George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

If you've ever wondered why so many podcast apps have HUGE settings screens full of little nitpicky toggles, take a look at my mentions.

Everyone wants a slightly different set of often-conflicting behaviors, and there are tons of edge cases to consider with every decision.

excuse me I have discovered a creature with the coolest name on earth. nothing can compete, don't even try. introducing: the nano chameleon

Oh hey look https://mastodon-flock.vercel.app/

Who do I know in educational game design? Could use a few connections, my wife is looking for a role.

Ex teacher, masters in psych and bio, has some development experience, and is looking for a first role after graduating a curriculum development and game design specialist.

Boosts / shares are appreciated.

LG expanding Apple TV and Music apps, HomeKit, and AirPlay to third-party webOS TVs https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/03/lg-apple-tv-music-airplay-homekit-update/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Holy shit, it works! I am officially a full-time #ProfessionalMaintainer ✨🧑‍💻💼

That means I spend most of my time on #OpenSource maintenance, and I offer retainers to companies that benefit from my work and from access to me.

I now have six amazing clients: Glasklar Teknik AB, Protocol Labs, Latacora, the Interchain Foundation, Smallstep, and @tailscale.

I am excited and relieved to announce this, and wrote up a bunch of details on how I got here and where it's going.

https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/

Given that twitter is going to start charging for api usage next week, but has neglected to give anyone any info about rates, I recommend running https://www.movetodon.org/ one last time while you still can.

None of the migration tools will work after the 8th (give or take some timezones).

After an old pic of Hillary and Trump during a 2016 debate resurfaced as a musical meme, Hillary weighed in as only she can.

See her hilarious revelation about what song they were singing here: https://www.comicsands.com/trump-clinton-debate-musical-meme-2659344234.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

fyi, since many people don't know this exists:
Almost all computer screens made in the last decade support DDC/CI. (The Display Data Channel Command Interface).
You can use it to control stuff like the backlight brightness without fiddling with the awful screen buttons and OSD.

On Linux once you load the ddcci kernel module the screens appear in /sys/class/backlights and can be controlled like a laptop screen.

I just got laid off from Okta, so if you are looking for a very good cybersecurity risk manager with 20 years of experience and a great track record, hit me up.

https://linkedin.com/in/rachaellininger/

OpenSSH 9.2 has just been released. This contains fixes for three security problems as well as some bugfixes and a number of frequently-requested features.

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.2

With all the layoffs happening, it’s probably a good time to mention we are hiring 2 iOS engineers at Dropbox. Tell your friends.

Looking for IC3 and IC4. Send me an email with your resume and I’ll refer you: jboulter@dropbox.com

Cisco Meraki are #hiring two new high profile roles:
• Cloud Procurement Strategist
• Global DC Manager

Remote OK; Pacific time zone. Please DM me for details if you're interested.
https://meraki.cisco.com/careers/ for general careers info with #Meraki.

Boost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree

I’m the spirit of sharing quality content, please enjoy my favorite meme of all time.

My column about apps on Mastodon appears in print today. From what I'm told, it did very well on the web after publishing on Friday. It got MANY boosts and Favorites here on Mastodon, so I assume that's where a lot of traffic came from. It'll be very interesting to see what kind of print-reader feedback I get via email.

This is a gift link to the story, so it should get at least some of you past the paywall if you don't have a subscription. If not, use archive.ph.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/twitter-mastadon-elon-musk-apps-migration-17746197.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvYXJ0aWNsZS90d2l0dGVyLW1hc3RhZG9uLWVsb24tbXVzay1hcHBzLW1pZ3JhdGlvbi0xNzc0NjE5Ny5waHA=&time=MTY3NTAxMzY5ODkxMg==&rid=YmE1NjU5MDMtMDM4OS00MDYwLWE1YzItNTYwNzYwZDQ2NDc5&sharecount=MQ==