Notices by Berkubernetus (fuzzychef@m6n.io)

Hey folks, you have until tommorrow (Monday, Feb 17) to submit your application to run in the 2025 #OpenSource Initiative board #election -- either Individual or Affiliate.

https://opensource.org/about/board-of-directors/elections

#OSI

@joeo10 @0x0ddc0ffee Yeah, I'm aware of that. I never got any further details. That event actually had me planning to switch away (after 25 years with Pobox), except that the Protonmail Trump allegiance happened a week later.

If you know of a "better" email provider, please share.

@0x0ddc0ffee Fastmail has been OK, as AFAIK hasn't endorsed any fascists.

Hey USians! Call your congresscritters NOW. Don't wait, within a few days we'll be living in the United States of Musk. You need them to do everything they can to stop it. Call both senators and your rep, *especially* if you live in a GOP district.

https://5calls.org/issue/elon-musk-opm-gsa-takeover/

@skinnylatte lemon juice? Huh.

If you ever post a rough recipe, please tag me. I grow my own carrots, so I have plenty of fresh tops.

@skinnylatte I tried making carrot top pesto once, and wasn't thrilled; is the recipe you use online?

@chrisjrn @mcc Eben Moglin's views, mostly (not that that makes things better).

It would be fascinating for someone to do an analysis of GPLv3 today and whether Moglin successfully future-proofed it.

#Earthquake, #tsunami warning for the US West Coast.

This is real, folks, get to high ground ASAP.

Kueue seems pretty cool #kubecon

#RedHat is contributing three projects to the #CNCF to help their communities grow.:
- Podman
- Bootc
- Podman Desktop

This contribution will also help the CNCF expand into not just deployment, but desktop container development. #kubecon

2024's Prize for "Most Prescient Dystopia" is awarded to Octavia E Butler, for "Parable of the Sower".

This year's award goes to a truly exceptional work, which was accurate not only in general themes, ideas, and motivational events, but even down to dates and elections.

Congratulations, Ms. Butler.

Hey, #Portland folx, looks like we have some criminals setting ballot drop boxes on fire. Things to do:

1) If possible, drop your ballot at an indoor box in a library. These are supervised by the librarians at all times and nobody is going to set them on fire.

2) If you know anyone who might have used either of the two ballot boxes, please alert them that they might need to get an emergency replacement ballot:

- PDX: Southeast Morrison & 10th ave.
- WA: Vancouver Fisher's Landing

@blogdiva Also, none of that money goes to the people whose data was leaked.

#Portland folks, #grocery worker #strikes this week!

TL;DR: Fred Meyer and New Seasons are having grocery worker strikes soon, shop accordingly.

The following two grocery worker strikes are starting this week:

- Fred Meyer 1-week strike, starting today at 6am and lasting for one week, or until management starts bargaining in good faith, whichever comes first.
- New Seasons 1-day strike, this Sunday ( August 30 ).

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The Fred Meyer strike includes pharmacy, so if you have a prescription there which must be renewed before next Wednesday, you may need to work with your medical provider to get it moved.

Alberstons/Safeway, WinCo, Market of Choice, and local independent grocery stores like Grocers Outlet or La Bouffe are not on strike.

If you don't care about unions, you can stop reading here. If you do, more info on the strike and follow-up in thread. (2)

For Fred Meyer, it's UFCW555 which is on strike, due to management refusing to negotiate with the union at all. This includes all Fred Meyers from the greater Portland region. You can track strike information via their Facebook page and web page, and read more about the strike.
- https://www.facebook.com/UFCWLocal555/
- https://www.ufcw555.org/bargaining-update-8-23/
- https://www.ufcw555.org/ulp-strike-dates/

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@inthehands @daniel Sorry, I don't quite understand your answer.

@inthehands @daniel How are you getting 2 boosters a year? Are you paying cash for one of them?

@inthehands @dalias @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus Well, given corporate performance recently across the industry, you CAN make a strong case for LLMs replacing CEOs.

(Mostly because the average CEO is a platinum-spoon baby who is utterly unqualified for the job.)

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus 100% of arguments of "LLMs can replace job X" are based on the speaker not really having any idea what job X entails, whatever it is. Science, medicine, programming, even customer service. LLMs cannot do any of it.

This is the arrogance of assuming that everyone else's job is easy.