If Linux outlives Torvalds, and I believe that it will, that will be proof that it's not actually based on one guy's preferences. That it's genuinely, sincerely a *community* project.
I want Linux to live a good long time, but I will literally sleep better knowing that there's a plan in place.
I am surprised something like this was not already in place. No one, not even Linus, should be a potential single point of failure. Things happen in life, a contingency / succession plan should have been in place years ago as a just in case.
Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever, coughs and liver problems, arrived on horseback fro…
making a dough with flour/water/olive oil/spanish onion/green onion/thai chilis/cumin/oregano, then im gonna put it all out flat on a baking sheet, top that shit with tomatoes and some cornmeal, and bake
Impressive!! - That sequence with the purple chairs being used to create a moving walkway made me wonder how many times they failed during rehearsal; I wonder if they had a safety protocol to warn the walker in case the next chair was late?
@Karl Auerbach The chair bit was my favourite as well! I can bet you anything that they should have had a protocol, but didn't, and because they are professionals--nothing went wrong.
As the nation veers into policies on war-making and immigration that disturb many, average Catholics are stepping up into activist roles to voice their concerns and assist their neighbors.
todon.eu/@dbattistella/1159793… dbattistella@todon.eu - The Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by #ICE.
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The Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by #ICE.
#FirstNations #TravelAdvisory #US
I've just ended automatic billing for my @zotero storage account. I started exceeding an affordable tier and moved my data to a self-hosted Nextcloud server via WebDAV.
I'm so grateful for this amazing service that enables me to have this kind of freedom. We just had a workshop to teach out grad students Zotero this month. I have been proud to pay for storage, and I will continue to advocate for and promote this banner example of what academic tech should always be.
World Elephant Day, celebrated on August 12th, honours the gentle and nurturing giants of Asia and Africa, who are revered for their deep spiritual wisdom, gentle strength, and nurturing natures. O…
Jack Smith ENDS "Biden Conspiracy" With One Word Under Oath
In a stunning exchange during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith completely dismantled the Republican "weaponization" narrative under questioning from Rep. Dan Goldman. When asked point-blank if he ever received orders from President Biden or the White House regarding the investigation into Donald Trump, Smith delivered a definitive one-word answer that silenced the room and killed the GOP's primary conspiracy theory.
But that wasn't the only bombshell. Smith systematically laid out the "inner circle" of officials— including White House attorneys, senior campaign staff, and intelligence directors-who explicitly told Trump his election fraud claims were false, destroying his "ignorance defense" on the record. Plus, watch as Rep. Goldman exposes the massive hypocrisy of the Republican party by reading Senator Marco Rubio's own words from 2021, where he demanded the exact criminal justice response the GOP is now attacking. This is the testimony that chang
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Jack Smith ENDS "Biden Conspiracy" With One Word Under Oath
In a stunning exchange during the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith completely dismantled the Republican "weaponization" narrative under questioning from Rep. Dan Goldman. When asked point-blank if he ever received orders from President Biden or the White House regarding the investigation into Donald Trump, Smith delivered a definitive one-word answer that silenced the room and killed the GOP's primary conspiracy theory.
But that wasn't the only bombshell. Smith systematically laid out the "inner circle" of officials— including White House attorneys, senior campaign staff, and intelligence directors-who explicitly told Trump his election fraud claims were false, destroying his "ignorance defense" on the record. Plus, watch as Rep. Goldman exposes the massive hypocrisy of the Republican party by reading Senator Marco Rubio's own words from 2021, where he demanded the exact criminal justice response the GOP is now attacking. This is the testimony that changes everything.
Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, I’m researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. I’m looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. I’d love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines Würmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, I’d love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.
sometimes i wish i was born circa 30 years ago and got into programming at the peak of the home computer revolution.
me, some guy i met in uni who calls himself Gibby "The Splice" Ronnalds, and a random executive from a AAA publisher who decided to give us $15,000 based on a newspaper ad we bought as a joke. we're given twelve weeks to make the top down shooter we promised we'd been able to do. all i have is a C compiler i got on a floppy from a garage sale, and all gibby has is an amiga with a cracked copy of the ultimate soundtracker. we don't have an artist, but i notice my mum's cross stitching patterns look remarkably similar to pixel art, and i give her a stack of grid paper and a box of coloured pencils and tell her to have at it.
the game is looking to be pure unadulterated dogshit right up until nine days before release, where a bug that causes the AI planes to go hyperspeed inspires us to add a "nitrous" mechanic. we rename Flyin' High with Gibby to Aeronauts! and rework the entire game from a WWII dogfighter to a racer. the publisher is fur
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sometimes i wish i was born circa 30 years ago and got into programming at the peak of the home computer revolution.
me, some guy i met in uni who calls himself Gibby "The Splice" Ronnalds, and a random executive from a AAA publisher who decided to give us $15,000 based on a newspaper ad we bought as a joke. we're given twelve weeks to make the top down shooter we promised we'd been able to do. all i have is a C compiler i got on a floppy from a garage sale, and all gibby has is an amiga with a cracked copy of the ultimate soundtracker. we don't have an artist, but i notice my mum's cross stitching patterns look remarkably similar to pixel art, and i give her a stack of grid paper and a box of coloured pencils and tell her to have at it.
