Tom Rini @trini@society.oftrolls.com

RT @isteintraum@twitter.com: Hello, I am a real person who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 who is here to say I am thrilled for Ocasio-Cortez because she represents an electable progressive future and I don’t care about these reductive 2016 campaign narratives anymore. thank you for your time!

Achievement unlocked:
- de-populate broken eMMC from set-top-box circuit board using hot air rework
- add necessary boot loader #blackmagic to existing SD card to make it boot directly
The latter worked on first try 😲 and I'm still puzzled at who now owns my soul for this.🤔

No big deal... just a #pdx ice cream truck helping us block the #ICE detention center while giving out free cones. #TooPerfect

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... abolishing fascistic govt agencies terrorizing families

Almost 1k strong last night. Word from #LA that the effort is spreading. WE'RE NOT LEAVING

JOIN US! (In Portland or wherever you are)

4310 SW Macadam Ave

Dont use docker. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/backdoored-images-downloaded-5-million-times-finally-removed-from-docker-hub/

To All Dads: If your child ever comes out and tells you they’re trans and you reply without missing a beat, “Hi trans I’m Dad,” I will immediately crown you King Dad forevermore.

Genuine question for code-y and tech people:

When you create new features, change things around, do you actually *ask* and *talk* to people affected before you deploy? Do you test it on actual users? Are you so deep in a bubble that some issues don't come up?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around this Masto 2.4 set-up.

Seven Dusty Sisters

Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180528.html #APoD

so uhm factorio is the most addictive game of all time, if you're a programmer

This photo is already making rounds, but Mike Duncan took it to a whole new level:
"This looks like a history painting that took years to plan, compose, and complete."
Click through for his whole artwork analysis! https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1005485808193818625

Picard management tip: There's no need to solve hard problems alone. Admit when you need help.
#PicardTips

Keep your personal data safe

tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.

rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.

I have this script that needs to be left running for long periods of time in the background, and I really don't care how slow it is. I'm finding that even with nice -n19 it makes interacting with this computer noticeably sluggish. Is there any way to:

a) push nice further, effectively saying "no really, it's even OK to pause this thing while there are other demands"?

b) have my Python script detect CPU load (so it could add pauses conditional on CPU load)?

@cobra2 The thing about git{hub,lab} is that I just use them as mirrors online where random eyes can find them. All my git repositories are primarily hosted on my own local Pi, and then (obviously?) on my local home dir. Migrating away from any of the arguably over-fancy Git host sites would lose their only real benefit: discoverability.

In short, I'll likely continue to push -u to Git hosting sites as long as there are people there who may contribute code to, or benefit from, my projects.

With all this GitHub hullabaloo, here's an extremely centralised service that no one is worried about yet:

DigitalOcean

I bet half the Fediverse is hosted on DigitalOcean droplets.

What would you do as an instance owner if Microsoft acquired it? Microsoft already owns Azure. DigitalOcean would complement it nicely by giving them a solid foothold in the Linux cloud space.

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