Olivier Mehani

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🕑 Jeudi 9 octobre, de 14h à 19h
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💻 On t’aide pour :
- Configurer WSL
- Installer Linux en single boot pour dire #adieuWindows
- Ou en dual boot pour garder […]

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. **Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their […]

Positions are London-based, unless stated, as we work in the office 3 days per week. We aren't currently hiring in the US. Applicants with an existing right to work strongly preferred, though not a deal breaker. Bids and Frameworks Manager - closes 9th October Product Design Lead - closes 12th October Senior Partnerships Manager - closes 12th October Product Design Lead - closes 12th October Senior Full Stack Engineer (Hybrid) - rolling Senior Full Stack Engineer (Remote UK) - rolling Senior DevOps Engineer (Security Compliance specialist) (Hybrid) - rolling Senior DevOps Engineer (Security Compliance specialist) (Remote UK) - rolling Tech Lead - rolling

My friends at Apolitical are hiring for a bunch of roles in the UK.
Some good technical and non-technical roles available.

Apply at https://apolitical.co/en/pages/careers
Or share with friends.

(Note - I don't work there, please don't ask me any questions […]

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I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

I don't want to be alarmist, but "troops occupying major cities" seems like the kind of milestone that we'll look back on and regret that we didn't stop.

So here's a tech nightmare nobody's talking about:

Google's rolling out their new developer verification rules for Android starting in September 2026. Every app then needs to be registered with Google, even if you're sideloading or using alternative app stores like Samsung's Galaxy Store. 📱 […]

Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

Photo of my press and my finger is pointing to about where I fill the press to in order to get most of the liquid out. My finger is about 1/5th of the way from the bottom. Why's the press so big then?

So, unless I'm doing something wrong (which, please, please, please God, tell me) it seems if you want to get a really good press of liquid out of your grapes (or whathaveyou). You really shouldn't fill up your press to the tippy top. In fact, it seems the […]

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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

I was recently quoted as saying, about online media, that we can “change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed.”

I thought I should offer details. So here’s a little scenario, the “Nadia story”, and an […]

Meme: mfers be like I’m an alpha male Ok bro, tell me about your low penetration power Wave diagram

Je prépare un truc pour mes étudiants, et du coup je lance une conversation entre deux LLM (c'est facile, parce que leurs réponses se terminent toujours par une question).

Ce qui est hilarant, c'est que chaque réponse commence par un compliment de plus en plus ronflant :

"Quelle question […]

@gabrielesvelto I just reran through 2 and 3 since a fortuitous screenshot on Slack at work. Then set up ScummVM on a RPi400 I got for the kids. They are playing MI1 _right now_. It's pretty awesome (:

If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal." […]

I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.

Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a […]

LexMAWeather / JJ (@LexMAWeather@toot.community) 2.27K Posts, 17 Following, 122 Followers · Weather information for Lexington, MA, USA If you are following this account on Bluesky, you also need to follow @ap.brid.gy if you want to interact/reply. Amateur weather enthusiast. NWS #skywarn Spotter ID 20-035. CoCoRaHS MA-MD-52. He/him. #LexMAWeather #LexingtonMA #MAwx #weather #skywarn #wxspotter #NoBridge

Just noting that I'm seriously considering cutting off bridging this feed to Bluesky due to its CEO being flippantly dismissive to the problem of harassment to its trans users.

If you really want to follow me, I'd recommend doing so on Mastodon instead. https://toot.community/@LexMAWeather

“DHH is Way Worse Than I Thought” by @jakelazaroff https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

Being able to read source code, and only use OSS is a bit of a curse, I realised.

* “Normal” person: oh, it's broken, $#^&^ *goes to touch grass*
* FLOSS enthusiast: oh, it's broken, time to crack up the source, open 17 tabs, and understand why it doesn't do what the doc says, and which one […]

Are there any ActivityPub / Mastodon sites running on TOR?

If so, are they accessible from the wider fediverse?

#TOR #ActivityPub

Silly question for the #ElectricalEngineering people here… I have DIN-rail fuse holders in my server's solar set-up which take a so-called "midget" fuse (10×38mm cylindrical).

The holders are rated to 30A, I've actually got two lots of holders, the original ones are 600V rated, the others are […]

I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.

If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab […]

This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_BydOCofyo

https://beige.party/@melindrea/115295370165583144

That said, I think this is a lot like when a celebrity runs a "charity auction" but you can only participate using the obscure crypto currency they are vested in.

It's a kind of pumping scam. Not enough people are using AI to make videos so here is a way to try to make people use AI to make […]

Using my adblocker to permanently block terms of services update popup so I don't have to click “I agree”.

(Not) looking at you, Discord.

It's wild (and unsurprising) to me that journalists act tough when they have ample opportunity to negatively comment on accessibility, but don't ever mention accessibility wins.

Despite all the noise I made with accessibility on GNOME Calendar, no journalist has gone further than "better screen […]

Hmm, the auto place informs me their software says that my cell phone number is "an invalid number".

I wonder if this has something to do with WhatsApp (which I did not want to load) deciding I was not a real person (probably because I don't have a Facebook account).

(also, it's dumb their […]

The Australian Aboriginal society is wiser than we give them credit for. This is a society that has existed for more than 40000 years (some estimates put them at nearer 60000), but one of their dreamtime stories of Tiddalik the frog… conveys a story of the harms of so-called "trickle down […]