George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Find those big files!
ncdu is TUI program to generate and view usage statistics for disk space from the current directory and below. Use -x to avoid crossing filesystem boundaries and disable file modification with -r. ionice will give ncdu less I/O priority.
ionice ncdu -x -r

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

Had to verify. And yes. Kernighan and Ritchie really did this. TIL :)

Now would be a great time for @WhiteHouse@twitter.com to establish a federal activitypub instance. Government social presence could be on a federated server they operate instead of a privately owned service run by a nutter.

If Republicans take control of the House, Democrats have a responsibility to act during the lame-duck session:

-Protect and expand voting rights
-Raise the debt ceiling
-Protect gay marriage
-Codify Roe

Do it before it’s too late.

Dems flipped both the Minnesota and Michigan legislatures.

They should join the National Popular Vote Compact, which — when activated — awards electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Each state that joins brings us closer to making the Electoral College moot.

Looking around at friends laid off (or about to be) from 🐦, ♾️, AMZN... thankful I'm still in a good place.

If you've been hit by this, check out meraki.com/jobs. I'm happy to refer.

“For $8, they’re potentially losing out on millions of dollars in ad revenue,” said Amy O’Connor, a former senior communications official at Eli Lilly who now works at a trade association. “What’s the benefit to a company … of staying on Twitter? It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/14/twitter-fake-eli-lilly/

A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958 by Berenice Abbott.