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Who said you need a reason? This is great!

I use it all the time. In fact I was staying at an airbnb recently and my hair dye stained all his towels and pillow cases (a week after I got it done!) so I gave them a good bleaching before I left and left them sparkling white.

> Though they can, maybe cats are not designed to execute code after all?

I'll test this with my cat named Turing this weekend to see if he gives better results.

Somebody introduces a new technology to address these concerns every couple years and it doesn't go anywhere. These aren't actually problems to a lot of users. That's the real problem that needs to be solved - awareness. And that's a lot harder than taking the identity solutions we came up with in the Identity 2.0 days and adding a blockchain.

Microsoft hired Kim Cameron at the tail end of the last decentralized digital identity craze and once built an OS feature (CardSpace) to support it. I really doubt anyone there is afraid of sovereign identity.

Oh dear yes! Double digit hours to queue up the emails, DAYS for our rack of 1U Sun pizza boxes to send them. And sometimes we'd queue up five different campaigns at once to send out the following week.

Those were interesting times to live through.

That's so awesome to hear!

Transitioning my gender. Living my truth. Coming out to everyone in my life and being forced to confront the shame that held me back for decades.

It took a lot of reflection and was cause for a lot of growth. But now I'm not only mentally happier, I'm taking better care of my body because it finally feels like it's my own.

I'd take it back even further:

We started out on mainframes.

Then things moved to the desktop, with some centralized functionality on servers (shared drives, batch jobs).

The processing moved to centralized web servers via the web, SAAS, and the cloud.

Then more moved into the client through React & similar.

And now things are moving back to the server.

Tick. Tock.

These changes are not just arbitrary whims of fashion, though. They're driven by generational improvements in technology and tooling.

Mastodon. Someone building a JIT translator from 68000 machine code to ARM. Elementary OS.

I also chip in toward upkeep on my favorite Mastodon instance.

I'm honestly surprised Dubsmash is still around. I did a Dubsmash for a team-building thing four years ago and never looked at it again.

In part…updatability.

Let's say you bought a 100-baseT network card in 1995. The features were fixed in metal, and so were the bugs. Even if a new revision of the board or ROM came out, you still had the exact same card. If a flaw was found in one of the chips they used, chances are someone would need to program around it. Settings were probably done once using DIP switches and never touched again. You probably never even knew if a new revision came out.

The wifi card you use today is going to boot up in a pretty dumb state. It'll identify itself on the bus and not much else. Your computer's kernel is going to poll every device on the bus to see who's out there. The wifi card driver is going to match the ID of the wifi card to one it knows and then upload firmware. Then the card will need to briefly reboot into the new firmware and identify itself to the driver again. Then the driver is going to configure it.

It may take a couple of seconds for all this to happen, and it needs to happen for almost everything. Even your CPU which booted the machine in the first place might get patched microcode uploaded when the machine boots.

Nothing is just a device anymore, and nothing is just a device driver.

Reminds me a little of the Silicon Valley Napkin: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

They haven't been made in years but you can find them on eBay for about US$60

You'll see the US's extended ZIP codes referred to as Zip+4, as they have nine digits instead of the usual five. So, 90210-1234 refers to a specific Delivery Sector and Delivery Segment within Beverly Hills. The segment can be a particular building or even just one floor of a building. Or, it can refer to all the buildings on one side of the street. It's up to the post office.

> Being trans is not political.

Until that trans person needs to go to the bathroom.

She's the ghost in the machine.

(Given the quality of the video, I'd be inclined to think 1983 rather than 1993)

She served on an executive committee at the United Way with John Opel, the CEO of IBM at the time the PC was being born.

There Is No Alternative

The Boston Public Library has done virtual cards for years as well, and a BPL card is available online for any Massachusetts resident.

I only recently discovered goreleaser and I can't get over how simple it was to add to my CI setup. Distributing binaries was my goal for having a "real" open source project people could use. After a year of avoiding the issue, I discovered goreleaser and got it running in less than an hour.

This is incorrect. In fact, suicides are down for Contra Costa County compared to last year and there are fewer suicide deaths than Cornonavirus deaths[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/SalHernandez/status/1264320286733697024?...

> unless you're using a browser from <2010

To be fair, a lot of Jason Scott's audience is people who might choose to use ancient browsers on obsolete platforms.

A long time ago, I had a personal blog and posted to it regularly. Nobody read it. I rarely got comments.

Some of my wife's friends wanted to read it, so one of them imported the RSS feed into Livejournal and I discovered it one day. Surprise, there were lots of comments on "my" LJ account and people upset I wasn't answering their questions.

That was a lesson to me that owning the place I publish content isn't as important as being where my audience is, at least if I want people to read it. At the time¸ it was Livejournal. Today, it's social media.

Mine showed up yesterday in Boston

Yes and no.

There were a lot of two-digit dates out there which would have led to a lot of bugs. Companies put a lot of effort into addressing them so the worst you heard about was a 101 year old man getting baby formula in the mail.

The media over-hyped it, though. There was a market for books and guest interviews on TV news, and plenty of people were willing to step up and preach doom & gloom for a couple bucks: planes were going to fall out of the sky, ATMs would stop working, all traffic lights were going to fail, that sort of thing. It's like there was a pressure to ratchet things up a notch every day so you looked like you were more aware of the tragic impact of this bug than everyone else.

That's the part of the crisis that wasn't real, and it never was.

This has been a tough week losing more than one of our industry pioneers.

Others have covered the physical aspects of the Trapper Keeper. But one thing not to be overlooked was there were the usual basic colors but also wild designs: Lisa Frank, Transformers, all sorts of ways to express individuality and identity which matters to kids who don't get many chances for that.

They were also more expensive than regular binders and the rings weren't lined up with regular folders, so being in the Trapper Keeper ecosystem was a class symbol in my school.

The biggest step for me was becoming a manager. As the person calling the shots, I push my team to work ~40 hour weeks, take comp time if we're paged after hours, to have interests outside work, and to spend time with those close to them.

It makes for a positive, productive work environment. And then I'm expected to model the same behavior I want to see from them, so I mean I kind of have to limit myself to 40 hours. You know, for them.

What exactly are "real organizations"? I can think of two long-lived NFPs in my life that can barely afford hosting & domain registration right now.