Gregory's Server
"I've only ever struggled with docker as a dev, it might be a nice change of pace to struggle with it as a sysadmin."
- me, just now
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Tune in to WordHack right now! https://www.twitch.tv/babycastles @nickmofo is showing some Apple II poem programs he made. Me and @aparrish will be speaking later, at around 8:15 Eastern (me first, then Allison) My talk is in maybe 5-10 minutes? Depends on when the current talk (by the great Kate Compton) ends and if they decide to skip the 5-min break or not.
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 @darius On here and on twitter I manually turn off each person's boosts/retweets and only leave a tiny number of Good Boosters  "If software needs to exist, and please notice that maybe software SHOULD NOT EXIST, there are many approaches to its creation." https://github.com/wacko-contender-7/writings/blob/master/Ridiculousness_vDIS_v3.pdf "The first step in the 'pataphysical method of software design is to do desk research in order to identify the kinds of imaginary problems that 'pataphysics can address. This process has to be non-scientific, guided by taste and intuition in a kind of intellectual dérive, as no scientific methods can be applied during the development of 'pataphysical software, or the results will not be 'pataphysically appropriate." Watabou's "Teen Island Simulator" is a text-based simulation of a pencil and paper role-playing game called "Teen Island" by Chris McDowall. Basically it plays the game by itself and you watch the situations all play out. It plays in both mobile and desktop browsers: https://watabou.itch.io/teen-island-simulator Also if you haven't seen Watabou's generators for dungeons, medieval fantasy cities, and mansions, check them out: New #hometown release, this one is mostly an update to include the security patches from Mastodon v3.1.5. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.4%2B3.1.5 (Thanks @support for the ping.) Just a reminder, for half a decade I have provided a livestream that you can watch of a different random integer between 0 and 99 (or 1 and 100? I forget) every two seconds. My neighbors have an "Any Functioning Adult 2020" sign in their yard and I'm tempted to ask which third party candidate they are planning to vote for.   @darius idk how it’s come to this but I’m increasingly secure in the belief that not voting for president in 2020 is my most defensible option; I can’t reward the DNC in its current form under any circumstances (there are constant reminders, eg mcgrath in kentucky just last week) but I also don’t really want to hang chad after all these years and third party runs at the executive level are inevitably narcissistic. wonder if I’ll bother w an absentee ballot for congress Apple's "structural under-investment" (as Alex puts it) in the browser is the main reason why iOS users on my instance have to resort to third-party apps to read posts on this server (no native notifications). This results in them having to use code that is authored by strangers instead of code that is maintained and run by me, their trusted admin. (Yes I suppose I could write an iOS app but it would take me a few years to learn to do that.)
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Here's a (former?) insignia of PEO STRI, the US Army's main R&D arm for virtual simulation of war. Hell of an ideology @darius was about to make a joke about tank commander Baudrillard but I guarantee someone involved in this actually was reading Baudrillard. I'm on the Lawfare Podcast today talking about the bot panic on mainstream social media and also the benefits (and drawbacks) of decentralized social media: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-darius-kazemi-great-bot-panic This was a really funny/fun conversation with the hosts, it should be a pretty entertaining listen. Here is a paper in the November 1922 issue of the Bell System Technical Journal about mechanical switching systems for telephones where the author says "probability math sucks so I'm also restating all my math as equivalent dice rolling problems" Carl Reiner died :((( He lived a long life, not quite The 2000 Year Old Man, but a good run. Just want to give a shout-out to Audacity, which as far as I'm concerned is the open source creative tool that actually achieves the promise of open source creative tools. It gets significantly better every release and releases every few months, and the UI gets better and better (the key thing most open source tools don't achieve). If you tried Audacity a few years ago or more and decided it was unstable or clunky to use, download the latest version. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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@darius KiCad hit a similar rhythm a couple of years back, and is doing a great job of making PCB design much easier  @darius I like Ocenaudio's interface a little more than Audacity. It doesn't seem to quite have the depth of functionality Audacity does, but I greatly prefer it for simple cut/paste jobs, or light normalisation and noise reduction passes. @darius I found Audacity a few years ago and used it successfully to record all of my family's old Christmas albums to digital. I ripped during work and then cut in the evenings. It took time but the Dublin's were delighted to get old classics from childhood--some of which they hadn't heard since childhood--on a USB stick in the mail. Is there an API for the little serverwide announcement widget that was introduced in the recent updates for Mastodon? #mastodev Someone did a pretty high resolution 3D scan of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond covered in tags and shrines and memorials and it's incredibly beautiful. I'm so glad this model exists and that it's high resolution enough to read most of the tags and text! https://sketchfab.com/models/02e79fffd8d549d6bafd8fd680ccbdf5/embed  Holy shit it looks like the Nova Scotia mass shooter very credibly might have been an "agent source" of the RCMP. This is some "Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA" level stuff but the evidence appears to be pretty strikingly clear.  @darius American idealization often turns into Canadian reality in weird ways for good and bad so this tracks |
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What a relief. I thought it was just me.
@darius My first experience with docker was my early attempt at deploying a masto server, and no experience since has improved my opinion of the whole dingdang docker circus.
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Narrator: It wasn't.