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@freemo Merry Christmas, and thanks for playing Santa this year and giving all of us new users here the gift of QOTO! It's very much appreciated.

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For years I’ve had a semi-annual tradition in which I watch Tim Minchin’s beautiful atheist Christmas carol “White Wine in the Sun” at midnight on Christmas Eve, bawl my eyes out, then post it on Twitter. Doing it on Masto this year. Merry Christmas; I quite like the songs. youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q

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NEW: Twitter is shutting down its data center in Sacramento and downsizing another in Atlanta by early Jan, likely as a cost saving measure. This means a huge amount of traffic will be shifted to its remaining data centers, which could result in increased instability.

@living8bit@mastodon.social @PCMag but how do you guarantee that? Isn't it just security through obscurity?

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“Twitter has privately demanded that the suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Musk’s ire in the first place — a condition the reporters have refused to accept.” washingtonpost.com/media/2022/

@badtakes nor even that, but Tesla itself is in trouble. Fit and finish has suffered for years, and autopilot has fewer active features than ever. After they bought Solar City, they went from 33% of all installations nationwide to just 2%. The FSD, cybertruck, and solar roof tiles have *still* not materialized. Elon's just been doing con games and getting cheered on for it. Tesla was waaaaaaaaayyyyy overvalued, and people are only now seeing it because Elon's vinear has crumbled into memes and insecurity.

@living8bit@mastodon.social @PCMag but is a home-grown solution more secure than lastpass?

@kairyssdal just listened to your Tuesday episode of Make Me Smart. I wanted to say that given Elon's notorious manipulations of his money, it would not at all be surprising that he gave his money away to himself.

Take the Padagonia owner's "generous" donation of his company to "charity." What he actually did was give his company in a trust to a charity that he and his family control. Basically, it's a way to ensure that his wealth stays with his family.

Given that you said we don't know where Elon sent his Tesla stock, we really don't know that he's actually done anything good by giving it to "charity."

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TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance spied on Forbes journalists, including me. Read the shocking story here: forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

@ChrisPirillo @stokel I think a lot of science and research people were already here.

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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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Friends new and old!

My first Mastodon post.

For the past 5 months, I've worked on a two-part investigation with Floodlight's Miranda Green & Mario Ariza.

The details are pretty bananas. And they get at the grim truth of what flourishes as local news coverage withers.

Part 1:
How power company cash secretly flowed to a half-dozen news sites in Alabama and Florida that assailed their critics

npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/

@team well for CI there's a few options:

Jenkins - reliable, older, but still widely used, even in corporate environments.

Github Actions - usually my goto, especially if you're already using code hosted on github. But since you want to move away from that, we can skip it.

The rest of these I know about, but don't have personal experience with:

Drone CI: containers all the way down. Each build environment is a container that runs your build. I like this approach because GitHub Actions does something similar under the hood and Jenkins can be made to work this way as well.

Circle CI: similar to Drone CI (I think), but I know even less about it.

Cloud Provider CI: Each of AWS, Azure, and GCP (and possibly more) have their own CI products. This is also great because you can do deployments directly into the environment. So if you have a cloud services provider, you can look at their offering.

I'm certain that there are other CI tools out there, but these are the ones that I'm aware of.

@team or are you looking to drop gitlab altogether for other reasons?

@team replacing gitlab will be a large task. You'll have to do all the work of setting up replacements for every aspect you use. Gitlab had project planning, source control, CI, all rolled into one thing. It would be a lot easier just to get the source control to work.

Actually, now that I think about it I have to ask, why don't you directly use Gitlab's source control capabilities? You're already paying for them. You could drop gitea and just use Gitlab.

@team does that mean you're looking for an alternate CI?

@ChrisPirillo he'll drop the CEO title and become Memelord First Of His Name He Who Smoke The Maymay God King For Life

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