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Kindness is underrated.

In many West African cultures, griots serve as communal memory banks, transmitting a people’s history, rituals, folklore, and values from generation to generation, stretching back centuries.

But for Anglo-Gambian kora master Sona Jobarteh, becoming the first woman from a griot family to master the 21-string instrument was a decidedly secluded process.

Link below to read the full article:
https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/sona-jobarteh-and-brava-and-kora/

#SanFrancisco #Arts

Dear Berlin people: don’t forget to vote today. There’s a referendum for making Berlin climate neutral in 2030 (rather than 2045)! Thanks 💚💚💚

People talking about libraries, and I'd like to add from long-term experience that if you're homeless, those places are vital. Reading the newspaper while sitting on, y'know, a *chair*, hopefully a drinking fountain (No dehydration? Fancy) reading some books, not being too cold or too hot, lovely.

Oh, and you can sort out official stuff, which is handy when you ain't got an address. There was even a lady at one who liked to share food around. Like, you didn't eat it inside, obviously, but food? Nice.

Hell, just about the only things they didn't have were a place to wash or sleep, but you could learn stuff, rest a little, get out of the weather, not be on your guard all the time, (and can't get arrested, cause you're not 'loitering' in a library) and, here's the good part:

You could send your mind somewhere else. Like, without chemicals. You pick up a book and you just escape. That's priceless if you're homeless.

Which is the perfect price, cause you ain't got money.

A heart. A soul. A mind. That's what a library is. And bless em for existing.

Gonna stop there, cause I'm getting all teary and shit.

90% of open source projects.

#quilting is done! Need to think about the binding. #sewing

"The politics here are obvious. As Brewster Kahle put it, this decision conceives of libraries as "customer service departments for corporate database products." The truth is that libraries are ancient, bedrock institutions. Libraries are older than copyright. They're older than printing. Than paper. Than commerce."

📚 💫

@pluralistic on the @internetarchive case:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/consequentialism/#dotards-in-robes

Oops! 😅 Github accidentally committed their on SSH private key to a public github repo. They rightly have changed the keys, so you'll get bit scary “WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!” messages.

https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
#ssh #github #devoops

I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

I see people being deceived by this again and again: ChatGPT can NOT read content from URLs that you give it, but it will pretend that it can (and can be incredibly convincing when it does that)

Constantly debunking this feels like a Sisyphean task, but it's really important to spread this message any time you see anyone falling into this (very understandable) trap

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/

Question for fellow #webdev out there: I'm trying to remote debug a website on Firefox mobile.

I have Firefox on Android, I enabled USB remote debugging in the browser settings AND in the Developer settings of Android.

Did the same with Firefox on desktop.

Then I connected the two devices with USB.

When I hit about:debugging on desktop though, I see my device no problems, however it's stuck with a "Waiting for browser..." message and no connect button appears.

*pokes head into mastodon*

I wrote a story about an autistic superhero named Paladin (basically What If Captain America was autistic) and I've been given the go-ahead to announce that it'll be appearing in MIGHTY: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes, out later this year

I'm excited about it! I am awkward about it! Bye!!!

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