Josh Justice @CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology

Peach / Pear flavor combinations should just be called PREACH

the gnu is just stallman's fursona

In true developer fashion I've spent an hour tinkering with a thing and decided it's the best thing ever. Jekyll side project and blog post coming up! 🙌

"On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

the solution to the "software being bad" problem is to make all your own software yourself so that you think its good due to the "ikea effect"

i think this is the most noughties object i can fathom

you: installing mastodon is hard
gitlab: hold my beer

OK, all you #Mastodon instance admins, this might be the beginning of a new wave of users coming onto the network.
Twitter sold data to Cambridge Analytica; data sales accounted for 13% of Twitter's revenue in 2017
https://9to5mac.com/2018/04/30/cambridge-analytica-twitter/

Buy
Less
Online
Currency
Karma
Can
Hamper
Any
ICO
Nastily

#BlockChain

Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.

Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.

Holy....shit this font

Brilliant New Typeface Combines Touchable Braille With Visible Letters

https://mymodernmet.com/braille-neue-typeface-kosuke-takahashi/

alright buckle up
It time for some Game Theory.

"shadow and knuckles are the same person and tails is BotW Link dreaming in stasis for 100 years"

How long until the next masto migration wave? Well,
http://apps-of-a-feather.com

What you should not forget is that: public posts are public, private posts may still be public if sent to dishonest servers, DMs are not protected by encryption and rely on both involved instance's honesty.
If you allow everyone to follow you your data may get mined just as on the commercial platforms.
If you have a commercial bot (in disguise) in your followers, it will see and mine those toots.
Just being a federation is no silver bullet to the privacy issue. But ou aren't the product anymore.

This thread by Tim Berners-Lee on the bird-site on the problems the web is facing and how we must start think about personal data is worth reading: https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/976623317808484352

I gave the keynote at a conference last week, about team building and software developers. The video will be up eventually, but I put my speaker notes into a blog post.

Building Better Software by Building Better Teams https://ashfurrow.com/blog/building-better-software-by-building-better-teams/

"is not as good as the originalllll."
ya no shit b/c i was like 10 during the original run, i wasnt watching it with fuckin bills and career shit in the back of my head, and neither did you.