@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-05-12 19:17:17
I almost finished my blog post about last week's hike yesterday but couldn't agree on a title. Now it's done:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2024/springtime-in-alpine-meadows/
You probably know the
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-05-12 19:17:17
@mcmullin@musicians.today2024-04-13 15:03:12
Turns out goldfish (and people too) are unfairly maligned when it comes to memory and attention.
And this caught my attention:
“We've got a wealth of information in our heads about what normally happens in given situations, what we can expect. And those expectations and our experience directly mould what we see and how we process information in any given time."
Crucial for music: what the listener brings to it is essential.
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social2024-04-13 00:26:01
(Source: emperorsofmischief on Instagram: #rats
@cdarwin@c.im2024-05-12 19:15:57
When Patrick Bringley’s beloved older brother fell ill with cancer,
he found that he no longer had much appetite for his ritzy job in the events department of the New Yorker.
Life then was about hospital rooms and love and “all the very basic things” in this world;
there seemed no meaning in hanging his jacket over his desk chair every morning.
But what to do instead?
In 2008, Tom died, and all Patrick knew was that he needed the kind of work that would not r…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024-05-11 22:54:58
During the great solar storm of 2003, I sat outside in my back garden watching the #aurora. I missed it yesterday but sat out again this evening in the hope of repeating the experience. Sadly no #Nordlys in Copenhagen but I can report the garden has a wonderful scent and is so peaceful at this time of year, which was basically just as good...
@markhburton@mstdn.social2024-04-12 08:00:05
My experience of Bogotš was as possibly the wettest city I've been in. (I live in Manchester.)
Now it suffers a water shortage.
Colombia drought: Four-minute showers - a parched Bogota rations water - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68…
@kennysmith@mstdn.social2024-03-12 05:01:29
The technical achievement of road racing will never not be impressive. This would add another element to that production, of course.
My guess is we may see it in select places in select stages. I’d think batteries, fleet and safety dictate that. (Which are both hinted at here.)
Alternatively, imagine drones flying over Dutch Corner.
“Tour de France Eyes Drones for a New Perspective in Race Coverage”
@mcmullin@musicians.today2024-04-13 15:03:12
Turns out goldfish (and people too) are unfairly maligned when it comes to memory and attention.
And this caught my attention:
“We've got a wealth of information in our heads about what normally happens in given situations, what we can expect. And those expectations and our experience directly mould what we see and how we process information in any given time."
Crucial for music: what the listener brings to it is essential.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2024-04-11 07:52:34
Aside: Men care much more about this than women, who are, in my experience, globally indifferent to the state of my beard. Well, globally, outside my own house.
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-04-11 16:17:13
I am having the most persistently frustrating experience of my brain about one thing on Discord: Suddenly user icons are no longer specific to a person as I perceive them. I'm in three discords, and there are a set of icons behaviors that keep making me think I'm in a different discord. It's like a persistent deja vu feeling.
@cliffwade@allthingstech.social2024-04-10 13:59:29
@markhburton@mstdn.social2024-04-12 08:00:05
My experience of Bogotš was as possibly the wettest city I've been in. (I live in Manchester.)
Now it suffers a water shortage.
Colombia drought: Four-minute showers - a parched Bogota rations water - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2024-03-11 12:38:48
The list of swift challenges on this post align very closely with my own challenges.
One day, when I am not obsessed with Godot I should contribute to fix these:
https://forums.swift.org/t/our-journey-with-swift-thus-far-some-no…
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-05-09 17:14:20
“The good news is that people still read lots of books and that anybody who has the content and wants to deliver it into the marketplace as a book can do so at a highly manageable cost. The bad news is that new careers delivering the creative works in a structured and predictable ecosystem that values experience and a network of professional contacts are vanishing before they begin.” #publishing
@Richard@worklifepsych.social2024-04-12 12:12:17
In the latest episode of our series on cultivating your Psychological Flexibility, we took a look at the power of present moment awareness - actually noticing the moment you're in, and minimising the 'mental time-travel' we can all experience.
