Do you have any idea how much greater the harm across the globe will be, the more power these fascists get?

Blocking for participating in this dumbass censorship.

Cheers, glad to hear it resonated with you! Small automated donations to things I find important and unambiguously good (mostly food banks and human knowledge projects in my case) really help me feel more connected to the world and its current state. And in a productive, prosocial way - it helps to counteract the doom and gloom a bit.

Wait those are distinct?! Holy shit. And since Microsoft owns GitHub, that’s even less clear. Unbelievable.

Seconding this request, I donate monthly to the Internet Archive, but I think it’s time to start archiving more individually too.

Interesting, I posted a top level comment to you but you’re already doing some similar things to what I posted.

I like to ask candidates to tell me about a design pattern, or a framework, or a coding principle that they really appreciate and which changed how they think about or write code. It’s an open-ended way to show me they care about the craft.

People who find the field interesting and somewhat fun (AKA not just lucrative) usually have these kinds of preferences or paradigm-shifting moments / learnings. People who can’t come up with anything for this question tend to be real junior or just in it for the wrong reasons. Or so I tell myself, anyway.

First time I’ve ever seen him referenced anywhere outside where I learned of him! Best dude, what an inspiration.

LOL I forgot about that, what a dork.

I think Lenovos are kinda renowned as good candidates for Linux laptops, though I’m not knowledgeable enough to talk models and such. Go for it!

You’re great and you should feel great!

FWIW I shifted my monthly Wikipedia donation to The Internet Archive recently and recommend others do the same. Just a few bucks a month, please, it matters. Zero hate for Wikipedia, it’s a critically important piece of human culture, but they’re plenty good on $ and we need to be fostering backups of shared knowledge and historical records. This is important! No one will do it for us, only we who care can do it!

If there’s any new Lemmy users here, coming from Reddit (feel like I’m opening a seance), and if you’re wondering what else you might decide to change during this era of change -

Try Linux! It’s easy now, and frankly just better :)

Please don’t let Musk convince you Trump is decent/better.

Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. Removed it and left a review complaining.

These are great, but let’s also add and be vigilant in watching for Embrace, Extend, Extinguish type attacks! Let’s always advocate against integrating with any of their services / instances.

Thiel’s company, Palantir, is making inroads at many fed gov agencies to manage their data. I’ve seen it happening myself. That’s bad.

Fair enough, I can imagine that pretty easily.

I get lots of mileage out of Hanlon’s Razor, and I acknowledge the rampant incompetence that suggests its applicability, but digital security seems like about the least appropriate place to apply this rule of thumb.

Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad