The Same River Twice » Metafilter

Calling Nemo

Fezboy! — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:03:42 +0000

Is it pretty cool to listen to real-time underwater acoustic observation platforms? You bet it is!

Problems encountered

Very few of the listening posts are currently active
Some of the listening posts didn’t load in a timely fashion
Godforsaken, stupid, Flash-only interface to whole damn site

But the site is probably bandwidth heavy and currently experiencing the Slashdot Effect.

Callin’ Oates

Fezboy! — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:55:33 +0000

It’s clever. I cannot deny it ranks up with the Lionel Richie “Hello…” flyers in my mind.

Callin’ Oates.

This looks fun

Fezboy! — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:28:51 +0000

For certain values of fun anyway. It’s like going back to school without the [cost|credit] but with a commitment to learn stuff. Seriously thinking of trying to backfill some of my core CS deficiencies as I didn’t do a whole lot of serious CS work in the MIS program. Of interest are:

From this list I think I could reasonably expect to pick one and follow through with an effort that I would feel comfortable expending. Anyone want to take one with me?

Wunderhund!

Fezboy! — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:40:55 +0000

Lilly can MOVE!

I’m becoming that guy

Fezboy! — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:37:56 +0000

So…I’m posting cat humor now. In my defense, it seems kind of funny to me.

Louis vs. Rick. The ostensible results of a Rick teaching his cat how to IM. Presented in reverse chronological order.

For your reading pleasure, here’s the same content only in chronological order:

Is next: Duqu

Fezboy! — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:19:49 +0000

A great intro to the next big security threat can be found here—ripped from the pages of Mefi as always. The architecture of this is just phenomenal. I wish I was half as good as the folks who put Stux/Duqu together.

Then again, I’d probably be rabitting for the NSA or somesuch and that’s not desirable. Because, like, if this isn’t a state-sponsored effort I’ll eat my hat.

So long RSS?

Fezboy! — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:27:13 +0000

I’ve been tinkering with pulling all of my generated content on other sites into a single, browsable, About Me kind of page here on SRT. On the flip side, I’ve been toying with how to create a nice portal that collects all of the various bits of content people I like create on various social media sites so i can participate more precisely in these sites. READ: be more private about what I consume from Facebook and its kin.

So imagine my surprise when I read this on Metafilter. Mozilla is killing their browser support for automatic RSS feed discovery. Because, ostensibly, people don’t use RSS.

Hrm.

I would complain but I no longer use Mozilla browsers and the browser I use doesn’t support auto-discovery either. Which is sad. On the other hand, I already have more incoming RSS traffic than I can conceivably manage. Combining it with email has the benefit of helping me scan news more quickly but the drawback of making inbox management daunting.

So I’d say that RSS isn’t really dead. I’d agree with the article that there are better ways of integrating RSS with standard browser behavior. I also agree that the browser doesn’t make the best RSS client. I would argue, however, that the browser is the best way to auto-discover RSS and that pulling this feature is kind of short-sighted given that there isn’t really a hue and cry to disappear that little orange button from the location bar.

Metafilter sock puppets

Fezboy! — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:56:16 +0000

If I had an unlimited number of $5 bills for purposes of creating sock puppet accounts on Metafilter, here are some that I would buy:

Lurking Wedgie
Shit Threader
SuckPoppet
Eponymous Police

Ooo’er. I already have the last two. More to come, I’m sure…

As seen on Metafilter…

Fezboy! — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:40:19 +0000

Reading this thread, I came across an exchange that amused me for some reason. After back-and-forthing for a bit we get to the endgame:

valkyryn: All I can really say is “I object to just about everything about the way that you see the world” and leave it at that.

VikingSword Agreed.

Not sure if this should be considered gentlemanly or passive-aggressive.

Things Metafilter does well

Fezboy! — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:46:14 +0000

Coordinating resources in real time for a likely case of human trafficking. At this time results are not exactly awesome so if you don’t want to read a possibly crappy ending, don’t bother following the link.