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kboyd

@kboyd@phpc.social

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast.

I talk about #photography, #sailing, #ebikes, reading, writing, watching TV, cooking, politics, climate, EVs, more sailing, programming, the open and sustainable web, php, sailing again, and more. Ask me about sailing co-operatives. (he/him)

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kboyd, to random
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"Rogers and Shaw are coming together"

🥴

kboyd,
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@Taffer eh, that one I won't shed a tear over.

Marvin the Paranoid Android saying "this will all end in tears, I just know it"

kboyd, to random
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It's funny that AI has caught Facebook "by surprise", given that they already have the world's most advanced artificial intelligence working for them:

Z.U.C.K.E.R.B.E.R.G. Mark I

Zonal
Unified
Cyber
Kinetic
Entity
Requiring
Brainwave
Engrams
for
Robotic
Guidance

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Is your primary e-mail account ? As in the e-mail account we would use to communicate, so not necessarily your job related e-mail. Feel free to share widely.

kboyd,
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@jwildeboer yes, but I'm in the process of migrating to Fastmail (slowly)

kissane, to random
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my feed is very heavy on intense lectures today and it’s like…the thing about hammering away on network ethics (even when you are right) vs making it ridiculously easy for people to join and find their friends and follow people posting dumb jokes is that only one of those things meets the big human need for connection and play (even when the easy fun path might lead directly off a cliff)

it’s nice to be right, but making ethically better things way more effective is a much stronger move 🤷🏻

kboyd,
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@kissane maybe it'd be worth exploring separating the social graph from the social network? That way, discovery can still happen naturally (to the extent that it currently does on mastodon), but finding people you know that you want to connect with exists above the realm of social media?

Oh, wait, blogs. I've just "invented" personal blog sites. With contact-the-author sections that list their email and fedi accounts and non-fedi accounts.

"How's that currently working for you?"
"Poorly."

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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At the gate for my flight home, ask me anything

kboyd,
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@grmpyprogrammer have you ever had the sushi at LaGuardia?

kboyd,
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@stevegrunwell @dcousineau @ramsey @grmpyprogrammer the claps are from the ground impact of each flush.

A waterbomber dumps a huge cloud out the back end

kboyd, to random
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A bit bold of facebook to keep sending "missed notification" emails after they terminate your account (with cause, for being an obvious fake, which I only created because accessing FB Marketplace without an account is slightly more ass than with an account).

CKsTechNews, to php

8.2 introduces various modifications, as it's a major release

https://dev.to/jmau111/php-82-deprecated-4jm6

kboyd,
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@CKsTechNews @codebyjeff worth noting that the \stdClass carve out works with "extends stdClass", as well.

kboyd, to random
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Automated AI code review tooling looking at my code: https://youtu.be/ncGHiVKJh0Y

mijustin, to random
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What's a decently priced, high-quality external monitor for a Macbook these days? 💻🖥️

kboyd,
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@mijustin Dunno about decently priced, but I'm liking my Dell U2723QE. 27" widescreen, with good colour calibration out of the box (which is important for photo processing, I've been told). And the USB-C support is very nice.

kboyd, to random
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I haven't tried BS, and I don't currently plan to. I have concerns that will require, much like the Twitter takeover, an observation period to see if my concerns are adequately addressed.

What I'll be looking for:

  1. Effective moderation tools, both for admins and for users themselves

  2. A culture around content moderation that unequivocally protects vulnerable populations

  3. True decentralization with an open source, self-hostable server

  4. Nice to have: ActivityPub integration

codinghorror, (edited ) to random

Amazing how effectively this 1985 book predicted our future.. "What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment?" indeed, what then? https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X

kboyd,
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@codinghorror ... it was written in 1985. Postman died in 2003.

ieatkillerbees, to random
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Keep calling out political hypocrisy. It will definitely accomplish literally anything this time for sure.

kboyd,
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@ieatkillerbees certainly accomplishes free publicity for them

kboyd,
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@ieatkillerbees it is diabolically hard to resist, though.

fribbledom, to random
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I really dislike the button reading "Publish" when sending a DM on Mastodon.

