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Chase Bank Promotes Freedom-Disrespecting Proprietary Operating Systems to BSD Users (but not Linux)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/vk48ni/i_was_walking_in_cap_hill_until_i_noticed_this/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/vk48ni/i_was_walking_in_cap_hill_until_i_noticed_this/

#linux #stallmanwasright #unix

Informatik-Studenten an meiner Uni wollen mir erklären, dass man auf Linux ja gar nicht zocken könne und dass VSCode ausreicht und man keine Git Versionierung brauchen würde für Development und sowieso warum nutze ich Tools, die nicht von Microsoft und nicht grafisch sind, Notizen haben in OneNote in der M$ Cloud zu existieren!!!!!

Ich bin übrigens eine weibliche Informatik-Studentin, und, ja, Mansplaining existiert und ist widerlich. Falls mal jemand ein konkretes Beispiel brauchte, bittesehr🙃

"I've tried telling myself it's just a statistical language model, but I don't believe it"

submitted by scalability
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/veq5mh/ive_tried_telling_myself_its_just_a_statistical/

One of the coolest things I've hacked together as a sort of side project the last few weeks is a property-based test for POSIX filesystems, which uses a simple in-memory model of mv, cat, etc to verify the safety of a real filesystem:

https://github.com/jepsen-io/jepsen/blob/cbebe71810aa161ce865ba00bcd5fe948e68da03/jepsen/test/jepsen/lazyfs_test.clj#L323-L549

And here's an example bug it found in lazyfs--the original 1,998 ops it took to find, and the shrunk 5-op minimal reproducing case:

https://gist.github.com/aphyr/de84b509cf64c84c35ba40769063a05a#file-1-short-sh-L19-L23

Chrome just published a lot of interesting data on device memory and connectivity status of its worldwide user base.

Lots of interesting info to unpack, so here is a🧵

#OpenStreetMap has one tile rendering server for all of USA, and that server can no longer keep up with peak US traffic.

If you, or your company,are interested in hosting a rendering node in the US (or elsewhere), please contact us.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/637

I stumbled across this article when reading about anime. Its not something I ever questioned, but it is interesting none the less.

Tl;dr: The question is leading. The short answer is they dont. Its a perception phenomena.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/09/why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/340084/

The fact that the Skyrim modding community came together overnight to provide $16k for my friend's surgery is overwhelming. My faith in humanity is restored, just a little bit.

A long weekend?

That means there's time for murder.

My ebookstore - https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/git-commit-murder-novel/
My print bookstore - https://shop.aer.io/mwl/p/git_commit_murder/9781642350326-8826?collection=Fiction/177661
Amazon - https://amzn.to/2MwiSTx
Apple - http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1219549695
Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/git-commit-murder
Nook - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/git-commit-murder-michael-warren-lucas/1126040672?ean=2940157247485

Wisdom

roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you

and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops

it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed

twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you

This beauty queen flips the script on engineers | @firefox Presents: Ep. 2 https://tube.mha.fi/nYuyIF9lg0Q via @mozhacks

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/MozDevNet/status/1527625203756548100

#TIL that one can use “git commit -v” and the template commit message will include the diff, which is handy to have as reference for writing the commit log message 😃

Die EU-Kommission hat mit der #Chatkontrolle jegliches Maß verloren. In einem gemeinsamen Eil-Appell an die Bundesregierung fordern wir sie jetzt dazu auf die Pläne zur Totalüberwachung jeglicher Kommunikation zu stoppen!
Dafür brauchen wir eure Mithilfe:
https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2022/chatkontrolle-appell-bundesregierung

@EU_Commission you can't protect children byt SCANNING EVERY MESSAGE WITHOUT A WARRANT!

You want to protect children? Demand nations INCREASE FUNDING for child abuse investigation, instead of leaving those departments without resources to function!

Via @Lucseleventje about #ChatControl proposed by @EU_Commission
ps.: Added image caption for #a11y

@EU_Commission this project is so wrong in so many levels that I don't even know where to begin. This opens a terrible precedent, to say the least. Where do we draw the line? What are the other illegal activities that will justify undermining fundamental rights of individuals?
I am so disappointed, for me the EU Commission was a beacon of hope in these dark times. This project tells me otherwise. The scariest part: the lawmakers most certainly know this better than me #chatcontrol