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Mozilla is laying off 250 employees (I believe that's about a quarter of their staff).

Their stated reason for laying off 250 employees is... to develop more Mozilla products. Typically you don't need to have less employees to build more products...

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/112624/mozilla-is-laying-off-roughly-250-employees-i-believe-thats-about-a-quarter-of-their-staff-th

I've officially joined @privacytools as a Team Member 🎉

We're currently updating the Email Clients page, and we have a lot of other things planned!

https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/1990

@kev Create a cron job that runs every 10 minutes that has a 10% chance of shutting down your computer without warning? Easy enough.

I talk about my imposter syndrome and how it can slow down or even halt writing entirely.

😓 📚 The Fear of Being Found Out: https://victoriacorva.xyz/2020/08/12/the-fear-of-being-found-out/

(Originally posted supporter-only, now free for all!)

"How Many People Are on This Site?"

This is a nice and transparent way to link to your public dashboard and inform your audience about stats you collect at the same time.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stats/

"Trump says Spanish flu probably ended second world war in 1917"

That's about as accurate and factually correct as anything he has ever said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFN69J7A81Y

It's weird that these days you have to make "Privacy-friendly flashlight" apps. When did we reach a point where flashlight apps started invading our privacy?

Crazy world.

#foss #privacy #android #apps

I've taken a six week break from posting thoughts to the internet. My bird site account no longer exists. I guess it's time to fully embrace and build the decentralized web.

Today is the 16th anniversary of #OpenStreetMap. How are you goind to celeberate it?

There are people around the world organizing online meetings. You may want to participate or even organize your own. Check this page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_16th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Use this occasion to talk more about #OSM to people.

Use #OpenStreetMap16 in social media.

This extensive and thoughtful post by a member of the #Librem5 community does a good job of explaining the past and present mobile Linux ecosystem and why Purism's approach with phosh makes strategic sense long-term. https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-phosh/

July was a month of broken records for Plausible Analytics:

Most traffic ever
Record traffic day
Most trials ever
Biggest day in terms of the number of new paying subscribers
...

And a lot of development work too! See the recap https://plausible.io/blog/july-2020-recap

Did a paintover on the right to adjust lighting and bring the focus back to the center character. The 2 pages are darkened because it's further from the window and lessens the contrast there
Adding a light bloom adds more atmos and also suggests dust in the air
Credit @corvusou@twitter.com

SysAdmin 101
A collection of #sysadmin articles by @kyle.

This ebook is #free to download. No email or anything required. Enjoy! https://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1340386
#SysAdminDay #sysadminday2019

"Classic #SysAdminDay comic. Dedicated to all sysadmin working around the globe."

via: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1154600092063563776

Happy "the photocopier has been wonky since you patched the server"-Day!

#SysAdminDay

Welcome to Freedom Cafe!

RT from TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)

Zuckerberg unconvincingly feigns ignorance of data-sucking VPN scandal https://tcrn.ch/3jRZi5Y | by Devin Coldewey

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1288617214392905728

Colleague: "Do you know how to convert a physical linux system to a virtual machine? Is there migration software that can do it"

Me: dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/smb-share/disk.img and boots it

Colleageu: "What do you mean you can just copy the whole hard drive"

everything's a file bruh

Finding Confidence https://robert.winter.ink/finding-confidence