Paul Gerrard @paul@tester.social
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An internationally recognized, award-winning software engineering consultant, author, coach and mentor.
Host of the Test Engineering Society Forum, Programme Chair of the 2014 EuroSTAR Testing, Testing Festival, HUSTEF 2022 conferences. Host of the Tester Mastodon server https://tester.social
My Mastodon account is @paul
Principal of Gerrard Consulting, Director of Technology Unleashed.
Joined Nov 2022
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This is going to end with “Twitter.com” redirecting to a mediocre Etsy store selling Tesla memorabilia.
RT @JuddLegum
IMPORTANT: @elonmusk's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.
Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue
RT @DanRather
Apparently it’s “Free speech for me. Not for thee.”
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Drink water. Eat vegetables. Be nice to animals. Exercise regularly. Explore nature. Find a small door under a tree. Open it. Take a look inside. Get pepper sprayed by a tiny elf. Learn a valuable lesson about knocking first.
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Ever wondered what it looks like at night?
This had quite a large moon so in usual fashion you cant expose for it and the MW at once, so superimposed a bit more detail with a secondary shot.
This was a 7 shot vertical panoramic (cropped later) with a 14mm lens
#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #PhotoMonday #astro #astrophotography
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Fauci in the 1980s, pressed the point that HIV wasn’t just “the gay disease”, pushed for greater epidemiological surveillance, and helped mobilise effective responses to Ebola, SARS, and other epidemics.
Frankly I’m not surprised that the tech man-child is intimidated by Fauci.
@mattwynne Found this: https://codeberg.org/linos/mastaface - it promises much, but I’ve never used it.
I'm finding this post https://softwaremill.com/the-architecture-of-mastodon/ on The Architecture of Mastodon by @adamwarski quite useful.
Goodbye Twitter, Hello Mastodon
My blog explaining why I'm leaving the bird site behind, why I set up my own server, some advice on transferring and invite to https://tester.social
The blog is here: https://gerrardconsulting.com/blog/2022/12/goodbye-twitter-hello-mastodon/
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This distillation and representation of 200+ cognitive biases is brilliant: https://busterbenson.com/piles/cognitive-biases/
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Never let an “agile” framework, method or tool prevent you from experimenting. “We are discovering better ways…”, the opening line of the Agile Manifesto, requires active experimentation.
- @JoshuaKerievsky@twitter.com
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I should probably say hi to everyone over here 🙂
How's everyone finding it? Feels like the early days of Twitter!
We’ve been busy this week watching the https://tester.social service to make sure its stable, works nicely. We think we’re there now. I’ll be promoting it tomorrow probably. In the meantime, if you want to share a service with a handful of users on a fairly large machine, you know where to come. We’ll definitely be committing to the Mastodon Server Covenant https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
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Exploring Mastodon: Thoughts on (almost) a month of cross-posting
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European Commissioner Thierry Breton just joined Mastodon!
His first post, published right after a call with Elon Musk, made it clear that there is still huge work ahead for Twitter to comply with EU law:
1. Reinforce content moderation
2. Tackle disinformation
3. Implement transparent policies based on objective criteria (i.e., not via Twitter polls)
4. Limit targeted advertising
5. Prepare for an independent audit
More info: @EC_Commissioner_Breton
RT @Jonathon_Wright
5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/54-million-twitter-users-stolen-data-leaked-online-more-shared-privately/#.Y4ShXUsbAVY.twitter
At the SAP show Connect https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/8261/home/ with Worksoft for the day @worksoftinc https://www.worksoft.com/ Quite a lively show
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Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.
I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:
Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.
let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!
And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.
RT @codeslubber
@matthewpskelton Brexit? bad idea, Twexit, good one that keeps getting better...
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An internationally recognized, award-winning software engineering consultant, author, coach and mentor.
Host of the Test Engineering Society Forum, Programme Chair of the 2014 EuroSTAR Testing, Testing Festival, HUSTEF 2022 conferences. Host of the Tester Mastodon server https://tester.social
My Mastodon account is @paul
Principal of Gerrard Consulting, Director of Technology Unleashed.
Joined Nov 2022
