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.
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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“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
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
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.
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)
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 -
Jamie Tanna
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