Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.

like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.

but you **need** to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?

can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?

now is the time to take inventory and build backups.

Just in case, I suppose I don't know anyone who can help, or can reach out to someone who can help with Open Source compliance at Cisco, right?

periodic reminder that your language's standard library may have "join paths safely" and "join URL segments safely" functions, and you should use them

if it doesn't, and you're working with paths or URLs, you should write them and then use them

I am going to smack the next person who imposes a "this base URL/path must/must not have a slash on the end because we blindly concatenate it with a relative path that doesn't/does start with a slash" requirement on a configuration value

"Here are the illustrations for your history book," the artist said.

"Thanks, very g- Is this man using an iPod?"

"Very iconic of the early 21st."

"This is a history of the Post-Capitalism Neorenaissance, starting 2027! The iPod was outmoded then."

"It's centuries ago, who will notice?"

"Me!"

#TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction #vss

I have a coconspirator, who has done the deed.

Let's see if it works.

Bee orchids used to grow at our old work yard. Many other wildflowers too.

The new commercial tenants cut the grass short all year round though.

I have no authority over any of this, but I'm going to try and put it right.

IT WORKED!

@venite mijn favoriet is als je in een reflex op Esc drukt om de autocorrect te annuleren, en daarmee het hele formulier sluit

Ga niet naar Amerika. Je mooie Westerse paspoort is niets waard. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/114094666462646092

Hey folks, there has been a fair bit of discussion this week regarding what the community expects from data dumps, and I've realised that obfuscating WiFi AP identifiers may actually be interfering with what the community wants: portable, open data - not some restrictive binary blob.

How would people feel if AP MAC+SSIDs were plaintext in the dumps, instead of obfuscated like originally planned? If an AP moved, it would still be blocked from the database for at least a year to prevent tracking.

Man, I fucking hate LinkedIn.

It feels even more performative and inauthentic than most social media which is a staggering achievement. Maybe I'm just not on other social media anymore.

The only good thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn is @vilmibm's profile which is damned art:

your outie is terminally eepy

R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo

Still can't find the work phone but found a couple of pentium 3 xeon CPUs in my car lol

@joepie91 will post wee woo exactly 3 hours later next month for opsec