You can find Ep 157 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts, or watch the episode on YouTube at worklifepsych.tv
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2024-03-12 06:06:39
@… @… My experience is: Fluffy white sandwich bread isn’t really a mainstream thing in Europe.
So you might be right that a direct comparison like that would yield the result you expect. But the point is that the types o…
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-09 22:02:27
😳I just had a WEIRD as hell experience!
So I saw a post boosted to my timeline from someone who claimed to be a writer. So I googled their name cause I wanted to see their credits. Ended up seeing their BlueSky profile in the list of results, clicked on it...and my "dead" BlueSky account is blocked by them there and I'm not blocked here on my MUCH more active account..
Do people actually go out of their way to block users that don't even interact with them there? Seems kinda odd.😬
#BlueSky #SocialMedia #Weird
@crschmidt@better.boston2024-04-09 00:22:51
Everyone who said in my presence in the last two weeks that 100% totality is a completely different experience than any other kind of eclipse was absolutely right, and I can not say enough how much I appreciate it being said so I had the privilege to experience it.
@Kencf618033@disabled.social2024-03-12 20:01:49
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2024-04-10 17:47:56
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-04-11 06:50:06
"My toxic trait is thinking I'll remember this": gaps in the learner experience of video tutorials for feature-rich software
Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Andrew D. Gordon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07114
@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org2024-05-10 14:01:51
Huh. Filaments.ca is no more. I didn’t have the place where I buy my kn95 masks to acquire my preferred filament supplier.
#3dPrinting
I do wonder what will happen to their speciality filaments or if it’ll just become another filament reseller.
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-04-09 16:04:05
My #eclipse adventure just confirmed for me, in contextualized retrospect, that I have no soul.
More precisely: I lack whatever it is in most folks’ brains that makes such an event an emotional experience. Don't get me wrong: it was an astounding sight, I am quite glad I spent hours in the car in horrid traffic, happy that I found a completely new-to-me place that was perfect for seeing it…
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-11 16:07:01
Why hasn't DeJoy been sacked?
Fortune: DeJoy Is "Running USPS Into The Ground" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/fortune-dejoy-is-running-usps-into-the-ground/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-04-06 18:25:44
'The Israelis usually fire and then ask questions' in my experience: Former Defense Secretary (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4578364-israelis-fire-then-ask-questions-my-experience-former-defense-secretary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240406/p26#a240406p26
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2024-05-11 11:28:52
I am following 82 accounts through my profile on #Threads, most of them a torrential flood from news sources. It's impossible to see anything from the dozen or so accounts of friends and acquaintances among them. No Lists = bad experience.
The one-way, silenced follow from the outside Fediverse world masquerading as a feature only "in a few countries" that almost no…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2024-05-02 17:07:59
I'd just like to say I've been to enough protests of various topics that I have, in the past, seen anarchists, black block types, etc. I know what they look like.
I saw them before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and another time in Vancouver at a Climate protest. In both cases they were a tiny TINY portion of the crowd and stuck out like a sore thumb and have never, in my experience, ever been acting in connection with the overall group. They are their own thing.
There …
@publicvoit@graz.social2024-03-09 11:45:22
This small function is probably a game-changer in my personal #Emacs experience:
From https://www.emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2024-03-02 16:50:18
Oh my goodness gracious, what a world we live in: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/03/a-wonky-experience.html
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchange2024-04-12 20:23:48
NIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@tarah@infosec.exchange2024-05-01 17:09:47
So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?
@fgraver@hcommons.social2024-02-28 10:19:47
Looking for a more ambitious writing experience in an app: an exploration https://bryanalexander.org/technology/looking-for-a-more-ambitious-writing-experience-in-an-app/
Useful explainer from @…
@Richard@worklifepsych.social2024-04-12 12:12:17
In the latest episode of our series on cultivating your Psychological Flexibility, we took a look at the power of present moment awareness - actually noticing the moment you're in, and minimising the 'mental time-travel' we can all experience.
