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Hi, if you are following me because you think I am the dipshit who writes books about the People's Republic of China, I am not that dipshit.
I am a completely different dipshit.
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When I started this instance, I envisioned it as a social network 
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Like the hallway track at #BSDCan 
. Or when we wander the streets at #EuroBSDCon 
. And like when we hit up the bars at #AsiaBSDCon 
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Chat about anything! Everything! Code is cool, but so is anything in your noggin. Good thing so many of you are already doing that 
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/me puts Admin Hat on.
Hi everybody!
The bsd.network instance has a Code Of Conduct, viewable at https://bsd.network/terms or via the "Terms and Conditions" link that is sprinkled around a few places.
The TL;DR is "be cool unto others". However, since society at large has demonstrated they can't be cool, we had to write out a bunch of things.
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Hey, users of bsd.network. Be cool unto people, and people will be cool unto you. Interacting with people is a *privilege* not a *right*. This is a private place owned by me and @aag and we want it to be friendly and nice.
We don't want to have to swing the admin-hammer to correct your behaviour!
But we will.
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I have created a #Librepay account for donations to me. I intend to use any monies to cover my open-source work, and for hosting this instance. https://liberapay.com/phessler/
Since donations through the service are anonymous, I don't know if, or how much, people have donated.
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@djsundog One fun thing about America's police force is that they do not need to be told "violently." Violence (or the threat of violence) is inherent in their every action.**
The social/professional pressure on all cops to live up to the #acab label is tremendous and it is a huge individual victory for every police when they act like a human being.
** this is also why having police as the default respondents for mental health crises often results in death.
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All the cloud vendors say they’ve been “working on AI for decades,” but Intel was shipping Pentiums that were bad at math in 1994.
peter hessler @openbsd
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I thought Biden said we need to vote for him to avoid authoritarianism because cops cosplaying Call of Duty characters are arresting college kids for protesting war crimes.
Biden keeps telling us he's different from Trump but uhhhh
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People love to applaud civil rights, anti-war, and anti-apartheid protests of the past, and say that they can't believe that people opposed them back then. Yet at the same time they see no problem attacking people protesting for human rights and social justice today.
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Everyone in tech wants to be Steve Jobs standing on stage announcing visionary products, but nobody wants to be Steve Jobs back at the office saying over and over again, "this is not good enough, and we're not shipping it until it is."
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If you're attending #BSDCan, please register as early as possible to allow us an accurate count for SWAG, food, and cowbell!
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As we see young people rising up on campuses across the US, we encourage our comrades in the student movement to skill up on information hygiene and community defense + care tactics.
As such, we’re pulling from our archives a primer on information hygiene written by seasoned organizers to their comrades during the 2020 Uprisings in Minneapolis.
“How we handle information is crucial to our safety and success.”
https://antidotezine.com/2020/07/20/disinformation-hygiene-stop-the-deadly-spread/
That's exciting. The Polizei came on board because of a problem with a passenger's luggage.
"You will receive a letter, and you will need to explain your point of view." "You will not get it back."
But it can't be all that bad, because the passenger is allowed to travel...
On my way to Paris for a quick work trip, and they did a software update of the X-ray machine just as the people in front of me were let through...
Took just 3 minutes, but still! You'd think they would do that overnight. Or, at the very least, not during the morning rush through security.
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“The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon [Apr 23 2024] voted 3-to-2 approve [sic] the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not enforceable.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-noncompete-agreement-ban/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ftc-noncompete-agreement-ban/
peter hessler @openbsd
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I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
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E-mail 30 years ago: "Avast! Another miraculous digitized communique! How splendid, I shall respond posthaste!" 
E-mail now: "WHAT THE SHITTING FUCK? WHY DIDN'T IT GO TO TRASH? HOW DARE YOU???" 
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Rich people are Like That.
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Hey, folks. I need some help.
One of my partners was in a car wreck a few days ago. They have a spinal fracture (T12 for certain, others unknown). They also have Ehlers-Dahlos syndrome.
So far the doctors are saying that a thoraco-lumbar fusion is going to be necessary. What they're not sure of is how well a spinal fusion is going to work while also being hypermobile.
Does anybody out there have experience with this? Any anecdotes? Data points? Papers to reference?
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Just as a friendly reminder for anyone not aware:
The British press is not our friend. They, as a rule, do not publish anything, ever, favorable about trans folks, because those who control their content would very much prefer that we didn't exist.
So, if a reporter for, say, The Guardian wants to talk to you?
Don't.
peter hessler @openbsd
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Let's stop using the term, "ai art," and start saying, "ai content."
They want us to call our work, "content," and they want us to call their junk, "art." No.
#aiart
men: stop stealing credit from women, and stop treating women as if they don't exist challenge (impossible)
challenge mode impossible: a search that finds _all_ words typed in the query.
peter hessler @openbsd
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I have a friend that helps manage equestrian-based businesses and she's looking for a web developer (wordpress) to work 12-15 hours/week for $25-$40/hour (depending on the client). Let me know if you're interested
#FediJob #FediJobs #GetFediHired #FediHire #FediHiring #WebDev #Wordpress
