Ewald @elieuw@chaos.social
form follows function #einzelgänger #sarcasm
Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say
The belief that interests arrive fully formed and must simply be “found” can lead people to limit their pursuit of new fields and give up when they encounter challenges, according to a new Stanford study.
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/18/find-passion-may-bad-advice/
It's a good read: Autism and Polyamory http://livingwithinreason.com/2018/06/18/autism-and-polyamory/. Although I am not autistic I can relate. I also prefer direct, clear, blunt, unambiguous statements.
Also, just fyi, if I am annoying or stressful and just not good for you, you can unfollow me. You can mute and/or block me. It's okay.
I'll be sad to see you go but you should always put yourself and your needs before me. I will understand.
It's okay.
It's done, time to get your stuff out if you haven't already. #github #microsoft #g365 https://twitter.com/github/status/1003623284829638659
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Has Your Mind Been Hacked?
– by Jen Sorensen
https://thenib.com/security-flaw-found-in-americans-brains
"Enigmail has just released 2.0.5, which plugs *all* the Efail holes, including the ones that we thought we had to rely on Thunderbird to patch. We recommend all users upgrade as soon as possible."
EU's hearing of Zuckerberg should be live-streamed here on Tue May 22nd at 6:15 pm (UTC+02:00): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/schedule/
Do you have a #bullshitjob? Anthropologist David Graeber explains the rise of pointless work https://mic.com/articles/189441/do-you-have-a-bullshit-job-anthropologist-david-graeber-explains-the-rise-of-pointless-work#.Zk3hAjMTb
Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
Don’t panic! But you should stop using PGP for encrypted email and switch to a different secure communications method for now.A group of researchers released a paper today that describes a new class of serious vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG), the most popular email encryption standard...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you-need-know-about-e-fail-and-pgp-flaw-0
RIP Per Kirkeby, dies at 79
http://www.artnews.com/2018/05/09/per-kirkeby-pioneering-neo-expressionist-painter-dies-79/
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-opt-out-of-sharing-your-data-even-if-you-didnt-opt-in/
#privacy article on a site that requires cookie consent, has share buttons for Twitter and Facebook...seems bit like undermining their point, no?
Must admit, the pleroma.social Tokyo background image makes a nice desktop wallpaper as well. --> https://pleroma.social/media/background-tokyo2.jpg
"To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act."
"Somebody really does need to stop telling these white boys that they can be anything, and that they can have everything. Because it is not true, and it was never true, and we’re the ones who have to pay when they find that out." https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/the-anger-of-the-white-male-lie-6f9a6e646d47 by https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo
Vrije software-ontwikkeling wordt bedreigd door de EU-copyright plannen.
https://juliareda.eu/2018/04/free-software-censorship-machines/
#UploadFilters moeten in zijn geheel worden verworpen als een disproportionele maatregel die het fundamentele recht op vrije meningsuiting in gevaar brengt. #CensorshipMachines https://t.co/9j8VlB02Z0
Motherfuckers: Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/microsoft_services_agreement_bars_offensive_language/
