you may have read that Trump Gov has instructed its embassies across the world to send a letter to their providers giving them 5 days to certify they don't have any kind of DEI program in place or drop it if they want to keep being providers of the US embassy.
Now the fun part: Since last year, every company over 50 employees in Spain has to have a defined gender equity plan if they want to do business with the spanish public sector. Which I suspect is a MUCH bigger deal than keep being a provider for the US embassy.
Looking forward for the US embassy in Madrid running out of running water or electricity next week <3
@jds @teleclimber A tico friend who's into hiking just sent me this IG account. Said there's a lot of good spots referenced here that aren't all tourist packed:
https://www.instagram.com/qbuenlugar
Hope it helps.
@teleclimber @jds Wish I could be more helpful but
1. I don't do a ton of hiking and
2. I generally avoid CR
But here are few places my wife has been bugging me to go to but I can't vouch for their touristy levels:
- La Cascaada Fortuna
- Catarata Salto La Victoria
I could be a bit more helpful if you wanted to head north into Nicaragua. Some benefits are:
- MUCH cheaper
- MUCH MUCH less tourists
- MUCH MUCH MUCH safer
Unfortunately CR is overrun with Americans, Canadians and Europeans. It's pretty hard to find non touristy attractions that are worth the hassle of getting to them.
Nicaragua will eventually fall into the same trap and we slowly are now. I, as an American, shouldn't complain about it but of course, I do :)
@teleclimber Not gonna lie, this looks pretty cool
@emersion Just a heads up.
I’ve released sway 1.10.1] ...
I'm sure you're missing the initial bracket and the link for "sway 1.10.1" release page.
All the stuff I really like to hack on makes no money. So sadly I rarely get to hack on things I enjoy hacking on. Adulting isn't all it's cracked up to be kids.
@bshaurette I'm a huge fan of ARP Networks
@emersion Awesome! Congrats to all!
"Why Pinboard Falls Short and What We Built Instead"
https://linktaco.com/blog/why-pinboard-falls-short-what-we-built-instead.html
#pinboard #bookmarks #links #opensource
@horia 
Hiked the Puma trail at Vulcan #Mombacho, #Nicaragua Saturday and my calves are still sore as hell. Some pics.
@feld tar -xvzf files.tar.gz
DZ: #Superbowl (double) troll
DZ: #Superbowl (double) troll
Pro: The Chief's lost.
Con: Now we have to put up with the Philly fans who are the undisputed worst fans in sports.
After years of just routing our business line to a recording asking to send an email (too many spam calls during Covid) I finally got around to setting up my new IP phones and migrating to voip.ms. I gotta say, so far I really like the service.
I was paying like $30/mo before just to play a recording when someone called my line. Now I pay like $4.50/mo for a few lines, extensions, calls, etc. Of course it varies by time spent on the actual phone (not much) but it's cheap, fully featured, and works well (in my one whopping week of experience with it).
Not an ad (I'm no where near influential enough to even be considered for an ad haha) but just a happy user (so far).
Me on DOGE for the MIT Tech Review:
"So we should plan for the worst, even if the likelihood of the worst is low. We need to dust off those “in the event of an emergency” disaster response procedures dealing with the failure of federal government."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111283/elon-musk-doge-and-the-evil-housekeeper-problem-government-technology/
This is a moment. Remember it.
The explanation is always surprisingly simple.
@nilix @gosha @nazhamid Nice! I like the look of that.
@whynothugo I use ale for LSP but don't have anything for completions. Those always annoyed me.
@tedu 
Next therapy session I should probably bring up the fact that it's basically impossible for me to let a domain expire even though I know I'll probably never ever use it.
@nilix @gosha @nazhamid What launcher is this? Pretty cool!
Organized crime in Mexico are in control of the Avacado trade. Looks like American criminals are infiltrating the egg trade.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/100000-eggs-40k-stolen-trailer-pennsylvania-rcna190667
Some good news: Barnes & Noble to add 60 new stores as bookstore revival picks up speed
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/barnes-noble-new-bookstores
I've never used TikTok but apparently a trend (BookTok) is partly responsible for the upswing in reading haha.
