Gotta say, this is a major improvement over my first-touch experience with Python, which was "use a package manager to install a package manager to install a package manager so you can spray python dependencies all over your system and never know for sure what version of python you're running ever again", which I understand has maybe sort of improved since?

It's an amusing coincidence that there's a Rust survival game and a Rust language, so when I'm to figure out what I need to install on a Debian machine to start coding,the advice I get back includes "Find a flat place to build. Kill some animals as soon as possible."

Current status: That rare feeling when you delete an entire set of recurring meetings, and it's terrible because the person you were meeting with was awesome and it was always super-productive.

Everyone please keep wearing your masks.

@RisottoGateway @samgai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak

Look at everyone who's ever said "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear". Look at who they are.

And try to tell me that every single one, every person, company, every organization, anyone who's ever said that doesn't want the power to strip you of your dignity at a moment's notice, whenever it's convenient for them.

You don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the toilet, or wear clothes. Privacy isn't about having something to hide, it's not about keeping secrets. It's about being able to choose what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being. Privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

Between you and me, this is one of the most frustrating things about working at Mozilla. We spend _years_ busting our asses on privacy, agonizing over minimalist, rigorously anonymized telemetry, making sure it's all transparent and safe and has opt-outs, and the internet screams at us for it anyway. And every other tech company out there responds to the years of research it takes to prove they don't give a shit about any of this with "whoops yeah sorry my bad we'll definitely do something".

Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

Ok team who do I know who works at Linode and feels like saving the world for a month or two?

Since Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet, the term “FAANG” is outdated and I propose we stick it to the MAAAN.

@technomancy English As A Language Of Last Resort doesn't have the same ring to it.

@thomasfuchs is this the true origin of the cat command that has been hidden from us all these years

@LunaDragofelis @IceWolf There are people in the world who want little more from life than to travel snowy cities on light rail, and if you are such a person, I hope this picture makes you happy and finds you well.

Zeno's Transit Paradox. As the delays stretch to infinity, so too do the trains themselves.

@FirstProgenitor You can't crack open the same cold one twice.

Periodic reminder:

@packetcat The Storm - their all-touchscreen thing - remains the only device I've ever heard of having a more-than-100% return rate. _everyone_ who bought one returned it, and when they were resold refurbished, everyone who bought one of _those_ returned them too.