I was glad to hear this week that Texas A&M and Houston will finally be playing each other on September 12 at Sugarland Ice Center. I attended UofH’s first game in 80 years 2 years ago and they’ve done a great job building up the team since then and I expect them to be competitive for the first game of the season.| HeresTomWithTheWeather
Activitypub addresses the problem of participating in a decentralized social network with a low barrier to entry. You participate through the server you have joined but often times the people you want to interact with reside on other servers. For instance, if you want to follow a friend, visiting that friend’s url does not provide a simple follow button. That simple follow button is on your own server but you need to navigate to your server’s profile page for your friend who is on a remot...| HeresTomWithTheWeather
Bitcoin failed. J.P. Koning notes in The end of El Salvador’s bitcoin payments experiment: But here was a government that was going to champion the stuff, nullifying all of the headwinds against bitcoin in one stroke! The government meddling hypothesis would be put to test. The Salvadoran government used a combination of sticks and carrots to kick-start adoption. First, let's list the carrots. The capital gains tax on bitcoin was set to zero to remove the hassle of buying stuff with bitcoin...| HeresTomWithTheWeather
Deadly D.C. Plane Crash Comes Months After Congress Ignored Warning About Traffic at Reagan Airport| HeresTomWithTheWeather
As I just registered for a new season of beer league hockey starting this weekend, I thought about an episode of C’est comme ça que je t’aime I recently watched which is set in 1974 Sainte-Foy, Quebec City. Nearly all the 1974 Quebec cultural references are new to me and in this episode, there is an adventure in a hockey arena and you can pause the video in a few places and see signage in the background for a junior hockey team called Ste. Foy Couillard that only existed from 1972-1974.| HeresTomWithTheWeather
BILL VAN ESVELD: This is the first time that we’ve made a finding of genocidal acts in Gaza. It is not an accusation that we level lightly. We have not done this very often in our history. We accused the Myanmar military of genocidal acts against the Rohingya in 2017, and we found full-blown genocide against the Kurds in Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign in Iraq in the ’80s — sorry, in the ’90s, and we found genocide against — also in Rwanda in the ’80s. It is, you know, an extrem...| HeresTomWithTheWeather
On Wednesday 12/04 at 7pm, the Austin Indieweb Meetup returns to Radio Coffee and Beer. Count me in.| HeresTomWithTheWeather
RIP Toni Price| HeresTomWithTheWeather
Today, a post in my feed included a mention and its webfinger verification threw a WebFinger::BadRequest exception: Nov 08 09:18:49 AM WebFinger::BadRequest (Bad Request): Nov 08 09:18:49 AM Nov 08 09:18:49 AM app/models/account.rb:79:in `fetch_and_create_mastodon_account' Nov 08 09:18:49 AM app/models/account.rb:367:in `block in create_status!' Nov 08 09:18:49 AM app/models/account.rb:364:in `each' Nov 08 09:18:49 AM app/models/account.rb:364:in `create_status!' Nov 08 09:18:49 AM app/lib/ac...| HeresTomWithTheWeather
After some time off IndieWeb Meetup Austin is back at Mozart’s Coffee tonight at 7pm. I guess a few things have transpired since the last meeting so I’m looking forward to learning about what’s going on again.| HeresTomWithTheWeather