Tristan Harward

General nerd; work = UX manager at an infosec co, artsy/musicy, house full of: dogs, plants, vintage tube gear, various things that run Linux. He/him, trans rights, Black Lives Matter, genuinely delighted to meet you.

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2024-08-19 16:24:36

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@npub19zq…u4m5 also works for audiophiles!

2024-08-08 19:18:44

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Direct scrape from Goodreads, it seems.
And other quote sites have also picked up the error.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8189338-i-consider-it-my-calling-to-dispel-the-myth-that

2024-07-14 12:03:39

A brief rainbow yesterday hanging over my huge 9 ft tall sunflowers, flower bed, patio, and native flower plants. Backyard is feeling more and more homey. 😊
#SilentSunday #bloomscrolling
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2024-07-09 07:40:05

I believe the biggest improvement in #UX might come from banning visual design tools like Figma.
Figma is not UX design. Mockups are not UX design.
Forcing designers to specify their intent in clear sketches and words, and work with engineers to make it real using actual components, would be such an enabling constraint and probably ten times more efficient.

2024-07-05 00:44:02

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 How do you get the reach?

2024-06-29 21:44:32

Everyone’s gonna be real bummed when larger and larger language models just result in more and more mediocre reduction to the mean text results, eh?
All this work just to get a more and more accurate version of the average of all language, cool, good job everyone.

2024-06-19 00:29:31

The #ARRL is a joke.
One of the backbones of #AmateurRadio infrastructure down for over a month because of their incompetence.
And this is how they talk about it? Guess they fired their marketing team as well as their IT.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-systems-service-disruption

2024-06-18 22:26:37

Anyone know good things to do with radishes?

2024-06-16 20:13:36

I'm scared how misunderstood LLMs and GenAI truly are; they are so far from a genuine intelligence it's not even funny. They are statistical models for language, trained on a lot of words and sentences, representing the statistical likelihood of words following other words, sentences following other sentences, just with a lot of data and samples to pull from. That's it. There's no intelligence, there's no path to intelligence; it's simply statistics chaining words and symbols together.

2024-06-01 18:38:07

Need a refresh of my main VPS server, runs my web site and some services on DigitalOcean. It’s on Ubuntu Server and up to date right now but I’m annoyed with Ubuntu Pro ads and other junk on it.
My thinking: stick with DO but spin up a fresh clean Debian box.
Any other ideas? What’s the latest and greatest?

2024-05-29 03:29:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 we need a knowledge bank, kind of like a seed bank but for knowledge untainted by AI.

2024-04-25 17:01:17

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@npub1xpc…3t05 just imagining Biden’s to-do list rolling out like a 20-ft long parchment scroll and this being item number 562 that will never get done.

2024-04-20 17:58:50

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@npub10cs…5prq weird advice. I hike in jeans and a t shirt all the time.

2024-04-09 15:37:35

Nice little dip in our solar production yesterday around 3:30pm 🌚
#eclipse
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2024-03-23 19:19:21

Why is it so easy to stop paying attention, start drifting, fall into routine, forget who you are and what you really need?
What are some ways you stay awake in life? Or snap out of your routine?

2024-03-20 11:19:30

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@npub10cs…5prq effing capitalism 😭

2024-03-17 15:49:26

I have passed my amateur radio General license exam! #hamradio #amateurradio

2024-03-11 16:22:12

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@npub1lrv…tth9 horrible horrible design. The future needs to go the opposite direction—toward more tactile retro-futuristic usability.
I’d honestly buy the first electric car that fully embraced actually good driver experience with tactile buttons and knobs.

2024-03-04 13:53:42

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@npub1hyk…3p33 Corporations whole schtick is kind of avoidance of individual liability, so yeah.

2024-02-24 13:58:51

I've decided to get my #AmateurRadio license. I already know most of the fundamentals so with a little study should be able to pass just fine. I think it's an important infrastructure to keep going and expand, especially these days.
I will also continue to expand the #LoRa #Meshtastic network on the North Shore of Boston, with hopes of having it support connection all the way to Boston Proper (we have line of sight spots up here directly to the city and surrounding areas!)
On top of that, I've got the hardware and ability to set up a MassMesh mesh wifi node. The network is small, but a good proof of concept for a higher bandwidth community networking solution independent of the trunk internet.
Any tips or encouragement from anyone appreciated!

