On a related PSA we need to ensure we fill in emergency contacts and medical information on our smart phones! 🙂
As you may know modern iOS and Android has this options built-in and can be vital in an emergency
iOS:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208076
Android:
https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?hl=en
Let's get everyone setting this up! Friends and family also 🙂👍
You and I and everyone here are part of the first 10 million people on the fediverse.
We are setting the cultural and technical norms for the next few decades.
So if there's something you wish Mastodon did, or ActivityPub did, just start acting like it already exists.
If enough people want it or need it, it will get added by the software and protocols later.
Completing my out with the old, in with the gnu(-ish) campaign today.
HP printer with smart ink->Brother with dumb ink
United Charger smart EVSE->Siemens stupid EVSE
Psycho crazypants Twitter in Silicon Valley->My own Mastodon instance out in the woods
1password my passwords as their service->Strongbox on a KeePass file
I feel much healthier already. It's all about your diet.
Amnesia
I was listening to a podcast & they remarked that they had never known a person who had amnesia. When I was 9 years old, I woke up in a bed. My arms & legs were tied down & my eyes were covered. I thought I had been kidnapped. I tried not to move much or alert my captors, but I struggled to get free. A nurse came in. They didn’t want me to thrash or touch my face. I’d been in a car accident & hit the dashboard. No seatbelt. I didn’t remember the crash or weeks before. I never remembered.
So, just wondering; who were the first ones against the wall when the revolution came?
#TwitterCyberneticsCorporation
Or: Is the real revolution yet to come?
I published a new video book on #NES programming & 6502 #Assembly.
If you want to learn NES programming & learn a lot about retro computer architecture, then you should definitely check it out!
The "Nintendinho" was my first game console, so I put a lot of love into this course. ❤️
Course link: https://pikuma.com/courses/nes-game-programming-tutorial
See you inside! 🧉😉
"The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed.
You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t.
It took leadership."
@BrentToderian
Consequences of scaling down a brain:
“The highest synapse density was found in layer 1 (1.70 synapses/µm3; Table 2)... the thickness of layer 1 in the Etruscan shrew somatosensory cortex represents about 20% of the total cortical thickness (Naumann et al., 2012). That is, in the Etruscan shrew, given the high synaptic density in layer 1 and its relatively large proportion, this layer greatly contributes to the total number of synapses in the somatosensory cortex.”
🌈Coloourful TCPDUMP🌈output. Where have you been all those years. Join us at https://t.me/thcorg for more...
Just gonna paste my intro:
I'm experiencing internal growth, so I'll provide a more organic #introduction.
I'm moo and I'm a scrub.
My introduction to computers was in second grade learning LOGO before playing Oregon Trail. My interest blossomed at 12. I taught myself HTML and started building pages, eventually graduating to CSS and graphic design tools like Photoshop.
My first tear down was my 386 HP when my mom was at work. By this point, I had already experimented with Visual Basic in the "secret" AOL chat rooms, IRC, and Linux (Mandrake). :)
In my teens, I became a pro aggressive inline skater for a year and was credited as being a top woman to look out for in the sport. I was also the 5th/last woman to skate the infamous Pier 1 bridge in San Francisco.
The first bug I found was a bof that DoS'd my boyfriend's router when I telnetted to it. It apparently affected all of them at the time too. Woops.
After we broke up, I ended up homeless in my 20's, and crashed at an ex-Vietnam veteran's house with six other homeless youth. We had to find creative and unique ways to help each other live/survive/eat.
We would break into local Internet cafes and I'd chat with friends, but outside of IRC, I had no idea a community existed. I learned about 2600 after someone saw me gut dead computers on the street in order to build a Linux based system for everyone to use at the place we were staying.
I went to my first meet and met my old roommates. From there, I started to rebuild the life.
Lots of TLDR: I had my daughter, worked really shit retail jobs and ended up homeless again because I simply didn't make enough.
This time I begged a shelter councilor to pay a $30 college application fee and swore I'd graduate if he gave me a chance, as I finally grabbed an apartment.
I worked 35 hours a week at Burger King while I worked on my degree as a network specialist. I started with 27 classmates and graduated with 5. My daughter was exceptionally proud of me and I was proud for her to see me accomplish something.
I worked in support for a while and really got into capture the flag competitions and started my own blog.
Eventually, I moved onward to my first job as a penetration tester last year and went from homeless to owning my first home.
My daughter and now son are the best things to ever happen to me.
I'm raw fucking proof anything is possible.
I'm going to make this my #introduction Toot. My name is Matthew and I was born and live in England, though I've also lived in #France and traveled widely.
I'm an #Anarchist #Buddhist - two things that might not seem obviously related, yet in truth they are. I care deeply for people and planet: #inequality and #ClimateJustice are two sides of one coin. We must find a new narrative, a new social contract. We have to learn to live in #peace.
We must engage with current #social, #economic, and #political paradigms and seek to reimagine them to be fit for purpose, because currently they are not.
Extractive patriarchal capitalism is destroying the #ecosphere, and our communities. #ClimateChange is a symptom, not the problem. The symptom will only alleviate when the problem is addressed.
Been lurking on here long enough while watching the fall of the bird site. Time for an #introduction
I’m a software engineer turned engineering leader. I’ve “lived” on the bird site for almost 16 years. A few things about my professional life:
- Led a team behind the initial launch of #adobecreativecloud
- Got into #enterprise #opensource at NodeSource and released N|Solid
- Built the engineering team at #Heptio where I met @nova
- Joined #fastly and was on the floor of #NYSE for the IPO