falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Hi folks!

I've been on Mastodon for about a year and would like to meet more accounts to follow to follow. Please boost and provide recommendations.

I am an #EmergencyManagement professional who specializes in wildfire recovery. I assist communities with rebuilding after #disasters, funding sheltering and evacuation costs, drafting mutual aid agreements, and developing comprehensive recovery plans.

I don't know of many other folks on here that work in emergency management, but would like to make more connections.

I'm interested in #weather #HamRadio #Preparedness #PNW #Oregon #ORWX #Outdoors #minimalism #Equity #UnionStrong

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims (Developer)

https://lwn.net/Articles/987524/ #LWN

A group of #rail, #transit, and #urbanist advocates are organizing a Zoom call this Thursday in support of the #HarrisWalz2024 ticket. Can you help us spread the word? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/train-lovers-for-harriswalz-tickets-982490013077

@nerd4cities @notjustbikes @ShareTheCities @reece @alex @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com

The Internet Archive has several technical job openings right now, including a Website Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer.

https://archive.org/about/jobs.php

#FediHire #JobSeekers

This is an absolutely metal business decision made by OpenDNS (Cisco).

Court orders in France and Portugal are requiring the big open DNS resolvers (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare, etc.) to block resolution of a small list of domains for anyone in those countries.

OpenDNS seems to have decided to not implement the blocklist, and instead will just not answer any DNS queries from inside those countries.

Change implemented on a Friday evening, for maximum surprise.

#DNS #DNSBlocking #MyHero

I may have made a thing

'He added that finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an “unexpected difficulty.”'

From an excellent piece by @ricmac on one company's transition from React to native DOM APIs and vanilla JS

https://thenewstack.io/pivoting-from-react-to-native-dom-apis-a-real-world-example/

To be clear, since many folks seem to not understand it:

I am NOT saying Linux and FOSS software is perfect for all workflows. I am NOT saying you aren't "trying hard enough" if you can't switch or don't want to. I am NOT saying my way is better and your way is worse. I am NOT calling you lazy.

What I am saying, emphatically, is that telling people that #Linux and #FOSS are *incapable* of professional work is fundamentally incorrect.

It's my profession, I do it, and it works.

a mastodon.falktx.com user walks into a bar. the bartender says 1.29K Toots, 60 Following, 658 Followers ·

(hint: click "open original page")

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

Last week, I finally re-experienced the joy of composing music (as opposed to just playing by notes) after playing around with #MIDI, #pipewire and... *drumroll* #Carla!
_Carla_ is a patchbay for connecting different audio components together plus a plugin host for those same components. It is really nice to link audio processors together to get the sound one wants!
And that's—all open-source, made by @falktx—thanks man, you brought many smiles to my face last week (: #libremonday