Jose Varela @escapist@unshaped.space

I am grateful for the time I get to have each of you in my life. I cherish the you that you share with me. I hope today sees you shine as brightly as you ever have and then some.

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It me, your favourite local data witch

alright, if I want simple-but-awesome autocomplete in Neovim for a variety of languages, what plugin(s) do y'all like? Deoplete[1]?

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim#requirements

The basic idea of "information fiduciaries": when you give your personal info to online companies to get a service, they should have a duty to exercise loyalty and care in how they use it. This rule should support other data privacy protections. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/information-fiduciaries-must-protect-your-data-privacy source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058445481703964672

Fantastic news https://thinkprogress.org/wisconsin-transgender-women-health-care-court-victory-e5ca758264b4/

I was thinking of buying my mother a pistachio tree for Christmas, but it turns out you need a male and female tree to get nuts. (I realise that sounds school-child hilarious) and there are two problems there... they are pretty expensive, and I'm not sure I can tie two trees to a rental car and drive halfway across a state like that.

I have done stranger things, so it might happen.

One of the very first things humans learn when they are born is to alert someone when they aren't okay. Then a bunch of people tell you not to and give you whole layers of shame about what you can need, when you can need it, and how you are allowed to ask, and who is allowed to ask, etc., etc.

Fuck all that. We literally exist to help each other or else we wouldn't keep hanging out with each other and figuring out new ways to connect.

Ask for help when you need it because it's fucking normal.

Have a site that's still running without HTTPS? Get your certificate today: https://certbot.eff.org/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058464175897202688

Recently the Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding the disenfranchisement of Native American voters by a voter ID law passed in ND requiring proof of an address to vote, effectively endorsing a lower court's ruling that the claimed concern about voter fraud overrode that possibility. Now a new lawsuit has been launched, based on folks with addresses being told they're invalid, or being assigned conflicting addresses.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/native-americans-are-suing-north-dakota-over-voter-suppression

Patent troll Shipping & Transit LLC filed more than 500 lawsuits against companies just for using basic package-tracking technology. That's some real #CreepyIP, @uspto. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/stupid-patent-month-how-34-patents-worth-1-led-hundreds-lawsuits source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058473056115388416

every time i come home there's a new thing happening on mastodon and it almost never makes a single fucking ounce of sense

25% grounding your arguments in previous works
75% positioning yourself within your field
15% showing off the books you've read
5% boosting your friends

I've never found Clowns particularly Scary. Even the Ones that are suppose to be Frightening like Pennywise.

In a defeat for #Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Federal Judge has ruled the "exact match" rule for voting registrations will not apply to Tuesday's election. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/414579-georgia-judge-rules-against-kemp-in-exact-match-voting-case

You only need (depending on the time of year) 3-9k in preorder sales to be a NYT bestseller.

By the way, when I sell this dang book to a publisher, whomst would like to help me make that goal? It's entirely doable.

25% of organizations using the public #cloud has suffered data theft. Why are you still allowing employees to risk security by using private Dropbox, Google Drive & OneDrive accounts? There is a solution.
https://nextcloud.com/securesharing/

#Firefox #ProTip: Stop videos from autoplaying! (Updated for Firefox 63!)

1. Go to `about:config` and convince it that you know what you're doing.

2. Search for `media.autoplay.default`.

3. Double-click `0` and enter `1` if you want to always block, or `2` if you want to be prompted for every site that tries to autoplay (which can help with some sites that don't work quite right with blocked autoplay.)

4. Enjoy your significantly-more-pleasant browsing experience!

The stickering continues