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I created this "Maslow's hierarchy of jobs" about 20 years go. Iv'e found to be good guide for when was time to move on (or stay). If you're failing at one or more of the lower 5 levels (pay not likely to continue, getting paid but nobody cares what you do) might be time to find a more productive gig.

You probably won't see this from HR in goals setting and performance management sessions.

Reality of power supply in Australia vs nerd's imagination:

* maximum demand for power perfectly matches minimum supply from wind farms
* maximum SUPPLY from solar farms precedes maximum demand by a few hours

What looks like minor blips or shifts on the graphs are actually periods when South Australia would not have electricity if not massive coal power plants.

newmatilda.com/2021/01/27/delu

RT @element_hq@twitter.com

Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vec but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/element_hq/status/

Putin seems to be settling well among the QAnon and other flat earthers on LBRY...

A free font, HyperLegible from the Braille institue. brailleinstitute.org/freefont for those with poor vision and to be unambiguous

Better Than Zoom

Please help me share.

Jitsi jitsi.org

Big Blue Button bigbluebutton.org

Nextcloud Talk nextcloud.com

Worth mentioning: Mattermost (mattermost.com) | OpenMeeting (openmeetings.apache.org) | RocketChat (openmeetings.apache.org)

All with free service accesses.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Zoom #VideoCall

Behind AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Stumble

AstraZeneca’s CEO promised more shots, at a lower price, than competitors, but now faces criticism from the EU for a production shortfall.

wsj.com/articles/behind-astraz

Frequent cannabis use by young people linked to decline in IQ

A study has found that adolescents who frequently use cannabis may experience a decline in intelligence quotient (IQ) over time.

rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-event

📱 Instant messaging clients. Choose wisely what you use to communicate.

A visualization by @niboe under CC BY SA license.

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There will be a first GNU #Taler online hackathon on Saturday, January 30th, and you are all invited.

We'll do some brief introductions, give an overview on the state of the project, help new contributors (if any are present) with their first steps, and then try to jointly (or likely in small break-out groups) tackle open issues.

Note that non-programmers can also likely contribute: testing the system, …

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tal

Thank you Madeline for excellent essay is excellent:

"Partners of these leftists often feel surprised at the disconnect between their admirable political convictions and their manipulative and unkind behavior. But holding lofty political ideals doesn’t preclude a person from sucking on an interpersonal level, something these people had to figure out the hard way."

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/me

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@Gina Check out:
laptopwithlinux.com/
They are right there in your country. I just bought a laptop from them and they not only put it together and shipped it in just a few days but they installed the distro of my choice with the username I chose and I even asked them to partition the hard drive and they did that. The service was incredible and you can even choose the "premium" thermal paste!😂 Or get it barebones.

An interesting hybrid P2P-federated social media experiment from the author of Hypercore (DAT protocol) but easily ported to other similar mesh networks, like IPFS:

github.com/pfrazee/ctzn

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