Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 10

Tonight's backyard friend is an awesome opossum.

@amsomniac @applebaps Jesus fuck

@applebaps your plums were tasty and cold, only shooting stars break the mold

@phooky hey now
you're awake now
bet you want plums
well, they
hey now
they're all gone now
I ate all them
sorray
and all of them were so good
I hope you forgive me
(they were cold)

somebody once told me
you're gonna wake up hungry
don't eat the plums i left in the fridge

in the morning i was dumb
and my tongue was kinda numb
so i foraged around for some breakfast

well the plums start coming and they don't stop coming
once you eat one you just can't stop plumming
don't stop to think till they're all gone
i think oh shit you've done it now shaun
so much to eat so much to chow
why did i go for the plums now
i'd better leave a good note
so here's the thing that i wrote

why though

I was inspired by @darius 's essay about small social networks and wrote a few words on my own experiences over the year building online communities.

Build them small and they will stay

https://asininetech.com/2019/07/08/build-them-small-and-they-will-stay/

Humans really gave up early on domestication. I’d have domesticated everything. This is my guard pangolin, would you like some bat milk?

i love this

I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.

This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.

I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.

https://runyourown.social/

Getting kicked out of the Bell Centre for my sign that says "Wearing a jersey when you're not on the team is technically cosplay"

@darius IBM's biggest wound was its incredible insularity. They were a de facto monopoly and thus wrote their own standards and continued to keep them for far to long. Classic IBM engineers can recite the catalog numbers for parts and coded in languages often not transferrable to other systems. It's a lot like MSFT coders from the mid-late 90s. As late as 2001, I was still writing EBCDIC translations for basic strings from an IBM database.

#GTALUG meeting tomorrow at 7:30 PM.

We're having Lightning talks!

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2019-07/

Why does every bigot fancy himself a statistician?

Alright, lemme see your p-values, where's your prior distribution, what model are you fitting, did you pick a distribution from the exponential family, what are your error bounds, got a confidence or probability interval to back up those claims, big boy?

All Clear mode in Tetris Effect has a puzzle where the solution is to take the first line block, drop it in a 5 high gap, rotate it into a 5 wide horizontal gap, then spin it the other way to get it into the four high gap in the bottom, then spin the next block into the horizontal gap, which then leaves a four high for the last piece and yeah, I can do it but those should NOT be valid moves.

I feel like Catsby is modelling for some hipster hifi magazine

circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."

Fixed the latch on the front screen door, seems relatively cat-proofed. Still kinda nervous to leave them alone with it open, though