You can find Ep 157 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts, or watch the episode on YouTube at worklifepsych.tv
@draxil@social.linux.pizza2024-04-11 16:13:31
My #chai habit is extra out of control at the moment, tried the "chai guys" blend. 's very good.
https://chaiguys.shop/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-05-09 06:40:53
That's a topic for me again, #FotoVorschlag "radausflug" / "Cycling trip"
As I'm a fan of #mountainbiking my trips sometimes include quite an incline. That day it was about 1000m incline. On some parts we decided to push the bikes because we were jus…
@adrianco@mastodon.social2024-04-08 21:17:34
Sunny day today in California, but we lost a few kWh to the #eclipse. Also I plan to wait 12hrs for my free total eclipse simulation experience.
@crschmidt@better.boston2024-04-09 00:22:51
Everyone who said in my presence in the last two weeks that 100% totality is a completely different experience than any other kind of eclipse was absolutely right, and I can not say enough how much I appreciate it being said so I had the privilege to experience it.
@Defiance@sfba.social2024-03-07 16:54:15
#DubNation :warriors: 🏀
Last night's game had playoff vibes. Dubs played great and the entire squad contributed.
Really important to get the young guys some experience like this. My hope is simply getting into at least one 7 game playoff series so the young guys get the experience they'll need next year (when we could be contenders).
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-10 23:22:55
After 11 months of being here, I decided to do a very small reflection.
When I first arrived, I didn't have any expectations or goals I'd like to achieve. Matter of fact, the main reason I left Twitter is because of all the bots that followed me and how I almost never got any real interaction.
Over time, things got a little rocky here and it seemed as though, personally, I wasn't going to be enjoying it any further at that time and contemplating shutting the instance down completely and just "disappearing".
However, several months on from that, I'm VERY glad I didn't. I like it here and I like having my "own little space" where nobody can tell me what I can and cannot discuss nor what I can and cannot see.
Something I've just recently realized though, is how important a good bit of you have become to me, personally and my Fedi experience would be very lacking without some of you here. What I didn't expect, was getting that same sentiment back when I discussed it with those few of you. I really appreciate knowing that for some of you, I have been consistently a "good" addition to your timelines and everyday online life.
Those types of comments and feelings they give me, keep me here and sane on those wilder days. To each and every one of you that have followed me for so long, through all the craziness, slight drama, wild opinions, and more, THANK YOU.
If I hadn't been almost universally accepted with such open arms and returned the same energy I try to put out, then I doubt I would still be here to this day.
I'm 11 months in and I think I'm ready to "give back" to those few folks that I consider friends and am on the cusps of creating something new and hopefully something good for Fedi as a whole.
I'm going to keep it very limited for specific reasons I'll lay out later. But, this is new ground for me and I have to figure some things out and hopefully not make too many missteps and learn some things along the way.
Thank you Fedi. I wouldn't be who I am right now, without you.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2024-04-10 17:47:56
@pelayoarbues@sigmoid.social2024-03-05 20:37:02
Desde junio de 2020, dedico una hora a la semana para conectar con desconocidos. Ya he tenido el placer de charlar con mšs de 80 personas con las que he charlado sobre datos, carrera laboral, formación, frustraciones, proyectos personales o management. Comparte o apúntate 👉 https://www.pelayoarbues.com/notes/Office-<…
@tcely@fosstodon.org2024-05-03 03:33:02
Please try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT
@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org2024-05-10 14:01:51
Huh. Filaments.ca is no more. I didn’t have the place where I buy my kn95 masks to acquire my preferred filament supplier.
#3dPrinting
I do wonder what will happen to their speciality filaments or if it’ll just become another filament reseller.
@tim@tds.xyz2024-04-07 14:23:21
@… I do need to expand my experience of Vancouver Chinese restaurants; I haven't eaten in Richmond in years. We're even getting a DTF soon, but we don't have one yet. :p Their dumpling wrappers still stand out for me!
