cj 🇺🇸🇨🇭 @cj@mastodon.technology

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

The go-fed/activity library (https://github.com/go-fed/activity), for #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub in #golang , now has a v1.0.0 tagged release! Woo hoo!

The supporting website, https://go-fed.org/, is still a work in progress, though the tutorial should be mostly accurate.

Quick question for Swiss folks... I bought a Power Supply Unit for a PC here and it came with a type C plug. I have no type C, just type J in house. I tend to think of the type C plug as a high voltage plug when I see it. Do i just need to buy the right cable with a J end for my PSU, or do PCs need a high voltage line in the house?

"4 out of 5 of our metrics are red and failing. Time to reopen."

I can't e-file this year because the IRS made a big whoopsie and is rejecting legitimate e-filed forms. Great, I always wanted to mail a processed tree carcass to the government.

"Little known fact: half of the work year of Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish wildlife ranger's is spent finding heavy metal and rock bands lost in the wilderness, the other half is parental leave."

#np #nowplaying Wardruna - Lyfjaberg (Healing-mountain)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEizKmZlUAw&list=RDhxRzTbs83H0

Only in EvE can you get into a cheap frigate and travel down to lawless space and duel another space ship piloted by a German human player who has been leading a band of pirates for 10 real life years.

Monday evenings for ya.

Seriously contemplating returning to the US sometime next month to get vaccinated.

During this pandemic, a friend has occasionally used their movie-and-restaurant budget to instead branch out and try different beauty products. From places like Lush or a half dozen other brands I dont really know. If she doesn't like them, rather than toss them she gives them to my wife to try. & if my wife doesn't like it, but it is something I can use -- soap, shampoo -- she gives it to yours truly

Anyway, that's why I smell like a rainbow unicorn bouquet desperate teenage romance these days

Abolish five star ratings, go full ebay:

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Also, the mashup has the best comment of 2021:

"Huey! Huey, it’s Marvin. Your cousin! Marvin Lewis. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this!"

#np #nowplaying the best song of 2021

#metal #notreallymetal

James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRx4LpYbQ4

My man Rømer used 39% ABV wine as his liquid when building his thermometer and temperature scale. WTF.

You could definitely get drunk off of his thermometer -- modern ones have a more bucket-y kind of kick.

I was wondering why a bunch of tech folks were suddenly quoting the witty phrases of Bertrand Russel, and it's because there was a massive Orange Site thread about his quip on being the Pope.

If only there was a quote that went like: something-something about quotations being a substitute for wit. Then I'd really show off my ironic wit and wow the crowd.

So all we know is copying an API is fair use if one is reimplementing an API for a new smartphone OS one is supporting.

Everything else is still unknown, like what other things are fair use and even whether APIs are copyrightable to begin with.

Apparently the EU has a strict new regulation requiring a license to export any COVID vaccine from its borders. That means Switzerland is impacted and will be a hurdle to procuring more. Also, the regime to get am export license is progressive: it is harder to get an export license if a destination country's relative vaccination level is better than the EU. So Switzerland has to do as poorly as or as worse as the EU whole, to get a delivery licensed.

It is so cold in Chur today thanks to the wind. 🥶

#np #nowplaying m1dy - Hotel Hellfornia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtI9ICekgs

Für's Fest kauf schnell drei Fässer Bier,
Wenn CJ kommt, doch besser vier!

Allergy level spiking today.