Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦

Systems software consultant solving complex problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. American relocated to the Netherlands in 2023. Sadly not owned by a cat.

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Profile pic: middle-aged white woman with short blue hair, smiling

Banner image: Ukraine flag

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2025-04-05 19:55:39

China just cut off the supply of five critical minerals to the U.S.: dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium, and yttrium. They are required for jet engines, magnets, computer parts, lasers, and much more - and China controls most of the world's production of each of them
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

2025-03-14 08:02:55

Last night I restarted Chrome and I got this message and just like that I'm a Firefox user again
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/159/723/797/887/963/original/109420500e821606.png

2025-03-03 08:48:07

I'm getting a lot out of the Neurodivergent Insights newsletter by Dr. Megan Anna Neff. For example, this post about the overlap of ADHD and autism:
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/misdiagnosis-monday/adhd-vs-autism/
Dr. Neff is herself AuDHD who turned her hyperfocus on her neurotype into a PhD in psychology. She's also raising a neurodivergent kid with strong PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, which she calls Pervasive Drive for Autonomy):
https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/pda-or-demand-avoidance/
#ADHD #Autism #AuDHD

2025-02-12 10:13:02

Good op-ed laying out the depressing truth that knowing the history of fascism is entirely insufficient to prevent its repetition
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/musk-revolution-lessons-20th-century-deleted-far-right-silicon-valley