Kind reposts

Attached: 1 image It's December! Here's your yearly reminder:

Me, describing developer work estimation industry practice: > "We start with 'points describe complexity, not time' as a guiding philosophy, and then proceed to describe all estimates in terms of time."

My god. Basecamp/37signals and DHH in particular: what a cesspool of toxic waste ☣️ https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

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No way to prevent this, says only blogger where this regularly happens

Attached: 1 image 📝 Open source enthusiasts, we want to hear from you! 🚀 Submit your papers to the Open Source Software Call for Papers and contribute to the collective knowledge of the community. 🌍 Deadline: December 1st.

Attached: 1 image Another win for AI.

I’m just an executive, standing in front of some small thing that brings you joy in this life, asking how I can completely ruin it for money

Attached: 1 image #1: “let’s form a union.”

🚨PSA: CfP for the #Go devroom at @fosdem ENDS THIS WEEK (FRIDAY) 🚨 . #FOSDEM is by far my favorite event, there are no words to describe it. IF you are a #gopher or know someone, please submit your talk before 1st Dec https://github.com/go-devroom/cfp/blob/main/README.md and see you there 🍻

I don’t need “ai” in my terminal, I’m perfectly capable of typing something that looks plausible but does something completely unexpected myself thanks

Attached: 1 image I made this for me but I'm pretty sure you can use it too.

Poverty shouldn't exist. For anyone. Ever. Too often I hear 'No one with a job should live in poverty.' True. But let's go further. No one should live in poverty, job or not. Jobs should be a ticket to more than just survival. Think thriving, not surviving; buying fun, not life.

Wow. https://archive.is/wAt0i, an archived copy of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/nlrb-files-case-against-mozilla-for-not-hiring-labor-activist. This is really what I'm afraid of. And I'm stupid findable on the Web (thanks to not using an alias — that bit me in the ass very fast — like in 2013, but whatever). I'm hoping Cher wins this case; I'll be following it closely. Especially because I've applied like four times at Mozilla with not as much as a reply if the role was closed or anything. Sidenote, though, I hate the fact that's this idea that we can sign away rights because we have a contract — and that's never clear if it's actually the case. I really am glad she stood up. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/11/Zwc5)

I can’t let you remove that, it’s a load bearing organizational delusion

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Attached: 1 image Nice new feature in Firefox: Copy link without site tracking parameters. Well done, @FirefoxNightly@mozilla.social #firefox #privacy

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I'm seeing someone doing this doubling down of staying with Google's ecosystem and I'll put the one link that made the process simple: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

If God wanted us to have unlimited free energy He’d have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky.

“rest in peace” being synonymous with death implies that, while you’re alive, you must rest in irritation and conflict.

Attached: 1 image This is a great example of how our minds are terrible at assessing risk because here it’s the same in both cases (until you get to the last platform).

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as: • Having money • Making close friends as an adult • Travelling the world without crippling debt • Being able to change the world • Getting better at something with practice • Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

my biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"

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I think the real reason our culture stigmatizes children who ask "why" a lot is that most adults are deeply ashamed of how infrequently they actually have good answers.

New short documentary from @openuk@hachyderm.io all about the state of #OpenSource in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWy_qgMa50 And, yes, the video is CC BY-SA 😄 (I'm a board member at OpenUK)

Just mentioning for no particular reason, life sure is easier when you deliberately and carefully select the people you spend time with

"You shouldn't project modern gender labels back onto historical figures" OK great! I will no longer be calling them "men" or "women". Those are modern, socially constructed categories of person, and using them uncritically encourages us to assume that past cultures shared our expectations for appropriate gender performance.

Happy ‘discover what mailing lists you’ve been signed up to’ day.

Why are the turkeys being pardoned? Never understood that. The turkeys didn't commit a crime. You're deciding not to EAT the damn bird and acting like you're forgiving it for doing something wrong. That has to suggest something about power.

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Rust is the language of trans CSS is for bisexuals JavaScript is for all queers

Sorry I haven’t been around I simply didn’t want to 🙂

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The only lesson to be had in the OpenAI drama is the money always wins.

Did you know the #DoctorWho theme tune has lyrics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zsNvU-GXg #DrWho

No criticism of capitalism can ever top the suits at Netflix seeing Squid Game and thinking “Let’s make it real!” #capitalism #SquidGame

Given my extensive experience with video games, it’s disappointing how few pressure plates we bump into in regular life. I’d like to drag a big rock over a pressure plate to escape the office one day

You put your Altman in, You take your Altman out, You put your Altman in, And you shake him all about, You do the hokey-pokey and you move VC around, That's what tech's all about

For modern "subscriptions," all the money you spent provides no value after you end the subscription. That's not a subscription, that's club membership. You're only paying for access. That means they can and will change what access means. They'll add or remove things. They'll change the price. But in the end, when you stop paying, all the access is revoked. I really hate how that feels, and would like to move away from that in any place I can, to be honest.

The existence of UNIX implies the existence of MENIX, INIX, and THEYNIX.

Attached: 1 image When I work at the computer all day, my back gets stiff and sore. To prevent this stick a soft, warm cat in the crook of your back. Follow me for more work hacks. #cats

Attached: 1 image Got reminded of one of my favourite sentences ever put to the page.

Content warning: tech punditry

Remember everyone, if you're delulu enough, you too can fire, hire, fire, rehire all in a few days at your non problematic at all company. If you're really audacious you can remove women from your board, and replace them with *checks notes* problematic whyte techbros. #tech #infosec #nerd #ai #techbros

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board. And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now). The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

I think folks need to understand that within a number of years, AI-generated "content" will be the microplastic of our online ecosystem.

A company lays off thousands of people, nobody bats an eye. A company fires one CEO and everyone loses their mind.