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lkanies

@lkanies@hachyderm.io

I’m a tech founder and recovering SysAdmin. I helped found DevOps and grew up in open source. These days I am convalescing from a decade of physical and mental neglect while running Puppet.

I sometimes write about startups, founders, and other topics I like.

I am an angel investor, mostly in areas of expertise (infrastructure and dev tools) and interest (local first software and power tools).

I am generally default-accept on first conversations.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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I, uhm, really want that big laptop and the big phone but the small car 😅
https://norden.social/@hart/112427151323851917

lkanies,
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@thomasfuchs @hart that laptop looks off by a decade or so

mph, to random
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Interesting, lengthy discussion of phones-vs-real-cameras/iPhone vs. Ricoh GR, raw vs. ProRaw vs. jpeg.

Maybe one of the few times I've seen someone unironically say "real camera" and not instantly feel my hackles go up, because he takes the time to outline what he thinks a camera is.

Probably still something in there to offend, because he also unironically talks about "reality" and capturing it, but there's a point in there worth considering.

https://andreabianco.eu/blog/2023/02/07/ricoh-gr-vs-iphone/

lkanies,
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@mph fun read, thanks. It’s good to have words and images to describe how I often feel (although I was surprised how little he focused on the hdr effect making bad photos.

andrew, to law
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

@law

lkanies,
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@gooba42 @andrew @law it’s a myth that corporations are legally obligated to maximize shareholder value:

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

And a very convenient one for the managers who don’t want to care about anything but money, and of course for shareholders who rarely suffer the negative externalities

lkanies,
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@gooba42 @andrew @law 100% agreed

clive, (edited ) to random
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People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

lkanies,
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@clive glad you’re writing about this.

But please, when you write about those concerns, clarify whether people are actually injured regularly, and clarify how many people have those concerns vs have those same concerns about, say, cars, which kill 40k Americans a year.

So many articles about bikes just write about bikes, which becomes a platform for people’s irrational fears, with no space for pointing out how safe bikes are for the people around them vs the alternatives

lkanies,
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@clive a bit like all the articles of my youth that talked about pot and alcohol, without bothering to mention that alcohol kills tens of thousands of Americans a year and pot kills roughly zero. Like, people’s fears should get kinda swamped by that reality

lkanies, to random
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Would you rather die one year earlier, or have your feet look weird for the rest of your life?

lkanies,
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Just to be clear, my feet already look super weird. I grew up too poor to get shoes that fit.

I mean, weird even given how weird your (my) feet already look.

lkanies, to random
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This whole thread is 🤯. I’ve never seen anyone with a generalized view of my opinions on most productivity software.

Comtact and calendar apps are just shoddy transcriptions of how we managed that info on paper. They’ve not only barely changed since they were first ported over — they I’ve barely changed since a century before that.

We are held back by the representations of the work we are doing.

We need to rethink our tools, not just get “better” ones.
https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112467389989637971

thomasfuchs, to random
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The AI hype sometimes reminds me of 1970s foods.

People actually thought dishes like “Avocado Jelly Waldorf with Mayonnaise” were decent and a good idea.

lkanies,
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@thomasfuchs I know Americans did. Did anyone else?

theropologist, to random
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Beowulf is pretty wild, and I haven't even gotten to the fight with Grendel yet. Beowulf has just shown up and is like Hey this Grendel character? I'm gonna waste his ass for you. And then Unferth is like Pshaw! You can't even swim good, Bro! Breca totally crushed you in that swimming contest. And Beowulf is like Really? You want to go there? Sorry I was too busy slaying NINE sea monsters to worry about winning some stupid little race, and by the way I was swimming in full armor and carrying a sword, but you're welcome for the steep decline in sea monster attacks lately. Do you even slay, Bro? Oh wait l, what am I saying, if you were even halfway decent at slaying then I wouldn't have to come here with all my Geat bros to save your sorry ass! And Unferth just sits there in silence because what are you gonna say after having been so thoroughly owned?

lkanies,
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@theropologist @clive if you love beowolf, I can’t recommend enough that you read The Mere Wife, especially if you are American. A modern retelling, and so good.

ascentale, to random
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And the last question (hope it's okay that this ended up being a Q8, @trouble)

Q8. What's the most recent thing you bought/added to your bike? Or clothing, or any cycling related thing. Anything new or fun?

lkanies,
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@marcprecipice @ascentale @trouble omg that must be so fun

LehtoriTuomo, to actuallyautistic
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Went to a bar with a visiting scholar. The first three hours or so were fun. We had good food and nice whisky. Colleague was chatty and I enjoyed listening.

