Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@nova Would be nice if qoto.org were not on that list. We're a nice instance.

@hynek To be clear I mean like the kind of podcast a med student would listen to to immerse themselves in the field, or that a doctor would listen to to keep up.

@graingert If you literally want one click, I think you're out of luck, since any sane provider will have you at least select the services you want.

I guess you can install vimium and then you don't have to do any clicking at all. 😉

@graingert I dunno if it covers everything, but Bernard Tyers uses cloudron, and that seems pretty convenient: https://www.cloudron.io/

Any #medicine (or possibly #biology) folks recommend any decent medical podcasts? I feel like the ones I've tried out are all duds.

I do not like things that are overly produced.

@kushal I've been running #archlinux for long enough that I'm a bit set in my ways, but #fedora would be my next choice of distro.

I'm thinking I should dip my toe in the water by using fedora as the base image for some of my docker containers...

Something interesting I noticed on Mastodon vs Twitter after being on both for several years: posts get way more meaningful engagement here (per capita) than on Twitter.

I have an order of magnitude more followers on Twitter, but other than the occasional outlier, my posts here get similar numbers of likes, boosts and replies as they do over there.

It's an interesting phenomenon, and I wonder if it will continue if more content is actually being generated on this side.

@trinsec I use it for interacting with the people and institutions that don't use Signal, which is most of them...

A huge amount of the value add of Signal was that it is "SMS that gets encrypted when the other person is using it, too."

Now it's a proprietary messaging app where you have to use your phone number as your username, which is, not nearly so attractive.

So for all the people who I convinced to start using Signal because it works as an SMS replacement, sorry. 🙁

Wow, apparently Signal is going to stop supporting SMS soon. That really sucks. That was one of the killer features of Signal.

https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

For Python users (particularly on Windows), the tzdata package is now up-to-date with version 2022.6 (2022f upstream): https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

Considering that some of the changes go into effect /tomorrow/, it seems obvious that for a while people will be very confused about what time it is in Chihuahua (see also this article: https://codeofmatt.com/time-zone-chaos-inevitable-in-egypt/

Time for everyone to upgrade their tzdata to the latest version, particularly if your software needs to work properly in Mexico (which enacted permanent DST on short notice).

Someone should translate Matt Johnson-Pint's article into Spanish: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/

I always associate this "one option in grey and one option in bright red" with dark patterns. Is the Red Cross trying to trick me into claiming a gift card for some reason? Or do UX designers today just not know how to design neutral interfaces?

Is it a bad sign when your fitness tracker says your heart rate is 0? #spooky

Six of the sweetest words a parent can hear: "I don't like Paw Patrol anymore."