Gregory's Server
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"But you don’t have to be a villain to succumb to the temptation to push away inconvenient knowledge. It often takes nothing more than being idealistic or working hard for little (or no) pay to believe that the good your work does necessarily outweighs its potential harms—and that especially if you’re offering it for free, any trouble people get into is their own fault. They should have done their own research, after all." https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-iv-only-connect "why am I following this idiot?" ...oh I don't follow them I just subscribed to a hashtag
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@darius This is why I never follow hashtags in my Home feed and just pin them as a separate column in the Mastodon interface instead. Easy browsing, no confusion. Though I have accidentally followed tags a few times by pressing on the + icon (since removed in 4.2) next to the column settings button.  @darius and this is the exact problem with following hashtags. There has to be a quality filter. Sometimes I find a non-peer-reviewed paper on Arxiv and I get dismayed that it wasn't a blog post. Like man, this thing could have been a cool blog post but instead you decided the rhetorical move of formatting it with LaTeX and uploading it to Arxiv was the way to get eyeballs on your idea. And maybe the authors are correct and it is, in fact, a better way to reach an audience than blogging! idk what even my point is, ultimately I am just a 40 year old man who misses the golden age of blogs
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 @darius I’m still blogging. Dropping a blog post about our latest project… as soon as it’s done @darius I like preprints and blog posts and the boundaries are blurry. And I started https://rogue-scholar.org to make it easier to find science blog posts, archive them, and give them a DOI. Making the boundaries even blurrier. This is amusing/gratifying: a blog post looking at the video game business ten years ago this month, wherein a section of it is about how I had good opinions that hold up in hindsight (I can't deep link it, you'll have to ctrl+f for my last name) @darius I've always had a hard time figuring this out as you know. I don't stand firmly on either side. Is it the case that professional organizations can't coexist with unions? Is that something we conclusively see in other industries? To me they have very different functions, but I do think your argument is valid. Honestly the sort of "middle privilege" of programming is the biggest hurdle I've seen. And the libertarian roots of that field.   @darius What an interesting feature that publication does, looking back a decade from whatever month it happens to be. 🤔 It’s definitely a more compelling cadence than “on this day” as well as always being 10 years ago. It is said that "an army marches on its stomach". These bears are fighting the war machine
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Hometown users - I'll be releasing #Hometown with this morning's Mastodon security patches later today.
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For #Hometown servers on our Mastodon v3.5-compatible branch, this is the new security release: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v3.5.14%2Bhometown-1.0.8 (v4 release coming next) In society today everyone expects you to be the creation of a talented Italian woodworker. Sick of this rampant Geppetteronormativity 😔
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  A friend of mine is looking for technical help - she has a newish Google Workspace domain and her emails to people keep going to spam. She has done the recommended SPF, DKIM, and DMARC stuff and it all seems to be working according to various diagnostic tools but still, emails go to spam. She is willing to pay for someone's time to fix this. If you are that someone, or know that someone, you can get in touch at: hi@brighteradhd.com   Critical question: is she actually sending these emails from within the Gmail UI (app or website)? If she's sending mail appearing to come from her Google-hosted domain, but actually sending them through another route (mail app going to ISP's mail relay, firewall at work/public routing SMTP to its own relay, etc), then the mail she is sending will be violating her own SPF and DMARC policies (if they're anything but wide-open). And that means they're invalid, and go to spam.
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 @darius Not listed there, but. Kaneliomena ("cinnamon apple"): https://peda.net/hankkeet/geenivaraoppi/yl%C3%A4koulu/biologia_ylakoulu/ljll/omena-luonnos/ll/kl  @darius me, running into the room breathless three days later: I LOVE SWEETANGO
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 @darius now I'm imagining society if useradd and adduser were related in a way you could discern from their names @darius I love little legacy bits of code like this that show the history and culture of the tools we use =) The only one who could ever reach me Wow. T-Mobile finally got rid of their popover dialog that informed me they have a new mobile website. I don't know if it was a bug or what but that thing appeared, and I had to dismiss it, every time I logged in for the last, oh, 5 years or so. It wasn't even a call to action, just a "hey we have a new website, ok bye" type message!  @darius I read "pop over" as "po power" at first and was trying to figure that out. "Is that a marketing term for radio signal?" I have set up a Postmarks server (federated bookmarks by @casey) ! You can follow my bookmarks here: @bookmarks You can read more about the project here: https://motd.co/2023/09/postmarks-launch/
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 @darius wow, many thanks for posting that - I've been hoping for such a combination of bookmarking & #ActivityPub for ages! Investigating further. @casey
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@darius Nice. I kept going till I got past the table of contents just to see if it also had the main text, and stopped there once I verified that. I'm hoping this means I have a better chance of surviving inadvisable whale pursuits ("ok, you're good, heading back to shore"). RIP Bob Barker. No idea if he was a decent guy or whatever but he was the voice of lunch when I was a little kid (my grandmother would make lunch during The Price Is Right and we'd eat when it was over)  I was wondering about the composition of the dressing for Shirazi salad - I know it's salt, oil, lime juice (or verjus, I ran out yesterday), mint, and black pepper, but the ratios of oil to lime juice escape me. So I checked my favorite Persian cooking blogs and the ratios are all over the place! Everything from oil:lime being 1:1, 2:1, 1:4 (!), 0:1 (oil optional, they swear it's how they do it in Shiraz) Anyway guess I'm just going to start 1:1 and go by taste memory from there??
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Okay Samin Nosrat also has it at closer to 1:4 oil:lime I think I'll try this out! I am not doing all those extra herbs though! I have mint and I guess there is chive to be used up so that'll go in too. Also she soaks the onion in red wine vinegar ahead of time and like... too fussy for me, personally I don't think fresh onion needs its flavor mellowed by a soak!   Like it was very obvious to me even as someone who just followed her work via social media that the world was better for her being in it |
@darius oh I thought you mean Javascript shims
@darius up there with the awl
@darius What are we thinking in terms of material? Love me a classic wood shim but sometimes they’re too rigid for the task (unstable chair, wobbling ceiling fan, etc). Are there softer “formal” shims, or is the ol’ folded paper towel still best in class?