@tml@urbanists.social2024-02-28 17:50:36
Reading this. At least the first part, #Trieste ‘79, is lovely. For some reason I find that city very fascinating.
“There are many shades of sky-blue. In my experience, the most intoxicating is the one which fills the Adriatic sky around Trieste each January after a few days of the Bora wind. The air has a clarity which I have seen equalled only in the highlands of Tibet.”
— Last Da…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 05:15:47
Someone asked today what a 'sense of self' is.
I want to tie this into ideas of relationality. I am a distinct individual, let's start with that. I'm not disavowing that entirely.
But I am also ‘an unschooler’: but this is not an attribute of my education for comparison. It is a community, a network of relationships with people working in similar ways. It's connections to anabaptist traditions and to a mode of interacting with parents (both in concept and my actual parents)
I'm from Colorado. But it's not just a place on the map: it's my relationship to my sense of smell, and my tolerance for cold weather and bright lights. It's a love of dark skies and clear views of the milky way. It's a relationship to knowing I am very very small in a vast universe. This is not a universal explanation of from-Colorado-ness, but it's mine.
I'm transgender, but that's not just I-myself-was-born-in-a-wrong-body, but I have a community and network and sense of belonging outside of myself. I've got embodied knowledge of being a dozen ways that others don't get to experience. It affects and informs my relationship to my communities and my work.
I’m argumentative and sometimes a little arrogant, but this is also because of how I'm connected: there are things I know deep in my body that I cannot explain how I know, but I do. I forget that others see me as a ‘you' and not a 'we' sometimes, and so misunderstandings happen. But to change that would change me in ways I'm not quite willing to grow into, so there is going to be a small callus in how I socialize. And it's fine. It works. I am who I am, but I also don't think about _me_ that much. To think about me is to think of all the connections instead. They're inseparable.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2024-04-01 20:26:17
I am not a fan of having everything I create on every platform which I don’t completely own being auto-opt-in for them to monetize my labor for LLM (fake-#AI) training.
https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/1
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-03 06:44:03
Illustrates my personal experience with LLMs
"The finding underscores the notion that AI will likely be most useful as a tool to augment, not replace, the human reasoning process."
https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/202…
@hairyhypnotist@mastodon.hypnoguys.com2024-03-03 19:01:31
I’m so lucky to have such wonderful, devoted slaves. @… and @…, you two have made my #Darklands experience so muc…
@rohini@mastodon.social2024-05-07 13:32:22
Pharmeasy tried hard to scam me into buying a seemingly shady generic nutritional supplement with their branding, one that I did not want or need. I had good reason to believe this was happening at scale and my experience wasn't a flash in the pan. The Wild West of the lack of consumer protection meets inadequate regulation of online-only pharmacies:
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2024-04-22 14:29:52
@laimis@mstdn.social2024-03-07 18:36:13
I finished my first audio book today and not sure I enjoyed the experience as much as actually reading a book. At the same time, if you have a commute or something like that in your life, I can see it being excellent option next to podcasts.
And I can't imagine reading a serious non-fiction book that way. I highlight and take notes a lot, losing that seems like not ideal.
@wmclark@publishing.social2024-04-05 10:10:28
Experience: I stole a Rodin sculpture from a museum | Art | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/05/experience-i-stole-a-rodin-sculpture-from-a-museum
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchange2024-04-12 20:23:48
NIST and Web3 Security – A Developing Perspective
The National Institute for Standards and Technology just released an initial draft of “A Security Perspective on the Web3 Paradigm” as document IR 8475. It is not long and it is a great take on how NIST is thinking about Web3 security. Here is the link:
#Web3 #NIST #Security #InfoSec #BlockChain #IPFS
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2024-03-04 13:12:17
What are some techniques you use to get better at coding/programming? At 40, I feel like I take a lot of granted in my experience and retained knowledge. #code #development #software
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2024-04-05 15:58:39
The Burros of Boquillas del Carmen, March, 2017
The burros have always been a big part of the experience of Boquillas. When I first attended as a kid in 82 or 83, my parents let me ride a donkey on the trip. My donkey had done the trip so many times, it kept falling asleep while walking and waking with a start and jump.
