soaproot

Also known.as: Jim Kingdon

🏳️‍🌈 gay

Pronoun: he
San Francisco, CA, USA

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npub1m4q8h7mwksfrxt8snv8np7h7rqn0d4kdmxrrg2km54pmykm2kywstfymzz

NIP-05 Address

soaproot_at_sfba.social@mostr.pub

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2024-09-16 12:36:13

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@npub19cy…l06z That sounds like an amazing book group.

2024-08-05 17:13:20

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@npub1t7d…pqpp I'm a little surprised it took this long for these kinds of issues to reach this point, but I hate to be right about this. Here's to hoping that the new approach will work out.

2024-06-15 04:41:41

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@npub1g7j…7unj Ooh nice lupine photo #BloomScrolling

2024-05-26 05:45:55

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@npub1wmr…g240 Now you've nerd sniped me into looking up how old the sexual meaning of that word is (1798, if you must know, according to https://www.etymonline.com/word/intercourse ).

2024-03-15 15:32:09

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@npub17hj…7a0r The color of mono lake tufa is so clear in my head (I've never been there in moonlight, for example) that black and white is like I'm seeing a whole new feature.

2024-03-11 14:11:54

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@npub1t7d…pqpp You, on the other hand, get points for not just reading your old email, but being able to find it three years later.

2024-02-19 17:31:08

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@npub1t7d…pqpp This is so funny because it is an amusing mismatch between an ordinary room and a data center (or something functioning as some flavor of a data center).

2024-01-20 20:12:52

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@npub1ccn…czwu If Santa in Hawaii has a red canoe, I'd say snow people should have a snow canoe. Full marks.

2024-01-16 19:36:16

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@npub1ema…z20p Very cute. Buy now and you can get many years of usage before the BART system expands (:cry:)

2024-01-14 02:09:40

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@npub12f7…lkxh A fair point. I've been posting about podcasts lately (including nice ones from @npub10zq…e2ec and #DotSocial about the social web) but haven't recently mentioned the player I use: @npub1c6w…xlee . This is a great way to listen to podcasts on Android: stays out of the way and downloads and plays podcasts. Playback works great when offline.

2024-01-13 18:39:42

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@npub1t7d…pqpp Do you have any way of knowing whether those instances have local patches or are on a published fork which is behind? I mean, that's not a good reason to leave security holes unpatched, just another factor in a space where people do not always want the default behavior.

2023-12-28 08:32:34

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@npub1t7d…pqpp At the risk of getting too deep into various details, but OK I guess I've been nerd sniped: (1) do you not have/use at-home antigen tests there? (2) sadly infection following a previous infection or vaccination is possible even during the first few months. (Vaccines still do a lot to prevent serious disease and death, but that's different than preventing infection altogether). (3) maybe because of asymptomatic infections, or for whatever reason, this virus seems to have a way of making its way around.

2023-12-28 08:07:09

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@npub1t7d…pqpp Here's hoping for a full recovery for both of you. As Daniel Griffin (of This Week in Virology fame) is fond of saying: "the way to find out if it is COVID is to do a COVID test".

2023-12-12 16:01:11

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@npub1t7d…pqpp Ah yes, in this day and age if we want to play the uptime game we need to include the "not publicly accessible" disclaimer.

2023-12-11 20:26:32

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@npub1upk…tcwy @npub1xqm…85zq @npub1zs5…mwjw For me I've never understood how knowing about how things are stored is supposed to help me with whether a particular command operates on a diff or a snapshot or other concepts exposed at the level of (I guess we still call it porcelain although "any git command I've typed" would also do). Either the implementation is less important to the behavior than is sometimes claimed (my suspicion), or there a missing piece in terms of explaining the connection.

2023-12-08 14:51:21

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@npub1slp…4xfq Where I work it is the overall policy that teams have to be required reviewers on code they own. The result is sort of similar to the dynamic you describe except that the teams (often) are trying to get out of reviewing code just as much as code authors are (sometimes). trying to get out of attempting to get reviews out of people.

2023-11-28 18:34:34

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@npub1upk…tcwy Very curious if you will end up where I did (filesystems are the wrong place to put a network, put the network more at the level of transferring a whole file, a la HTTP/S3/etc) but whether you even are worried about that question or not, I'm sure you will help us all understand NFS better.

2023-10-30 23:49:52

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@npub1t7d…pqpp I guess you let him make the video? I mean, he's already saying "OK, Boomer" which I suppose isn't really avoidable but I guess we can wait for future him, or others, to notice how hard it is to get information from a video (assuming you and I are right that it is, which I sort of assume must be true).

2023-10-24 16:08:33

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@npub1ztx…t572 @npub1t7d…pqpp Someone, in some twisted way, thinks this is making them more secure (or rather there is a chain of events from one person/audit to the next to the next which leads back to "more secure" and everyone is only looking at their local part of it, and the question of whether this situation, overall, makes them more secure, isn't even being asked because they aren't set up to ask that question).

2023-10-01 14:22:26

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@npub1t7d…pqpp This is a nice article. It is understandable even if you don't know anything about Rails, sidekiq, etc, but also has enough Mastodon specific information that it is informative even if you do.

2023-09-23 06:22:10

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@npub1rgy…fpgz @npub1m4p…yvy8 Are you familiar with nostr? That's what he's posting on and yes there is some flavor of relay between that and ActivityPub but in broad terms they are both federated networks.

2023-05-01 00:04:06

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@npub1a4t…q9yj Uh, congratulations?
I don't think I've ever quite made it "big" in the way you describe but most days I'm fine with that.