Before Elon there was free speech on Twitter
#media #socialmedia #twitter #musk #elon #elonmusk #censorship #freedom #FreedomOfSpeech #USPolitics #uspol
Crazy.
I never would have thought how important the #Fediverse would become as one of the last communication networks that are not controlled by governments, directly or indirectly
Especially in times like now when almost all other ones are kissing the ring
Billionaires who are in control of most of our daily communication should not be trusted, our most valued digital forms of connection should be in control of the people like you and me
Thank you for being part of this❤️
@horia
- Some German motherfucker on motherfuckingwebsite.com
This shouldn't have made me laugh as much as it did but here we are.
@tedu
unhappy thought enjoyers
Strange I can't find that category on Amazon smh
@john @laegnur Hell I even had to google the term. TIL. Thanks
I was checking on a .work domain I wanted and it was taken. No big deal. Then a thought hit me as I channeled my inner Rhianna.
I was surprised to see the following domain is taken...
workworkworkworkwork.work
Kudos to you fine person who beat me to this gem.
[ES] Mucho se esta hablando del #ManualdeCampodeSabotagesSimples de la CIA. Dos imagenes que se entienden mejor juntas...
[EN] There is a lot of talk about the CIA's #SimpleSabotageFieldManual. Two images that are best understood together...
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
P.d.: Simple Sabotage Field Manual: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
#antifascist #resistance
"OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us"
https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/
Love the headline.
#openai #deepseek #moreaibsshoveddownyourthroat
@giulianopz Sounds good! Hit me up if you have any questions.
@giulianopz Also check out LinkTaco to save them in the "cloud" for easier organization and reference (ie, unread, starred, etc.)
Plus it's written in Go and AGPL'd. You can even help us hack on it :)
@smlavine For shiggles:
/home/pjs/bin:/home/pjs/.local/bin:/home/pjs/src/go/bin:/home/pjs/.gem/ruby/2.5.0/bin:/home/pjs/src/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/home/pjs/.nvm/versions/node/v13.5.0/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
Man Trump really went all in on "fuck everybody" right off the bat.
Good times ahead. /s
@inwit @capitanswing.bsky.social No puedo encontrar la mentira.
Finally back home in Nicaragua after 6ish weeks in Europe. Nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to your own bed. Also getting back to proper rice & beans is pretty nice. I love visiting Europe but am always happy to return to Latin America.
@tedu Did you at least watch American Primeval first?
Going to share my very in-depth review of Squid Games S2:
Meh.
#netflix
I'm going crazy with my ThinkPad P14 randomly waking from sleep with the lid closed. Running #Alpine #Linux 3.21.x but this didn't happen so much before. Now it's like I am randomly pulling out my laptop from my backpack to see if it's asleep or not. A lot of the time, it's not!
I know this is a common thing among Linux laptops but something changed in the last few months that's made it much worse.
@alpinelinux any ideas?
It's been a while since I've been to a fun tech conference so I'm considering attending SCALE x22 this March. Do I know anyone in the fediverse who will be attending?
#scale #linux #opensource
@tedu @ols I did think of adding it. It shouldn't be too hard.
@AndrewHacks Danke
Officially opening LinkTaco for registration. It's an open source Pinboard, Bitly and Linktree rolled into one with quite a bit more features added on.
It's been fun playing with this in our free time. Hoping you all get some use out of it too.
HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632350
Project page: https://code.netlandish.com/~netlandish/links
@dirk Sounds good!
@horia I thought this was a joke (maybe it is, I didn't watch) but the comments are sad/hilarious
@dirk Sorry just seeing this. Yea, it's cooooold for us haha. Unfortunately I'm not heading north and we leave Amsterdam tomorrow for Paris. Bummer! Maybe next time! Also if you're ever in Central America, hit me up.
Happy New Year all.
Heading to Amsterdam tomorrow. Not sure I'm ready for that level of cold.
@tedu Guess you haven't seen Los Angeles at NY. Or the 4th of July. Or just a random Tuesday evening.
@knapjack Hah! Another series for the reading list.
Views from the Catedral de Cadiz.
@icy @tedu Finished The Name of the Wind. It's fantastic. Maybe a bit long winded in some parts but I enjoyed it. I'll start the second book in the series today.
