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bagder@mastodon.socialReminder: if you want to automate things like figuring out the latest #curl version, when it was released, URL to get the latest or when the next release comes, we have you covered: https://curl.se/info
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u have to be very quiet when hacking so the coputer doesn't hear you. thats why its called ssh
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INCOMING HOT TAKE - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
The federal minimum wage should be set to equal the following:
[MinWage = (R x 3)/H/W]
Where:
R = Average Rent of 1BR Studio Apt
H = Federally Defined Full-time Hours (40)
W = Average Weeks per Month (4)
Why?
Because landlords require you to show that you earn 3 times the rent before they will even consider your rental application. This formula would ensure that anyone working a full-time job (or two part-time jobs) could afford to pay rent in the smallest possible sized apartment.
In my area, the average rent is $1,400 for a studio/efficiency apartment.
[(1400x3)/40/4 = $28.13/hr.]
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Adrian Roselli
aardrian@toot.cafe“Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility”
https://yatil.net/blog/automated-testing-wont-solve-web-accessibility
Eric carries my automated testing post to its logical conclusion, more explicitly than I did. He also points out where it can/should live in a process.
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Alpha Chen
alphaOof, this bit hits close to home as a Labs developer in the Cloud Foundry years.
Let me draw you a picture. As an AWS Community member, you might very well respond to an application architecture question with something akin to “and for this part you want to use Google Cloud Run, because AWS’s container offerings are convoluted, expose too many abstractions, and, frankly, seem to be competing for mindshare with one another rather than solving customer problems.” If you were to say that as an AWS employee, it’s hard to imagine that the AWS containers service team doesn’t come for you with knives out, or that the marketing department starts carrying a subtle grudge. You can’t live in both the community and take home an AWS paycheck. You’ve lost your status as a trustworthy third party.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aws-community-isnt-for-amazonians/
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Catbus
ancient_catbus@jorts.horseThe problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
amberage@eldritch.cafeShow content
So you placed your order for Hogwarts Legacy or are considering it. You know J.K. Rowling is a horrible person, or so you've heard, but you really want to enjoy your favourite books' latest game. Sure, she's a little odd when it comes to those trans people, but other than that, she's not all bad, right? Let me enjoy the game, you say, that doesn't mean I support her (the obvious falsity of that aside), and really: what's wrong with it in the first place, huh?
Well, hypothetical stranger, today is your lucky day! Since you asked…
If you are unwilling to hear any arguments, this text is not for you, but if you ask 'what's the big deal anyway', you've come to the right place.
Let's rewind a little. Until recently, J.K. Rowling was mostly a beloved fantasy author. There were always criticisms of her works (and I don't mean the frankly plebeian style), such as the fact that the goblins, hook-nosed, hunched bankers with a love for plotting and betrayal reside in a building with a star of david on the floor, the hasty retcon of a singular Jewish character (with the most cliché name of 'Goldstein'), the subplot about the enslaved servants who love slavery and hate being freed, and so on and so forth, but by and large, most people saw her as the author of their favourite books, and that was it.
Since then, Rowling has come out in support of the current genocidal campaign against trans people, ostensibly out of concern for women's rights, despite the fact that people she has supported call anti-abortion crusaders 'fine people', people on her side sue rape crisis centers, and of course in spite of all known science, in support of disproven junk science, going against all major scientific organisations, and on the same side as anti-vaxxers, far-right extremists, anti-semites, more anti-semites, authors of murderous manifests, and desinformation oligarchs. It is no coincidence that Rowling's public conversion into an avid transphobe corresponds closely with the skyrocketing of anti-trans bills, going from 60 bills in 2020 to 131 in 2021, making 2021 the worst year at the time, and further to a staggering 120 bills in three weeks in early 2023 alone (that would be 2305 bills this entire year, if kept up)!
So far, so awful. But since you're reading this, that is obviously not enough to convince you, so allow me to present further arguments. Let's talk about Hogwarts Legacy.
Let's start with the fact that Warner Brothers knowingly hired a far-right gamergate youtuber as lead developer for the game, shortly after which details of the game were revealed, including the fact that aforementioned antisemitic carricatures would be central to the plot, namely in the form of a sinister plot and uprising which includes kidnapping a child. Let me recap: the greedy, treacherous, hook-nosed bankers who hate regular wizards kidnap a child. If the words 'blood libel' – the belief that Jews steal children, a trope perpetuated in modern-day conspiracy theories about 'grooming' or 'woke indoctrination' – didn't mean anything to you: now they do. That this rebellion is motivated by the centuries-long oppression of the goblins, who are denied civil rights, access to wands, and basically left with no business but to run banks (sound familiar?) and the goblins' desire for liberation, how dare they, is only the cherry on top, as is featuring a Jewish instrument, which just so happens to be dated in-game to the year of a real-life pogrom. Oh, and did you know that Goblins believe workers should own what they produce? That's right, the thinly-veiled jew-stand-ins are Marxists! You might want to look up 'Cultural Bolshevism' (nazis today say 'Cultural Marxism'), and take a long hard look at Deathly Hallows again.
➡️ Part 2…
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Marcin Wichary
mwichary@mastodon.onlineTo celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of really strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards that I gathered over the years. (It might be the world’s strangest keyboard collection!)
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Derek Powazek 🐐
fraying@xoxo.zoneThis is how you review an antisemitic, transphobic, piece of shit video game: you roast it in the review and turn the buy link into a donation to Trans Lifeline.
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/
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Alpha Chen
alphaReminds me of the time a test was failing an assertion that visually looked correct, but turned out that I copied and pasted one of the values and typed the other, and the original text had some character that was visually the same but not bit-identical to my typed character in the string.
RE: https://tapbots.social/users/paul/statuses/109849357839281933
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Ethan J. A. Schoonover
ethanschoonover@mastodon.social🚨 FREE STUFF ALERT 🚨
My daughter is giving away a cool sticker she designed for her @TeenHorror podcast.
Just fill out this form and she will mail you a free sticker anywhere in the world (she only has some but wants to give them away to followers & listeners!) She will delete your mailing info after sending things out!
Sticker form:
https://forms.gle/6PUB6mwrrjCCF2cw9
Haven't listened yet? Give it a try! Search for Teen Horror Cast in your podcast client or go to https://podcast.teenhorrorcast.com
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Alpha Chen
alpha“ChadGPT” is so perfect.
RE: https://xoxo.zone/users/neilk/statuses/109847579864276446
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alphaTed Chiang on ChatGPT, so good, and what a great analogy.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
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Prof Stephen Serjeant
stephenserjeant@mas.toAbsolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 #astrodon / h/t @playingwithdust
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alphaTIL that FB has their own implementation of Python for Instagram? https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder#static-python
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