We watched Avatar tonight. My son had never seen it. The effects were great. There was a lot of abusive language that made me glad we don't live in the 90s anymore.
This is a big bummer. I'm a qualified yes; I let security-minded apps use my contact list to find friends.
I think it would be a great way for us to help with bootstrapping new Mastodon users' social graph, especially now that the Twitter friend finders are gone.
@evan I think “security-minded” is the key term. I let Signal and ProtonMail have my contacts, that’s all. I think we’ve all come to learn not to trust most apps with anything
@timbray is there a good page on your blog that's a summary of your history with Atom? I'm thinking a lot about standards lately, and I feel like there could be some lessons there.
@timbray so, you're aware of how directly Atom is an antecedent to Activity Streams, right? And that AtomPub was the inspiration for the ActivityPub API? Our first API on StatusNet/GNU Social was AtomPub with ActivityStreams Atom objects as a command language.
@Jyoti@evan i didn't get to vote but i wouldn't even hesitate. wobbly portal to an unknown destination anywhere in the universe? i'm jumping straight into that bad boy without taking a breath
@evan it should be fairly simple but there is anyone on staff who is comfortable with doing database queries. Select on users and accounts, left join on user.account_id = accounts.id
I say that after just doing a really quick search for what the mastodon database schema looks like
@evan I think for Canadians, given the length and lack of defense at our land border, "leave your country" can have a very low bar.
That said, I've left a still-countable number of times, most to the US, a couple of times just for a day.
If you ask "how many different countries have you visited" well, my answer ends up being "too few!!!". Would love to have the means and time to get out of North America more.
I suspect some of it is steeped in family and culture. Canada is a nation of immigrants. Even though I was born in Toronto, I had relatives in Turkey from my earliest years and my parents were seasoned travellers, so I caught the bug.
When I lived and taught in Alabama for 2 decades, I met lots of 10th generation Southerners that had seldom left their own state, let alone the US.
@evan@chris nah not really. it's been 12 years. the last time i used the thing was as an FM radio transmitter to replace the Top 40 in the bathroom at work.
How to get to zero: vote and donate to climate+ pols, electric or no car, trains not planes, clean electricity or home solar, low or no meat, buy climate+
@evan I wish people would get wise to the climate cost of meat. This should be a mystery. I'm also glad you mentioned planes. How costly one flight is!
and these people who brag about their flight to some "progressive" conference... how many times? those flier miles do add up.
@evan
I moved to diaspora after G+ as it seemed alot of the folks were going there. I left because it was a ghost town. Plus the usual background radiation of porn, spam & bad actors.
I finally figured out it was a protocol island and wasn't going to change.