DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

Temba, his arms wide. Kira at Bashi: Jerry on the ocean with sails unfurled.

Jerry and Leslie at O'Neals'. Kadir beneath Mo Moteh! Temba, at rest. Shaka, when the walls fell. Jerry on the Today Show. Kailash, when it rises. Jerry on the ocean with sails unfurled! Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. 😂

#introduction Mastodon first-timer here! I have a Masters in psychology, a passion for medicine (especially diseases), and a general interest in science. I’m looking for a career in data analysis, as I like working with data and sussing out issues and correcting them.

I’m always eager to learn new things! I already feel like this will be a good place for that, so I’m looking forward to it!

#introduction
Hi everyone, I just tried Mastodon out since yesterday (I heard about it for a while tho).
I'm finishing my master degree in CS next year in France. I'm a FOSS enthousiast and a great fan of formal methods (in CS at least).

Short term: I'm learning Rust (for those into CS stuff you should definitly take a look at it if you haven't already) and doing a chess AI (a modest one compared to what we do today).

Medium term: Work and live for a while in China to learn about those guys, I think we still don't understand each other well enough.

Long term: try to improve the way we as humans interact with Big Data, AI and computers in general because I think that our usage is not sane yet (and especially for Big Data).

I didn't plan to introduce myself but I guess that's a kind of tradition. I'm looking forward to read and write interesting stuff with you guys 😀

Please do not call me “Anus non grata” I will call the police

Mastodon 2.5 released: Highlights from the changelog

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/09/mastodon-2.5-released/

"That piece of shit star is here to stay." -@lynnesbian

@absolutus Fun fact: Matt Bellamy from Muse had a custom guitar made which included a proximity controller for its built in effects – which worked in essentially the same way as a theremin.

@absolutus Dude your coming to the party way late on this one.

When someone asks me if a plant or berry is edible...

@Surasanji In my ideal world you'd still have doctors you can call or go see to get advice as to what medications you need. But in the end the power to make the decision and get the meds would be entierly in your hands.

Casted on my first new project in a while, a scarf for the SO in two-color brioche. I have two balls of striped yarn, pulling one "color" from the outside of the ball, one "color" from the inside, so that they're changing color in opposite directions. It feels nice to think I might actually have time to do something creative. I hope this momentary peace holds. #knitting

@Surasanji There are a small handful of games which I never seem to tire of. This is one of them!

Tore up my bike with a night time 10 mile bike ride (16km) at 11pm. I love dutch farm land in the middle of the night being all alone.

I am also pretty proud of my average moving speed (had to stop for a phone call at one point), it was almost 10 mph (16 kph) over the course of the whole trip.

Mastodon is written in Ruby. The creator of Ruby, @matz is on Mastodon (albeit inactive). Mastodon uses Sidekiq for background processing. The creator of Sidekiq, @mperham is on Mastodon. It's kind of a bizarre feeling.