Andy Valencia @vandys@mastodon.sdf.org

I kind of wish there were a way to post to the local timeline, but not to federated. (But still to my followers, and still public; sort of like a combination of public and unlisted.)

#Mastodon

The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-great-affordability-crisis-breaking-america/ar-BBZKHPt?li=BBnbfcN

'Student loans may be a liability on the consumer balance sheet, but they constitute an asset for Uncle Sam. Just how big? It's about 50.7 percent of the total Federal assets.' https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2019/12/24/the-fed-s-financial-accounts-what-is-uncle-sam-s-largest-asset #economics #debt #studentloans

Well worth a read, this!

“Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good”

https://kevq.uk/decentralised-smtp-is-for-the-greater-good/

Topic 1: IM NG

Historically, XMPP messages were routed to only one receiving device. That may be the device with the highest priority, or a particular device identified by the resourcepart of the jid (eg. vanitasvitae@jabberhead.tk/phone is a phone).

To improve the user experience in modern multi client scenarios, extension protocols like Carbon Copies and Message Archive Management were introduced to adjust the message routing to changed user expectations.

You should update your Firefox. Right now.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-03/

#firefox #vulnerability

My wife's Folk/Celtic radio show, latest episode:

http://foresthalls.org/wordpress/?p=3373

Play it on-demand:

http://archive.voiceofvashon.org

Seriously? Seriously???
American #Healthcare system
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/23/787403509/for-her-head-cold-insurer-coughed-up-25-865

Khan Academy switching server software to Go - https://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/goliath.htm

A young person's idea on how to hire. Looks VERY reasonable to me!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/a-hiring-test-id-like-to-run/

Artists who aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (but should be)
Depeche Mode
Whitney Houston
The B-52's
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against the Machine
The Doobie Brothers
King Crimson
Big Star
Sonic Youth
Nine Inch Nails
Dick Dale

https://medium.com/@cpuguy83/non-blocking-i-o-in-go-bc4651e3ac8d

> Whether you know it or not, if you are using Go you are probably using non-blocking I/O. This post will dig in a little into that, but go further into how you can actually take more control of the I/O handling in Go. This is especially nice as go1.11 and go1.12 add some very interesting interfaces to help with this.

#go #programming

The newest show is posted on my streaming radio program Forest Halls Celtic. In this episode we 'swim' with the Salmon of Wisdom, with harp, music, poetry, song, and story. Jump on in -- the water's fine! #celticharp #irishstory #irishmusic #scottishmusic #celticmusicradio

http://foresthalls.org/wordpress/?p=3272