George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

The 10th annual international Gender Census 2023 is now open until at least 9th May 2023!

https://survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

This is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

I will never apologize for a post

A little-known fact about Mastodon is that when you move your account, it gets put on a truck and then shipped to the new server. Here, for instance, are users employing I-195 to move between servers.

It's a bird! It's a plane! Specifically, it's @ServerPilot -- thanks for renewing your sponsorship for another year! https://serverpilot.io/

Apple holds nationwide meetings with retail workers to ‘discuss the risks of unionization’ https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/09/apple-store-unionization-efforts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Great moments in software engineering

Newfoundland, ca. 1000 CE: A bug in the Google Maps route-planning algorithm at high latitudes causes Leif Eriksson and his crew to miss Greenland entirely. They instead become the first Europeans to reach North America. They name the place "Vimland" in honor of a text editor sacred to Odin. Emacs-using natives soon attack the Vikings on several Usenet groups.

#softwareengineering #humor #midjourney #aiart

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Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

There are many #introduction posts out there, but this one is mine.

I’m a hyperoverprivileged straight cis white greybearded neurotypical male, living in Vancouver, Canada with loved ones.

I’m old.

I can’t not write, as evidenced by the 2+ million blogwords at https://www.tbray.org/ongoing - also I was “timbray” on Twitter starting in 2007 but stepped away 2022/11/27.

Tl;dr: Geek and environmentalist. For details, type my name into your favorite Web search, I’m overly public.

Have technical questions about how Let's Encrypt works? You should visit our FAQ, which has the answers to some of our most commonly asked technical questions. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/faq/#a-id-technical-technical-questions-a

When Starfleet judge advocate generals take any interstellar voyages on the dime of the Ferengi, they always report them to command.

Just saying.

@show unfortunately your videos don't seem to be getting recommended to me on YouTube anymore. The timing coincides with the comments being disabled. The fact that an algorithm has determined that harrassing comments are positive for engagement is infuriating. Let's find a solution so myself and others can easily find your amazing content. Here are some options:
- Cross post on Mastodon as a video posted specific bot account. That way people can use the Mastodon notification bell which actually works
- create an RSS feed
- get on Nebula (I have no idea how that works but I'm sure your content would do well on that platform)
- Use ChatGPT for automated comment moderation

I'm happy to help implement any of these suggestions.

A highly technical and deeply experienced #Ops / #DevOps / #DevRel friend is looking for their next opportunity.

Know of any teams looking for a great addition? Lemme know & I'll pass it on/make intros.

#GetFediHired

/pls boost?

Happy #internationalbeaverday #beavers #BeaverBelievers

@ProPublica is hiring an assistant managing editor to supervise editors and reporters on our national desk

📅Deadline: April 27
📌Location: Remote (NYC preferred)
💰Salary: $200K - $225K
✅ Reqs: +10 years accountability reporting management

Details: https://propub.li/AME

Do the words' carnivorous marsupials' send an excited little chill down your spine? Same.

#TasmianianTigers #RayOfLight #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #EndangeredSpecies #Thylacine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/science/tasmanian-tiger-sightings.html

I have an immediate opening for a sysadmin in an OT (industrial) environment. Primary responsibilities are further rollout of our monitoring system, administration of networks and servers, and security ops. Experience with Linux, Python, Ansible, bash scripting desired; tolerance of windows. Open source mindset is a must.

Contract is local so must be willing to relocate to Germany (Düsseldorf area). We provide relocation assistance, also for non-EU citizens. DM for details. #getfedihired

Dear lazy-web - question time.

I’ve maintained a branch of the old micro-emacs (not GNU emacs) for decades. And by “maintained” I really mean “mostly kept working”. It’s a scrappy little editor from the eighties(!) and the “s” in scrappy is silent.

The version I have grown accustomed to isn’t even the most recent version of microemacs, it’s a offshoot from uemacs 3.9 that was maintained by Petri Kutvonen at Helsinki University because it was portable and supported DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix.

Over the decades, I’ve “enhached” that thing to actually mostly understand UTF-8, and increased some internal limits, but it’s mostly the same thing that I used in the early nineties.

Anyway.

I don’t love the fact that it’s a very limited text editor. I’d like syntax highlighting etc. But my fingers are absolutely hardcoded to it, and I am not in the least interested in something that makes me switch away from those (much less start using a mouse to move around etc).

Which is just a very long way to say: “Does anybody know of some slightly more modern GUI editor that actually has good support for really changing keybindings”.

And I mean really configurable. As in “I can make ESC-J auto-justify text, and ESC-Z be ‘exit-and-save, and ^X^C will exit without saving”. Not some half-way state where “sure, you can make ^X exit, but no, you can’t make ^X or ESC act as Alt / Meta keys for other keys?

And yes, I know one answer is “teach your fingers new ways”. But my micro-emacs works just fine, and so it really isn’t worth it to me.

And please - don’t even bother replying with “Xyz is a great editor” unless you know and can show exactly how to rebind a key sequence like that ^X^C. I don’t use nearly all the uemacs keybindings, but I use an odd set of them.

I’d rather maintain just a keybinding file than a whole scrappy editor.