Paul Lindner

Really should do something with my makamaka.me domain which I shelved when I realized that I was using AGPL software...

I ended up just contributing to the Mastodon Patreon and joined https://social.coop/

[also looks like go/makamaka still works!!!]

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RT @MCTW5: @joshsternberg Gen X has the last laugh. https://t.co/7r13SaKaUY

Trying to talk sense into my 84 year old father in law, who has a number of health issues...

"I lived through the real bad polio epidemic, and in our small circle of friends there 5 cases and one close friend died. We do not know one person with virus! This said I'll still be very careful."

Post yur playlist plz.. There are only so many Neil Cicierega tracks out there... Save me before I start hitting the Nightcore...

True story: After too much time in the Fortress of Solitude Superman morphed into Bizarro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGa1b0m-LWY

US folks should consider updating wageworks for commuter benefits.

I found out the hard way that Clipper has a max accumulation of BART passes...

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go/culturalinsights

I haven't seen that many animated gifs since geocities...

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The end times approach. Gopher protocol over HTTP and support for TLS.

But seriously I now have the weirdest Masto timeline with Adam Curry NoAgenda Show folks and retro-hacker Gopher Protocol people.

https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goh

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We've all been there, on the tenth page of search results, not finding what you're looking for. This is a whole 'nother level. Loved it.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx/158-the-case-of-the-missing-hit?te=1&nl=watching&...

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#til about Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Say thanks the next time you use your Kanban, or reduce toil instead of just automating tasks....

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/the-mother-of-modern-management/

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I have that whole email thread archived.. What a trip.. Quite pleased that you're still leading on alternative ways to fund, create, and deliver quality content.

Indeed! I've been following the growing #gopher community. Definitely an example of a Retro Upgrade for our current computing environment.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetroUpgrade

Blaming the IRS for your poorly engineered software is sad. Most people can e-file.

Instead please:

1. Apologize for the problem.
2. Tell us when it will be fixed.
3. Remove the flippant smiley from your signature.

Looks like Adam Curry spoke about Internet Gopher on the Rogan Podcast, so I had to dig this out of the email archives from September '93
@noagenda @adamcurry #cybersleaze: https://t.co/1Zt9ZgNkbZ https://t.co/rfg9tdFje9

For some reason I always thought of Six Apart as Franz Ferdinand.

And for the ultimate crossover here's a Franz cover of Serge Gainsbourg

https://youtu.be/G_zCprdV5M8

If you want you can refer to case #457576616 It's closed, but should have details.

Intuit/TurboTax has a market cap of $74B, and just spent $7B to buy Credit Karma. They can afford to hire people to manually fix these returns...

Heather -- please read the full thread (there are three pages of unhappy customers) It's a bug in Turbotax and it needs to be fixed.

Sending people who have experienced a loss to read IRS forms is just cruel.

Turbotax, you had one job.. Because of this bug surviving spouses have had to mail instead of e-file for years. I escalated with support. They said it would be fixed, but could not notify me when. Just keep trying...

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/rejected-2019-return-based-on-my-deceased-spouse-...

@turbotax @freetaxusa

By popular demand I started (manually) cross-posting to Instagram.

https://instagram.com/1500wordmtu

One of these days they'll have a proper API for individuals. Their current one is just super hostile...
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/

So yeah, don't forget about your Drive Birthday quota expiration..

The current deal is 2TB for 9/year, which isn't bad. You also get 100 'play points', which nets you in raw play credit or more if you use in-app.

And plus it saves me from looking at S3 compatible archive options now... (I use restic + rclone to backup to drive..)

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https://i.imgur.com/qg8dbNp.png

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Decided to break out the Orange Jumpsuit for Cyberdelia at the DNA Lounge.  Crowd participation made the film Hackers 10x better and yes, rollerblades were in use. #hacktheplanet
https://t.co/0MGaMP8AYj
@dnalounge https://t.co/lTDt826vhP

You'll find Gus at @thebalm on Valencia most Saturday mornings.

At DNA Lounge - Hackers 25th Anniversary Movie.

Wow

Yeah, it's great. Perfectly sized for my commute and oh so relevant.

The "Internet Gopher and Adversarial Interoperability" EFF Deeplink Blog post is now on Cory Doctorow's most excellent Podcast.

https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/02/24/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-the...

@doctorow @eff

What should I buy with my 00 Nexus 6p settlement that came in this evening?

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I miss the local ILEC ISPs. They really got so many people online while remaining true to their communities.

Glad that Gopher got the job done for you!

In 1991 a GB was ~$7k

Still amazed that we could pay for all that expensive hardware and had such lousy salaries.. At $30k/year 1 disk would be .3 SWE/y

https://mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte

Receipts:

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:51:07
From: Bob Alberti <alberti@boombox>

Clarinet archiving looks to be taking up about 100K blocks (~50 Meg) a month, and if this is the case, we're going to want to get another disk for it, ideally 600+ Megabytes.

Bob forgot to mention that he maintained paperboy.micro.umn.edu, a Mac IIfx running INN for a good long while. That enabled Clarinet UPI news.

Having full text searches in 1992 blew people's minds. Plus you could bookmark a search, which was another game changer!

RT @Albatross: An article in @EFF by @doctorow about #AdversarialInteroperability and #InternetGopher. Links include my Gopher paper. Eleme…

Cory did a great job of capturing the early days of Gopher in his article.

RT @doctorow: The latest in my series of case histories of #AdversarialInteroperability and the role it played in keeping tech competitive…

Sad to hear about the death of Larry Tesler.

“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?”

http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Complexity_Law.html

@nomodes

I think it would be interesting to have 'deprecated by' and 'replaced with' added to

https://toolsearch.corp.google.com/

Then create a visual tool showing the evolution of tools over time.....

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Uhhh. Google Forms as critical election infrastructure?

All Internet services should have publicly disclosed headcount numbers..

https://moma.corp.google.com/team/4579863185

[.. and yes, I know that Forms relies on a wide variety of shared infrastructure...]

https://www.cnet.com/news/nevada-democrats-to-use-google-forms-based-calculator-to-track-caucus/

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RT @djkevincole: Today is dedicated to celebrating the healing power of music, as it aids those facing cancer.

Sadly, most of us have bee…