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hisnameishank··on Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
Illinois also just banned the practice of banning books :)
hisnameishank··on Most young men are single. Most young women are not
I think this article is somewhat of a relief to myself. It always felt like the majority of women I talked to casually mentioned they are in a relationship before my interest further peaked. At least it's not just thinking it's a coincidence that the majority that I talk to are taken, it's statistical lol.
hisnameishank··on Amazon set to begin new round of layoffs affecting over 18,000 people
Tech workers should start unionizing. Our skills and talents are borderline a trade and thusly should be bargained for.

Having a giant corporation kill off your occupancy with no pre-warning is raw meat for union reps who would love to sue on your behave.

hisnameishank··on Discord’s Creator Portal
Not really, the Discord API will probably supply some sort of status per user in a given discord channel.

Discord is already setup for users to interact with server bots on a rich command palate. Bots at this point are just server extensions.

Webhooks have been a thing for ages.

Discord is arguably one of the easiest services to bind to from a developer's perspective.

hisnameishank··on Mkcert: Simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates
It's not hard to make a CA.

Make a key for your CA, make an SSL key for your sever, sign the key with your CA and add the CA to your in-house browser/list of trusted CAs.

hisnameishank··on Why Is Markdown Popular?
piggy backing on this comment to mention that github can render .org files :).