TIL that in Python, bool is a subclass of int.

#til

Looking forward to Handmade Seattle tomorrow! I'm not a systems or game programmer, but the few talks from last year I watched were fascinating. Will be attending virtually.

https://handmade-seattle.com/

Billionaire👏🏽Philanthropy👏🏽Is👏🏽PR.

Yes $100M is a lot of money, but:
1) Bezos spent $5.5B to go to space for 4 min
2) Had Bezos & Amazon simply paid their taxes—that would've been ~$25B over the last 3 years alone

Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires

Someday I'll get around to creating a Dash docset for Fennel.

/me throws it into the sparkfile, never to be seen again

Just woke up and learned about #fedified. I literally work at my day job on technology to aid verification of sources and let me tell you: it seems like a pretty big hack of a project that misses the point. Basically you have to trust the humans who run that site. What we actually need is buy-in from organizations to provide rel=me linkbacks to their various representatives. And for unaffiliated people who want verification, you add it to your website. That's it. We already have it on Mastodon

nobody:

absolutely nobody:

yubikey: cccjgjgkhcbbcvchfkfhiiuunbtnvgihdfiktncvlhck

Really wish I could use Hide My Email with Apple Pay. That's an integration that seems like such low-hanging fruit.

Isn't it kinda weird that #Mastodon gets described as 'left-leaning' because we handle more strickt rules and don't tolerate things like bullying.. It could be me but I perceive this as 'normal'.

I mean you don't call people all kinds of names in a conversation on the street or in the store right? Even if you don't agree🤔

Somehow it feels the (online) standards for treating each other have declined so much over the past few years

Let them talk, we are a loving and happy community!

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

I've started outlining the design document for what will eventually be my proposal for end-to-end encryption in Mastodon.

https://github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification

RT @bgsprung
mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

I'd like to tell you about a fun project I've been doing. I changed my web browser font to a custom one. Over several months I replaced the letters in the alphabet one by one, as I adjusted to reading it, until I had replaced the entire alphabet. I can read this fluently now.

biblically accurate vlc

Easy Sat #NYTXW, new PR!

If you're in #seattle, I'm giving a talk at the museum of history and industry (#MOHAI) next Saturday (11/19) and I'm super excited about it!

I'll be giving a very high-level introduction to what "#AI" systems even are, and how human decisions are every step of development shape what they become.

#tech #ethicalai #artificialintelligence

“autosplat”, I love it.