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ryansingel

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Building Outpost.pub to help build an indie publishing ecosystem. Also Contextly, Stanford and formerly journalist at Wired.

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East Bay Bike Party is a local treasure.

Thousands on bikes of all kinds, just being joyful.

This month even had a DJ being towed

2nd Friday of every month, starts and ends at a BART station, ride starts 8pm, lights and costumes optional but appreciated

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i’d pay good money for a browser that refuses to let any site block copy-and-pasting

I’d pay even more money for a service that hunts down whatever web designer or project manager or VP that decides their site should do this, then names and shames them on a website

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VMWare is one of those companies that is too big to be competent.

They bought Pivotal Tracker, a tool for managing software projects, and then recently decided to boot off all the paying customers that weren’t enterprise.

I just found an email in my spam folder. DKIM and SPF is apparently being too difficult for them to figure out. The email said I had cancelled my paid plan.

No, VMWare you decided you no longer wanted me to pay you.

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The FCC just voted to restore its authority over broadband providers and restore #netneutrality.

States largely get to enforce their laws as well.

It's a good win, with the caveat that the devil is in details and final order not released until next week. ISPs fought hard to aerate the order with loopholes.

I'm really looking forward to the FCC forcing mobile ISPs to stop their video throttling of everyone not on the most expensive plan.

J12t, to hydroponics
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How to broaden what comes on the table for dinner:

Help, the Bok Choi is growing much faster than I want to eat the same recipe over and over again. What else can we do with it?

#hydroponics

ryansingel,
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@J12t
A bok Choi version of palak paneer. A pressure cooker v helpful for this.

You can also make the paneer in a pressure cooker from milk and vinegar

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“He essentially self-immolated to promote his Substack” is a phrase we now all have to live with

ryansingel,
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@ernie
We're still talking about the NPR dude?

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The latest news site dark pattern is hijacking the back button or left swipe to show you chumbox ads

Here's @arstechnica doing it

The amount of damage Outbrain/Taboola (and other scuzzy tactics) did to the news industry hasn't ever been reckoned with.

News sites turned themselves into adversaries you have to fight to get a nugget of info. Worst video games ever.

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When @BeAware asks for help scaling out Mastodon because his SINGLE USER INSTANCE is falling over, and he reveals that he's paying for an 8 vCPU server with 16GB of memory, and all the comments are talking about tweaking postgres.

What the flying fuck.

ryansingel,
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@devnull
@BeAware

Rails everytime.

No one ever remembers Twitter's S1 which revealed they paid Chris Fry $10M a year to save Twitter from Rails.

A simple LAMP stack was right there

sysop408, to Taiwan
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Oh crap, a 7.4 magnitude quake just hit #Taiwan. There's a bonkers photo of a 10 story building that partially collapsed. It's leaning hard and looks like it could topple over at any moment.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/04/03/2003815900

ryansingel,
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@sysop408
Really hoping post-1999 changes limit the damage. Fingers crossed

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Chatted with @docpop on his fancy podcast about the future of journalism and open-source CMSes like WordPress and Ghost

https://overcast.fm/+2e5_5EvkI

You can listen to the podcast on whatever podcast player, platform or RSS tool you use

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/me flips the "Days since I have been required to be in a client's Teams instance" sign to 0

ryansingel,
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@danhon
I keep raising the rate we charge to do anything Slack/Teams.

Async or pay bank

ryansingel, to random
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Housing so bad in the Bay Area that a Caltrain exec and a contractor built secret apartments for themselves in two stations.

Apparently Caltrain stations aren't zoned for ADUs and they got arrested

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/caltrain-exec-charged-secret-station-apartments-19376188.php

ernie, to random
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Got a new kind of backlink request!

Here’s the email:

ryansingel,
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@ernie This is what you get when you have a trademark attorney work on copyright,

That’s assuming that this lawyer even exists, which is generous

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In honor of Gmail’s upcoming 20th birthday: Go to your oldest/primary Gmail account, do a quick search, and share the date you got it.

