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"Not that I need another side project," she says to herself as she starts another side project.

So now I am being expected to tell these greedy AI fucks that they are NOT allowed to steal my stuff to build their own business? What the actual fuck is going on?!? I should not have to chase down each of these grifters and tell them it’s ok. Are all you people who enthusiastically use these tools okay with my work being taken without my permission? Fuck you if you do and stop following me.

There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints. If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700217

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*. "Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while." "Right on."

Attached: 1 image #queer #lgbtqia EDIT: This is not my own text, I found it online, but I do not know who created it. EDIT 2: This has gotten more retoots than I expected. For those of you who think this text is wrong, you do you. Let's agree to disagree. I am not going to discuss this with you.

Remember kids:

Attached: 1 image Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email. There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and maybe get it blacklisted, unless you take the steps to notify email servers that any email received claiming to come from your domain should be trashed. Just add these two TXT records to the DNS for your domain: TXT v=spf1 -all TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject; The first says there is not a single SMTP server on earth authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. The second says that any email that says otherwise should be trashed. If you do use your domain for sending email, be sure to add 3 records: SPF record to indicate which SMTP server(s) are allowed to send your email. DKIM records to add a digital signature to emails, allowing the receiving server to verify the sender and ensure message integrity. DMARC record that tells the receiving email server how to handle email that fails either check. You cannot stop scammers from sending email claiming to be from your domain, any more than you can prevent people from using your home address as a return address on a mailed letter. But, you can protect both your domain and intended scam victims by adding appropriate DNS records. UPDATE: The spf and the dmarc records need to be appropriately named. The spf record should be named "@", and the dmarc record name should be "_dmarc". Here's what I have for one domain. One difference that I have is that I'm requesting that email providers email me a weekly aggregated report when they encounter a spoof. gmail and Microsoft send them, but most providers won't, but since most email goes to Gmail, it's enlightening when they come. #cybersecurity #email #DomainSpoofing #EmailSecurity #phishing

Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste #GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.” https://www.smh.com.au/technology/every-time-you-use-chatgpt-half-a-cup-of-water-goes-to-waste-20241128-p5kubq.html

i've been increasing shareholder value like you wouldn't believe

I am deeply alarmed for the trans and gender expansive community in the UK. What the fuck: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/united-kingdom-bans-puberty-blockers-indefinitely-its-a-death-sentence/ (Yes also alarmed about what's happening in the US, esp in Florida right now, and what the next four years may bring.) #UKPol #USPol #Trans #LGBTQ

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If you have to stream it, you don’t own it. If you have to log in to it, you don’t own it. If you have to “activate” or “register” it, you don’t own it. If you have to connect it to somebody else’s computer EVER, for ANY REASON, then YOU. DON’T. OWN. IT. Any and all of these methods will be used against you for somebody else’s profit. If you yell about personal property rights but you don’t sign on to these statements, you are not serious about property rights. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/startup-will-brick-800-emotional-support-robot-for-kids-without-refunds/

Just say no to AI generated blog content/articles/media. Keep what little we have left of humanity on the web, with actual humans.

No, no, I’m not pirating that. I’m training the learning model in my brain.

Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing The Changelog (News, Interviews, Friends) as the single best developer podcast experience. https://changelog.com/posts/a-new-era-for-the-changelog-podcast-universe

Open Source Nerds Assemble! The deadline to submit a CfP for State of Open is *this weekend*. https://stateofopencon.com/ State of Open is in London on 4 and 5 February, 2025 - right after #FOSDEM. We're looking for interesting speakers on all topics to do with open source, open data, open hardware, funding, AI etc. Submit a proposal at https://sessionize.com/state-of-open-con-2025/ #OpenSource #OpenHardware #OpenData #OpenUK #CyberSecurity

Attached: 4 images The noosphere is pulling no punches today. This is the more tame content. I’m here for it.

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@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social just wait until they learn about archive.org and all the LLMs that have the data and … at that point CEOs and powerful folk now get interested in right to be forgotten GDPR ideas. This smacks of privacy from video rental data stinging congress people from way back when and now they act. Sigh.

