Notices by jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)

“Bluesky is bad because people make jokes and have fun” really isn’t the diss you think it is

I was reminded today of an oldie but a goodie: the “3-2-1 rule” for data backups. For any critical data you should have:

- 3 copies
- on 2 different forms of media
- with at least 1 copy being off-site

Not a hard and fast rule (this rule dates back to when “two forms of media” implied “disks and tapes”), but a really good starting point still.

There’s a certain kind of person who excels at staying just on this side of any bright lines in a community code of conduct, but nevertheless manages to be so unpleasant as to drive other people away. I don’t have any good ideas about how to deal with those people, especially if they get into a position of power.

Wow, we picked a good time to stop eating factory-farmed chicken https://faithcollapsing.com/@StevenSaus/113301349556658474

I’m sorry but all I see is three assholes

Which come to think of it maybe that IS an appropriate symbol https://symbol.fediverse.info/

@dgold can you be more specific? I don’t know what “elements” you’re talking about.

A new (to me) principle I'm trying to live by: pay more for the kind of media I want to continue to exist: https://jacobian.org/2024/jun/11/paying-more-for-media/

Holy shit this is incredibly good news https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

@webology holy shit I just noticed that one of the factors that contributes to the score is whether you put their badge in your README. Total fucking garbage.

@evan you think bluesky won’t survive?

Added a little new contact page to my site (https://jacobian.org/contact/), because the different ways to get in touch are getting a bit ridiculous. I miss the days where all my friends hung out in one place.

“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”

Maintainer: *introduces commercial features*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *works for a large tech co*
“Not like that”

Maintainer: *takes investment*
“Not like that”

I think the bloom is off the rose for me about Mastodon. Between the utterly crap experience whenever a toot goes mildly viral, and the obnoxious HOA-ish attitudes about what "should" be “allowed" on Mastodon, this is feeling less and less like a place I wanna super invest in. Bummer.

@b0rk precisely: I don't want to have to be so careful about what I say, the value in formats like this for me is in being off-the-cuff. I edit myself pretty carefully on my blog, don't wanna do it here.

Like, if I say something offensive the fact that a bunch of people will call me out on it is a feature, not a bug. But realizing that I can't use the words "open source" without inviting folks to relitigate the “open source" vs "free software" debate in my mentions is a huge bummer.

With my busted knee I can’t run, but I still managed to keep my Christmas tradition of going up Black Mountain. Quite a climb, I think I prefer getting there on foot. The descent down the old Alpine Road was pretty amazing though.

Yeah, I use the DARTH stack

Django
Alpine
Redis
Tailwind
HTMX

(h/t @jacob@burch-hill.com for the assist on the joke)

As part of my ongoing attempt to clearly articulate what "professionalism" means, a quick article about something that I wish didn't need to be said but somehow does: it's never okay to yell at work.

https://jacobian.org/2023/nov/21/no-yelling/

Something I've been thinking about for quite some time, but still don't have a great answer to: how should you manage people who are nice but can't seem to do the work? https://jacobian.org/2023/mar/28/incompetent-but-nice/

boy this is gonna lead to some weird email isn’t it

https://jacobin.org/

Just a reminder that the idea of a personal carbon footprint is propaganda invented by British Petroleum (BP) to distract from corporate responsibility for climate change by implying that changes to personal behavior are all we need to prevent global warming.