A wandering swordplay instructor trying my best.
"You're not building protected bike lanes for the people who are biking today, You're building it for the people who aren't biking today because it's not safe" @notjustbikes
After 100 days in office, the German federal government falls short on #FreeSoftware: Draft procurement act fails to secure tech sovereignty by prioritising Free Software. The “Germany Stack” lacks EU coordination and transparency. No reliable long-term funding for Free Software in the budget.
Make “Public Money? Public Code!” the rule: Software paid with public money must be Free Software! The time to act is now!
Learned about @freesewing today, an open-source sewing pattern design program!
There are plenty of designs to choose from, modifiable to your body measurements. You can also code your own patterns!
The documentation seems really good, and the whole project seems wholesome!
Also, there's a shark pattern, with parameters like "hungriness" and "teeth pointyness", and I just love that! :D
Link Post: Denethor in Lord of the Rings is now a metaphor for doomscrolling https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/22353128/denethor-lotr-movies-story-doomscrolling/
So I'm trying to figure out how I can better make a steady background income with the random collection of skills I have, while still building out the Vulpibus and Vulpine Labs.
I have determined that Upwork & Fiverr are near-scams that create a crab bucket of tens of thousands of people per freelancing site who compete for the scant attention of clients who naturally gravitate to freelancers who have huge portfolios already, are willing to be underpaid & are probably not me.
So I would rather #getfedihired more directly.
I can do #openstreetmap editing & improvements in areas of your choice, which I have over 10 years of volunteer experience in.
I can also be your personal genealogist (with a data privacy agreement to protect your documents) and do mainly online (some in person travel possible if you would like to pay for it) research through BMD records, parish registers, censuses and archived data of various kinds. Experience > 10yrs.
Interested? #hireme DM pls.
Paypal, many other methods accepted.
Literally every good person I know who is working in tech actually wants to be doing something else like gardening or carpentry, says a lot about how much we've all fucked up this industry
You probably know about the five Platonic solids, convex polyhedra that are fundamental for point symmetries. But did you know there is a different set of five convex polyhedra, the parallelohedra, that are just as fundamental for translational symmetries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelohedron, another new Good Article on Wikipedia.
Holy hell. The Truck is such a complete fucking sales disaster that he's getting a corrupt deal with the military to buy them as targets.
THE TESLA TRUCK IS SUCH A COMPLETE FAILURE THAT THEY'RE SELLING THEM TO THE MILITARY AS TARGETS FOR TARGET PRACTICE.
No doubt at full price or some shit. Gotta claw those losses back somehow.
eta: It's small numbers in this initial buy. I find "a few" and "two" given as numbers in different articles. But c'mon. This is how it starts, right?
#tesla #TeslaTakedown #corruption #uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #ElonMusk
@hacks4pancakes infosec is under attack and we were warned. with very few exceptions (present company excluded), no one said a word.
CISA is dead, CVE is dead, MITRE is dead. if you need receipts, look at who's been funding the ruling party for 30 years. they're the same people that put them in power and the same people who stand to gain most from diminished protections. the same people the entire database from the social security office was sent to 15mins after doge raided their offices.
I just saw a video where a fellow was talking about shaving his eyebrows as a motivational tool. I don't know if he was serious or satirical. I do know that my loved ones and I will be reminding each other "Eyebrows are for winners!" for some time.
If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:
1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.
2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.
For the record:
Nazi hackers really *can* fuck off.
This is the most incredible headstone I have ever seen. Sad to have not known him with this kind of memorial!
Note the border inscription.
When it comes down to it, it's not going to be that difficult for the rest of the world not to buy American, and when that happens, there will be just one jackass to blame
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/canadians-stopped-buying-american-wine-1236961236/