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danielquinn

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Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI ( hachyderm.io )

His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier ( gitlab.com )

The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv....

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