Posts by alana@the.giant.horse
(DIR) Post #9huBv9iVYnULsufyt6 by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-15T15:06:46Z
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i heated up a flax seeds bag for ibsen to warm his old bones on, and bird doesn’t care. she refuses to move 😂😭 look at that determined little face
(DIR) Post #9hxISONhF3eq7Y3Lpg by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-19T05:26:51Z
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i have pack-bonded with all of the subtoots
(DIR) Post #9i0jy6P2tstVriuPvk by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-20T20:30:11Z
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“…more than 750 communities across the country have built their own broadband ISPs or cooperatives. Studies have shown these locally owned and operated networks tend to offer lower prices, faster speeds, and better customer service than their private-sector counterparts. “Instead of competing by offering better service—private sector telecom giants like Comcast and AT&T have routinely turned to a cheaper alternative: easily corrupted state lawmakers.”https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzmana/report-26-states-now-ban-or-restrict-community-broadband
(DIR) Post #9i6jBlXgK402DQew7c by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-23T13:40:26Z
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this week, my goal is to acquire a working understanding of machine learning’s concepts. i am 0% good at linear algebra and calculus, so resources predicated on good math skills won’t help.so far i have queued up from the library:tensorflow for dummies machine learning by ethem alpaydibitwise by david auerbachdoes anyone have any recommendations or opinions?#machinelearning #tensorflow
(DIR) Post #9i8YSnREVpvTQ4MQEa by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-24T15:36:45Z
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@starwall i know that i’m not the most creative person around. but what possible useful thing could we (end users) get out of location tracking? in the decade i spent on twitter i never found a use. same thing on facebook. do any actual “real people” use/like this feature? i would love to know. because it seems like a feature that only benefits surveillance.
(DIR) Post #9iAuHtnp61oBHS3W0u by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-25T19:00:33Z
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tech hiring trends are so weird. lots of companies seem to be trying to hire someone who’s job it is to make sure nobody else in the entire company is building something unethical. whatsapp has decided this person is “Product Manager, Integrity” (imho it’s more of a program manager thing but frankly who cares) how incredible to see “integrity” as a product to be managed
(DIR) Post #9iH6DiIgHgPuqZ1GVM by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-04-28T18:32:36Z
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i might be a stupid idiot but i’m a stupid idiot who’s going to carry a mini wi-fi router halfway down to the basement to see if i can get a signal to use the laundry machine’s payment app
(DIR) Post #9iLlwGmSK2DHHQ9PAu by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-01T00:30:27Z
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it was 100% unclear to me that @purism ‘s offering was simply a collection of forks of established projects, which has little value over plenty of other managed hosting options pretty disappointed tbh
(DIR) Post #9iNeLdvK9lth4qo5dA by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-01T14:59:29Z
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Happy May 1! Grateful for the workers who pushed back over 100 years ago. Let’s continue their efforts ❤️🖤 We are so much more powerful together than we realize!
(DIR) Post #9iOUhIDUjpmDk2x0gC by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-01T21:57:40Z
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my number one gardening tip is that if an indoor plant gets infested with some kinda bugs, just put it outside and pray to mother nature to forgive your hubris and help you
(DIR) Post #9iRlIcO2Nu9mbvxOGe by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-03T18:49:28Z
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wow this update has bug fixes AND stability improvements?! [fans self] my goodness, i’m getting a little emotional over here because. because no app has ever known me, the user, so deeply
(DIR) Post #9iVNYXPv0bWjYzjcGW by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-05T15:56:47Z
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instead of breakfast today i am dining on leftover absurdism bc my bff made me read this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
(DIR) Post #9icPOjihyHesq7hH2e by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-09T01:26:09Z
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suffering from a common medical condition called “difficulty emotionally investing in reality”
(DIR) Post #9igA70JMpE7uP6lo80 by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-10T20:27:34Z
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@Mainebot as projects grow, their administrative needs grow as well. non-coding things they often need help with:marketing and PRUX and visual designcommunity management, being a “voice of the user”organizing meetings (calls, etc), organizing meetups, facilitating strategic decisionscleaning up the backlog (clumping similar issues together, communicating with issue-submitters to keep them appraised, etc)
(DIR) Post #9ihpPwRvhMPbCusrbc by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T15:39:54Z
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still thinking about open source contributions that aren’t code and really focusing on design. in my time at the LF — which does serve a need, but only because: capitalism — i often felt like folks were almost TOO “deep in” to see little things that i felt were obvious.everyone shouting “well if we don’t establish a shared governance committee to ensure future interoperability of the underlying frameworks.…!” and i’m like “ok wild idea here but what if the apps weren’t hard to use and ugly”
(DIR) Post #9ihzNDmlmm2ZeByOw4 by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T15:45:34Z
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https://openlogos.org/ is an example that made me really happy. if you’re a graphic design student, teacher or hobbyist, why not make every one of your projects address an open source project that has no visual identity?
(DIR) Post #9ii8TjB0t2E6KVUSIq by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T17:45:41Z
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i totally get that many many open source software projects are spun out from internal corporate projects, where there was a need for a name and little else. then, when they are transitioned to become OSS, they get some visual treatment.might be interesting to see if homegrown OSS projects who experiment with “friendliness-first”, “UX-first” compete better with corporate OSS, who do that work last
(DIR) Post #9ii8TjKwI8AMpI8Nm4 by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T17:48:18Z
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why did mastodon take off so much more than (for example) friendica did? was it timing? did specific types of evangelists do specific things? could one factor have been its comparatively strong visual identity and messaging?
(DIR) Post #9iiCe6LVzvputubXAO by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T16:01:00Z
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here’s me looking at almost every open source software project https://youtu.be/4d4rdat3HdA
(DIR) Post #9iiDZ3gAaNPt8UQO5Q by alana@the.giant.horse
2019-05-11T17:58:25Z
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@SanfordianPhil the community part is really the ticket, imho. internal corporate projects — even corporate OSS — pay their first users to build, use, and maintain them. those people “get good” and carry that skill with them. when the project is open sourced, they are the first class of power users.comparatively, homegrown OSS can theoretically build diverse communities of users and developers from release 0.9 !! [redacted BDFL* rant]* “benevolent dictator for life”