@shauna Concur. "Grassroots fundraising" looks good in campaign copy, but in truth a politician beholden to 40,000 voters is a lot less accountable than one answering to 20,000 voters and an aligned, organized bloc of 20,000 more.
"This stuff doesn’t matter because we lost. Everything sucks now. The future is shit. All these ideas we talked about, everything that seemed bright and exciting about programming, about computers, about the open web way back in 2007-2011 has since turned to ashes, crumbled into dust, and blown away in the wind."
Should people who are late for their flight get to cut to the front of the security line?
"A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone.
"All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.
"“Whoa!”, I can hear some of you say. “Offside, that’s not cool. That’s an ad hominem, and very immature of you. What do you have against a mixture of dried carbohydrates and powdered seasonings?”
"I hear you, and I ask for your forgiveness and your patience."
｢ A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone ｣
📵 Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users / FSFE
｢ There is no non-profit Free Software app store available for iPhones and iPads. Apple blocks non-profit app stores with extremely high financial requirements and prohibits unfettered installation of software. Even for the Free Software commercial ones, such as the Alt Store, Apple still applies a complete review and control, through an encryption layer over distributed source code ｣
Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD / Conrad Research
｢ FreeBSD’s native support for ZFS snapshots and jails provides a powerful foundation for immutable deployments. By creating a new jail from a ZFS snapshot for every release, we get instant roll‑backs, zero‑downtime upgrades, and a clean, reproducible environment ｣
https://conradresearch.com/articles/immutable-software-deploy-zfs-jails
free software without progressive politics is just free labor
where the fuck is Bill Gates? why isn’t he screaming about the #NIH and Kennedy’s evisceration of #HHS ?
where are Oprah, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Lebron James, the Kardashians, all of them paper billionaires?
where is Mark Cuban? and how about the Democrats’ favorite billionaires, Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schulz?
where exactly are all the good billionaires fighting Trump’s destruction of the federal government and what semblance of democracy USA had?
have any of y'all found a physical media library tracking tool you like? ideally something i could self-host but i can live with it being SaaS
40 days for what? Why cave now? Why these particular Dem Senators? *Looks at map of cities most impacted by flight cancellations.* Ah...
Schumer (NY) 🛫
Booker (NJ) 🛫
King (ME)
Hassan (NH)
Durbin (IL) 🛫
Ossoff (GA) 🛫
Shaheen (NH)
Gillibrand (NY) 🛫
Masto (NV)
Warner (VA) 🛫
And yes, we were headed for a major aviation incident if we didn't cancel even more flights or get FAA folks paid. Maybe we still are. 😢
And no, this is not saying that I think caving is the right call. It's not.
For everyone wondering what the solution is: how do you keep all the flights without paying the FAA employees? Simple. You don't. You cancel even more flights, or pay workers.
That's what "government shutdown" means.
Otherwise, it's just a "government pay down," for government employees.
If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.
say what you want about Chuck Schumer
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Friend: I'm going to see Five Iron Frenzy, I'm so excited
Me: oh rad, I'd heard they were still ok. ... what are they up to these days?
2021 album:
"Your generals arе dead and buried
Lost to time, thе cause they carried
The statues that they never earned
We'll bulldoze as your flags are burned"
2021 album:
"So light the coal, your future is a dust bowl
You can't see the sun 'cause oil pays the bankroll"
🤘 🔥
Do you think there are enough organizations specifically dedicated to defending privacy rights?
#Privacy #PrivacyRights #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Activism
@mattblaze @pluralistic
Good luck. I used to fly a lot in 1970s-1990s, and in the earlier era I remember all too well flights that had to circle… but then scheduling got much better.
Like measles, another scourge brought back.👎
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