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Rycaut

@Rycaut@mastodon.social

Entrepreneur & Product Manager - currently looking for new opportunities. Likely starting a Fediverse related business to host, manage and extend instances for businesses and organizations. Writer and GM

https://calendly.com/rycaut to schedule meetings with me

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rodhilton, to random
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Tech industry needs more layoffs

Rycaut,
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@rodhilton it’s on brand for Google of the 100 and + IM tools and interfaces that years later no still likes (drive, docs I can go on)

Attention to detail and coordination of different groups and teams into a cohesive clear vision isn’t Google’s strength or even wheelhouse.

Rycaut, to random
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Years ago I build a smart calendar system (building both my own calendaring platform and bottom up machine learning process to convert semi-structured data into structured data (not using training techniques, it was however code that rewrote itself based on the data it encountered) anyway it was about 20 years too early.

But I've long thought that shared views of time & what we are currently and in the future paying attention to maps nicely to shared interests and could help in social networks

Rycaut,
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so I've long considered what it would take to build a social network where you found others by your shared calendars - not in a precise "lets have lunch/meeting" but in a broader sense.

Examples might help:

If you are tracking all the dates for the current NBA finals you fall into one group.

If instead you are more focused on Eurovision schedules, you are in another group (and yes you can fall into both)

And if the dates in the future you track closely are the US election schedule etc.

Rycaut,
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the point is that what we block off/schedule our lives around/make travel plans around likely maps to groups we associate with and belong to - some are very broad (i.e. all parents of school age children broadly make plans based on the school calendars - though specifics of holidays and start/end of school vary by school)

Fans even in the age of on demand shows likely pay attention to when movies or books or tv shows will be released. And in some cases may track related releases (like toys)

Rycaut,
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the point is that if you can list (and somehow share/compare) what you are paying attention to in the future with what someone else is paying attention to, you likely can find where/if you have overlapping interests even if you speak different languages, use different "hashtags" (or don't use them at all) and potentially even if the specifics you are tracking differ (i.e. you track your local sport's team's schedule not a rival team's)

Rycaut, to random
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More than half of the places on this list are places my wife and I enjoy fairly regularly. One is in walking distance of our home and many others are places my wife’s family have been enjoying for decades (she grew up here in San Jose)

I’d add a lot of other places (tons of better choices for many of the cuisines covered) but that’s because the South Bay has so much to choose amongst - after a decade here I’ve just sampled a small portion (ok a big portion often)

https://sf.eater.com/maps/best-san-jose-south-bay-area-restaurants

Rycaut,
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I’d also add that many of the places listed have multiple locations (in some csses I think the other locations may be better options). That said given how good the places I go to regularly are I’m going to try the places that I don’t go to as often / have ever tried as I trust they are worth trying at least once.

(For example however I do think there is better bbq in the South Bay than Henry’s World Famous Hi Life which I’ve only tried once - I will try it again)

anildash, to random
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Okay, everybody tell us what your favorite file type is.

Rycaut,
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@anildash legal sized hanging. Can organize so much better than letter sized.

:-)

jessamyn, to random
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Helped a friend get an Apple TV+ subscription up and running on her ancient (3rd gen) Apple TV. The machine is too old to have a mechanism for accepting 2FA verification codes and she was stuck in an authentication loop.

The Apple solution: when the device asks, again, for your Apple ID password, enter the password and append the six-digit code. So like if your password is "rabbits" you'll write rabbits123456. This actually works and is so smart and also so dumb I always forget about it.

Rycaut,
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@jessamyn Amazon uses the same solution for older devices so appears there is some consensus on this being an approach to handle two factor authentication on older devices. (I recently reset my Amazon password and deauthorized a bunch of devices so had looked up what to do if one of my devices was too old for 2FA - didn’t need to use this trick but learned about it then.

vfrmedia, to random

test toot 😺

Rycaut,
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@vfrmedia @atomicpoet so why wasn’t it branded Catkey?

cstross, to random
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Interesting!

At the same time I tooted about SEASON OF SKULLS, I tweeted a pretty much identical piece on the birdsite.

I have 16.6K followers here and got 32 boosts and 33 likes.

I have 52.5K followers on twitter and got 9 retweets and 43 likes.

(Conclusion: Mastodon followers are MUCH more engaged than Twitter followers.)

Rycaut,
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@cstross likely also far more of your followers here actually saw it or have a chance to see it (I saw it a while ago, hours after you had posted it while I’ve been catching up on my feed. Something I can’t as easily do on Twitter these days as it defaults to showing me the current feed (even using the chronological feed) so going hours back is challenging within the UI of the app or the browser. While client apps here for the fediverse remember my last location more reliably.

atomicpoet, to random

I disagree with "hide features from newbies and they'll discover it when they're ready".

No, they won't.

I've worked in the tech support trenches. I know how this goes.

People use software to do what they believe is apparent and obvious to them but is, in actuality, an edge case use.

And then when they discover your software can do it but it's been hidden from them for years due to a silly "KISS" philosophy, they get pissed.

Rycaut,
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@atomicpoet I read a research paper years ago that studied this is more detail - it was from a few decades ago but the basic conclusion is pretty much true today. That is across ALL types of software (from mobile apps to mainframe servers) between 80 - 95% of people do NOT make any customizations to the defaults they got the software with when the first installed it.

