Before digging into this post, I need to set some context. Friday, May 13, 2022 was my last day at my, now, former employer of nearly seven years. I’m not mentioning the company name1 because this post is not about them2. This post is about burnout and the importance of continuous monitoring and maintenance of… Continue reading
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Announcement: New Substack Newsletter
Just a quick post to note that I’ll still be doing long-form, single-topic posts here on the blog, but I’ve also started an M-F daily Substack newsletter [free], that introduces 1-3(ish) topics per-issue on stuff I find during my daily RSS trawls. It’s a mix of tech, Mac, linux, data science, science-science, food, and some… Continue reading
How to access BBC News in Ukrainian (🇺🇦) and Russian (🇷🇺). Как получить доступ к новостям Би-би-си.
via Zack Whittaker on Twitter… Download Tor Browser: http://torproject.org/download Open this URL in Tor to access BBC (🇺🇦): https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion/ukrainian Open this URL in Tor to access BBC (🇷🇺): https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion/russian
Full transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s emotional appeal to Russians
Here is the full transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s video address early on Feb. 24 local time warning that a Russian invasion could cause tens of thousands of deaths. “Today I initiated a phone call with the president of the Russian federation. The result was silence. Though the silence should be in Donbass. That’s… Continue reading
Getting Back 2 Good
If you’ve been following my inane tweets and non-technical blog posts for any length of time since 2015, you likely know the 2016 election cycle broke me more than just a tad, with each subsequent month of the Trump presidency adding a bit more breakage. My brain is constantly trying to make sense of the… Continue reading
Parler Whack-a-Mole
(this is an unrolled Twitter thread converted to the blog since one never knows how long content will be preserved anywhere anymore) It looks like @StackPath (NetCDN[.]com redirects to them) is enabling insurrection-mongers. They’re fronting news[.]parler[.]com . It seems they (Parler) have a second domain dicecrm[.]com with the actual content, too. dicecrm[.]com is hosted in… Continue reading
Nos Autem Non In Antebellum; Bella Iam Inceperat
(Leading this with the periodic warning/reminder that this blog occasionally breaks from technical content and has category-based RSS feeds which can be used to ensure one never see non-technical content.) Every decent human (which excludes 74,222,958 🇺🇸 who voted for this, now 100% undeniable, traitor) with knowledge of this past week’s tragic events is likely… Continue reading
It’s [Almost] Over; Much Damage Has Been Done; But I [We] Have A Call To Unexpected Action
NOTE: There’s a unique feed URL for R/tech stuff — https://rud.is/b/category/r/feed/. If you hit the generic “subscribe” button b/c the vast majority of posts have been on that, this isn’t one of those posts and you should probably delete it and move on with more important things than the rantings of silly man with a… Continue reading