Gregory's Server
Wow I love this: today is the launch of the e. e. cummings free poetry archive! A project that shows what we can do when works enter the public domain.
Behind the scenes notes: https://twitter.com/palewire/status/1389214308400173064?s=19
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I made a little site that suggests a random sandwich for you to eat from Wikipedia's list of notable sandwiches.
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@darius Thanks to this I learned about the existence of the all-American fried brain sandwich  @darius I took a pass at trying to generate the list of sandwiches using a live Wikidata query. https://edsu.github.io/sandwich/ The descriptions aren't as good (yet). But there are images!  In just a couple hours I'll be speaking with @jomc at the Internet Archive about what happened in the history of the internet when people decided to put their trust in corporations to do the job of free public libraries. You can get a free ticket to the online event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-tickets-149802797199
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 the onblur DOM event fires when an element experiences beace, love, unity, and respect friends offworld consuming uberlicious sandwiches focus, the event that makes you prioritize the most important thing in life right now. @scearley saw on twitter, thought of you: https://twitter.com/bookhistories/status/1386610423177351170 Pleased to report that Hometown v1.0.5+3.3.0 is now released! This release adds no new features, it simply brings Hometown up to date with Mastodon v3.3.0. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.5%2B3.3.0
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@darius Amazing work! Don't beat yourself up about the timeline - the pandemic has been (and continues to be) very hard on all of us. 😔  @darius So I'm kinda new here and have managed to miss Hometown until you posted about it on Patreon earlier. Looks like some very nice features you've got added though; I may have to migrate! And hey if you think four months is bad, you should see my git repos...I'm trying to clean it up right now...meaning 90% of the stuff in there is probably going to have every commit it will ever get all within the next week xD And another test post, sorry. I try to test federation stuff on test servers that most people will never see, but ultimately I have to do a ~few~ tests on a known working instance like this one. I just used Array.prototype.every() and Array.prototype.some() for the first time in production code... ever? I'm sure I could have used them earlier in my career but I always forget they exist. Anyway they are useful functions and I'm glad they're there
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hahaha -- oh wait this isn't an altered image this is just how it looks on English language Hometown servers by default 🤷♂️ 
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 Original Mastodon also has it literally "post" in Russian. I guess "toot" isn't very translatable. But then there's also this "honk" ActivityPub thing that apparently has a button that says "it's gonna be honked". Ahh, the four genders (taken from the source code for JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 (1999) -- I wrote about this in my book https://bossfightbooks.com/products/jagged-alliance-2-by-darius-kazemi)   @darius heh, awesome. This was one of my biggest time sinks ever :D I replayed this again and again and never purged it from my disk after the last play through (from my cold dead hands 😜 ) Just remembering the character creation questionnaire makes me laugh again. What a gaming gem :D Added to my wishlist :D Friend Camp has about 50 active users and I just noticed we have more than half a million posts here since August 2018! I mean that's 11 a day per person on average but still. That seems wild to me. Last I checked something like 75% of our posts are unfederated. That's still 125 thousand posts sent to the fediverse. I think local-only posting increases the vitality of community, increasing the volume of overall activity, and contributing more to the fediverse than a less vital instance would. (Above post reposted due to silly math error) In other words: if Friend Camp never had local only posting, we would not have cohered as a community, and we would have contributed far less to the fediverse as a whole than we do with the ability to post unfederated. Interesting. I've never really taken this whole "instance is a community" thing seriously myself 🤔 Just. How does Gboard think next word suggestion works? I type the name of my street and it has learned to suggest "Ave" next, then I type "Portland" and "OR" or "Oregon" are only suggested 25% of the time, but "CA" is always an option. Yes I live in Portland, CA. I miss Swype. Still haven't found a good alternative.
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 @darius I use a terrible Foss keyboard that I genuinely can't recommend. (openboard.) mobile keyboards: bad! Even worse for Russian. Has no idea about some word forms so you have to teach it them — every one of them. It's especially bad with informal verbs.  @darius I've been happy with SwiftKey for years - on Android (although Microsoft bought it a while back) "Do you want protocols that look nice or protocols that work nice?'' Pleased to report that @jomc and I are speaking at a free online event hosted by the Internet Archive and Library Futures on Apr 28. We will be discussing her book Lurking, and what happened when "in the 1990's and early aughts, people became users, and users put their trust in a corporation to do the job of a library." https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-tickets-149802797199  Today I learned that `ssh` interacts with stdin/stdout normally. So you can pipe data from machine1 into a command on machine2! For example, my local machine is a Mac that uses `pbcopy` to put stuff on the clipboard. Ex: $ echo 'foo' | pbcopy puts "foo" on my clipboard. If I'm ssh'ed in to a remote machine & I'm running sshd locally, I can do $ echo 'foo' | ssh myLocalMachineIP pbcopy and that puts the output of the script from the remote machine onto my local clipboard!
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 @darius This is something I wish I had known about a few hundred times over the last decade or so. Thanks.  @darius The way I usually copy an entire directory from one machine to another is using an ssh pipe:  |
And this is why the copyright term shouldn't be this obscenely long. Imagine a world in which copyright only lasts several years and is non-transferable. This would eliminate all of the abuse potential while retaining all of the good intentions. Piracy would become mostly unnecessary too — why torrent something when you could just legally get it for free if you wait a year or two?
@darius neat use of yaml heredocs to preserve the original whitespace!