Stephen Michael Kellat @alpacaherder@mastodon.sdf.org

The War on Suicide

Suicide. We all have had some run-in with it. Whether it be through our own actions or through a close family member or friend. Suicide has taken a death grip on our lives and it needs to be stopped now. Let me set the stage for you. A young, 21-year old Marine, sits alone in […]

I'm feeling dizzy.

BBC apologises for hot mic swearing during Labour split broadcast

'We are actually fucked'

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/feb/18/bbc-apologises-for-hot-mic-swearing-during-labour-split-broadcast?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tusky

Before safety laws.

There are lots of other extraordinary things POTUS can do in an emergency. “For instance, the president can, with the flick of his pen, activate laws allowing him to shut down many kinds of electronic communications inside the United States "

https://www.defenseone.com/news/2019/02/the-d-brief-february-15-2019/154918/

**Britain's Labour Party splits over Brexit and anti-Semitism**

"Seven lawmakers split from Britain's opposition Labour Party on Monday, saying that the party leadership's failures over Brexit, anti-Semitism and a culture of bullying in the party had left them no choice. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-labour-split/britains-labour-party-splits-over-brexit-and-anti-semitism-idUSKCN1Q70VK?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

#news #bot

ROTFLMAO
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47257996

I'm sure I read a good blog post about how to integrate language-community packaging (e.g., PyPI) in with modernized distro packaging (i.e., snap, flatpak) — as in, a look at the challenges and approaches, not as in 'hey I have the answer everybody'. But now that I'm searching for it, I can't find it. Does that ring a bell for anyone?

Are you interested in how to bring secure, private, peer-to-peer distributable content to the fediverse that can survive nodes going down? I've finished writing the documentation for the #Spritely Golem demo which explains how to do just that: https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

It also includes a running, workable demo which you can try yourself. Please do and let me know your thoughts!