IndieWeb post types
This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
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As part of the preparation for Open Source Founders Summit, I’m interviewing both our speakers and our attendees for a special podcast that’s hyper focused on one thing. In this episode I spoke with Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, about sales. We talked about the specifics of sales as a...

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Mastodon and brid.gy: yes, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org should have expected such a reaction from Mastodonians, and obviously didn’t research it. But fuck me I didn’t expect to see *every* single Weeb, Furry and gendernaut come out to rattle their maracas in his face and claim he was going to get people killed.
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Attached: 1 image This is the energy I need

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Scott Chacon's FOSDEM 2024 talk on Git Tips and Tricks.Scott talks about:00:00 - Introduction01:06 - About Me (well, Scott Chacon)02:36 - How Well Do You Kno...

If you're able to see this post (on the Fediverse) yay! That means your admin hasn't blocked Bridgy Fed which I use to bridge my website with the Fediverse so I can chat to y'all.
This is likely due to recent discussion around the upcoming BlueSky bridge and opt-out being the default decision.
I don't dispute the freedom or choice to block Bridgy, and am definitely taking some time to think about how I feel about the varying thoughts, but the main thing is that it looks like several admins have blocked Bridgy altogether, resulting in not just the blocking of the upcoming BlueSky bridge (at a separate domain under brid.gy
) but also classes Bridgy as Tier 0
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Tier 0 is a combined blocklist of only the worst actors, and it exists to provide one blocklist to which surely no one can object as a baseline for others. It's the perfect starting list for any new mastodon admin.
So it could be my time interacting with the Fediverse is going to be cut short, and I'll be screaming into the void very much moreso 😅
Between and I took 3723 steps.
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Attached: 1 image A Small Girl with a Cat. 1889. https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Théophile-Alexandre-Steinlen/78395/A-Small-Girl-with-a-Cat,-1889.html

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Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

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I love owning a house now it's like should we do preventative maintenance on (a million things) or should we put motorized blinds in to the family room for when we watch tv and films. This also explains why all software is bad.
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Attached: 1 image Honestly, blasting this out to every Amazon employee for Valentine's Day would have been a better move than the "fists of ham" messaging strategy around RTO.

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Imagine an AI assistant that could automatically surface a whole host of useful incident response data points with just a prompt. Well, you won't need to imagine for much longer. That's exactly what we built in Assistant, one of our newest features powered by AI. In this episode, you'll hear from Charlie, the project lead for Assistant, to get a peek behind this game-changing product. You'll hear him chat about: What went into building Assistant What the project timelines were What were some of the challenges the team faced What was it like learning the ropes of prompt engineering while building out Assistant ...and a lot more You can listen to our AI announcement episode here and our previous episode on Suggested Summaries here. Read our blog about Assistant.

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Man I hope members of that community read all my posts and see my nuance otherwise I am NOT going to be invited to the indieweb picnic :(
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Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 differe...

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The open-source ecosystem experienced a monumental shift in 2023, as detailed by Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub, on the Mechanical Ink Podcast. The Octoverse report highlighted that more first-time contributors joined the open-source community than ever before. But why?

Between and I took 4252 steps.
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How I switched my side project from using Amazon S3 for file hosting to using Tigris (which is built on Fly.io infrastructure). It was a good experience overall, but there were a few quirks.
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If you missed my talks at FOSDEM, the slides / videos are online now. I was on an all-star panel about making a career out of open source, and I gave a talk in the community devroom about strategies for building healthy communities. You can find the links from my #fosdem speaker page: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/XX3PMJ/
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every john oliver segment: "...that would be like if we made a sloth the white house's Chief Economist, YOU CAN'T COUNT THE MONEY SLOTHY, YOU'VE ONLY GOT THREE FINGERS!!! Anyway unless multilateral action is taken to stop the ongoing genocide in Palestine..."
Between and I took 4723 steps.
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Shower thought: With all the data breaches, no matter how private you may be, somewhere in the world exists a hacker that knows exactly what kinks you're into, but is too shy to say hello.
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In response to @cadey@pony.social's blog post about wanting retry loops in #Golang, I wrote terrible hack using using the proposed iterator syntax. https://go.dev/play/?v=gotip var err error for range backoff(&err, 1 * time.Second) { if err = something1(); err != nil { continue } if err = something2() ; err != nil { continue } }
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Attached: 1 video This deserves to be on your timeline. Trust me. 💙💙💙 Edit: Since this is blowing up, may I also suggest you follow me for more cute/wholesome posts? ;3

