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"We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”

#Greta Thunberg

#quotes
#ClimateChange

"I still did not know what policies I violated"... 

etc...

(If you suspend someone you should let them know why)

Surprise on users...

ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/b

WHY THIS POST?

eBay / Paypal / CouchSurfing.... - unsaying what rules people broke as a tactic to keep / steal money and asking you to fight for the reasons... DON'T KEEP A LOT WITH THEM or else you will have to fight an expensive fight

:facepalm: (just to get money back)... :facepalm:

and

Your #browser according to your political opinion

Left wing : firefox, librewolf, Tor
Centre left : Vivaldi, Floorp, Zed
Centre : Chrome, Arc, Safari
Centre right: edge, opera
Right wing : Brave DuckDuckGo
#politics

Archive (2004-2018)

Classic / Most Popular Extensions...

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Includes "Adblock Latitude" + "uBlock Origin" etc... essentials for Firefox

Lessons for colleagues + good / bad examples list... 

INTRO FIRST (OR SKIP TO HORIZONTAL LINES)...

HTML VERSION IS BETTER:
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Posted by Andrew Cater ( )

I have had excellent colleagues both at my day job and, especially, in Debian over the last thirty-odd years. Several have attempted to give me good advice - others have been exemplars. People retire: sadly, people die. What impression do you want to leave behind when you leave here?

Belatedly, I've come to realise that obduracy, sheer bloody mindedness, force of will and obstinacy will only get you so far. The following began very much as a tongue in cheek private memo to myself a good few years ago. I showed it to a colleague who suggested at the time that I should share it to a wider audience.

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SOME ADVICE YOU MAY BENEFIT FROM
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Personal conduct

Never argue with someone you believe to be arguing idiotically - a dispassionate bystander may have difficulty telling who's who.
You can't make yourself seem reasonable by behaving unreasonably
It does not matter how correct your point of view is if you get people's backs up
They may all be #####, @@@@@, %%%% and ******* - saying so out loud doesn't help improve matters and may make you seem intemperate.

Working with others

Be the change you want to be and behave the way you want others to behave in order to achieve the desired outcome.
You can demolish someone's argument constructively and add weight to good points rather than tearing down their ideas and hard work and being ultra-critical and negative - no-one likes to be told "You know - you've got a REALLY ugly baby there"
It's easier to work with someone than to work against them and have to apologise repeatedly.
Even when you're outstanding and superlative, even you had to learn it all once. Be generous to help others learn: you shouldn't have to teach too many times if you teach correctly once and take time in doing so.

Getting the message across

Stop: think: write: review: (peer review if necessary): publish.
Clarity is all: just because you understand it doesn't mean anyone else will.
It does not matter how correct your point of view is if you put it across badly.
If you're giving advice: make sure it is:
Considered
Constructive
Correct as far as you can (and)
Refers to other people who may be able to help
Say thank you promptly if someone helps you and be prepared to give full credit where credit's due.

Work is like that

You may not know all the answers or even have the whole picture - consult, take advice - LISTEN TO THE ADVICE
Sometimes the right answer is not the immediately correct answer
Corollary: Sometimes the right answer for the business is not your suggested/preferred outcome
Corollary: Just because you can do it like that in the real world doesn't mean that you can do it that way inside the business. [This realisation is INTENSELY frustrating but you have to learn to deal with it]
DON'T ALWAYS DO IT YOURSELF - Attempt to fix the system, sometimes allow the corporate monster to fail - then do it yourself and fix it. It is always easier and tempting to work round the system and Just Flaming Do It but it doesn't solve problems in the longer term and may create more problems and ill-feeling than it solves.

[Worked out for Andy Cater for himself after many years of fighting the system as a misguided missile - though he will freely admit that he doesn't always follow them as often as he should :) ]


Posted by Andrew Cater - Monday 12 February 2024

flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/20

Human change first because mass "technology" is just another man-in-the-middle attack, Shitshow and tool.

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Technology as just another tool used by those than have mass control or regulation to result in the same bad-"work"-as-usual.

Humans are not perfect by far, but they need learning and preserving what computers ultimately cannot do as human contact, care and personal respect with arms and legs and heart etc.

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Humans are essentially the baseline for defeating cold 'systems' and hidden lines of code by using time better between people and day-to-day human intelligence incremented.

Human people as the incremented and let

be what we have now (which is more than enough).

#QOTO TIMELINE DELAY ON OWN PROFILE 

If I would post now I wouldn't see it on my own timeline until the weekend lol.

So the last post I see is 1+ day old. recently got worst to 3 days

:kaboom: TRY IT... Can you see my latest post or reply or your own recent post?
Click my name then "post and replies" for example and then try that on your own.

Previously you could post something and see it on your own timeline immediately...
Looool -

Systems with winner and loser = Bad 

Systems with winner and loser = Bad*

Systems with a few winners and many losers = Bad*

Systems with 1 winner and the rest nothing = Bad*

Systems asking users to gamble (pay to play over and over again) more than anything educational / sharing = Bad

...this includes money itself as it's a gamble game itself...

* Bad = needs changing

as vs ? 🎲 📈 📉 📊 ⌛ ⏱️ :kaboom:

* Enough Computers ? More Human Contact ! * 

The Linux Playstation People

It's regression when generations of heads are down coding, unable to do longer talks any more. They start to operate like limited computers more than caring people.

Humanity and it's real talk is the real reason why HUMAN PROGRESS does or does not happen. I know it's hard to see that as computers not fulfilling your goals but now more than ever we need real people and although things are relative to work etc but really when people are doing near-0 humanity all-the-while then there is no excuse (for not listening, improving people's way of talking, humanly able to chat and negotiate conversation, level up you're own thinking etc)

If only computers improve and NOT HUMANS or nothing much at the end of your work, then you're the one I mean.

Picture Text:
"But mum I'm not just playing games (Linux) wasting time - and not my fault human contact isn't getting better ".

like the Newer ?

Like not watching but watching YouTube all the time instead?

"...the fix is addressing the underlying real fear that there's no one coming to save you"

- Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️ @Tarah
infosec.exchange/@Tarah/113399

@stevetex I deleted my account the day he took over. I sleep well at night.

@stevetex @DemocracyMattersALot leaving Twitter cost me about a quarter of my annual income. I still damn well did.

@evan IMO, social networks are not the right medium for private, person-to-person conversations. It's reasonable to combine experiences for both social and private messaging in a single app/website, but the two shouldn't be implemented on common data infra. There's just too much room for privacy problems otherwise. My hope has been a combined ActivityPub+Matrix client, but I don't think anyone'sbuilt that yet.

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