Tim @ticoombs@fosstodon.org

hi guys! i recently took beginner lessons in python programming...i can code but struggle to understand concepts like classes and inheritance...i applied to a post "python integration developer" in a startup and they will be interviewing me next week...a technical task will also follow

i desperately want a job (any job) but i am naturally scared of what is coming..i like to code but is it a lost cause? and how should i prepare considering my background? please boost

i have a very efficient metabolism i can sustain myself for days on a single boost

Mozilla just laid off 70 fantastic people. If you can help them - open positions, offering helpful conversations and references, anything else - please say so.

Use #MozillaLifeboat as an umbrella tag for easy finding. (It's already flowing on the birdsite.)

If you've been affected, I'm happy to chat directly. Also have some open positions (see rest of this thread). But doesn't have to be today - take time to recover if you can.

Most of all: thank you folks for making the web better.

"The attacker utilized the anti-virus management console service account to distribute the malware across the network." https://t.co/hmEtSiEWu8

there were some things i ddn't knew about raspberry pis:

"Linux runs on that ARM CPU, we know that, but we might be surprised to learn that Linux on this device is only a second class citizen. The GPU cores run a real time operating system called ThreadX. This operating system is closed source and rules the system without the open source Linux Kernel being aware of it."

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

and guess who bought the ThreadX operating system last april?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

Heya folks,

I was just curious, what makes for a good image description

I typically try to just give context for an image without being too literal about every detail but I don't actually know if that is good or useful

Does anyone who makes use of image descriptions have any advice for what is most useful or things to avoid?

#accessibility

@gnome A few years ago, I was watching my sister doing her college homework; she was studying biology. I saw her editing a photo in the GIMP, on Windows.

"Sis, I didn't know you used the GIMP."

"Oh, yeah, some friends at school told me about it, it's a Photoshop clone one can just download."

"..."

"..."

"Sis, did you know I was the maintainer like 15 years ago? I wrote the first third-party plugin for it."

"WHAT"

I'm happy that we've given non-computer nerds good software.

Made a little thing:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev

wev, or Wayland event viewer, analogous to X11's xev

#whenmarniewasthere is on at 1pm on #SBS World Movies. This is a stunning Studio Ghibli animated movie and everyone with an appreciation for Miyazaki works should see this.

Ouch... #Mozilla #Firefox
1548973 - (armagadd-on-2.0) All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

I'm alive.