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Would you like three months FREE Trade Union membership? Join Prospect between 12-18 February - https://prospect.org.uk/join/ I'm a member and they've been very useful to me in my professional life. If you're kind enough to mention my name when joining, I get a tenner. Happy to answer any questions. #JoinAUnion #TradeUnions
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To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the startYes, we were aware that pol...

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I’m uncomfortable with my appearance a lot and do not like to draw attention to myself as a sexual object and/or object of desire, so I’ll be brief but Even in the test garments I wore for three hours for the purposes of fitting, adjustment and colour/feature choosing of this suit: if you were already attracted to me then you’d have awooga eyes if you could have seen me in them
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@shockwaver@strangeobject.space I really like the term "temporarily-abled" for describing abled people for this reason. All abled people are only temporarily abled, unless they die suddenly while their bodies are still intact. The more people recognize the ephemeral nature of ability, the more compassionate we become as a society, I hope.
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Attached: 1 image They’re gonna “melt” down over this.

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Last summer I started to get clued in to how colonialism manifests in domain names, so I began to let a number of "my" domain names lapse. One hadn't expired yet... but its time has come. This morning: > Afghanistan ccTLD Network Information Center ( af NIC ) > inclusive.af has been suspended in the registry and will no longer be included in zone file generation. This means that any services connected with this domain, such as websites or email addresses will cease working shortly.
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F in chat for queer.af
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“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!” Maintainer: *introduces commercial features* “Not like that” Maintainer: *works for a large tech co* “Not like that” Maintainer: *takes investment* “Not like that”
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Vanity top-level domains are all fun and games until the Taliban seizes your domain.
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Lots of men in tech see women in tech either as sexual tensions for their own enjoyment or as mentoring opportunities, but never as their equals. This needs to stop. #WomenInTech
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Bolaji spotlights OSCA's Sustain conference, emphasizing its diverse workshops, notable attendance, and new mental health and data science working groups. He addresses self-care and workload management in the open-source community, offering strategies for maintaining physical health in demanding roles.

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New releases♬ Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 released🧹 golangci-lint 1.56.1 released, including support for `--show-stats` and John's bugfixConferences and Meetups🇮🇱 Go Israel March 2024 hosted by Orca SecurityGo 1.22 Feature RundownOfficial announcement, release notes, and download linkCool interactive...

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I wish Go had a retry block https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/retry-block/
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Content warning: Agency - a poem by J. Lass
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Attached: 1 image Seeing Jack in the booth with Jay-Z and Beyonce at the Super Bowl is a reminder that Square bought Tidal as an answer to the question - how much would you pay for dinner with Jay-Z?

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Attached: 1 image I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

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These are all separate vectors: 1. VC vs user-supported 2. Files vs databases 3. Open vs proprietary formats 4. Open vs closed source 5. Extensible vs non-extensible 6. Private vs privacy-invasive An open source app can be VC-backed, store its data in a proprietary format, have terrible APIs, and include telemetry
Between and I took 10121 steps.
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watching the episode of queer eye set at the lousiana school for the deaf (which is the campus my father went to when he went blind! we love it) and it's clear that they were using translators and assistive technology throughout the shoot, but they removed all of it from the final cut which, I don't know, feels like a choice to me
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We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.

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i know i disappeared, but i’m in the trenches of the seasonal sads, will be back soon!
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There's this course called the Missing Semester (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) that teaches you the practical stuff like using the CLI, shell scripting, Git, Vim, etc. It was created for CS students who apparently don't learn these things in class. But as a biochemistry/microbiology major turned bioinformatician, I need the CS course instead!