2024-02-07 14:06:49

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@npub1c35…9pmh watching you live edit this is fun 😆 It would be nice if mastodon could show code well…

2024-02-05 03:27:37

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@npub1u27…3qfq They make "soft start" (basically big capacitor banks with regulation) that are designed for this kind of major current pull for starter motors and compressors. Potentially viable.
Ex: https://www.raymondinnovations.com/products/gs10

2024-02-03 13:35:33

"In 2023, we returned more cash to shareholders and produced more oil and natural gas than any year in the company's history," Chevron chief executive Mike Wirth boasted.
We will not survive on this earth unless fossil fuel companies are deliberately and systematically dismantled by force.

2024-01-29 01:17:31

CNN reports on "Superyachts and the Super Rich" this evening, and it's just one hour that screams "RAISE TAXES" over and over and over again.

2024-01-08 03:44:55

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@npub1f6a…pnql No, that isn't your problem in my opinion. I think many people disagree strongly with you even about the first version.

2024-01-07 23:50:53

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@npub1f6a…pnql well, sure, but it seems a rather small scoped and narrow solution to a much bigger and more important problem.
I get it though. I might have phrased it a bit closer to what you've said here, more about what you're going to do and why rather than what we should all do. That latter bit is, as you've probably seen in the response, quite a bit more important to more people.

2024-01-07 23:25:57

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@npub1f6a…pnql what the heck else is it saying then?
I’d love to give you the benefit of nuance, but the words say what they say.
Really, I’m trying really hard to figure out what you’re trying to do with your post, but it’s just a big nothingburger. It’s okay, but you don’t have a stance? We should, but you don’t have to? People are smart enough to figure it out, so it doesn’t matter?
It’s all just very confusing.
I hope you’ve muted me by now because I’m being very annoying about this.

2024-01-07 00:40:01

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@npub1j46…3gm7 my senior project was a commenting mechanism that worked “in the margins” of books, articles, published papers, etc. Allowed you to highlight and leave a comment anywhere. Medium picked that model and did it Ok, but it would be very cool to do in a persistent way across the web. I could imagine an ActivityPub extension 🤔🤔🤔

2023-12-21 16:16:42

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@npub1c35…9pmh No clue why, but `<feFlood x='0' y='0' height='0.5' width='0.5'/>` works really well.

2023-12-05 17:26:54

I'm going to start a new religion whose primary tenet is that assigning numerical or scale or stack ratings to human beings is harmful and against our beliefs.
It will be most useful at Annual Review time, but I believe holds at all times as well.

2023-10-26 14:17:15

Bitcoin is like a big emperor's new clothes moment for the stock market; it's this thing that's literally useless that everyone has somehow agreed has value, and for some reason it goes up and up.
Meanwhile people talk about stocks and pretend that their fundamentals have everything to do with the valuation, as though it's all not just one big casino game with people putting bets down and other people and oh yeah computer algorithms parroting them.
It's all meaningless.

2023-10-04 19:27:59

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@npub1ugp…cz6m @npub1u27…3qfq Love love love this: https://humanvalues.io/

2023-09-17 12:16:11

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@npub1tvq…l6jk is there a trick to get it to launch? I bought it via steam ages ago and it’s never started up.

2023-06-24 17:15:21

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@npub1tak…90fl @npub10p7…6uh9 @npub1hyk…3p33 Funny how the best part of NFTs are the part that has nothing to do with NFTs.

2023-05-07 14:48:13

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@npub1psy…pasy they would if they could.

2023-05-01 23:56:56

This idea that well-fit N95/KN95/KF94 #masks are extremely effective against #COVID is not new.
People who were paying attention were wearing them by late 2020. I had one that I santized with UV-C daily. I now have a full stockpile.
Should have been the guidance from the start. It was an airborne virus. It’s not that complicated. #maskswork