.camp
Joe Crawford

@darius Twitter definitely was a factor for me as well. 2010 was the last year of my Mom's life which impacted me, and after that it was Instagram that took over for me (backfilled into my blog). But my own blogging is making a comeback. artlung.com/visualization/

22 April at 16:29 | Open on xoxo.zone
Darius Kazemi

Today's modest garden haul: kale, oregano, sorrel
21 April at 19:30 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

RIP @craigmaloney

octodon.social/@kattni/1122025

I didn't know him except through occasional interactions on the fediverse but he was consistently a positive presence on here. Condolences to his friends and family.

2 April at 17:41 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

Interesting. When I make a post on my test Threads account with one-way federation turned on (aka fedi can read my posts, I can't read posts outside Threads, which is all they've enabled so far), and it gets likes from the fediverse, it gets compressed into this "X likes from N servers" notification
22 March at 22:26 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I guess one thing this does for now is prevent a "user at racialslur-domain" from liking it and causing a moderation headache

22 March at 22:32 | Open on friend.camp
arnicas

@darius ah oops i read it on threads because i assumed you were blaming threads people for not reading

23 March at 11:36 | Open on mstdn.social
Darius Kazemi

It is sad to me that in 2024 if I search "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville" (no quotes) on Google, the free Project Gutenberg ebook isn't even in the top ten results

5 March at 15:32 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius
this is all planned.
create corporate owned AI
train it on all available knowledge
then destroy the public knowledge to prevent competitors
advertise to all ppl to use AI, because it gives better results
have a networo effect, critical mass of AI user, to get exclusive access to all the new knowledge, to cement your position forever.

it is playing out in front of our eyes slowly, but also quite fast.

@darius
this is all planned.
create corporate owned AI
train it on all available knowledge
then destroy the public knowledge to prevent competitors
advertise to all ppl to use AI, because it gives better results
have a networo effect, critical mass of AI user, to get exclusive access to all the new knowledge, to cement your position forever.

6 March at 13:59 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Leonard Ritter
Darius Kazemi

I enjoy having Kindle "popular highlights" turned on because it lets me go "Really? 438 people highlighted THIS of all things?"

1 March at 15:08 | Open on friend.camp
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Matthew Gallant

@darius I’m always curious about the feedback loops of that system. How many people paused, noticed, and highlighted that passage themselves because it was already called out as a popular highlight?

1 March at 16:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Eli the Bearded

@darius Just having the pipeline to record what people have highlighted strikes me as extremely creepy. It is why I have never been a fan of medium.com

1 March at 20:59 | Open on fed.qaz.red
kaho

@darius I would like to know if you then go on to highlight unpopular stuff or give in and become the 439th.

2 March at 1:53 | Open on coolkids.house
Darius Kazemi
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waferbaby

@darius Abd the after dark version, Steamboat Willies.

19 February at 20:59 | Open on wafer.baby
Jake Rodkin

@darius can’t believe you would exclude my child who loves the arts

19 February at 21:00 | Open on idlethumbs.social
Paul-Gabriel Wiener

@darius But is it a self-sealing STEMboat?

19 February at 21:25 | Open on realsocial.life
Darius Kazemi

@mcc saw the headline "Sun expected to break up Portland clouds Sunday; they return Monday" and thought wow I can't believe the press is trying to pin this one on Sun

19 February at 3:51 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

And another #Hometown release this morning. There's been another critical upstream security patch from Mastodon. So even if you updated 2 days ago (and thank you for doing it), you should update again:

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

16 February at 15:36 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

Here is a #Hometown release for those sticking with Mastodon v3:

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

I will note that I expect the Mastodon team to stop supporting security releases for v3 at some point, and I'm not going to be able to implement those myself, so basically once Mastodon stops maintaining v3 I'm going to have to stop as well. So I encourage admins to make a plan to update to v4.

16 February at 15:51 | Open on friend.camp
Ben

@darius Thanks. On it. Should it be git checkout v4.0.15+hometown-1.1.1?

16 February at 16:10 | Open on avantwhatever.org
Darius Kazemi

Hello #Hometown admins -- a new security patch is available, v4.0.14+hometown-1.1.1.

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

This incorporates this morning's security updates from the Mastodon team so please update your servers ASAP!

