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@Jetengineweasel @inthehands

LOL.

the kitten "we'd try for a week" according to my dad lived 21 years with us. :)

@mekkaokereke

wait. there are people who still have pie left by Sat? that is just so sad...

@mekkaokereke

all sounds amazing, friends and food both.

if you're not playing jenga or attempting to exceed maximum density in your fridge with leftovers, are you even trying. ;)

enjoy!

@JessTheUnstill @mekkaokereke

personally, when i started doing more "glue" in my tech roles, i got a lot more done and enjoyed my job and coworkers vastly more than trying to be the "tech stud".

when "getting stuff done" over-ruled "but i'm right", i was also a lot less stressed.

@JessTheUnstill @mekkaokereke

yup. because they are used to not just "winning" due to privilege and understand collaboration.

(this is just talking about those willing to take such roles, not the issue of only being seen as capable of such roles)

@mekkaokereke

these are sometimes called "glue" or "soft" roles but still not given the credit they are due for how vital these roles are.

as if we didn't need more proof that disney is an evil empire, they are closing down the muppet ride at disney world.

what kind of person/company that has any humanity left doesn't love the muppets?

https://gizmodo.com/the-jim-henson-company-responds-to-the-muppets-ride-closing-at-disney-world-2000529899

@fmhilton

migrating from goodreads to thestorygraph was quite painless. still wrapping my head around some of the ways they do things but a quick look at recommendations based on intro survey and importing my goodreads did a pretty decent job.

anything that doesn't feed the bezos beast is a good thing.

#bookstodon

@PJ_Evans @mekkaokereke @juneb

i've had my outback for 20 years. it was able to hold two mackie powered speakers, a 3/4 acoustic bass, all our mics, stands, a banjo, an acoustic guitar and some misc. other stuff and two adults.

can't even remember how much i've crammed into it for camping trips.

small hatchback wagons for the win!

@BillJelavich @jpmens @shaft

we need that dos equis dude meme with "it's not always DNS, but when it is, it's a doozy..."

@Viss

i was a very early employee at one of the first two commercial US ISPs, UUNET.

all of us were using cisco routers. there was a bug where at about 24-26 hours, the BGP session in them crashed, causing waves of BGP convergence issues, affecting all the tier 1 providers.

the solution was to reboot carefully at about 22 hours. we waited desperately for cisco to get us a patch.

we were at a usenix conference in the terminal room at about 11pm when we got an email that they'd isolated the bug and thought they had a fix. at this point, the senior router folks for UUNET, MCI, and Sprint sat in the terminal room, waiting.

about 1:30am we got email that tony thought he'd fix it. we asked how much testing he'd been able to do.

tony: "it booted in the lab"

us: "we'll take it!"

then, all 6 of us downloaded the code and proceeded to reboot about 70% of the internet backbone to start using the new code, all of UUNET, MCI, & Sprint.

fortunately, in those days, cisco let their senior engineers talk directly to customers and they got things fixed fast.

this never made the newspapers at the time. i can't even imagine any ISP these days allowing engineers to reboot their entire backbone from a terminal room with code that "booted in the lab".

kind of miss those old days.

@VickForcella @SteveBellovin @inthehands @mattblaze

used the phone to call someone with a camera?

@SteveBellovin @inthehands @mattblaze

the old mechanical phone switches are amazing

@inthehands @SteveBellovin @mattblaze

go for it! i find keyboard instrument mechanics fascinating. harpsicords are just crazy.

@inthehands

"It thus follows that politicians and political parties are •lagging• indicators of change."

i think that's a crucial part of understanding where politicians are in the process of substantive, systemic change.

they are the original "no one ever got fired for buying X" folks.

you're right that politicians don't build consensus. they don't even lobby hard for it. they concede to consensus when they believe it's consensus.

the reason they need a story is to understand how what they're trying to do matches that consensus opinion.

politicians are sales folks as much as they are legislators.

what you call activists are the startups, the market disruptors, the visionaries.

@inthehands

yeah. probably more "actual solutions are pretty low in the priority queue". it's not that they are against fixing things. it's just not what they put as a top goal.

that's why if we can give them a "story" they think they can run with to go with actual solutions, we'll get more actual solutions.

@inthehands

yup. most don't care about actual solutions. they just want to be seen as doing something about the problem. they want to figure out the status quo/consensus opinion, then adopt that as their opinion du jour.

we, as technologists, can't just educate them, explain the risks, explore potential solutions. we also have to spoon feed them the "spin", the message they can use to show that they "did something" and are "on the right side of the argument". without that spin, they'll never care.

when we can both give unbiased, real info and also help them spin it, we will get what we want more often.

@Quinnypig

nothing like crypo to up a valuation beyond where any sane human being can understand it

@inthehands @adamshostack

my uncle was a professional publisher of high end art/photography books. i remember how meticulous he was with every single aspect of text/font/picture layouts. he found most text editing software on computer painful to use.

the problem with the web is that we have two religions with irreconcilable differences. you can't have any random device with any random screen layout, size, resolution, and control exactly how a page is displayed and formatted. you get fixed display and control, or no control and any device.

@inthehands

hard to believe we turned GET/PUT/POST into the $#!tshow that is the modern web, isn't it? :)

talk about your dancing bear...