Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 5

Hey, great feedback everyone! It is great to hear not just that there are so many options, but there are all stable! I mean, folks act like non-GMail is the wild west, but folks get by on the federated messaging protocol just fine. I'll compile these results soon, as soon as I get a wikibase going. There is a conceptual Docker understanding step before that, but we'll get there!

@maiki I've been using protonmail for a while. No complaints. It's an email service that doesn't treat you like shit. You login and it shows you your emails, then you can send emails. What more could you want?

This bricklayer drove a mini digger into a just finished hotel after his bosses didn't pay his wages

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/22/police-seek-digger-driver-who-trashed-brand-new-travelodge

We stan a proletarian legend

Next time you think

“Let’s add a dependency on X.”

try saying instead

“Let’s agree that someday our application will break because of X.”

What might change for you?

#XP #DevOps #RiskManagement

Want to hack on ActivityPub/fediverse stuff before FOSEM? @sl007 is graciously hosting a hackathon in Vlissingen and fediverse friends are invited to come! I'll be there and hacking on Spritely! https://indieweb.org/2019/Vlissingen

Google somehow changed the license terms of the Android SDK a few days ago. As the licnese hash is programatically checked by the SDK-tools, this means hat unfortunately builds are failing all over the place. (Not just for #fdroid but in peoples CI systems as well.)

We are looking into it: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/issues/620

RT @twiecki@twitter.com
My favorite device in terms of engineering ingenuity is a rice cooker. How does it know the rice is done? It's not a timer because the time varies. It knows that when temp >100C, the water is gone. But not via thermostat, but a freaking magnet that loses strength at >100C. Genius

in the old times, they used to send out podcasts using very low-wavelength wifi that you could pick up from miles away, and there were dozens of podcasts to choose from that would all run 24/7

can't have bugs if you don't have code

I think a lot about how essential, unfun labor is organized in The Dispossessed and Anarresti society.

I would really love to duck out of work for a week every month to dig ditches, irrigate fields, build railways, and generally improve society. There's so much work to be done! But of course, we don't value that.

@mray WIP. Guix started with CLI, then it got TUI, now GUI is WIP but not ready for 1.0. Any help appreciated if you want to see it sooner.
ヽ(*＾▽＾)／

Rust's dbg! macro (new in 1.32) is delightful. You write dbg!(my_var) and you get a print statement that writes:

[src/my_file.rs:123] my_var = "value of my_var"

It's a huge ergonomic help when debugging!

when I was on twitter it was like being forced to drink sewage out of an open fire hydrant, and now that I am on mastodon I am free to take petite, ladylike sips of sewage at my own leisure

@Shamar @bob @Tlacaelel @aral

This is at least the rusty group.
https://github.com/sunrise-choir

Keystone pipline: *spills 210.000 gallons of oil*
Petrolheads: ...

Niger delta: *is destroyed by oil extraction*
Petrolheads: ...

Pemex pipeline: *kills 85 in explosion*
Petrolheads: *chirp*

Electric car: *exists*
Petrolheads: "BATTERIES ARE POLLUTING! WHERE WILL YOU TAKE ALL THE ENERGY FROM? ELECTRICITY COMES FROM COAL! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE DEPLETED BATTERIES? ELECTRIC CARS ARE JUST A HOAX!"

Finally this happened!

#Friendica 2019.01 release now officially supports #activitypub out of the gate.

https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/tag/2019.01

From their #changelong:

''The AP functionality was tested with Hubzilla, #Mastodon, #NextcloudSocial, #Osada, #PeerTube, with #Pixelfed and #Pleroma.''

Another bunch of users to interact with... a more viable alternative to FB and #Diaspora, because #activitypub (and #zot) is the future of decentralised social net.

Thank you guys,

There are many #Mastodon apps available, you can see an official listing here:

https://joinmastodon.org/apps

You can also follow the app makers on Mastodon:

Mast - @JPEG

Mastalab - @tom79

Subway Tooter (in Japanese) - @SubwayTooter

Toot! - @tootapp

Tusky - @Tusky

#MastoTips