Thoughts on technology and culture; the past, present, and future.
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As someone who finished a 2 year AAS in Linux network administration in 2008 just as the economy was taking a dive and companies were rushing to replace their expensive and needy IT departments with Google's growing suite of cloud products, I empathize. At least a scholarship paid
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Syme's near-monologue about Newspeak is one of my go-to references to see if someone's actually read 1984. 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because
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I've written about federated social media before. Activitypub could be the futureThis is an older post brought back from a dead blog. It has an informal followup in the form of my post on Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated networks in general. Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a
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This is a recurring thing on social media. Someone will post a rant or goof about how cheap you can make a good movie. And they're right! I've enjoyed some little movies from little companies, or even from individuals! But that's not enough. They
Fandom
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Well, not so far. If you watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot as it aired, you remember how slow each episode seemed, and how long the wait between episodes felt. The pacing works better in the world of streaming where you
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I rewatched Stargate: Atlantis for the first time since its 2004-2009 airing. I remember the furor over its cancellation in favor of Stargate: Universe. I originally defended Universe. It rode Battlestar Galactica’s coattails, but I thought it had potential. Now, rewatching Atlantis, I get the anger. Universe is fine
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As much as I would love to put photos in here, I didn’t have the awareness I do now that furry is a majority-queer community, so I wasn’t very careful about obscuring faces in the photos I took. Sonic the Hedgehog was my first crush at a young
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Sometimes it’s healthy to subject yourself to painful or traumatic things in a controlled way to reduce your sensitivity to it. I did not like Joe Rogan going into this project. Hearing him out for hours didn’t improve my impression. But I did hear him out. Joe Rogan
Tech
1. You can launch without a content policy without different subcommunities declaring war on each other. 2. You can create a content policy that makes everyone happy. 3. You won’t spend your days doing battle with the community over your content policy 4. You can completely automate moderation 5.
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Polyamory is when people decide to have some kind of relationship and are open to the idea of it not being exclusive. The shape of these relationships is highly situational and personal. There’s basically two ways polyamory goes down: 1. You learn a lot about yourself and unpack all
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This is an older post brought back from a dead blog. It has an informal followup in the form of my post on Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated networks in general. Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a Protocol-Agnostic FederationYou’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an
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Avoiding having a take on big world stuff is a good instinct. It's easy to rush in with an opinion informed by incomplete information, ignorance, and outright propaganda. Big World Things have two major components. * The past * The present Both components have aspects that are simple and complicated.
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I've got you. You like having your notes as real files you can touch and smell on your file system but you need an app for your phone and computer and a way to sync between them: Obsidian (free, offers a paid sync function but works with other
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For me, this is a relative I can't avoid in my current situation. I could get mad at him. But…it won’t help. It’ll just make me more stressed, and it won’t register with him that he needs to be better any more than the
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This article is the elder sibling of my shorter Ask The Fox post on the same subject. It's bigger and more detailed. Reasons to learn to code: * You have an offer for a job that involves coding, or could benefit from it * Existing tools don’t serve your
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You’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an account on one, and it only works there. You can’t send a DM to your friend on Twitter from Facebook Messenger. You can’t browse your friend’s Instagram feed from Twitter. Each one is closed off