Notices by Stefan Monnier (monnier@oldbytes.space)

@evan As long as they don't own/earn more than 10x as much as the median of their employees, I think being foreign doesn't matter too much. And if they do own/earn more, then it's a problem even if they're not foreign

@nixCraft I rushed to go and update my #Debian stable server, but wasn't able to because unattended-upgrades had already done so yesterday! 🙃

A stroll in the park.
#MontRoyal

@oantolin I know its intention (with which I don't really disagree). The interesting part is what it says about our society

@chrisamaphone As I said: I understand the motivation behind the campaign (and I plead guilty to isolating myself in my bubble)

@chrisamaphone I expect the vast majority of music/movies/videos/podcasts/audiobooks people listen to was downloaded or streamed from one of the handful of really large tech corporations, yes

While I understand the motivation behind this campaign I can't help but cringe at the idea that as a society we reached the point where we encourage people to isolate themselves in their bubble (where they listen to the messages streamed from our tech oligarchs?)

@davidho To a first approximation, $ ~ CO₂

My thighs complained loudly, but they served me well today.
#MontSutton

@evacide Can someone explain to me what's the difference between "hackers" and "data brokers"?

@overholt I think you're talking about that minority of Americans who live south of Canada and north of Mexico, right?

@osefmegrav @lokigwyn Je ne vois pas de contradiction entre "sociopathe" et "logique" ou "sain dans un système capitaliste"

@troublewithwords Also, they have their own standards for what they want but give away their tools and instructions for if you want to take matters into your own hands with something outside their interests

@evan I'd go with a scheme of equally shared power between a "head" and "vice head" where they need to agree on all decisions, and the "vice head" becomes "head" after 4 years (and is replaced by a newly elected "vice head")

@dotstdy @d6 @mcc On new hardware not (well) supported by Debian stable's kernel, I usually run Debian stable with a more recent kernel (either from testing or hand-compiled)

@Oxydemor @PolGM Mettent-ils la vie des autres en danger?

@PlasmideVelo @martin Je ne comprends pas la question: je n'ai pas remarqué de verglas ni sur le plateau, ni sur le MR.
J'ai pas roulé sur le MR, mais j'ai vu des cyclistes sur Olmstead (vers ~11h-12h), ils ne semblaient pas avoir de difficultés liées au verglas. Je pense qu'il fallait des pneus assez larges paske la neige était pas assez tassée, mais j'imagine que c'est toujours comme ça

@monnier @RonSupportsYou @gleick
Unfortunately #wikipedia doesn't really offer a neutral view of the world. Only about 13 % of the authors are women. There were projects to change it, but many women (including me) were put off quickly because of the behaviour of other authors & especially the admins. When you write an article about a woman odds are high it will be deleted quickly, bc it's not relevant.The idea is good, but the implementation is biased. #ProjectRewrite #feminism #GenderEquality

@RonSupportsYou @gleick IIUC, it's not so much donations that they need, but actual contributions in the form of edits

@bloui @martin @nekohayo Ah, oui, plus une connection cellulaire, plus tourner du code propriétaire, histoire de compléter le tableau