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KevinMarks

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Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first.

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hongminhee , to random
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I'm adding a queue for incoming activities in , and I have a concern. If an error occurs while processing an activity, should it retry?

https://hollo.social/@fedify/0190687b-1a09-728b-8a0d-bcbd4dca54cd

KevinMarks ,
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@hrefna @thisismissem @hongminhee @helge does it not support a 201 response with a status url? That's the pattern used elsewhere for this

KevinMarks ,
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@hrefna @thisismissem @hongminhee @helge that does seem like an underspecified area. Webmention does define a 201 status response, for example.

futurebird , to random
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Someone here once told me of how Microsoft had these customers who pay $$$ so a real driving force in the development of Excel are these horrific, unspeakable, monstrosities of spreadsheets critical to the operations of some very serious companies, serious bookkeeping, serious material operations. The elderich horror spreadsheets are decades old, have 100,000s of rows, spaghetti code formulas— Microsoft always checks updates will not harm them. IDK. if it was true: but it felt true.

KevinMarks ,
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@futurebird it was certainly true at Apple when I was there 25 years ago that we had hacks in the OS to keep old versions of apps working that had been passing bad parameters to system functions that had been previously ignored. One I remember was variable rate playback in QuickTime. You were supposed to pass a fixed point speed, but in early versions it only played at 1x speed for any +ve number.
There was a hack put in for specific apps that passed in 1 rather than 0x00010000 (1<<16)

futurebird , to random
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After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

KevinMarks ,
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@futurebird this parallels us coming up with "indieweb" a while back

KevinMarks , to random
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“Type 3 Error – from an old blog post about statistics. A “type 1” error is, in the textbooks, a false positive, while a “type 2” is a false negative. But the Type 3 error is, in my experience just as much of a problem – it refers to “a correct number which isn’t the one your boss wanted”.” https://backofmind.substack.com/p/lexicon

hrefna , to random
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slams desk emphatically THANK YOU. This matches my exact experience with small talk and gives me a good analogy for it.

The one comment on cockatiels is just chef's kiss, because that is exactly how it works with birds (and in people, though we like to deny it).

It's not my favorite mode of interaction, but if you understand its purpose as a social ritual it seems a lot less meaningless.

The other thing: I like to stick it at the end of the conversation.

https://www.tumblr.com/thetetra/750913052342419456/i-figured-out-i-was-autistic-when-i-was-explaining

KevinMarks ,
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@hrefna learning about phatic communication was extremely helpful. slams desk phatically

hrefna , to random
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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect.

KevinMarks ,
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@hrefna previously https://epeus.blogspot.com/2011/12/facebook-twitter-and-google-plus-shun.html

KevinMarks , to random
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

rahmstorf , to random German
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The cost of achieving a 90% clean grid using today’s technology is approximately zero.
And this excludes the external costs of fossil fuels: climate impacts, air pollution, geopolitical instability.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/is-renewable-energy-cheaper-than?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-03-12&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+12+03+2024

KevinMarks ,
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@rahmstorf this seems to ignore storage options, especially well understood ones like pumped hydropower. If you reframe the wind/solar excess as intermittent abundance, then using it for desalination and aquifer restoration fits in very well with dispatchable hydropower

hrefna , to random
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The fact that AP defaults to HTML for the content annoys me to no end. It just increases the attack surface by so so much x_x

KevinMarks ,
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@hrefna @erincandescent the feedparser sanitization rules are good practice https://feedparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/html-sanitization.html but you can start simpler like mastodon does at the moment https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23913
I'm not sure it is fully documented outside the code though https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/lib/sanitize_ext/sanitize_config.rb

FediTips , to random
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If you prefer, you can use Mastodon entirely through the web without any app at all. Mastodon has an excellent web-based interface which tends to get the latest features first.

To access the web interface, just go to your server's website and log in with the same details that you use on the app. More info at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-log-in-through-the-website-help-my-password-doesnt-work

You can also install the website as a web app:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-apps-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

The website works on computers, phones and tablets.

