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For some reason #megalodon had been erroring out when showing profiles for a couple weeks.
I have no idea why, and don't care enough to sort it out, so I switched to the official mastodon android app. Works ok 🤷‍♂️

Ruby Central has posted their weekly update:

https://rubycentral.org/news/weekly-update-friday-october-3/#how-to-engage

I do recommend sending questions in to them. None were answered in this update, but we'll see if they get addressed in future updates.

If you are not comfortable with the lack of transparency Ruby Central has shown in the past, and want to *also* record your question in public in a place others can find it, I set up this repository:

https://github.com/community-research-on-ruby-governance/questions-for-ruby-central

Then we can see what if anything they answer in future updates.

Weekly Update — Friday, October 3

Thanks for holding us to a regular cadence. I’m liking being able to share with you all regularly. Today’s Friday update is brief, as we shared a comprehensive status on Tuesday, and much of that work is still in motion. Here’s where things stand: Production services (rubygems.

Ruby Central

As mentioned at the #SFRuby meetup, I'm looking for your ancient #Ruby binaries!

The oldest I have thus far is Ruby 1.4.0 on Cygwin and Ruby 1.6.2 for Cygwin, MS-DOS DJGPP, and mingw32.

I know there are weirder platforms with official binaries. Ping your #Japanese #RubyFriends! :)

My plans include running these on weird Japanese PCs at places that retro computers show up.

Onu, la zona sicura nel sud di Gaza è una farsa - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it

Le Nazioni Unite ribadiscono che non esiste un luogo sicuro per i palestinesi a cui è stato ordinato di lasciare Gaza City e che le zone designate da Israele nel sud sono "luoghi di morte". (ANSA)

Agenzia ANSA

the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Similitude" ( s3e10) might be one of my favourite ones across the franchise.

I'm glad I kept going through the show, thanks everyone who told me that :)

#StarTrek #Enterprise #SciFi

Il 3, 4 e 5 ottobre torna La Mela di AISM, l'evento di informazione promosso da AISM.
14.000 i volontari in 5.000 piazze per distribuire 3 milioni di mele (in una borsina da circa 2 kg).
Un gesto concreto per sostenere 144.000 persone con #sclerosimultipla in Italia, perlopiù giovani, che ogni giorno affrontano una grave malattia del sistema nervoso centrale, cronica, imprevedibile e progressivamente invalidante. Il ricavato dell'iniziativa sarà destinato alla ricerca scientifica.
#lameladiaism

Splendida notizia, specie dopo gli atti vandalici dell'anno scorso

https://www.wired.it/article/raccolto-riso-tea-italia-editing-genetico-statale/

#scienza #TEA

Per la prima volta in Italia abbiamo raccolto riso sviluppato con le Tea, le nuove tecniche di editing genetico

Dopo le devastazioni dello scorso anno nel pavese e della vite a Verona il team dell’Università Statale di Milano ha completato con successo l’operazione in tre siti del pavese e del novarese

Wired Italia

Quick tip:

> bastille create alcatraz 14.3-RELEASE 10.17.89.63

→ In one command, you’ve got an isolated FreeBSD jail spun up.

Perfect for testing or deploying apps safely and cleanly.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

Now, I personally am on the side of thinking people can do good in one area and be shit in another, and that in some roles it may be preferable to have less conflict-generating people, and that free speech does not mean free of social consequences.
But you do you.
This week I saw a sport journalist reprimanding those who say "sport should not involve itself with politics" (re: UEFA banning Israel) with the point that sport always was political.
And I just read a toot saying the same thing about software.
And I agree with both, cause everything is political, cause politics is just ideas and values and those are part of every action one takes.
#politics