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@kelsonv
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Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in LA.
Websitehttps://kvibber.com
Bloghttps://hyperborea.org/journal/
Kelson's Old AccountJul 17, 2018

I've decided I'm going to use my account at Wandering Shop as my primary Mastodon account for now. So if you want to keep following me, please head over to @KelsonV. I hope to see you there!

I'm also posting book discussion at @[email protected] and photography at @kelsonv

Kelson's Old AccountJun 15, 2018
Aomine DicegameJun 15, 2018

This culture of telling people to 'just walk away and they'll stop' when someone is being harassed needs to cease.

I am not responsible for someone's bigotry. I am not responsible to defuse confrontations I didn't not start.

As we've seen many times today, toxic behavior is not going to go way just because you ignore it.

They're just going to harass someone else.

We need to deal with the root, not the symptom.

Kelson's Old AccountJun 4, 2018
KemoNineJun 4, 2018
Remember

Not everyone can self host software systems.

Not everyone wants to self host software systems.

Not everyone gives a shit about tech

Most people just want to go online, do their thing and move on with their day

If there is a mass exodus from GitHub / GitLab or others we people hosting our own infra need to be good about discovery, community building, community engagement and more.

We also need to figure out how to federate authn/authz. I'll skip over submitting small things if it means yet another account on yet another server run by yet another random.

Centralization isn't great but it does facilitate discovery, community and engagement.

We need to keep this at the back of our mind.
Show threadKelson's Old AccountJun 2, 2018
@natecull I think The Last Jedi pushes back against this. Poe fits the description a lot better than Luke does, and his whole arc is learning that it's a problem. Finn's a counter example. And I see Luke more as someone dealing with depression and trying to push everyone away than someone who equates being a jerk with heroism. And even then part of the point is that he has to push through it.
Kelson's Old AccountMay 29, 2018
Nate Cull (.social)May 28, 2018

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Kelson's Old AccountMay 19, 2018
Explained to the 7YO that https only tells you whether the road is safe, not whether the place you're going is.
Show threadKelson's Old AccountMay 10, 2018
@ada The main thing I remember about Klout is that it was somehow convinced the Twitter account for my Flash (superhero) blog was an authority on Washington, DC, rather than DC Comics.
Kelson's Old AccountMay 9, 2018
Erik MoellerMay 6, 2018

#FreeCulture and #FreeSoftware advocacy often focuses on remixability and hackability. I think another aspect is important to talk about, due to its universal appeal: permanence.

The tools we develop, the websites we build, the music we share under free&open licenses -- _they will be with us_ as long as we care to maintain and share them.

Free culture, in that sense, is an incredible cooperative enterprise across all humanity. It is unlike nearly any other endeavor. It is a joyful thing! :)

Kelson's Old AccountMay 4, 2018
Just wrote that MacOS & Linux handle capitalization differently. Phone wanted me to type capitalism. Which is also true.
Kelson's Old AccountApr 11, 2018
The problem with "move fast and break things" is that you're likely to break things without regard for how important they are, or how hard it might be to fix or replace them.