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Deniz Opal (@selzero@syzito.xyz)
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Hey guys, how is capitalism going? It's going great! Thanks to profit motive based innovation and hard work, the ransomware industry has grown to a $250 Billion(!) industry, with "Ransomware As A Service" (RaaS) now being a very real business service offered by actual companies and resulting in probably multiple times more in costs in down time, and other costs. Where do we get this incredible boost to productivity and efficiency from? It's as if by an invisible hand! https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/ransomware/ransomware-as-a-service-raas/
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Tess (@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk)
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Apparently mathematicians think I should use the term "large positive integers" and not "big naturals"
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Simon Willison (@simon@simonwillison.net)

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Attached: 1 video My closing suggestion was to support open source projects you depend on by reaching out to their maintainers and offering to pay them money to speak to your team! Ask them for an hour over Zoom or similar. Here's a clip with this idea in more detail

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Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)

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Attached: 1 image Smart Quotes and Coding Examples Every so often, I copy and paste some code from a website and it utterly fails. This is probably a good reminder not to practise ✂️ & 📋 development, but it is also a reminder that "smart" formatting often trips up new students. Here are a few examples I've seen recently - produced as a result of computers trying to be cleverer than humans, and huma https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/smart-quotes-and-coding-examples/ #/etc/ #code #education #NaBloPoMo

Between and I took 8006 steps.
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Rusty Corgi :chicagostar: (@Rusty@cubhub.social)

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Attached: 1 image there, I fixed it :meowuwu:

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Shubheksha (@ScribblingOn@octodon.social)
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Happy happy Diwali, frens 🥰🥰🥰
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divya (@divya@sfba.social)
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In hindu mythology, there is casual violence committed on "demons" who are supposed to be terrible people. Today is a day that celebrates the death of one of those for the South Indian hindus. Given how hindus treat Indigenous people today, it is not lost on me that it is very likely that those "demons" were likely innocent folks upon whom we inflicted violence 2000 years ago and decided to cement that horror in a mythology conveniently claiming these folks deserved it. This is why I do not celebrate Diwali. The closer you peer into hinduism, the more oppressive it becomes.
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Craig Maloney ☕ (@craigmaloney@octodon.social)
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I'd like to thank #Github for the onus to clean up my projects and get my house in order. No thanks to them for the reason behind it (Copilot). I'll have a full blogpost on it later. For now it's clean-up time.
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Applying for UK citizenship – Vipin Ajayakumar

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I applied for UK citizenship towards the end of 2021. In this article, I describe my experience in full detail.

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JP Mens (@jpmens@mastodon.social)
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Plans for Tuesday? If not, how about gazing at the Unix epoch time counter starting at 22:13 UTC at it rolls over to 1700000000 seconds? https://www.epoch101.com
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Sophie (@sophie@social.lol)
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If you think CSS is some kind of "problem" that needs solving with frameworks, perhaps first consider that maybe the problem is that you don't know how to use it
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Marcus Noble (@Marcus@k8s.social)

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Attached: 1 image Can you spot the two times I went to a conference this month? 😂

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Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🍂 (@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp)
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I’m very adamant about using “toot” instead of “post”. I’ll die on this hill, but hopefully not today because I have lots of errands to run, like buying stamps at the toot office.
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Happy Diwali to all my Indian homies, and from me to the rest of you. Diwali is the Festival of Lights. It symbolizes the spiritual 'victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.' We could all use some light in these dark times.
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Attached: 1 image silly meme

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Deirdre Assenza (@deirdreassenza@universeodon.com)

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Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/GoModulesAndDomainExpiry
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Eight years of blogging | pawelgrzybek.com
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Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

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Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social)

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Attached: 1 image That time Warner Herzog killed it on Parks and Rec. "This was a holding cell for people who went insane on the assembly line." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V1K1JCg_Q

