Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@ben @theinstantwin Precisely.

Ideally, the way Mastodon is designed, a newsroom “onboards” their journalists by hosting a node and setting up their journalists on it.

… I’m building a node now and, lemme tell ya, this is not something I expect just any random newsroom to have the in-house competency to do. It’s getting better, but I think it’s easy for tech folk in particular to underestimate how much “just one sysadmin” costs, or how overworked they are the minute they sign up to the average not-tech-focused firm. So with no additional information, I would assume that “Meta sets it up, all you have to do is have your team sign up for it” is a huge value-add for newsrooms and journalists by itself.

This problem will continue until we stop building tools for regular folks to use that are monuments to all our sins (seriously… four package managers? And curl-to-bash? And pulling github repos? Or you could “just use Docker” which is a whole other can of worms? And that’s just setup; God knows I’m about to throw myself to the lions when I turn this thing on and have to self-admin it).

@theropologist You do. I know what people who don't love computers look like; you'd have stopped by now if there wasn't something that appealed to you about mapping ideas to the crazy implementation we came up with of pushing electrons around in funny-tasting sand.

When you try and build someone else's full-stack web app for the first time.

(... yes, this includes you, #mastodon. ;) I see you in there with your four package managers and your curl-into-bash shortcuts.)

I may have to add to my list of reasons to discourage people from moving to Texas "No seriously, the state is becoming lethally hot, and "burning fossil fuel to run air conditioners to keep the lethal heat outside" is going to be about as long-term effective as cooling a room by leaving the refrigerator door open." https://journa.host/@w7voa/110704004711909429

@Penguinflight@mastodon.online @catvalente "... no more. No less." ~ Maxim 29

@SteveStuWill See, this is why I bought the blackout curtains.

@BleepingComputer I’m adding that to its sins, right alongside the fact that gs keeps not being the alias for git status on new machines because I…. Forget to set it up as the alias for git status on new machines I’m using. ;)

(… seriously though, gs is a super-small name for them to have squatted for a command line tool you nearly never need to type by hand).

@dalydes Among the many sins of this post: it’s a misquote. The original by Mr. Tobin is “Americans including Jews of all political stripes.”

Super weird how’d they’d change that one word. Really makes a person wonder why they’d do that.

@Skepticat Game theory suggests tit-for-tat shame is the minmax optimal outcome. ;)

@jcreed Related: I try hard to teach the FIRST students I work with that bug report pattern, and I also find myself sharing it often with colleagues. It is not nearly as knowledge as I'd assumed, and I think it's really helpful for minimizing potential misunderstanding.

@benjedwards "'til all are $1."

@blogdiva I think this is the first time I've seen the 1980 election put in scare quotes. Is this implying the election was delegitimized by the deal between the GOP and Iran to defer resolution of the hostage crisis, or is there another irregularity I haven't heard of?

@Free_Press I mean, that feels extremely cut-and-dry.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

@alexsv @lisamelton Context matters.

I was mentoring a high school robotics team and I accidentally pulled them up short and made their adult mentor gasp when I explained “Bus factor,” completely forgetting that while it’s industry-standard it’s still kinda gross.

After a short detour through “Isekai Coefficient,” we settled on the substitution “farm factor:” “What percentage of this team’s members can quit this project for the humble life of the dairy farmer before we’re in trouble?”

(… I like it because it has the added nod-and-wink to the original source material, as the imagined farm is, of course, upstate…)

@pinskal "Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution." ~ Carl Sagan

@dasharez0ne@mas.to Calm down, Link. ;)