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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14
Not limited to the current rise of far right dictators: a repetition of the steps taken a century ago: [Wayback/Archive] Branch removal – Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (actual link not visible in the EU because of GDPR: [Wayback] AJC GDPR Support)
Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/03
I celebrate my tiny milestones by writing blog posts on the things I learn.
What is your way to celebrate them?
Read [Wayback/Archive] Celebrate tiny learning milestones, especially this bit:
It’s really helpful for me to celebrate tiny milestones like this. I celebrate a lot by writing blog posts – I wrote the above list mostly by looking at my list of old blog posts for things I’d written about related to C.If you don’t blog (it’s definitely not for everyone!), it can be helpful to write down this kind of thing in your [Wayback/Archive] brag document instead.But I do think it’s important to celebrate these milestones somewhere. It gives me a real sense that I’m making progress and it helps me stay motivated to keep learning about the thing.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/24
This is why you don’t use Facebook Messenger (and use E2E encrypted messengers):
[Wayback/Archive] US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills | Nebraska | The Guardian
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another. In one message, Celeste told Jessica: “Remember we burn the evidence.”
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/20
[Wayback/Archive] Marc Van Ranst on X: “@NDikkeboom Wie een tribunaal graaft voor een ander, valt er zelf in.” / X
Afbeelding van [Wayback/Archive] De Geert on Twitter: “@Doc_Box Ach. Een wijs man zei ooit”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/25
Happy Towel Day!
Today is the 42nd towel day in remembrance of a truly remarkable author.
—jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/27
I am really glad this keynote got recorded. Still very relevant, it is as much about software development as it is about society.
Go watch it, as it gives you reason to think about your role in the software development process, and in the information fire hose at large.
Back in the days, David Intersimone was right when he created the regular blog post “Sip from the Firehose” (for early materials, see [WayBack] GetPublished – Author Information: Firehose).
The talk main thread is about current and ever growing overload of information which basically makes it disinformation, combined with the abundance of “AI” recording devices around you that basically make you the product.
Basically we reached all the tick marks of these books:
The session is not just about “how bad is the situation” (it is very), but also provides directions on how to get out of it for both people in the development process, as well as consumers, producers and sharers of information.
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/31
A very interesting thread by @doctorow:
Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, e……
Source: [WayBack] Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
More on section 1201: [Wayback] Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: RIAA kills youtubedl
There is also a great technical analysis at [Wayback/Archive.is] Analysis of the RIAA claims against youtube-dl · GitHub
This write-up follows the code paths in youtube-dl that get executed when you try to run it based on the claims of RIAA has put forward. This is a technical analysis, not a legal one.
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/03
From 5 years ago, but now more relevant than it ever was: [WayBack] The Toxic Smog of the Information Age | Literary Hub
SCROOGLED
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. –Cardinal Richelieu
We don’t know enough about you. –Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/09
If this is the norm inside world wide politics and business, what is outside the norm?
[WayBack] No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium
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Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/20
StackOverflow / StackExchange is growing too large:
You’ve got a question about git. Its not uncommon, lots of people have questions about git. But where should the question be asked?
Source: Where does my git question go? – Programmers Meta Stack Exchange
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 