My middle name is Monica, I’m named after an Argentinian sex worker who helped my father escape when it became known the police were looking for him. He was studying medicine and was secretly an errand boy for an underground newspaper. By the time it was clear he had to leave, he had no options left. I don’t know anything about her except that I wouldn’t be here if she hadn’t helped him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113462674712847803

oh, I see, so it’s fine when SummoningSalt posts a video about a hotly-contested game speedrun, but when *I’m* the one getting beaten repeatedly for fun suddenly that’s “violating YouTube’s community guidelines”?

god forbid a woman have kinks

The journey to #FOSDEM begins with a single Pull Request. https://github.com/FOSDEM/website/pull/259 Hopefully that'll help people travelling to the event.

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Attached: 1 image Block which renamed itself from Square to rebrand itself as a blockchain platform is winding down its blockchain platform efforts. It’s now clear that there is little value in blockchains and crypto as a technology platform. Crypto has found a niche as a form of speculative assets for financial risk takers and a tool for moving money around while avoiding regulation (e.g. ransomware payments, foreign remittances, etc). https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/08/jack-dorsey-dramatically-shutters-blocks-tbd-crypto-unit.html

I'm not going to lie - I've always wanted darker, more troubling Lego sets that explore the less pleasant sides of humanity. Red Light districts, military stuff, disaster sets, and so on. The world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, and I wish Lego would sometimes reflect that. Wild that AliExpress comes to the fucking rescue.

Banning or not banning Working from Home is so indicative of the black and white days we are living in. Working from Home is great for some, awful for some and Working from Office is great for some, awful for some. As with everything: Don’t outright ban or require it. Make **mindful decisions** that’s perceptive to the needs of your employees and which makes them perform optimally both individually and collectively 🙏

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@Edent@mastodon.social If there is a session you really want to see, possibly go to the session before it so you can get a seat. Be careful with backpacks in the corridors, turn with care. On the Friday night, Delirium is very much the place to be. For those that drink alcohol, Delirium Tremens is a really nice 8% ale. (Happy to be corrected) I think it is the number 75 bus that gets you from the city centre to the university.

I have been incredibly organised and booked my #FOSDEM travel and hotel. My first time going (!) so grateful for any tips, advice, warnings, memes, in-jokes, and suggestions from regular attendees.

@sindarina@ngmx.com nah lunnyduke is drilling up drama bc we stopped letting asshats win by default

Attached: 1 image I love being an open source maintainer, we get the best email from only the most delightful people. 🙃 . (maybe i should just switch to macOS and stop caring about linux 🙃 )

> I'm so julia Charli XCX deciding which language to use for this year's Advent of Code

macOS comes with a lot of built-in utilities. Here's a list of some that I find interesting.

Attached: 1 image Just discovered litecli (https://github.com/dbcli/litecli), it feels like a big improvement over the default SQLite REPL (autocompletion! support for multiline queries! syntax highlighting!)

Nothing more fun than tracking down the auto-started videos after a browser update 😅 Nothing less fun than when it is your own voice piped into your ears 🙈

This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

What I told my kids this morning https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2024/11/06/what-i-told-my-kids-this-morning/

Attached: 1 image If I were a professional event planner and I was thinking to myself “hmm let’s take the queerest and most neurodivergent group of engineers we know and put them all together in a room on an election year” I’d probably put them in Utah. Because that seems safe. Very safe. The safest.

We're about to see every wannabe bootlicker, who held out because they didn't think they could get away with doing what it would take to get in his good graces, hop on the train to the abyss and benefit as much as they can over the next 4 years like all the others did with no real consequences.

Thank you for joining us earlier today to hear me gush about my #IndieWeb journey at Open UK Digital. I posted the slides and some of my incomplete transcription in the following link, ahead of posting it on my own blog: ➡️ https://noti.st/anarodrigues/AwmjTY/slides PS.: There's a Homebrew Website Club starting soon https://events.indieweb.org/2024/11/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-tumv5DpqP4FY