It always makes me question if I'm really sending a DM or if I'm accidentally "publishing" something on my regular feed.

kboyd,
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@fribbledom this is where the word "Post" would make sense, because it's like you're nailing a note to a fencepost and waiting for them to pass by.

Um, I mean, mailing them a letter. Yeah, that's the ticket.

It would be nice if @signalapp could hook into ActivityPub somehow to provide robust secure DMs (ideally without revealing phone numbers unless desired to do so).

kf, to random
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there are two wolves inside me: one who wants to keep buzzing their head at home and another who thinks they should get a real haircut

kboyd,
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@kf so that's where my wolves wandered off to. Now I'm sitting here with a silly haircut because I didn't do a better job shaping it on my last self-administered one.

kboyd, to random
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It occurs to me that I probably don't have the right skull shape to be the next Shingy.

That's the only thing holding me back.

evert, to random

I wrote something: "Does OAuth2 have a usability problem? (yes!)"

https://evertpot.com/oauth2-usability/

Hackernews post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722567

kboyd,
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@evert I strongly dislike working with oauth2 (and REST, a bit, but this isn't really about that). I'd go so far as to say that it's sucked some of the joy out of web dev for me. And it's not like I don't know how to use it - I just find it cumbersome and annoying, all the time. It's exhausting. The only saving grace is that once it's working, it usually stays that way.

+1 for your oauth3 suggestions. Although I'm not sure it would alleviate all of my annoyances, it would be a good start.

hacks4pancakes, to random

My unbiased 2023 ‘nobody reads my mastodon’ so I can say whatever review is:

everything was ChatGPT, so annoying, I apologize for everything mean I said about zero trust last year

booths are back

crowds are back

swag sucked horribly this year. Especially the big companies. It was watch a whole pitch to get a stupid keychain, you’re not scanning me for that…

kudos to the booth that was auctioning a full Blantons collection tho

nobody else masked, go with god

I see you, companies that fed us with free food trucks

please tell your marketing people they don’t need to define malware to us like we are 5

I’m so very tired of identical pew pew maps do something interesting

if you’re going to throw out metrics, cite your sources

villages are still better than expo-,

you can bribe me to notice your product that isn’t shit with swag, why do you give out keychains and boring logo shirts I’m serious I want a nice phone charger or a shot

kboyd,
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@hacks4pancakes when you say "I see you" for the food trucks, am I correct in interpreting that as multiple face-with-heart-eyes emojis? As opposed to putting them on notice? 😂🌮🍔😍😍

kboyd, to random
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Three years later, my iPhone has finally stopped trying to autocorrect "K" to "I".

seldo, to random
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Wheezing with laughter at Zuckerberg's inevitable pivot to AI and his attempt to pretend that's not what he's doing. "We have not stopped focusing on the metaverse, we were focused on AI the whole time" is literally what he's trying to go with, somebody come get your boy.

kboyd,
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@seldo what amuses me is that he'd probably be better off sticking to the original meta plan & making a big stink about the perils of AI, and then down the road revealing real-time ML-based features for Meta that are Definitely Not AI In Any Way.

But instead he's going to chase the AI dragon* and send everything down the drain.

I'm OK with that.

(* if this term is out of favour, please let me know, and also please assume that I said he is going to "huff the AI farts" instead)

kboyd, to random
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Raise your hand if you used an amiga to edit a cable access tv show in the mid-90s 🙋‍♂️

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@defrisselle/110259329828393444

ghorwood, to random
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a “canadian exit” is when you try to leave and wind up holding the door for six other people.

kboyd,
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@ghorwood if we tried to further Canexit from the monarchy, this is how it would go.

Crell, to random
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What do elevator salesmen call their 2-sentence argument for their product?

kboyd,
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@awoodsnet @Crell what came first, the elevator or the elevator pitch?

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