Fred Pace

Dad, geek @ AWS, tech junkie, data jockey, gadget freak, gamer, burger aficionado, pilot, Ducati rider. Living in the cloud. MSFT Alum. Opinions my own.

Always learning through experiences, adventures, diversity, and service.

Fred Pace boosted:
2022-11-21

We're just a week away from #AWS re:Invent 2022. This year I am participating in PeerTalk, a new program that allows you to use the AWS mobile app to book time with me or 50 other AWS experts.

Learn more at reinvent.awsevents.com/peertal

Fred Pace boosted:
2022-11-21

#NASA #Orion #Artemis1

NASA/j. Roger

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-21

Read the Bob Eiger Disney memoir a year or so ago. Was excellent and I’d highly recommend. And in true Disney fashion, sounds like there will be a sequel.

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company a.co/d/iSpyXEj

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-21

Photo memory... A fountain I saw near the Louvre during a visit several years ago.

Black and white tightly cropped high contrast photo of a fountain with sharpened spray in Paris, with a couple in silhouette sitting close to each other in the foreground looking at the fountain.
Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-21

@thomasfuchs Very nice. My exposures are always loaded with starlink satellites.

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-20

Oddly, however, while I can add alt-text when submitting a post, the Mastodon iPhone app doesn’t seem to show it anywhere when scrolling. Reading the captions seems to be website feature only…?

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-20

Favorite feature of Mastodon is the alt-text for photo captions. I guess this has existed in other social platforms but I’ve never used it. Now I find myself spending more time thinking about my photo caption than I do my post. Love the accessibility and reading the photo captions whenever I come across them in others’ posts. 😎

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-20

Back from morning run. Cool down is faster when it’s 28°F. Beautiful Sunday in the neighborhood.

View from porch overlooking yard and hedges with sun just rising over neighborhood houses with some lens flare. And an unopened Diet Coke can sitting foreground on porch railing.
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Robert Reichrbreich@masto.ai
2022-11-20

My heart is broken for Colorado Springs.

LGBTQ+ people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBTQ+ people to experience violent victimization.

And Anti-LGBTQ+ emboldens extremists to violence.

This must end. Now.

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-20

It's game night! Tonight going back to a great indie game I picked up a couple years ago, RimWorld, a SciFi colony sim. My starting colonists have a few questionable traits: Pyromaniac, Wimpy, and Cannibal. But other than that, everything is fine. 😎 🔥 rimworldgame.com/

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MinnesotaMinnMNMinn
2022-11-20

Looks like all plans on masto.host are temporarily unavailable. When they have more capacity, I'm thinking about setting up a general instance focused on Minnesota (people who live here and people who just recognize how awesome we are). Trying to get a feel for size... Would you sign up for a general instance? (Plz boost to find my Minnesotans)

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-20

@MNMinn Might want to check out some other hosting options as well, and maybe even building out your own instance on your favorite of the big cloud providers. I haven't tried masto but they have some worthwhile reading in their blog.

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-19

@MNMinn Love this!

Fred Pace boosted:
MinnesotaMinnMNMinn
2022-11-19

I've been trying to think whether my former band ever did a song that would be appropriate to express my thoughts about . I think Frak Off gets close
youtu.be/llJwA6CW6J4

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-19

Excellent reading on running a Mastodon instance... rixx.de/blog/on-running-a-mast

Fred Pace boosted:
2022-11-19

Hello, Mastodon

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-18

Holiday project will be experimenting with setting up Mastodon instance on . Not looking to run my own instance, just want to learn how it works.

Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-18

Daughter got tickets to Taylor Swift and now I’m going to be pretty unhappy if she actually goes to the concert instead of scalping them and building me a guest house on her estate with the proceeds.

Fred Pace boosted:
2022-11-17
Fred Pacefpace
2022-11-17

@davew Yep, yep I do see it. Hopefully just a waiting game, then. For me it was ~2 days. Checking notes... I added the link on 6 Nov, and saw the link had turned green for verified on the 8th. No notifications, it just happened. Hopefully just some slowness in the system right now.

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Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst