Eric Mill @konklone@mastodon.social
Civil servant at 18F and GSA. Proud alum of the Sunlight Foundation. I ALSO MAKE FEELINGS INSIDE.
I'm moving! After a wonderful 5½ years in San Francisco, I'm going to New York City, around the end of this month.
I'll be doing the Summer 2 batch at Recurse Center, starting July 5. If you're in the city, hit me up! (And please help me find a place.)
Macron's proposal for French government ethics reform sounds pretty outstanding: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/europe/france-emmanuel-macron-ethics-reform.html
Did you know? Clouds are formed from the evaporated tears of many thousands of network and systems admins https://mastodon.social/media/g3ikKTz9Hp6ID-BJrJE
all pants are temporary
Started and finished What Remains Of Edith Finch last night. Outstanding experience, beautifully done.
If you liked it, you may like their previous (and only other) game, The Unfinished Swan. It's much simpler by comparison, but it's beautiful and has some great ideas.
King of the Starcraft
"You must construct additional propane grills"
"We require more propane gas"
"We require more propane accessories"
We're looking for a new Comms Director! 😀 Know anyone who is qualified and wants to help tell the world about Tor? 🤓 Please help us spread the word. 👍
Before you even think about bashing FF8 realize that it represents the pinnacle of weapons technology for the entire series
https://mastodon.social/media/kxDvzCUpKooKdoZCyQ4
(it's a leadership candidate development program for federal government people) https://ourpublicservice.org/issues/leadership-development/excellence-in-government-fellows-program.php
on my linux laptop in a room full of government proto-executives
a NIST Special Publication is not a suicide pact
*adds "computering" to dictionary*
is there cat 23andme
what you're all doing is so powerful https://www.wired.com/2017/04/130000-year-old-mastodon-threatens-upend-human-history/
Good points from @alex_gaynor on why forward secrecy is the most important property for secure communications: https://alexgaynor.net/2017/apr/26/forward-secrecy-is-the-most-important-thing/
*pins Mastodon tab*
So Chrome Developer tools has a feature where you can throttle the network to test under various network conditions.
I tried loading my Mastodon timeline page under "Regular 2G (300ms, 250kb/s, 50kb/s".
59 requests, 3.6 MB transferred, Finish 3.6 minutes, DOMContentLoad 1.5 minutes, Load 2.0 minutes.
For sale
Juice bag
Never squeezed
"my voice is my passport, hypernormalize me" i say as i dive into the McDonaldsphere, while back in the real world my body is strapped to a crash cart, back covered in McDermastims, shamrock shake iv in each arm, the technicolor world of winterclown transmitted directly to my brain through a length of fiberoptic cable jacked into the side of my head. in the real world im just your average meatbag fry jocky but here, in here im lovin' it