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fluffy 💜 (@fluffy@plush.city)
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I must have magic powers. I can put something down for 5 seconds and then it completely disappears.
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Tess (@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk)
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Always pay attention to where people's eyes dart when they are talking to you. If their eyes go up and to the right it could mean there is a cool bird behind you over your left shoulder.
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nilesh (@nilesh@fosstodon.org)
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Remember kids, there's a pernicious reason why #Google redirects "http://maps.google.com" to "http://google.com/maps". Because of this redirect, the location permission that you grant to Google Maps also automatically becomes available to Google Search - making your search queries more valuable to advertisers. #privacy
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photosbykyle (@photosbykyle@fosstodon.org)
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You're not doing it right if your smart home goes down when the Internet does. #selfhosted #selfhosting #smarthome #smarthomeproblems
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Making “Webmentions” look more conversational
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I recently added support for federated social networking features to my website. If you’re on a service like Mastodon, and you interact with a post that links to something on my website, it’ll show up …(https://www.johnpe.art/2023/10/31/making-webmentions-look-more-conversational/)
Between and I took 7213 steps.
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asgrim 🇺🇦 :verified: (@asgrim@phpc.social)
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Don't think you can handle a legacy codebase? Just write a new one from scratch! What could POSSIBLY go wrong!?
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Gerard (@gfarrell@mastodon.world)

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Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt@mstdn.social)

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Attached: 1 image Nerds will build Skynet instead of going to therapy

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Neil Brown (@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)
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He was a scraper bot. She said, "See ya later, bot." Blocking was good enough, you see. Bots gobbling at a pace to feed their AI disgrace. She said "get lost" with robots.txt.
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Marcus Noble (@Marcus@k8s.social)

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Attached: 1 image Looks like SIG-Security are still about in Chicago after #KubeCon 😂

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Henrique Dias (@hacdias@fosstodon.org)

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Attached: 1 image I got the #curl coaster. I must say it’s ridiculous, but also the coolest coaster I have now 🥲

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Dee (conventional orb mode) :heart_nb: (@Dee@fedi.underscore.world)

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playing just one game? what if i get bored? i could never be monogamous.

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Josh Holtz (@joshdholtz@mastodon.social)
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Maintaining an OSS project is so much more than just writing and shipping code. It involves taking care of the community and core team. It’s emotional. It’s exhausting. Its unhealthy. But we (maintainers) do it because we love the product and community. Please appreciate your OSS maintainers🙏
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Attached: 1 image I wonder this myself.

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Chris Siebenmann (@cks@mastodon.social)
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Today, if you publish a popular Go module on a URL and you lose control of the URL (through, eg, domain expiration and having the domain snatched up), you have a problem that's probably more or less impossible to deal with short of making blog/Fediverse/etc posts about the situation. Go module identity is tied to URLs with more or less no external override or way to automatically announce and see problems (individual people can override for their usage, but that doesn't scale).
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Sammy (that wiki fox) 🦊 (@theresnotime@wikis.world)
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self-hosting things is a fools game join a polycule with an already-established infrastructure
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Josh Simmons (@josh@josh.tel)
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Accidentally left freshly cut cat nip out over night. Let's just say it did not go unnoticed by the cats :ablobcatrave:
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Tess (@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk)
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Some people claim that they can use dark magics to force Linux to do what they want. But that's just sudoscience
I've written about it more verbosly in Why should you blog? and also helped as someone with ADHD not to mention being a wealth of knowledge I can look back on, that I mostly write for me, but I see lots of traffic coming to my site with folks trying to solve similar problems!
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The Novice
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Sophie (@sophie@social.lol)
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Our letting agent has started using a company called "Oh Goodlord" for its payment collection. Given the rent prices in London this seems on the nose
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Shubheksha (@ScribblingOn@octodon.social)
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Content warning: Childhood trauma fun?
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Gankra (@Gankra@toot.cat)
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reminder to cargo-mommy enthusiasts: cargo-vibe already exists to provide your @buttplugio@buttplug.zone needs *and* cargo-subcommands are infinitely chainable
I'm interested in attending
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Mike McQuaid (@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social)
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@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me think it's online too but unsure of details of that! Think Meetup may share details.
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Joe Hart 🏳️🌈 (@joehart@social.lol)

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Attached: 1 image They have made the new Ultimate Peter Parker unnecessarily hot. Fully on board with this.

