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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2020 20:30:40 UTC 
Stephen Sekula
TFW you know there was a repeated word in sequence in something you wrote, but you just cannot find it. So you dump it to text, put one word per line using "tr", and diff the raw list and the list obtained from "uniq" to find the one darn repeated word. NOW I HAVE IT. -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 31-Jul-2020 15:54:57 UTC 
Douglas A. Whitfield
well, "enterprise" is largely a bad word in the startup space, to be equated with slow and/or complicated.
I am having a related argument about Java. Maybe it is true that the Java ecosystem is too complicated. I was just yesterday unable to get something to work in IntelliJ and I have no idea why. It works in #Eclipse. In any case, I think the Java-naysayers probably don't know about things like https://quarkus.io/
I think there is a good argument about not using C or C++ for a startup, unless you are doing something that requires realtime, but I don't see the argument with Java.
I think Java had years of uncertainty after the Sun acquisition, and #Java 8 certainly has issues with modern practices, but Java 8 came out before K8s.
Considering #K8s came out the same year as Java 8 and #Mesos had been presented first 5 years earlier, it's easy to say that Java 8 was a missed opportunity. That said, a lot of things you would have liked to see in Java 8 came in Java 9.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jul-2020 20:27:24 UTC ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/avatar/4152-48-20190707060419.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I would be a lot more open to undoing a lot of the lockdowns if the people promoting it were willing to do what is required:
1--personal responsibility: the things we're told every day ... wash hands frequently, mask up if we go out, avoid getting closer than 6 feet / 2 meters from other people;
2--corporate: restructure workplace and processes to reduce the spread of disease, allow workers that suspect themselves to be sick or COVID-exposed to take time off without penalty;
3--government: financial support for people who are off work due to #COVID-19, enforceable right to pursue class-action lawsuits against companies that violate (2) above.
4--political: get the slimy #pollies' dirty hands off of the nation's disease response and prevention process
But it seems that every #anti-lockdown person I see or hear is also an #anti-masker who wants company managers to be able to force sick workers to come in anyway. -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2020 21:32:01 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
well, if you want to fiddle on a walking app, I can create a repo at https://github.com/Names-Are-Hard-Training-Apps
I don't know when I will have a chance to work on it more. -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 00:14:29 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
Thought about it, but just cannot engage the dumb. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2020 22:30:42 UTC
Stephen Sekula
I know this is really a "they ended the crisis that they themselves created" kinda situation, but ... ... in a sea of bad news, I will take a little good news. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1283129972320804864 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2020 17:30:40 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From chronicle https://twitter.com/chronicle on Twitter: The emergency shift to remote instruction, as a result of Covid-19, has been toughest on faculty members who tended to resist digital tools. Here's how one such "resister" adjusted. https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-an-Ed-Tech-Skeptic/248876 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2020 17:40:47 UTC
Stephen Sekula
For me, digital teaching starts with the flipped classroom model. Rather than subject students to an in-class lecture, they read and watch the lecture before class. Here is an example. Every hour of lecture take 3-6 hours to write/shoot/edit. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFuFjOF4zpFHfjd8TJIPk6cqlB6pjUaP6 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2020 21:30:45 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From jade_gato https://twitter.com/jade_gato on Twitter: How students respond to open-ended labs. https://twitter.com/jade_gato/status/1281697936578170881/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/66059 -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 20:01:30 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
literally digital, but... https://blocsonic.com/releases/type/fortyfives -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2020 00:40:52 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From Georgetown https://twitter.com/Georgetown on Twitter: International students are integral members of Georgetown's community. The University is working to limit the negative impact of the U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys latest guidance regarding international students in the United States on F-1 visas: https://president.georgetown.edu/support-for-our-international-students-july-2020/ https://twitter.com/Georgetown/status/1281021295543664641/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65994 -
Friendica News (news)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 06:50:47 UTC 
Friendica News
Happy 10th Birthday Friendica!
Ten years ago the 1st commit https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/friendica/commit/6348e70daa113e8b3203de8fbc919d08c90d972e to the git repository of Mistpark was made by Mike Macgirvin, a project that since has become Friendica accumulating some 27.000 commits contributing the work of more then 250 people from all around the world.
Mistpark and Friendica themes from 2010 to 2020
Together we have build a social media platform that had many faces over the years. It has grown from a decentralized communication platform into an integral part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse and Federation. Allowing its users to interact with their friends and family across the borders of nodes, projects and physical distance outside the world of data-harvesting corporations.
