Gary Bernhardt re-wrote an email by Linus Torvalds in a way that made it less insulting. Both the result and how he got there is a very readable and nice. Highly recommended: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2018/a-case-study-in-not-being-a-jerk-in-open-source

**David Bremner** · Jun 21, 2018, 18:59

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**Jordi** @JordiGH · Jun 21, 2018, 18:59

I need to rave about #Python.

One of my colleagues has deep knowledge about #GreenhouseGas calculations but doesn't write code, in any language. She was giving me instructions on how to perform a calculation, which I kept getting wrong. Frustrated, I just show her my Python code. She instantly recognises the error and tells me how to fix the code. This is the first time I show her Python.

Can *your* programming language do this?

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 21, 2018, 12:40

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 21, 2018, 12:40

"benign" monopolies, academic publishing. Show more

**David Bremner** · Jun 20, 2018, 10:28

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**Plants and Leftism** @Ashrand@mastodon.xyz · Jun 20, 2018, 10:28

Britpol, but actually USpol could do with some of this.

**David Bremner** · Jun 20, 2018, 01:02

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**茶 Ocean** @Ocean22@niu.moe · Jun 20, 2018, 01:02

Now THIS is a keyboard

**David Bremner** · Jun 19, 2018, 21:09

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**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Jun 19, 2018, 21:09

utterly exhausted, and just found out this insane push I'm on for the past 5 days, and which I thought was just about over, is going to go on twice as long as I thought

plz send moral support

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 19, 2018, 17:06

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 19, 2018, 17:06

uspol Show more

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 16, 2018, 13:15

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 16, 2018, 13:15

#sysadmin #clownshoes That feeling when you kill your backup process instead of detaching the tmux session because of your choice of escape character is C-\

**David Bremner** · Jun 16, 2018, 12:56

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**Boring Human** @Julia@boringpeople.org · Jun 16, 2018, 12:56

How has Lionel Messi the best beard on the field when there are eleven Icelandic people as well?! I'm so confused!
#worldcup

**David Bremner** · Jun 15, 2018, 19:32

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**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Jun 15, 2018, 19:32

Apparently I can't email hotmail addresses anymore. My IP and domain aren't listed on spamhaus. I have no idea why I'm being rejected and I don't see any recourse to find out.

I hate the centralization of email :(

**David Bremner** · Jun 15, 2018, 14:31

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**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Jun 15, 2018, 14:31

is this really how embargoed security holes are communicated to distros these days? http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros

Lack of https support on a page with a gpg public key supposed to be used to encrypt security hole reports 😮

(And the WOT paths to the only person to have signed that key are not great either.)

**David Bremner** · Jun 14, 2018, 17:06

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**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Jun 14, 2018, 17:06

Something I also miss: threaded conversations were the norm. Yes, in microblogging! Some of the most intense and interesting conversations about free software philosophy and licensing happened in threads that shot way off to the edge of the page

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 13, 2018, 19:37

**David Bremner** @bremner · Jun 13, 2018, 19:37

Here's the URL for the RA position

http://www.unb.ca/hr/_resources/php/print-support-staff-posting.php?theid=YZ6jqg==

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