Splicer splicer@awkwardly.social
Clifton Park NY USA
I blog at https://splicer.com/ and dream of the day when my blog and everyone else's will be federated.
From BasicScienceSav on Twitter: Package dependency management is the bane of my existence and never fails to make me feel completely incompetent https://twitter.com/BasicScienceSav/status/1367141183496081408/photo/1Splicer likes this.
Ben Sturmfels at 2020-04-29T01:32:04Z
Working towards the release of MediaGoblin 0.10.0 later this week. Nearly there!
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Karl Fogel at 2019-09-05T16:30:49Z
You know that thing where Thai restaurants often have punny names?Today I realized that somewhere in New Hamphshire there is a restaurant named "Live Free or Thai".I haven't even searched. My faith is perfect; the name exists, therefore the place exists./cc @tlchi66Splicer likes this.
AJ Jordan at 2019-02-18T03:36:11Z
oof, sorry. there's some weird problems with Node 10 I never found time to look into... Node 8 should work ok though, and is supported with security updates.
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Thank you! I'll move up to Node 8. I did the upgrade because I read that Pump on Node 4 and Node 6 were not going to be supported any more. However, for the time being the site is running fine so there's no urgency to doing the upgrade. Perhaps I'll find some time next weekend.Splicer at 2019-02-18T15:30:08Z
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@Splicer it's true that Node 4 support will be gone in 6.0 (due out Real Soon Now (tm)), and it's already unsupported upstream for security updates. Node 6 is maintained upstream until April 2019, so we will maintain support for it for at least that long :-)
Dianara 1.4.2 released
Finally time for another minor release of Dianara, my desktop application for the Pump.io social network.
Changelog
Changes since v1.4.1 are mostly small fixes, and include:
- Changed OK/Cancel buttons in several dialogs to follow your environment's style.
- Fixed a corner case where a post deleted by its author, while a comment was being composed, would block timeline updates until program restart.
- When a post is cancelled, abort possible ongoing file upload immediately.
- Fixed Cancel button being disabled while sending a comment.
- Fixed a pagination bug that would set the wrong page number if a timeline update had failed previously.
Release post: https://jancoding.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/dianara-1-4-2-is-out/
Cheers! đ
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Avadiax at 2018-09-08T02:16:37Z
I think innovation on IoT cannot be stopped, but what is important is the innovation of cybersecurity protections on IoT must accelerate. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611948/for-safetys-sake-we-must-slow-innovation-in-internet-connected-things/Splicer likes this.
AJ Jordan at 2018-09-10T05:34:48Z
I wrote a piece inspired by my 20th birthday, and feeling weird about it. Here it is if you would like to read (and maybe feel) things about causality and the passage of time.
https://strugee.net/blog/2018/09/legacyAJ Jordan at 2018-05-07T17:01:33Z
hi I'm AJ and I have literally never once used a JavaScript Date object without being bitten by zero-based monthsSplicer likes this.
Avadiax at 2018-05-08T13:10:55Z
Are two spaces betÂter than one? NO. https://practicaltypography.com/are-two-spaces-better-than-one.htmlSplicer likes this.
Avadiax at 2018-05-05T01:45:43Z
Learn Python, regardless of the first point ... but yeah, very useful learning lessons for going serverless. https://read.acloud.guru/six-months-of-serverless-lessons-learned-f6da86a73526Splicer likes this.
But I don't wanna learn python.Or does using it enough that I can cope with it when I have to while knowing that I prefer other tools when I have the choice count as "learning"?Splicer at 2018-05-05T20:25:59Z
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Avadiax at 2018-05-05T01:50:01Z
Stop using AdBlock, and start using uBlock Origin and uMatrix. https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7Splicer likes this.
Karl Fogel at 2018-04-24T15:20:16Z
I'm glad SCOTUS reached the right decision; it's the dissenters who surprised me. A temporary state-granted monopoly is not property; it's a special privilege that is subject to revocation. The response to the dissents (starting on p. 12) is spot-on. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-712_87ad.pdfSplicer likes this.
Doug Whitfield at 2018-04-09T21:44:23Z
Let's do a little experiment. It's obviously biased by my relative participation in each, but I'm comparing the reach of twitter, facebook, Diaspora, pump, G+, and GNU Social (plus anything that can talk directly to it...that is not via NavierStokes).Please like this if you see it. Obviously, if you want more people to like it, then you share it, but I'm only going to count likes.Stephen Sekula, Splicer, Red moon, EVAnaRkISTO and 20 others likes this.
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Show all 10 repliesHere are the final numbersGNU Social/Mastodon: 49pump.io: 31Facebook:26Diaspora: 15G+: 7Twitter: 0What's interesting is that on Diaspora, pump, and GNU Social, I all got actual comments about how the study was being conducted. I got literally zero comments on twitter or G+. There's all sorts of bias in this, but I have more "friends" on facebook by an order of magnitude and significantly more on twitter than the free platforms. So, it seems like people join the proprietary networks and just don't use them very much.Facebook is up to 29. The slow burn...Diaspora is up to 17GNU Social up to 97: https://nu.federati.net/conversation/510099#notice-1072972
Evan Prodromou at 2018-04-13T15:10:19Z
I've always liked this quote by Ben Franklin, made at the signing of the Declaration of Independence:We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Sad to say, apparently it's unsourced, and had been attributed to a number of other people before Franklin.
It makes me think a lot about the federated social web. Small social networks are very vulnerable; we need each other to survive.Christopher Allan Webber, Splicer, AJ Jordan likes this.
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clacke@libranet.de â at 2017-11-16T02:47:35Z
My answer when somebody tells me "but you save 50% if you buy this thing now!" is "if I don't need it, I save 100% by not buying it at all".Splicer, Ben Sturmfels, Jason Self likes this.
