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Reposted Liana :v_trans: :v_kirb: (@bubbline@tech.lgbt)
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Funny thing with Musk shitting on wikipedia about the money it's wasting is... A free, open collaborative encyclopedia of all human knowledge, so good it's basically the default reference for everything, and it's using this much money Meanwhile tons of tech companies get hyper inflated valuations and absurd amount of VC money for bullshit that is at best not really useful, at worse actively harmful to society. yeah sorry I'm not gonna attack wikipedia for needing budget to run the biggest most useful encyclopedia on earth actually

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Reposted Emerald :scizor: :lycanroc: (@emerald)
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Time for DNS to propagate normally: a couple minutes, go make a cup of coffee or something Time for DNS to propagate after fixing a typo in a record: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again

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Reposted Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)
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What COVID19 has taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse is that there will be zombie denialists, zombie virus infection parties, zombie conspiracy theorists, and politicians ruthlessly exploiting lies about zombies to kill off demographics who won't vote for them—and when a vaccine against Z-virus is invented there will be zombie anti-vaxxers (some of them funded by the Kremlin for shits and giggles).

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Reposted Matthew Skelton (@matthewskelton@mastodon.social)
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PSA: "It's hard to find women to speak at events in Tech" - this is pure bullshit 💩 It's hard to convince women to risk attending a mostly-male event when they cannot see your ally-ship, maybe. But there are plenty of smart, highly capable women in Tech that would significantly enhance your event by speaking there. Build your network. Listen to women. Then get a 50:50 women:men organizing team. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Then listen some more. Maybe then women will say "yes" to your event. #rant

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Reposted Brendan (@lactol@kind.social)
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Hey folks, I've seen a lot of talk going around about adblockers lately. I worked in the advertising technology and security industry for five years and the one core piece of advice I have is: Holy fuck never give an advertiser your data. You cannot believe how bad it is. Don't. I run three layers of ad block protection and I'd run more if it was feasible. If you want to support creators give them money.

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Reposted Dr Albert Sparkletrousers pPhD (@aby@aus.social)
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Support trans women. That includes the woman from the hood. The loud one.The sexworker. The dropout. The one whose hair aint laid and outfit ain't always on point. The one with clear mental health issues. The one with nowhere to go. Not just the models, writers, and public figures. - Devin Lowe #trans #queer #DecoloniseGender #TransWomen #SistaGirl #SistaGirls #SistersNotCisters

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Reposted Let the Right Hon In (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com)
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1/ Hallway Track 003 You Deserve A Union is open for registration! Adhoc free Zooms, recreating the best bits of conferences: the hallway chat after a great session. Thursday 26 October 2023 2:30pm Pacific | 5:30pm Eastern | 10:30pm London With: * Jacky Alciné (https://jacky.wtf), Union organizer, ex-Code for America * @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com of You Deserve a Tech Union * Clarissa Redwine, ex Kickstarter United * Johanna Weststar, Associate Prof. Weestern University [cont] https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

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Reposted Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] (@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social)
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Earlier I was thinking about smaller companies that sell themselves to big ones, and how sometimes no one cares or even notices (e.g. 7digital) that they sold out, vs companies like Bandcamp or flickr where everyone freaks out. It’s a sign of how special the company is to the people who use it. If you’re starting a company, that should be your goal: to create something that would make people freak out and sad if you sold out. A business loved that much is an accomplishment that can’t be measured in $ I started SomaFM because I couldn’t find what I wanted to listen to on the radio. I wanted to create something i would love rather than simply found a startup to make a bunch of money. Creating/Doing something people care about is much better than “increasing shareholder value”.

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Reposted Emma Swxtch 🏴‍☠️🫂 🔞 (@autoerot1ca@kinky.business)
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There are people who are still alive who were alive when it was illegal to be gay. Actually, if you're reading this you're one of them because its STILL illegal to be gay in about 70 countries and in the USA in only the past few days culturally controlling figures like Matt Walsh have supported "conversion therapy" for gay and queer people. Do not take sexual diversity for granted. Because its violently coercive enemies don't. 🏳️‍🌈 #gay #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #nonbinary #queer

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Reposted Mario Zechner (@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place)
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Attached: 1 image The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky. https://skyview.social Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless. But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs. All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design. The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise. Here are my last 100 posts. https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post