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box464

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Coder, manager, dog dad. Tech tinkering is my joy. Be kind.

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box464, to music
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Still ringing true, 30 years later.

https://music.box464.com/share/xsWGB9kEpM

#Music #SongOfTheDay

box464, to random
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About 5 years ago, I had a health situation and I didn't know if I was going to be able to return to my job as the senior developer for my organization. I went into a documentation frenzy, basically writing down everything I did day to day in as much detail as I could for my team.

Any documentation is better than none. This one saved me hours today. Do it.

jonafato, to random
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QR codes are nice as an addition to URLs on conference presentation slides, but they're not great as a replacement. If you're using a QR code to link to a website, please share human-readable URLs on your slides as well.

box464,
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@jonafato We're going all digital on our handouts this year and hadn't fully considered this. At the moment the QR Code takes them directly to the handout for that session, the displayed URL takes them to the general handout site and then they have to navigate to the appropriate session (there are 500+ sessions over 7 days). Might reconsider and come up with a short domain/session pattern for the URLs.

box464, to random
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Have you ever watched a movie that had a moment that made no sense and it just went on like it didn't happen?

"It Follows", a horror film from a few years back had this - a random scene where some teenagers are hanging out watching TV when one pulls out a plastic seashell, flips it open, and it's some kind of e-reader / telephone with circular screens?

There's no further mention of it in the movie.

WTF. I still think about it to this day!

box464,
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@cbielstein Same!

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Tell me the story of the last time you committed an act of kindness in 500 characters or less.

There’s nothing wrong with bragging about creating kindness. There’s nothing honorable about not sharing the joy of creating kindness.

We need to uplift and encourage people who create kindness in their daily lives.

So tell us your story. It doesn’t have to be something big. It can be something as simple as helping someone carry a bag of groceries.

How did you create kindness this week?

box464,
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@Mrfunkedude An older woman working at my local grocery store asked me timidly if I needed any help. I didn’t really, but something told me she needed me to need help. I told her I needed cool whip and we walked around talking and looking for it. I thanked her for her help and she walked away with a smile on her face.

box464, to random
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I’m looking for new shoes. Zappos presented me with this croc fever dream in my personal recommendations.

box464,
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I’m not joking.

https://www.zappos.com/product/9931784/color/14

box464, to random
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@stefan provides the fediverse with a lot of great apps and research. Go give his work a gold star (seriously, that's all he's asking for).

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112464783923839162

box464, to random
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Embarrassing. I absolutely believed Phanpy did not have quote posting capabilities. I have even been jumping over to a different app on the rare occasion I use that feature, copying the post url, etc. over so I could find it. 🤦‍♂️

How could I miss it? The only thing I can think of is that at one time it didn't have them (I have been a Phanpy fan for a very long time), so I just blinded myself to them not being there out of habit.

I even run my own personal phanpy client instance. :psyduck:

box464,
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@cheeaun "purposely hidden" - it worked! :)

box464, to random
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There's too many cool web things to learn in a lifetime. But I'm still going to try.

box464, to random
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The three things that have helped me find a safe, happy social home on a larger instance are carefully curating who I follow, the hashtags I follow and keyword muting. This is my own self generated algorithm.

Still getting my bearings about how to make a smaller instance just as vibrant. Relays? Being more lax about who I follow? Maybe some of the newer fedi platforms like @newsmast and @Flipboard can help. I know @mammoth has hand curated topic feeds as well.

#FediTips

Jeremiah, to random
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Apparently my husband and I are so obviously gay a South Korean taxi driver felt the need to put on praise & worship music when we got in.

Jesus said be a light unto the world and I’m flaming, honey.

Also, TIL Hillsong in Korean is A Thing.

box464,
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@Jeremiah 🔥

box464, to random
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I saw a post today about another Mastodon API endpoint that is kind of in a zombie state (I looked into Featured Profiles awhile back).

This one is a “Mastodon Wrapped" end of year review.

On m.s. it's accessible but as expected doesn't return any data. Currently, the admin would have to jump to the console and run a task to populate the reports.

Like other "wrapped" end of year summaries, it's only available to the user.

box464, to random
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The next session is now live for #microcamp and @manton is talking about improvements from the past year and what's next for micro.blog. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BTu-y09QgA

matej_svancer, to random
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RIP Twitter. Long live open social media

box464,
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@matej_svancer That’s amazing! I’ve been looking for posting to be added, definitely keeping my eye on this app.

box464, (edited ) to random
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Micro.camp is today! If you've ever used micro.blog, or want to take a closer look before diving in - this is the day.

https://micro.camp/

andycarolan, to random
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Is there a name-and-shame list of companies forcing AI tools into the products we use?

Perhaps with instructions on how to opt out of or block these tools... and even alternatives which don't include AI?

If it's made unprofitable or financially damaging for companies to force AI upon us, then perhaps they will think twice before doing it?

I realise that coming back from this dystopian AI hellscape is unlikely of course.

box464,
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@andycarolan AI will be jammed into hairdyers soon.

As we talk with vendors at work, I ask "How does [specific AI integration point] enhance my team's use of your platform?" and the answer is commonly hem and haws and finally "you can turn it off, it's optional."

There are a few instances where I do think it has been beneficial. As a rubber duck for developers. As a way to empower non-techie users to build reports is another (with guardrails on which datasets the AI has access to).

box464, to random
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I watched a few of the ChatGPT 4o demos today and what disturbs me isn’t the usage, but the men’s behavior demoing it.

Most of the time, the voice assistant was a female voice. When the AI didn’t do exactly what was desired or they just wanted to move forward, they would interrupt it in mid sentence and ask it something else.

It gave me the same perceived emotion as when I saw this video for the first time. Sad and sick to my stomach.

A robot attempting to keep its balance, while a man comes in and kicks it down, harshly.

box464,
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@wlf_warren Yeah, agreed. I get it is bits and bytes. But the behavior itself is gross, and with the conversational pattern being so lifelike and somewhat flirty (just…why?) how long before we start seeing this behavior becoming worse than it is already in meetings and conversations with real people.

cheeaun, to threads
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👀 So, this is what they've been working on: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7CXVYIpI0G

Article: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/threads-testing-pinned-columns-on-the-web-like-tweetdeck/

Observations, judging from screenshots:

  • It allows pinning accounts 🤔
  • It introduces gray background to fill the white space for this layout instead of the single-column version 🤷‍♂️
  • Corner radius got way more rounded, including the images/videos, for some reason…
  • Make sense for them to build it as there won't be any 3rd-party #Threads clients.
box464,
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@cheeaun It looks familiar somehow. Catch up next? 🧐

box464, to random
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I was using a testflight app and thought I was setting up a list of instances to view their public timelines - turns out it was an instance block list. 😖

So I lost all my hachyderm.io followers and follows. If you followed me, I didn't block you on purpose. Sorry! Please feel free to re-follow.

Luckily, Mastodon kept a backup of those lists for me, so I was able to identify the losses and re-import my follows at least.

box464, to random
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My team has a few positions open. We've been working through our candidate lists but there is still a little time to apply if you're interested.

All are new positions in a growing national non-profit, established back in the 90s and still going strong.

Data Analytics Manager
IT Project Manager
Helpdesk Technician

https://www.aanp.org/aanp-careers

#FediHire #DataAnlytics #ProjectManagement #Helpdesk #JobOpening

mark, to random
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Texas has some of the strangest town names.

box464,
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@mark Bald Knob, AR always made me giggle.

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