Greg @Greg@social.coop
A middle-aged (I can say that now) white cis dude from the midwest living in california doing the technology-as-a-job thing all the while wishing I lived back in the midwest with people who take life more slowly.
Parenting 2 kids that need a lot from me/us. Failing at it most times.
Toots are random. I use CWs for things like parenting. Feel free to point out failure to CW something I should.
My out of date homepage (and obviously failed blog restart) at: https://grossmeier.net/pages/about.html
Joined Oct 2017
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I'm a long-time advocate of #open and sharing (in so many contexts) and have worked professionally in university libraries (UMich), at Creative Commons, and now (for a long time) at the Wikimedia Foundation.
I'm also co- #parenting two unique children and we're doing our best to meet their needs where they are.
I like to engage with fun topics #onhere and CW everything political and most things re parenting. I also #vaguetoot about work sometimes.
I feel like I've locked myself into a garden I can't escape by my choice of using ZimWiki all those years ago.
I want to give Logseq a try (cc @randomgeek ) but after importing my zimwiki export (into markdown) I'm lost without the directory hierarchy. :(
Company finances meta question, re layoffs
Context: I've never (prof/ly) worked for a company w/ stock. Universities and non profits.
Layoffs are happening in the tech industry.
My question is about how it's communicated and what it means.
Reasoning normally given right now is "market trends".
Do businesses borrow against their stock more than I realize and thus are being margin called with lower stock prices?
Or is it really just a euphemism for "our business isn't profitable".
Or?
Ok, apparently I needed to restart instead of just logout/login. Simple fix. Radio is now programmed.
Thanks to @liw for forcing me to check the simple things.
Help!
I'm not able to get my Baofeng UV-9G to communicate with Chirp[0]. Specifically, I can't get Chirp to download from the UV-9G. I'm getting the "error 13: permission denied" error.
I've added myself to the `dialout` group (and logged out/back in) per [1].
Still getting the same error.
What am I missing?
[0] https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp
[1] https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Connection_Issues_using_Ubuntu
Come work with me/us!
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4388856?gh_src=3d1ba2ec1us
We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to join the Fundraising Technology team (my team).
We build the tech that allows the Wikimedia Foundation to raise funds globally all while respecting our donors privacy.
All of the software we write and maintain is Free/Open Source and self-hosted.
The role is 100% remote friendly in the UTC-7 to UTC+2 timezones (there would be late meetings in UTC+2).
Any other #reMarkable users our there experience epubs that work on your laptop but when copied to your reMarkable they look like they were redacted by the CIA? Paragraphs are all black blocks even though I can see the chapter titles.
Which version of "Which Side Are You On?" do you prefer?
1. Florence's (the original): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzudto-FA5Y
2. Pete Seeger's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEnTxlBuGo
3. Dropkick Murphys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWfnO7fhQM
Last week GitLab announced and released (simultaneously) a critical security fix shortly before a long weekend (in the US).
Can we convince them to do better with their security release practices?
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363212
(Edit: reposted as public to enable sharing)
I already enabled follow requests. I'm about to lock down my toots to followers only as well.
I gave up on being a personality about a decade ago.
When you pack up to go work from the library (that is open until 8pm on Wednesdays!) because you have some stuff you need to close up before going on vacation next week and time is running out.... but you forgot your headphones and bluetooth mouse because they were taken out of your "work bag" at some point over the last x months so now you pout a little bit and try to force the stuff you didn't want to do anyway.
radios, the handheld kind
I did get my gmrs license though, which was a horrible UX time.
radios, the handheld kind
Ok, I'm in a deep (for me, shallow for those with knowledge in the area) hole trying to figure out which gmrs radios to buy.
music, reggae
I always come back to this song/video when I'm in a certain mood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU7hZ3smj0g
Good song, and that syncopated syllable-by-syllable build up is pretty effing epic.
gaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
earworm
My oldest has been playing that White Stripes song (you know the one) constantly the last week or so. And now that's the only bass line my brain let's me hear throughout the day.
youtube, sailboats
I'll admit, yt's algo really worked last night after I watched one "basics of sailing" video.
insomnia, sailboats
Luckily my morning starts later than normal today. Drinking coffee at the small coffee shop now listening to their hits of the 90s playlist (currently Sublime).
I watched sailing videos last night. Some "here's the basics of sailing" and a bit of someone doing a cross Atlantic solo in a small ish boat.
We'll see how today goes.
A middle-aged (I can say that now) white cis dude from the midwest living in california doing the technology-as-a-job thing all the while wishing I lived back in the midwest with people who take life more slowly.
Parenting 2 kids that need a lot from me/us. Failing at it most times.
Toots are random. I use CWs for things like parenting. Feel free to point out failure to CW something I should.
My out of date homepage (and obviously failed blog restart) at: https://grossmeier.net/pages/about.html
Joined Oct 2017