14 February at 18:46 | Open on friend.camp
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Darius Kazemi

I'm gonna be streaming the amazing dice-rolling roguelike SLICE & DICE this Friday with my pals @dubbin and @doougle! 7pm Pacific time, on the Eggplant show Twitch channel. More info at this post:

mastodon.gamedev.place/@doougl

8 February at 0:44 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I was wondering if anyone ever did Bush's hit 1995 song "Glycerine" but it's "Mr. Bean" and yes someone did. Thank you YouTube user "Imagine Dragen"

youtu.be/ZcN91o7oZnU?si=aEDBxp

6 February at 18:31 | Open on friend.camp
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Irkalla Lustre

@darius i love this. Thanks for sharing. i used to watch mr bean with my mom as a kid. Watching the intro to the show now it occurs to me they are implying mister bean is some kind of angel kicked out of heaven, kind of makes the whole thing even more funny.

18 March at 7:14 | Open on musicworld.social
Darius Kazemi

Edit: not actually down after all, just the default endpoint fonts.googleapis.com doesn't return a 200 (see comment in thread)

Ooof. "down for everyone or just me" is reporting that fonts.googleapis.com is, in fact, down. No wonder half the sites I'm trying to access are stalling. I thought it was a problem with this public wifi network I'm on...

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fo

5 February at 22:02 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius

The browser extension:

"Local CDN"

Means, you will not have these types of issues, but also it improves browsing speed, while also improving privacy.

Take it a step further and import the settings from Local CDN and add them to uBlock Origin, and it gets even better.

The more you know...

5 February at 23:21 | Open on mstdn.social
erin sparling

@darius ok so believe it or not o got a really helpful answer almost immediately.

TLDR it’s not down, but the url being used to test should be more specific to get the right answer.

fonts.googleapis.com/css2?fami //should always return a 200

fonts.googleapis.com //not necessarily going to return a 200

6 February at 0:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Irkalla Lustre

@darius im just an internet bimbo, no idea how this works but my brother is in tech and is a mentor to me. We talk a lot. And shit is definitely wierd lately

18 March at 7:15 | Open on musicworld.social
Darius Kazemi

girls always love to use CRISPR to" gene-hack man" but they do not care of, "Gene Hackman"

2 February at 2:23 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

Hello #Hometown admins - we have a release of v4.0.13+hometown-1.1.1 that includes the security fix that the Mastodon team put out this morning.

github.com/hometown-fork/homet

Please update ASAP!

Release for our older Hometown version coming next, stay tuned.

1 February at 15:49 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

The year is 2024. Boards of Canada's "Roy G. Biv" is now airport lounge "golden oldies" music.

(brought to you by hearing it in an airport lounge)

15 January at 23:22 | Open on friend.camp
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flaeky pancako

@darius feels old but also feels like there is so much idm that is timeless and still ahead of its time ..

16 January at 2:53 | Open on prsm.space
elle mundy
jesse

@darius Hearing Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols at Walmart recently did this to me too

16 January at 16:57 | Open on mastodon.online
Darius Kazemi

Boss makes a penny. I make a pound. that's why I pet the company hound

12 January at 21:54 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

So, @kissane and I have formally kicked off our Fediverse research project! Briefly, we are doing interviews with admin/mod teams about governance models and practices that are in place on servers with ~150-2500 active users. More info is available here on the project blog:

write.as/fediversalist-papers/

The blog is hosted at write.as which means you can follow it at @fediversalist-papers, or via RSS, or via email (there's a form on the bottom of the main blog page).

So, @kissane and I have formally kicked off our Fediverse research project! Briefly, we are doing interviews with admin/mod teams about governance models and practices that are in place on servers with ~150-2500 active users. More info is available here on the project blog:

write.as/fediversalist-papers/

12 January at 18:38 | Open on friend.camp
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Thekingoflorda

@darius @kissane @fediversalist-papers I’m an admin for lemmy.world, so if you need any help, let me know (:

12 January at 22:15 | Open on mastodon.world
D. Creemer
Tim Cowlishaw

@darius @kissane @fediversalist-papers embarrassingly late to this (thank you @jcalpickard for the nudge) but would be very happy to help in any way I can and will be following the outcomes with interest . This is absolutely vital work!

3 February at 10:35 | Open on assemblag.es
Darius Kazemi

Our new episode of JoJo's Bizarre Explainer, "Eleven Men and Two Babies" is now out! We cover issues 46 and 47 of Steel Ball Run, which is about a girl in a tree who uhhh gives you things and uhhh you have to use them but only in an honorable way? Plus: men inside men, as is the JoJo's way.

explainjojo.com/episodes/s06e2

@courtney
10 January at 0:10 | Open on friend.camp
Zurdo

@darius
@courtney

Right this weekend I was chatting to a friend, commenting on how they're very very slowly listening through the podcast.

Seeing this episode pop up next time I checked my feeds felt like we had performed a summoning ritual, specially given the new episode's name is a reference to the episode they're on.

10 January at 15:38 | Open on im-in.space
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