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While I'm still here, let me exercise my freedom of speech (which I know doesn't actually exist on Twitter). America was born out of a revolution against a capricious, arbitrary king. Once again we find ourselves struggling under an autocratic, unaccountable leader wanting to be a "king". So is it really too much to compare the situation to earlier revolutionary times and ask for an overthrow of his regime? The constitution is on my side.

push it, pull it, clone it, fix it, switch it, diff it, add, commit it cherry-pick it, fetch it, fork it, squash it, branch it, quick rebase it log it, stash it, pop it, show it, merge it, move it, quick reset it patch it, stage it, blame it, tag it, branch it, prune it, stop, ignore it

@ubuntu Ruby Rhod? ...just kidding. 😆 Rampaging Rhinoceros

R_________ R_________ Guess the release name for Ubuntu 26.04 🔮

Happy Software Freedom Day, everybody! #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Trump signed an executive order that forces anyone the United States government says is “mentally ill” into insane asylums. This is going to be used to target innocent HOMELESS and TRANSGENDER people. Aswell as anyone else that the government wants. SPEAK UP ABOUT THIS 👏🗣️

@kalina_boss @bluefolf The Doofus™

@bluefolf 1. Try to be transphobic 2. Completely fuck up the gender you’re trying to bully her about 3. Get exposed for your idiocy 4. Your parents see it and have to apologise on your behalf 5. ??? 6. Profit?? what is this strategy called

HIS MOM MESSAGED ME???

was buying something at the Apple Store yesterday and the dude helping me started off with "do you use ChatGPT?" and when I said "no." he looked utterly stumped as to where he was meant to take the conversation from there

While I’ve hosted lightning talks at #PyConUS before, I’ve finally given one today! Enforce documentation coverage with `interrogate`! It’s got a cute logo 😍🦥 interrogate.readthedocs.io

We are so excited to announce the winners of the inaugural Outstanding PyLady awards! @maaya8585 @sleepypioneer and @mesrenyamedogbe ! We thank them for all their contributions and inspiration! 👏🏻👏🏾👏🏽👏🏿👏🏼💕

🎬The Python documentary trailer drops this Sunday May 18 on our YT channel! We also premiered it today @pycon!🐍 We want to thank @ThePSF for their support and wish everybody a happy PyCon US!

🧵 Launched in 1993, @debian is an operating system built on the Linux kernel. 🐧 It is truly free and open. Any developer or user can contribute to Debian’s code. 🤔 What’s the story behind its community governance model? e2c.how/Debian-87f0bf5…

In contrast to soft (ln -s) file links, which are just pointers, Unix hard links create another name for the same file. Say you want to retain today's files from a periodically pruned backup set without creating a separate copy. Write: mkdir retained && ln *2024-01-09* retained/

Finished a guide on building autonomous, off-grid, encrypted, and solar-powered communications infrastructure that lets you send text messages without any cellular or power infrastructure - using LoRa and Meshtastic! anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/encryptedcom…

How to Convert Files to UTF-8 Encoding in Linux tecmint.com/convert-files-…

The csplit ('context split') command splits a file at points given by a list of regular expressions.

As a CS prof, I use binary search practically every day to figure out which part of the paper is crashing LaTeX.

I booted up my 2007 iMac to stream “Castle Rock” while my 2017 iMac was busy calculating … and suddenly, in the tensest moment of the show, Adobe Flash Player rose from the dead and tried to update itself.

HP Laserjet printer port: 9100 Prometheus node_exporter port: 9100 Probability that someone will mistype the printer IP address into their Prometheus configuration: 100.00000% Perfectly printed HTTP GET request every 15 seconds: yes

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So many gems in the TIFF file format specification. "..an arbitrary but carefully chosen number (42)...", "Readers must follow the pointers wherever they may lead." "...TIFF readers and editors are under no obligation to detect this condition and handle it properly"