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Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!

Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.

the fediverse is like the world's worst cutlery store

so many forks and no spoons

What gender do you identify with?

guide to new fedi users: this is what those funny buttons under my posts do

Proposal: arguing that any sort of technological change is 'inevitable' automatically disqualifies one from commenting on technology

spicy take, programming 

The biggest technical hurdle in programming today is that it's way too difficult to deal with any sort of persistent data, and both conventional data management systems and the 'magic' persistence systems we have today are woefully inadequate for the job

Things I have learned at work today: Firefox (or one of the extensions I have installed) gets VERY sad if I open a webpage that has 3.5k forms on it and then try to use one of them

google cloud, cloudflare and aws down? no worries, the only internet i hang out in is hosted by a bunch of nerds on their closets

networking shitpost 

Last version of BGP was BGP4 from 1994, the developer has abandoned this project, do not buy, thumbs down

Dat "tijd voor solidariteit"-documentje van GL-PvdA zou een stuk geloofwaardiger zijn als ze niet steeds met de staart tussen de benen weg zouden rennen bij demonstraties zodra de politie losgaat om vervolgens de schuld af te schuiven op 'relschoppers'

ableism, wojaks 

if you post or boost that horrible ableist 4chan bullshit meme format where "stupid" people are depicted as being physically deformed and grotesque, you are normalizing eugenics thinking! and spreading 4chan shit around! It's gross!

"the internet is down? huh weird. everything i use still works"

(they're using their own server on their own network.)

seems the centralized internet is having a good one today

(For those unaware, Google is currently a bit on fire and so is anything else that uses their infrastructure)

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Ah, I guess it's time again for the Yearly Incident where a new generation of sysadmins and developers learns that centralizing your access management also means centralizing your points of failure

Sometimes it feels like every GDPRtoday newsletter is just like:

COUNTRY 1: The DPA imposed a massive fine on EvilCorp Inc.
COUNTRY 2: The DPA imposed a big fine on Dubious Engineering Ltd.
COUNTRY 3: The DPA fined the literal government for data mishandling
NETHERLANDS: The DPA has upheld that it's Totally Okay for companies to do this sketchy thing

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