Some background about that #RaspberryPi controversy where the foundation added the Microsoft repo to the sources
TL;DW: The foundation didn't make the change available to further auditing. Community got upset, mods started deleting comments on their forum about it
From the video description, to remove said changes:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo apt update
Truth! https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-art-design - kids at schools need to be using #FOSS (no $, no piracy, open file formats, etc.) tools for digital art! Using proprietary tools is great for the proprietors and limits opportunities for everyone else.
A fantastic illustration of wealth disparity in the United States. I consider myself pretty numerically savvy, but *wow* I was not prepared for this:
Software developer position ads are perfect expressions of the ignorance of employers. It's hard to even contemplate applying at a place that thinks that describing their technology stack describes their actual product development needs. It gets even worse when the ad blatently tells you how little a company values knowledge over cost.
A friend asked me how to automatically start #GNU #Screen directly via #SSH's configuration file. Here's how to do it:
Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config similar to this one:
Host screen_on_server
Hostname server.example.org
RequestTTY yes
RemoteCommand screen -RD
and then just call
$ ssh screen_on_server
and you'll get connected to an existing screen session if present, otherwise you'll a new new one.
Should work with #tmux, too, maybe different options.
The “For the People Act” of 2021 Would Make the U.S. a Democracy https://theintercept.com/2021/02/14/democracy-voting-campaign-finance-hr1/
Sarah Jaffe is hanging around too many of the delusional when she writes, "computer programmers...work is closer to the jobs of other creatives...rooted in our old notions of artistic work." She also talks about how harmful this attitude is to happiness, because those same (delusional) programmers are then taken advantage of in the workplace.
"The video-game programmer may have more in common with the Uber driver than she previously thought."
I continue to really like #rust as a programming language. Even though I'm writing more #raku these days, I still love Rust (and am writing something in it right now).
That said, it's increasingly clear to me that Rust is _primarily_ targeted at the Big Tech usecase (aka "at scale") and only secondarily interested in the Free Software usecase.
Today's news that the Rust Foundation is reserving *half* of its board seats for Big Tech provides additional confirmation.
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/
Regarding nomadic indigenous caretaker agriculture and stewardship: https://makiruz.tumblr.com/post/642967185339400192/i-have-a-lot-of-feelings-on-how-indigenous-groups
The Biden Administration's Continued Push for Julian Assange's Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/julian-assange-extradition-biden-journalism/
Is this a Trump effect? ;-)'Pay gap widens between female and male scientists in North America' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00387-3
Mr Fish on Trump
https://thenib.com/clearance/
A cartoon about racism.
https://thenib.com/dig-in/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa