Aaron Parecki

at Gate C40

East Boston, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 8:22am

42.365656 -71.017158

East Boston, MA, United States • 68°F

37 Coins

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 8:22am -04:00
http://davidjohnmead.com/img/davidmead-social.png davidmead http://davidjohnmead.com/ • permalink
It’s happening right now 😉

hm I don't see any currently failed checkins. Next time it happens, don't re-try it, and I can check the logs.

East Boston, Massachusetts • 68°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 7:33am -04:00
at TSA Security Checkpoint

Boston, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 7:14am

42.366544 -71.016548

Boston, MA, United States • 68°F

10 Coins

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 7:14am -04:00
the "facts" hat https://mastodon.social/@vogon

honestly robotic cranes stacking and unstacking useless concrete weights for all eternity is the surreal dieselpunk energy storage solution earth deserves https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

East Boston, Massachusetts • 67°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 3:00am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 7:10am -04:00)
http://davidjohnmead.com/blog/2018/08/20/20058/

That’s strange. Next time that happens let me know and I can see if there is a particular checkin that is causing the error.

East Boston, Massachusetts • 67°F

1 reply

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 7:04am -04:00
at Currito

East Boston, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 6:44am

42.366239 -71.016605

East Boston, MA, United States • 67°F

19 Coins

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:44am -04:00
at Terminal C

Boston, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 6:31am

42.366609 -71.016541

Boston, MA, United States

7 Coins

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:31am -04:00
at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)

Boston, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 6:31am

42.36514 -71.018887

Heading home

Boston, MA, United States

1 Coin

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:31am -04:00
Taxi

6.80mi
Distance

12:53
Duration

6:16am
Start

6:29am
End

East Boston, Massachusetts • 66°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:29am -04:00
Sarah Jamie Lewis https://sarahjamielewis.com

Me: Federation is a bad model.
People: You're against decentralization! Fascist!
Me: No, I want *more* decentralization, more equal trust distribution.
People: " If ideal social power were perfect equality, we'd be ants."

East Boston, Massachusetts • 66°F

Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:08pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:27am -04:00)
Amit Gawande https://www.amitgawande.com • Aug 20
Every time I visit Aaron Parecki’s website, I come back with some inspiration - understand why & how he is implementing the things the way he is. There are many design decisions he’s handled perfectly.

But every time I visit his “Articles” page, I am bewildered with one decision he has made there. He loads a list of posts, fine. But then follows it with complete contents of 20 recent articles. Given that his articles are heavy on images, that’s more than 25 MB of response. Not ideal, I think.

I keep struggling with that page, and blog posts in general.

Right now, any time a post appears in a list, there isn't special handling for it, so these blog posts appear the same whether they are on the "articles" page or whether a single one appears in a tag page or my home page. I *think* I'm happy with that decision for most places on my site, but you're right that it's a bit much having 20 of them in a row.

If I was better about always including a featured image and always writing a summary, I would definitely switch to a sort of "card" view on this page, but I haven't figured out what to do when a post has no image or summary, since just the title isn't quite enough.

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 68°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:24am -04:00
at Hyatt Regency Cambridge - Overlooking Boston

Cambridge, Massachusetts • Mon, August 20, 2018 6:14am

42.353663 -71.105227

Checking out

Cambridge, MA, United States • 66°F

33 Coins

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 6:14am -04:00
11:48pm
Asleep

5:45am
Awake

5h 57m
Slept

22m
Awake for

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 5:45am -04:00
at Hyatt Regency Cambridge - Overlooking Boston

Cambridge, Massachusetts • Sun, August 19, 2018 11:40pm

42.353663 -71.105227

Cambridge, MA, United States • 66°F

1 Coin

Sun, Aug 19, 2018 11:40pm -04:00
kaniini https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini

@aaronpk it was. IRCv3.2 METADATA started as resistance to that crowd.

they had some good ideas. at the least, SecuShare is worth looking at, as it's the latest iteration of their ideas

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 2:58am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:58pm -04:00)
Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

I am sorry for sharing so many cats, I cannot help myself.

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 2:57am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:57pm -04:00)
kaniini https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini • Aug 20
everytime people talk about cryptographic petnames I just go back in time to the Semantic IRC, PSYC, SecuShare crowd

the one key thing that crowd always misses is that we are building this stuff for normal people to use. normal people don't care about any of this. they get user@domain and user.domain.tld subdomains.

people don't want to tell the difference between

- Alyssa (0x12345678)
- Alyssa (0x87654321)

and they aren't going to go to the trouble to build a trust graph

Semantic IRC is the worst of every world

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

1 like

Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:56pm -04:00
kaniini https://pleroma.site/users/kaniini • Aug 20
everytime people talk about cryptographic petnames I just go back in time to the Semantic IRC, PSYC, SecuShare crowd

the one key thing that crowd always misses is that we are building this stuff for normal people to use. normal people don't care about any of this. they get user@domain and user.domain.tld subdomains.

people don't want to tell the difference between

- Alyssa (0x12345678)
- Alyssa (0x87654321)

and they aren't going to go to the trouble to build a trust graph

please tell me "Semantic IRC" is not an actual thing

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

2 likes 3 replies

Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:55pm -04:00
/^xj9?$/ https://b.9chan.lol/users/xj

@kaniini

this is a brainlet post, but also a wise one. fediverse shouldn't be held back by these kinds of research problems. i don't think its categorically impossible to build usable WoT or cryptographic social networks, but you actually don't need these things to make fedi work and/or succeed.

which is the real problem with w3c people trying to write protocols like AP. sometimes a less galaxy brain solution is the right one because its more important to have practically useful tools than the perfectly distributed whatever that people are daydreaming about

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 2:41am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:54pm -04:00)
olyx https://mastodon.social/@olyx

What a mastodon.social timeline looks like when you only follow @Gargron:
Cat
Cat
Cat
Mastodon Reacts to: Mastodon
Cat
Art
Cat
Developing is hard and nobody should have to endure this
Cat
Art
Art
Cat
Puns
More users wow
Dog

Cambridge, Massachusetts • 66°F

Mon, Aug 20, 2018 2:46am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:53pm -04:00)

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