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

If you like this comic... you might be a member of the proletariat. — http://existentialcomics.com/comic/243

My local makerspace, The Lab, is on Get Together!

https://gettogether.community/places/27/

Now we just need to get all the events over there:

https://thelab.ms

#gettogether #thelab #events #plano #dallas

My tablet fell and cracked its screen. Usable with an external monitor and keyboard, but it kept getting ghost touches. Learned how to disable the touchscreen:

$ xinput

Lists all of your devices. Find the device ID if your touch screen (mine is 15).

$ xinput disable 15

Or use the number of your device. Hope that helps someone in a similar situation.

Perhaps we can get more people to support Open Source software if this comic goes viral. — https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/kindness

My favorite part of renting cars is seeing the dot matrix printers.

Collection of articles about gun violence in America. I find especially interesting the idea that gun rights effectively lower the value of freedom of speech. — https://kottke.org/18/05/the-united-states-of-guns-4

@tinker was looking at the Twitter bridge and it seems to have your old Mastodon handle. I imagine if you login again it'll update.

https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/

Neat to see that @Purism has now set up their own instance:

https://social.puri.sm/about

I think it will be interesting to see how companies engage with the Fediverse generally, glad to see someone taking that challenge on! It will be tricky.

Not saying you should, but if you wanted to, there is apparently now a book on it.

Whew, grand raffle to finish off The Texas Linux Fest 2018. And then a good BOF to discuss ideas for TXLF 2019.

Looks like we'll be heading to Dallas! Hoping to show up Austin a bit in hospitality and having a great tech community.

String types are important for security and better handling of a common format. Plus they handle important standards like UTF-8.

But, some days I just want a pointer and to walk it down memory until its zero. No more. No less.

The hard part is always ideas, but trying one. Here is a setting that I think would be useful for controlling how fast the outside world comes into a community. Thoughts?

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7736

What I get from that debate is that any type of tool that looks to promote posts or give activity on the network needs to take that into account. People need, admins need, to be able to specify how their instances interact with the network.

Some communities may actually be all marketing people, we shouldn't discount them. But others want a more conservative reach and to reduce the speed which new users move into the network.

Designing those knobs is the tricky part.

Reading what I can about the trending hashtags discussion and it strikes me that different folks have different expectations and uses of social networking. Some folks want their posts to push out into the full network while others want them more local.

It seems to me that this stems from what you expect will happen from a new random interaction. Some believe that it will increase their influence on the world. Others believe that it will increase the amount of harassment they face.