George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

Trans rights are human rights, click boost.

Growing up, Sesame Street taught me the importance of education, empathy, and kindness.

Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, taught me that revenge on my enemies should be quick, clever, and brutal.

another great entry from @b0rk teaching me something new about something I've been using for decades (shell scripting) - this time it's the shellcheck command! https://wizardzines.com/comics/shellcheck/

Compare and contrast. Twitter trending. Mastodon trending.

So this is my second proper day of Mastodon.

Boost if you are staying. Are you happy here? Reply to boost your account. 🖖

"For years we've been hearing about a persistent shortage of truck drivers. But what if we're thinking about it wrong? What if the issue is that the... industry systematically mistreats or undervalues drivers, creating an ongoing and unsustainable churn?"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-21/odd-lots-podcast-why-is-there-a-shortage-of-truck-drivers-in-america

Mastodon, but for selling concert tickets.

Branch managers :confused_dog:

I may be totally off-base here, but as a Mastodon newbie but an online oldbie, I'm getting some distinct flashbacks to the days of #IRC and #Fidonet. (But with a few generations more advanced tech and all that, I reckon 😜 )

If you haven't read the Mastodon Server Covenant, you should give it a look. https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

Want to export your old threads from Twitter and put them into a blog or Mastodon or something? Here you go! It will go through your Twitter export archive and recreate the threads.

https://gist.github.com/LeeHolmes/4ebeed5df73ac04678d7c954f74701e6

Every year, students in my CS 488 Software Development course work in teams of 4-8 to build software for an external customer. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, that customer could be you!

Last year's ​projects included:

* A video game to teach people about earthquake preparedness.
* Creative animation software for an artist.
* A tool to help a faculty member organize course content.

Do you (or someone you know in a local organization) have a computational problem for which you need a piece of software? Let me know and maybe we can help you out.

WHAT YOU GET

Free custom software! This comes with some caveats:

* We usually produce stand-alone desktop applications. Other things are possible, but I'd prefer to stay within this realm.
* These are mostly seniors working on their first large piece of software. I make no guarantees as to quality; you might get something that you can use to do real work, but you might just get a fragile "proof of concept". We use an agile development technique that regularly reexamines goals, priorities, and expectations; this leads to a good probability that we'll have something working by the end of the semester, even if some of your more optimistic features have to be dropped.
* There probably won't be anyone to maintain your program after the semester is over. You might be able to hire some juniors to do more work on it.

WHAT YOU GIVE (We'll work with you on all of these things)

* Create an initial description of your project.
* Create and maintain a list of "user stories"​ (​things that you want your program to do​)​.
* Commit to meet with the students every other week to discuss progress and priorities. This must be a firm commitment; it's a disaster for me ​and ​the students and me if a customer flakes out.

Please boost and let me know ASAP if you're interested!

#software #ComputerScience #education #portland #pdx

An insta friend-of-a-friend messaged me, asking for a vote for their influencer ambassadorship. I said sure, send me the link. They said, okay, look for it as a message from Instagram. 🚩🚩🚩
THIS IS AN ACCOUNT TAKEOVER ATTEMPT 🚩🚩🚩

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.