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jesseplusplus

@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social

Whatever crosses my mind on tech, internet, federated social, and (sometimes) politics.

Infrequent poster; shouting into the void of the internet is still weird.

Founder of @frequency, a followers-only federated photo-sharing app for your friends and fam 💜👯‍♂️🌄

Formerly GitHub, ModCloth, PivotalLabs, UC Berkeley

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danilo, to random
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now THAT is some nasty work
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112458147889228622

jesseplusplus,
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@danilo @steveriggins My thoughts exactly. This can't be legal, and if it is, it shouldn't be.

evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

jesseplusplus,
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@evan thank you for all of your tireless work on making the fediverse happen!

Did you imagine when you started that it would take 16 years to get to where we are currently?

jesseplusplus,
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@evan what a rollercoaster of emotions! 😅 I really appreciate that you kept working on it even when it didn't seem like open standards would win over proprietary stuff. That takes serious dedication!

I remember feeling the same idealism each time I encountered a new federated social network I thought was going to take over (diaspora, then mastodon) and then the ensuing disappointment when it didn't happen right away. Seeing threads + bluesky has helped buoy my hopes again! Now for instagram...

rands, to random
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Last night, using the voice feature, I had ChatGPT on my Phone ask ChatGPT on my Mac a question. After 10 minutes of back and forth, one robot was teaching the other about black holes. Note: I never said anything about black holes.

jesseplusplus,
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@rands what was your initial question?

soren.iverson, to random

Google Maps encourages you to stop searching for directions to places you travel to frequently

jesseplusplus,
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@soren.iverson I've been complaining for years how unnecessarily reliant Google Maps and other navigation apps have made us on them. Happy to see a step in the right direction of encouraging people to learn to navigate themselves in familiar places! I do think a lot of people still want to see data along the route, like traffic, and have suggestions for less congested alternate routes... not sure how they could do this without it being full-blown navigation

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random
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fascinating review of studies on Internet use and cognition — including potentially negative effects on concentration and memory — found by way of an excellent article in Nautilus titled "Viva la library"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502424

jesseplusplus,
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@molly0xfff I was reading it on my phone and managed to get through it without task switching, but not for lack of attempts by my phone to distract me! I was feeling proud of myself for getting almost to the end without even thinking about task switching when 2 text message notifications came in 😅 Under normal circumstances I would have opened them, but I thought better of it given what I had just read

jesseplusplus, to random
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I’ve been using the How We Feel app to record my daily emotions for the last couple years. They do a good job of keeping all the data on your phone to protect your privacy. Unfortunately this means I just lost a couple years worth of that data when I upgraded my phone last week 😢 it does have the option to back up or transfer the data to another device, but it wasn’t on my list of apps I needed to remember to do that for, so I didn’t realize I had lost the data until it was too late 😔

jesseplusplus,
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The tension between protecting privacy by default and surprise data loss is a tough design decision for each app. I now have iCloud backup turned on, but wish I had been notified that was an option before I lost data from one of the most difficult times in my life.

veganstraightedge, to random
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Re-upping my plea for help!

I’m really jammed up on this and blocked by it

When I get it solved, I get to delete 55 triggers and a gem!

And then a similar amount in three other rails apps

Help!?
https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge/112340159120060018

jesseplusplus,
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@veganstraightedge if fx doesn’t offer a function to do that for you, I would write the migration in raw SQL. Postgres has a DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-droptrigger.html

jesseplusplus,
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@veganstraightedge @jamie I’m surprised too. I would honestly expect the drop trigger function to use the IF EXISTS as the default for safety. Maybe you can submit a PR 🙂

quillmatiq, to random

Some personal news: I'm now a contributor at @wedistributemedia! I'm so excited to work with the team over there reporting everything happening in the world of distributed social media.

For my first post, I wrote about @ghost joining the Fediverse 🙏🏼

What's exciting about this is that it isn't just an ActivityPub plugin - it's a top-down re-thinking about what Ghost is as a service. This is ActivityPub for publishers done right.

Congrats to @johnonolan and team! cc Fediverse Threads

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypub/

jesseplusplus,
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@quillmatiq excellent! happy to see you onboard with @wedistributemedia

johnonolan, to random
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Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉

https://activitypub.ghost.org

jesseplusplus,
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@johnonolan not only am I very very excited about your upcoming federation, but this is an absolutely beautiful announcement post 😍 kudos!

