Here's a strange situation:
thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.
Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.
If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀
@somecat You are, indeed, absolutely some cat.
Keep being that cat. ^.^
If you see someone asking for help with using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse, please feel free to tag me into the thread.
I'm especially trying to help new or non-technical people who want straightforward easy-to-understand advice 🙂
(Also feel free to message or reply if you want help with something yourself!)
Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?
@JoBlakely Good song for the centrist / establishment Dems. (Meanwhile, it would be nice if the GOPpers would stop doing things, because the things they do are always awful.)
@GramrgednAngel My brain says "sank" is an action ("the missile sank the ship") while "sunk" is a passive state ("the ship was sunk [by a missile]").
(I know there are parts-of-speech vocab words for those two usages but I can't remember them at the moment; they're sunk too deeply in the weeds of my dendritic hinterlands.)
...for whatever that might be worth.
Whatever you do, don't use #CashApp. Their support will simply insist you repeat the steps that aren't working, won't fix it, and when you don't want to be their customer anymore, they will not allow you to close your account. Even after filing formal complaints, they will refuse to close your account or delete your info. Their business model is to just keep customers without consent. They are absolutely untrustworthy!
Please boost far and wide, warn others!
Visibility still feels like the weak spot on PeerTube, so I built PeerSeek, my own search index, live at https://peerseek.video
Results are ranked how I think they should be and there is still a lot of work to be done. Please try it out and give me some feedback, or let me know if it's useful in any way.
#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse
@tarotbird Ahh Dave Barry... simultaneously sorta-not-funny and yet somehow still quite funny... :D
"Ceci n'est pas un* egg", or in English: It's not an œuf.
(*Um, excuse me, French Language -- if that's your real name -- shouldn't "egg" kinda definitionally be feminine? Where do I submit a trouble-ticket?)
I mean, listen -- you're either binary or you aren't. There's no middle ground. PICK A TEAM.
There are clearly two sexes: binary and nonbinary
It's really simple, I don't understand why the kids have to make such a big deal out of it.
What Dems suspected is TRUE‼️RW influencers like St Clair, are paid by $B donors, R operatives... & Russia (in 2024 *DOJ unsealed an indictment:🚨 Putin➡️had funneled >$10M):🚨"In TikTok monologues, & a WaPo feature, she's describing how the scheme works.
Americans were🚨trained to fear IMMs, each other...
Ests:🚨99% of the largest RW influencers are COMPENSATED IN SOME FORM (hide behind NDAs), to serve Trump's, #Republicans', Putin's... interests...
#Lies #Propaganda #USPol
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-rightwing-billionaires-created-d8a