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New #Fedora Accounts is finally here! https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/introducing-the-new-fedora-accounts/
@raghukamath @celia I second that. I have been using it since last year. Given that my work involves building containers, using Kubernetes etc, I never faced any major issues. docker-compose support has been recently added and requires root. But I have been using podman-compose which works most of the times.
We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
See the release highlights at https://forty.gnome.org/
Or view all the details in our release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/
5 big reasons we fail to make effective decisions — Shane Parrish on Twitter https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish/status/1356658536751779844?s=20
I’ve taught thousands of people make smart decisions without getting lucky. Here is a thread on 5 of the biggest reasons we fail to make effective decisions.
1 - We’re unintentionally stupid We like to think that we can rationally compute information like a computer, but we can’t. Cognitive biases explain why we made a bad decision but rarely help us avoiding them. Better to focus on these warning signs something is about to go wrong.
Warning signs you’re about to do unintentionally something stupid: You’re tired. You’re emotional, in a rush, distracted, operating in a group, or working with an authority figure.
The rule: Never make important decisions when you’re tired, emotional, distracted, or in a rush.
2 - We solve the wrong problem. The first person to state the problem rarely has the best insight into the problem. Once a problem is thrown out on the table however, our type-a problem solving nature kicks in and forget to ask if we’re solving the right problem.
Warning signs you’re solving the wrong problem: You let someone else define the problem for you. You’re far away from the problem. You’re thinking about the problem at only one level or through narrow lenses.
The rule: Never let anyone define the problem for you.
3 - We use incorrect or insufficient information We like to believe that people tell us the truth. We like to believe the people we talk to understand what they are talking about. We like to believe that we have all the information.
Warning signs you have incorrect or insufficient information: You’re speaking to someone who spoke to someone who spoke to someone. Someone will get in trouble when the truth comes out. You’re reading about it in the news.
The rule: Seek out information from as close to the source as possible because they’ve earned the knowledge and have understanding you don’t. When information is filtered, and it often is, consider the (1) incentives and (2) proximity to earned knowledge.
4 - We fail to learn You know the person that sits beside you at work that has 20 years of experience but keeps making the same mistakes over and over. They don’t have 20 years of experience, but one year repeated 20 times. If you can’t learn you can’t get better.
How we learn:
The Learning Loop
To better understand learning, let’s break it into four components.
Experience
Reflection
Abstraction/Lesson
Action
This process creates a feedback loop so that you are continuously adapting and learning from your (or others) experiences.
Warning signs you’re not learning: You’re too busy to reflect. You don’t keep track of your decisions. You can’t calibrate your own decision making.
The rule: Be less busy. Keep a learning journal. Reflect every day.
5 - We seek optics over outcomes. Our evolutionary programming conditions us to do what’s easy over what’s right. Organizations encourage us to sound good over being good. After all it’s often easier to signal being virtuous than actually being virtuous.
Warning signs you’re focused on optics: You’re thinking about how you’ll defend your decision. You’re knowingly choosing what’s defendable over what’s right. You’d make a different decision if you owned the company. You catch yourself saying this is what your boss would want.
#mjbQuote #Quote #mjbMentalModels #MentalModels #Life #DecisionMaking .
Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 1400 IST (UTC+5:30). More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/march-2021/
@celia GNOME 40 (yes, 3.40 is called 40) has three fingers left and right scrolling for switching between workspaces. I have it on a test machine, so I need to check how does the workspace switching with mouse works. https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/
@ArneBab Whoa! That's super cool, thank you for making it happen 😁
@ArneBab Thank you for the link, after posting my toot I was reading about the compatibly of CC-BY-SA 4.0 with GPL on fsf.org.
TIL Target-specific Variable Values in GNU Make. The values set for a target are also passed to all the prerequisites of the targets.
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Target_002dspecific.html
build:
@echo "$(FEATURE)"
deploy: FEATURE = enable
deploy: build
@echo "$(FEATURE)"
This will print:
enable
enable
@celia I thought you were self-hosting Plausible already. I started self-hosting it last month. And yes, they are really nice folks, they consider every feature request. How about asking them over email for a dump of Clickhouse (that's where the stats are stored I think) data for your website? If that's too much to ask, they will say no, which is fine.
I started self-hosting fonts for my website. Wrote about it here: https://geeksocket.in/posts/self-hosting-fonts/
Instance admin just lost their job, might need help
Mstdn.social is one of the largest and nicest instances on the Fediverse, run by an enthusiastic admin called @stux
Unfortunately Stux has today found out that they are fired from their day job 😞
However, by happy coincidence, Stux had just set up a hosting company. If you need web hosting, domain names etc please consider using Stuxhost so that Stux can continue working:
Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 1400 IST. More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/february-2021/
How do we defend against dependency based side-channel attacks at @securedrop project https://kushaldas.in/posts/defending-against-side-channel-attacks-via-dependencies.html #Python Let me know what do you think. #Security
Illustrations done in #krita & Inkscape for MTV India's reality television show promotion campaign.
More details here - https://raghukamath.com/works/splitsvilla/
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