Michele Ann Jenkins majnoona@identi.ca
Montreal, Canada
Sort-of-stay-at-home-mom with a dark past in info sci, sci fi, and sighing. Actually here these days: https://cosocial.ca/@maj
Evan Prodromou at 2023-05-17T19:17:54Z
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1
It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg
Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.
Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!Kamen Nedev, Michele Ann Jenkins, Stephen Michael Kellat, Craig Maloney and 6 others likes this.
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Thank you for making all this possible what's happening for all the years.The plan to revive identi.ca is mindblowing. I notice my profile picture is broken. I have to fix that before the launch.ghostdancer, Evan Prodromou likes this.
"Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub" this would be the greatest thing of all times.Jim Fulner at 2023-05-30T20:02:30Z
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Stavros
In the hall of African peoples, a Coptic weaving with Stavvy's name on it in Greek.herco, Michele Ann Jenkins, Stephen Sekula, Mark Jaroski and 4 others likes this.
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Now that's just hugely awesome.
Of course, it could just be a label for that there cross...It's almost definitely about the cross.
Stephen Sekula at 2013-08-07T15:32:35Z
"What's my dream?" asks a giant billboard outside Minneapolis, touting the latest lottery pots. My dream is that every American learns just enough math and statistics to understand that you're bullshit, and that saving that money is better than spending it on a statistical improbability.Michele Ann Jenkins, Evan Prodromou, Stephen Michael Kellat, a(n) person and 1 others likes this.
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I think there's a really dense cluster of concepts there. First, I think people have an unrealistic concept of "success" - that it only includes having a huge house with 4 swimming pools and a garage full of Bentleys. Maybe that's a good sign, but it might also be a bad indication that there's not much societal hope for middle-class success. But I wonder if also what I consider modest success -- owning your home, being debt-free, having enough savings to pay for some college for kids, being able to weather natural or health catastrophes, having savings to pass onto another generation -- are within reach for the majority of Americans. If not, then maybe the comfort of the negligible chance of winning the lottery is better than the obvious feeling of frustrating of falling farther and farther behind each month.Evan Prodromou at 2013-08-07T19:58:28Z
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I guess I feel specifically strongly about the misleading nature of a lottery because it is explicitly state-sponsored false hope. Yes, hope is better than no hope; but I think that this is the wrong way to provide hope through parting someone from their cash. I feel the same way about the lottery as I do about faith healing or homeopathy.
Even with some stats background, there's nothing wrong with donating a dollar to the schools (California's justification for lotteries) once in a while. Where I find it troublesome is when that's the only way people have to try and move forward, so they spend more than 1-2 dollars a week. I once saw an elderly man spend his entire monthly check on lottery tickets. The neighbors had to take him in when the landlord evicted him.I think you hit on my point. I'm not talking about people that do it for fun despite the ridiculous odds, or even people stuck in poverty or underserved communities who occasionally engage in buying a lottery ticket a a form of casual entertainment. I'm talking about the specific mis-use of people's understanding of math and statistics (and the prevalence of "The Gambler's Fallacy" in our society - the notion of a "hot streak" or a "run of good/bad luck" that, in fact, cannot occur in random sequences of events). State agencies luring people to spend money on an incredible long-shot, knowing that they are primarily receiving money from people desperate for hope, is, to me, unsavory at best. Better to alter taxes (I would gladly pay a higher property tax rate to support my schools, because I know I can afford it) than prey on ignorance and desperation.
It frustrates me more that public schools are forced by their budget squeezes to cut music, math, and science programs, thus creating even more fertile lands of ignorance, and perpetuating the cycle. That, deep down, really kills me.
Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-28T22:52:29Z
sazius: yeah, that is kind of annoying. People asking for tech support on my personal posts is frustrating.Michele Ann Jenkins, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
Impeller 0.6.0 - The Tablet Edition
The rich client for Pump.io
or other options via the websiteBug
- [IMP-88] - Cannot post full-res photos
- [IMP-92]
- java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Activity PostActivity does not
have a parent activity name specified.
Improvement
- [IMP-93] - Better image loading performance
New Feature
- [IMP-91] - Tablet UI
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just downloaded teh apk from the website and updated my client ... looks good.
Is this going to be coming to f-droid any time soon
I have nothing to do with F-Droid updates
Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-29T13:30:37Z
Hell is other people's WiFi.axel, Michele Ann Jenkins, johns, a(n) person and 3 others likes this.
Exactly why I have a 3G/LTE usb stick and live by it.Ryan Weal at 2013-07-29T14:02:20Z
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That's why nobody would ever buy connectivity if there were any open wifi.Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-30T00:43:50Z
And one bonus thing.Michele Ann Jenkins, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.
Space Hobo at 2013-07-30T10:56:09Z
I always try to pick a song that changes a few times, so that when I hit a loop in my head I can ride it out to the next phase of the song. The Violent Femmes' "Add It Up" is my go-to song for this.Michele Ann Jenkins likes this.
