"The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding
people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would
even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules.""
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html
Yesterday, 26th of September was Stanislav Petrov Day.
A day to celebrate that you, me, everyone isn't nuclear vapour right now.
SP - disobeyed orders and military protocol, used his own thinking, and by doing so averted nuclear retaliation based on false alarms that would likely have caused a mass nuclear war in 1983.
Stanislav Petrov, often referred to as "The man who saved the world" died in December 2017
Whenever I have issues to troubleshoot, I have to remember: at least the system I'm fixing isn't on Mars. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/mars-rover-curiosity-mission-updates/?mu=sols-2175-2176-tell-us-more-we-want-to-help
“Mookie why do you still buy movies on physical media?” This is a good reason why. I won’t switch to digital for movies until digital movies are free from DRM, can be downloaded and are of the same quality as the physical media version.
Hello Assembled People of European Mastodon! I work at @eff on international copyright. You might have heard of #article13, the EU proposal to require © filters on sharing sites.
We're really worried that this could affect services like ActivePub/Mastodon instances, opening them up to lawsuits or requiring expensive filters.
The key vote is on Wednesday -- please call or write your MEP and ask them to vote against #article13 to protect the future of the internet! https://saveyourinternet.eu/
At 5pm the GPU changed estimated delivery from today to tomorrow... Guess NAS gets fixed tomorrow.
Programmer by day... Also programmer by night. I'm not very exciting. he/him