Notices by Jason Lefkowitz (jalefkowit@octodon.social)

"Heart of Texas, a Russian-controlled Facebook group that promoted Texas secession, announced a rally on May 21, 2016 to 'Stop Islamification of Texas.'

A separate Russian-sponsored group advertised a 'Save Islamic Knowledge' rally for the same place and time.

Protesters showed up in downtown Houston. Interactions between the two groups eventually escalated into confrontation.

Russians managed to pit Texans against each other for the bargain price of $200."

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/

TODAY: Two people meet on Mastodon

FOUR YEARS FROM NOW: "And these are our children, Emojo and Jort"

Whom the gods would destroy, they first give Docker

Give Amazon three years, they'll be selling a $250 service where a courier jams your package straight up your ass

Went searching for info on a World War I battleship and discovered that in 1982 GM thought it was a good idea to try and sell a Camaro with a 90 horsepower engine (!).

I love the internet http://www.motortrend.com/news/12q3-buyers-guide-1982-1992-chevrolet-camaro/

I still remember being 14 years old, seeing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" hit #1 and realizing that I lived in a world full of people whose brains worked very very differently than mine

"The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster."

-- From Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art" (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art)

If you’re asking me whether I still regret the “ALTA VISTA 4 LIFE” lower back tattoo I got in 1998, then yes. The answer is yes

The only phone anyone on this site should be using https://octodon.social/media/zXVwZ7cBoIek1KZDXfg

@zigg "We've got top men on it. Top. Men." https://octodon.social/media/Ydcf9Ib1RGvqGFjJyDw

The Microsoft Sculpt Ergo keyboard uses the same keys for both the function keys and the media keys. You have to switch between those modes with a toggle switch.

Presumably this is to make the keyboard smaller and more "minimalist"

But you know what? When it comes to keyboards, minimalism can go fuck itself. Keyboards should be HUGE and RAD and COOL AS HELL. Keyboards should be big enough to SURF ON

My rap name is White Privilege

Is there an implementer's guide to ActivityPub out there anywhere? Something that provides an easier on-ramp for implementers than just working through the spec?

MORE SITES THAT YOU CANNOT GET TO OVER IPV6 IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2017 FOR SOME REASON, AND THESE REALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER

* Ars Technica
* Hacker News
* DuckDuckGo
* Stack Overflow
* Amazon (including AWS)
* Microsoft.com
* Rackspace Cloud's online control panel

Two skinny girls just walked in to this Dunkin' Donuts. WHAT ARE YOU DOING. WHY WERE YOU CAST OUT BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE

"I mean, so far we're all still alive so" https://octodon.social/media/9225lxIdnVKmo3rxqm0

@garbados @sydneyfalk Nonono! Nobody complained about the sysadmins more than the devs did, because sysadmins were the ones telling them they couldn't run bleeding-edge fresh-from-npm code on production systems. The devs wanted the New Features Right Now, and the sysadmins were in the way. So devs invented devops as a way to say "we don't need those old fuddy-duddies anymore, we can do it all."

[ MASTER SHAKE VOICE ] Hundreds. Literally hundreds

https://octodon.social/media/Re0zbayXfx6xV-8hX90

@twitter Not me baby https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2014/07/the-amazon-endgame/