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This is, quite possibly, the most entertaining interview i have ever encountered. You simply *must * read it. It keeps getting better with every question.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/b-c-swimmer-crosses-strait-of-georgia-under-nine-hours-9.7316260

Today marks Linux’s 35th birthday! 🎉🎂

35 years of milestones that took a hobby project from one developer’s announcement to the foundation of much of modern computing

Here is a look at the milestones that shaped its remarkable journey 😎👇

Find high-res pdf ebooks with all my Linux related infographics at https://study-notes.org

#linux #software #technology #computer #opensource

@jpm
Any port in a storm…
Any house in a delivery…
Please keep us informed. 😀

Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed.

They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex.

He apparently also wrote a fan-fiction book for Harry Potter, called "Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality". Its premise is that Harry Potter was raised by scientists and University of Oxford professors (🙄), and at the age of 10 having already received a rigorous scientific education, before being sent to Hogwarts, where he then examines the magic through the lens of science.

"Productivity YouTuber" Ali Abdaal who has millions of uneducated gullible followers, is now promoting that book with a video literally titled, "I am begging you to read [this book]."

Promoting Harry Potter in 2026 is definitely a choice. J. K. Rowling is doing her best to ensure the death of all transgender people. What Rowling is doing literally falls under the definition of genocide.

Promoting the works of Effective Altruists in 2026 is definitely a choice.

Ali Abdaal represents everything that is wrong with Gen Z aspiring to become millionaires by way of becoming YouTubers. Please stop watching him.

I discovered his channel in 2018 or so, when he showed his viewers the flashcard app Anki. And I learned how to study effectively thanks to him, something school or my parents never taught me. But I quickly got turned off by his channel around 2019 or so when he started pivoting to iPad reviews like every other tech channel. And especially when his popularity exploded in 2020 with everyone stuck at home due to the pandemic.

Please stop watching him if you do.

#EffectiveAltruism #TESCREAL #HarryPotter

@farah@beige.party Yes. I have definitely changed.

I still don't contribute enough to others, including my neighbors. I need to expand the "give" part of give-and-take.

Of course, it's important to contribute through actions, rather than things like money that only offer a fleeting fix.

Up until now, whenever I did something, I expected too much in return and couldn't quite fully immerse myself in collaborative efforts.

Somewhere inside, I had this fear that if I devoted myself to others, I would just end up completely exhausted.

That fear was completely blown away by this recent incident! If anything, I'm more of a free rider, so I don't need to worry about that.

Kazakhstan’s Election Brings a New Parliament — and More Pressure on Journalists

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/kazakhstans-election-brings-a-new-parliament-and-more-pressure-on-journalists?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=automated

#crime #corruption #news

@sebsauvage
C'est plus qu'envisagé maintenant, c'est en dev et publié sur leurs repo
@stupeflo

After the most recent Mastodon update the new post dialogue is left active after every t00t or reply when I click "Post". I only use the web UI.

I assume that's a bug? It's certainly annoying me.
#Mastodon

If you've read this far, definitely also read this entire thread (by @mxchara):

https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117152288816219820

#EffectiveAltruism #TESCREAL #HarryPotter

Current logics in politics be like:

@afewbugs the other week I was running an errand in a work truck and had my hands full (didn't bring a bag) and with the unfamiliar keys accidentally set off my car alarm right as an elderly man passed, making him jump and just generally alarming him. I felt so bad 😭 why is it so close to the unlock button on some key fobs

Hello and Welcome!

We have a fresh continuwuity release (26.8.1) out for you today. I recommend updating, there is a small security fix included. However, let's talk about what's new!

We have one more step towards "Matrix 2.0" (sticky events). Now we are only missing delayed events, which are just about done. We track the health of other servers, and stop sending them events when they're down (and start again, when we hear from them again). We've also fixed a lot of small bugs that should make rooms "behave better" from the client side.

Download, or update, to the latest version today!

https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity/releases/tag/v26.8.1

#matrix #continuwuity #element #chat

Personal experience: I’ve had it twice - a car accident and only surgery during childbirth. I don’t know if it significantly changed me, some people think so. I’d say, I have lot less reservations about rocking the boat in different situations afterwards. I wish I could say I grew my IDGAF bone afterwards. But as a chronically depressed suicidal person, my experience has been a bit lukewarm

@sebsauvage

J'avais pas suivi mais es-ce que Rclone supporte inotify quand il monte un FS via des protocole lambda (sshfs/cifs/nfs) ?

«Think back to elementary school, when you were asked what you wanted to be when you grew up. Did anyone you know tell the adults they wanted to be a VP of Marketing? No—kids dream of doing something useful. They want to be firemen, or artists, or scientists. It might sound like I’m demeaning the executive class, and I am.»

Absolutely! The "default" assumption of people who want to be "leaders" that everyone else wants to become one as well is so toxic.

/HR @khinsen

https://justinpot.com/the-one-thing-no-ceo-will-ever-understand/

An absolutely shitty motel experience in Davenport, IA behind us, our road trip continues. 🚙