Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 43

@tinker understand, totally with you there. You find that spare time, you tell me where to get it!

@tinker if you didn't believe in the need for Open Source software before, that would convince you it is paramount. Could you imagine if something like that was proprietary and ad supported?

Under President Trump kids are learning post-fact math.

@kaniini that sucks, I haven't had that experience, but I mostly go for events not during the work day or regularly. Also, usually with kids.

@n8 they seem to have a free tier for OSS projects, which is nice. Wish it'd just use Mailman though.

@vickysteeves I have a spiral bound notebook I was thinking about making a cover for. I was thinking about using the makerspace's laser cutter and seeing if I could make one out of a thin wood. The laser cutter could make the holes small enough and I could etch whatever I want on the front.

Haven't gotten to the point of making it yet though, that is just the leading idea right now.

@garrett Dallas has the longest light rail system in America, the problem generally is low usage. The argument of why that is gets political really fast, but I'm hoping that there are changes afoot that'll help.

@garrett I doubt Dallas will make it to Step 1.

Though they are pushing to put a light rail line downtown underground. We'll see if that gets to completion.

@Angle sure, definitely more expensive if nothing else. But people in cars are less likely to enjoy the sunshine than someone walking. I always believe in optimizing for enjoyment.

The idea of giving separate levels of cities for pedestrians and automobiles seems nice, though I'd put the cars underground. — https://www.dallasnews.com/life/curious-texas/2018/05/16/really-underground-mall-downtown-dallas-curious-texas-goes-exploring

@cassidyjames I've found I'm using Twitter less and less. Thinking about ditching Twidere for a full Mastodon client.

Someone did something stupid. But what I find amazing is that during the class a journalist posted pictures of the pages, they got mocked online, and the pages were removed before the end of the class. — http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44137979

Had something go crazy and move all the files around in my home directory. The Nextcloud client dutifully replicated that to the cloud. Messed up everything easy to get to.

Now restoring from full backups and figuring out where some stuff went.

Who put all this junk in my backups?

Humans are awful to each other. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-education-camps.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

@seanl Go has attempted something like this with their Context, which is designed to be allocated when a connection is created and then passed through the various routines.

https://golang.org/pkg/context/#pkg-overview

The lack of being able to easily extend objects or attach data to them in Go seriously impacts its usefulness though. Even the stdlib extensions are tedious in their implementation.

@seanl I think the other option is to create hot-spare containers that are already initialized just waiting on a connection. Then let them loose when a connection comes in. Certainly it is more complex and requires more resources, but I think it creates a more reliable and safer environment.

Probably a crazy idea, no one ever pays for security or reliability.

@seanl I worry about this with serverless technologies. It seems like many of them are trying to be clever and reuse the contexts between requests. There be dragons.

@xuv looking at it, it seems mostly to allow comments using an account somewhere else. So the replies to the post are the comments on the article.

Feel like my @nextcloud app is judging me.

@garrett we'll see how things go, but Fox News has been less impressed with him as late. And he's definitely walking a tightrope with these North Korea talks. It's hard to imagine he'll get a deal that would make the hawks happy. I'm not sure how he'll be able to sell it to his base — I may be surprised — but definitely a huge risk there.

The only way I can imagine true success for him is to walk away saying Kim Jong-un was unreasonable. But then if China makes a deal...