I have to admit that a small corner of my mind has spent the week debating whether surveillance balloons are cyberpunk or steampunk

Bikes don't need traffic lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgacSmLBSIQ

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"

"Yes, I used LaTeX and couldn't fix that bit"

"Every bad technological idea is first rolled out on poor people, refugees, prisoners, kids, mental patients and other people who can’t push back."

@pluralistic bringt es Mal wieder auf den Punkt. Man weiss gar nicht, was man am besten zitieren soll.
https://doctorow.medium.com/netflix-wants-to-chop-down-your-family-tree-cc524a5dd7db

Since the influx there's been an uptick in people creating their own instances, small communities spinning up, and people asking for help getting started moderating or getting off to a good start with community moderation, so I've written some words and assembled them into some kind of order for your reading pleasure:

https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/so-you-want-to-be-an-instance-admin

"So You Want To Be An Instance Admin"

Please ping if you see anything I should edit. <3

It’s amazing how crappy all the major tech companies are getting.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html

As usual, Apple seems to be in the least bad position, but it’s a low bar, and they’re also sliding downhill, just not as rapidly.

it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward

My timeline currently consists of posts that say:

“iOS has a cultural advantage over Android because of Apple’s relentless focus on highly-polished UX.”

And:

“I tried to move an app on my home screen and fifteen icons disappeared; I had to reboot.”

Well this is an exciting development: #Firefox 110 on #macOS is finally getting #CTAP2 support! This means it can finally support passwordless use of #WebAuthn with security keys 🔥

To test this out for yourself, go to about:config, set security.webauthn.ctap2 to True, then give it a shot. It's just a matter of time before this is turned on by default 🎉

RIP to the birbsite API. It arguably played a pretty significant role in my journey as a software developer, in my reimplementing TweetStats playing a part in getting a job at Simply Measured.

Tempted to get the new HomePod for this reason alone.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/searls/statuses/109795993229138029

At the risk of being the #suit, I feel obligated to point out that the critique floating around that, "None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an opportunity to suppress wages without any criticism and they took it", lacks nuance.

Tell me your billion dollar business is a sham with no intellectual integrity without telling me your billion business is a sham with no intellectual integrity.

"This meeting could have been an email" buddy as long you come to meetings but don't read your email this meeting will not be an email.

So far, I’m 2 for 2 on using a big web framework that isn’t Rails and coming out the other end just that much more impressed with Rails.

As @getajobmike said, lots of great improvements in Bundler 2.4 but for me no longer having some of the most confusing output about dependency resolution blockers is a gigantic improvement, especially for less experienced folks who could feel paralyzed by the previous output on resolution failure. https://bundler.io/blog/2023/01/31/bundler-v2-4.html

Thanks to David Rodríguez, @jhawthorn, and @nex3 for their incredibly helpful work.

#ruby #bundler #pubgrub

hate being in a situation where i mostly agree with the people who say software got very bloated, but also have to remind them that a lot of things have changed that do require today's level of complexity

like unicode being normalized, and now every OS has to know how to render all sorts of scripts of different complexity

or that desktop displays other than 96 dpi are a thing (which is part of the reason why all user interfaces now use flat icons and such)

or security (a web browser from the 90s would be unable to do HTTPS, and would not isolate 3rd-party cookies and such that weren't a problem back then, but would be a big issue now)

also, it sucks that so many "cross-platform" apps are now just web apps running in electron, but that's better than having them be native apps that only run on windows (or sometimes also macOS)

and i'd say today's HTML5/JS-based web apps are still an improvement over what we had before, which, i should remind you all, was shockwave/macromedia/adobe flash (and it was an even less pleasant experience on linux)

A number of folks have reached out to us over the past few months asking how they could help Mastodon out. Unfortunately, we haven't had the capacity to accept those kind offers at the time.

If you're interested in getting involved as a volunteer, please fill out this form (and share it around!) so we know who could help with what. (There is plenty that needs doing!)

https://joinmastodon.typeform.com/to/PdqUZCAg

Disabling the LED on the UDM was surprisingly annoying.

curl -k 'https://192.168.1.1/proxy/network/api/s/default/stat/device' -H 'Cookie: TOKEN=<token>'  | jq '.data[] | select(.model=="UDM") | ._id'

curl -k -X PUT 'https://192.168.1.1/proxy/network/api/s/default/rest/device/<id>' -H 'Cookie: TOKEN=<token>' -H 'X-CSRF-Token: <csrf-token>' --json '{"led_override": "off"}' 

Much thanks to finding this as a reference: https://github.com/ameyuuno/docker-unifi-led-light-switch/blob/master/src/unifi_led_switch/unifi.py

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.