Ted Gould @ted@gould.cx

If your sole job is to protect and enact the constitution, and you call it "phony," seems like that is dereliction of duty. — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/us/politics/trump-doral-emoluments-clause.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

The problem with Google reCAPTCHA is that when I get it wrong, it doesn't tell me what I got wrong. How do I get better at being human?

@danrabbit lack of celebrity endorsements.

@FLOX_advocate awesome, that was Texas Cyber Summit. Good to know he saw us!

@xuv vinyl

Fun little game to learn about creating secure passwords.

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/tower-of-treasure

@FLOX_advocate @Ertain looking at Austin for 2020, unofficial dares on the website. Hope to announce final dates soon.

https://2020.texaslinuxfest.org

There are typically quite a few companies looking to hire all over Texas (a few in DFW for sure) that attend. Would love to have you!

Taking my son to an event where I had to wait (taxi dad) and so I did an hour of Street Complete. Got fifty ⭐'s and had a really nice walk.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete

@kyle I was surprised to find out the number of middle schoolers at my son's school who are using VPNs to get access to Instagram. Priorities.

Short descriptions of the constitutional amendments on the ballot this year. If you're a Texan, get informed and go vote! — https://tracking.feedpress.it/link/16799/12897583

Putin must be so happy with how his asset set this up for him — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/europe/russia-savors-us-missteps-in-syria-and-seizes-opportunity.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no AI that hears it, does it make a sound? — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/climate/indonesia-logging-deforestation.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

@omgubuntu I tried "sudo exploit" but it said "command not found"

Was wearing my EFF J.P. Barlow memorial T-shirt the other day.

"Oh, I didn't know J.P. Barlow was dead!?!"
"I'm sorry you had to find out this way"

https://supporters.eff.org/shop/barlow-frontier-t-shirt

Saw "Spider-man: Away from Home" and the bad guys were a bunch of disgruntled engineers with some amazing technology. Had a hard time cheering against them.

@chuck yes, though I haven't tried. It doesn't seem to be packaged for easy consumption yet though.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/selene-backend

Truly a look alike situation — https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/mark-cuban-impostor-arrested-in-nashville-11771675

@chuck wonder about something like that running a Mycroft backend. They say it needs a bunch of GPU to do the voice recognition.