Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Linus Torvalds: Git is a distributed version control system, which means even if you lose a remote, you still have your local copy, so your code is safe, unlike centralized VCSes.

Developer Community: wut?

Microsoft: Hmm. How about you use our Visual Studio Online and push it to GitHub, both hosted on our computers, so that you don't have a local copy?

Developer Community: Yaay! Such innovation! Very cloud! Much wow! 🎉

Trump: Thou shall not use US services.

Developers: Where's my code? 😭

http://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/

programming languages personified; it's old but classic

Data isn't gold, it's uranium. Companies stockpile and refine it because of the great power it creates. But the industry is largely unregulated and creates hazardous by-products. When it spills it's almost impossible to clean up and when it explodes it leaves a wasteland behind.

RT @FedeItaliano76@twitter.com
Migrating birds in Europe tracked by GPS https://imgur.com/gallery/1547lp4

HELLvetica. Like helvetica, but with like, much shittier kerning for Halloween.

https://hellveticafont.com/

currently angry about headlines that bank of america aka "bofa" saved a bunch of money by "building their own cloud"

A BANK USES ITS OWN SERVERS?? HOLY SHIT WHAT A REVELATION ALSO THEY'RE SERVERS NOT A CLOUD WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS SHIT SINCE THE 1960S WHY IS THERE A NEW NAME FOR IT

It would be great if we could actually get Bernie Sanders to join Mastodon. This is the future of social networking, after all. Just saying

The freedom open-source software gives you may be priceless, but that doesn't mean you can't support developers nor should you take their work for granted.

Support your favorite open-source projects and their developers! Give them a chance to become self-sustainable! Lots of small contributions can make all the difference!

Do it, become part of the greater common good. It's not everyday you get to participate in a revolution! 😄

(No, I won't get tired of repeating this message. It's important)

Is John Wick a superhero movie?

Genie: You have ONE WISH.

Me: Alright, I have one, but it's very detailed.
Genie: As long as it is only one wish, you're allowed to spend as much time as you want detailing it.

Me: Alright, here we go. *Grabs notebook and takes a deep breath* The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

Genie: Wait, is that...?

Me: *Flips notebook* Chapter 1. Preamble.

There is no reason whatsoever to have Windows installed on your computer. You should not have Windows installed on your computer. If you have Windows installed on any computer you own then you have fucked up.

what idiot called it "Hosted Elasticsearch Service" and not "Lucene in the Sky with Diamonds"

"bitcoin is converting capitalism directly into climate change" - Harald Lesch

This is the PineTime. A companion for your Linux smartphone, and new side-project of ours. More news coming in the future...

(If you have experience with FreeRTOS or mbed, and are interested, please get in touch!)

Writing miles per hour as mi/h to confuse my own country.

"Chrome: Intent to remove: external hyperlinks", announced Google today. "We think the web will be safer and faster if all pages are served with our open AMP technology."

I think it's important to have a Free alternative, or people that want to take advantage of this kind of technology will have no options.

"The next great platform shift is underway, and that could be really bad for privacy"

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/09/the-next-great-platform-shift-is-underway-and-that-could-be-really-bad-for-privacy/