I have it from good authority that Nancy Beers is going to be talking about the #WHY2025 event very, very soon ( 9:15 CEST soon): https://chaos.social/@why2025camp/114708737680763077

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's work can't buy three square meals, 24-hour rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to save for when you can no longer work comfortably, what the fuck are we doing shit for?

@ionica Wel eerlijk, soms... :-)

Many, many years ago, a new specification called "XML" emerged. After a bit, people realized it was kinda useful for some stuff.

Then, something happened.

MANAGERS!

I imagine many conversations between managers / developers somewhat like this:

M: "So, what is the nice thing with #XML

D: "oh, it is a specification that simplifies stuff, since tools have a clean format to work with."

M: "So, what kinda specifications?"

D: "Oh, it can be more or less anything."

M: *starry eyed!* "an.. an... anything?"

I was teaching computer courses for companies at that point. Suddenly, my calendar was just packed with XML courses.

It is like very limited what you can teach, it is not really complex, so you talk surrounding technologies. But not...

"Our boss wants us to replace the SQL db with XML?"

"what?"

"We gonna use XML instead of MS SQL"

"... what?"

"He said XML can be used for anything..."

If you think companies with #AI plans have actual plans, with a strategy make sense, please think of this story.

Today I got this message: "We have decided to Not include any Ansible scripts in our Repository,...." with their motivation added to it. Downside to this is that I submitted my code 261 days ago. Tell me, what are your thoughts on this?

Linus has a sense of humor. #linux #japan

Ik lolpalmde

Dank aan alle sprekers op #NLUUG #NJ2023. Zonder jullie was deze conferentie niet mogelijk geweest, hadden we een gelegenheid gemist om nog iets te leren (😉) en ouderwets te netwerken.
Dank voor jullie bijdragen aan onze conferentie.

Had to explain to my students what "ftp" is, and now I'm sad. (Not even going to bother bringing up UUCP and "news".)

one more question about command line editors -- if you use vim, how do you feel about it?

trying to get a sense for how common it is to use vim without being super comfortable with it

@ErinRose Once read somewhere: "A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind"....

"embrace, extend, extinguish" relies on a big player joining a standard body only to extend the standard with proprietary features faster than the body can integrate them into the standard. They then lure users into the walled garden of a shiny toy offering these additional features the standard is missing, eventually taking users and resources away from the standard body: the original withers away.

Allowing different shiny new features is the whole point of the fediverse.

I asked my @DevopsdaysGe@twitter.com audience , how many really had a use case for #k8s , 2 people raised their hand. Maybe we should ask that question more .

Yesterday a high school student working on a paper emailed me with a question:

“Through ChatGPT i find that you have a article named: "Teaching History in the Age of YouTube and Wikipedia" but i am not finding it”

You’re not finding it because I never wrote it. ChatGPT, as usual, is making shit up.

Today we are very excited to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal. This first stable release based on Ubuntu 20.04 marks a big step forward in the development of Ubuntu Touch. Full details can be found in the OTA-1 blog.

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-1-focal-release-3888

#UBports #UbuntuTouch #Ubuntu #Focal #OTA1 #MobileLinux

Last year, all of you together have executed 691,984 tests on https://Internet.nl and we have seen many of you improving 🚀. Congrats 🎉 to all 2,929 champions, 24,535 websites and 45 hosters in the Hall of Fame 💯. Let’s keep pushing together for a better Internet in 2023!

#moderninternet #standards #ipv6 #dnssec #rpki #https #dmarc #dane #tlsa

Updating my "moving from Twitter to Mastodon" guide with more tools, including the excellent FollowGraph: https://followgraph.vercel.app/

Post: https://www.forceflow.be/2022/11/11/moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon/

Wie de oudejaarsconference niet bevalt, sodemietert maar op: zo moet het ook, vindt Claudia de Breij. ‘Ik ben bezorgd. En bozer. Over alles’
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/wie-het-niet-bevalt-sodemietert-maar-op-hoe-claudia-de-breij-zonder-handrem-haar-oudejaars-heeft-voorbereid~b30eddef/

Gisteren was ik bij Met Nerds om Tafel om te praten over Mastodon in Nederland: https://pca.st/episode/ffe822a6-8c22-4ede-bcd8-0fb15f816612

Did you know that #Mastodon supports #RSS feeds?

That means you can follow your favorite people and topics right inside of Thunderbird!

→ Just add ".rss" to the URL ←

For example, our Mastodon URL "https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird"

becomes

"https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird.rss"

What about #hashtags? YEP!

Let's look at #OpenSource. From our instance, it is: "https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource"

So, we just append .rss and it works!

"https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource.rss"

REALLY useful if you don't want to miss a thing!