My Fediverse Digest for May 2024
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for May 2024.
May 02
09:22 PM
If you are into tracking #nc #legislation based on keywords you deem to be worth keeping up with, you might be interested in Upstate.
“Upstate is a bill tracking and screening site for the North Carolina General Assembly. Create a free account to search bills and save them. Upgrade to get premium features like email and text alerts for bills, set custom alerts, and to embed bills on your own website.”
Signup here: https://app.keepupstate.com/users/sign_up
May 03
10:02 AM
I’m heading to Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest in Denver next week. You? If so and if you have availability Tuesday evening, we could try to meet at Elevate Technology User Group. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elevate-meeting-at-red-hat-summit-tickets-853071268127
10:16 PM
TIL SRV’s ‘Lenny’ is the background music for the car shop scene in Sixteen Candles… and based on a Google search I am not alone in this TIL moment.
Kudos to whatever Amazon Prime product owner decided that soundtrack icon GUI feature should exist.
May 05
05:35 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Fractional Futures” A look at what’s next in executive roles of the future.
https://fudge.org/archive/fractional-futures/
May 08
08:38 PM
The app ate my homework.
09:44 PM
Dear RTD Bus 43,
You now have possession of my beloved sticker covered thermos, winter gloves, winter hat, cookies, and Taos tote bag.
Denver weather has been awfully nice to me this week and I have a feeling some curious lucky rider will upcycle my unintended donation.
Thanks,
Jay
May 09
02:25 PM
Southwest Airlines is convenient and dependable. However, even on the newest fleet additions the in flight wifi performance is problematic at best. Murky messages like this are not useful and seem to imply naughty things. Yes. The Slack iOS app is soooooo naughty.
“In order to provide a top-notch Internet experience, we prohibit access to certain high-bandwidth applications and websites. We also prohibit access to certain obscene or offensive content.”
03:51 PM
London Grammar + CamelPhat https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_O6LrRI7FL8&feature=shared
04:07 PM
London Grammar + CamelPhat again https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-_bhdlRF2IE&feature=shared
May 10
03:24 PM
Right. In. The. Feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM2UzZ4TVGw
08:05 PM
Y’all.
That thing where PCI-DSS stands for Perfunctorily Captured Images Distributed Socially Stridently
May 11
02:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn9ITgeESLg
02:21 PM
Fond memories of buying super low priced #cherries when I lived in San Francisco https://www.agriculturedive.com/news/cherry-harvest-prices-decline-farm-innovation/715255/
10:21 PM
Flipmode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3NkWnHl9Q
May 12
12:30 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Back in Circulation” A look at what’s next in post-pandemic #travel #ai #apps potpourri
https://fudge.org/archive/back-in-circulation/
01:35 PM
For whatever reason cron stopped liking this
0 0 * * 6 certbot renew --post-hook “systemctl reload nginx”
So I resorted to
systemctl stop mastodon-sidekiq; systemctl stop mastodon-streaming; systemctl stop mastodon-web; systemctl stop nginx;
certbot renew;
systemctl start mastodon-web; systemctl start mastodon-streaming; systemctl start mastodon-sidekiq;
Something something snap?
But now I’m back to cron again. 🤷♂️
May 15
01:00 AM
I mean… https://www.fooddive.com/news/kraft-heinz-jell-o-girl-scout-cookies-pudding-cups/715404/
May 16
08:10 PM
🐞
May 18
12:52 AM
Amaze #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzOwCnjKYPY
06:31 PM
The snare. The guitar. The bassline. The hook. #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdy_rct6uo
May 19
05:01 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Mind Mapping and A.I.” A look at what’s on my mind as a map with A.I.
#knowledgegraphs
#aiagents
#aiassistants
#vectordatabases
#mindmapping
#obsidian
#zettelkasten
https://fudge.org/archive/mind-mapping-and-ai/
May 24
01:59 PM
152M views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7jk
May 25
08:49 AM
#brawndo #gemini https://terravera.com/products/brawndo-tl
May 26
02:58 PM
On autorepeat today #music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S79d6DZwPQQ
02:59 PM
🔥⏲️ Fudge Sunday #newsletter “Miscellaneous May” A look at A.I. chips, B.Y.O.A.I., and V.O.W.E.L.
https://fudge.org/archive/miscellaneous-may/
May 29
11:20 AM
📰 Tired: XYZ alters TOS to assert rights over user data to train XYZ A.I.
🚀 Wired: Simplifying opt-out from A.I. Example: Redact aioptout.co
I get asked from time to time about how to remove content from the A.I. vacuum as more SaaS companies alter their TOS to assert rights to use everything uploaded to train their models. YMMV.
My suggestion: https://aioptout.co from the team behind https://redact.dev
09:03 PM
Results of my experiment to make Safari my default browser.
$1.99 to make mailto handlers function 🤷♂️
“Use Chrome” ecosystem inertia is real 🙄
Google (hostile) Workplace 🧐
Bookmarks, passkeys, oh my 🤨
May 30
11:39 AM
#mastodonadmin note on v4.2.9
None.
YMMV
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.9
06:05 PM
What a time to be alive
