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Former JS/TS & Web Specialist from 🇦🇺 & 🇸🇬.
Founder of CampJS & SingaporeJS.
NodeJS in Action 2E coauthor.
Father of 2, Husband of 1.
Leftist. He/Him
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Former JS/TS & Web Specialist from 🇦🇺 & 🇸🇬.
Founder of CampJS & SingaporeJS.
NodeJS in Action 2E coauthor.
Father of 2, Husband of 1.
Leftist. He/Him
Former JS/TS & Web Specialist from 🇦🇺 & 🇸🇬.
Founder of CampJS & SingaporeJS.
NodeJS in Action 2E coauthor.
Father of 2, Husband of 1.
Leftist. He/Him
Plague PoemsAccording to the headline
“Long Covid Knocked
a Million Americans
Off Their Career Paths”
and though you may not be
included in that number
please, my friend, take care
for you have not yet
reached the end
of your career path
and you have not yet
reached the end of the pandemic.
“Long Covid Knocked
a Million Americans
Off Their Career Paths”
and though you may not be
included in that number
please, my friend, take care
for you have not yet
reached the end
of your career path
and you have not yet
reached the end of the pandemic.
clairikineUS folks abroad, are you registered to vote yet? https://votefromabroad.org
It's never about whether someone is "offended" or not:
All popular IDEs (and most apps) seem stuck in a single-monitor paradigm. When are we going to get an IDE that sets the bar for working with multiple monitors? For inspiration, look at multi-monitor audio engineering consoles. Please
@jetbrains
@jetbrains
There are not enough people talking about the Sadocus. Such a beautiful creature. Looks like a cross between a harvestman, a whip scorpion and a demon orchid. Amazing.
TemerityThe culture war over gender affirming Healthcare so frequently ignores the fact that only a small percentage of gender affirming care is actually for trans people. The majority is for cis people who are accessing it for the exact same reasons as trans people, feeling more comfortable in their gender identity.
I was prescribed spiranolactone because my body makes more testosterone than I want it to, and as a girl I do not like having excessive facial hair. Easy easy, doctor tested my blood and wrote the prescription. I didn't have to prove anything other than I wanted less facial hair, and because I'm cis everyone involved trusted that my personal preferences and discomfort were enough to give me what I needed to solve the problem.
Most top surgeries are performed on cis men (to treat gynecomastia and create a more masculine chest) and cis women (to create a more feminine chest). Most hormone therapy is given to cis people to help them comfortable in their gender.
Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒Petition to Google: Turn off your untrustworthy AI Overviews until it’s safe to use.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/google-ai-overviews/
TELL GOOGLE: Turn off your untrustworthy AI Overviews until it’s safe to use
Google prides itself on the consistency and accuracy of their search engine. But its latest AI-powered search feature for quick answers, AI Overviews, has been serving up some bizarre and potentially dangerous answers.
Bread and CircusesMaximiliano Herrera (@extretemps) is a professional climatologist on Mastodon. He also posts at Xitter under an account called Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) and has been VERY busy there lately.
He says, for example, that Mexico City recently had their hottest day in history 🔥 (more on that in my next post). New temperature records also are being set throughout Africa — in Senegal, Niger, Mali, Chad, and Libya — along with record heat in China, southeast Asia, Pakistan, South America... the list goes on and on.
In summary, Herrera writes: “160 countries/territories have broken heat records so far this month. This is 300% more than any single month before mid-2023, and more than any month before February 2024. Many more countries will join in the next few days with record heat waves all over the world.”
🚨 We are in a climate emergency.🚨
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLinux is a bit shit sometimes,
There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.
If you're *not* happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:
Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not *actively malicious,* it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.
Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.
There's my linux recommendation.
LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™