Christopher M. Hobbs (inactive) at 2013-07-30T03:50:53Z
I've been trying to fire the DJ in my head for years. About twice a week he decides to hit me with the Price is Right themesong.Michele Ann Jenkins likes this.
Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-30T04:59:45Z
I just published a new version of the databank library -- number 0.19.0.
The main new feature is another "structural" driver, similar to the caching driver. It's called the "partitioning" driver; and it lets you put different datatypes into different databanks, but make it look like they're all in the same place.
https://github.com/e14n/databank/blob/master/PARTITIONING.md
For pump.io admins, for example, this means that you could put short-lived volatile data like sessions, OAuth nonces, and dialback codes into a fast, unreliable store like memcached, and put everything else into a slower but more persistent store like mongodb.
Basically, it takes a lot of the work of structuring an application out of the hands of the developers and puts them into the hands of administrators. I think that's going to be pretty useful.jpope, Michele Ann Jenkins, Christopher Allan Webber, jrobb and 3 others likes this.
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Steven Rosenberg at 2013-07-24T03:31:40Z
You can now “like” things from Puma. I'm still getting the hang of f-droid and figured out that I needed to update the repository manually to get a new Puma.
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Steven Rosenberg at 2013-07-22T02:19:45Z
Identi.ca is too damn quiet.
Where are you people?
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Perchance they moved to other instances?
Some people moved to quitter.se, but I feel that's mostly people who are on pump as well. The rest may just be confused.
Yeah, my main place is pump.io these days. But I want to keep in touch with those that are using only StatusNet, yet I don't want to run my own SN instance anymore... so quitter.se is my solution to that problem :-)
At the beach... I will try to spend more time in a dark corner in front of the computer just for you. But I cannot promise.Michele Ann Jenkins at 2013-07-23T03:22:02Z
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Lady J at 2013-07-22T03:35:29Z
Testing out the Droid client Puma. Happy to have mobile capability again, really the only way I ever access identica/pumpio.
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Yes, the web interface is unstable. Puma is my fav android client. Impekler has good comments, but it do not load me the TL.
If you use gnu/linux, can also try pumpa or dianara, both are excellent clients also.
(sorry my English please :)
Hello, glad to see you mafe itbto the pumpside. Puma and impeller are both good, though I'm preferring puma at present for its multiple timelines.
Steven Rosenberg at 2013-07-18T00:26:47Z
I made the leap. I installed F-Droid, then Puma as my #pumpio-friendly client for the new identi.ca. Thanks, @macno
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i can't wait to try it out... just need to actually have a *phone* first.
I added an entry for using StartSSL certs with pump.io to the wiki
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Sumana Harihareswara [on Mastodon] at 2013-07-18T13:12:24Z
http://blog.civiccommons.org/2011/01/be-open-from-day-one/Michele Ann Jenkins likes this.
X11R5 at 2013-07-18T04:55:59Z in Hawthorne, Nevada
I`m surviving in this process!Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Daniel E. Renfer, Michele Ann Jenkins, Christopher Allan Webber and 5 others likes this.
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What's this process BTW?X11R5 likes this.
Have you seen @Depressionbot around?
I admit it. I'm botist and was hoping to see your drivel gone.Good to hear it. It gets better, but not for a long time. One day, you'll realize you have very little feeling left (either positive or negative) about #TinCanMama.Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-18T13:57:25Z
I wonder if rural people feel smug that they are too smart to fall for urban myths.aether, Daniel E. Renfer, Michele Ann Jenkins, rpcutts and 2 others likes this.
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No - inbred rednecks don't tend to worry about stuff like that.
Andy C at 2013-07-18T14:16:42Z
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I don't think so. You can interview my family some time if you like @Evan. I think you'll find they fall for both urban and rural myths. If anything I'd say they're smug because life is slow and boring. Without all the "hassles" of the city like having public transportation and being able to walk to the store easily.
@andyc hey that's only some of us! :-p
Deceased. Please use 'andyc@pumpdog.me'. at 2013-07-16T12:38:20Z
There were some problems on Pumpdog.me when I originally posted this.
This split personality thing is doing my head in.
For various reasons, not least because Evan thinks it helps building federated software, I am solely using andyc@pumpdog.me from this day forth. Seems like a logical time to make the break.
Plus, like @dvdmrsdn, I love organic gardening and starting from zero.
So, farewell then to the drug crazed zombie caked in flour with his interminable bytestream in 140 character constrained drivel.
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Steven Rosenberg at 2013-07-15T22:39:40Z
One thing I'm not understanding on the #pumpio version of Identi.ca: Is there still a demarcation between seeing the entire Identi.ca stream (formerly http://identi.ca) and only seeing the posts of those people you follow (formerly http://identi.ca/username/all, I believe)?Michele Ann Jenkins likes this.