Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Lighthouses are no longer maintained by actual lighthouse keepers. But, if you could, would you be one? (Assume living essentials, a modest income, and four weeks off every year are part of the deal.)

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178618474/historic-lighthouses-auction-gsa-new-england

NHS England workforce plan delayed amid rumours of cost issues https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/29/nhs-england-workforce-plan-delayed-amid-rumours-of-cost-issues?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

Kyiv defenses hold up in new record Russian attack on Ukrainian capital https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/05/29/Ukraine-Russian-attack-Kyiv-defenses/1961685366117/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m grateful that we have a president who honors and pays tribute to our fallen heroes, and doesn’t consider them “losers” and “suckers.”

Open-Source AR Hack Chat - Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at noon Pacific for the Open-Source AR Hack Chat with... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/29/open-source-ar-hack-chat/ #hackadaycolumns #hackchat

Centralized media endangers us all.

Tonight, as wildfires tear through communities in western Halifax, Canadian broadcast television has been showing us Alberta election coverage. Even the CBC is giving us a national television feed (though CBC radio has been covering things, at least).

We saw the same thing during the overnight mass shootings in 2020.

The elimination of local, real time news media is going to get people killed. I'm beyond sure that it has in other communities. Maybe it even did here 3 years ago.

#Halifax #HRM #Canada #News

By focusing on Confederate contributions, they obscured and downplayed the role of African-Americans in establishing Decoration Day, which later evolved into Memorial Day. This intentional distortion of history aimed to reinforce the Confederate narrative and marginalize the African-American contributions to American history and remembrance.

4/4

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #MemorialDay

Would you like to do a PhD with Giulia Fadda and me? Or do you know anyone who might? Contact us ASAP (deadline 04/06/2023) Please share. #phd https://doctorat.campusfrance.org/en/CF202332446

@Ulrich_the_Elder The United States & her allies defeated Nazi Germany, but the U.S. refrained from defeating the Nazi part of America - a burden, that's still harmful.

Immediately after the war the allies banned the swastika, the Nazi party & the publication of "Mein Kampf" in Germany - none of that happened in the U.S., on grounds of a potentially dangerous & self-destructive naïve interpretation of the First Amendment.

"While America protects the right of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and other hate groups to hold public rallies and express their views openly, Germany has strict laws banning Nazi symbols and what’s called Volksverhetzung — incitement of the people, or hate speech. Like more than a dozen European countries, Germany also has a law criminalizing Holocaust denial."

Free speech has & needs limits — to prevent harm & protect the Rule of the People aka democracy.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/16/16152088/nazi-swastikas-germany-charlottesville
#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #IncitementOfThePublic #Incitement #Insurrection #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Nazism #Terrorism #Extremism

More than 20,000 innocent Ukrainian children lost their most precious childhood memories - like playing with friends.

Now they are exposed to the cruelty of war.

We must act now to claim their freedom and bring them back home to an independent Ukraine.

#BringBackUkrainianKids

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1663138518376275968

"Sorry, but http://archive.org is down temporarily-- working to restore service.

(details: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company harvesting Internet Archive texts at an extreme rate)" (@internetarchive #InternetArchive on #BirdSite 29 May 2023, 3:49am CET)

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/

I know spiders are spiritual messengers, but please ancestors, communicate with me in a way that doesn't have to scare the beejesus outta me. I'm just tryna paint here...

I was appreciating the daily single butterfly while outside.

#spirituality #signs #spiritmessages #blackmastodon #blackfedi

⚠️Google is raging war on the FOSS Aurora Store⚠️

Aurora is a staple tool for people looking to de-google their Android devices. Currently, Google has broken the ability for anonymous logins, and they’re now deleting some Google accounts used through Aurora. Proceed with caution, spread the word, and support the Aurora project if you’re able 🚀 More info: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/aurora-store-anonymous-logins-are-removed-indefinitely/3817/12

There are now more Mastodonians than there are Belgians.

Mastodon user count:
12,042,552

Belgium population count:
11,735,535

Source: @mastodonusercount

tfw on weekend you try to work on your own software project... and work on *someone elses*. i'll send patches today.

here are patches i did for fiptool in arm trusted firmware-a (tf-a), see "fiptool_rice" branch:

https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/commits/branch/fiptool_rice/tools/fiptool

UPSTREAM fiptool.c: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/plain/tools/fiptool/fiptool.c?id=c0d8ee386185bf44acbc02d11d11de2963a307bb

UPSTREAM fiptool.h: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/plain/tools/fiptool/fiptool.h?id=c0d8ee386185bf44acbc02d11d11de2963a307bb

My version (*better* error handling, cleaner code style):

fiptool.c: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/raw/commit/d01baac6c1f4d22d5b5deee218774cc3885c6f92/tools/fiptool/fiptool.c

fiptool.h: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/trusted-firmware-a/raw/commit/d01baac6c1f4d22d5b5deee218774cc3885c6f92/tools/fiptool/fiptool.h

More about FIP: https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design/firmware-design.html#firmware-design

@trinsec I do have passion on programing, but not the one those enterprises need. I write posts for my blog monthly, mainly about some random stuff I did in the last month, like writing a simple read-only FUSE in Kotlin, dig into how email system prevents spam, record how I implemented a P2P chat system in Minecraft, etc. I do enjoy them, I did that for about 5 or 6 years, and I still want to keep doing that.

I generally hope I can turn my passion for programming into a job, which I don't suffer from. But based on situation, where I know the enterprise doesn't need a SpringBoot and MySQL master to build a product, and the enterprise knows that too, but they still want to hire a person who mastered those things and pay him/her an entry level salary, I don't think the job is the one I want. A Java programmer who masters the SpringBoot, database, cloud, knows how SpringBoot and MySQL work internally, knows how to design cloud-native applications, works 12 hours a day, and gets paid less than 2K USD per month? I would call it greedy.

While other people have workarounds, I don't like it. They simply repeat those Q&As and pretend to know everything about those things but in fact they rarely understood them. I think programing is about doing something and learning from it, not memory something and don't know how to use it.

This looks interesting

https://davzim.github.io/dataverifyr/

A lightweight package that verifies your data meets your specified rules, and automatically selects the correct package (DBI, dplyr, data.table etc) to carry out the checks.

#rstats

Happy Sunday!

A reminder:

The Catholic Church spent $11 mill in the NE US to fight legislation that would help victims of clergy sexual abuse get justice
In NY the Catholic Church spent $3 mill lobbying against the Child Victims Act
The Catholic Church donated over $3 mill to limit abortion access in Kansas
The Catholic Church refused to pay $20 mill to residential school survivors
- then they paid $30 mill for a new cathedral in Saskatoon

* This post was written at a drag brunch