Raising concerns about AI's impact on <code quality | the environment | your career prospects> while using a half-melted Midjourney image in the same blog post

Attached: 1 image Don't miss out on the opportunity to speak at the UK's world leading open tech conference, State of Open Con at https://stateofopencon.com/. Closes Sunday 8th at midnight UK. #soocon25 #cfp #opensource

quentin tarantino became a director because he loves footage

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

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Blogging is one of the best things you can do for your technical acumen, your personal profile, and your career. It forces you to learn what you write about deeply, teaches others, and is visible proof of your skillset. Yeah, it's uncomfortable sometimes and it takes time, but I highly recommend. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

In every tech organization, there are some people that seem to know every system, everybody, and every problem. They're super helpful, and save coworkers months of wasted efforts, by short-circuiting dead end paths, sharing efficient workflows, knowing which services already exist, and generally having great technical judgement. *None of those skills are quantifiable on performance reviews, other than peers saying thanks (if they're lucky). *Many underrepresented engineers fill these roles.

I've said it before, but if Randall Monroe could somehow successfully induce a donation of say ten bucks for each time someone uses That One xkcd Comic in a FOSS talk or blog describing the open source sustainability problem, said problem would be solved.

The corporation behind #Redis is now starting to chase #OpenSource client libraries claiming trademark violations https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419 and are attempting to have the projects transferred to them. If it wasn't obvious before, now is a good time to fuck the hell off from that software. Just use #Valkey or one of the other alternatives.

good morning everyone welcome back to another get your shit together sunday. you have until 3PM to get all of your shit together or you will fall so hopelessly far behind that you can never recover

Brey, I can't explain it any simpler than this: Planet is on fire, we know billions of ppl are going to die, we know it's capitalism and the fossil fuels it depends on that's doing this. And what are your leaders doing? What is your state spending money on? Solving this problem? Absolutely not. They're arming themselves to the teeth, militarizing security forces, criminalizing protest, hardening borders, increasing the size of their armies. You have to be a dipshit not to see what time it is.

I will never understand why people post generated pictures of aurora when real auroras are this beautiful

Ask more questions that you already know the answer to If you don’t know the answer, you’re going to spend all your energy learning the information But if you already know the answer you can listen to how they answer it, and what they’re really saying, which is often more useful than the answer

Content warning: when you see your trans plural friend after it gets an orchi,

i do not want supporters of a racist fascist rapist bigot anywhere near me tbh i do not think that is an unreasonable position tbh

Attached: 1 image State of Open Con 25 will be back on 4 and 5 February and our CFP is now open across 7 tracks until 8 December. Successful speakers will be notified by 20 December when the Schedule will go live. Our tracks will cover software and security, hardware, data, mobile, finance, future of open source and future of AI. We will again have an incredible Delegate Experience area. Submit to the Call for Proposals: https://sessionize.com/state-of-open-con-2025/ #soocon #stateofopen #cfp

Move steadily and improve things.

Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"

Have you ever wanted to buy the ebook of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" but you only want to pay 60% of the list price? Well let me tell you a secret: if you use promo code turkeysale2024 through December 2, you can do just that! https://pragprog.com/titles/bcosp/program-management-for-open-source-projects/

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I wish when I became an adult the other adults in my life would have explained that you don't actually feel like a grown up, you just sort of feel like a kid pretending to be an adult, and hoping everything works out.

My fellow human beings. Before joining Bluesky. You should read about Cory Doctorow's description of the Enshittification process. The first part of the process is vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, even if it results in a loss of money. The idea is to get market share. I fear that mankind is trapped in an endless cycle with social media.

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If there is a mind virus it’s not wokeness; it’s capitalism.

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The people who still mask in 2024 are some of the realest motherfuckers out there. 🫡

“You must give your money to people you find abhorrent or we will put you in prison” is a banger of a free speech policy. Fuck these people.