Kind reposts

 Repost

Reposted Rob “P1” Whitaker (@RobW@iosdev.space)
Post details
I had a Captcha today that had ai generated images - this is not new. But the prompt was also clearly ai generated, as it made zero grammatical sense. Refreshing the page was the only option, as refreshing the captcha gave the same prompt with different images. How is solving problems a computer can solve far easier than a human a good way to determine the user isn’t a computer?

 Repost

Reposted Emelia 👸🏻 (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io)
Post details
So the thing I don't get about tumblr is why it's so strict on anything remotely sexual, yet happily broadcasts and pushes ads with graphic violent content of people being shot in a video game. To me, I find violence 100x worse for society than something mildly sexually explicit. It's deeply saddening just how normalised violence is in our society, but sex is so taboo.

 Repost

Reposted Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕ (@fringemagnet@sunny.garden)
Post details
Really love how David Tennant is so supportive of his non-binary kid, and generally how open and vocal he is on the issues affecting minorities and marginalized communities. Plus, his no bs take here is pretty spot on in regards to how the word "woke" is being used as an insult to ridicule what is essentially just giving a damn about other people. "It makes me so angry, the way they weaponised this idea of, that, that being asleep is something to aspire to [...] It makes me furious that they should have a minister who would encourage you not to have a crumb of empathy, not to think about what it might be to live so somebody else’s experience." 🔗https://www.thenational.scot/news/23932700.david-tennant-releases-anger-tories-last-leg-live-rant/ #DavidTennant #DoctorWho #DrWho #lgbtq

 Repost

Reposted Kathrine Bush (@thelusciouslibra)
Post details
If you ever see a single person bitching about sex workers advertising on mastodon with the premise that it's "meant to be an ad free space" please tear them a new one. The circle of safe social media platforms for sex workers keeps growing smaller, mastodon may be one of the only places we have left. Please don't kick us out too.

 Repost

Reposted jalciné's job hunting but also (@jalcine@todon.eu)
Post details
Fuck Google. Fuck the executives who signed off and pushed this. Fuck the people who hadn't pushed against this and kept up this long battle of the digital attention economy through ads. I'm not terribly forgiving of those in favor of digital advertisment's rise — any business that requires nonconsentual engagement (and uses it to remain as profitable as possible) is unethical. Surveillance capitalism is one of the grossest things to exist and despite it being coined recently, that shit is old. As old as overseers. https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111426154930652642 (https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/4xxP)

 Repost

Reposted Mike, First of His Name (@mike@chinwag.org)
Post details
Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural. Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering. Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society. In this "free range software manifesto" I will -

 Repost

Reposted Rob Allen (@rob@akrabat.com)
Post details
In my experience, multiple concepts invariably end up in a non-trivial PR. When a repository uses squash-and-merge then those concepts end up in the same single commit on main and any context is lost. https://indieweb.social/@lornajane/111425261462048360

 Repost

Reposted lornajane (@lornajane@indieweb.social)
Post details
When you work on a project with squash-and-merge as a strategy, you end up splitting concepts across multiple pull requests to make coherent git history that could be untangled later if needed. Teams throw away the context because they have poor git commit practices, but they have poor git commit practices because they throw all that context away ...

 Repost

Reposted js (@js@social.lol)
Post details
@mhoye@mastodon.social there was a really good blog post that I can't find now, about how many (most?) feminine-coded hobbies/tasks like sewing, knitting, cooking, lots of housework, etc - are just straight up pure engineering tasks. you don't even have to squint to see it, but society likes to pretend that if it isn't made of concrete or steel, it doesn't count.

 Repost

Reposted Taggart :donor: (@mttaggart)
Post details
If your organization actively discourages you from asking questions, digging deeper, or seeking improvements, do the following in order: 1. Get 2. The 3. Hell 4. Out If you stay too long, the corpo brainworms will make it easier to just do the things that have always been done.