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Darius Kazemi
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@darius

Damn it Garfield! Don't smoke all of my weed again!

16 Oct 2020 at 4:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

Best possible outcome from Oracle v Google is I'm never able to write code ever again and I just stop using computers.

7 Oct 2020 at 16:58 | Open on friend.camp
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JP

@darius my hope is their legal shitfight flattens the landscape such that GEOS 2.0 for the Commodore 128 is most peoples' best computing option.

7 Oct 2020 at 18:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Blake C. Stacey

@darius I heard some chatter that a bad decision might motivate better legislation from antitrust-minded congress-folk, but honestly, your prediction sounds more plausible

7 Oct 2020 at 22:44 | Open on icosahedron.website
Ben Zanin

@darius maybe we'll all end up being banned from using libraries and we'll just jump to opcode offsets

8 Oct 2020 at 2:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi
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Darius Kazemi

The worst thing about Trump getting sick is that it's distracted me from Fat Bear Week

5 Oct 2020 at 23:23 | Open on friend.camp
JP

@darius 747 is gonna be so tough to beat.

5 Oct 2020 at 23:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

Excel fucking rules. I mean, it's shit, but all software is shit. Excel is the best of the software shit-pile. I will never scold a non-technical person or organization for using Excel, which 99.999% of the time is a perfectly acceptable tool for the job.

(I'd link an article about the alleged Excel errors that caused a miscount in COVID cases in the UK but there is wildly conflicting information and I don't know what to trust.)

5 Oct 2020 at 16:54 | Open on friend.camp
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nev

@darius whoa whoa whoa give PowerPoint its due!!

5 Oct 2020 at 17:22 | Open on bananachips.club
The Bean Identity

@darius Excel did more for the democratization of computing than most other software.

Still it's absolute shit and I'm not sure it would have to be that way (e.g. imagine if it did a little less automatic data coercion)

5 Oct 2020 at 17:42 | Open on octodon.social
Григорий Клюшников

It would've been better if it didn't turn random things into dates when you least expect.

5 Oct 2020 at 17:51
Darius Kazemi
Darius Kazemi

admin dot social, instance of a thousand admins

2 Oct 2020 at 18:28 | Open on friend.camp
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Display Name

@darius sounds like they could subtractmin

3 Oct 2020 at 0:37 | Open on friend.camp
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Lady KIBI

@darius they tried this back in 2017 but i think it was called admin.camp or admin.town

3 Oct 2020 at 13:08 | Open on cybre.space
Darius Kazemi

"I have heard the worst person in the world, who has personally attacked me many times and who I clearly despise, has fallen gravely ill. I wish him and his family well."
- politicians who think 20th-century concepts of decorum are anything but a liability in 2020

2 Oct 2020 at 16:52 | Open on friend.camp
Tony Stark :verified:

@darius @artilectzed

Well, maybe we're just not a bunch of deplorables who wish death on those who have acted against us.

Quite frankly, that's their territory and I don't want to live in it.

2 Oct 2020 at 16:59 | Open on resistance.social
Darius Kazemi

How can I construct a Zoom shortcut url if I know both the room ID and password for a meeting I'm invited to? I'm not sure how they hash passwords for URLs so it's not as easy as just sticking the password in.

(Any other way to generate the shortcut url for a meeting I'm invited to but don't "own" would be equally helpful.)

1 Oct 2020 at 1:02 | Open on friend.camp
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christa

@darius i love fat bear week. i'm making my office do brackets. i had to ask someone how to do brackets

30 Sep 2020 at 17:11 | Open on friend.camp
Dan

@darius
gooo walker!
435 cub is cheating; we want the fattest bear, not the fattest bear in its weight class, right? (nor cutest bear, which 435 cub has hands down, which I foresee bringing her a bunch of votes.)

30 Sep 2020 at 19:12 | Open on mastodon.cloud
Darius Kazemi

My keynote for ActivityPub Conference 2020 is now online a few days before the conference begins! Since it's a fully remote conference, the idea is you can (should?) watch the talks before the interactive/live sessions later this week.

Here's the keynote, which is about ways to provide value to users that CANNOT be re-centralized by the big corporations: conf.tube/videos/watch/b8d6c88

And all the other talks, which I'm excited to watch: conf.tube/video-channels/apcon

My keynote for ActivityPub Conference 2020 is now online a few days before the conference begins! Since it's a fully remote conference, the idea is you can (should?) watch the talks before the interactive/live sessions later this week.