#photography
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2024-04-04 06:11:25
Personal, dreams, sad
I don't know if I am capable of dreaming anymore. What are dreams, anyway? How are they different from desires, aspirations and efforts?
But I can consider what I could dream of.
I could dream of not being angry all the time. Of not being filled with hatred.
I could dream of feeling secure. Of not worrying all the time about food and shelter. Of losing health insurance and access to medicine.
I could dream of having someone to rely on, of someone who'd take care of me and the things I can't handle. Of not feeling guilty of not meeting the expectations of others and my own, all the time.
I could dream of being able to experience all that stuff that I read about in books and see in movies. Of it not being too late for me anymore.
#ActuallyAutistic
@AnthonyCollette@infosec.exchange2024-02-22 14:06:04
For Security Teams Inside Organizations
Let’s take a deep dive into this piece of consumer messaging —
1958. American Football. A sports reporter bluntly asks coach Vince Lombardi “What are you going to change to turn this team around after a string of failures and losing seasons?”
His reply: “I am not going to change anything. We will use the same players, the same plays and the same training system. But we will concentrate on becoming brilliant at the basics.”
This is an incredibly motivating message. And it paid off!
In the next nine seasons, Coach Lombardi’s team, the Green Bay Packers, went on to win five NFL Championships and two Super Bowls.
The phrase “Brilliant At The Basics” found its way into popular culture, becoming a recurring theme.
And the graphic? For the general public, the lightbulb image = Good Idea.
Consumers are already familiar with these two concepts.
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
☑️ Ask yourself "What should our users know? What actions should they take?"
☑️ Define them clearly and give them a simple, catchy name — "The Basics."
☑️ Show your users "This Is How We Do It Here."
☑️ Let them know they can master The Basics.
☑️ Then let your users know there's More Where That Came From, if they're interested, but … The Basics are the focus.
We should deliver cybersecurity advice to non-technical people in bite-size, digestible pieces. Consumers hate feeling like they’re at the pointy end of a firehose. And they don’t like being lectured to. Let’s not overwhelm them. First lay a strong foundation, then line by line, concept by concept — build up from there.
My partner led consumer product development programs that sold $100M and $400M of consumer products every year. Now he develops consumer products for Pokémon. We have hard-won experience when it comes to speaking to and persuading consumers.
We want to share that with you.
Would you like to experiment with this messaging and these laptop stickers in your organization?
Three additional benefits for you:
☑️ Over time, if The Basics in your organization change, the graphics and the laptop stickers stay the same.
☑️ A campaign like this might help identify potential Cyber Champions in your organization.
☑️ The laptop stickers provide persistent visibility for Cybersecurity within your organization.
We’d be happy to send some free samples for you to try out with your users.
1.) Visit this Brilliant At The Basic page on our website: #BrilliantAtTheBasics
_________________
♻️ Please feel free to share this post and let others know about this offer.
@adam@windbag.org2024-03-04 16:01:57
If you haven't tried Arc from the Browser Company, you're missing out on some very thoughtful UI design and useful features. It has become my daily-driver for personal use.
https://arc.net/gift/11c75427
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2024-04-03 00:47:04
Well that was an experience.
Did a bit of "forensic drainage" with the neighbor and discovered a ~18" square storm drain catch basin in my backyard that had been buried under several inches of soil for decades and I had no idea existed.
But we've confirmed the accuracy of some old city plans and this might save me a bunch of money on some upcoming drainage work.
@hey@social.nowicki.io2024-04-05 21:49:46
I installed LineageOS on my wife's old Xiaomi phone that was laying idle in a drawer and use it as a secondary device for some time.
I have to say the overall experience (for me!) is well below iOS, even though it's a pure Android install, but some things are cool, like Instagram doesn't want me to install from Play store? Lol, I'll fetch .apk from some shady mirror website and have it.
