cj (*new*) 🇺🇸🇨🇭 @cj@mastodon.technology

Back in Switzerland. Had a nice but exhausting vacation. Tomorrow I'll look at #golang #activitypub stuff. Plan some stuff out, catch up on some projects, and maybe code a little.

Also a bit of a bummer but the wife and I leave tomorrow right when #pride #paris is taking place. Would have loved to attend.

>64,000 steps in #paris these past 5 days.

There is simply too much to see and do in this town.

While at the Louvre I got to see The Raft Of The Medusa, an incredible painting depicting a non-fictional brutal story of death and suffering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_M%C3%A9duse_(1810)#Course_to_Senegal

I first learned of the story and painting from the #metal #doom band Ahab. Their album "The Divinity Of Oceans" has the song "Yet Another Raft Of The Medusa (Pollard's Weakness)". It does great justice capturing the despair, loneliness, and horror of this event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrvNUOU0EQ

While here in #paris I may have stopped by Point Plume and purchased my second #fountainpen: an S. T. Dupont D-Initial. I've been using my entry level Pilot one for years (since 2014) and have written >50 letters, years of journaling, etc. So have slowly been building up justification to get a nicer one like this!

Been in the #louvre for 4 hours. Realize I have no way of appreciating 99% of the art here since I am an uncultured swine.

Trying Duolingo again for German. Haven't opened it up in about 10 months. I heard there was a lot of changes. All I see immediately is a lot more pushiness to get the paid version to skip the ads.

I'll try a couple more lessons but there's only so many times I can type "Ich bin ein Brot".

Took this picture and realized it makes me feel like I'm in a space station.

Season 1: Quota is 2+ sci fi tropes per episode
Season 2: Quota is 1 sci fi trope per episode and also copy Dances With Wolves
Season 3: Let's just turn this show into one big Borg AI trope.

Writers for this show are awful. The actors are able to barely salvage any indication of coherency (see: biolumenescence with Octavia; Reapers no longer mattering; Deus Ex Machina everywhere; dialogue is only talking "at" each other; Hollywood science).

I still need to make a go-fed website.

It would be awesome if #Hugo supported #ActivityPub. Then I could just spin up a federated blog easily.

Hey @dconley, if it isn't too much for me to ask, sometime within the next week and a half could you pull the latest go-fed/activity and see if you can compile it on your pi? Since I don't have a pi I cannot confirm if I've solved the issue you filed, but from my very limited benchmarking it seems like `go install` on the vocab package may not require large amounts of memory anymore (although the lib binary is still >40MB in size):

https://github.com/go-fed/activity/issues/42

I'll look again when I get back from vacation.

Taking a train to #Paris tomorrow. First time there! Will be turning on my super tourist powers, for better or worse.

New #introduction as my previous instance died:

#Nuclear eng by education, software eng by job title. Expertise is in #c++ #java and #golang. I implemented #ActivityPub in Go. I enjoy #metal and #techno music. From #NC but live in #Zurich. I enjoy politics but not the current partisan BS. Avid fan of video games like #eve and #factorio but have little time to play. I enjoy #writing with #fountainpens and am learning #calligraphy. I like writing letters to my friends. I enjoy #scifi novels.

#introductions

Goodnight, all! Dream big.

Protect the world's borders from actual aliens.

And @dansup just a heads up, just because "Photos for masOS" is not listed in Apple's trademarks list doesn't mean it isn't. (https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/appletmlist.html)

Protecting a trademark is legally very different than protecting an app icon. I would hate to see you be put into a very expensive and unfortunate situation.

Unfortunately, if #pixelfed ever gains any traction I see a lawsuit from Apple in the future. Issue is locked so I guess that means Apple can't sue.

(see Apple vs Woolworths Ltd)

https://github.com/dansup/pixelfed/issues/295

Is there a way to mass-mute bots on Mastodon? I would really prefer humans, and it is getting tiring muting all the stuff that keeps popping up in local/fed timelines.