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@dpreacher perhaps someday this unascended plebeian will join the ranks of the mighty.

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I like lambdas because they look pretty. That is all.

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Can I ask a favour of folks. I need people to be accountable to tomorrow for doing some software carpentry edits for the spreadsheet to database lesson. Anyone want to volunteer to be person who I can toot at and who will at least glance at what I write?

Should I change x86_energy_perf_policy? I feel like my laptop is slow on the default (not performance).

*proceeds to do so and sets the house on fire or something*

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Who on the west coast near Seattle knows of open Python developer positions?

NEED HELP ASAP!!!!!!

Asking for a friend.

Signal boosts appreciated
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Wow I can't believe all the Livejournal mood icons are still there. Weird to think that I saw some of these every day for like 7 years and haven't seen them since.

livejournal.com/moodlist.bml?p

Someone needs to give them a good home.

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Most useful thing I've discovered recently: if you need to transfer some text from to your phone, you can use github.com/gtanner/qrcode-term and "xclip -o | qrcode-terminal" to output the clipboard as a QR code, and then use the iphone/android camera app to snag it.

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Here we go, my to-do list for reworking the mastodon web UI:

github.com/TheInventrix/mastod

Some of these are extremely trivial changes - like the default settings one - but some of the others like the quicknav bar changes are a little above my current skill level and will require a great deal of work for me, so if it looks easy for you, please go ahead and do it and submit a PR for the issue.

#mastodev

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You can't convince me this isn't the best way to browse Mastodon.

#brutaldon

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@rysiek @Gargron @charlag @wakest

We can't stress the threat model issue enough. There is no one-size-fits-all security solution.

Eg: If I'm worried about nation-states then Signal contacts knowing my real phone number is a non-issue; my adversary already knows it. If I'm a sex worker then the phone number may be a major issue and I'm better off using Wire, even if the protocol is not as robust.

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Encrypted remote backups using SSHFS and LUKS: ruderich.org/simon/notes/encry

I've been using this technique for years and can confirm it's robust and reliable.

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@mrtino Oooh, LOGO. No, wait... Scratch that.

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2017: #intel CEO finds out all chips are defective, sells all his share to save his money (a crime, inside trading!)
2018: Intel CEO finds out all chips are MORE defective then ever, saves face by stepping down, blaming longtime consensual relationship as 'cover'?
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The Lollipop Cloud now has *EASIER* access to their XMPP chat room. If you have a web browser you can join the discussion 😁

Head to https://anon.xmpp.lollipop.holdmybeer.solutions with your preferred browser and you'll be in on the conversation.

The full blog post about the update and deployment details is at https://lollipop.holdmybeer.solutions/post/2018/06/xmpp-accessibility/

#lollipopcloud

(image description : lollipop cloud logo)
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In my blog post about Emacs keybindings wilfred.me.uk/blog/2018/01/06/ I mention the 'Emacs Guru Test'.

It's a cute way of seeing how well you know Emacs, so I'm pleased to have shared it. I didn't invent it though. My googling has totally failed to find the original author.

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Before you want to "fork" pleroma, please remember that we air a very inclusive project and try to get as much functionality as possible merged in (if optional). This isn't the "no audio files and gifs" kind of project management.
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I test things so you don't have to. I bought the pictured boards purely for testing, vetting and helping move the Lollipop Cloud project forward.

Of all these boards only 1/2 will remain in my possession long-term.

The other half are *already* on their way to good humans. Humans that want to deploy the Lollipop Cloud and contribute to the project but don't have the means to obtain hardware.

All but one board tested good and is useful for a #lollipopcloud deployment.That's 2 boards going to good homes for self-hosting and/or tinkering. (One board pictured is an expansion for another so it doesn't count)

The expansion board is already plugged into its final home and providing storage for docker images for the Lollipop Cloud project. Another board is running builds for Docker images for the Lollipop Cloud project. The 3rd I 'kept' is my development board for testing various aspects of the Lollipop Cloud Docker container images.

The boards I kept are technically 'mine' but I'm definitely not using them for my immediate gains. They are an integral part of the Lollipop Cloud project and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.

(image desc : 6 Orange pi boards and 1 orange pi expansion board)
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as a reminder, be aware that websites now install javascript you have no awareness of into your browser and run it in the background, also without your awareness.

in firefox, if you go to about:debugging and click "workers" you can see all the javascripts running in the background on your firefox for the benefit of others
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are there any nice clients for ? jabber.el is a bit hackish.

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My cyberpunk adventure game Neofeud about my experiences growing up a POC in an American ghetto then working with homeless and immigrants is on sale all over the place today! Any money that you give me (I am the writer/artist/programmer/etc.. all the money goes to me) is going to go straight into cleaning our water catchment tubes which are full of leaves, and so the water comes out like arboreal tea and smells like old dogs when we wash our clothes, lol. πŸ˜‚ 😭
FUCK YOU CAPITALIST FASCIST AMERICA

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Heh. Just ran the 5th meeting of my MQ TeX Users Group. We coded the flyer live.