Notices by Lars Wirzenius (liw@mastodon.acc.sunet.se), page 9

While we were shooting the video we also got this awesome group shot. GSoC is always a great chance to meet up with our member projects!

The general consensus seems to be:

1) 20th Century Fox owns the "Alien" franchise.
2) "Alien" xenomorphs are born from a Queen.
3) Disney is buying 20th Century Fox.
Therefore
4) Xenomorphs are Disney princesses.

@liw I'm just a web dev, and if someone called my code boring I'd consider it high praise

you read this?

Some celebraties will discuss at 9 pm pacific times #twitterevacuationday That's a great oportunity to introduce many new people into #Mastodon #fediverse

I have made a thread. If you like what I've wrote, fav and rt so that it's better visable for others viewing the hashtag
https://twitter.com/paul_free14/status/938504700151894016?s=17
If you're not so happy how I phrased it, use your own words and ask here for rt/fav under #twitterevacuationday

Wanna help to make it spread?

- Google forces DRM into web standards to limit your access to content based on money, location, & software.

- Google now is blocking ALL YouTube content from competing platforms.

- But Google supports #NetNeutrality because "freedom".

Riiiiiight.

https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-to-cut-access-to-amazon-fire-tv-on-january-1-echo-show/

Sometimes I boggle that to programmers, each other's computer is unusable. Different shell, or different editor, or different hotkeys for everything.

Then I remember how frustrating it is to try to cook in someone else's kitchen. Different layout, different utensils.

get the fuck out with your traditionalist family values, python

TFW you changed 20 files, finally the tests pass, and now you must decide how to make small commits to make sense of this mess.

PSA for people who #code:

Looking stuff up does NOT make you bad at coding.

"Not having to look up stuff" is NOT the benchmark for a good coder, especially as coders have to look up stuff ALL THE TIME!

And I don't mean highly advanced stuff, but stuff like "How does division work again?" or "What's that function called?" or my personal favorite "How to I nest for loops in list comprehensions?".

It's ok if you have to look up stuff!

#coding #adventofcode

with linux journal shutting down, a reminder that lwn.net still exists, does good work, and might be worth your subscription dollars.

i love everything about this https://computerfairi.es/media/78nmZBGk8cJYEusfZE0

flat moon society

did you ever see the moon as a sphere

the moon is a disk

just look at the sky

When I was 14 and started learning to program, I read that my career would be over by 25. At 25, I read I could program until 30. Now I'm 48, and I feel my best work is yet to happen.

Ageism is silly.

"Boring" seems like a compliment to those doing ops for production systems, or who write code for such.

@liw It did. And ∴ I don't trust it.