Chris Bowdon @cbowdon@linuxrocks.online

This is a public service announcement.

If your job uses Slack, please remember that the administrators that have been configured can view any channel and download all files and all information published, including channels that are "private" or between 2 individuals.

Your discussions are not secure and can be snooped upon, even private conversations.

In other words: there is no privacy on Slack. Period.

This is the end of this public service
announcement.

(Don't ask how I know that)

#work #sickleave #industry #jimkbenton

From an ecological perspective, a mass reduction of working
hours à la Keynes could be a major contribution to saving
the planet. However, there seems to be a consensus “that not working is very bad; that anyone who is not slaving away harder than he’d like at something he doesn’t especially enjoy is a bad person, a scrounger, a skiver, a contemptible parasite
unworthy of sympathy or public relief”

- David Graeber on bullshit jobs.

http://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/47

me: DevOps is good for your organization, your delivery and your culture
enterprise: We already do DevOps!
me: Oh cool, show me!
enterprise:

I am not sure why I keep thinking about BASH and FISH when I almost always use Emacs eshell. 😰

#clojure #collection #sequence
PurelyFunctional.tv Newsletter 314: Collection functions vs. sequence functions - PurelyFunctional.tv
https://purelyfunctional.tv/issues/purelyfunctional-tv-newsletter-314-collection-functions-vs-sequence-functions/

Massive restoration of world’s forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/forests-climate-change-co2-greenhouse-gases-trillion-trees-global-warming-a8782071.html

#Equake, a drop-down Yakuake-like console, written in #Emacs #Lisp .

https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake

Now available via Melpa!

https://melpa.org/#/equake

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

This will never get dull:
https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/index.html
#pix2pix #TensorFlow #edges2cats #neuralnetworks

UK government attempted to sneak legislation through that would allow pharmacists to change prescriptions *without* consulting GPs, in times of shortage (e.g. due to Brexit).

I suggest you postpone any illnesses until after #Brexit, it'll be safer.

#politics

my math professor:

- keeps saying "hell yeah, baby"

- writes "function" as "FUNction" with the corresponding emphasis and pause when he writes it

- went "eugh, robots" when someones siri went off in their pocket

- said "you see that show tidying up with marie kondo? every single one of these sparks joy in my heart" while going over a bunch of example problems

- said "we're gonna go ham on this then" while factoring a polynomial

The upload filters are coming!

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/

#article13