squirrel @squirrel@mastodon.org.uk

‘Untold human suffering’: 11,000 scientists from across world unite to declare global climate emergency. ‘Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we conduct business as usual and have failed to address this crisis,’ group says. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-emergency-scientists-emissions-letter-climate-change-a9185786.html

#Mastodon 3.0: A short overview of some of our newest features

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0/

«#Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the #climatecrisis.» | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers

#ComeToTheDuckSide

RT @campuscodi@twitter.com

Thunderbird to add built-in support for OpenPGP email encryption standard

-coming in Thunderbird v78 [2020 summer]
-devs plan to port Enigmail inside Thunderbird itself
-licensing problems with GnuPG or GPG4Win
-devs looking for new OpenPGP library

https://www.zdnet.com/article/thunderbird-to-add-built-in-support-for-openpgp-email-encryption-standard/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1181610489291444227

Twitter admits email address and phone number given for security purposes was used for targeted ads
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-emails-phone-number-advertising-privacy/

excited to finally be able to announce the upcoming Atreus 2 in collaboration with keyboard.io's legendary @obra

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou/posts/2646925?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users #keyboards

Four GitHub sponsors so far! Not bad, honestly expected less.

First goal: can we find enough sponsors to help me pay for just one crate of Mate each month? ❤️

In return, you'll get all my awesome codes, no strings attached: https://fribbledom.com/projects/ 😆

Let's make this happen: https://github.com/users/muesli/sponsorship

I know I'm being pedantic, but it really pisses me off when people try to say "test your functions" and call it "unit testing".

Kent Beck defined "unit test" as "a test that runs as a unit, meaning it doesn't require anything else". Basically, "run in isolation".

@schlink Wow, I can't believe I agree with facebook here

Anyone remembering the Logitech iFeel Mouse?

It's a mouse from the early 2000s and featured integrated haptic/force feedback using vibrations.

It sounds silly, but it gave UI controls like buttons, window-borders or links a tactile feedback and a texture you could feel when hovering over them with the cursor.

Frankly it was quite amazing and I really wish it would have caught on.

There's a new official #Rust blog!

"Welcome to the inaugural post of the Inside Rust blog! This is a new blog where the various Rust teams and working groups can post updates about new developments. It's a great place to watch if you're interested in following along with Rust development"

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2019/09/25/Welcome.html

hello! ok, so.

i made a patreon page to support my work on free software. it's difficult to keep up when you can't afford your own time, so if you'd like to help me make accessible software and can spare some survival dollars, consider becoming a patron. thanks comrades ✊ ❤️

https://www.patreon.com/garbados

I am a:
⚪ man
⚪ woman
🔘 CS student
Looking for a:
⚪ man
⚪ woman
🔘 funky new arrow I can use for my big-step semantics

RT @kareem_carr@twitter.com

friend: what's a data scientist?
me, a data scientist: it's a scientist that uses data
friend: wow. really?
me: yeah. before the 2000's scientists didn't use data
friend: holy crap. what did they use?!
me: sorry dude! we don't have any data on that and I don't like to speculate.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1178781989706620930

Fighting the Async fragmentation

https://vorner.github.io/2019/09/29/figthting-the-async-fragmentation.html

#Rust #Async

Our friends at Tails are looking for a design contractor to create illustrations explaining what is Tails and how it works.

Tails is a portable operating system that protects your privacy and avoids censorship.

Design brief and application: https://tails.boum.org/jobs/illustrations_how_tails_work/

It's#InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay. :) 🦝 🥳 ☀️ #art #illustration #mastoart

Ropes: immutable data structures of byte sequences, represented as binary trees instead of contiguous memory arrays. This provides sub-linear algorithmic complexity for concatenation and slicing, and relaxes allocation-related constraints. #clojure
https://github.com/leonoel/clope

It's official, Greta Thunberg's speech is now a death metal single and all profits go to Greenpeace 🤘 https://www.loudersound.com/news/its-official-greta-thunbergs-speech-is-now-a-death-metal-single-and-all-profits-go-to-greenpeace