Aaron Parecki

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🦥 Mx.Grey ☭ :verified_gay: https://mastodon.nz/@TheAtheistAlien

mastodon vs twitter (updated)

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 4:46pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:31am -08:00)
blaine https://mastodon.social/@blaine

"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 2:55pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:22am -08:00)
https://adactio.com/links/19608

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:19am -08:00
Derek Powazek 🍥 https://twitter.com/fraying

Fun new Twitter feature: porn ads! Bet some of those laid off contractors were ad reviewers.

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 5:19am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 9:45pm -08:00)
Gergely Orosz https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz

This is what micromanaging from the top looks like, when the CEO *thinks* they can tell the source of the problem and how to fix it, just by looking at it.

It’s incredibly frustrating when it happens to you. It’s rare to see it this public.

Good luck to engineers in the weeds.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 8:45pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:45pm -08:00)
Casey Newton https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.

People inside are stunned.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 5:41pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:33pm -08:00)
trash panda https://twitter.com/instmonk

a fun one is "anime" which in japanese is an english loanword referring to all animation (it's just the first three syllables of "animation") and then it got loaned back into english to mean "japanese animation"

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:19pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:21pm -08:00)
Jerry Bell :verified: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry

The Epyc system is now carrying the load of Infosec.exchange. There are now 112 cpu cores (224 threads) and 1TB of RAM across 6 servers powering the site. Now I can breath.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 3:06am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 12:46pm -08:00)
Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch, DevTools PM https://twitter.com/seaotta

11 out of 10. Very worth it. Can’t believe I’ve missed this perk every time I’ve gone through Heathrow this year 🫠

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 2:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 7:03am -08:00)
Home Assistant https://twitter.com/home_assistant

Happening today: State of the Open Home.

Join us tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D936T1Ze8-4

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 12:46pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:18am -08:00)
David C Bell https://twitter.com/MovieHooligan

I keep trying to look away, but it’s just so beautiful.

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 7:33am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:11am -08:00)
Arjen Haayman https://twitter.com/haayman

"It’s like everyone has spent the last few years in a giant all-inclusive resort. Now we’re moving into nice little bed-and-breakfast places, but we’re complaining because it takes slightly more effort to book a room, and the free WIFI isn’t as fast." https://mxb.dev/blog/the-indieweb-for-everyone/

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 11:29am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:09am -08:00)
Lisa Lucas https://twitter.com/likaluca

Wow someone really did this

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 12:33am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 9:40pm -08:00)
Sahil Bloom https://twitter.com/SahilBloom

In summary:

(1) Family time is limited—cherish it.

(2) Friend time is limited—prioritize real ones.

(3) Partner time is significant—never settle.

(4) Children time is precious—be present.

(5) Coworker time is significant—find energy.

(6) Alone time is highest—love yourself.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 1:35pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 5:39pm -08:00)
Ada Lovecraft 🐀 https://twitter.com/lunasorcery

Since it gets asked almost every time I post a screen recording or screenshot of it, here's a mini-thread detailing my terminal configuration.

(which looks something like this)

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Thu, Sep 2, 2021 10:19pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 3:43pm -08:00)
New York Times Pitchbot https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon

It’s easy to feel smug about the crypto collapse, but honestly who could’ve predicted that an asset with no intrinsic value of any kind would eventually become worthless?

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 11:13pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 3:41pm -08:00)
Paddy Galloway https://twitter.com/PaddyG96

All this Twitter drama makes me really appreciate YouTube’s leadership team and the support they have for creators.

It’s not a perfect platform, but it’s the best.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 5:12pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 9:35am -08:00)
XKCD https://xkcd.com/

Historical Dates

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

permalink (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 9:23am -08:00)
Ed Elson https://twitter.com/edels0n

The early crypto skeptics deserve more credit.

Not only did they call all of this, they did so in the face of constant shaming and harrassment. (Not to mention everyone pointing to the increasing value of their crypto wallets as evidence that they were wrong.)

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 6:49pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Nov 12, 2022 8:51am -08:00)
Matthew Garrett https://twitter.com/mjg59

Elon just pulling all the control rods out of Twitter and talking about how much more energy it's producing now

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 12:33am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Nov 11, 2022 8:59pm -08:00)

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