I tried to read 'Six Not So Easy Pieces', Richard Feynman's explanation of Physics. As always, I got to the second chapter and realised I was utterly lost. Still, I like the way he writes.
Btw for those who don't know, @rhiaro is responsible for a lot of the clarity in the structure of ActivityPub. She's the reason the document is so nicely split between client to server and server to server... prior to that it was all one spec where you had to implement both.
She also just passed her PhD yesterday! Her thesis is cool and relevant: "The Presentation of Self
on a Decentralised Web" https://rhiaro.github.io/thesis/
Let's all give her a round of applause!
Most nerd clans: very eager to exclude people
Furries: adopts literally everyone who says the slightest nice thing about furries
*pop up from browser*
"Would you like to add mastodon links as an application type?"
oh wha- OH FUCK YES THAT'S RIGHT THIS IS FUTURE.
Harry Potter and the Compound Noun
Question: should it be
Accumulo nimbulation
or
acumulo nimbulation
(before you ask, I have no idea what these words mean the question is purely orthographic)
the best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them too
- walkaway (p121) by Cory Doctorow
autumn morning
shining
even then…
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Drinking Argentine Malbec which tastes of rust. This, of course, is a good thing.
Oh! Also eating Reblochon. The dogs are looking at me with new found admiration. And drool. Mainly drool actually.
On a new instance (I guess the old one went away).
But in looking for a new instance I discovered that I really, *really* ought to upgrade from Chromium.
All the Mastodon stuff (which I think is maybe somehow a github thing?), wouldn't run in my desktop. I had to use my phone...