the game is looking to be pure unadulterated dogshit right up until nine days before release, where a bug that causes the AI planes to go hyperspeed inspires us to add a "nitrous" mechanic. we rename Flyin' High with Gibby to Aeronauts! and rework the entire game from a WWII dogfighter to a racer. the publisher is furious, but we sneak into their office after hours to write a bunch of floppies and distribute them to Computer Gaming Madness magazine. the guerilla reviews are phenomenal, we get the green light. critics call out the sprite art as the highlight of the game.
the publisher was trying to scam us by giving us 10% royalties on a game they thought would bomb, but we become millionaires. they can't write floppies fast enough to keep up with sales.
thirty years later, in the present day, we're bought out by activision to make a battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Samsung Smart Glasses Edition with Bixby.
this post made me think of a book I read recently called "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow". It was pretty good and is all about game devs. Not the most amazing book ever but it had a lot of good moments and has parts that hearken back to a simpler time in computing
Gibby Ronnalds would later be excommunicated from the industry for stealing the underwear of young female interns. He works at Palantir as an "anti-woke" hire now.
🌍 México está en el top 10 de países que más #BasuraElectrónica generan!
De acuerdo con este monitoreo global, China es la nación que más la produce, seguida de Estados Unidos e India. Solo 22.3% de estos desechos se recicla mientras el resto termina en áreas no aptas que contaminan suelos y agua.
🔄 #Reduce la compra de dispositivos y si tienes aparatos dañados ¡llévalos al Mega Reciclatrón de la UNAM este 29 y 30 de enero! 💚
The fertile lungs of our planet, the Amazon jungle faces severe drought due to El Niño, climate change, and deforestation for agriculture like palm oil, soy and meat. This along with gold mining, a…
Excusez-moi?! I'm still on Mastodon, still working on Mastodon--I love it here. Seems like the journalist has now removed the paragraph from the article, but has not published a retraction, and the false statement is still in the audio version. Where did they get this idea from?
Vous reprendrez bien un peu de désinformation officielle ? Vous serez ravi d’apprendre sur France Culture que @Gargron a quitté « son » réseau, et que c’est à cause de vous.
Une Suédoise, ancienne d'eBay, se lance dans la création d'un réseau social européen plus vertueux. Ce projet riche en bonnes intentions peut-il être davantage qu'un effet de mode ?
I find it ironic that the article mentions a new network for fact-checking, yet they publish an article without verifying the information. I find the level of journalism lamentable, not only in my country...
You are completely wrong. It's John Mastodon who is still working on the project. You are just some random guy hanging around mastodon.social. Get your alternative facts right, please.
Here you can write him to let him know he "forgot" to change de audio. And that maybe a good idea for restoring Mastodon reputation would be to make a new audio where he talks about Mastodon (and stats of how many people have moved from other places after each Big Tech scandal ;) )
I will be opting my account out of the #Bluesky bridge next week. If you follow me from Bluesky (I think there are about 3.9K of you) and want to continue seeing my posts you will need to get an account on the fediverse. Cheers.
Tout est faux bien sûr, « l’info » vient probablement de cet « article » de Korben : https://korben.info/eugen-rochko-quitte-mastodon-toxicite.html
Recouper les sources visiblement c’est so 2010.
#RadioFrance #FranceCulture #Mastodon For once they were talking about Mastodon on Radio France, what a shame! It's all the more regrettable given that this journalist, François Saltiel, is usually well informed and advocates for open solutions. I have lodged a complaint with France Culture and hope that he will rectify this in a future column.
There are literally a million active users here. Why does everyone keep saying Fedi is a failure? I'd be thrilled if I'd built something used by a million people!
Vous reprendrez bien un peu de désinformation officielle ? Vous serez ravi d’apprendre sur France Culture que @Gargron a quitté « son » réseau, et que c’est à cause de vous.
Une Suédoise, ancienne d'eBay, se lance dans la création d'un réseau social européen plus vertueux. Ce projet riche en bonnes intentions peut-il être davantage qu'un effet de mode ?
In his guide “Getting off US tech”, tech writer and podcaster @parismarx breaks down why #DigitalSovereignty matters, and how to get there step by step.
![Extrait d’un podcast France Cul sur W Social qui se termine par : « […] concernant le réseau décentralisé Mastodon, développé par un informaticien allemand, Eugen Rochko, ce dernier a déclaré quitter son propre réseau, fatigué entre autres par le comportement de certains utilisateurs. »](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1403436 "Extrait d’un podcast France Cul sur W Social qui se termine par : « […] concernant le réseau décentralisé Mastodon, développé par un informaticien allemand, Eugen Rochko, ce dernier a déclaré quitter son propre réseau, fatigué entre autres par le comportement de certains utilisateurs. »")
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