But passwords management (Bitwarden), keyboard (space as cursor scroll) is all…
@MediaActivist@todon.eu2024-03-31 11:02:14
My partner's laptop was agonisingly slow, so I upgraded the RAM and switched the hard drive to an SSD and did a fresh install of a Linux distro and it's now like, well, shit off a shovel (as we say in these parts)! I'd only ever really replaced a fan before, so this was a fun experience and more exciting achievement, especially in the little time I had to get it done. And I didn't even have any screws left over for once (just got them mixed up, rushing and screwing a longer s…
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 19:07:33
On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 meaning most valuable, my experience across the different messaging social networks:
- Threads: -10
- Bluesky: 0
- Mastodon: 4
- Twitter: 9
Twitter’s evaluation is at its peak. It has decreased significantly since.
Maston has plateaued for me. I’m getting very little signal.
My experience on Bluesky is very short. But I couldn’t find the seeds in there.
Threads is not for me. The algorithm is crap.. Plus I don’t want to…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-05-03 07:16:01
Generating User Experience Based on Personas with AI Assistants
Yutan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2024-04-02 15:59:27
In my experience Russ Cox is always worth reading. But… in this case, only if you’re up to looking at extremely gnarly shell/sed/awk/etc incantations. These attackers were serious. #xz
https://social.afront.org/@pba…
@LorenAmelang@vivaldi.net2024-03-06 01:59:24
@… Back when a previous me did psychic readings, I "saw" the same kind of thought/text pictures and memory icons in other people that I experience in my own #aphantasia world. Amazing to consider whether people with a vivid "mind's eye" mi…
@tcely@fosstodon.org2024-05-03 03:33:02
Please try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT
@tylersticka@social.lol2024-05-02 15:55:24
#FediHire friends, I could use your help! 👋
My brother Tim is an amazing project manager! His team was laid off (w/o severance 😞) days before Thanksgiving weekend due to biz dev pipelines (not performance-related).
He’s been applying/interviewing in the months since, gets exclusively positive feedback… but every opportunity seems to evaporate. 😕
He just launched a website. Please s…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2024-04-02 16:55:29
❝Well, OK, with the possible exception of mosquitoes; in my experience, they seem unnervingly similar to each other, aside from the luxuriant eyelashes on the lucky few. But that’s a different story altogether.❞ https://slate.com/culture/2024/04/sand
@trochee@dair-community.social2024-04-25 03:19:22
@zachleat@zachleat.com2024-03-28 20:14:28
@… @… ah hmm—well, this doesn’t fit my experience. It doesn’t seem to fit the example cited in @…
@josemurilo@mato.social2024-03-21 12:40:50
"#Mastodon is an excellent, momentous platform. It's a new kind of online communication channel, with an alternative structure, a clear democratic vision, and just enough impact. My colleagues at DW Innovation and I finally gave it a chance in October 2023 – and that turned out to be one of our best communication decisions in the last decade."
@pgcd@mastodon.online2024-04-30 19:06:50
In my experience, title themes for children's shows demonstrate impeccably that anything can become an earworm if you hear it often enough.
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social2024-04-15 17:22:47
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2024-04-17 06:45:06
I had eye surgery yesterday, to clean out the filters in the drainage ducts of my eyes. I was (obviously) nervous about it. The experience was unpleasant but not terrible, and greatly helped by a surgeon with a great chair-side manner.
This morning my eyes feel not much worse than an average morning, and I have an only-slight headache. So (so far) this has been a much less bad experience than it might have been.
Many thanks to Scotland's NHS!
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2024-02-23 17:42:23
@… Saw this new book on the bird site, perhaps interesting to compare your experience with hers: https://x.com/sa_poptart/status/176070…
@fell@ma.fellr.net2024-04-30 13:17:14
I just heard the bad news that I am probably going to need a new job starting in July.
