Take action against #EarnIt: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption/ #Fight4Privacy #Fight4Encryption
How to identify the features that a system needs:
1. Use the system as-is
2. Notice over time that the lack of a feature is a conspicuous limitation
3. Implement the feature
How NOT to identify the features that a system needs:
1. Skim a blog post about the system
2. "It doesn't support $FEATURE? Ridiculous!"
3. Dismiss it outhand
Why it's important to use a real email address for your sourcehut account: I just emailed a dozen people to tell them that their CI builds are going to break with the incoming deprecation of a build image. One of their emails bounced, and they're in for a nasty surprise when their shit starts breaking next week
@thegibson joined
Apple steals over eighty hours of work per retail employee per year by making them stay after they have clocked out to be searched before they go home.
Wage theft is a tax levied on workers by their bosses.
Apple, that's indefensible.
Please share.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-13/apple-workers-paid-for-searches
#9yrsago Machine Man: a discomfiting novel about the antihuman side of transhumanism https://boingboing.net/2011/10/26/machine-man-a-discomfiting-nov.html
New Android version 0.2001.7-beta being deployed with a few bug fixes:
🔷 New app icon
☑ Sync over rooms wasn’t always working
☑ Show success/failure toasts for room invites
☑ Correct email subject for bug reports
https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#020017-beta
"Okay children, where does water come from?"
In Unison: "Nestlé!"
"That's right. And who steals our water?"
In Unison: "The Fremen!"
"Very good, everyone gets an extra 2 ounces!"
Children "Yay!"
MIMS 2010. Living in Western Mass. now and working as a PM.