For those that would like some more info, I've gone ahead and written up a blog post with a few bits that might be useful for the #MedMastodon community to know including a bit about who has taken over the site and what the future holds (TLDR it's not a lot that is interesting, just keeping the site stable and working nicely!) you can find the blog here - https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
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This is why nothing is done. People redirect rage and action towards innocent targets because they’re too afraid or unimaginative to use it against the actual enemy.
There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims. They’re losing in front of juries and judges are calling them not credible.
It’s important not to normalize this absurd language from DHS — their “sounds like” doesn’t mask their intent.
https://san.com/cc/filming-ice-agents-is-a-first-amendment-right-so-why-might-it-land-you-in-jail/
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Safety-absolutism is quietly killing change and challenge
Good to look at this without attacking individuals, we need to mediate the safety-absolutism that is quietly killing change and challenge. When fear becomes #blocking, safety becomes dangerous. This is hard to say plainly, but it needs to be said. Fear is now one of the primary blocking forces in our movements. And the way we currently talk about “safety” is actively preventing change and challenge.
This isn’t about mocking trauma, denying harm, or dismissing the very real violence […]
De plus en plus de parquets spécialisés et de moins en moins de justice pour tous. Ça devrait nous inquiéter.
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/115843441845279022
I've been using LibreOffice since it split from OpenOffice. It's rock solid and available for both Windows and Linux (and other OS's, though those are the two I've used.)
I admit, I've never had occasion to use the database tool, but I used the writer and sheets apps constantly. And the presentation app, has done everything I've needed to on the rare occasions I've gone to it.
You *could* pay me to go back to Microsoft office, but it would cost a lot.
@fatsam LibreOffice Base is... kind of sad. It's so close to being usable...
...but I totally agree about the rest of the apps (I've used Write and Calc regularly, and done things with Draw a few times.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@djrrb/115820877367792020
really lovely presentation for a font designers website
La prossima udienza per Maduro il 17 marzo - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2026/01/05/la-prossima-udienza-per-maduro-il-17-marzo_3b3522ea-c65e-40e1-afca-c774da527434.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa
I know many devs find pointers and nulls evil and prefer using values only, especially in the Go world. But to an untrained eye, "7pm Dec 31st, 1969" probably seems arbitrary and confusing. A null value would have been useful here.
this is not Go's zero value for Time. it's zero UNIX timestamp in the UTC-5 timezone. i don't think it's intentional. probably that's how they store it in the database.
@rysiek they are no longer in the software business. They sell slop.
Phenomenal quote from @pluralistic in this post
#labor #union #laborpower
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
I worry she watches too much TV.
But when I buy her a book, she refuses to even try it.
So I'll take that as a lesson to myself not to mix "this is how the law works" in the same conversation as "and this might be a consequence if the law didn't work that way" without clearly establishing the difference. My apologies for not being clearer on that.
But also, I would ask that people try to have at least a little bit of grace in not immediately jumping to conclusions that someone explaining something is endorsing everything bad. Life is short. No one needs that shit. Off to do some work.
"i generated [many] lines of code, and much more complexity than i could have done on my own" isn't the selling point you seem to think it is
@inconvergent
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
-- Brian Kernighan, 1974"
Imagine how hard it is to debug code you're not smart enough to write in the first place.
ANDU, FLC-CGIL, Roars, nonché la Rete delle Società Scientifiche, hanno espresso allarme o almeno preoccupazione per i doni che lo stato si appresta a regalare alla ricerca italiana. Questi doni, che rafforzeranno i poteri, già non poco oppressivi, del ministero dell’università e della ricerca, dell’Anvur che gli è sottomesso e delle gerarchie accademiche locali, consistono:
in una […]
https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/anvur-reclutamento-universita-lepifania-della-valutazione-di-stato/I've been a fan of Doctorow's writing for a long time and holy shit -- this thread about how the super rich & powerful don't believe the rest of us really exist is powerful.
@pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115843023500265780
Impact of Geopolitical Risks, Maduro Pleads Not Guilty To All Charges | ETF IQ 1/5/2026
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-05/etf-iq-1-5-2026-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"The risk of falling space junk hitting airplanes is on the rise"
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/the-risk-of-falling-space-junk-hitting-airplanes-is-on-the-rise-experts-warn
Just as @sundogplanets warned us back in Nov 2024:
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/musks-space-junk-is-a-threat-to-us-all/
