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mlevison

@mlevison@agilealliance.social

Certified Scrum Trainer | I help organizations and teams become more effective. I use #Scrum, #Kanban #Agile #BehaviouralPsychology. | I’ve helped over 8000 people build better teams

I dabble with #PKM aka Personal Knowledgement Management so the ideas that fall out of my head get written down somewhere #Obsidian. #fedi22

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marick, to random
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49% of Americans surveyed think that unemployment is at a 50-year high. (It’s actually just a smidge over a 50-year low.)

49% think the stock market is down for the year. (It’s up 12% [S&P 500 index].)

56% think the economy is in a recession. (It’s not.)

And long-termists want to infest the universe with (the descendants of) this species! What have they got against cold, lifeless matter?

https://lamag.com/economy/3-in-5-americans-falsely-believe-u-s-economy-is-in-a-recession

https://jabberwocking.com/the-unemployment-rate-is-at-its-lowest-in-half-a-century/

ellane, to random
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An Obsidian user on Medium recently lost an entire vault to data corruption because of an encryption plugin.

I’m very sorry this happened to them, and that they didn’t have a backup.

Truly, if our notes in Obsidian can’t function without features that exist only in that app, we’ve shackled ourselves to the wall of a prison without a door.

Always have an exit plan! Always backup your work! And never lock all your data with a key you don’t own.

kepano,
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@ellane Personally I think this is better handled at the OS level than at the app-level. Disk encryption has been available on major OSes for long time, macOS has FileVault and Windows has Bitlocker. And of course Obsidian Sync is end-to-end encrypted.

tess, to random
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A streamer I like got her account hacked, so if anyone knows someone who works over at YouTube well enough to ask for a favor, send me a DM.

The hackers deleted a decade of videos and turned her channel into scam Tesla content (unsurprisingly).

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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22 May 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Comprecht Nieweg, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork with his mother Selma in November 1942. They were both murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

mloxton, to random
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#writerscoffeeclub 22 If someone were to write your [...]biography, who would you want to write it?

Nobody
Let them rather write about an interesting woman, and give me a miss

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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21 May 1886 | A German Sinti woman, Melitta Laubinger, was born in Regglisweiler.

In (Gypsy camp) in II-Birkenau from 8 March 1943.
No. Z-1512
Date of death: 12 June 1943.

tottinge, to random
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The work of programming does produce lines of code, and those lines of code are produced by typing into the computer. However, 11/12ths of the work programmers do is not typing but thinking. https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/managing-programmers/

drbrain, to rust
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My team at Fastly is hiring!

https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply/?gh_jid=5966125

We work on the content caching service that is part of Fastly's Compute products, all in , (we do work frequently with other teams with C codebases).

matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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peterbrown, to random
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“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/

raph, to Israel
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Full text of the resignation letter of Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden appointee to resign over war in Gaza:

Dear Secretary Haaland,

I joined the Biden Administration because I believe in fighting for a better America, for a future where Americans can thrive: one with economic prosperity, a healthy planet, and equal rights for all people. I have dedicated my career to candidates who I believed would further this vision.

1/13

viticci, to random
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I couldn’t get an iPad Pro long enough in advance to publish a review today.

Instead, I finally took the time to prepare something else: a comprehensive story about all the problems of iPadOS.

Enjoy ☕️

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

jitterted, to random
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One of the best things about live coding (and doing it enough to have a few people in the "audience") is that it raises my level of awareness of what I'm doing by being asked questions:

"Why aren't you refactoring after getting to TDD-Green?" or "Why didn't you extract that string into a variable?" or "Do you use Test Data Builders?"

If I was trying to "get work done", these questions would be annoying¹, but instead (especially as a technical coach/educator) they are More Valuable than GOLD!

One of the hardest things to do as an "expert" who is also a coach is to take what has become automatic and turn it into steps that can be taught to a non-expert.

¹ of course if I wanted to just get work done, live coding is not the most efficient way to go (tho it works really well for me despite the welcome interruptions.)

jasonkoebler, to random
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Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"

https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

thetaphi,
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@jasonkoebler Interesting to figure out who or what fucked up here. SBAS/WAAS provider? DGPS makers messing up ionospheric correction? Space weather parameters out of spec for the software running on the RTKs? All of the above?

nb: As much as I dislike Deere, this should be handled completely blameless, the way the FAA handles an investigation. So many lessons to learn here.

divya, to random
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"He was evicted and his home was later listed on Airbnb. Meanwhile, his landlord hosted a charity event to end homelessness"

headline from Toronto but could be a headline from SF

https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/he-was-evicted-and-his-home-was-later-listed-on-airbnb-meanwhile-his-landlord-hosted/article_72c86bde-e162-11ee-b6d0-e3e7190ad965.html

KingShawn, to random
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SEVEN MONTHS IN A ROW TELUS HAS FUCKED UP MY BILLING…

I call them. Explain the situation AGAIN. First rep says, “I can fix that.” Proceeds to take 20 minutes trying to fix it. “Sorry - I can’t fix it. I’ll transfer you to our Loyalty team.”

“Hello, this is the Loyalty team. How can I help you?”

“Did the previous rep not explain the situation to you before transfering me!?”

“No - and there are no notes on your account…”

JUMPED UP JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I HATE THIS COMPANY….

inthehands, to random
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Something I tell my software students a lot when they’re looking for jobs is to remember that a shockingly large number of job descriptions are written by people in HR who have next to zero understanding of the industry, the specific team, or the business need.

All they’ve got to work with is fragments they’ve heard without comprehension, coming to them through a terrible game of corporate telephone.

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inthehands,
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What’s the moral of this story?

(1) The hiring process is mostly not about you. That sounds weird, but it’s true.

(2) As an applicant, your job is to jump through nonsensical hoops — or walk around them, if you can — until you can reach the point where you’re having a real conversation with somebody who’s actually involved with the position in question.

(2a) That often means straight-up ignoring clearly stated job requirements.

5/

wouterla, to random
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@schmonz "Building metaphors for software always fall down." is beautifully phrased.

(from Amitai's talk "Not So Extreme Programming" today)

MatthewPCooke, to random
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My son thinks his new bonsai looks like a man relaxing, and is annoyed that I think it looks like a mandrake root peeing over the side of the pot.

jasonkoebler, to random
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New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.

https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/

stefan, to random
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Nintendo is removing Twitter / X integration from Switch https://mashable.com/article/nintendo-switch-removing-x-twitter-integrations

thomasfuchs, to random
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Is “if computers are like bicycles for the mind, iPads are hydraulic presses the crush the mind” what Apple wanted to communicate?

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