dave bonner @rascalking@octodon.social
systems developer for necsys at the mit media lab. masshole.
Okay, repeat of yesterday. Any one know of a company looking to hire a Junior Dev without degree that will allow remote work?
@Krands you're using a VM with vagrant, too, it's just probably missing xorg and gui apps. vagrant is a glue tool that can talk to different VM providers (including virtualbox, VMware, and aws, among others). it also maintains a VM image registry (so you can use an Ubuntu image by name), and provides a bunch of other conveniences.
@Krands yup. it's just an easy way to manage and work with vms, though, so you can also just use virtualbox directly.
@jalefkowit I remember getting caught up in trying to remember the whole thing. Of course, we also did that with the damn McDonald's floppy record that came in the Sunday newspaper that one time.
what's the scrappy open source alternative nosql db that actually needs users/support/tutorials now that mongodb has gone IPO? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/19/mongodb-mdb-ipo-stock-price-on-first-trading-day.html (to be clear, I like mongodb and have friends that work there and would continue to suggest it to clients, but I'd rather spend my own time supporting smaller, more radical, less cash-rich projects)
slogged through finishing up some new cli stuff i'd been working on last night, and realized on waking all the ways i'd designed it wrong.
round 2 today, and i'm very glad to be in a place where i know i can take the time to fix it.
No, Duolingo, I will not call a potato an Erdäpfel, no matter how many times you insist. It's a Kartoffel, and it will always be a Kartoffel, and you can go to hell.
Seriously, Julian Richings as Death is the very best of the Supernatural guest stars. And that's saying something.
I'll believe they're serious when I see results, but tell me again that boycotting the bird site isn't going to accomplish anything.
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-says-it-will-finally-do-something-about-those-h-1819471466
@somethingeloquent this is the first I've ever heard of void. (ex-slackware user, jumped ship when they made gnome a pain to install) looking forward to trying it out. thanks for mentioning it!
Anybody looking to hire a remote webdev?
I can do React/Redux, Angular, jQuery, Node with Express, Python with Django and Flask, PHP with a LOT of frameworks, Java, and a whole bunch of build systems, test suites, database providers, and CMSes. I've been writing CSS since it was brand new.
I've also worked as a Section 508/WCAG compliance reviewer, as well as developed mobile and desktop thin-client apps in web languages.
Just drop me a PM if you have a gig or a position to fill. #hireme
A lot of people are missing the point of the twitter boycott. Ok heres how twitter works, they sell your data to advertisers for money, any interactions, good or bad are data they can sell.
All that harassment women get? That makes them money. All the call outs, all the toxic shit, all the fights with bad people? Makes them money.
They have a vested interest in creating engagement and nothing does that better than anger. They keep the bad people around because they know you will fight them. Thats data, they can sell that and then market to people just like you.
While they market to the people who want to abuse you too.
*not using twitter* is literally the only way to hurt them.
That thing where I hit escape to exit edit mode in a browser text area that is not vim
I should throw this out there - are you good with buildsystems? Do you want to work with me? My team is hiring!
@emdeesee even after googling for pictures, i can't bring myself to believe it.
It just occurred to me to mention: since Mastodon doesn’t have advertising, check and see if the people running your instance(s) have some way to send them donations to help keep the servers running.
If you can, of course! But even a little bit now and then can help, if as many people do it as possible.
I am not actually an instance administrator or anything; I just want the lights to stay on. And my dollar a month is insufficient by itself.
@sysadmin1138 you're assuming they can't tell what's bot traffic and what's real traffic?
plus side, i know a lot more about how the ca certs packages are supposed to work on debian. and i know a little more about how java's keystore works.
joy is wasting 2+ hours troubleshooting login issues on your jenkins server, only to discover the github enterprise server your school runs, which you're using as an auth source, is no longer returning the cert chain with its ssl cert.
and then trying to troubleshoot why update-ca-certificates isn't adding the cert you just put in place to the java keystore.
and then just saying fuck it and adding it manually so you can get back to what you were supposed to be doing to begin with.
I was one of the college kids sleeping out overnight to get the front row seats at the Shubert in Boston, thanks to my sister doing it first and getting me hooked. I've seen the play probably a dozen times live. And I can rant at my daughter about it, but I don't think I'll be able to convey what it meant to me at that point in my life.
