Ozzy Shortwick @chuck@linuxlab.sh

"The cognitive dissonance that results is part of the discomfort which is experienced at this point in the process of [abandoning racism]. ... Responses to this discomfort may include denying the validity of the information that is being presented, or psychologically or physically withdrawing from it. The logic is, 'If I don't read about racism, talk about racism...or spend time with those people of color, I won't have to feel uncomfortable'" (Tatum, p. 98)

"While the task for people of color is to resist negative societal messages and develop an empowered sense of self in the face of a racist society... the task for Whites is to develop a positive White identity based in reality, not assumed in superiority.... Each person must become aware of [their] whiteness, accept it as personally and socially significant... in the context of a commitment to a just society" (Tatum, p. 94)

great book you should read about forming racial identity and how white people relate to its destruction. its called "why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria" by dr. beverly tatum

#DOFH excuse #29:

Vegan users refuse to use BTRFS.

*sigh*berpunk

got a new t-shirt

Every. Video call. Ever.

Seriously though, if you miss or want to be a sysadmin of old, holding the electrons and not just the API token, you've gotta come work for a cloud hosting company. We don't need BOFHs, thanks, but we always need wizards or wizards-in-training.

thank you for releasing me!

in case anyone needs some encouragement today or this week: its okay to suck and not do shit right. like, you're literally a person hurtling through the cosmos on a weird rock and on the level, everyone is fucking up, all the time. people that look perfect just fuck up quieter. they're a fucking mess but not proud enough to claim it.

perfectionism is a tool of capitalism. fucking up and just owning to fucking up is punk as shit. be a loser today and come out swinging when you feel better.

Facebook buys Giphy. Buh-bye, Giphy!

https://www.axios.com/scoop-facebook-to-buy-giphy-for-400-million-4a75a359-833b-484d-b15b-87e94d3de017.html

Pigeons are the future of the Internet.

#Internet #Datatransfer #Pigeon #winston

@drwho @antifarben All of NPM is like this, and has been for years. JS devs believe that you should have "tight" libraries, consequently there are a bajillion things that you'd bang out as a oneliner in any other language, but which have thousands of lines of Travis/packaging/test boilerplate and 30 million downloads. For functionality which is literally `return x !== x`[1]

NPM isn't so much a package repository as it is installable StackOverflow answers.

[1]: https://github.com/es-shims/is-nan/blob/master/implementation.js#L6

I am unemployed. I don't believe I will be returning to academia.

If you or someone you know is looking for a high skilled, highly motivated Unix admin, technical writer, infosec consultant, or tech researcher, please get in touch. Willing to relocate anywhere (after the COVID-19 situation, of course) and work remotely in the interim.

(Please feel free to star and boost.)