Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I am #LookingForWork. Unfortunately, I joined the ranks of those affected by #TechLayoffs last week, very suddenly and unexpectedly.

I'm a #SoftwareEngineer with over 20 years experience in the industry. I've worked primarily with #PHP, #JavaScript, and #TypeScript, but can also handle #Python and #Java in a pinch. I also have some experience with #AWS, #Docker, and #Terraform.

My resume is here: https://github.com/elazar/resume

Boosts and leads are much appreciated.

#JobHunting #SoftwareEngineering

The Guardian is mentioning a podcasting service on the Fediverse… Hmm, who could that be…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/21/firefox-and-tumblr-join-rush-to-support-mastodon-social-network

Interested in being part of a community of library digital, technology, and data practitioners?

Libraries Hacked has put together this short survey to get input from across the libraries sector.

Please share your views. All experience levels welcome!

https://tally.so/r/w5XlAN

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars

I’m seeing some about the fediverse along the lines of “we welcome our new venture capitalist and Big Tech overlords… what could possibly go wrong?”

What could possibly go wrong? Oh, I don’t know… take a look at the whole damn web. Take a look at email. Take a look at any resource that was part of the commons but was enclosed/captured by corporate interests. Read up on embrace, extend, and extinguish.

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#fediverse #mastodon #corporateCapture #slowlyBoilingFrogs

Here's a belated #introduction post (which makes all my previous posts a cold open):

I am a theoretical biologist in the Department of Biology at UPenn. My research interests span social evolution across all species, including symbiosis, community ecology, animal behavior, cultural evolution, etc. I also am a Co-Editor of @ASNAmNat currently.

Enjoying mastodon, which has many (though not all -- yet) of what I liked about the bird site and little of the craziness (yet, maybe?).

is mastadon a safe space to say i called it in 2016 ??? the fact that interviewers never fact-check elon musk. and other assorted observations about tech billionaires and tech press' increasing inability to keep their pronouncements in check https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nitashatiku/ground-control-to-silicon-valley

Linux Mint 21.1 is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/linux-mint-211-is-out-now/ #Linux

Are you sitting down? Here goes!

44% of all websites that exist right now run on WordPress.

Right now, connecting a WordPress site to the Fediverse is just a matter of installing this plug-in.

If just a fraction of WordPress sites connect to ActivityPub, then the network effect of the Fediverse will eclipse Big Social.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

I still remember how some dude in my uni always bitched how git is hard to use on windows because someone could have two files with same name in different cases. Like, Bruh.c and bruh.c.

And then I used this to drive my teachers insane with my works, because all file names were like that.

If you use Windows, you get what you deserve :blobcatcomfevil:

Facial Recognition Can Be Used For Behavior Enforcement

Calls To Outlaw Private #FacialRecognition Grow After Mother Booted Out Of Theatre For Being Detected To Work For Law Firm

#litigation #Law #privacy #biometrics #HumanRights #autonomy #socialCreditScores #digitalID
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/calls-us-facial-recognition-ban-grow-after-mom-booted-theater-over-her-job

Just learned about this thing called “tech shame”. let me say that nobody cares or judges if your PC is slow. We’ve dealt with modem speeds, YouTube buffering for minutes, images loading row by row. Don’t let that get in the way of your work. Someone shames you ask for a raise.

Dancing planets? TRAPPIST-1 science? Playing this on repeat all week. Volume UP! And, we mean you! Turn up *your* volume and sing along👨‍🎤
#NASAExoplanets

Oh hell yeah. @mozilla is launching a Mastodon instance in early 2023! I’m very excited for this. Mozilla is really good at what they do. Firefox has over 200M monthly active users, and with any luck they’ll build better support for the fediverse into Firefox itself. Mastodon will greatly benefit from easy to use professionally run instances that can handle massive scaling https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

@blaine @zleap not sure which team you’re referring to, but he’s been here all along :) It’s the rest of us who have joined him.

#Linux 6.1.1, 6.0.15, 5.15.85, and 5.10.161 kernels are now available for download at https://kernel.org #OpenSource

My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/

@pfefferle
Big love for the fediverse plugins for WordPress

They are very, very, very cool

Links:
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/
https://github.com/willnorris/wordpress-hum
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-nodeinfo/
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webfinger
https://github.com/akirk/friends

If you're alone over the holidays or finding this season difficult for any reason, and companionship might help, follow the #JoinIn hashtag!

In case you haven't discovered the magic of hashtag-following on mastodon, here is a quick how-to:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFollowHashtags

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