I’ll go first: June 21, 2004.

ryansingel,
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@ernie May 31, which was still early enough to sell the subsequent invites on eBay. Though this didn’t work out too great, cause one of the buyers was a former co-worker and felt obligated to just give it to them.

But I did trade one for some Omaha steaks.

#FreelanceLife

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DARPA are soliciting proposals for how to build a train on the Moon: https://www.businessinsider.com/darpa-futuristic-lunar-railroad-solutions-astronauts-living-moon-2024-3

Given the goal is to minimize exposure of moving parts to abrasive moon dust, and one option is a maglev track, has anyone proposed wrapping the maglev sheet in a loop and making a magnetically levitated caterpillar track? ie. a tank track that uses electromagnetic levitation and induction instead of wheels?

ryansingel,
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@cstross
A harder DARPA challenge would be how to build a train in California

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I still think the most under-reported, most holy shit tech story of the last 5+ years is how good e-bikes have gotten and how much more affordable a decent e-bike has become.

E-cars and trucks are a nice change but mostly meh. E-bikes, tho? They are magic.

They deserve subsidies and way more press attention.

ryansingel,
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E-bikes outsell electric cars and trucks, and are the best-selling Electric Vehicles.

Meanwhile most journalists focus on the traditional automotive market and use the term EV to refer only to e-cars/trucks.

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Dems seem dead set on losing the young vote, refusing to stop the genocide in Gaza and now threatening to ban TikTok

Going after TikTok doesn't make you look tough. It makes you look out of touch.

Go out and hammer Fox News over and over. It has brainwashed most of the boomer population.

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Definitely worth the masked BART hop to hear @pluralistic in convo with @robinsloan talking new books and sundry tangy tangents, but really what i want to know now is who makes these SHOES

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@gillyarcht
@pluralistic @robinsloan

Just look at that mask tho! 👏

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Just got a notice in the mail that my Philips CPAP machine had a data breach thanks to its “cloud service” connected to the secret wireless modem in the CPAP that spies on users.

I have no idea why Philips has patient’s dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers just so it could send CPAP breathing data to a healthcare provider.

A simple unique ID generated by the healthcare provider would be enough

ryansingel,
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Oh cool. Philips CCPA notice says I can put in a request via a contact form that doesn't exist or I can make a request via phone number but that phone number is just their online store phone number and the people on that end have no idea what a CCPA request is

https://www.philips.com/a-w/privacy-notice

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News sites have gotten so crappy that now ads pretend to be the website's dark pattern.

Lots of terrible sites like the AP truncate stories and put a continue button that you have to press to read the rest of the story. The site does this to show more ads.

So the shit company Endless Sports built an ad that is a continue button. It scrolls into view on mobile and unsuspecting readers click it, thinking that's how you get the rest of the story.

But nope, you have clicked an ad.

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"If you are starting to wonder whether we are going to create individual ActivityPub accounts for each and every object in the SFO Museum Aviation Collection the answer is quite simply: Yes, but we’ve started with aircraft tail numbers to [get a feel for things]. If you are starting to wonder whether there is anything we won’t create an ActivityPub account for (galleries, individual exhibitions, gates at the airport…) the answer is: Probably not." – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/

ryansingel,
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@thisisaaronland @burritojustice This is amazing and a brilliant illustration of why a decentralized social protocol opens up so many possibilities.

I for one cannot wait to follow this roll of Hello Kitty branded airplane toilet paper

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Today could be your lucky day.

There’s a non-zero chance that if you buy an annual subscription to a great indie publication or newsletter on today Feb 29, the leap year day, that their tech won’t charge you again for four years.

Go subscribe today and see if you hit the date and time jackpot.

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Automattic and Reddit selling training data to LLMs.

Biden banning data sales to China.

Your mobile ISP? Hold my beer, we got data on everything our customers do and we gonna be BARONS!

"AI applications can only be as successful as the completeness, longevity and accuracy of their underlying data. For the mobile industry, this includes the full and complete profile of the wireless subscriber. That history consists of communications, location, and device activity"

https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/will-telcos-be-the-railroad-tycoons-of-the-ai-age-

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