Protagonist of my own reality, master of my own domain, most of my well-thought-out opinions are probably not my own (the dumb ones definitely are)...
I like riding my bike faster than other people...
| Location | Montreal, QC |
| Main | https://dayvancowboy.net |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ridge-racing |
Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...
...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.
If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.
Well, I rolled out my own Mastodon instance on my tiny Docker host. For now I will probably just use it to figure out what all of the buttons do.
One thing does have me perplexed, following people on certain instances seems to require approval when done so from my own instance, while following the same people from mastodon.social does not.
I'm guessing mastodon.social is somehow whitelisted with most other instances and my own brand new instance is not.
Reading the news about Twitter is like watching a car crash in slow motion right now.
I fully expected things to change over there, but I never though they would fully fall apart this quickly.
I'm not even sure what Elon's end game is right now...
Was he somehow expecting a certain “kind” of person to hang around after he made all of his crazy decisions and announcements? Who would want to work for that company?
After spending most of the afternoon trying to get Snowflake to ingest a file generated by a vendor's hot-garbage API, with variable date formats, badly formatted numbers, strings filled with invalid UTF-8, etc. I skeptically watched someone who told me they could "fix" it, literally cut-n-paste 500k records from Excel into Google Sheets, then export the results to CSV and generate a beautifully formatted file with all of the above issues corrected...
Chief TWiT 
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