Posts by matthewburton@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #AQmYvMl0M19NlP0vg0 by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2022-12-20T01:14:12Z
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This new phishing tactic might be the smartest I’ve ever seen: The note was drafted by the scammer, but due to PayPal’s presentation of it, it reads like a warning from PayPal. The phone number is the scammer’s. Tell your family members. Seriously.
(DIR) Post #AQodt9HeMi6lU4xvFI by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2022-12-21T01:17:54Z
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I keep seeing posts here suggesting Mastodon users should not promote their commercialized work here.May I just say, this is demented. This isn't a starving artist community*. It's a follow-based social network. Don't wanna hear it? Click the unfollow button. But don't tell others what they should or shouldn't be saying to their own friends. *What's great is that if you WANT your Fediverse experience to feel like a starving artist community, you can curate that w/o forcing it on others.
(DIR) Post #AQuQPEmbDp89Odblui by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2022-12-23T20:16:16Z
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Me: I personally prefer #Vim, but the best engineers I know regard #eMacs as an essential tool of the trade. Vim person: eMacs is built by a crazy person!Me: Okay. Btw, how are you connected to your network right now?Vim person: Ethernet! Why use anything else?!
(DIR) Post #ARNkfzwpGV8jKyvLWq by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-01-06T23:50:02Z
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@clive @anildash yep. The podcasting genre was originally dominated by conversations. Now it’s a lot of stuff that is produced like a scripted radio show. My rule is, if it’s obvious that the speakers are simply reading content to me, I would much rather read it myself than have someone slowly say it to me. Hence, I’ve never finished an audiobook (except for David Sedaris, the master).
(DIR) Post #ARouCSZJ3z8jCNdoDQ by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-01-20T02:13:59Z
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@clive many years ago, I fiddled with a to-do list app that would have its own file format (.tsk). The premise of the application was that, because most of the things on my to-do list were actually requests other people had made of me, those people should directly populate my list; I shouldn't have to be responsible for documenting their request. So, everyone would have write privileges. I could rank the list, and people could see how many tasks were on my list ahead of theirs.
(DIR) Post #AU2bUkRbpPVh8c0xxg by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-03-27T12:34:30Z
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@clive the fuss over the appearance of “historic” homes is so childish. Most “historic” homes (mine included) have zero individual historic notoriety, and are just as old as the homes around them, but are more charming (read:expensive).
(DIR) Post #AUzmjpBqZEBJIAWL0C by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-04-25T01:49:14Z
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@lauraolin I drafted a response ridiculing you for not growing them yourself in your own back yard, but then I read about how to grow ramps, and it turns out, you are not to blame.
(DIR) Post #AVMqqCf558wMHGZOgi by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-05-06T01:39:56Z
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@Loukas @AndersGottlieb @anderspuck I liked ISW’s reports last spring but soon noticed a propensity to call attention to every new development that supported a past analysis. There’s something icky about that. It feel like it violates intel analysis decorum.
(DIR) Post #AXhFGQ8e9qY6H90rTs by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-07-14T20:36:12Z
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I’m hiring. My team, which is overseeing the modernization of IRS IT with $10 billion+ from the Inflation Reduction Act, needs a coordinator. Someone early career who is beginning to see how much room for improvement there is with Federal IT, and is equipped for a high-profile mission. Please boost. https://openopps.usajobs.gov/tasks/5842
(DIR) Post #AY1F0P8D5c4wkFftJY by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-07-24T12:13:53Z
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@anildash If I recall correctly, this is for b2b transactions.
(DIR) Post #AY3VOElRH1Jv7lKVM0 by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-07-25T14:27:17Z
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@PeterHald @anderspuck @HenningKA_DK @esther this is a thing! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_bankruptcy
(DIR) Post #AYGTwv6K6b4QsQBwXI by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-07-31T20:38:58Z
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@anderspuck I keep seeing people on Twitter posting photos of a destroyed rail bridge and saying it’s the result of the Chongar strike. Only, there is no rail bridge at Chongar. The Crimea-Kherson rail bridge is at Ataman. Do you know which bridge was targeted?
(DIR) Post #AYGa9NJbdAd5a7j7VQ by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-07-31T21:54:19Z
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@anderspuck a social media admission of ignorance, captured in the wild! Thank you.
(DIR) Post #AYSM8ZRQlhoyDyzis4 by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-08-06T14:13:11Z
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@clive not an architect, but tall buildings need to sway, and stone doesn’t. So, no stone skyscrapers! The author is a NIMBY who hates skyscrapers because they offend his aesthetic sensibilities: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/11/skyscrapers-wasteful-damaging-outmoded-time-to-stop-tall-buildings
(DIR) Post #AYhGjA6MG8qTzkbMki by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-08-13T18:53:17Z
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@clive I assume you do this in order to find things to write about. How does this gold panning process work for those of us who make a living off of something other than the metaphorical gold here?
(DIR) Post #AZ8eTO7MjDDK8m7Q5Q by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-08-26T23:54:08Z
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@clive I’ll present, without evidence, two other possible contributing factors:- the decline of corporate writing. There are far fewer reports to print now than their were decades ago. Nobody writes anymore! They just make slide decks, which make no sense when printed. - the disappearance of assistants. Printers suck. No one wants to deal with them. It was far easier to get printed materiel when you could have someone do it for you. Now everyone has to do it themselves, and it sucks.
(DIR) Post #AZb17kQkawvOTmdwxc by matthewburton@mstdn.social
2023-09-09T16:21:48Z
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@clive @anildash exciting—del.icio.us was one of my true loves of the web—but, each user hosts their own instance??