So, before beginning the regular search, I wanted to ask my Fedi friends if anyone could use a capable C programmer with lots of graphics and networking experience. I wouldn't mind a change, so I'm open to anything. Even other programming languages! It would be awesome if I could use Linux to do the work. 🐧
Locations I would consider are: Central Europe, Melbourne, Sydney or Remote<…
@linux_mclinuxface@fosstodon.org2024-03-09 18:12:41
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2024-03-23 14:22:03
Great thread. I still struggle with LLM in software engineering because of the number of errors it produces for anything other than predicting my next line of code or two. But I know others get great performance out of them. Still working at it.
However, I wouldn’t make any predictions yet as to where this will shake out socially except to say, I don’t think it’s a flash in the pan.
@AnthonyCollette@infosec.exchange2024-02-22 14:06:04
For Security Teams Inside Organizations
Let’s take a deep dive into this piece of consumer messaging —
1958. American Football. A sports reporter bluntly asks coach Vince Lombardi “What are you going to change to turn this team around after a string of failures and losing seasons?”
His reply: “I am not going to change anything. We will use the same players, the same plays and the same training system. But we will concentrate on becoming brilliant at the basics.”
This is an incredibly motivating message. And it paid off!
In the next nine seasons, Coach Lombardi’s team, the Green Bay Packers, went on to win five NFL Championships and two Super Bowls.
The phrase “Brilliant At The Basics” found its way into popular culture, becoming a recurring theme.
And the graphic? For the general public, the lightbulb image = Good Idea.
Consumers are already familiar with these two concepts.
In Your Organization, You Define “The Basics”
Find the sweet spot between everything that’s possible and what your users are willing and able to do.
☑️ Ask yourself "What should our users know? What actions should they take?"
☑️ Define them clearly and give them a simple, catchy name — "The Basics."
☑️ Show your users "This Is How We Do It Here."
☑️ Let them know they can master The Basics.
☑️ Then let your users know there's More Where That Came From, if they're interested, but … The Basics are the focus.
We should deliver cybersecurity advice to non-technical people in bite-size, digestible pieces. Consumers hate feeling like they’re at the pointy end of a firehose. And they don’t like being lectured to. Let’s not overwhelm them. First lay a strong foundation, then line by line, concept by concept — build up from there.
My partner led consumer product development programs that sold $100M and $400M of consumer products every year. Now he develops consumer products for Pokémon. We have hard-won experience when it comes to speaking to and persuading consumers.
We want to share that with you.
Would you like to experiment with this messaging and these laptop stickers in your organization?
Three additional benefits for you:
☑️ Over time, if The Basics in your organization change, the graphics and the laptop stickers stay the same.
☑️ A campaign like this might help identify potential Cyber Champions in your organization.
☑️ The laptop stickers provide persistent visibility for Cybersecurity within your organization.
We’d be happy to send some free samples for you to try out with your users.
1.) Visit this Brilliant At The Basic page on our website: #BrilliantAtTheBasics
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♻️ Please feel free to share this post and let others know about this offer.
@adam@windbag.org2024-03-04 16:01:57
If you haven't tried Arc from the Browser Company, you're missing out on some very thoughtful UI design and useful features. It has become my daily-driver for personal use.
https://arc.net/gift/11c75427
@grumpybozo@toad.social2024-04-06 16:47:36
Re: last retoot, a funny story:
Years ago, before I joined the SA team, I thought I might have found a hidden compromise in its extensive and somewhat opaque test suite. Long story short: no, it was a bug. The test interacted with how SA applied a specific uncommon ‘prefix’ config to accidentally inject test configurations under /etc/ if you ran the test as root. That experience greatly improved my operational hygiene.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-02-29 16:23:28
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 19:07:33
On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 meaning most valuable, my experience across the different messaging social networks:
- Threads: -10
- Bluesky: 0
- Mastodon: 4
- Twitter: 9
Twitter’s evaluation is at its peak. It has decreased significantly since.
Maston has plateaued for me. I’m getting very little signal.
My experience on Bluesky is very short. But I couldn’t find the seeds in there.
