Dulany @dulanyweaver@mastodon.technology
Engineer, leader, starting #webdev, all around nerd. New Canadian/US expat. Probably watching something involving robots. He/him.
http://pushingelectrons.net
One of my favorite things about #Canada - just being able to open the windows when it's nice out.
South Carolina was so buggy that you didn't dare enjoy fresh air last you be consumed by the Swarm.
Protip for maintaining sanity: Don't work as hard as you can all the time. Take breaks, enjoy the sun, walk your dog, read, garden, sit quietly and think about a river rolling on past you, oblivious to your frail humanity.
I apparently have strong #pretzel opinions.
(apologies - I've lost the link to OP)
It shares a lot of the same issues with tracking on the web or social media. There, though, it is clear we are dealing with machines. With the new Google Assistant, machines are being shoehorned into a space governed by human norms without any awareness of those interacting with it.
About Google's new Assistant capability - where do we draw the line about declarations from those who contact us? https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/994389206267969536?s=09
I think some big concerns about speaking with an AI are:
1) Your call is recorded for perpetuity without consent by an unaccountable company
2) Your responses are collated and analyzed in the context of all the other unaccountable data about you
3) The potential for hypertargeted psyops is huge and real.
Any #KDE rockstars around? I keep getting seg faults on login, and deleting config files isn't doing the trick.
Entering hour 5 of Windows updates.
Thoughts and prayers appreciated during this difficult time.
Deal alert: Humble Bundle has a $50 Digital Ocean credit for ~$16 in the Python Dev Kit bundle!
When folks say they want a robot to do chores for them, and the price they are willing to pay is greater than minimum wage for the time needed:
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I'm really excited about the potential of Progressive Web Apps, so I wrote a blog post about it. It's brief, light on jargon, and aimed at a non-technical reader so you don't have to be a techie or a dev to understand what's great about PWAs!
https://mikebabb.com/better-user-experiences-with-progressive-web-apps/
I just love all of these memes, guys.
(courtesy @notebooklines on birdsite)
Just spent the last hour figuring out the details of turning a gamepad into an alternative keyboard.
Hopefully your evening has been just as productive.
I should probably do a proper masto #introduction
I'm Vicky. I'm a librarian focusing on research reproducibility + research data management.
I gave an interview about me/my work recently: http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2018/04/04/repro/
I love FOSS, open access, open educational resources, open EVERYTHING
I hate the corporate capture of scholarship
I co-founded an open source, open access repo for LIS scholarship: lissarchive.org
I also love my super cute black cat Little Boss & my partner @remram44
This is kinda cool - a new tool to set up your own self-hosted VPN, even via the cloud:
https://medium.com/jigsaw/introducing-outline-making-it-safer-to-break-the-news-feda4d047b4
Sometimes I wonder how suicide cults form but then I look at companies that run MS software for everything.
Who's got a lead on nice Mastodon laptop stickers?
maple classic™ 
working with process forking is fun because while looking for info online you come across stackoverflow questions such as
"When and How can a child kill?"
Now, just to Devil's Advocate myself...
Did you know there are cases where URL shorteners are actually beneficial to user privacy?
Browsers usually tell the sites you visit, where you came from (the referrer). If the site where you found the link is in any way private - e.g. a corp web-mail, or your Very Secret Mastodon Lurker Identity - then leaking the contents of your URL bar to the remote site is a privacy issue.
URL shorteners can prevent that leak.
...#infosec gets complicated fast!