KevinMarks ,
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@FediTips even better, go to https://phanpy.social/ and log into your mastodon account there to get a much more fluid web UI

KevinMarks , to random
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We need to end the pretence that burning wood is doing anything useful for the climate emergency. Change the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

setsly , to random
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@vegetarianzombie @KevinMarks @knittingknots2 @tsrandall

Part 5 of a series—irreproachable, near-perfect profile or intro quotes that I wish I had thought of first! To have used myself, or aspired to use myself:

"Aspiring Daydreamer"
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"Reading your thoughts, if you write them down first."
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"Remember, physics wins in the end."
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"Opinions are, too often, my own."

https://mastodon.social/@vegetarianzombie

https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks

https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2

https://fosstodon.org/@tsrandall

KevinMarks ,
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@setsly @vegetarianzombie @knittingknots2 @tsrandall thank you kindly. I have a longform version in a blogpost from 22(!) years ago when I was more hopeful about the web
https://epeus.blogspot.com/2002/04/i-can-read-peoples-thoughts.html

I can read people's thoughts. Using an ancient technology, handed down over millennia, improved and refined along the way, I am able to read people's thoughts. And not just people nearby, or people I know. I can even read dead people's thoughts. This gives me a great deal of power and knowledge - I can learn from their lives, their experiences, their dreams and fears, their insights and imaginings. I can study their successes and failures, learn from their great ideas and their mistakes, absorb their experiences, laugh at their jokes and wince at their pain. This may seem like a scary idea - you may feel nervous and want to avoid me, but don't worry. I can only read your thoughts if you want me to. You need to be part of this too. You need to write your thoughts for me to read them. That's right. I'm not talking about anything mystical or occult. Or perhaps I am - writing is an amazing technology; only slightly less amazing than language itself. To commune with others, breaking the bonds of space and time, is a wonderful privilege. Small Pieces describes how a newer technology has made it easier than ever before to experience the thoughts of others and share our own. Truly the last thing out of the Pandora's Box of the Internet is this Hope.
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    • KevinMarks , to random
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    In which our heroine, Molly White, @molly0xfff explains in excruciating detail how Chris Dixon has Read, Write, Pwned himself https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

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    KevinMarks ,
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    @vampiress @stilgherrian there was a super weird example of this in Silicon Valley - all these toyshops, kids bookshops and kid friendly fancy cafes opened up in Los Altos Hills.
    It turned out Google founder Sergey Brin had bought up the shops to make them what he wanted for his family.

    mcc , to random
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    When I was a kid, I remember being bored between classes and just looking over every bit of our first grade classroom's big map, and finding "Micronesia" and just thinking… wow… that is a super cool name for a place. Then I found the "South Sandwich Islands" and I just lost my shit

    KevinMarks ,
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    @vampiress @mcc the Cook islands will sell you a domain that ends in ".co.ck"

    KevinMarks , to random
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    “If governments are willing to spend billions incentivizing rooftop solar, they can simply spend billions installing rooftop solar – no Slow AI required” — @pluralistic
    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/#sign-here

    jacobydave , to random
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    Anyone else wish you could just use markdown in the fediverse?

    KevinMarks ,
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    @jacobydave you can use HTML in the fediverse, it's just mastodon that doesn't let you author it

    Wolven , to random
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    If you're a member of the news media reading these words, I IMPLORE you: Please stop talking to Steven Pinker.

    And if you for some reason absolutely just MUST talk to steven pinker, then do not give steven pinker 10 solid minutes of your airtime to spout his bullshit without ever once pushing back. JFC.

    KevinMarks ,
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    @Wolven this is still the best summary of him

    Screenshot of 2 tweets by Chris Marks: Steven Pinker's books are like "people say that life is unjust and intolerable under neoliberal capitalism. But in fact, mean global consumption of fruit-by-the-foot is up 300x when compared to our 19th century counterparts" But fruit by the foot didn't exist in the 1800s? Steven Pinker: Not as we currently think of it, no. But if you consider fruit that had dropped from trees and was literally by people's feet, the picture starts to become much clearer
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