Saw the headline "The 1-Ingredient Upgrade for Better Scrambled Eggs (It's My Favorite Italian Staple)" and my dad-brain responded "Italian or not, I think putting a staple in your eggs is pretty risky"
Darius Kazemi
Saw the headline "The 1-Ingredient Upgrade for Better Scrambled Eggs (It's My Favorite Italian Staple)" and my dad-brain responded "Italian or not, I think putting a staple in your eggs is pretty risky"
Darius Kazemi
Just sitting here wistfully reading #AoIR2023 posts
Darius Kazemi
Was reading specification documents, as I do, and came across this "literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database" article by @judell https://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/
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Chris Radcliff
Mark Eichin
Darius Kazemi
One of my Dad Opinions is that there's plenty a good shim will fix.
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Darius Kazemi
"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
Darius Kazemi
"why am I following this idiot?" ...oh I don't follow them I just subscribed to a hashtag
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Christiaan Moleman
@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.
Derek Powazek 🐐
@darius and this is the exact problem with following hashtags. There has to be a quality filter.
Darius Kazemi
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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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
@darius I’m still blogging. Dropping a blog post about our latest project… as soon as it’s done
Martin Fenner
@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.
Darius Kazemi
"WinAmp: it really wins the llama's amp!"
Darius Kazemi
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)
E. Drake Kajioka
@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.
Richard Eriksson :thinkerguns:
@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.
Darius Kazemi
It is said that "an army marches on its stomach". These bears are fighting the war machine
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Darius Kazemi
Hometown users - I'll be releasing #Hometown with this morning's Mastodon security patches later today.
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Darius Kazemi
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)
Darius Kazemi
In society today everyone expects you to be the creation of a talented Italian woodworker. Sick of this rampant Geppetteronormativity 😔
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Darius Kazemi
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
C.
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.
Darius Kazemi
What's your favorite #apple variety?
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Skiriki Fyxe
@darius Not listed there, but. Kaneliomena ("cinnamon apple"): https://peda.net/hankkeet/geenivaraoppi/yl%C3%A4koulu/biologia_ylakoulu/ljll/omena-luonnos/ll/kl
doctor garbage expert
@darius me, running into the room breathless three days later: I LOVE SWEETANGO
Darius Kazemi
Can't set up a linux user because I don't have a room number :(
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medium rare bird
@darius now I'm imagining society if useradd and adduser were related in a way you could discern from their names
Jordan Erickson
@darius I love little legacy bits of code like this that show the history and culture of the tools we use =)
Darius Kazemi
The only one who could ever reach me
Darius Kazemi
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!
Eli the Bearded
@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?"
Darius Kazemi
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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Dave Lane 🇳🇿
@darius wow, many thanks for posting that - I've been hoping for such a combination of bookmarking & #ActivityPub for ages! Investigating further. @casey
Darius Kazemi
I made an incremental game. It's called Utopia Clicker:
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John Mark Ockerbloom
@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"). |
@darius this made me smile
@darius I already have a bunch of staples in my gut, so why not add some more?
@darius Also if they used their favorite one already what are the rest of us supposed to do?