Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org
- Main Site
- https://ssokolow.com/
- GitHub
- https://github.com/ssokolow
- Old Posts
- https://twitter.com/deitarion
Linux user, open-source enthusiast, science buff, and retro-hobbyist who occasionally reviews fanfiction.
Joined Mar 2020
It occurs to me that I'm going to have to get used to this whole idea of having timelines that are slow-moving enough to follow everything that happens among strangers.
It looks like it's leading me toward impulsive faving/boosting behaviour when the better choice would be to make a note and then wait to see if I can fave or boost someone else's more balance/rational/calm-headed toot on the same article.
Stephan Sokolow
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I just want to make this perfectly clear: I will never use (known to be) backdoored crypto. I will not purchase "compliant" devices. If it comes down to it, I will stockpile grandfathered legacy devices.
Don't let the coronavirus hype distract you. They're pushing this shit through **right now**.
If you don't yet know about the government's latest attempt to legislate encryption backdoors, look here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online
When I joined Twitter in 2009, I was just mirroring my Identi.ca, where I'd coined #fic_rating for fanfiction micro-reviews with machine-friendly structure.
The reference I wrote is still up:
https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/3793644
https://hashtags.fandom.com/wiki/Ficrating
It wouldn't make sense to summarize those, and I stopped updating Identi.ca when I stopped the micro-reviews, so I'll just point at it for now.
Maybe later I'll use Mastodon's higher limit to revisit them for a "top 5" run-down.
I'm still not completely satisfied with sending people to look at my Twitter, so I decided to go back through it and write some themed highlights round-ups of tweets that are still relevant.
In order to gather the data for them, I've written a little Python script to chew through the tweets in my Twitter data dump, which I've put up on GitHub Gist in case anyone else wants to play with it.
https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/e3efc2300347a0b83f6b42b7860dac60
Oh, since I don't yet know whether the Mastodon APIs allow me to write an importer which would insert stuff earlier than existing content, here's a link to my old content:
Hello, everyone.
For those who aren't the one or two people following me over from Twitter, I won't post very often but, when I do, it'll usually either be an especially good YouTube video or technical stuff, like announcing that I added some content to one of the lists on my blog or sharing something interesting I discovered while puttering around in old files.
I do have a bunch of programming projects, but, if you want to judge me based on my GitHub, bear in mind that I'm still trying to pick up the pieces after a long interval when I didn't have time to work on anything.
Once in a blue moon, maybe you'll see me post about my retro-hobby programming project to write an installer builder for DOS.
- Main Site
- https://ssokolow.com/
- GitHub
- https://github.com/ssokolow
- Old Posts
- https://twitter.com/deitarion
Linux user, open-source enthusiast, science buff, and retro-hobbyist who occasionally reviews fanfiction.
Joined Mar 2020
