Efraim Flashner @efraim@tooot.im

#DebConf20 registration is open! https://bits.debian.org/2020/05/debconf20-open-registration-bursary.html

RT @a_steinmayr@twitter.com

"By one estimate, the COVID-19 literature published since January has reached more than 23,000 papers and is doubling every 20 days"

If we don't flatten the curve, there will be about 50 million COVID papers by the end of the year.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/scientists-are-drowning-covid-19-papers-can-new-tools-keep-them-afloat

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/a_steinmayr/status/1260857028681097216

There should be a Cargo flag for "never ever download a binary".

---a frustrated packager

@machado No one's asking you to do everything. You don't need to be a full blown activist to pick up on someone you know making a misogynist joke and just calmly saying "hey man, you know that's kinda shitty, right?"

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is just to cast a little doubt and make people realise that not everyone shares their views.

But if you laugh along with that joke, every bigot in the room shares the validation.

Absolutely fantastic article that gets to the heart of what's going wrong with this nation:

"How Freedom Turned Sociopathic in America"

"In America, you are made to battle everyone else for…everything. Nothing is your right, really. You must fight bitterly for education, for healthcare, for a little bit of money, for food to eat, for a roof over your head. How can such people really be “companions” — when they are busy being enemies, opponents, adversaries? And when you look at the world this way, why would you want to stay home to keep others safe? And yet if a society is an organization of companions, of fellow travellers, of pilgrims all wearing humble cloth walking the same road — how can such a thing made of competition ever be a society?"

https://eand.co/how-freedom-turned-sociopathic-in-america-963048c59f8f

Dear content producers:

If your stream of bits is not available on one of the streaming services it's not going to somehow magically pull me to your streaming service; it doesn't exist.

When it comes to streaming I'm but a young child with impermanence issues. Unless it's in front of me in existing services then it has disappeared from my conscious mind.

RT @nuthaven@twitter.com

This is my favorite bit of early-UNIX history trivia:

When AT&T donated the V6 source code to Berkeley, it was classified as industrial waste for tax purposes.

#GNU #Guix 1.1.0 is out!
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.1.0-released/

14K commits by 201 people since the last release! It’s been a lot of work but I think it’s a beautiful release. :-)

i love being a computer kitten!

i hope you love being what you are too ❤️

I thought the apocalypse would look… less like People of Walmart and more like Mad Max.

RT @tifffanycuh@twitter.com

Choose your fighter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tifffanycuh/status/1246227095522553857

#GNU #Guix to deprecate support for the Linux kernel: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-linux-kernel/ This is becoming possible thanks to the hard work put into supporting the #Hurd in Guix over the years!

Zoom meetings aren’t actually end-to-end encrypted, despite misleading marketing on their website, in their security white paper, and in the user interface in their app https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ by @yaelwrites and myself

The knight rode up to the tower.
"Hello!"
A dragon looked out of a window, high up.
"Yes?"
The knight held up a basket.
"Your food delivery."
"You're a hero! Please leave it by the door."
The knight did so, saluted, and rode off, leaving the dragon in isolation.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Things are not improving. BSDCan 2020 will be an online conference, not in person. Details will soon follow.

They said gloves and a mask would be enough to go to the supermarket..

They lied, everyone else had their clothes on.

(https://twitter.com/Dadsaysjokes/status/1242168258612133890)

do you like #plan9 and want to participate in the SDF plan9 #bootcamp ?? let us know. There are plenty of slots open and a #vm is waiting for you