George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Question: What's CAA?

Answer: CAA is a type of DNS record that allows site owners to specify which CA's are allowed to issue certificates containing their domain names. It's crucial for managing the risk of external bugs from a CA's validation process.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/caa/

PSA: lifetime America the Beautiful National Parks and Land passes are available for FREE to disabled citizens or permanent residents with a “permanent disability”.

While there are some hoops to jump through applying online, I inquired about it at a gate and they accepted my self-attestation.

All the parks rangers I have met have been extremely affirming and eager to share the most accessible, wonderful areas with me. Ymmv of course, but this is a win for disabled folks I wanna hype up.

Taiwanese Election Drama is a Subversive Hit in China https://www.voanews.com/a/taiwanese-election-drama-is-a-subversive-hit-in-china/7114930.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

I'll be playing euphonium at this free concert tomorrow night 🦛 📯 #BayArea #Alameda #SFBA #Musician

The year is 3423. Storage is limited. Digital archivists convene to solve the pending crisis. However, they spend the entire conference arguing to keep 4.5 exbibytes of __MACOSX directories.

Long-Covid testimony, from my wife. Getting long-Covid or post-Covid or whatever will fuck up your life and is also not nice for your loved ones. Please read and consider: https://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2023/05/this-is-not-over/

I was just out doing the family shopping at a crowded grocery store, almost nobody wearing a mask.

[Spreading the word on this would be a public service.]

For you folks in my region wanting to listen to the local emergency radio broadcasts.

https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/10594

#Halifax #novascotia #tantallonfire #tantallon

Hey y'all. Just putting it out there to the universe: I was part of last week's latest tech purge. Sigh. Alas. Keeping eyes out for Instructional Designer/Trainer positions. Based in Austin. (Not in the way kids say based, I just mean I live here.)

Going to try this place one more time. It was a bit hard to find community and other journalists of color the last go.

Poll: Are you a macOS, MS-Windows or Linux or *BSD user? Please boost for reach. TIA.

Gandalf Got Run Over By a Balrog!

#MakeASongWeird
#HashtagGames

One of the supposed “advantages” of async work has been that you can start working on something without needing others to be available.
Reasonable leverage point, but wrong direction.

Being able to start the work without others (that are needed in the process) means that the cost of starting new work goes to zero.

That tilts the system towards a higher arrival rate – the amount of work being pulled into the system of work – and that means the work in process and inventory shoots up.

Third-party Twitter apps historically accounted for 17% of all engagement, former exec says https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/27/third-party-twitter-apps-tweetbot-engagement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

it was absolutely useless. Thanks

One of the decisive moments in my understanding of #LLMs and their limitations was when, last autumn, @emilymbender walked me through her Thai Library thought experiment.

She's now written it up as a Medium post, and you can read it here. The value comes from really pondering the question she poses, so take the time to think about it. What would YOU do in the situation she outlines?

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

happy 5.25" floppy day!

PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!

the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with

This is a really, really, really big deal! #electricvehicles https://insideevs.com/news/669212/ford-switch-tesla-ncas-chargign-connector/

Want a strong understanding of electric vehicle technology?
The Tech Talk series by Lucid Motors is a great place to start, so we're collecting them in a single thread to make them easy to find and discuss. Enjoy!
https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/lucid-motors-tech-talk-videos.18304/