Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 67

Looking to put this account on the title slide of a presentation, but not sure what to put.

Not sure if it is a "Mastodon" or an "ActivityPub" account. Or exactly how to show either of those. Here's a mockup of both, with Twitter for comparison. Which is right? https://social.gould.cx/media/7Xuh4-Wp2ottNdf_mg0

@mairin if you haven't seen it, I really love Rocketbook. It is a physical notebook that is erasable that easily goes digital. https://getrocketbook.com/

@brian @tinker yeah, but not paying for hosting with Gitlab either. Livin' the high life!

I agree, but the solution isn't to decorate political advertising with special regulations but to limit the scope of *all* online advertising. The same mechanisms that reduce choice politically also reduce the quality of products in the market. A fair market for good ideas is good politics and economics. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/technology/democrats-silicon-valley.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

I get nervous anytime a politician is going to solve problems in education, but it seems like they focus here is figuring out how the core UT system should serve the individual institutions which is good to review and adjust. — https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/23/ut-regents-review-could-reshape-system-headed-critic-system-growth/

@liw kids these days 😉

For many people Open Source is simply: "Jeez, there sure are a lot of Go libraries."

@liw got a couple folks on Twitter criticizing Inkscape's move to Gitlab because "Github is the home of open source."

@tinker I use Jekyll posting on GitLab and then Cloudflare in front of it for free SSL. Works great. Feel a little guilty that it's all free.

@otto9otto doesn't yet, still a work in progress.

Visualization of snowfall in the US this year — http://strimas.com/r/snowfall/

@federicomena where do folks like this find the time? He spent a lot of time deciding how you should do everything in his perfect world.

@mairin feel like I need to start tracking them so that I can make everyday my birthday 😃

@mairin I've started giving fake birthdays and just noting them in my password manager. Really getting out of hand the info services think they need.

An interesting way to limit app based navigation from routing people through the town. I wonder how people in the town will react when they realize they can't use the navigation for their own trips as well. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/nyregion/leonia-gps-navigation-apps.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Glad that the Supreme Court will give some final clarity on this gerrymandering, not excited to wait for the decision. Probably won't be for this election. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2018/01/22/wanted-redrawn-political-districts-encourage-competition-ideas-rather-gerrymandering

Seems like a bad dude, but it looks to me like the police really over stepped their bounds on the searches. — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/01/22/dallas-gun-prosecution-serves-test-case-challenges-illegal-police-searches

Bad ideas: "Alexa, turn on the garbage disposal."

If you can read this, you can post statuses to Mastodon with cURL like this:

curl --data "access_token=<redacted>" --data-urlencode "status=Status Text" https://social.gould.cx/api/v1/statuses

From the title I expected to be more impressed with the iPhone's portrait mode, still has a ways to go. Doesn't mean it won't get there, but not yet. — https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1321817752/iphone-x-portrait-mode-versus-ilc-dslr-camera