> A short history of Colorado lawmakers’ magical thinking on RTD reform
> State leaders have spent decades tinkering with transit system’s operations — while doing little to give it more resources
> What is evident from their research is that about a century ago, the City of Boulder was involved in displacing residents living along Boulder Creek. At the time, it was described as an effort to “clean up and beautify” the area, the Boulder Daily Camera reported in 1921. Now, for the first time, city officials are publicly reframing this moment in the city’s history as an instance of racial injustice. #Boulder
@ntnsndr bldrweb is doing alright, I think. Not seeing much member growth, but that's ok.
I don't think my local server is big enough to be useful for local-focused discussions. It seems hashtags are better for that. #boulder
I think in general, accounts (identities) should not be location specific. People move. People have multiple simultaneous locations/communities. Etc. And they don't want to manage multiple accounts (or inboxes) or try to migrate things when moving locations.
@ntnsndr Co-op/collaborative adim or selfhosted online communities and other tools: yes!
But I think a lot of care needs to be taken when thinking about which parts define an online identity (and thus don't change or change infrequently and/or are mutually exclusive if you want multiple simultaneously) and which parts are communities your identity participates in.
Roughly, in my mind anyway:
Email, username, etc: identity
Discourse posts, toots, files, slack messages: things done by the identity.
Not the best expression of my thoughts here, but hopefully that's interesting, at least 😀
I guess another point I was trying to make: I love the idea of community/self hosted identities and spaces and tools, but I don't think I want my identity(ies) closely coupled to my physical location. I want something more permanent for my identity association.
And I usually want to minimize the number of identities I have to manage. From a privacy perspective, separate identities rarely remain fully separate, so I'd rather not fool myself into thinking they do. I mostly want these two:
@ntnsndr agreed, but I'm still pretty skeptical of the ownership/control over there. I'm hopeful that projects like @bonfire can give us the community level filters while still maintaining federation or portable identity.
We need at leasst 17 more people using the #BikeNite hashtag (on public posts) to have a shot of trending.
Why do I care? Because Mastodon isn't the greatest for discoverability. I think BikeNite is a cool community and I would like to see more cyclists able to find us and participate in this a/synchronous weekly structured chat. @mastobikes@fedibikes@bikenite#Cycling#BikeTooter#fahrrad
I love reading documentation (and blogs and books) from the #rstats world. I can learn so much so quickly just by reading the docs! And they're often a joy to read!
I'm glad this community puts such emphasis and effort into high quality #documentation, and I'm grateful for all folks who pour time into maintaining it.
Are you aware of any other #communities with similar cultures about documentation?
I'm wondering not just about technical or programming communities (definitely interested in hearing about those), but any type. Birders maybe? Parts of academia? Collaborative industries?
Takeaway: you can pipe objects into rm() using base but not dplyr.
I probably just missed it, but I don't recall seeing this particular advantage of base pipes discussed anywhere yet.
> # demonstrate expected rm() behavior
> x <- 3
> rm(x)
> x
Error: object 'x' not found
> # rm() with dplyr pipe doesn't work
> `%>%` <- dplyr::`%>%` # ensure dplyr pipe is loaded
> x <- 3
> x %>% rm()
> x
[1] 3
> # rm() with base pipe does work
> x <- 3
> x |> rm()
> x
Error: object 'x' not found
#rstats Q: I'm trying to make a flexdashboard (or Quarto dashboard or whatever) that displays data dynamically when loading in the browser (like pulling from an API). It looks like running a full Shiny server is the only way to get that to work. Is there some other way to populate it w/live data?
There's a brand new shinylive for R package(?) And quarto extension that I just heard about by watching the posit conf video [1]. This is the best reference I could find quickly, but you might find more with a bit more searching https://github.com/coatless-quarto/r-shinylive-demo
Hey #bldrweb - just a heads-up: I'm going to do a server upgrade today. There will be a brief downtime (5 minutes?). I'll try to announce a bit in advance.
“An accessibility surface visualizes travel times to a given location for each cell within a raster grid. To compute this, I use layered isochrones from Mapbox along with the fasterize package in #rstats to convert the isochrones to a smooth surface.” - Kyle Walker
The image below shows drive-times in normal traffic to Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, visualized interactively with R and Leaflet.
Kyle's R code: https://github.com/walkerke/map-challenge-2023/blob/main/scripts/day-21-raster.R #RSpatial#GIS@rstats#30DayMapChallenge
I'm all in on expanding / facilitating Mastodon or Bluesky or whatever #fediverse platform to try to (re)create a public commons for discussion and news about local topics (a la twitter of City Council meetings of yore, #Boulder#Colorado). That commons is such an important platform that I can't stand the thought of it being controlled by a for-profit organization again.
I'm also super interested in promoting replacements to Slack and Discord (and WhatsApp, etc) for much the same reason. Ditto for Q&A forums (reddit, stack overflow).
Hey #Fediverse admins and techies, is there some kind of recent bug going around which can explain the sudden spike in media storage?
Our 100GB #MastoHost storage increased by 3GB in just 1 night, and this is AFTER I LOWERED the retention time for storing of remote media and blocked image downloads from mastodon.social
Tonight #Boulder#CityCouncil is discussing housing reform in the form of occupancy limits. City council meetings about housing policy are what first brought me to Twitter back in the day. I hope we can continue the tradition of side channel discussions about Boulder City Council meetings.
Hey there #bldrweb friends! I finally created a way to receive contributions ($$) toward the server hosting costs for our instance (toot.bldrweb.org). Please check out the #OpenCollective page for all the details:
Can anyone point me to a guide to migrate storage from AWS s3 bucket back to the default local storage.
Prefer leaving the current media files in my AWS bucket and not move them back locally but new post media files created would be stored locally. If that isn't possible, I can move them back.
I've only found guides to migrate from one service to another or away from local but not back to local
Curious about why you're planning to do this. Performance?. I'm planning to go from local to S3 soon, so wondering if you've run into some gotcha I should consider before jumping through the hoops.
