Dan Tappan

@DanTappan
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Engineer, Songwriter, Musician, Photographer, Music Fan: I post music, photographs, & anything else I feel like posting

Aging nerd. I spent most of my career doing computer networking (mostly at Bolt Beranek & Newman, and Cisco).
Now doing whatever interest me, mostly: music & supporting the local (Boston/New England)music scene; hacking code and bits of hardware for my own purposes (Unix/Linux/MacOS/RPi/Arduino); and being a "gentleman farmer".

Weblinkshttps://dantappan.net
Dan TappanNov 12, 2022

As you read this article, remember that the "genius" owner of the bird site was also a crypto pumper

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/sam-bankman-fried-bankruptcy-crypto-ftx/672104/

You Can Forget About Crypto Now

The industry’s latest meltdown is not like all the rest.

The Atlantic
Dan TappanNov 12, 2022
Jeff JarvisNov 12, 2022
I am immensely grateful to @Gargron for creating Mastodon, for his careful stewardship and leadership, and for keeping this server going. The least I could do is contribute to the Mastodon Patreon as a member. You can/should, too: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
Get more from Mastodon on Patreon

Creating Mastodon

Patreon
Dan TappanNov 12, 2022
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Nov 12, 2022

Everything terrible that has happened at Twitter so far.

“Despite the fact that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is basically the real-life equivalent of the house-on-fire “this is fine” meme, we just can’t look away. It feels like we’re all paying witness to some horrible, once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, sorta like glimpsing the Hindenburg explode.” #Twitterpocalype

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-chaos-explained-1849768358

Every Terrible Thing That's Happened to Twitter in the Last Two Weeks: A Review

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, it's been nothing but a volatile rollercoaster of decline and implosion—and it hasn't even been a month.

Gizmodo
Dan TappanNov 11, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/repeat-covid-is-riskier-than-first-infection-study-finds-2022-11-10/
Repeat COVID is riskier than first infection, study finds

The risk of death, hospitalization and serious health issues from COVID-19 jumps significantly with reinfection compared with a first bout with the virus, regardless of vaccination status, a study published on Thursday suggests.

Reuters
Dan TappanNov 11, 2022

Failed 🙁 (should have considered the day in my last guess)
Wordle 510 X/6*
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🔥 streak: 16
🏆 #waffleelite

Should have had it in 6, but I typo'd on my 3rd turn
Daily Quordle 291
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Dan TappanNov 10, 2022

Wordle 509 3/6*

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🔥 streak: 15
🏆 #waffleelite

Daily Quordle 290
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There's a pair of words with swapped consonants, and I always seem to choose the wrong one when one of them shows up in one of these games 🙂

Dan TappanNov 10, 2022
Rebecca BrückmannNov 10, 2022
Submitting this as evidence for the wonderful ways in which we as a society have chosen to label men like him "geniuses" while 10% of the same behavior in women would be clearly erratic, emotional, and incompetent. 🙃
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elon-musk-twitter-town-hall-17572400.php
Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter

"Musk had the energy and presence of a college freshman flubbing it through a class...

SFGATE
Dan TappanNov 9, 2022
Show threadPaul H Nov 9, 2022

@vanbadham Some suggestions:
- Follow @feditips. Lots of useful tips on a regular basis
- Read "An increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon". - Very good and comprehensive.
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

- Read this article of why Mastodon is not the birdsite just without Musk and fewer Nazis. It's a different by design.

https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/

GitHub - joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon: An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon

An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon. Contribute to joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Dan TappanNov 9, 2022

Daily Dordle 0289 5&6/7
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Daily Octordle #289
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Daily #269
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#sedecordle

Show threadDan TappanNov 9, 2022
It's working!!! Looks like probably was a cache with a very long timeout, because the access_log shows that the link was fetched just when I checked:
136.243.88.169 - - [09/Nov/2022:09:04:24 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 52068 "-" "http.rb/5.1.0 (Mastodon/4.0.0rc1; +https://mastodon.social/)"