Then loud drunk people came in. I noticed I had hard time following my colleague's talk. The drunk people started to get on my nerves. I was also very conscious of my pinkish nails. Now that I've paid more attention to my bodily reactions, I noticed how anxious the change of the atmosphere made me.

Fortunately I had already checked my bus schedule and the colleague had said that I can just let him know whenever I have to leave. I said that it's getting loud, then explained I'm autistic and have auditory processing problems and that there would be a bus in 15 minutes. He said that we can leave right away. 💜 Once outside, it felt better again.

The older I get, the less I enjoy noisy bars. Or should I say the less I tolerate them. Never really liked them.

@actuallyautistic

lkanies,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic same.

I find it quite freeing now to just let myself admit that I cannot tolerate it.

danderson, to random
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This detour into winamp-like Garmin watch faces did make me learn something bizarre. For a couple years starting in 1999, NCR - the people who make ATMs and cash registers - sponsored the development of XMMS, at the time the leading open-source Winamp-alike.

The dotcom boom was a weird time, wasn't it.

lkanies,
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@danderson @skinnylatte god I miss xmms. The last app that just played the music I wanted, when and how I wanted, and never made me angry at it.

The “Albums” app on iOS comes close, but it only does albums, nothing else. I sometimes do other stuff.

enobacon, to random
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😒 the car people did not get the memo about bike to work day

lkanies,
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@enobacon today was bike to everything day

lkanies,
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@enobacon I honestly am completely mystified about where you ride and why, so I never know whether or how to make claims about whether you should ride.

I have spent a weird amount of time riding in SW, for someone who has only lived on the east side. But… I have not put your situation together.

I was just commenting on the weather.

mathowie, to random
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https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

lkanies,
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@mathowie how does it handle the backlog in the timeline?

Like, with ivory it just tells me how many unread posts I have, and I… scroll. I would almost never use this feature, so I am struggling to understand what makes it so great.

marcoarment, to random
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"The iPad Pro doesn’t need to run macOS, but the answer to why an iPad Pro can’t do something a Mac can do, shouldn’t be to carry two kinds of computers with the same M-series chips, with the same RAM, with the same storage, and do different things on each.”
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/112448850000669090

lkanies,
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@alabut @marcoarment but they do not have the same hardware.

My camera sensor is dramatically larger than my phone’s. The glass is way larger, too.

And my (Fuji) cameras all have physical controls for the exposure triangle.

Very different.

lkanies,
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@alabut @marcoarment I will happily bet an annoying amount of money that you are wrong about all of this. Certainly you are for me.

I just spent a week in Arizona, and hated nearly every picture taken with my phone, yet had a wide reaction to my Fuji photos.

I also tried to capture the aurora on Saturday, and while it didn’t really show up, mt st Helens was great. Except for the photos taken with my phone.

Phones are great for brief reactions. But I will not give up my cameras.

lkanies,
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@alabut @marcoarment I agreed with you for a while. And there are definitely types of photo that the iPhone does really well.

But the more I look at photos side by side, and the more I try to capture what I see, the less I like the processing the iPhone does.

I love that it’s always there. And I know most people need nothing more than it.

But I think people will regret only relying on it.

mph, to random
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after a few months with Scribbles ...
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/after-a-few-months-with-scribbles

lkanies,
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@mph the word “export” has become anathema to me, especially for text.

lkanies,
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@mph similar to when I stopped using Wordpress. Why is it so hard to sync the posted posts to the source text?

The answer is, because the text is in a database, which sucks for text.

lkanies,
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@mph in case it wasn’t clear, I would be happy to lecture you or anyone else about this for hours. I have acquired strong feelings about this.

mph, to random
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The content producer ouroboros (or: Lou Plummer is right)
https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/the-content-producer-ouroboros-or-lou-plummer-is-right

lkanies,
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@mph look, just let me have my annoying hobby horse about how calendaring and contact management have barely changed since they were poorly transcribed into the software world

skinnylatte, to random
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Every day I read news about San Francisco by people who clammer to say the city I live in is too liberal, too progressive, but I dont see any evidence of such claims although I wish they were right

lkanies,
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@skinnylatte right? Exactly the same in Portland, but I think we’re even less liberal

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