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Person 1: I had fun hanging out today. Person 2: Hmm? Person 1:I said I had fun. Hanging out with you today. Person 2: Oh yeah. Me too. Person 1: You're still thinking about that dog we saw at the park. Person 2: Yeah.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
One of these days, we’re going to make First Contact with extraterrestrials, and when they learn we use decimal measurements, based on silly things like how far light travels during an arbitrary tiny amount of time, they’re going to laugh at us and wonder why we don’t base our units on things more familiar to us, like the average size of some common appendage or something like that, since it’s all arbitrary anyway.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
I'm not sure what irritated my son more, this meme or that I thought it was hilarious.
Or that I explained it to him and he gets it now.
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Hadrian's Wall with caption Hadrian's Wall: Picts or it didn't happen
:q!
RIP #vim
Why don't more people use desktop Linux?
The author argues that people don't use Linux because there's not a single flagship distribution that people can just use.
I respectfully disagree. The reason people don't use Linux is because it's not on their computer.
Google has proven with Chromebooks that people don't care what OS they use. As long as they can find the web browser, and maybe a word processor, they're fine.
That's all that 95% of people need.
Most people don't know you can change your operating system. Many don't even know what an operating system is.
You want desktop Linux to happen? Mainstream manufacturers need to preinstall it. That's all.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
Ages when you’re in your prime: 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
OMG, a kid on this train, maybe 9 yo, just tapped me on the shoulder and asked "Are you a man or a woman?" and I said "Neither" and the kid nodded and said "OK".
"Is that cool?" I asked. "Yeah," they said.
Never happened before, and I never expected it to happen. I'm giddy! 🥹 😁 Thanks, kid.
I'm working on a new fedi server, and wanted to build on top of existing ActivityPub C2S API, rather than creating my own API.
I was looking through some of the specs for ideas. One of the things I want to have is similar to Mastodon lists but more hierarchical, and I was trying to think of a good way to represent this. The lists should be an OrderedCollection, but I'm thinking about discovery. Basically, I want an easy way for the client to discover these user-defined lists in an AP-conformant way.
So, on the actor object, there's this field that MAY be included:
streams: A list of supplementary Collections which may be of interest.
I think this is probably what I need, but this isn't very specific about how this field is formatted. And I've never seen this used in the wild. I'm not sure if this is a simple array of URLs to Collections, or a Collection of Collections, or perhaps an object of key/value pairs with the values being links to the Collections.
@[email protected] says on ActivityPub Primer:
This property is not widely implemented. There is not a clear way to filter the list of Collections according to what a client application may need. For example, a client application that wants to show contact lists to the user would not have an easy way to find only contact lists in
streams. A client application that wants to show photo albums to the user would not have an easy way to find only photo albums instreams.
He suggests using extensions, in lieu of streams, but since it's not clear exactly how this property is to be used, I'm not sure if this would be insufficient for my needs or not.
Does anybody have any more insight into this field and how to use it?
@[email protected] @[email protected] #AskFediverse #AskFedi
Keep Us Connected definitely is an earworm.
I've been humming it all morning.
Although, I did watch the episode twice yesterday, and a YouTube video of the song a couple times as well.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
But who is to give the prizes?
I have a coworker who pronounces the noun attribute the same as the verb attribute, and it's weirdly distracting. It comes up a lot during technical discussions.
Just the opening scene from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds Subspace Rhapsody is making me so very happy.
You guys have no idea how long I've wanted a Star Trek musical.
Tomorrow, I'm going to be the parent of a teenager. Hard to believe I was allowed to be a parent at all, much less a parent of a young adult.
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Selfie of two people: a bearded man in his thirties, and a five year old girl. Both are smiling brightly.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
baby #elephant with #birds by l. carter
#Photography #Photographie #Fotografie #Nature #MastoArt #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Africa
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standing in tall light grass with browns and greens and reaching out their trunk to a handful of white birds with orange beaks on the ground right in front of them
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
To be a braggart is dishonorable, but sometimes we shy away from taking credit at the cost of our confidence. You need not brag to have pride in your deeds. You need not be arrogant to feel a sense of accomplishment. A true warrior seeks balance between humble and prideful.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
Abandoned ballroom in Germany 🇩🇪
It is attached to an old roadside inn which is also abandoned. The beautiful late 1800s ballroom retains most of its original features.The roof is charred and damaged from a fire a few years ago 🔥
#Ballroom #AbandonedPlaces #UrbanExploration #Urbex #Photography #History
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An old ballroom, the stage had mustard colour curtains. The ceiling is burned from a fire
I can't believe it's my two year work anniversary already.
This was probably the best job change I've made. I still enjoy working at GRIN two years later.
https://fedi.absturztau.be/objects/d3f4f960-6e33-46f7-aa08-726abae2ef31
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months agoWhy should you fight injustice, if it affects only others? Why should you defend rights that don't affect you? Because it isn't justice if you only care when it applies to you. Because rights apply to all, or nobody at all. Because you are a true warrior, and honor demands it.
Dan Jones shared 1 year, 10 months ago
Dad Heaven is just a bunch of dudes joking “How did this guy get in here? I guess they let everyone in!”
Good Omens 2x01 minor spoiler
Good Omens 2x01 minor spoiler
You know how sometimes when you're streaming a show or movie, and your Internet connection gets a little bit wonky so the video quality drops for a little while?
I was just watching the season 2 premiere of Good Omens when, during the scene where they perform a little miracle. Prime Video decided to choose that exact moment to drop my video quality.
So, Aziraphale and Crowley are looking around like, "So, did it work?", and I'm like, "Yeah, it sure worked for me. I can barely see him now."