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Darius Kazemi  

I've posted it a little early because I'm excited but here is my reading and analysis of RFC-1, the very first official Request for Comments document and an important piece of internet history.

write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1

I'm doing one of these a day for a year. You can follow along at @365-rfcs. I'll only be posting the really noteworthy ones on this account.

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Darius Kazemi  

A while back I built a site that converts RSS feeds to ActivityPub actors that you can subscribe to from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compliant social networks: bots.tinysubversions.com/conve

I've now also published the source code: github.com/dariusk/activtypub-

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a canal, a canal, a canal: lanaca lanaca lanaca

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is it gay to perish? I mean you're literally passing away ☕️☕️

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*slaps roof of the space shuttle* this bad boy can fit so many astranauts in it

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It's six hours until Norouz / Persian New Year, so here's an early norouz mobarak to those who celebrate!

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1 Young Micah has a live drummer which I was not expecting

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first up. DC Capital, a Portland kid

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I'm going to see 1 Young Micah tonight, a rapper who just moved to Portland from New Orleans. His soundcloud is promising. soundcloud.com/1oungicah/power

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Fellas Bot  

is it gay to unionize? You be organizing workers into a union. ☕️🤔

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Darius Kazemi  

I'm looking for literature (articles, blog posts, books) that covers "succession planning" for IT/sysadmin in activist groups. Like, for a volunteer group, what happens if your IT person just leaves? What are best practices so that the group isn't locked out of their web hosting etc (simply through lack of information rather than malice on the previous IT person's fault)

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This document's day has arrived. IT IS NICE write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-69

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Nick ⛺  

@darius I would really like to go back in time and tell that person that in nearly 50 years' time, someone will explain their unsubscribe request to the internet at large (which is a thing now), and will also make a sex joke about it.

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Christopher Lemmer Webber  

Here's an interesting thread where Alan Kay explains what he thinks he meant by object oriented: userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub

But here's an interesting thread which comments that what we think we know we meant with our intentions might actually be covered by the clarity of our retrospection: lobste.rs/s/4s7h7w/dr_alan_kay

I agree with that, and am probably guilty of it myself with AP.

Also, interesting E-design-reflections in that thread by Corbin Simpson: lobste.rs/s/4s7h7w/dr_alan_kay

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Darius Kazemi  

Okay, so: based on my research I believe that RFC-69, from September 1970, is literally the first example of an internet person doing a reply-all and saying "please unsubscribe me from your list".

This is, of course, nice.

write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-69

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Darius Kazemi  

@danbruno this is good, I like that there's analysis and not just a list of moments dicekeygames.home.blog/2019/03

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Matt Webb  

And if the biz can't afford as many content moderators as are needed to keep society safe, then do something else. Otherwise it's no different from any other business that dumps costs on others, like waste in rivers to avoid cleanup or selling bad meat to avoid food standards

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"All things are possible in science unless they are made of stones."
-- Anonymous AI #GPT2 #GPT2Tuned

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Michel  

Literally 2km of streets packed, estimates are over 150,000 people in Montreal, or 10% of the global total (Photo Martin Tremblay, La Presse)

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seen on the side of a truck: Disney signature font for all the serial numbers and safety warnings

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