I don't know about you, but we're all super stoked to see http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu back from pandemic hiatus. And no surprise, our Content and Community teams will be there to catch you up on some of the latest in the Puppet world.

Of course you're invited to stay for Community Day after the main conference. We'll kick off #VoxPupuli "annual" elections, hack on Puppet 8 module updates, and more!

Hertz increased its fleet of electric rental cars — then, its profits exploded

Hertz discovered that electric vehicles are between 50-60% cheaper to maintain than gasoline-powered cars. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/hertz-evs-cars-electric-vehicles-rental/

I have a concern that ChatGPT is one of those things that people love to use for free, but hate to pay for.

Because that means that we will again become the product, our information and attention sold to the highest bidder.

Imagine an AI chatbot that had embedded product placements or biased output based on whatever advertiser paid the most.

Color me shocked. #republican #projection

https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solomon-pena-arrested-in-shootings-targeting-new-mexico-democratic-politicians-homes.html

#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
#Healthcare should not be tied to employment.
etc.

@thepracticaldev hey there! When will dev.to support Mastodon accounts or provide a field for orgs to specify their Mastodon?

We are at most, a few months away from apps with content and sharing mechanisms just not possible on Twitter or other centralized, closed-source platforms. That's when the momentum will really start to build for Activitypub and other protocols supporting federated networks. We have stop talking about it being a twitter "alternative" and start talking about is as an evolutionary step forward in global social networking. Because that's what it is.

We could all learn from #Finland’s battle against #misinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html

Inhumane.

New Virginia bill HB1707, if passed, would hijack suicide laws to mandate teachers out trans students to parents.

"his employment, has reason to believe, as a result of direct communication from a student, that such student is at imminent risk of suicide, or that such student is self-identifying as a gender that is different than his biological sex shall, as soon as practicable, contact at least one of such student's parents"

#trans #Transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #transrights

Who could have guessed?!

RT @JuddLegum@twitter.com

1. Florida English teacher Vicki Baggett is seeking to remove 150 books from school libraries

She says it's her "responsibility to protect minors" from inappropriate content

But her former & current students say Baggett openly promotes racist & homophobic beliefs in class

🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1612447385250156544

@david have you seen @PleaseCaption?

I wrote a quick little tool that helps you keep cleaner and more maintainable minimal Puppetfiles of only the #Puppet modules you actively use.

https://github.com/binford2k/r10k-resolve

Look, if a core Bitcoin developer can get their whole wallet emptied out unrecoverably on them, and that developer's immediate reflex is to start calling a centralized authority for help, it's time to stop pretending this entire cryptocurrency exercise is ever going to work. We're done here.

WHO? No, they predicted the pandemic. Everyone else predicted #climateChange consequences.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/01/03/who-could-have-predicted-the-climate-crisis-macron-slammed-on-climate-change-remark_6010139_5.html

#Southwest’s failure was in neglecting to keep up with operational challenges. I see that a lot in the software industry too.

https://twitter.com/therealhoarse/status/1608532090777399296?s=12&t=ncLCVQ7Tm2gcXOqG7k-PrQ

Not that anyone who needs to hear this will pay attention, but you think that “dude” and “guys” are gender neutral words because you’re so used to being the default that it never occurred to you to think otherwise.

What a world we live in where you have to reboot your garage door regularly enough to consider a power cycler…