dear maintainers,
gh pr list --state open | grep "docs" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs gh pr close
It takes a significant amount of effort to un-clutch yourself from the addicting aspect of social media.
Dark patterns and dopamine inducing internet 'points' are validation measures crafted to force your brain into coming back (to that conversation).
The first step is identifying these exist. The next step may be cold-turkey or gradual retreat depending on how you function. It's tough, but doable. Gaining back that control is fun.
Hi all,
The company I work for (recently surpassed 500 full-time employees) is looking for helpdesk technicians and Sysadmins in the Montreal and Quebec City areas. If you're interested or want more information, send me a DM or an email at linuxliaison@fastmail.com.
If you know someone who's looking for a job, send them my way :)
Zuck's official response to netflix’s The Social Dilemma is really something [pdf]
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/What-The-Social-Dilemma-Gets-Wrong.pdf
Time for browsers to integrate context-mapping into their bookmark managers.
The current ones are reverse chronologically arranged links within folders. It can be so much more than that.
And this, kids, is yet another example of why we block arbitrary #Javascript and advertisements.
Friend: I want to follow what's up with my favorite topics. But there's too much signal to noise ratio on birdsite and the likes. [...] wish there was an alternative where I'm not bombarded with random people's thoughts on the topic.
All but one other person in the group chat: Allow us to introduce something called RSS feeds 😅
OMG, am dying!!!
Someone used the bug GitHub refused to fix, that allows you to add a commit to a repo you don’t control... to upload YouTube-dl to the DMCA request repo on GitHub.
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
If you want to leave GitHub due to their recent bad behavior but still need a presence there, you can absolutely do that.
What FOSS developers provide them is credibility. If you move your cool projects elsewhere and mirror them to Github with a pointer to the real repo, the message is clear: you're only on Github because you have to be.
Boycotting $BIG_COMPANY 95% of the time is almost as effective as boycotting it 100% of the time; this isn't an all-or-nothing deal.
Requesting #pinephone users to vote. Boosts appreciated.
What do you reckon is a realistic timeline for the phone to be "mainstream ready"?
Falsehoods programmers believe about time.
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca