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

Finding humorous that Trump thinks making technology companies more liable for user content will result in them taking down fewer of his tweets. — https://arstechnica.com/?p=1679394

If I was a billionare I'd host a Dixie Chicks concert at the George W. Bush library. It needs to happen.

If your load average isn't 30, are you even working?

Fantasy Map generator that outputs in SVG.

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

h/t: @malfunction54

Why is there no emoji for emoji?

Our favorite local sports bar has decided it isn't opening back up, forever. Sad to see a small business go away.

Big government Republicans strike again against local governance. — https://tracking.feedpress.it/link/16799/13532156

Feel like in this time of social distancing and quarantine we need a meme for: "Video call that should have been an email."

While I've been critical of folks saying that any reopening is a crime, clearly partial reopening only works if people take it seriously. Which it seems they aren't. And that clearly is going to cause more harm than good. — http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dmagazine/sidedish/~3/jxWu23iZe_k/

Got a moisture wicking undershirt; now I'm a cool Dad.

The defunding of science to solve the problems we are having RIGHT NOW needs to get more attention. — https://arstechnica.com/?p=1672701

I'm a liberal and I think what Texas is doing makes sense for the level of outbreak that is state-wide. Clearly Counties such as Dallas, Travis and Harris that are having more outbreak should be more restrictive. And they are. This makes sense based on the data available.

Frustrated with knee-jerk reactions on stay-at-home orders. We're going to need to move to a world where we're managing outbreaks, and not everywhere will have one. To the point where state-wide orders don't make sense, especially in large states.

Neat online evaluator for C++ code. Love being able to share an manipulate snippets of code to check some syntax or library function.

https://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/

Not enjoying this at-home school thing, feel like I've spent my afternoon teaching algebra.

111 days until school starts in the Fall.

Perhaps it would be better to make it simulated for the first part of its journey, then pick up live once it is fifteen minutes from my house. Simulate it being in storage, and then leaving an hour out on a mock route to catch up to that final fifteen minutes.

While I understand that UPS is trying to keep up with the times by providing a "Live Map" of my package, it is very unsatisfying to watch my package dance around town and not come to my house.