Was just listening to the latest episode of Dot Social podcast where there was a discussion with CEO of Ghost (alternative to Substack). They’re integrating ActivityPub into the platform, but where they’re going with it is that you can use your Fediverse ID instead of email to sign up.

Once they have that worked out, any likes or comments automatically migrate back to the fediverse. Replies back to replies also show up in your timeline and your followers can see them. This makes discovery pretty effortless. They can also use the stats to keep track of engagement across all fediverse services.

It also means turning one-way streams like RSS (podcasting), email services, and commenting services into common two-way communities.

You’re now going beyond just catching up to existing services and doing things just not possible in closed silos. Real “Aha!” moment.

Holi Puppy!

I just met someone who was going through the same question. They decided to take a two-year course and become a Physical Therapist, focusing on the elderly.

Said options were working with a medical group, at a nursing home, visiting people at home, or opening an office. Maybe a combination.

Their thinking was there was no way to get ‘disrupted’ and there would be endless demand. Made a lot of sense.

On Mac/iOS, Ivory is pretty dope: https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Chocolate Stout beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream (gently lowered – otherwise it’s all foam gushing about).

I take no credit. A deadhead, traveling beer blogger in a Winnebago (how he described himself) told me about it years ago.

Beer float.

“It also includes optimized support for Raspberry Pi SBCs to deliver enhanced performance and compatibility.”

Have you looked into the suid bit? You can set it on the file, then change the script owner to root and it runs in elevated mode: https://linuxhandbook.com/suid-sgid-sticky-bit/

A lot of Amazon used book sales go through Powells or AbeBooks.

Could just go direct.

Jarkey: https://www.amazon.com/JarKey-Jar-Opener-Original-Solid/dp/B01MSLKIVB/

and

Jar opener: https://www.amazon.com/Suffering-Arthritis-Strength-Non-Slip-Heavy-Duty/dp/B07QVWJ6VN/

Handy to open tightly sealed jars. However, both snapped off after years of use, and this reminds me I should really get a replacement.

Let’s not forget… the reason this type of licensing exists is because large cloud providers were taking a large code base and selling them as services . Often, the main path for the creators to make any money from their code is to offer a paid, managed tier, along with professional services. They would end up competing, and losing, against those cloud providers.

Not saying this kind of license is good or bad, but the reason is often not to stop self-hosting or screw contributors, but to maintain couple of the only pathways FOSS can bring in revenue.

Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.

Always remembering that the depth and breadth of what I DON’T know is vastly deeper and wider than what I think I know.

Also, the fact that I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday. Pretty sure it was tuna salad, but it could have been an apple.

Haven’t gone through the whole spec, but based on interviews with the CEO, the main advantages are the ability for users to move easily from one node to another without losing anything, and better moderation tools.

Since at the moment there’s only one BSKY server out there, it’ll be hard to verify the first claim.

On the content moderation part, Mike Masnick of TechDirt who is deep into the moderation weeds made it sound like their system is pretty well thought out.

But ultimately, adoption will come down to the community and where they land.

Homemade Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao), made from scratch. So much work. It became quickly evident doing it properly required skill you couldn’t learn from a video or a recipe book and would take a really long time to master.

The whole thing ended up kinda thick and clumpy. Definitely one of those things better left to people who know what they’re doing.

A privacy-enhanced personal assistant that doesn’t send anything to the cloud.

British panel shows.

Listed links to stream episodes of shows like Taskmaster, Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You, and 8 out of 9 Cats do Countdown.

When daily news and life got too grim, it offered 30-60m of just brain dead funny distraction. Now, have to put up with Google and Youtube search bullshit and most of the time they’re wrong.

Just wanted to thank everyone recommending communities to subscribe to. I thought I had a good mixture already. Discovered a dozen new ones just based on the comments here!

18 miles on a hiking trip with full backpacks. Was racing to beat a sudden Sierra snowstorm that was bearing down on us. Had to ford through a glacier runoff lake that had risen to cover the trail. Made it to the car and out just in time.

This is a two-way bonus. If a Flipboard user, you can post an article to Mastodon with just two taps. The magazines themselves can now also be followed via ActivityPub.

Flipboard CEO, Mike McCue is a big booster of decentralization and also has a podcast where he covers others in the space.

More original content flowing into the Fediverse. This is all good.

Not recent, but sneezing and holding it in. Threw my back so bad I couldn’t walk for weeks. Ever since then, I’ll let it rip – into my elbow or a napkin.

A few months ago, saw a medical scan of someone with a big tear in their throat. The story claimed it was due to a held sneeze. Nowadays, you shouldn’t believe anything on the internet, but after my own experience, I could see how it might happen.