ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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I really hope we funnel our energy into supporting all kinds of creators in 2019. But also, I would love to see people have a more temperate and open appreciation of what they enjoy. Passion is great, but aggression and gatekeeping? That's wack.
Done with work! Off for holidays!
Article about amazon's bureaucracy and court system: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketplace-scams-seller-court-appeal-reinstatement
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Oh wow. Latest adventofcode puzzle was pretty fun. (Day 19)
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The ancient abomination woke from its dreamless sleep, swam to the the shore and walked to the nearest town.
"You," it roared at a terrified dog-walker, "what year is it?"
"Uh. 2018."
"Still? It's been ages," the abomination grumbled. "I'll be back when I can make a difference."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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The more Mastodon servers there, are, the better. The more spread out people are across them, the more the network is resilient to various failure modes.
The basic premise of Mastodon is that you follow your friends from different servers! So go forth, and explore the fediverse ☺️
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I don't have a political point to make here; I don't care about your affiliation, your party, or your vote; here's the only thing that matters this week for a huge number of Americans:
December 15 is the cut-off to register for health care at HealthCare.gov
Pass it on.
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"Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
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Lets take a moment to talk about the many faces of Activity Pub (this network)
Mastodon wants to replace twitter (some of their warts and all)
Pleroma wants to empower communities and users by building a great platform for "the socials" that has a STRONG focus on safety (I promise, there are some amazing features like MRF which are not widely known or understood). Think bulletin boards / forums in a very very broad sense.
Pixelfed is slowly building federation support to take on Instagram
Plume is a blogging engine that leverages the network for comments and sharing of content (Tumblr alternative)
PeerTube is hoping to take on YouTube
FunkWhale is inspired by grooveshark and wants you to get your groove going
PInafore is a lean, mean UI that's pretty
Halcyon is a tweet deck alternative
we have a couple CLI UI's as well
We have some tools that auto-delete posts after a timeout
We have some tools that cross post rss feed articles as posts
We have a LOT of developers from ALL over that are doing some really cool things.
This network isn't just a singular instance OR experience. It's the human condition of many views upon a topic expressed in a technical form.
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Be kind, rewind
Pleroma wants to empower communities and users by building a great platform for "the socials" that has a STRONG focus on safety (I promise, there are some amazing features like MRF which are not widely known or understood). Think bulletin boards / forums in a very very broad sense.
Pixelfed is slowly building federation support to take on Instagram
Plume is a blogging engine that leverages the network for comments and sharing of content (Tumblr alternative)
PeerTube is hoping to take on YouTube
FunkWhale is inspired by grooveshark and wants you to get your groove going
PInafore is a lean, mean UI that's pretty
Halcyon is a tweet deck alternative
we have a couple CLI UI's as well
We have some tools that auto-delete posts after a timeout
We have some tools that cross post rss feed articles as posts
We have a LOT of developers from ALL over that are doing some really cool things.
This network isn't just a singular instance OR experience. It's the human condition of many views upon a topic expressed in a technical form.
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Be kind, rewind
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If you really want to help Firefox succeed, file a bug on https://webcompat.com/ when you find a broken website. Don't just switch back to Chrome; let Mozilla know there's a problem so they can try to fix it.
When browsers lose market share, they fall into the "compatibility death spiral." Sites don't bother to test, they break, and users flee to the browser that "just works." Mozilla is fighting this battle every day, and it just got harder.
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#introductions I'm not sure what name I'll go by here but I ran Dark Coast Photography on tumblr. I'm trying this out, probably in tandem with Pillowfort and Ello as an alternative. I'm mostly a landscape photographer but I'm trying my hand at a lot of different work, or at least I want to.
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Until today, I had never felt the urge to post a nipple pic with the caption:
"Guess: female nipples, or Lucas' moobs? You decide!"
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Roko's Basilisk is a prime example of Poe's Law because I am pretty sure the author was just taking the piss but now it's a serious thing
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eldritch 👏 abominations 👏 can 👏 like 👏 cute 👏 things 👏 and 👏 put 👏 nice 👏 flowers 👏 in 👏 what 👏 we 👏 humans 👏 can 👏 only 👏 comprehend 👏 as 👏 their 👏 "hair" 👏
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This is why millennials are killing Christmas letters: https://xkcd.com/2075/
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
