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Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
If mastodon is co-opted by tech giants I would simply move to an even more confusing and esoteric social network
Why pay $8 for Twitter Blue when you can do anything at zombo.com?
wink posted Nov 10, 2022
TIL that `docker import foo.tgz imagename:tag` does *something* but it's probably not what you wanted, that would be `docker load < foo.tgz`. So my confusion is mostly because it doesn't error out or say huh? if you hand it a "saved" image with many layers and stuff.
wink posted Nov 10, 2022
Hm, I've been doing it again. I really don't like mixing up German and English content on the same account, even if the few poor souls who follow me maybe don't mind. But it's a hard problem to solve. Do I have to shove all the people who post in German to the other account (I mean, follow them there, unfollow them here)? I already made two accounts a while ago but then I started this self-hosted one and I'm kinda enjoying it a lot more, can't even tell why.
everyone is jeering at elon musk, but whom amongst us can say that they’ve never spent too much money on domain name that they don’t know what to do with?
Yes, I am seriously doing this now.
I attend a lot of cybersecurity conferences. And I know lots of security companies have my contact info. I get *lots* cold marketing emails asking me for a meeting to discuss RPI's security needs.
As I am the cybersecurity professor, I can't actually discuss RPI's security needs, because that's not my job. I don't work for RPI's IT services (which we call DotCIO). I work as a professor in the Information Technology & Web Science Program. Huge difference.
However, I now respond to all such cold marketing emails from these security companies letting them know that I have a great opportunity for them--they can provide me with a list of their internships and jobs so I can put them in front of my amazing cybersecurity students. They also now have the opportunity to donate money to my cybersecurity research lab so I can continue to provide the world-class research and educational opportunities that will produce the future workforce and executives that their company desperately needs.
I write these emails in the same cold call style they email me. Yes, I am really doing this. I have the permission and blessing of my Program Director.
I will keep you all updated on if I'm successful.
wink posted Nov 6, 2022
Lukewarm take: Local timelines are not necessarily good. I have an account on one instance where I thought I'd find like-minded people but the most active are also the most annoying and too many to mute. Completely useless, but maybe you'll be more lucky.
When Andrew Lee bought (kinda?) Freenode and blew it up last year, I was surprised by how quickly one rich dude could tank a long-standing social network with an established community, and baffled why someone would spend so much money just to burn something down.
That was cute.