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Replying to @mr_rythom
I’ve thought about this a bit and even have some ideas on it; problem is I just want to use a social media site, I don’t want to run one. the idea of handling people’s data is terrifying, and as little as I trust the big for-profit platforms, I trust the average joe(y) even less.
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it pains me to say it but an afternoon of trying to use mastodon has me pessimistic about its suitability as a twitter replacement. which sucks because it means I don’t know where we go if elon fucks up birdsite.
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Replying to @RWB93174525
I shared a lot of notes here & I’d like not to break the permalinks. I also need a way for folks to find me wherever I end up. And I want to reserve the option to return if things improve (i.e. I’d sign back up for Netflix if they made things right). also: the deal hasn’t closed.
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Replying to @josecastillo
In the attention economy you have the power to sink an investment by withdrawing your attention. If you don’t like a thing? You can opt out. And if enough of us opt out, the thing that was valuable will lose value, because we’re the only thing that gives it value. Just a thought.
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Just a note to anyone questioning the value of leaving birdsite: in Q4 of last year Netflix doubled down on Dave Chapelle’s anti-trans rhetoric. Many folks quit and called on others to boycott. By Q1 they’d lost 200,000 subscribers, and this was their stock price this week. (1/2)
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Replying to @bradanlane
My understanding is that if I move to sdf’s instance, everyone will still follow me over there (it’s designed so they’ll automatically unfollow the old account and follow the new one), and the old profile will redirect to the new one. (Old posts stay with the old profile i think)
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Replying to @bradanlane
I think there are like hundreds but they do all crosstalk; so far ten people have followed me, each one is on a different instance, and yet my feed appears as one cohesive stream. So in some sense there is only one network, and you can take part in it from any server.
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Replying to @josecastillo
also ugh ok do I already want to move instances? Just discovered that http://sdf.org, my longtime UNIX home, runs a Mastodon instance and I trust them to run it well. I guess I can discover how easy it is to move an account?
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Replying to @tomfleet
It’s basically Twitter but federated across many servers, with a 500 character limit. I honestly think enough of electronics twitter has enough of a distaste for Elon that we could recreate the community over there, but for now I’m just doing what I feel I need to do.
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Replying to @ayourtch
Interesting, I disabled that option and I see a few people followed me without needing approval. Wondering if it’s like a protocol level thing where my instance has to approve it to your instance?
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RT @josecastillo: Okay! I’m @joeycastillo@mastodon.online for now. Someone needs to make a website like those “missing persons” boards afte…
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Replying to @josecastillo
Okay! I’m @joeycastillo@mastodon.online for now. Someone needs to make a website like those “missing persons” boards after a natural disaster, so we can find each other after the diaspora. In the meantime, follow me from any Mastodon instance or here: https://mastodon.online
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Replying to @davgian
Nevermind! It’s up, just burdened.
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Replying to @davgian
Looks like it’s down, which is reassuring inasmuch as it means there’s great interest in moving away from Twitter post-Elon, but less reassuring in other ways.
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Replying to @cuan_knaggs
The thing is I don’t want to run my own infrastructure (or frankly trust myself to run it well). I just want a space to share what I’m doing with friends. Twitter has been good for that for a very long time, but if soon it turns out not to be, I want a simple drop-in replacement.
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Okay y’all: where are we regrouping post-Twitter? I’m assuming Mastodon, but I’d like to find an instance that’s stable and has longevity. I’d like to get started now, with the goal of not being here by the time the deal closes.
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RT @tahnok: Take 3:
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Replying to @josecastillo
I liked this one. Wordle 309 4/6*
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Replying to @AlpenglowInd, @oshpark and @adafruit
Thanks! 😃
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Replying to @tahnok
Ah ok I definitely see the issue there and will look into adding it. I’m also seeing where it’s not immediately obvious how the sensor board mounts and which side is the top and bottom, so those are all things where I could do a better job documenting that on this page. Thanks!
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Replying to @tahnok
This would be on the wrong side, yea. I put sensors like the accelerometer on the underside but anything that needs to face the front of the screen needs to be on the front side (opposite the contacts).
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Replying to @tahnok
It’s there on that page! But I’m open to suggestions on how to make it clearer.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Pulsometer watch face! A modern smartwatch will shine lights into your arm and measure this for you. (It’ll also need to be recharged in 12 hours.) Sensor Watch does it 18th century style: by asking you to count 30 heartbeats and calculating it on a scale. https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/commit/841558eda9297b1d43ab9c541464e0915564295f
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Replying to @tahnok
And cool, that looks like a neat sensor! One recommendation: I’d tie the interrupt output to pin A2 or A4, so you can use it to wake from sleep mode. Since it also has an ambient light sensor, you could use that to put the watch to sleep at night and wake it in the morning.
