Notices by ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social), page 21

I saw somebody looking for a Medium alternative and suggested Dreamwidth, I'm happy they seem to like it!

I forget how many people don't know about Dreamwidth. If you want old-school blogging, good accessibility, RSS, no ads, no trackers, no Javascript, and good people if you're looking for community, I really can't recommend it highly enough.

Ah this reminds me.

Serverless architecture has a name since at least the 60s.

It's called Mainframes. You're running stuff on someone's Mainframe, in a proprietary OS.

Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar

https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/

I now know the name of my sworn enemy...

"Serverless architecture"

What idiot would voluntarily lock themselves to a vendor by implementing all their business-critical code against a proprietary cloud API?

I hate those web control panels. Where's my shell prompt? I want to check my process list and attach a debugger.

If you love Firebase and Amazon AWS, you're part of the problem. Argue all you want. You may be right, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it.

A great example of algorithms solving the wrong problem, via @janellecshane https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1016448801375055872/

my real theory is that mastodon and the fediverse and other new web platforms got the next generation on it and while its messy they're growing and a good number of these people are going to grow and end up doing really important and powerful things

"Mastodon will begin keeping track who you engage with without following. For example, if you end up often boosting cat pictures that your friend boosts into your home timeline, perhaps you would want to follow the author of those cat pictures. The new API method will show such results. No user interface yet."

LITERALLY WHO ASKED FOR THIS SILICON VALLEY DONKEY BOLLOCKS? :blobugh:

Hey folks! I got a better paying job! But it's in another town, and we need some help packing/moving. Anyone in the PDX area willing to drive a uhaul between beaverton and eugene? We'll be happy to drive you back after and help in any way we can!

Did cybre.space go extinct? I think I missed that.

Time to schedule July's meetup! Vote for a date here: http://whenisgood.net/bhm23tr

June's poll was tucked away in the last announcement post, so nobody saw it. Oops! I'll try not to make that mistake again.

"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...

The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297

Currently learning about the Third Reich. Hearing all this stuff about the US progression along the road to Nazidom, and seeing people’s denials and other people’s pleas for action. It makes me realise how hard it must have been in the 1930s to

1) figure out what was actually happening

and

2) figure out WTF to do about it.

Don’t think I’ll be making the mistake again of writing the people who lived in that period off as morally inferior because they “allowed” the rise of Hitler + the Nazis.

Oh boy. This is literally what happened at #SHA2017. The Finnish Embassy had a mobile sauna.

(source: https://satwcomic.com/traveling-light-the-finnish-way)

I gotta start writing again. I don't think any media people are still on Masto but if you are and you've got tips for who I should be pitching (to write the sort of thing I write) hit me up

How to download the profiles of every ICE agent on LinkedIn. https://github.com/antiboredom/ice-linkedin The demonstrators blocking ICE agents inside their Portland HQ are already inspiring a nationwide movement around the #SurroundICE hashtag on Birdsite. As individuals, they can also be surrounded where they live, socialize, worship and shop.