Here's the keynote, which is about ways to provide value to users that CANNOT be re-centralized by the big corporations: conf.tube/videos/watch/b8d6c88

28 Sep 2020 at 16:20 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I reference OAuth a lot in my talk, and I can already tell that @aaronpk's discussion of OAuth 2.1 is going to be of interest to anyone who wants to develop the "suite of community apps" pattern from my presentation.

conf.tube/videos/watch/3235195

28 Sep 2020 at 16:25 | Open on friend.camp
DNA Levity :intention:

@darius that was excellent. Thank you. I am in the vision with you and stoked on the future of hometown.

Curious if there is a list of RSS feeds already available on friend.camp?

29 Sep 2020 at 2:40 | Open on social.kindbook.us
Darius Kazemi

If you want to follow the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure podcast that @courtney & I do with our friend Eliz, this is a great time to start. We have moved on from the anime (since we covered all of it to date) and just yesterday started on Part 7 of the manga. Part 7 aka Steel Ball Run is a full series reboot in a new timeline so if you have never even read JoJo's, well, this is an ideal starting point. It's also the best arc of the series, so read along with us!

@explainjojo

explainjojo.com/episodes/s06e0

If you want to follow the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure podcast that @courtney & I do with our friend Eliz, this is a great time to start. We have moved on from the anime (since we covered all of it to date) and just yesterday started on Part 7 of the manga. Part 7 aka Steel Ball Run is a full series reboot in a new timeline so if you have never even read JoJo's, well, this is an ideal starting point. It's also the best arc of the series, so read along with us!

26 Sep 2020 at 17:07 | Open on friend.camp
maggie "still" "ass" margaret

@darius @courtney @explainjojo incredible! I'm gonna hop on the train :)

26 Sep 2020 at 17:11 | Open on friend.camp
Suitably ballyhooed

@darius @courtney @explainjojo nice, I was looking for a new podcast to fill the gaps left in my subscriptions’ schedule (:

26 Sep 2020 at 17:14 | Open on weirder.earth
Darius Kazemi

Busy working tonight but decided to stream the upper right corner of my monitor again

twitch.tv/tinysubversions

24 Sep 2020 at 2:09 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

This seems really silly but does anyone know how to use Google Backup and Sync to synchronize folders on two different computers? The main answer I can find online is this horror show of an answer: support.google.com/drive/threa.

23 Sep 2020 at 19:09 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

Like I assumed "sync" let me sync computers but maybe it only means "sync individual devices with Google drive"?

23 Sep 2020 at 19:10 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I don't know if I've recommended Roam Research here before, it's a mental organizing tool for research that works well for my brain. They just took $9M in funding so I fully expect them to either not be around in 5 years or to make some compromises that make them fully unacceptable for me to use in 5 years. I am old enough to know that there is no middle ground. So I now retract any recommendations I had previously made.

This page includes many self hosted alternatives: github.com/brettkromkamp/aweso

I don't know if I've recommended Roam Research here before, it's a mental organizing tool for research that works well for my brain. They just took $9M in funding so I fully expect them to either not be around in 5 years or to make some compromises that make them fully unacceptable for me to use in 5 years. I am old enough to know that there is no middle ground. So I now retract any recommendations I had previously made.

20 Sep 2020 at 18:28 | Open on friend.camp
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Hal

@darius

I've been using a fairly patched-up gitit to great success. Version control, categories, and templates make for some nice notetaking no matter where I am.

20 Sep 2020 at 19:01 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Digital Ape
@darius I second @kawaiipunk about tiddlywiki. There are two apps built on TW using plugins billed as Roam alternatives: TiddlyResearch and Stroll With a basic understanding of programming concepts you can build on and turn TiddlyWiki into anything you want. It has a NodeJS server as well that can be used to serve files or do things like make a static site generator.
22 Sep 2020 at 1:22 | Open on friendica.olliespeople.place
Darius Kazemi

Update: I've tried out a bunch of solutions and unfortunately Roam is the only one that offers real block-level transclusion that isn't a messy hack. I've decided to continue paying for Roam but also pay for Obsidian in the hopes that they (or some other non-hosted or self-hosted solution) manage to figure it out.

For a short example of block-level transclusion in action see here youtu.be/O413tVCseio

24 Sep 2020 at 21:20 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

I'm sorry Ms. Jackson (Oooooo)
I am for eels
Pro/con list composed of kinds of fish
Eels found in "pro" that is my wish

19 Sep 2020 at 19:43 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

"Same-Sex Couples Are More Likely to Adopt or Foster Children"

census.gov/library/stories/202

New US census report (based on the ACS 2019 data) shows that same-sex couples are more likely to foster children. I am in a same-sex marriage and I don't usually talk about this next part publicly AT ALL but I have a foster kid and I highly recommend it for queer families, especially since a high proportion of foster kids are queer themselves.

