Jon Dubovsky @jond@mastodon.social

I really do like that I can open Mastodon when I wake up and not feel like the universe is on fire, unlike elsewhere.

The lesson I want people to take from RMS' jump-before-pushed resignation:

"Your heroes and role models will be held accountable for being a jerk. If you emulate their behavior, you will also be held accountable."

The lesson the problem people will take: "SJW waaaaah!"

I think it's important that we repeat the better lesson.

Just re-upping this offer: because being comfortable with git is a barrier to entry to many FS/OSS projects, and because I care deeply about lowering those barriers, I will tutor anyone who asks for help with git, and/or connect them with any mentor(s) they might prefer.

I'll do this while I put energy and work into making the tool more approachable, and into making better tools and learning paths.

Boosts gratefully appreciated.

#gittutors

Looks like Keybase has gone from "nice UI for PGP" to "vehicle for pushing cryptocurrency bullshit". Time to uninstall that app.

Did You Know: "Diploma" means "thing that's been folded".

Went for a walk in a nearby park and found this wee little door in a tree. It has working hinges and there's a large hollow in the tree behind it. In hindsight it was quite rude of me to open it up and peak inside without knocking. Where were my manners?

Heard of a cool tech-bro-weeding interview technique the other day. A male and female engineer conduct the interview session together. If, when the female engineer asks the candidate a question, he directs his answer to the male engineer, then he's out. They said it happens a lot

you may call it the frozen foods section but i call it the shivering aisles

So #Gab spinoff and anti-Trans fake feminist site #spinster just launched this app. And although Google has already removed Gab's app for violating it's terms of use. For the moment this is live. Would be helpful for some of the reviews to share that the service is an TERF hive, and that it fully federates #Gab content against Google's TOS.

Reviews and reports here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.spinster.client

The only standalone #womenscycling UCI stage race in the Western Hemisphere is live and chock full of Americans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjLd0ZddL4 #ColoradoClassicPro #usa

A recent article by Zeynep Tufekci in Wired clued me in to this GitHub thread on core-js adding a donation request to its postinstall script: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548

It's kind of incredible to me the amount of self-righteousness and entitlement in that thread. The real tragedy is that unpaid maintainers are doing all this work for free, and big corporations are happily exploiting it without a care in the world.

thank you HP for curing my impostor syndrome
if someone could get paid for making your website, i'm sure i'm also qualified for being in IT

PERSON ON STREET: "Yes, I'm not racist, but..."

CAPTAIN IMPROV: swoops out of the sky to clamp fingers over person's lips

CAPTAIN IMPROV [to camera]: "Remember, kids, it's 'Yes, I'm not racist, AND...'"

This is oppressors stealing the language of the oppressed to create a false equivocation between two populations: one with institutional power and one without (or at least less).

The pro-white narrative is one of a dying race/culture trying to survive.

But what is this culture?