ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Should developers build search engines for the fediverse that reflect current community standards?

#Poll #EvanPoll

Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing their network, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

You can walk into any room and scream. "THIS WHOLE THING IS A FARCE!", and it's entirely appropriate every time.

Something I did that I liked.

Happy 10th birthday to the strip that became the last decade's defining meme.

Flipping through work notebook, found a single word:

Simultumultuously

Yeah, that’s a good word. I need to work it into conversations more.

#WordNerd

If your firm uses Bitlocker you will need to take special efforts to apply this patch. It will need a special script.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41099

Anyways back to working on this stuff.

I was just fired. If you know someone hiring staff level software engineers, preferably in a #sre, #devops, or #PlatformEngineering space, I'd love to talk.

I'm looking for US remote positions, fwiw. And I can refer some really excellent engineers at all experience levels.

Edit: thank you for the boosts. I've been interviewing and I may have offers soon. I'll follow up on leads if I need to extend my search.

I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.

Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.

The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.

The place: 1920s Portugal.

The crime: Counterfeiting.

The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.

(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)

The adoption of #Bitcoin is anemic ... and has staled since 2018 to ~20M active addresses (upper bound of nb of users)

This graph (log scale) shows unique active adresses on the #bitcoin #blockchain over 6 months.

It is compared to the adoption of internet and mobile phones, shifted in time to fit 20M users adoption.

Sources :

📕 Bitcoin adresses : Glassnode [https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&ema=0&m=addresses.ActiveCount&mAvg=6&mMedian=0&mScl=log&pScl=log&resolution=1month]

📕 Internet & mobile adoption : Ou World in Data [https://ourworldindata.org/technology-adoption]

#CryptoScam #CryptoSkeptic

How to photograph a fox

“This brilliant illustration, made by Swedish artist Karl Jilg & commissioned by the Swedish Road Administration, shows just how extreme the situation truly is — even in an urban district that's designed with pedestrians in mind.”

How much space in our streets that we’ve surrendered to cars, and how little space is left for everything else.

#streets #cities #urbanism #roads #cars #car

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/18/7236471/cars-pedestrians-sidewalks-roads

The topic of #genuary12 is Tessellation, which of course is right in my wheelhouse. Here's a recreation of a technique that I used in a 2010 paper: I evolve an organic tiling by applying a differential growth model to the prototile's edges. The sketch just needs a bit more work (it doesn't know when to stop evolving). #genuary https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/sketches/udVXN6NV-

The Furby source code is public and heavily commented. For example, it turns the microphone off when the motors are running.

Furby was the 1998 version of ChatGPT and tons of people thought it actually slowly learned English words. The NSA was alarmed. However it turned out the "learning" process was just on a timer and the "microphone" only triggers on loud sounds.
https://archive.org/details/furby-source

Be wary of those keeping an eye on you but not complimenting, cheering, or supporting you. Be discerning of those around you.

Should we campaign to #fediblock commercially owned instances on #Mastodon?

This poll follows news that #Medium has started its own instance.

We could make exceptions for news orgs, or maybe force them to use non profit instances.

Robert Tinney was the cover artist for Byte magazine from 1975-1986, where he cranked out these fantastic paintings that captured the spirit of tech from that time. Here is one of my favorites (from 1981). #RetroComputing #Byte

I've shared more of Robert's retro-futuristic paintings on my blog https://docpop.org/2020/11/robert-tinneys-visions-of-the-future/

Robert is also selling prints via his site http://tinney.net/

Searchtodon was bound to happen.

While searchability on the Fediverse has been a controversial topic, it was inevitable.

If data is public and addressable, it will be indexable.