まだ食べてるお正月の黒豆に芋きんとん。
デーツ、あんず、クコ、おみかん、りんごにスパイス沢山入れたウォーターケフィアは薬膳コーラ的💕
Stewed black turtle beans and mushed sweet potato. Water kefir today is loaded with dried fruits and spices, sort of like a Chinese medicine “cola.”
Made a Mastodon pull request.
In v4, there is an issue on servers that don't have elasticsearch: when a user types @ in the compose box and starts to type a name, the results they get are ordered by a popularity ranking algorithm. This is fine if you were only searching accounts you don't follow, but to me it makes more sense to FIRST return matches for accounts you DO follow as a suggestion, and then return popular accounts that you don't follow
I have some ecosystem questions, aimed toward trying to see how I can help contribute.
Maybe boost this to help us all learn?
* What gatherings or online spaces are connecting fediverse devs and admins? What is needed?
* Where can one find people developing products and business models to support the ecosystem? Any pitch opportunities out there?
* How can we help to make the economies of the fediverse more explicit, rather than waiting for VCs to swoop in and commercialize for us?
Who is trying to build product-based startups around the fediverse?
If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.
Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://winbuzzer.com/2022/09/19/microsoft-editor-in-edge-sending-personla-info-to-microsoft-could-be-putting-users-at-risk-xcxwbn/
Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2
In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer Bob Morris, the father of Robert Morris – who had just released the first known destructive Internet worm.
"We were both aware a line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed."
(John McCumber, Assessing&Managing Security Risk in IT Systems)
testing testing
QT: https://takahe.social/@shuuji3/posts/13155/ [参照]
Just published a new beta build of Re: Toot. It fixes a bunch of issues that people have reported. Full release notes in the screenshot.
Want to try out Re: Toot? Get the beta build here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CINaJAjM
Just started playing with @adamghill's https://fediview.com/ and it's very much the kind of thing that I was planning to write about next week regarding things I was hoping to see developers creating for mastodon... (a very simple algorithm for finding useful posts that you control, rather than the platform)
Do you know how many times I've heard over the past few days how much the media is failing to follow the money in this story about the newly elected Rep. George #Santos? This story makes it clear that's exactly what happened.
https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/santos-filings-now-claim-net-worth-of-11-million (edit: replaced the paywalled WaPo story about how the MSM missed the big scoop with the big scoop itself).
So let's follow the money, shall we? Starting with Mr. Santos' latest filing for The #Devolder Organization, which is apparently responsible for his sudden unexplained wealth (Devolder is Santos' late mother's last name).
The organization lists its address as 336 N. Babcock St. Ste 104. The document also lists another organization at the same address but at Ste 101, called D&D International Investment Services Inc.
Both are affiliated with an individual named Devaughn #Dames, who appears to be both a physician and a CFO somehow. He's also very passionate about spreading his knowledge about how to handle your money wisely. His linkedin page mentions both companies. He also seems to be an IT expert; previous domains include https://web.archive.org/web/20160518071721/http://www.manageditsolutions.net/about.html
One of Mr. Dames' email addresses (dev.dames at gmail) was used to register the vanity domain devaughndames[.]com. Firefox didn't like what that site tried to do when I visited it, but it loaded an empty page that had the heading "Financial Educational Services." But the pop-up takes you to a domain called myuwe[.]net, which is for an entity called United Wealth Education.
Now, UWE is full of stock photos and videos, and there isn't much there about who runs it. And after spending a few minutes on this site, you'll probably come away with the conclusion that the site is tied to some type of scam.
Well, if you look up the name of what Myuwe[.]net used to be called -- Financial Educational Services -- you'll see they were shut down JUST THIS YEAR by the US Federal Trade Commission for being a giant pyramid scheme that bilked people out of more than $213 million.
How's that for following the money? :) Wait, I'm not done yet.
#devolder, #devaughndames #financialeducationservices #myuwe #unitedwealtheducation, #FTC #georgesantos
The more I work on teams, #opensource and otherwise, the more convinced I am that leadership and management are two different roles.
Setting the direction should be done by domain experts, managing issues and timelines and building consensus should be done by highly organized supports. Blending the two leads to overload and risks putting people who lack one of these skill sets in charge.
Anyone have links to good thinking along these lines?
#anarchism #coop maybe?
As people are leaving Bird for good, I find that many are engaged in what I believe is a dangerous and misguided game of mixing apples and oranges. After what just happened, and all that it has revealed about reliance on for-profit corporate entities for interpersonal and community interaction, why advocate for another such environment? Substack is already known garbage, and Post provides no future-proofing. When I say, “seize the means of your social media production,” this is why.
Version 0.6.1 is out - lots of bugfixes (to the client API especially), as well as the ability to set profile metadata, fetching the history of reply threads, and optional infinite scroll! https://docs.jointakahe.org/en/latest/releases/0.6/#id2
I've finally done it and donated to Standard Ebooks. I've read a bunch of their books, but what put me over the top was the edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. Couldn't finish that without ponying up. Get it here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/peter-kropotkin/mutual-aid
Now I can also recommend books for publication 🤪
This doctor prescribes ketamine to thousands online. It's all legal. #medicine https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/30/ketamine-telemedicine-covid-emergency/
second level quote toot
QT: https://fedibird.com/@literally/109604457950149325 [参照]
test quote toot
QT: https://takahe.social/@literally/posts/10888/ [参照]
anyway, i added quote tweets because like everyone in my community's discord (yeah yeah, i know) wanted them.
not because i want to say "fuck Gargron" or whatever.
like i said all along, this instance is a means to an end, providing a holding pattern while a more equitable network is designed and implemented.
my quote toots patch is here: https://gitea.treehouse.systems/treehouse/mastodon/pulls/36
argue with Gargron all you want, or enjoy them in an hour. it's up to you.
new treehouse mastodon feature in the design phase and dropping soon: channels
channels let you specify topical sub-feeds that users can follow, e.g. you might have a "queer shitposting" channel, or a "photography" channel.
Hello, Takahē!
I'm testing Takahē, a beta Fediverse server for microblogging written in Python and Django. It is also the first time I manage my own Fediverse node - I had to learn Ansible, Nginx, Django, and a bunch of other things along the way, but I'm happy to see it working now.
The UI maybe is a bit rough for the average user, but I'm sure this will change very soon 🚀
Can a tarot card reading be defamatory? Is it libel to say what you observed in the entrails of a sheep? A hard case from the headlines.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/can-a-tarot-card-reading-be-defamatory?sd=pf