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Inside the "gay tech mafia" that mixes social and professional lives, as investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley (Zoë Bernard/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-gay-tech-mafia/

Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

While I maybe a Linux Penguin, It's worth pointing out there are plenty of other free OSs which share many of the user space parts (e.g. the desktop) - and some very different; So, give FreeBSD a go once in a while, Then there are things like FreeDOS, embedded OSs, and ReactOS which can run Windows software, or lots of other things to play with. Give some a go:

The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

I'm hopeful that the current RAM crisis will end up tanking demand for other hardware to the extent that I'll be able to pick up a future Zen6 chip and AM5 board (or at least a 5950X) for less than they'd otherwise go for. Let's arbitrage this shit to our advantage! (I will shortly have a recurring CPU-bound task that will benefit greatly from doubling my core count or other improvements, and I do have 2x16GB DDR5 SoDIMMs that I could press into service with an adapter in a n…

hours of explosions despite the rain, this will go on for weeks in my neighborhood

An Hacker there was, one of the finest sort
Who controlled the system; graphics was his sport.
A manly man, to be a wizard able;
Many a protected file he had sitting on his table.
His console, when he typed, a man might hear
Clicking and feeping wind as clear,
Aye, and as loud as does the machine room bell
Where my lord Hacker was Prior of the cell.
The Rule of good St Savage or St Doeppnor
As old and strict he tended to ignore;
He let go by …

https://objectparadise.com/krotch

Morgen bin ich zum Weihnachtsliedersingen im Stadion in #Paderborn. Ich wollte mir dafür einen Anhänger basteln, der passend zum Gesang leuchtet. Leider habe ich zu spät bemerkt, dass ich kein passendes Mikro da habe. Für die Demo wird es über LedFX auf einem Laptop gesteuert. Morgen dann leider ohne reaktiven Effekten.
ESP8266 geflasht mit WLED. Ring mit 24 RGB Pixel (Neopixel Kopie). G…

Die Tauperiode war nur kurz, heute äh gestern gab's schon wieder #Neuschnee. Und wieder: Die Türen der #Ente ließen sich ohne Probleme aufschließen (Schneebesen und Eiskratzer waren innendrin 🤪) und sie sprang ohne rumzuzicken an.