ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

My #introduction. I’m very happily #retired from a long legal career, most of which was spent in-house doing #technology law, contracts, and intellectual property. I’m now focused on being a #writer, #writing primarily #fantasy #fiction #novels. I’m a lifelong #gamer and have worked as a #gamedev doing #MMORPG #gamewriting and #leveldesign, as well as #creative consulting for a #boardgame. Interests include #photography, #animals, #cats, #dogs, #wandering in #forests, and #reading #books.

I have lots of followers now so just in case any of you is RICH, in my pinned thread you can find my WISHLISTS that contain amazing things such as FOOD and PANTS and CAT LITTER (and a sewing machine because I am going absolutely nuts being unable to do anything 😅)

I don't expect anything so no worries if buying random people stuff is not your thing!

https://mastodon.lol/@skye/109331014207032870

I have a friend who wants to get into #infosec. Hiring managers and recent hires: is there a training or certification program that strikes you as genuinely good and helpful for both learning and for getting a foot in the door?

Today's #trivia - With Queen Elizbeth's death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Brigitte Bardot, and Chubby Checker are the only five people still alive who are referenced in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

Open and free content on JSTOR and Artstor. https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/ #openaccess #OA #journals #ebooks #images #reports #research

I’m advertising up to two #postdoc #positions in my #UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (#UKRIFLF) team on the research programme “Exploring New Regions of Space: Fundamentals and Impacts of Astrophysical #Plasma #Turbulence”. Projects involve #space data analysis, lab #experiments, #spaceweather, #theory, #simulation - applicants with expertise in any of these areas (and interest in getting involved in the others) are welcome. Deadline 18 Dec 2022. Enquiries welcome. Link: https://qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7718.html

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

look I painted this yay #spaceart #space #ihavenoideawhatimdoing

If I were to run a Mastodon (or equivalent) instance just for hosting comic artists and their series, would you join it? And if so, what could you pay to support it? Multiple tiers, of course.

Expect special features just for comic artists, such as a specialized posting UX.

Boosts appreciated!

@froodie has made a wonderful infographic to share. She asks that you DON'T attribute outside the Fediverse, but you can share freely.

I have added a full-text description for users who use screen readers.

I recently gave my generative art shiny app a little bit of an update to add another couple of functions, and expand the options for some of the arguments 🎨🎨🎨

App: https://nrennie35.shinyapps.io/nrennie_aRt/

You can also create these examples using my {aRt} package on GitHub: https://github.com/nrennie/aRt

#RStats #Rtistry #DataViz #GenArt #GenerativeArt #Shiny #DataVisualisation

Gonna post another one of my favourite artworks here on mastodon because my more recent ones are commissions or simple sketches/doodles

#onepiece #lgbtq #FanArt #MastoArt #flowerpower #DigitalArt #illustration #artist

I see a lot of pundit speculation and debate that goes something like, “well, only the hackers and cybersecurity people are moving to Mastodon - and everyone else is just going to stay on #Twitter “, but the thing the folks saying this do not understand is that we are a canary.

We watched Twitter get rid of qualified #cybersecurity people who we personally knew. We understand the implications of privacy teams and lawyers being fired has on our data. We hollered about the way the new blue check system would be abused days before billions were lost by a couple companies. We understood the implications of rapid and haphazard terminations. The bottom line is:

1) We know our login data, DMs, and private posts really aren’t secure at all anymore due to lost competent staff and disgruntled employees,

and

2) Twitter probably won’t just shut down this month or next month, but it’s going to start having some serious and unpredictable financial and technical problems due to the people who were let go as well as Elon’s apparent instability and lack of checks.

So, we migrated. Other communities don’t necessarily have this inside baseball, and they understandably just feel like Twitter is too big to fail. We will see if stuff that happens over the coming weeks pushes more folks here, or to other social media sites. Depends a lot on our outreach and what we do with this community.

Just saw that #mosstodon and #lichensubscribe were hashtags, so here are some moss and lichen photos from a recent stroll in western Massachusetts (on the AT near Mt Everett) to brighten your Monday

I'm finally happy with how this little scene is turning! 😄

#ProtonScatter #GodotEngine

Is your water glass empty? Go fill it and have a couple sips.

UK patient records will be shared with US firm Palantir without patient consent as the company started with CIA funding and run by Trump donor is awarded £360m contract.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/controversial-360m-nhs-england-data-platform-lined-up-for-trump-backers-firm

@hacks4pancakes #IrishTwitter has basically decamped to mastodon.ie in the space of about 2 weeks.

Software engineering is "programming over time." (Says the flamingo book.)

This is pretty similar to what I used to say: programming is "type something" (sounds easy enough), software engineering is "deal with the existence of what was typed" (it depends, but this can be a lot harder than typing.)

Hi! For the purpose of this introduction post I'm anthropomorphized from an abstract collection of audio to an excited fediverse participant!!

I'm a podcast co-hosted by @mlemweb and @cwebber exploring the intersection of user freedom on computers and crafting things! I put out episodes about all sorts of stuff ranging from historical textile production to chiptunes to making software! https://fossandcrafts.org/

Maybe you like that kind of thing you might listen maybe?!? No pressure kthx bai <3