Ted Gould @ted@gould.cx

Howdy Mastodon!

Engineer working for Axiom.co. Previously I worked on Ubuntu Phone and doing multimedia/TV, almost all consumer electronics.

An Open Source advocate and Ubuntu member. Was a co-founder for Inkscape and now serve on its board.

I think that one mistake I made with my Twitter account was making it all technical, expect this to have more politics and other stuff.

#introduction #introductions

Current Status: Laser cutting a Cub Scout memory game at The Lab.

https://thelab.ms/

#scouts #laser #makerspace

Modern photography is sitting inside and connecting to your camera via WiFi so you don't have to be cold.

#LunarEclipse #photography

Wishing @Ivanka a happy Trumpiversary and hoping you'll watch her message about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCL_oTgs8uo

#ClimateChange #TeamHuman

I keep getting spam offering image processing services from a "Lena". Which I find humorous because of the old sexist test image in image processing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

I'm guessing the spammer has no idea about it, or the history, and it is just random. But a nice alignment of randomness.

Remember kids, be nice to your processes, don't SIGKILL.

http://turnoff.us/geek/dont-sigkill/

There has been no greater study to say Climate Change may wipe out our species. — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/climate/climate-change-coffee.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

There has been no greater study to say Climate Change may wipe out our species. — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/climate/climate-change-coffee.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Have been futzing around with this code as I was trying to add a feature and it was harder than it should be. Finally untangled everything and got the architecture right.

It is simply amazing how much easier the right architecture makes the tests come together and increases coverage.

These are things I know, but still impress me every time it works out.

Listening to Weird Al's "Frank's 2000 inch TV" from 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDostWXpcU

Realizing that today Jerry actually built one at the Cowboy's Stadium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Stadium#Video_board

Apparently ATSC 2.0 (over-the-air TV in the US) got dropped in favor of going directly to ATSC 3.0, because it allows targeted ads.

I understand why stations want this, but I'm befuddled that they think they can achieve it with an open standard. The devices are sold to consumers, so the features need to be consumer oriented.

It seems likely to result in disappointment.

There are also privacy concerns, but those have been punted to the FTC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0#Concerns

...it's a Beats Box.

Never have understood conferences with $2000 tickets, especially when they have companies sponsoring as well!

I'm looking at you O'Reilly and Linux Foundation.

Front page of the Dallas Morning News opinion section today.

Feels significant that a relatively conservative paper is now discussing the topic.

Blog — Texas Linux Fest 2019 in Dallas — https://gould.cx/ted/blog/2019/01/10/Texas-Linux-Fest-2019-in-Dallas/

Calling it now: We'll get tired of the 20/20 jokes before next year even starts.