mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

@mmasnick man. Elon banning the Santa tracker right before Christmas is a very bold move.

Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.

They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.

This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:

Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”

Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data

I usually just post random dumb shit, but I feel the need to address something serious. I keep seeing white people respond to legitimate criticism from Black people with advice about how easy it is to set up your own instance. Let’s set aside for a second the fact that you’re telling a marginalized group to bear the emotional labor of moderating their own space. You’re also basically regurgitating the same “separate but equal” bullshit set down by the court in Plessy v Ferguson. #BlackMastodon

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

US based folks - free Covid tests just started today again. Each address can get FOUR FREE https://www.covid.gov/tests

I should elaborate on this somewhat. Once upon a time, someone said to me, “Don’t judge someone by their errors. Judge them by how they fix them.” That’s been a cornerstone of my thinking ever since.

Whenever there’s an issue with #Hachyderm, it’s resolved expediently, and the team is very open and transparent about what they’re doing and why. Those of you who’ve worked in the tech industry for an appreciable amount of time know how rare that is. It’s worth celebrating.

Tech firms resume giving big bucks to GOP election deniers - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-telecom-firms-resumed-giving-130017018.html

I’m curious how many folks understand that Next.js collects telemetry data (and data collection is opt-out)

https://nextjs.org/telemetry

How common is this in frameworks? Eleventy definitely doesn’t have anything like this.