Software developers are likely the exception - but most users don’t tweak settings and defaults across ALL types of software

Rycaut,
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@atomicpoet this is why thinking carefully about the defaults of all software and the onboarding process is key - it’s likely the only time any customizations will happen (and most users having not used the software before won’t know what any choices or options you present will do - so most will take the defaults even if you present them with a series of options or choices to make)

It is hard for admins (at companies) to wrap their heads around this but they have to before deploying apps

MostlyHarmless, to random
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Rycaut,
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@MostlyHarmless exactly. Give me a year or two to catch up. I doubt I’ll even get caught up to 2020 witb everything I want to watch but haven’t (because fatherhood) let alone everything I missed during the pandemic.

heathr, to random

Have a recommendation?

Looking for a great dev who can make some php upgrades to WP sites, clean up and create a back up process and vet platforms to help put a simple new site together I can largely maintain. Looking for professionalism and ability to communicate promptly and well.

Rycaut,
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@heathr my friend Tony Zeoli does that type of work -happy to make an intro off mastodon. (He specializes in WP sites)

lmorchard, to random

You know what would be kind of cool, rather than hyping up The Next Big Social Media Contender?

Just intentionally occasionally open up an invite-only chaos shitshow site with weird rules.

You get 10 posts, site lasts 3 months, see you next year if you weren't a dipshit.

Or maybe you get invites, but if you get voted off the island your entire invite tree goes with you.

Or just butts. Only post your own butt. Anything else is a permaban.

I'm sure folks can come up with more creative chaos than this

🤷‍♂️

Rycaut,
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@lmorchard eh this idea is crazy enough that someone might actually do it and make a lot of money.

An invite only site where you pay for your invite - the more you pay the earlier the number you get - to keep it you have to keep paying more. Each number lets you put up a page of content tied to your user number. You get to post and edit the page some fixed number of times. If someone bids more than you - your page gets bumped down

(Million dollar page for the invite only “social” media era)

vanderwal, to random
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About 15 to 20 years ago I picked up and read Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and enjoyed it. It was a book I did anchor to domain nor author, but to the many that recommended it and also had read it.

In the past 5 to 10 years I’ve run across If On A Winter’s Night Traveler and enjoyed it. But, I didn’t have it in context of Calvino.

Recently I picked up The Written World and the Unwritten World and enjoying these essays quite a bit. Now added 2 more.

I’m now trying to connect Calvino.

Rycaut,
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@vanderwal @billseitz @bruces I have not read Kevin Lynch (but likely would enjoy it) in my head I connect Calvino and Umberto Eco though they are very different authors but I find that I think of them as being connected though I haven’t entirely untangled why (likely similar in that I read many core books by each close together). Does remind me that rereading Calvino (and Eco) have been on my mental list of books/authors I want to go back to for a while (Pratchett is also on that list)

jeff, (edited ) to random
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    Rycaut,
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    @jeff not going to watch it. I assume it will be streamed somehow but don’t care enough to figure out if it is (I don’t have a live tv subscription - only on demand services but also rarely turn on my tv as my son has taken over that room with his legos and trains (insane amounts of legos - 10’s of thousands of pieces) plus I assume it will be at a time inconvenient for the west coast & I have a busy day of a block wide garage sale happening tomorrow

    itsOasus, to random
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    Things that make me angry. This shit should be FREE for every student.

    Rycaut,
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    @itsOasus I’m glad that California has made all school meals free to all students in all public schools in California - following the model of the NYC public schools which also did that a few years ago. It makes for an lunch experience where no kid should feel shamed or go hungry. My son still wants us to pack a lunch most days - but glad all of his classmates get both a morning snack/breakfast and lunch at school for free every day the district even offered this when schools were closed in 2021

    Rycaut, to random
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    Adding two fiction books by a Hollywood major star to my to read list is a bit unexpected but looking forward to both of Tom Hanks’ books, his collection of short stories and his forthcoming novel. This article by The Atlantic (long read) explains why.

    https://apple.news/AMsunIlYzRjysK1fG8cTuuw

    (Apple News link, the Atlantic direct link requires a subscription)

    Rycaut, to random
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    A timeline cleanser of spring flowers from my neighbors yard. He has three large containers of these flowers

    oatmeal, to random
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    A Little Wordy #18. Post your scores in the comments.

    Today seems pretty obvious to me. Enjoy! https://theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=05-04-23

    Rycaut,
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    @oatmeal today’s I got tricked (23%)

    A Little Wordy ❌🎨❌📏✅ 73% https://theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=05-03-23 seems a bit better

    jeff, to fediverse
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    Rycaut,
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    @jeff I saw the notification of the spam but didn’t see it because it was moderated so quickly. Not fun but happy to see the communication which is an improvement over most other platforms I’ve been on in the past

    Rycaut, to fediverse
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    Feature request - has any software considered making it easy to add a license to any original works you publish here?

    Ie like Flickr years ago once allowed you to automate added a specific CC license to the works you uploaded.

    For example of how I want to use this - a few days ago I posted a photo I took of @annaleen and @pluralistic at the SFPL - I’d love to be able to attach a CC license to that photo to make it clear I’m happy with reuse of it

    Rycaut,
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    @cogdog @annaleen @pluralistic

    Sure but keep in mind I’m not a professional photographer. I don’t edit my photos. I have no clue how I would add anything to EXIF - I just take photos on my iPhone and want to occasionally share them. Nor do I want to use another service to upload photos to first I don’t actively use Flickr anymore though I think my photos remain there (haven’t checked in years)

    I am also not going to sign up for yet another service and rebuild my following/followers there l

    Rycaut,
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    @cogdog @annaleen @pluralistic as you point out your server probably can’t easily tell which photos are yours (but this is equally true of any service or app) but one option might be client apps (including web based ones) offering a license option much as alt text is offered today. Perhaps with a configurable option to set your typical license when you apply one.

    It’s been a few years since I looked closely at cc license options - I’d want help picking the right one from some service/tool

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