Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi

.@fsf@status.fsf.org publish your board minutes and voting member list. You're a public charity, you owe the community transparency.

if you read these wikipedia articles you will be better informed (sadly) than much of Fedi

Subaltern (postcolonialism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)

Black feminism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_feminism

Lesbian feminism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_feminism

Marxist feminism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_feminism

Postcolonial feminism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_feminism

Critical legal studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies

Critical race theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Intersectionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

let's get our awareness up just a tad

Lesson learned: even if your MCU is single-core, your #firmware single-threaded, execution may still become non-linear.

Deaths of homeless people sleeping in bins prompt calls for action - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/24/deaths-homeless-people-sleeping-bins-calls-action-uk appalling that this is even a thing #uk

does anyone have any info (links, resources, advice) about:

- insurance coverage for electrolysis and/or surgery in Germany?
- most efficient/effective ways of getting surgery in Germany
- good, calm and open psychologists who can facilitate the above, preferably Central/Eastern Germany

for a German friend who currently has some trans healthcare (HRT) in the UK, but wants to do the above in Germany

Taxi to station, train, change train for subspace terminal, security check, board subspace carriage, don't think about how for a brief moment you don't exist, disembark, train to hotel, sleep, attend conference, train, subspace...
"How was Mars?"
"Didn't really see any of it."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I hear tech folks saying that RSS is dead, and people on social media saying that blogs are dead.

The problem with this is twofold:

- RSS is doing just fine, and not even remotely dead

- Blogs are doing just fine, and are not even remotely dead, either

There's this strange sort of defeatism around. "Well, we lost, so what can you do". Um, not undermine things that still work and are actively being used? Support them as well?

#Ubuntu is placing ads in its motd when you ssh in.

The way it fetches this ad is by doing

USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"

curl -A "$USER_AGENT" ...

In other words, Ubuntu is sending Canonical tracking information so it can serve you an ad.

This doesn't exactly run every time you log in (it caches the ad in /var/cache), but still... phoning home for a frickin ad?

Samuli Junttila teki väikkäristään räppivideon.

https://youtu.be/fn4Woyq2mMc

I wish the GNOME community would embrace one of two viewpoints:

- Code formatting does not matter
- Code formatting matters, and is *entirely* maintained and enforced by a tool (cf go fmt, rustfmt, black)

It's heartbreaking to see code reviews which ask only that the authors change things which have no semantic meaning. What a waste of limited time that we could spend on making the software work well.

Oh my God, Becky.
Look at this pull request.
I mean, this commit, it's just so small.
I can't believe it's just so concise,
like it's well thought out.
It's just so... good.

I like small DIFFS, and I cannot lie.
You other hackers can deny,
But when a patch comes in with an itty-bitty count,
and that bug fix in your face
You hit MERGE.

Germany approves Gpg4KDE and Gpg4win for the transmission and processing of National Classified Information: KMail and Kleopatra are officially deemed secure for the transmission of confidential state messages.

https://dot.kde.org/2020/02/18/gpg4kde-gpg4win-approved-transmission-processing-national-classified-information

Ah, dekstop Linux. Because why name an application by what it actually does, when you can instead steal & squat on another name that means something completely different?

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