Shufei, to feminism

is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.

$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.

jesseplusplus,
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@Shufei as a woman who codes, this org was always pretty disappointing to me anyway. a lot of lip service marketing and vague “networking” mixers, very little actual talking about coding 🤷🏻‍♀️ I hope to see more productive orgs/communities funded.

I also happen to know a woman founder of an AI company who has been funded (by YC no less), and I’ve seen many others with women execs. I don’t believe WWC’s demise is quite the signal you’re claiming it is.

jesseplusplus,
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@Shufei thank you for sharing your perspective, it's super helpful to hear their impact outside of my own bubble and how they helped you. I was in Silicon Valley, so it felt a little different there, but I can definitely see how their initiatives could help in a lot of places much less saturated by tech.

skinnylatte, to random
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Yesterday was really hard. It was my first full day apart from Cookie (she’s still in intensive care). Making the 16 block walk to the vet felt like such a slog. I’m averaging deep breathing for one block and ugly crying for the next. I don’t feel like I’m losing my soulmate, I feel like I’m losing a chunk of my soul. It was a bright, sunny blue skies day yesterday and it was weird to not see her smiling like a silly puppy next to me.

jesseplusplus,
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@skinnylatte I’m so sorry to hear about Cookie’s health issues 🫶🏻 sending you both so much love and hope ❤️❤️❤️ she will always be a part of your soul, no matter what happens

jesseplusplus, to random
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I’m pretty relieved to finally see some sanity in the stock market around Truth Social. I wonder if it will drop below that ~$17 threshold that’s part of Trump’s stock grant clause? 🤔

skinnylatte, to food
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Drawer 1 of many spice drawers (I don’t have spice racks, I have spice drawers)

jesseplusplus,
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@skinnylatte oooh, I love your pegboard spice mix setup! 😍

jesseplusplus, to random
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I just finally upgraded my M1 laptop to Sonoma, figuring all the bugs would be worked out and fixed by now... but nope! It just randomly broke some symlinks in my git repository in a weird way. The link seemed to work just fine when I opened the file manually, but docker claimed it couldn't find the target of the link. Can't wait to slowly find more instances of this! 🫠

jesseplusplus, (edited )
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Found the solution to this btw https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66821257/what-are-docker-copys-rules-about-symlinks-how-can-i-preserve-symlinks

COPY . . copies file by file, whereas COPY ./ ./ will copy whole directories at once. I’m grateful to have found an easy solution, but there still something ofd happening with symlinks in Sonoma since I didn’t run into this issue before the upgrade and there are a few bug reports with the same issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255314103 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255320737

mjg59, to random
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Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there

jesseplusplus,
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@mjg59 wait, when did this happen? I'm trying to find references/screenshots and coming up blank. I'd love a laugh this afternoon 😂

jesseplusplus,
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@mjg59 lol amazing 😂

deadsuperhero, to random
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I'm probably going to make an official post about this sometime soon, but it's worth posting a personal take first.

I'm tired. I'm running myself ragged.

I love working on We Distribute. The domain area is something I'm really passionate about, and I love being able to report on so much going on with it.

To date, I have published roughly 120+ articles for We Distribute. It's a labor of love, and often hard work. I've learned a lot, and gotten much better over the years with what I do.

I'm running on fumes. I need help running this thing.

jesseplusplus,
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@deadsuperhero I appreciate you being honest and vulnerable about how much of a toll doing everything has taken on you and reaching out for help ❤️ We all support you! I hope you’re able to find more people to bring on and help soon. Until then, give yourself a break! You don’t need to keep up with everything! It’s okay to take your time working on things if it means you can avoid burning out. We don’t expect you to have the output of a publication with a full staff all by yourself 🫶🏻

jesseplusplus, to random
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This is horrific:

Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/israel_ai

jesseplusplus,
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The world is suddenly paying closer attention due to western civilian deaths from the WCK attack, but I hope this moment is used to push back on the strategy that has been so blatantly indifferent to Palestinian civilian deaths

jesseplusplus,
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more reporting on the allowed number of civilian deaths per target policies: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

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