I'm much more of a (good) rum, bourbon or vodka guy but I stumbled on Amstel Oro here in Spain and I think I will be giving liquor a rest while I enjoy this beer for the next few weeks.
That feeling when you take advantage of the time difference and holidays to upgrade a server from FreeBSD 12.2 to 14.2 and Postgres from 13 to 16 (wanted 17 but postgis libs in packages require 16 and didn't want to build a port, it's vacation after all).
Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis
IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis.
https://archive.is/2024.12.23-102713/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-12-23/ty-article-opinion/.premium/when-you-enter-gaza-you-are-god-inside-the-minds-of-idf-soldiers-who-commit-war-crimes/00000193-f2a4-dc18-a3db-fee62b540000
@john LOL. Not sure if you're being serious or not but I'd never heard that before and apparently it's a common misconception.
@john Whaaa? gecko eggs?
Plaza de Espana. Sevilla, Spain.
Pros/Cons of spending the holidays in Europe.
Cons:
Pros:
- Wine is so cheap (bonus point, it's good)
Not sure why I got such a kick out of this but... Hacking McDonald's McDelivery in India:
https://eaton-works.com/2024/12/19/mcdelivery-india-hack/
@AndrewHacks You don't want to know the shit we've gone through already.. and it's only day 2 lol.
Oh well, we're here. We lost a full day today but I'll fill you in later.
The act of flying sucks! I love seeing new places, etc. but airports are the worst.
Add on to it, I need to go through customs in El Salvador, get my bags, check back into Iberia airlines, check my bags, go through customs again and re-enter the damn airport.
There was no way for me to buy these tickets together so they'd be auto routed (thanks Iberia!)
Anyway, see you soon Spain. Gonna spend xmas and NY with my daughters out there.
WhatsApp going down is a huge problem in the 3rd world. Especially Latin America where most of the damn region's economy runs off it. Fun times.
@jayroh @skwee357 @solnic I'd say that counts. I don't know it revenue should be a hard requirement but I think it's a sign that you're on a decent track.
@skwee357 @jayroh @solnic Well, if it's for more experienced people I think a few years operating a business as a good starter or at least revenue above say X/yr.
Maybe the members business should be in the online vicinity, ie, it doesn't have to be SaaS or online products per se but at least have something to contribute that is online related (marketing, writing, lead gen, etc. exp)
Commit to a monthly meeting (Google Meet or whatever) and attendance requirements for the year (ie, miss more than 3 and you're out).
Just some thoughts off the top of my head.
@jayroh @skwee357 @solnic I liked WIP (wip.co) for a while but then it got kind of popular and the Telegram group sort of got ruined.
The obvious clique of ppl moved into a private group and the rest were mostly people who haven't made a single dollar yet. Which is fine but didn't provide me much value for me personally, so I canceled my sub.
My community, I guess, is made up of friends who also are business owners and we have a private chat group. It helps honestly. Also quite a few real life friends are also business owners so I get to bounce ideas and stuff of people normally. Though in that group, they aren't very tech savvy so there's that limitation.
I'd be interested in participating in a similar new group with new people if there are strict rules that are verified and if the group is kept small (ie, max 15 ppl)
#AlpineLinux 3.21.0 is out!
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.21.0-released.html
I'm about 6 months in with my new ThinkPad P14 series. I love this thing except the keyboard. I really miss the keyboard on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon series.
Yesterday I added a new function to call when a new user creates their account. This will be triggered when they confirm their email address.
For testing purposes I didn't add it as an async call to begin with. Once it all was working and tested I committed & pushed.
Forward to 4am this morning when I jolt awake with the realization that I didn't move the call to an async task. This bothered me so much I couldn't sleep so I had to get up and make the change.
The moral is: don't get into software development.
re: AI
re: AI
@smlavine I recently discovered this and was surprised how well it does in helping debug stuff. Even just by pasting schema and shell output it figures out where I'm doing something wrong fairly well.
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
Take a look at the instruments table shown in Figure 2-4.
#page42
The BlueSky wiki is absolutely hilarious
The first cybercafe. 1995, colorized.
