Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 51

@federicomena That's how you load a C library!

It seems we're using "struggles with the truth" as a euphemism for "is a big fat liar." Bless his heart. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/11/trump-struggles-truth-testifying-oath-risky

@cwebber probably not as clean as when you implement it for the 7th time.

Can't we at least afford full sized bat's for our teachers? — http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43724886

@Are0h I moved my extra number over to https://voip.ms. Not pretty but cheap and very functional.

One of my favorite parts about working on things with @conservancy is getting sent and working on ODT files.

It is wonderful to not have to work with "industry standards" and to collaborate using real standards.

@trevdev I'm not sure about the Google/Facebook feature set, but GetTogether is trying to replace MeetUp for many communities.

https://gettogether.community/about/

@hugo I've been using it a couple of days, and I'm pretty happy. I like the single column layout a lot better, feels less cluttered.

I like here how the pilots union here is focusing on empowering pilots to do their work. So many time it seems that unions focus on pay as their members get ever marginalized in their ability to participate and improve their workplace. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/10/american-airlines-pilots-passengers-share-pain

Found out that Michigan State has a Gitlab instance setup to help researchers collaborate and also for students. Seems like a really cool infrastructure thing that universities everywhere can do easily.

https://gitlab.msu.edu/landing/

@liw I haven't looked at it much yet, but I have this on my list of things to check out: https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-backup

@federicomena how does one handle pronouns in languages like Spanish? Is there an they/their equivalent?

@szbalint I do love that poster. Still haven't found a good place to hang it though... if only there were emoji to represent this feeling.

@Are0h So I feel like sometimes on Mastodon people use the Content Warning tag as a way to absolve themselves from responsibility from what they're saying. Certainly it has uses (I don't think it's a bad thing) but I get the feeling some people use it as "I told you that you might be offended, not my fault" to eschew responsibility.

Curious your thoughts on the pros and cons of how the content warning is used in the Fediverse.

My LXD install is via snap and so I got auto-upgraded to the 3.0 release. Which broke my networking.

The fix for me was to create a new network interface and move all of my containers over to it and delete the old one. Wasn't hard once I figured out what was going on, but took me a while. Hope that save someone time.

Also, if you're using the snap I'd recommend switching from "stable" and to a release stable. It upgrades less. I'm now on the "3.0/stable" branch.

#ubuntu #lxd #lxc #containers

Good program by the local McDonald's franchises. Hungry kids don't do well. — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/04/09/mcdonalds-will-offer-free-meals-north-texas-teachers-students-taking-state-accountability-tests

While I expected signatures to go away, I thought they'd get replaced by PINs like in Europe. I guess even those aren't as useful as data analytics in stopping fraud. — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/business/credit-card-signatures.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Feel like I've witnessed a new low. Instead of having all the text of the e-mail in a Word document, it is in a single slide PowerPoint presentation.

Thank you Libre Office, for being there when I need to read my e-mail.

Cutting Planned Parenthood funding measurably hurt women's health in Texas. Looks to to be an anti-woman measure more than anything else. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/06/group-east-dallas-persistent-women-uncovered-flaws-texas-womens-health-program

Didn't realize the rather regressive restrictions that are on Texas teachers with regards to their right to strike. — https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/05/texas-public-school-teachers-strike-union-oklahoma/