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In today’s “terminology matters”:

❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

Boeiend! Terwijl sommigen stellen, dat transgender zijn een hedendaagse mode is, waren er al in de middeleeuwen mensen (waaronder zij die interseks geboren waren) die zelf hun gender bepaalden en, meestal zonder medische ingrepen, maar zelfs die kwamen voor, bevestigden! theconversation.com/trans-peop

The number went up

I personally know FOUR people at Microsoft now who have gotten laid off in the last 6ish years since I joined two of them through social circles, two thru the actual trans I’ve been on.

all four have been out transfem

I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off

I know multiple cis men who have done unspeakably incompetent and inappropriate things.

I don’t know a single cis person who has been laid off. I work with a LOT of people at this company.

Like any normal computer toucher my workflow relies on a modified version of a script no one else uses because it's uncommitted in my local git checkout with -rune postfixed to the name.

80% of my timeline comes from instances hosted on various VPSs

20% of my timeline comes from instances hosted on servers with at least one of the following features:

raspberry pi
hanging freely from a ceiling
outdoors
was locked by a carrier
has an internal combustion engine
is made by siemens
makes frequent travel to coordinates that are on the NEWAG denylist

The thing is that with a robust plugin architecture, users are not beholden to the developers' vision of how the software "should" work

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The world if programmers put half the effort into designing robust plugin architectures that they put into architecting their own code today

just a little personal gripe here but i'm rather tired of seeing posts that center transfeminine identity formation around relationships transfeminine people have with tech and plushies, it's a bunch of bollocks really; seems like another box to jump straight into after jumping out of the one labeled "stuff boys like"; i get that it's comforting to partake in these shibboleths but it also seems very exclusionary for people who are transfeminine and have no interest in computer-touching dweebery and mass-produced soft toys

(Don't really want to do that yet because if I don't have a solid grasp of what state each server is in, that just seems like asking for trouble in terms of keeping things secure for others)

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Then eventually, once I know what runs where and have consolidated all the services that don't really need their own system, maybe I can free up enough space to provide some free (hosting) services to marginalized folks?

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Next up is bringing various older VMs together under central management with morph, so that I don't have to manually keep track of so many different systems. And also making sure my backup setup is consistent everywhere.

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Finally getting around today to inventorying and cleaning up all the various servers and VMs I have scattered across different providers and countries! Already deleted a bunch of ancient DigitalOcean VMs that served no useful purpose anymore.

more than three years ago, i made a #tokipona 88x31 button as a for-fun doodle
without me noticing, this button got added to a lot of tokiponists' websites. i see it used pretty frequently

today i looked at that button on my website and thought to myself, "huh, it looks like something's wrong with the resolution of this..?"

... oh dear

leftist strategy, pondering 

I've been pondering for some time about how to deal with the problem of it being fundamentally easier for populist rhetoric to take popular hold (compared to in-depth analysis), while also being fundamentally dangerous because it can be easily coopted.

I'm wondering if maybe what we need as leftists isn't some sort of rhetoric that 'feels' populist on the face of it, but that is basically impossible to engage with or talk about without doing deeper analysis and reflection first (as a co-opting defense). What exactly that rhetoric would be, I'm not sure.

undoing a red-brown meme about physical fitness as "praxis" 

for real though if you have loved or expressed joy today, you have worked harder on effective self-improvement than a fascist has by lifting weights

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[SOLVED] it's 2^n - 1

Any math nerds on here? (who am I kidding)

What's the formula for the maximum number of combinations, where the length of combinations can be anywhere between 1 to n (number of items)?

I have found several calculators for this but they all assume that the length of the combinations remains constant

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Laziness does not exist.

Anyone telling you you're lazy, including yourself, is attempting to force you to conform to a Puritan morality system that glorifies work.

Being unable to do something is the result of something being in the way of your ability to do that something.

Don't fall into the trap where you make being unable to identify that something a moral failure. It's not. You're not.

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