So it seems we should do an #introduction. I'm a software developer currently working at a biotechnology firm in southern California helping build their first product. I develop in C++ and C for the flattened green pellets, I use Rust and Python in my spare time, hacking on a fringe biology-inspired computer vision thing. I am a Linux and i3 user and I hate your mainstream OS. Just kidding use what you want, just don't ask me for help! 😜
I am a fan of SpaceX, independent of the guy in charge, who is clearly a loon. I'm old as dirt, socially liberal and a recovering libertarian. I walk a lot and am a bad vegetarian. I enjoy smokey and/or peaty scotch whisky, and have never turned down a good IPA.
Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"
Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."
Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"
What is your prediction on the raising the US #DebtLimit? (Boost for bigger sample)
1) #Biden caves; increase tied to spending cuts
2) #Republicans cave; Clean debt limit Increase.
3) US Government Default
Are you like me and haven’t completely stopped going to the bird site because some of the bird site people you follow aren’t on Mastodon/? Then try Bird Makeup:
• Enter the bird site handle you want to follow on Mastodon
• Bird Makeup will give you back a Mastodon handle
• Copy the Mastodon handle into Mastodon’s Search field
• The search will reveal the person’s Mastodon handle and an option to follow or subscribe
My experience with Bird Makeup
• It will take about 24-36 hours before the person’s bird site posts start appearing in your Mastodon Home timeline
• The person’s tweets-turned-toots will be batched, appearing in a cluster of successive toots and not in real time
• Jpeg attached is an example, using Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFau, PhD's bird site handle turned Mastodon handle and how his tweets-now-toots appear on my Home timeline.
• FYI, McFaul appears to already have @mcfaul account, but it doesn’t seem to be current or active, so Bird Makeup has been a better option for me.
And then getting suspended after mentioning where he was going. Wow Elon is such a maroon.
Suggest you word it cleverly, like "Follow me on Musk-be-gone" and use https://spacekaren.sucks as URL shortener
Old software developer. C++ developer by day, Rust for fun. Linux guy. Hacking on the intersection of #computervision and #neuroscience in my spare time. Fan of #SpaceX, but Elon, not so much.
#rust #rustlang #emacs #elisp #c++ #i3wm #linux #embedded
#space #asciidoc #whisky #lagavulin #bebop