Notices by Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs @vkc TIL two things:

1. Ventoy exists.
2. Ventoy users appear to be more insufferable than Arch users.

I suppose number two making me uninterested to learn what Ventoy is would be a third thing.

Yo, JD Vance, you think only parents are qualified to make policy, that only parents care about the next generation.? You don't have to be a parent to be a good politician.

Donald Trump had five kids, and the only one he cares about is the one he's said he'd like to sleep with. He's a disgusting weirdo.

Sure, most Republicans want their kids to inherit their money and live in luxury. Most Democrats, parents and not, want all kids to inherit a healthy planet where they can live with dignity.

I need to shake myself out of a rut. Can any rustaceans recommend a good course--preferably one with a cohort rather than just self-paced study--for learning #rust? A group with deadlines is what I'm going to need to keep things out of the tldr pile.

My ideal goals are being able to better read the source and perhaps contribute to #Veilid.

@aral

Before this, he was chief of staff to Trump's last director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a campaign "policy chief" to Ron Desantis during the 2024 Republican primary.

This was all on his resume when Meta hired him. They know what fascists they want in the tent pissing out.

Wilson Cruz has joined the #OutForHarris call! @georgetakei and Brad were on earlier.

If you already contributed via #MastodonForHarris you can also text Out2024 to 472472.

And Wilson just dropped the news the call is over 200k just before Zachary Quinton joined in.

#TrekTheVote

@aral Haven't convinced my wife to watch it yet, but this is high praise! Hair and Chicago are the best musical films IMO. Rent is good too but it owes so much to Hair in terms of films structure.

It's only a denial of service attack if it comes from an adversarial region. Otherwise it's a sparkling traumatic misconfiguration.

@bmacDonald94 @Pagan_Animist @soc_i_ety I learned that in the disciplinarians' office in grade school. I got caught for everything I did and a whole lot that I hadn't.

How to make your timeline Zuck less.
#Threads #OffWithTheirThreads

Last month I talked with three women from #BlackGirlsHack for their podcast, and they've released our "Bring a Hacker to Work Day" chat! Ignore the typo in my name; they'll get it fixed. And if you can, please forgive all my "Um"s and the dysnomia when I talk about Bayesian filters.

I also got more personal and emotional than I expected.

https://redcircle.com/shows/cyber-things-podcast/ep/b259949a-e0c6-45c4-a895-1e4232a7906e

I remember when TV clowns with sidekicks named Vance were good people.

I'm going to tune out from online media and spend the rest of the afternoon playing video games and finishing the novel I've been reading. If you know what's best for your mental health you'll do the same. #SelfCare #BreakingNews #AntifaButAlsoAntiPanic

@CloudyMrs I love that you have tables in your bike cars. American commuter trains tend to have slightly more leg room than airliners.

The Princess Bride of Frankenstein

#MashUpRomComsAndHorrorFilms
#HashTagGames

@dramypsyd I had a friend who was a lawyer who handled workers' compensation claims, usually working for employers and looking for any way to justify the claims.

Not only did he not get disbarred for "playing to lose," they made him a judge.

@inthehands @mekkaokereke I also took precalculus at Temple, despite having gotten a C- in high school trig from a guy who called me "useless" when I went to him for help in October, and a mercy D in calc the following year. It was a prereq, so there was no way to avoid it.

The Temple instructor was open, encouraged questions, and appreciated group efforts. I fucking aced it, because even though DEI wasn't an acronym at the time, he lived by its principles. And that inspired me to do the work.

@inthehands @mekkaokereke My CS061 course in the 90s was a weed out course. But I was a part-time student in my 20s, had programmed Pascal in high school, and ached to get my degree back on track.

So the semester after I aced the course, I spoke with the TA from that class because I was trying to get out of my secretarial gig, angling for a recommendation. Got nowhere toward a new job, but he said the prof missed me and that "this term there are no Rachels."

Egoboo++
Career+=0

@georgetakei Not recommended in an open tournament, but if you're playing with family and friends and you *don't* trash talk, are you really playing?

@thomasfuchs Given Musk's behavior and tweets, it's hardly a good advertisement for ketamine.

@thomasfuchs I do that on purpose until they get scratched or ratty. It's like having a free screen protector for the microwave keypad.