Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

@sir

Big conferences like FOSDEM should start hosting PeerTube instances instead of depending on mirrors.

#FOSDEM #PeerTube

Count votes on paper ballots. By hand.

signed,
a software professional

Doors to help those with dementia feel like they’re home. Such a good idea.

https://imgur.com/gallery/3fzRFUy

In 1998, a programmer who had been working on Y2K fixes started to get anxious because he couldn't believe how pervasive the problem was. He switched from company to company trying to get away from it, but everywhere he went he became regarded as the Y2K expert and immediately became the team lead for that company's Y2K contingencies. He finally had a nervous breakdown, quit his job, and decided he wanted to be knocked unconscious when the Y2K actually came about.

A month before Y2K he was put into an artificial coma and cooled down to a near cryogenic easily sustained long term life support.

Unfortunately the life support notification system had a Y2K bug, and no one revived him for 8000 years.

Finally he was found and revived. He woke up, and saw himself surrounded by lots of glass, light, stainless steel, and tall beautiful people in white robes. He asked if he was in Heaven.

They replied, "No, this is Chicago. Actually but it's a lot like Heaven to someone like you."

"Someone like me?"

"You are from the 20th century. Many of the problems that existed in your lifetime have been solved for thousands of years. There is no hunger and no disease. There is no scarcity, or strife between races and creeds."

"What year is it now?"

"Yeah, about that - it's the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?"

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and start preparing for twitter too

Idea: beezip compression
Extension: .beez
Method of operation:

If the archive contains only 0b1, the decompressed file is the Bee Movie.

If the archive starts with 0b0, the starting bit is truncated and the payload recovered as it is.

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

OMFG what timeline are we living in!?

#ActivityPub #Twitter #Jack
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204952252747661312

RT @andrewpprice@twitter.activitypub.actor
Another Netflix film made with Blender! This article explains how 'I Lost My Body' used a hybrid of 3D and 2D (grease pencil) to achieve the look https://buff.ly/2rNa3jH #b3d

RT @blender_org@twitter.activitypub.actor
Blender 2.81 brings over a thousand fixes, a brand new sculpting workflow, support for #NVIDIARTX, #Intel Open Image Denoise, OpenVDB Voxel remesh, library overrides, a better outliner, a new file browser, and much more.

Blender, made by you. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-81/ #b3d

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/20/China.html

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.