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How much bash would a bash beaver bash if a bash beaver could bash bash?

@BryanLunduke

You want old-school computing? Here's old-school computing:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/run-the-first-edition-of-unix-1972-with-docker

Run the First Edition of Unix (1972) with Docker

In this article you'll see how to run a PDP-11 simulator through Docker to interact with Unix as it was back in 1972.

Nick Janetakis

@BryanLunduke

What do you think of this?: https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locations-even-when-location-services-are-disabled/

Doesn't matter if you have a SIM card or not, they were following you.

Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled

Android phones are tracking your location even if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps, and haven't even inserted a carrier SIM card.

Today marks the first anniversary of #Mastodon! 🎂

What's your favorite Mastodon memory so far? 🐘 Share them with the hashtag #MastodonMemory!

https://mastodon.social/media/MTYnsj0CZs65ULxCNx8

@RafiLinux I know you were working on an education program in Brooklyn, but can't find your link to it. What was the name of it?

@BryanLunduke

"No Standardization Without Representation!"

@BryanLunduke : @NPR presented a "counterpoint" to the fired Google Engineer. In it they present, as evidence he's wrong, Harvey Mudd College where CS majors went from 10% women to 40-50%. How? By doing the things he suggested:

"Klawe says they also countered the stereotype that computer geeks were guys who spent all their time alone in a basement. "They had very deliberately made it collaborative and involving teamwork instead of being lonely," she says."

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn

My PGP key password, one of few I keep in my head, requires >1 coffee and <2 alcoholic drinks to successfully type in.
@BryanLunduke Could you interview your wife about being a woman in tech?