Star Trek Enterprise's CMO had a cool trait of using medical properties from aliens and lifeforms from around the universe, which was cool, but also made him a naturopath.
He also withheld a vaccine and committed a genocide.
This makes him a consistent character.
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@💞 eva 💞 I will never learn to use a camera
I'm using an R01 (the RISC-V one) because I wanted the cool form factor, but also needed to justify it with a weird CPU to play with.
I really want to love the DevTerm but the keboard is in a magical place to be annoying no matter how it's held, but if I use an external keyboard it' *wonderful*.
I should save this work for loading into Koha
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“CrowdStrike Earnings: Cybersecurity Firm Posts Higher Revenue Amid Swing to Loss - WSJ”
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So, I've long argued that all of software dev's dysfunctions can be traced to the fact that business outcomes do not depend on software quality, design, or reliability. As long as this dynamic continues the software we use will only get worse
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The SSO Wall of Shame
A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.The SSO Wall of Shame
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twice now I had it stop resolving recursively and I needed to futz to make it work
might be openbsd router time
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It's really hard to be in free software spaces. So many are so libertarian and kinda fashy.
I had someone try to get me on side by saying "When I said group of kids, I meant gang"
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@megansruckus I remember too many passwords, but need even more unique ones...which is what secure password managers are for.
But, cumbersome as they may be, those are still better than a process that requires global SMTP to be quick and always available, something upon which I (as someone who's done SMTP for...gosh, almost 30 years) never want to rely. 😒
"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.
We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.
It couldn't last because of capitalism. This isn't some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don't want shifting."
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Five Years On: A Covid Retrospective
As we approach the five year mark of the first known case of covid-19, as we contemplate a half decade of watching a novel virus rip through our communities, our countries, our world, I wanted to do a retrospective on the pandemic.Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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i would not laugh at this. as there is a diffrence between having a job, and doing work.
Work can be anything, if i help relatives move, i am not a mover. if i help my Sister painting her walls, i am not a painter...
If i remove the splinter from my neighbours daughters finger, i am not a doctor.
so getting paid for doing work would be great...get paid for what you feel like doing.
Are you familiar with Bullshit Jobs theory?
Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
"Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs"
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Bullshit Jobs : The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.Gutter Bookshop
you know what, i don't even care how good AI is at coding. if the literal ghost of Donald fucking Knuth showed up at my desk and started typing my code for me, i'd tell him to fuck off back to his grave. It's *my* code and *I* want to do the coding.
[update] i have been informed that Donald Knuth is, in fact, still alive
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My 5yo just asked me "Was Andre the Giant smarter than you"
What the fuck do you say to that?!
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In good times, using free software, privacy-focused systems, and decentralized infrastructure can seem like an ideological, almost aesthetic, decision.
In bad times, all three are a necessity.
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Built an F-Droid repo for my kids inside our local network. Added games and basic apps, let the kid tablets work without unfettered internet.
F Droid wont let me use a self signed cert because, I guess, the CA system is good
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@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.
apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update
then point a webserver at the repo dir.
not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!
But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet
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My employer is currently looking for a senior dev doing really complex stuff in and on C++ code. This is in Ottawa (Canada) and not remote.
The product is a niche dev tool. It's not a compiler, but it's that kind of problem space.
If you're interested, please DM me and I'll provide more details. I'm being vague because I don't want to link my work and personal online presences.
FWIW, I genuinely like my co-workers and enjoy this kind of work.
Boosts are okay.
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The power of local media is bigger and more important than ever.
We need community theater. We need garage bands. We need mix tapes and burned CD-Rs and community film festivals.
We need to remind one another than we exist and that we are human and that we are all this together. We need to grab one another by the metaphorical shoulders and demand to be recognized, remembered, respected.
The future Gibson et al warned us about is here. I can't save myself, but we can protect one another.
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Does anyone get that we're all being taken over by. Christian Fascism and a dictator FOR REAL?
Doesn't anyone have the balls to stand up to these fascist racist bigots and billionaires?
BIDEN MUST DECLARE MARTIAL LAW TO SHUT DOWN ALL RIGHT WING MEDIA AND STOP THE CULT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
STAND UP AMERICA!
SAVE AMERICA!
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I asked my church music director if he had a HAM license today, and he replied he never got into radio. I then had to ask how we'd run a pirate radio station together.
One day I'll be a HAM
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@Hypolite Petovan why thank you!
But I wanna be an amateur radio operator!
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At 14, he helped create RSS.
At 16, he contributed to Creative Commons.
At 17, he co-created Markdown.
At 18, he co-founded Reddit.
The web would be different if he were alive.
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As usual my forays into making me enjoy reading RSS feeds is failing
One day I'll find a reader I love
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He produced phonology and semantics from orthography independently!
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They aren't terrible as leftovers...
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Other than I'm hungry and want onion bhajis now.
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