“I think we [journalists] got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions.”
I couldn’t agree more with journalist @adamdavidson in this thoughtful and reflective Q&A about joining #Mastodon
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment #TwitterMigration
Explanation of a fun Steam bug that causes Steam to pick a pseudo-random font for everything:
http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html
Super funny, I woke up inspired to write something today. 🤔
I'm going to write a post about the basics of smart contracts, writing them, and using #golang to build app and write tests.
I had some fun today with connecting toots to telegram channel.
It's pretty easy from mastodon side and I have to give credit to mastodon for that!
I am not convinced that I will keep this in production, since I don't really need this.
I did it using https://github.com/littlebear0729/Mastodon2TG as a reference code, btw.
Just for fun I'd like to repeat this with #rust.
Going to try tungstenite crate.
@derek I think it must be provoked by localization model.
There is exactly one thing that is regrettable about mastodon.
It's all those endless conversation about mastodon.
Daily in timeline:
- A few hundreds of short how-to's "how to post in mastodon";
- Tens articles "what is different about mastodon vs something";
- A few attempts to enforce some rules like: "YOU MUST USE CW WHEN I PERSONALLY WANT IT FROM YOU" and other virtue signalling.
The rest is "why twitter is worse".
And there is no any trend of reducing this.
God gave us strengths to survive this period.
@trinsec The same as every one, I believe.
That the nation choose a random guy who is going to overuse the power for their sake.
@skanman Not necessarily rust is with future.
Node will be here for a long time, I bet.
Hey Linux geek, you can use PGP, parsed by @keyoxide, to be verified on Mastodon. It only takes 12 minutes:
Too much? here's an easy HTML way, too:
I wrote about why your zsh starts slowly and how to fix it
@musicmatze like gdpr is something good.
@derek What is reddit?