@brouhaha @passthejoe Give Linux Mint a try.
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Public library worker - working for greater digital inclusion
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"The man who gives computers to kids"
https://www.his.com/~pshapiro/themanwhogives2.pdf
"The day my mind became open sourced"
https://opensource.com/life/12/4/day-my-mind-became-open-sourced
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"Not the odds, but the stakes."
That's my shortand for the organizing principle we most need from journalists covering the 2024 election. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Today the New York Times published an example of stakes reporting:
"Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government...."
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It's not just Elon. The hyper-wealthy are showing us that too much money is bad for people's mental health and reality-comprehension.
For their own good, we need to tax them until they are merely rich.
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While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them.
“What we’ve got here is a mathematical parlor trick, which is capable of presenting, generating and synthesizing information in ways which will help humans make better decisions and to be able to operate more efficiently,” said Wood.
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Technically We Write
Find your passion and write about it. Don Watkins shares his experience as a technical writer about Linux and open source software.
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Run your first cloud app in k3s https://sysadminsignal.com/2023/06/16/run-your-first-application-in-kubernetes-with-k3s/
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Bitwarden Moves into Passwordless Security: https://thenewstack.io/bitwarden-moves-into-passwordless-security/ by @sjvn
Bitwarden wants to help you move your applications and websites beyond passwords to serious #security.
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The Linux Foundation's Dent project (led by Amazon) is continuing to move forward extending the 'edge' of open source networking.
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"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
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Ok, that's impressive. Very much against my better judgement, I decided to try upgrading my home server (which also works as a desktop) in situ: from Ubuntu 18.04 (which is EOL in a couple weeks) to Ubuntu 22.04. I first went to 20.04, and then to 22.04. Worked pretty much without a hitch. Various docker-based services running on it were only down for a few minutes total (for two reboots & two installs of new Docker systems). Thousands of packages were swapped in/out & upgraded. Phenomenal.
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Open source and Linux skills are still in demand in a dark economy https://zdnet.com/article/open-source-and-linux-skills-still-in-demand-in-a-dark-economy/ by
@sjvn
Despite the headlines, tech jobs are not collapsing People with #Linux and #opensource skills that relate to the cloud, containers, and AI will do particularly well.
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Mobile apps are super easy and convenient for banking customers to use. But to build and maintain them? Not so much. Here are a few tips to make a developer’s job easier. https://redis.com/blog/mobile-banking-app-design-tips/?fbclid=IwAR0OhBOHJWFw2S9alvlvzFgX0luKEp7Sj8sgU1-4XA3nFD3pgvOUaXG383Q
Whenever I'm comparing resorts to vacation at, the one I finally decide upon is always my last resort.
I had a $1 trillion platinum coin in my pocket, but it slipped out and fell threw a sewer grate. Grrr. That always happens to me.
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"Not the odds but the stakes."
That's my shorthand for what we most need from election coverage in 2024. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Dan Rather on the horse race:
"A horse race confers an equivalence upon all candidates. The only detail that matters is who is going to win — not all that might be lost. To view America through that lens today is an exercise in the absurd."
https://steady.substack.com/p/the-danger-of-horse-race-politics
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NPR is the only major journalism org to have shown a spine in dealing with Musk. So he's threatened to give the NPR username to someone else.
Yet even now -- despite Musk's growing contempt for and acts against journalism -- most media organizations and their employees STILL pour their work and some of their advertising money in to his rancid site.
What will it take for journalists to wake the hell up?
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign
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What's driving demand for 800 Gigabit Ethernet? Surprise! It's AI
..As if AI wasn't already dominating every news cycle lately - it's also now seen by Arista Networks as the primary driver for organizations building out 800 Gigabit Ethernet networks.
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48% of people under 42 spend more time socializing online than off https://www.zdnet.com/article/48-of-people-under-42-spend-more-time-socializing-online-than-off/ by @sjvn
As an introvert who's lived online longer than most #Millennials have been alive. I'm surprised at how many young people live in virtual worlds they've helped create.
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SUSE Unveils Rancher 2.7.2, Enhanced Kubernetes Management: https://thenewstack.io/suse-unveils-rancher-2-7-2-enhanced-kubernetes-management/ by @sjvn
#SUSE wants to know that #Rancher may be just what you need for your #Kubernetes management needs.
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As @sjvn observed at #KubeConEU: Database vendors need to become more active in the cloud-native community — particularly to counter the scaling issues related to #Kubernetes and stateful applications.
https://redis.com/blog/kubecon-database-trends/
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