Notices by James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)

@aral When I first moved to Puerto Rico I was surprised how often I saw Casio watches. Usually in gold.

There is something so aesthetically pleasing about them. Quite elegant.

I’m looking for work! If you’re hiring and I seem like a fit, please reach out.

I have ~7 years of experience as a full stack software developer, and was founding engineer / CTO of Zoba.com.

I graduated from #Harvard in 2017, have been working on early stage startups since 2014. I studied CS, concentrating on data science and ML.

I’m strong in #Django, RoR, #Node, #TypeScript, #Python, #Svelte and #Tailwind. I’ve dabbled in #Spring, #Kotlin, #Vue and #React.

#FediHired

**Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student will have access to free lunch.**

https://www.businessinsider.com/massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8 #massachusetts #news

@futurebird Yes!

Especially with ChatGPT these days, I imagine students can ask an LLM in natural language to produce LaTeX.

You’re probably already aware of it but just in case you are not, I’ve heard good things about Typst.

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/reddit-is-a-dying-mall

@openrightsgroup #E2EE is critical. The CSAM argument is a straw-man.

On #iOS, for anyone unaware of it, there is a setting you have to turn on to encrypt #iCloud. This should be on by default imo.

@georgetakei Look forward to the inevitable SNL skit about this

@jo Wow!! Ty ty

@jo Thank you! I think I heard of this before in passing but haven't checked it out. Awesome.

@maegul @christianselig Reddit has been a valuable resource historically imo but it’s that way because of the user contributed content not the platform itself.

This is why it sucks these resources are centralized. If we all use Lemmy or another FOSS Reddit-like backend we can stop this BS that’s happening with Reddit pricing out the app ecosystem.

@alexture This looks very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

@christianselig #Apollo is the only way I use #Reddit. Can Apollo be rebuilt for #Lemmy? Would love to see an alternative to Reddit we can move to. I haven’t used Lemmy enough so far to comment.

@ophiocephalic @atomicpoet @kidehen @smallpatatas If Meta federates with ActivityPub it would be a difficult chink in their armor to hammer out. However foggy and air tight they try and make the glass, being able to interact w/ the FOSS decentralized world would be a good for those trapped users, and us imo

They *can’t* swallow up this universe. Much like space and unlike the earth, there is infinite room for everyone here and the ability for us to block, mute, and more to protect ourselves

#Fediverse Software Comparison

Legend: dashed = partial, full = implemented, double = enhanced

Credit to Calckey.org and @kainoa

#Calckey #Mastodon #Misskey #Pleroma #Akkoma #FoundKey #Pixelfed #GoToSocial

#ELI5 Why is water see through?

I'd never thought about it like this. Wow.

@trochee un-institutionalized knowledge is what I call this. Ephemeral is good. Individual(s) as a service? Uncodified, or unscalable knowledge? lmao.

@codesmith so like. Fuck it. Right?

@codesmith I’m not either but I am fearful of the money it might raise

@codesmith I would love to be able to explain to the VCs I know why it’s stupid

How does #BlueSky work with #ActivityPub?