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Replying to @tahnok
my one rule for parts like this is get them while you can! I wish I’d ordered a few hundred more SAM L22’s when I had a chance, alas…
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Replying to @tahnok
Which UV sensor are you using?
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Replying to @tahnok
You can skip them! The SCL and SDA lines are pulled up not internally, but by a pair of 10K resistors on the Sensor Watch board.
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Replying to @josecastillo
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SO MUCH DOCUMENTATION! I’ve added a section to document the usage of every watch face in Movement. This watch can do a lot; my favorite line: “The Z coordinates tend to be pretty close to zero, as the planets largely orbit on a single plane, the ecliptic.” https://joeycastillo.github.io/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/watchfaces/
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Replying to @josecastillo
i need to stop guessing such weird words. Wordle 308 5/6*
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Replying to @josecastillo
Always… yellow? Wordle 307 4/6*
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happy #earthday
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Replying to @hiproz
• plug in to usb
• double tap the reset button
• drag a UF2 file onto the WATCHBOOT drive that appears(original)
Replying to @IShJR, @anne_engineer, @MicrochipMakes, @PaintYourDragon, @hannahmakes and @BillieRubenMake
some folks defy easy categorization!
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Replying to @josecastillo
interesting! when you dial the “maxFriendRank” slider all the way down, cliques start to emerge. I see Daily Texan alums, PhotoJ folks, game devs and Rustaceans, as well as several of The Prepared crew all smashed together…
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I did the thing. Funny but not surprising that it maps to phases in my career and eras in how I used twitter; loosely: journalism in blue, technology in red and hardware in green. (also weird that it looks like a fetus.)
/via https://graph.bunnypa.ws
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yesterday I mentioned a TODO item: giving the astronomy edition a red LED. I did it today, and I love this diff. It lets me add extra code to any firmware’s config file that’ll run once at boot. Are there “better” ways? Probably! But this feels very simple.https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/commit/a6024e9fdae3d41fc12c40920bc16899f73efd63
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Replying to @josecastillo
ALWAYS GREEN! ALWAYS GREEN! Wordle 306 4/6*
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Replying to @cabe_bedlam
That’s a great idea! Alas I don’t have the math for that yet; this is just repurposing the ‘days alive’ counter as a mission clock (counting up from the day of the launch).
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If I were going to put a default mission clock on the Deep Space watch face, which probe would be cooler: Voyager 1, or Voyager 2? Voyager 2 launched first, but Voyager 1 is the most distant thing we’ve flung out there.
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doing final tests of the firmware images, and I have to say: I still can’t get over how much I love this little binary star system animating at the top of the Astronomy watch face. The F-91W LCD is at times challenging to work with, but there are moments when it sparks delight.🤩
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Replying to @MakeAugusta, @NorthAllenPoole, @theavalkyrie, @jasoncoon_, @frivolous_circs, @arturo182 and @timonsku
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Replying to @josecastillo
It came together at the last minute. Wordle 305 3/6*
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Replying to @josecastillo
I am going to assume that 100% of the taxes I paid on Monday went toward this screw-up. https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1516914295619133443
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Replying to @gennyble
huh further down the thread it seems they’re sounding the all clear? I saw some tweets and I think I’m still on edge from our, y’know, attempted coup.
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Replying to @josecastillo
people parachuting from an airplane? https://mobile.twitter.com/TheLindsayM/status/1516910614039625728
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what is going on at the capitol?
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Replying to @josecastillo
I understand not everyone will install the whole ARM toolchain to build custom firmware for their watch, but I’m hopeful this effort will help folks make the watch more their own. These 7 versions of the gadget feel different and personal, and as time goes on I hope to make more!
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Replying to @josecastillo
Finally, for fans of alternative timekeeping systems, alt.time:
• Clock
• Beat Time (by Wesley Ellis)
• Day One (counts up days from your birthdate)
I can see expanding this one a lot; in particular I’d love to see the International Fixed Calendar here!
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Replying to @josecastillo
Deep Space Now is designed for folks who need to talk to stuff in space:
• Clock
• Mars Time (has LMST and mission sol for each active mission on Mars)
• 3 world clock slots (for Goldstone, Madrid and Canberra)
• plus Day One as a mission day counter.
https://joeycastillo.github.io/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/firmware/simulate/deep_space_now/(original)