Good article about Mozilla’s co-founder, Brendan Eich, one of the first “tech figures” to be cancelled by the woke mob about 10 years ago, because he dared to oppose same-sex marriage in California.

This article is being shared by major tech personalities on social media today. It seems to be a recognition that the “woke mob” has caused a lot of unnecessary damage.

“I was working in New York's “Silicon Alley” when it happened, and I immediately recognized it as a major escalation in the culture war. It was a warning that the Leviathan of technocracy did not care how well I did, how hard I worked, or how well I treated others. Ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country that was rapidly taking place was all that mattered. If I was unwilling to affirm the current thing dictated according to the whims of “progress,” I was an enemy of humanity and an enemy of America. And my beliefs, no matter how ancient, innocent, and valid, must bow to the will of Leviathan, or the digital swarm would descend upon me.”

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-fragile-brendan-eich

John Carmack on Twitter/X today, saying he regrets “not doing more to support and defend” Palmer Luckey when he was fired from Facebook in 2017. Carmack was responding to Netscape founder Mark Andressen who was voicing regrets about the “cancellation” of Brendan Eich by cancel culture (see above article).

Palmer Luckey was a founder of the Oculus gaming company. He was famously fired from Facebook in 2017, because he donated to an anti-Hillary Clinton political group.

Truth is flowing! Seeing John Carmack (one of the best known personalities in computer gaming) make this admission today is stunning! 🤩👍

If you are in the Linux for Beginners class, this week’s livestream was choppy due to apparent capacity issues at Rumble. However, a replay is now available at the same web link you received in your invitation for this week’s class.

Just click on the same link you clicked for the 5pm class, and you should be able to watch the replay!

Thanks for understanding, frens. And as usual it will also be available on the LMS system tommorrow afternoon.

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PRAYER

Heavenly Father, we rejoice in Your Son's resurrection, the triumph of life over death and light over darkness.

We give thanks for the redeeming sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which we have been granted eternal life. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit, that we may walk in newness of life, spreading the good news of Your love and grace.

We pray for an end to all wars and conflicts in our world. Stir the hearts of leaders and nations to pursue peace, replacing hatred with love. May the corrupting influence of the military-industrial complex be dismantled, and may war profiteering be replaced with a new urgency to meet the needs of our people.

Father, we pray that You raise up leaders of integrity, who seek to serve their people with humility, justice, and righteousness.

We humbly bring these prayers before You, in the name of our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to whom belongs all glory, honor, and praise, forever and ever.

Amen.

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We are running a little behind schedule getting last week's classes uploaded to the LMS as there was a bit of a complication on Saturday with the video feeds.

Should be up by tomorrow afternoon!

pretty much

Did you know that T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country?

https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/senators-call-for-investigation-on-phone-companies-selling-location-data/

APT is now colorful!

https://news.itsfoss.com/apt-new-ui/

BREAKING: Uri Berliner has resigned from NPR after penning an essay criticizing the outlet for his far-left bias and subsequently suspended without pay.

“I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.”

The founder of Telegram says US authorities sought on multiple occasions to gain access to the platform in an apparent bid to spy on its users.

Pavel Durov said in an interview with @TuckerCarlson that the FBI approached him and his employees several times.

VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-0-16-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-6-8-and-6-9-kernels

Whenever you hear someone say we need to REPLACE ERIC... RUN FAR AWAY!

ERIC needs to be ELIMINATED. Not REPLACED!

We need to completely abolish any way election data can be centralized. Our founding fathers knew this and created our country to KEEP POWER AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.

That is why THE PEOPLE'S AUDIT wants to EDUCATE locals on both how to keep the voter rolls clean + LET THE PEOPLE WATCH THIER LOCALS TO SEE IF THEY ARE KEEPING THAT PROMISE.

EVERY INSTANCE OF THE PEOPLE'S AUDIT IS IT'S OWN DATA ISLAND.

This was WAAAY more complicated to build and maintain but I was not looking at profiting from this solution.

We need to respect each state's privacy laws as well teach an army of grassroots watchdogs to make sure this problems STAYS AWAY from their communities.

We have no interest in selling our system to governments. We need to abolish all these centralized vendors and bring back local control to our data and elections.

Each local county has ALL THE ABLITY & RIGHT to police their own data.

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BREAKING 🚨 911 outages reported in South Dakota and Nebraska, parts of Nevada, Texas, Iowa, Florida, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.

NEW — U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron said. (Nikkei)

⬆️ Not sure if this headline is a joke, or supposed to be serious. It reads like it could be satire 🤣