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Every single zoom meeting with friends - Karolina Żebrowska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFnqaQozJ8

#meme

Bad gateway… bad.

I'm working for a big tech company in California. Yesterday all employees received an email from our security guys.

We have to deactivate all personal assistant gadgets (like Alexa) during worktime in the homeoffice.

They have evidence that these gadgets are recording audio from conference calls.

Nothing new to me but notable that I've got this order.

"Draw an iceberg and see how it will float"

https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

Please note - "Cat Facepalms" category exists in Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cat_facepalms

Thank you for your attention, we will now resume our regular programming.

I received a zip full of files from someone who thought it would be cute/clever to use some kind of messed-up non-(terminal)-printable character in all the filenames. After dorking-around for 15 minutes trying to cobble together a shell script to fix this (hard when you can't type the target character) I found detox, and it *just fixed the fucking thing*

The great thing about Unix is that it's been around long enough that there's almost zero chance someone hasn't run into the same problem you're having, and for a long time most unix users have been programmers, so there's almost always a program out there that will solve your problem.

enjoy: https://linux.die.net/man/1/detox

Pizza has a top and a bottom. Calzone has an inside and an outside. I'm proposing a theoretical new variant with only one side, a kleinza or perhaps kleinzone, if you will.

Asbestos Removal Memes

parent: get out, it's time to go
kid: but i am out

@kensanata Matrix is excellent if you can inflict the cost and effort of running a server upon somebody else.

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Oh hi, I fixed your website.

You're *very* welcome.

Huh, looks like some OpenSource folks are noticing that an open-source non-copyleft license does not protect from lock-in, and that lock-ins are bad:
https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/open_source_under_attack/

> Open source was never designed or planned to be used as "Gateway Drug" to move people to a proprietary locked in software, but more and more this is happening.

No, actually, it was designed specifically to allow just that, to be more "business-friendly": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Origins

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/31b77296cf6d85c40313812d9f65a003cf41f440/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp#L325

#element banned from #googleplay due to some offending content being available on the #matrix network.
Google how about baning all the Email applications from your store? I am 100000% sure somebody used Email right now to distribute offending content.
#element is trying to explain Google how #matrix works and that they are not to blame. Sorry but I do not buy into the story that people at Google are so badly informed ...
So #google, WHY did you actually ban it?

#elementbanedbygoogle

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.