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@hamatti@mastodon.world Including the company’s employees. Employees who could be laid off any time by CEO they’re fighting for. 🙂

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Stop treating open source projects and foundations like consumer-facing businesses. Unless you've got a paid support contract that's being neglected, or there's a grave concern, it's inappropriate to escalate issues to massively public forums. Maintainers and the staffers and volunteers at foundations are already overworked. Don't make it harder for them to address your issue by ALSO making them waste time firefighting in public. #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS

Dropping a speaker a message (via pretty much any means of communication they make available to you) that you genuinely liked their talk is a very kind thing to do, and I can assure you that it never goes unheard or unnoticed.

Move slow and mend things.

Attached: 1 image We cannot promise it won’t rain at FOSDEM… But if a very good hot chocolate and many Gophers can convince you to submit a talk all the better!! Psst 10 days left: https://github.com/go-devroom/cfp/blob/main/README.md #golang #fosdem

All the people they laid off, but here’s a guy who, to my knowledge, is just a VC tech kid and not an expert, who openly follows a “philosopher” who blatantly believes _Black people are not as smart as white people_ and they can’t wait to hire him. Gee, what group of people were hit hardest by layoffs again? I am beyond disgusted by this. I have to go practice whatever shit I learned in therapy to calm down. Every single person they laid off is worth ten of this racist venture capital fuck.

The biggest mistake I have made as a creator is letting my ego, my ambition and the shallowness of social media convince me that I had an "Audience" instead of a network. It's a self centred worldview that strips the humanity out of the folks around us. We end up treating people like numbers and vanity metrics. That's just bulls**t.

Everyone: AI is the future, let’s gooooo Open ai: not so fast, hold my beer

Presentations - Call for Participation https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-call-for-presentations/

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Is there an #opensource backed standard for annotating others’ webpages? I’m thinking specifically being able to tag others’ sites with #IndieWeb h-cards (eg. Adding machine readable event tags to pages like this: https://www.ewanbleach.com/events) or something more fancy, like letting me attach (#ipvm runnable?) WASM to that page that will extract an iCal file. I want to make microformats and standard metadata more available without everyone having to get on board.

What do we want? To stop procrastinating! When do we want it? Tomorrow! From: @jerod https://changelog.social/@jerod/111437958220583114

These people can't even run a company competently but think they can create an AI that is smarter than humans and control it? This is some Jurassic Park level hubris.

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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?

Being an adult is just saying ‘Things will slow down next week’ to each other until you die

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.

Attached: 1 video “It makes me so angry, the way they’ve weaponised this idea of being woke; that being asleep is something to aspire to.” What a hero. #DavidTennant #TheLastLeg

You know what? Fuck billionaire tech-boys and the toys they develop that continue to ravage the world and heighten inequity and fill our society with the dangerous detritus of their little boy egos. #InAMood

Content warning: Explaining Friday's news cycle in terms that would make sense to the OG Marvel Universe

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

Attached: 1 image "I don't wear 🌈 items to tell you who's in my bed." #lgbtqiaplus #rainbows #queer

@andrew@aeracode.org let's call it Musk's law: "leadership is always stupider than you think, even when taking into account Musk's law"

This meeting should have been a pay rise

1990: wow, technology is cool and shiny, I want more 2023: technology is poison, who did this to me

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.

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i’m too old to have to spell!

Happy sama getting sacked for cause day for all who celebrate.

Sam Altman: AI companies will take your job and leave you unemployed Sam Altman: ... wait not like that

How is the OpenAI board gonna fire Sam Altman just because he gave answers that sounded plausible but weren't actually accurate?

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)

It’s easy to say with hindsight that NFTs are a stupid scam, but it was also pretty easy to say at the beginning and through the middle too.

I've given it a lot of time now, and for the record, I still despise the @SlackHQ interface changes. They have taken what used to be at-a-glance or at most 1-click and made it all 3-4 clicks and difficult to find. For no purpose other than "we could". 0 ⭐️ Do not recommend

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 -

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Yes, I could employ coping mechanisms and strategies to improve my life as someone with ADHD. But I also could not 😌

Sex work is work. :sexworkiswork:

The new Slack UI still pisses me off daily!

Attached: 1 image Yogg-Saron ("Yoggy") at 6 weeks! #dachshunds

Every time I work on a project like that I end up having to put myself through more ceremony to keep the atomic changes and commit messages, and I feel "if y'all would just let me rebase-and-merge or …

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

Attached: 1 image Introducing Liz Rice as the CFP Host for the Open Source Software track at #SOOCon24! 🌐 If you have insights on Open Source Software, we want to hear from you! Submit your papers and be a part of the conversation! 📝

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 ...

Activity is not the same thing as progress. You can be extremely busy and do a lot of work but after taking stock, realize you are no closer to your goals and in some cases, you may actually be further away from them.

@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.

I'm pretty sure if a family member had hit my kid with a car causing him to be in a wheelchair & miss a year of school, they'd feel some remorse about it. But because it was done with Covid there's zero societal expectation they'd even think about the impact they had.