Leny the Werefairy @pithi@mastodon.sdf.org

The Free Software Foundation want feedback on their future relationship with GNU after the resignation of Richard Stallman from the FSF.
With RMS still leader of GNU it complicates the relationship, with the two working closely.
Contact details here. ° https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-gnu

So switching social is back with a new maintainer and account at @switchingsoftware 🎉👍

https://switching.software/

#SwitchingSoftware

I get that y'all sit around dreaming of the 90's hating Microsoft and pretend Google is some kinda spy agency but...

Can we focus on destroying Facebook for awhile? They are openly admitting they want to help shady politicians lie globally. They're openly admitting their unprecedented ad targeting should be used for politics. Their founder is now admitting that Facebook has a material advantage if they influence the elections away from even modestly leftist policies.

They're not a hypothetical harm. They're not an abstract harm. They're not just collecting highly personal data on a global scale and probably aware of your family graph on a level no other company can match, but *they're openly admitting they're part of political misinformarion*. They helped analytics firms game the Brexit and US2016 election.

This is the means of communication, folks. Either we seize it or we destroy it. Option 3 is that Facebook is a government propaganda system for hire contracting itself out to every would-be despot in the globe, tactically tilting the scales everywhere to maximize the influence of unrestricted capitalism.

doing a mastodon meetup with a tankie but then we eventually have a falling out and they reupload the meetup pic with me photoshopped out

Please CW your RMS posts. I've been one of the children he says are being able to consent to "having sex". I've heard the same from my abuser. I don't need to be reminded unprepared. #MeToo
Boosts ok.

It's official, Greta Thunberg's speech is now a death metal single and all profits go to Greenpeace 🤘 https://www.loudersound.com/news/its-official-greta-thunbergs-speech-is-now-a-death-metal-single-and-all-profits-go-to-greenpeace

Boris Johnson and his "technology lessons" makes the front-cover of Private Eye.

"In/Out Crisis Deepens"

#politics #BoJo #Brexit

You are now entering October Country. Please drive, ride, slither, and crawl carefully.

I mean... just go look at the projects on their site...

https://techshot.com/

I know where this company is located... about 30 minutes from here in a tiny town... They do really cool stuff for NASA.

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/30/off-world-cement-tested-for-the-first-time/

Good question…

I program for over 20 years. I just closed some tabs from yesterday:

"how to create directory in python"
"concat lists python"
"load 2 models tensorflow"
"how set pythonpath"

and some others.

And yes. I have a masters degree in informatics.

You don't need to learn things that you rarely need & are just 1 duckduckgo away by heart. Knowing that they exist and what to search for is sufficient.

Important are the thing you cannot search. Concentrate on those.

#ImposterSyndrome #elitism