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Liked jack(y) or treat! (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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Lol I'd say something about the Wordpress thing but Occam's razor dictates that there's really nothing to add that hasn't been said. This makes me want to pour over @ntnsndr@social.coop's book on governance sooner than later. I'm highly skeptical of unaccountable hierarchical organizations (so much so I'm willing to threaten my stability over it) and this is why. Power corrupts.

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Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource

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Reposted Chris Dell (@cjdell@fosstodon.org)
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Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists. Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code. You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide. This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.

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Listened to Cup o' Go | 🌬️ Air, Windows, and Shelves; Promise this is about Go! Plus, Willem.dev talks freelance Go Web Development
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News🧑‍🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/

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Liked Miss you Mum by hello@byjp.me JP Hastings-Edrei  
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I'm missing my late Mum especially today. It's the first anniversary of her death, and to remember her we went to one of her favourite places: Westonbirt Arboretum. I was very happy when my Aunt (Mum's twin sister) agreed to join my wife & I for the day; her love of trees parallels my Mum's, so we enjoyed a long afternoon of walking through the glorious forests, and in particular the Acer glade.

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Liked Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@hachyderm.io)
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When somone says something like "our competitor isn't contributing to our open source project", there's an implied assumption that anyone *can* show up and contribute changes that are meaningful to them but against the interests of the project owners (and their commercial backers). That's just not how it works. Despite that, submitting occasional PR's that have no chance of getting merged is probably the best way to expose that bullshit if/when it comes to that.

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Liked CSS Rainbow Text
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.example-demo {text-align: center;} In this article, we’ll talk about what is a Rainbow text and demonstrate building one through a basic example. If you are interested in generating code for text with any gradient color, check out our CSS Text Gradient Generator tool.

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Parul's talk was incredible - her humour and reflection on her experiences of life as a neurodiverse person, through the lense of "what if neurotypicals were the weird ones" was really quite powerful.

I spent the talk very eagerly nodding along and laughing - a little distractedly - at her incredibly relatable take on the role reversal, and bangers like "Norman received feedback [that his colleagues felt weird about him because] he couldn't fidget".

I'm biased as someone who is neurodiverse myself, so related much more heavily to the talk, but feel that non-neurodiverse people in the audience could also understand the parallels.

I was very strongly reminded - in a great way - of Rachel Morgan-Trimmer's talk from OggCamp 2019 which was also a really powerful insight into life as a neurodiverse person, and I really enjoyed Parul's empathy-driven talk.

I especially loved the ending call to action, asking us all to consider what steps we could take to understand others in our life better.

My only complaint was that I wish the talk was recorded!

(I unfortunately missed the first few minutes)

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Reposted Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.

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Reposted Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? 🤯 For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.

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Nice, see you there 👀

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Nice! This is one I've ended up needing to do a few times too

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Listened to Bekah Hawrot Weigel by Coffee and Open Source
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Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You can follow Bekah on Social Media https://twitter.com/BekahHW https://bekahhw.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekah-hawrot-weigel https://github.com/BekahHW https://www.youtube.com/@bekahhw Also check out these links from Bekah https://virtualcoffee.io/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/​​ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)