Notices by James Broadhead (jbo@mastodon.social), page 4

@benward #freebenward ?

Bei uns kommt einmal in der Woche der Pfarrer vorbei und segnet die Server. Seitdem kein Stress mehr mit Updates.

dreaming of Avanta

@failrate @cstross this idea sounds very do-able as an ebook

@Kiwicoder ouch

Dear academics: If you're allowed to email people copies of your paper if they ask, consider setting up a mail rule for yourself that autoreplied to any mail you receive that has the DOI of a paper you wrote in the subject with a copy of that paper.

https://mastodon.social/@EposVox@glitch.lgbt/109531796578961888

@mcc I don't think that the US respects prior art since https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy%E2%80%93Smith_America_Invents_Act sadly

@happicamp the start is very hard. It gets a lot easier

I find myself making good progress with Rust, but also, every so often I have to do something frighteningly high-level to do something simple. For example, it turns out when you access an array member, it locks the *entire array* for mutation. So if you want to put two items A and B, from the array into variables and have both be mutable, you… can't.

Unless you do this very complicated thing with "split_at_mut". Which works. But would someone new to programming have been able to figure it out?

@tom I didn't know it existed! Reviews are terrible, so I might just treasure this image in ignorance

@jankais3r 100% - the same tired few images, endlessly looping.

No one should ever pose the question “are you going to be part of the problem or the solution?” to me like it’s an actual choice because I will always, always choose to be part of the problem.

I'd love to talk more elaborately about my observations running a large social media account. They are fascinating and funny. Like, if I don't get a handful of reshares within 90 seconds I know it's not a good one.
This enormous instant feedback loop is huge in effectiveness. You get a feeling for the currents.

I almost ran Twitter's Bluesky project. Got very close. Had interviews with the then CEO (Jack Dorsey) and CTO (Parag Agrawal) at the time. Can you imagine?

Pre-transition. Pardon the deadname. But I found the slides. Here you go, lol https://dustycloud.org/tmp/spritely-bluesky.pdf

I guess it's not surprising. Overexcited nonbinary weirdo waving their arms so excitedly about what the future *should be* and telling everyone point-blank what they were doing wrong. Oh well.

This is all pre Spritely Institute. *Not* getting this is largely what lead Randy Farmer and I to start our own nonprofit: https://spritely.institute

So hey. Maybe it's for the best. FWIW they suggested maybe Jay Graber (who did get it, and is great) and I should connect and see if we wanted to work together, and we did, but Jay and I agreed that Spritely was trying to be more ambitious than her vision and should be its own thing.

At any rate, I was quiet about this for a long time but it's an interesting piece of history so... there you go.

One of the things that's made it easy to find communities whose discussion I want to see is the linear feed. This is a stark contrast to new social apps I've tried, e.g., Clubhouse, where my feed is dominated by high engagement stuff I don't want.

I understand why companies push that stuff; looking at Twitter's experiments, you get more growth/$ when you switch users who've chosen linear timeline back to ranked timeline.

Fundamentally, this is why most apps don't even offer linear timeline.

Paying my $8 over here instead

Finally taking the plunge over here.
Half the tweets I've bookmarked with people's how-to-mastodon or their fediverse @-handles have already been deleted by them.

It's been a crazy few weeks. I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was a little heartbroken

@dannysullivan better than the alternative

@dosnostalgic @adr I was hoping for well-told spoilers :) I've heard of it as a deep inspiration for Star Control 2 - but bounced off the UI when I tried to play it.

@adr @dosnostalgic tell us more!