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I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.

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The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

What is your favourite Christmas movie and why is it Gremlins ? 😁🎄🎞

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WOW. Elon Musk's Twitter straight-up banned the account for Mastodon. Just, wow.

I was looking for some new , not a new , but browsing random store collections is magical like that. 😋

Album: Being Special -- Sophia Kennedy

PS: don't know the artist, nor this album, and won't be buying

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I also find this useful to remember given that code is temporary, will be refactored, or thrown out. But a day to day commitment to software that serves people doesn't depend on one effort persisting forever. It's the daily showing-up for people that continuously rewards and will be remembered. <3

All the software I wrote 1980s-2010s : gone. Tossed or refactored because of time, innovation, tool changes.

But the people the software helped? They remember and continue to thank. :)

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But ultimately, you're in service to the betterment of lives of people, if it's by making a system suck less so that another can breathe more easily in their day, or via a very personal connective tissue in the expression of human culture and vulnerability, like a journal or medical app.

People are who you develop for. Architect, develop, test, for them. Stay soft. Stay humble. Stand beside them.

Remembering this will keep your heart connected and your mind innovating for great experiences.

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I've been having a lot of fun discussing with developer colleagues on the WHO that they're developing for.

Agile delivery likes to say "value delivery" and "user journeys" but as one gets to flying through the Definition of Done many times per sprint, it can erode the need for stories to be discussions, with PEOPLE.

Also when overloaded, stories can degrade into implementation checklist, especially in sales/product delivery date obsessed cultures.

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La croissance FULGURANTE du nombre de serveurs #Mastodon depuis janvier 2019.

À ce moment-là, on en dénombrait une douzaine.

En décembre 2022, il y en a maintenant plus de 12 500.

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Curious how to get started contributing to Emacs? Colin Woodbury has written a helpful blog post on just that topic, including instructions for copyright assignment: u.fsf.org/3fr #emacs #CopyrightAssignment

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Do technical problems exist and then people call us about them,

Or are they only made probable enough to exist when a technical person hears about them,

Or is it because technical people exist that they entangle a problem category called « technical »?

scientificamerican.com/article

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A moment of silence for all the single board computers, with more power than a CRAY who are spending this holiday season blinking Christmas lights, or monitoring a door bell button for the chance to play a festive mp3.

Listen, little ones, we know you can do more, this too shall pass.

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Created in the 1990s on OS 1.3 with an Amiga 500, the wonderful multiformat module music player HippoPlayer is still getting updates and pushed to Github (most recently in 2021).

I like the sound of that. ❤️

Github: github.com/koobo/HippoPlayer/t

#AmigaForever #Amiga #Commodore #retrocomputing

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I got a chance to review the recently released @system76 Launch Heavy #keyboard, a full 10 key, mechanical and #opensource keyboard with a numpad, its own configuration tool for #Linux, Windows or macOS, 4 different layouts, and per-key RGB. I also compared it to its smaller siblings, the Launch and Launch Lite keyboards!

Let's take a look!

youtu.be/cG4T7ati568

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