Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Confidence is not "I know what I'm doing."

Confidence is "I know how to find that out" and "I know how to learn new things" and most importantly "I know when I don't know what I'm doing, so I stop and find someone who does"

Obnoxious blowhards rely on people not understanding this distinction. And they amplify it by framing actual confidence as weakness.

This may be a useful thing to talk about with certain people in your life who are being fooled by fascists.

I suspect that a lot of white people in the fedi think if there were as much racism as Black folks are saying then they would see more of it. However, they're misunderstanding the nature of the racism. It's not casual, it's _targeted_. The racists go out of their way to find Black people and harass them.
Since it's targeted, people who aren't the targets see only a very small fraction of it.
Black folks aren't making shit up. Listen to them.
#racism

Capitalism's greatest trick was stealing so much of our time that we cannot imagine living without the 'conveniences' it sells back to us.

Sure a rising tide lifts all boats, but if you haven’t noticed that there are people in the sea who drown, you really haven’t been paying attention.

Things I love about biking as part of my commute:

Seeing other people not driving to work. The streets are covered in bikes and scooters. The bike trail has tons of folks walking to work and to the metro stations
Getting some exercise. It feels good to get moving first thing in the morning, and it's a great way to destress after work
It's just so much fun. I love biking
I feel like I'm part of my community. There are a couple of people working where I bike past that I smile at and they smile back. Seeing people playing in the park. Last week I bought lemonade from a kid. It's wonderful.

I admire your courage, Atlassian.

see parent post: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/112877843513910811

I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.

The Iowa abortion ban has gone into effect, and Iowans are going to Illinois for abortions. If you can donate to the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, that would be great:

https://www.iowaabortionaccessfund.org/

the idea of people using multiple languages in their day-to-day lives confuses the silicon valley techbro

one day i will write a massive articles detailing all the broken things you run into when trying to use computers as a daily multilingual user

hey fedi, tell me about the differences between different injection methods for E (like intermuscular, etc) and the different injectable esters?

I've probably asked this here before but…Linux geeks: Is there any such thing as a smart .forward replacement? What I mean is, I know that when an Email comes in, if the user has a file called .forward (for those whose screen readers mispronounce this, the file is called dot forward), that Email is forwarded to the Email addresses in that file. However, as far as I know, the forwarding happens for all incoming Emails, indiscriminately. For some situations this is okay, but there are situations where I want to ideally automatically forward Email to a person or list of people, but in case spammers ever get hold of that address I don't want that to get forwarded, as then that spam would appear to be coming from my server, and going to otherwise trusted/willing recipients. So does anyone know of any type of system that forwards Emails, but has some configurability, for example, only auto-forward Email from these trusted Email addresses, etc? Another possible solution would be some sort of web application that receives Emails to be forwarded and holds them in a queue pending my manual review, at which point I can add the sender to a trusted sender's list to be auto-forwarded, forward the Email, not forward it, add the sender to the naughty list so to speak, etc. Maybe @adam would know? Please boost for reach. Thanks.