Erik Moeller about the apparent lack of success of Mastodon and other fediverse networks: “... we must recognize, and reject, the biases at play that cause people to belittle, ignore, and misunderstand any initiative that's astonishingly successful without making anyone rich.”
“How many decades until software has semi-accurate progress bars?”
Every now and then I just feel the urge to watch one of David Fincher’s late ’90s flicks... Guess this is one of those evenings.
A developer's perspective on the new M1 based Macs: “The transition is definitely one of the best. I simply set up this new laptop from my old one back-up and everything felt like my old laptop in a new system.”
Bottom line? Size matters,... at least in low light.
It only took me about 12 years... and a Saturday morning.
“The project is a demonstration of citizen know-how and civic dedication at a time when the country feels like it’s being pulled apart. Yet it’s confounding that, almost a year into the pandemic, the Covid Tracking Project is doing what might be expected of the U.S. government.”
“The presidential @POTUS Twitter handle will automatically transfer to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in at noon on Inauguration Day [January 20th, 2021] — whether or not President Donald Trump has conceded,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
“‘Working as an engineer throughout my life, I live by the motto that numbers don’t lie,’ Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a brief press conference earlier Friday morning.”
“Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal.”