White supremacists on twitter just doxxed my friend and have convinced the University of Pennsylvania to condemn (and possibly remove her) for talking about pedagogical practices for equity. If you have any standing in academia, please email Kathleen Brown, Beth Wenger, Peter Holquist, and Eve Troutt Powell at UPennโs history department and tell them what a mistake theyโre making. More here: https://twitter.com/jccwrt/status/920804043378663424
I've revamped my website a bit. And by that I mean, I finally overrode some stuff in the base theme: I have an RSS feed and icon now, square icons, my own fonts, and other cosmetics. But I like it! https://andschwa.com
No third-party scripts :D
Fucking semicolons.
Fish to another fish: did you know this water is poison?
Other fish: what's water?
Did Trump Break the Law by Telling NFL Owners to Fire Players? Spoiler: Yes. https://theintercept.com/2017/10/11/donald-trump-nfl-owners-national-anthem-law/
Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceXโs Mars colonization plan should terrify you - https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/
Speaking of the awesome Reflections|Projections conference, here is my talk!
I watched it. I didn't hate it. That's a plus, yeah?
I have a list of blog posts I want to write, and need to prioritize them:
* My talk at Reflections|Projections
* Volunteering at the Seattle GNU / Linux Conference
* Privacy tools and my recent revamp
* Pi-hole and how awesome it is
* A CMake guide from docs I've written
* Work I've been doing for Mesos
There's so much to write about, and such intermittent motivation.
"Conservatively, American lawns take up three times as much space as irrigated corn. The authors mapped the entirety of the nation's turf grass, below. You'll notice that it's basically a population density map of the U.S."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/04/lawns-are-a-soul-crushing-timesuck-and-most-of-us-would-be-better-off-without-them/ https://mastodon.social/media/hV7JKZ17qMe4UCdynos
@pnathan I probably learned this from you. But I've been surprised just how rare it is to find among others though.
There's apparently a cold going around... and for once in a blue moon I actually caught it. I don't like it. Make it go away!
I also now remember how much I hate the taste of dayquil.
@pnathan It's okay, I didn't notice either. I can't even distinguish them from Jimmy Eat World.
> Trump [snip] is so creepy and bizarre [snip]
welcome to lived facism.
@CobaltVelvet YES. FUCK DOCKER.
Personally I think it introduced more problems than it "solved."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears
Ugh, do not like these books.
Kids books need to have more grit in them. Like, "and then the king was guillotined, and his head made a sad and satisfying clonk, and the people were free for a few more years"
In case you missed it : the Intel Management Engine runs (a modified version of) MINIX, the kinda forgotten OS by Andrew Tannenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX, cf http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/04/intel-me-way-of-static-analysis.html. That's kinda fun cause Minix fell off the radar after Linux became popular, and so it's pretty weird to see it running on the majority of new desktop/laptop computers when "Linux on the Desktop" is still far away :p
I'm sorry, but we have reached our limit of applicants for the Devil's Advocate role.
Please consider applying for Women, PoC, and LGBT+ advocate roles of which we do not yet have a surplus.
Thank you.
"Another space saver has been getting people to work from home, a trend for years in corporate America."
Yes, they're forcing it on me. I cannot work productively from a laptop, I'm a systems developer. If I can't utilize an "open-office" space then I am forced to work from home. I wonder if that gets me to the level or IRS deductions? Ha!
"Offices will be reserved mainly for people who regularly have confidential conversations, like lawyers and top executives."
Apparently the average person doesn't want confidentiality for _all their_ conversations? This is insulting.
My building is being "remodeled" into less-than-cubicles. You know what doesn't work in an open office? Desktop computers. You know what we all work on? Desktop computers. They don't move!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/business/the-office-gets-remade-again.html
@schlink I might have to pay for the stupid Windows license :( The XPS 13 has an Ubuntu option. And I have _heard_ but not confirmed that you can get the XPS 15 through the business channels without Windows... so I'll try!
