Phil Mocek

Software developer, sysadmin, activist. Advocate of free software (libre), open standards, governmental transparency, drug policy reform, and civil liberties.

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

I am @[email protected] and @[email protected].

I have no concrete plans to discontinue use of Twitter, and I do not currently use Mastodon on any regular basis.

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@WAStatePks Errors:

- The "featured blogs" section does not reference any blog (or even any *blog post*, which I suspect you mean), but rather a set of undated articles published on your site.

- Text "See all blogs* just before the footer is hyperlinked to the current page, with no anchor.

[The Seattle Times @seattletimes]

Manuel Ellis' mother says she found a tracking device on her car and her tires slashed before she took the stand on Monday to testify in the trial of Tacoma police officers charged with killing her son. https://t.co/i6b3ACAtWd

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@lindseywasson @DBeekman @ErikaJSchultz @annaleapatrick @dkimreports https://t.co/em5bNc0T8x

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@RerunTinkerCrab I spotted these, which are I guess some kind of French miracle machines, last summer:

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

What the hell? Come on, Android. I said, "no."

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

Do not record this trial of the Tacoma cops who murdered Manny Ellis in 2020: https://t.co/P3URKT82pn

Definitely not directly on the command line, like this:
ffmpeg -i 'https://t.co/3xk4OsDu6H' -c copy ellis_murder_trial.mp4

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

Twitter is crumbling.

The TLS certificate for Twitter's onion site (a.k.a. Tor hidden site) expired almost three months ago. It's not necessary, as an onion is is necessarily encrypted, but since it is there, it must be valid.

@TwitterSupport will you fix this?
/cc @torproject

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@tingFTW Any updates on the detailed billing feature that existed for many years until, post-Dish-acquisition, you silently removed it?

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

Mergers & acquisitions: A sample of what my once-long-time-favorite mobile network operator (technically, an MVNO) @tingFTW, long known for their clean and tech-focused UI and no-nonsense, real-and-knowledgeable-people-answer-the-phone, customer service, are Dishing out nowadays:

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@tingFTW What do mean, you don't have updates on the feature? You removed it, no? Your web interface previously provided more information about a subscriber's use of your service, and now it provides less information. And you provided zero notice of the change before or after making it.

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@drimcalban Oh, sorry. Standardized token generator thingy. Register it once, then press a button on a dongle or clock/tap button in an application, read 6-right number, enter that as second factor. I like Duo on Android, and there's a good open source alternative I'd like to try someday.

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@RerunTinkerCrab I spotted these, which are I guess some kind of French miracle machines, last summer:

[rabble @rabble]

open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

https://t.co/BLzjmdup65

Our "work with us" page: https://t.co/XBouoxVi4F

Boost for visibility, please? Spread the word!

Edit: added link.

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr
https://t.co/IdyxjfLV26 (2/2)

[rabble @rabble]

RT @[email protected]
My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be (1/2)

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

How does one explain Daylight Saving Time to a toddler? The single clock in our house that matters right now is the one in his room, and it is unaware of this DST madness. "Dad, what were we going to do today before skylight time changed?" "Um... Sleep. Let's go have breakfast."

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

@RerunTinkerCrab Ah, got it. Possibly some of them would be interested to know that the ORCA system tracks their usage, and thus the transit agency, and thus maybe even THEIR PARENTS, can find out where they've been.

I'm still bitter that the ORCA can't be used as a simple stored-value card.

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

Extremely disturbing news out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: Apparently now police, without probable cause or even suspicion, can compel drivers stopped at a "sobriety checkpoint" (i.e., roadside fishing expedition) to show documentation of identity: https://t.co/QcFgzEC0k2

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

The primary utility of high quality docs is facilitation of writing reliable software that uses the documented service. The alternative is not difficulty; it is the building of systems based on guesses and on hopes for continued, undocumented, behavior.

So, Digital Ocean? (4/4)

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

I'm currently wondering what to use for miscellaneous tinkering and personal projects that I want to run on Other People's Computers, now that Linode (wonderful) sold to Akamai (enterprisy enterprising and synergizing). (1/4)

[Phil Mocek @pmocek]

Akamai COO Adam Karon wrongly asserts that for developers, the main value of high-quality tech docs--like those for which Linode are known--is making services simple to learn and quick to implement. https://t.co/KnCxJD6hIn (3/4)