chutten @chutten@mastodon.social

Gaming with coworkers is a fraught space.

HR: “do you know why we’re having this meeting?”
Me: “... is it because I was spawncamping a VP?”
HR: “...”
Me: “...”
HR: “It is now.”

Like it's only been a week of class and even though you might consider welding more dangerous than tech they've focused really really hard on doing this job safely. Nobody ever talks about doing tech work safely. Ever.

Something that's really different between tech and welding is how absolutely crystal clear the focus is on labor rights and income. The teacher is knowledgeable about exactly the kind of income you can expect given a certain skill set. There's none of this crap about rockstars or mysterious salary ranges, and I'm loving it.

[FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, AND TWITTER]: "Listen, we can't be held--" *takes down a video for using a popular song per a major label request* "--responsible for our users' content, we're--" *takes down unauthorized use of a clip of a TV show* "--not publishers, we're a platform for communication--" *takes down a streaming movie for copyright infringement* "--we can't be expected to take action every time someone uses our service--" *works with the police to provide info on its users* "--for nefarious purposes..."

I wonder what Unix would be like if the -h “human readable” flag was the default and a machine-readable flag was the option.

Firefox 66.0.4, with fixes for the AddOns issue, has been released. See release notes at

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.4/releasenotes/

#hugops to everyone who worked through the weekend to get this done

The “why don’t you just” speech: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/17/why-dont-you-just/

It’s extremely important to me that you read this *actual motion from Scottish parliament* from @patrickharvie@twitter.com http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-15504&ResultsPerPage=10

Updated "Control Keys": http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2018/12/16/control-keys/