Threads is not for me. The algorithm is crap.. Plus I don’t want to…
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-07 21:07:42
People here hate algorithms and I get it. I don't get any engagement on platforms that have them.
However, if I don't tag something with enough relevant tags here, I get the same experience and I have 800 followers, and if I tag TOO many things, someone bitches at me to stop doing that.
There HAS to be a better way to do this...
And I might not get engagement on this because I just don't know what to tag it now, in fear of offending *someone* with my tags...😩🤦♂️
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-20 16:42:35
William Blake’s imagination is thought to have burned with such intensity that,
when creating his great artworks,
he needed little reference to the physical world.
While drawing historical or mythical figures, for instance, he would wait until the “spirit” appeared in his mind’s eye.
The visions were apparently so detailed that Blake could sketch as if a real person were sitting before him.
Such intense and detailed imaginations are thought to reflect a condit…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-03-08 08:30:40
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08434 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
@trochee@dair-community.social2024-04-25 03:19:22
@pgcd@mastodon.online2024-04-30 19:06:50
In my experience, title themes for children's shows demonstrate impeccably that anything can become an earworm if you hear it often enough.
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-07 21:07:42
People here hate algorithms and I get it. I don't get any engagement on platforms that have them.
However, if I don't tag something with enough relevant tags here, I get the same experience and I have 800 followers, and if I tag TOO many things, someone bitches at me to stop doing that.
There HAS to be a better way to do this...
And I might not get engagement on this because I just don't know what to tag it now, in fear of offending *someone* with my tags...😩🤦♂️
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-03-30 21:20:54
Hi friends, here's the last #photo from my recent blog post (from my cold #photography - #hiking trip).
This spot was a perfect opportunity to apply ND Filters and some longexposure. I loved …
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-02-25 09:16:43
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-06 00:03:14
It feels so nice to have follow relationships with many of the leaders in this space and have them say such nice things.☺️
I have a feeling my social media experience will never be the same soon, due to all the massive great things these people are doing to ensure the interconnectivity of these platforms.
PS. This is a Threads screenshot. To follow Mike on Fediverse. Search for Mike McCue.😉
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-02-22 18:43:40
While I'm commuting home from the office, I'm just browsing a bit in the photos from my last hikes.
This one made me smile as it reminds me of the first snow hike in the season. I was surprised by the amount of snow and wind, but that also made it a really great experience.
But it also meant returning earlier than planned initially. Safety in winter is always number 1 priority.
#nature
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 08:31:19
My iOS 17.4.1 exhibits an extremely annoying bug in iOS Shortcuts.
Dialogs (for input, for display) stop being displayed blocking the shortcut.
The aggravating factor besides breaking the shortcuts is that the only solution I could find is to restart the phone. This makes it extremely frustrating as an experience to a level that not even old days Windows required restarting this often.
My searches are not finding anything useful.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-02-22 18:43:40
While I'm commuting home from the office, I'm just browsing a bit in the photos from my last hikes.
This one made me smile as it reminds me of the first snow hike in the season. I was surprised by the amount of snow and wind, but that also made it a really great experience.
But it also meant returning earlier than planned initially. Safety in winter is always number 1 priority.
#nature
@beaware@social.beaware.live2024-05-04 12:41:14
It's great when irony shows up on my timeline unprovoked. It's quite amazing.
PS. Complaining about Blockchain while having "cryptographic experience" in another post is not as good of a look as you think it is....😳🤦♂️
Edit: I'm too high. It'd be an issue if one was a Blockchain dev complaining about cryptography, but not the other way around like I described here. Leaving this up anyway.
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-03-30 08:31:19
My iOS 17.4.1 exhibits an extremely annoying bug in iOS Shortcuts.
Dialogs (for input, for display) stop being displayed blocking the shortcut.
The aggravating factor besides breaking the shortcuts is that the only solution I could find is to restart the phone. This makes it extremely frustrating as an experience to a level that not even old days Windows required restarting this often.
My searches are not finding anything useful.