Thank you Mike and everybody else who has contributed their time to the project over the years! And while we are preparing the 2020.06 release https://forum.friendi.ca/display/f3ad7b1c-745e-e63a-ca7a-80a162175644 of Friendica, lets have a big party to celebrate ten years of this wonderful part of the free social web.
friendi.ca/2020/07/02/happy-10… -
Tobias (tobias)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2020 12:39:52 UTC 
Tobias
I've joined the Fediverse August 2008 as @Tobias Diekershoff, after a report in one of Germans IT-News portals. I never was on Twitter before, but had a, more or less dormant, Facebook account. Microblogging was fun, in contrast to organizing study groups at FB ;-) and when Laconica (the software that ran identi.ca back then) got a first release to host your own instance, I set mine up and became one of those early pioneers stepping into the void starting to form the bubble that today is called the Fediverse.
And maybe I should some grayish strands into my profile picture ;-)
Time for a campfire story // Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
And while Microblogging was fun, for me one thing missing were private postings. Postings I only shared with friends, or with the people from my study group or with family members. So when diaspora* got a first alpha version released I got really excited about the self-hosted alternative to FB. So, I tried to set-up diaspora* on my server at home and failed after two weekends struggling with the requirements and the stable version of Debian :-)
So I looked for an alternative to the alternative and found Mistpark. A small one-man project to build a social media platform with Facebook like features. And one big plus point, it was written in PHP, same as Laconica/StatusNet, and was installed within minutes on the Debian box. I don't know exactly when that was, but it should be around December of 2010.
The last ten years went by in the blink of an eye. Friendica was the 1st multi protocol project in the Fedivers & Federation, speaking with IMAP, RSS feeds and both the OStatus and the diaspora* world. (And picked up ActivityPub along the way at some point.) It got my central spot of personal communication streams.
I've met many great people, we got friends and mourned together when some of us passed away. We had our ypots collected and drank our cup of coffee together in the morning. We celebrated birthdays and child birth. We saw monoliths struggle and fall. Islands in the void growing. Slowly but steadily that what got the Fediverse of today was formed. A diverse bunch of projects with a diverse group of communities connected through space and time. Slowly at first but every now and then a wave of newcomers was washed ashore the banks of the Fediverse and Federation.
Today we can celebrate another birthday. Ten long years ago, @Mike Macgirvin did the initial commit to ~friendica . Thank you Mike cheers! I wish I could share a home-brew with you. Have a great party today--all of you, being new or old to the Fediverse. Keep your physical distance as appropriate but get more closer socially :-) -
Free Software Foundation (fsf)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2020 17:58:29 UTC 
Free Software Foundation
Remote education has provided an unfortunate opportunity for privacy-invading proprietary software to invade students' lives. Learn how many people are fighting back: https://u.fsf.org/32h -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2020 20:13:16 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Ugh. Are old people always rude?
(My forty-something and thirty-somethings would say I'm old, but I mean even older.) -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jun-2020 21:06:34 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
Has anybody seen where the 'groovy.use.classvalue=true' work-around doesn't work?
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-50223 -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2020 13:32:09 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
We have a new project for which we are using Alfresco. I think it's more of a SharePoint competitor than any of the ones you mention, but I guess it just depends on what you want. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2020 02:52:09 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
I really do wish people would refer to #Debian and #Ubuntu and #Devuan (and their derivatives) releases by their version numbers instead of their nicks. If necessary, put the nick in a parenthetical. I can figure out that version 10 is newer than version 9, and that 20.04 is newer than 18.04, but what the heck does a "Ravenous Rabbit" nick tell me? -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jun-2020 14:30:59 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From cforman https://twitter.com/cforman on Twitter: #PageOne still packs a punch: Todays Ft Worth TX @startelegram @mcclatchy #ReadLocal #SubscribeLocal #AdvertiseLocal @brianstelter @Sulliview @JimFriedlich @jeffjarvis @BGrueskin @soledadobrien @brooke https://twitter.com/cforman/status/1274709524885106689/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/65716 -
Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Friday, 19-Jun-2020 22:01:53 UTC
Douglas A. Whitfield
just marked my first customer issue resolved on my new team. It's always frustrating when a customer doesn't get back to you, but it's been over a week and I've checked in, so I am calling it done.
In any case, I told him the answer in my first response, he just didn't like it. I mean, #log4j may well be a better longterm solution for them, but it doesn't do exactly what they asked like my first response.
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