"Same-Sex Couples Are More Likely to Adopt or Foster Children"

census.gov/library/stories/202

New US census report (based on the ACS 2019 data) shows that same-sex couples are more likely to foster children. I am in a same-sex marriage and I don't usually talk about this next part publicly AT ALL but I have a foster kid and I highly recommend it for queer families, especially since a high proportion of foster...

17 Sep 2020 at 18:14 | Open on friend.camp
Darius Kazemi

(I could argue with the term "same-sex" but whatever, for census purposes we would definitely be counted as "same-sex")

17 Sep 2020 at 18:15 | Open on friend.camp
DNA Levity :intention:

@darius thanks for fostering! So many kids need loving parents.

17 Sep 2020 at 23:14 | Open on social.kindbook.us
Bradley Momberger

@darius I did not know this until now, but cool! Solid respect to you & your family.

17 Sep 2020 at 23:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

Is there a place to buy mp3s of albums that I can download that isn't Amazon and also has a wider selection than Bandcamp? like, I want to buy some albums that are from popular artists who just aren't on Bandcamp but I also don't want to patronize Amazon if I can help it

6 Sep 2020 at 19:53 | Open on friend.camp
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neil 🍄

@darius bleep.com and boomkat.com are great and although I am somewhat stretching the definition of popular

6 Sep 2020 at 22:30 | Open on social.coop
Amazey

@darius I asked this same question here in January, and while I don't want to go down the rabbithole of finding that thread again, here are the bookmarks I kept from it:
us.7digital.com/
store.tidal.com/us/
qobuz.com/us-en/shop
prostudiomasters.com/
hdtracks.com/

I have since used 7digital and been happy with the experience.

@darius I asked this same question here in January, and while I don't want to go down the rabbithole of finding that thread again, here are the bookmarks I kept from it:
us.7digital.com/
store.tidal.com/us/
qobuz.com/us-en/shop
prostudiomasters.com/
hdtracks.com/

6 Sep 2020 at 23:01 | Open on weirder.earth
external quantum efficiency

@darius I've been meaning to try qobuz next time I need to buy music

7 Sep 2020 at 22:24 | Open on aleph.land
Darius Kazemi

on the one hand I don't like Valve's near-monopoly of major PC game releases, on the other hand I don't like that the answer to that in 2020 seems to be an Epic/Valve duopoly where I now have to have two separate game launchers installed on my PC :(

4 Sep 2020 at 14:13 | Open on friend.camp
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YHANCI~1.TXT

@darius there's the GOG launcher that can bring all your libraries together, but you naturally still need to have the original launchers installed so it's a bit like that XKCD
4 Sep 2020 at 15:09 | Open on octodon.social
FiXato

@darius
Valve's Steam, EA's Origin, GOG's Galaxy, Itch.io, Epic Games Store, Indiegala's galaK, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft's UPlay, and another one starting with a d I can't remember what it was called, have all been on my pc...

4 Sep 2020 at 15:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Григорий Клюшников

The good thing is that Windows still allows running unsigned code. There's no one inherently controlling it; there's no "platform" with its needy policies, technically. Just to put that into perspective, in the Mac world, it's getting increasingly worse because Apple keeps tightening its control over what is allowed to run on macOS. Basically, if you don't have a $99/year developer account, and if you don't put all your binaries through Apple servers to have them, as they call it, "notarized", Catalina treats your apps almost as if they're known malware.

The bad thing about Windows is that 10 is still user-hostile. They even renamed "My Computer" to "This Computer". It's no longer yours, it belongs to Microsoft, and they decide when it installs updates!

Anyway, I don't quite understand the technical need for game launchers. Why can't they just give you a standalone installer like in the old days?

The good thing is that Windows still allows running unsigned code. There's no one inherently controlling it; there's no "platform" with its needy policies, technically. Just to put that into perspective, in the Mac world, it's getting increasingly worse because Apple keeps tightening its control over what is allowed to run on macOS. Basically, if you don't have a $99/year developer account, and if you don't put all your binaries through Apple servers to have them, as they call it, "notarized", Catalina...

4 Sep 2020 at 21:59
Darius Kazemi

I made an account where you can follow the blog of the really smart/excellent human Clarissa Littler

@InconsistentUniverse

Blog here: clarissalittler.github.io/

4 Sep 2020 at 13:51 | Open on friend.camp
Bjørn Stærk 🇳🇴

@darius I love the idea of doing RSS to ActivityPub. Hope to get your service up and running for myself when I have time.

4 Sep 2020 at 15:05 | Open on snabelen.no
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