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I was a Linux (largely Red Hat)/Solaris sysadmin for a bit, but mostly I've just been running Linux at home for 15 years or so -- Ubuntu, since early on; Mint these days, and LXLE on my netbook. (macOS at work now.)
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"He said the world was as soft as lace." https://write.as/jlj/the-world-is-soft-as-lace #belleandsebastian #idontloveanyone
How Not to Lose the Lockdown Generation https://theintercept.com/2020/08/06/naomi-klein-coronavirus-youth-covid-19-future-unemployment/ #COVID19 #history #nya #ccc
_Years_ ago, I wish someone had seen my paper copy of 'What Colour [sic] Is Your Parachute?', just walked up to me and paraphrased this quote. After learning how to learn, learning mastery has to be _the_ key life skill.
"A better motto for most youth [than 'Follow your bliss'] is 'Master something, anything.' Through mastery... you can drift towards extensions... that bring you more joy, and eventually discover where your bliss is." https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/
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Transgender Facebook content dominated by right-wing sources, study finds
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Building a hallway viewer for fun https://github.com/AAorris/hallway
https://hallway.amorris.vercel.app/
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Wanted: POC consultants for sci-fi story 
I'm currently working on a sci-fi story set in the far future, and it's my goal to create a world that does not feel white US/Euro-centric. I'd like to pay a few folks for some input as consultants. Mostly, describing how they see their culture developing in the future scenario I describe and being available for future questions. Feel free to ask questions here or via DM and please pass this along to folks who may be interested!
I remember really enjoying what was called The Professional, in North America; wondered whether I would now. Reading this, I think I'll pass.
https://theconversation.com/leon-at-25-representations-of-girlhood-need-to-be-real-and-relevant-not-distorted-by-the-male-gaze-141262 #film #malegaze #sexualterrorism
"The depiction of overtly sexualised girlhood is tiresome at best, and dangerous at worst." And Portman, last year: "No one would make Léon today."
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Programmers PSA - Learn to justify your effort
https://www.mrlacey.com/2020/07/youve-only-added-two-lines-why-did-that.html
You've only added two lines - why did that take two days!
Because:
* The issue was reported with a vague description of how to recreate it.
* The reported issue was related to functionality, I'm not familiar with.
* I took the time to investigate the real cause of the issue, not just looking at the symptoms.
* I investigated if there were other ways of getting to the same problem, not just the reported reproduction steps.
* I took the time to verify if there were other parts of the code that might be affected in similar ways.
* When I found the cause of the issue, I looked to find the simplest way of fixing it that would have minimal risk of introducing side-effects.
* I tested the change thoroughly and verified that it addressed the problem for all the different code paths that were affected.
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Kickstarter for a cool deck of 60 conversation-starting questions https://boingboing.net/2020/07/14/kickstarter-for-a-cool-deck-of.html #boingboing #kickstarter
My complaint to GOV.UK about their COVID-19 guidance: https://write.as/jlj/my-complaint-to-gov-uk-regarding-covid-19-information #COVID19 #uk #anxiety #easyread
Day 50 -- halfway! \o/ -- of my #100DaysToOffload: https://write.as/jlj/hashicorps-packer-and-willpower #hashicorp #packer
Happy birthday, #Canada! Bonne fête du Canada! #canadaday #hadfieldbros
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Here is a template in PDF format of the Mastodon Paper-Toy.
You will need scissors, glue and a cutter. It may take a bit of patience as well ^^
https://poudingue.imfast.io/Paper-Toy/Mastodon_papertoy_yellow.pdf
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IPv6 was released 50 years ago today
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@kev Couple of weeks ago you wrote a blog post about doing work that you love. I thought about it a lot and realised that I don't enjoy my work anymore and that I'm stuck in a rut - anyway, the result was that I applied for a secondment to a different team at work and I got told today that I've been successful.
Just a long way of saying thanks for writing it really.
Just a long way of saying thanks for writing it really.
- Keybase
- jlj7
- ^C Club/Blog
- http://ctrl-c.club/~jlj/
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- https://tildes.net/user/jlj
- Pronouns
- https://pronoun.is/he
I was a Linux (largely Red Hat)/Solaris sysadmin for a bit, but mostly I've just been running Linux at home for 15 years or so -- Ubuntu, since early on; Mint these days, and LXLE on my netbook. (macOS at work now.)
Header by CARTOONDISTRICT.
Joined May 2020
