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Self or private diagnosis for neurospiciness is valid. Especially these days as it's damn near impossible to get help for mental health issues from the NHS right now.

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer. Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work. Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

When I was a kid, my dad had stacks of Fortran paper punch cards. Programming with punch cards on shared mainframes was a slow, deliberate process which required a lot of time, effort and coordinat...

forest dwelling communist on stolen land (@spaceca60314452)Sun, 14 May 2023 16:52 +0000

I absolutely do not have it in my soul to read another pithy blurb by some random exec on linkedin about how AI is transforming our lives when it's currently just regurgitating content stolen from elsewhere and for the last decade, "AI" has been a glossy shell disguising underpaid human labor.

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On remote/real-world working: both are good. If you never interact casually with your collaborators at work it is harder to find a unity of purpose. If you spend all day having serendipitous conversations you never write any code. When possible, why not some of each?

fellow tech workers, looking at the screenwriters guild striking, do you not feel that we too need a union? how many pointless layoffs have there been so these huge companies run by trust fund goons could do stock buybacks? we need a union.

A great practical website to help you vote tactically in the upcoming local elections.

I am really not a fan of all the managers & leaders posting "Oh, it was so hard today because I had to lay people off." It's 100x harder for the people who got laid off. Yeah you made some decisions and had some conversations. But you aren't the one who suddenly lost their job, who may not be able to make their mortgage or provide for themselves and their family, who is wondering if their career and experience is valid. Stop with the "woe is me" as a leader. It's a bad look.

stop firing people I like and instead abolish your c-suite.

pilnok 🔜 eat prey love (@Pilnok)Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:37 GMT

For those who trust me: Goto your Amazon account, sign out of all your devices, everything, everywhere all your Echos (yes I know it's a pain), reset your password, delete 2FA and any tokens and reset them. Now. That doesn't include Fido / Yubikeys but does include Auth tokens. Do it now. As much a pain as it is to reset Echo and all smart devices, trust me, please do it. I can't tell you more yet, but I am being ethical and you need to actually realise I have a clue. It's been a scary day

So how does Mastodon pay its engineers? Mostly...it doesn't. Eugen and Claire are the only paid devs on Mastodon. Everyone else is making updates *for free*, as a hobby, on the side, after their day job. People are building CalcKey for free. People are building just about every fediverse product for free, as part of the open source community. It was particularly amusing when Elon said he wanted to open source the algorithm-- Jack Dorsey saying he wanted to create an open source protocol-- Nearly all of the Fediverse is open source. The algorithms are already open source. The protocol is a W3C standard (ActivityPub) just like HTML. The future these dopes have been trying to build already exists. There's just no money or power in it for them, so they have no interest and pretend it doesn't exist.

As mentioned in the above toot yesterday, the UK government are going to be scaring the pants off half the country at 3pm today with an emergency alert test. If you have a hidden phone you don't want someone finding out about, turn off emergency alerts in that phone's settings or turn the phone off. Otherwise it's very likely to make a loud noise once the test commences. Edit: Going through the replies suggests it's best to turn the SETTING off and NOT just the phone.

AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.

Attached: 1 image Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

We really missed an opportunity to call logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability LMAO 😹

Stop adding “AI” to every new product ever challenge [Impossible]

Looks like #VirginMedia is down across the UK. Even their error reporting page has crashed! https://www.virginmedia.com/help/service-status

Happy World Autism Awareness Day! To celebrate, I'm sharing my book (again): sparkleclass.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/autist… #Autism #WorldAutismDay

Rachel Morgan-Trimmer (@rachelmtrimmer)Sun, 02 Apr 2023 09:15 +0000

Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

April fools prank idea: unionize

I didn't see your email

K E L S E Y (@glumDumpst3r)Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:04 GMT

In this new world of LLMs (often referred to as “AI”) data ownership and the quality of that data will very soon become the moat, not the algorithms. Any org that to hands over their data to a vendor -which vendor then keeps this data and gets to use it as training- is foolish. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:00 GMT

Today is the day I find out, along with a whole load of my colleagues, whether I am losing my job. Fuck this shit. #Layoffs #engineering #programming

The different ways I work as a software engineer with ADHD: - Do nothing all day. - Work sporadically throughout the day with random spurts of energy. - Do all the work for the week in one hour, usually around 5pm.

mewtru •ᴗ• (@trunarla)Fri, 03 Mar 2023 18:52 GMT

Congratulate yourself for doing difficult things, even if they might not seem difficult to others.

selfcare.tech (@selfcare_tech)Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:35 GMT

Reminders for everyone: “You are not defined by what you produce” feels worth repeating

Katelyn Bowden (@medus4_cdc)Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:13 GMT

why read the docs for a few minutes when you can spend hours just trying things out?

Madison Kanna (@Madisonkanna)Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:02 GMT

If you’re beating yourself up for not being productive enough right now, I need to remind you to leave yourself the F alone. Trust your bandwidth in any given moment, and heed it. That’s not weak or lazy. That’s EPIC self-care.

Dr. Jen Wolkin | Neurodivergent Brain Health (@drjenwolkin)Sun, 19 Feb 2023 20:21 GMT

Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights.

If a companies salary is that competitive, they wouldn't hide it.

Randall Kanna (Franson) (@RandallKanna)Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:00 GMT

a reminder that companies do not love you, do not appreciate you, and do not care about you. they will drop you the moment it's the thing that *they* think will benefit them - regardless of whether or not that's the reality of the situation.

You are over the daily limit for sending tweets (@bitandbang)Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:06 GMT

This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that OpenAPI 3.1 is more than 2 years old. If you're still working with older versions, you're holding back better developer experiences. Ask your API providers to upgrade, or look into doing so for your own APIs. It's worth it. #DevX

Lorna Mitchell (@lornajane)Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:52 GMT

https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1625158679543664641

tech jobs were considered cushy and “safe” until very recently and it really just shows how the hammer inevitably comes down on everyone. organize your workplace now.

Janus Rose (@janusrose)Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:46 GMT

men only want one thing and it's API access

Partiful (@partiful)Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:39 GMT

What we learned from COVID? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because health is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid. That we live in a society not an economy

Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa)Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:14 GMT

There’s only one day left to find your pals on Mastodon via Twitter before the free Twitter API gets shut down. Even if you’re not planning on leaving Twitter, it’s probably worth doing it anyway. …

"I did the best I could with the motivation I had."

The reason all your favorite apps start to suck over time is because as engineering teams scale, the goal changes from building dope shit to building for metrics and there’s no known way to measure quality

Ricky (@rickhanlonii)Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:15 GMT

Solidarity with strikers in the UK today. Let's bring these Tory scum down ✊

Periodic reminder

Alex 🚀 (@AlexJonesax)Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:49 GMT

My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.

Jeremy, a Dad (but also a Person) (@JeremyWingert79)Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:21 GMT

Does anyone else feel like maintaining a house is an entire second, very expensive full-time job

Daniel Feldman 🇨🇿 (@d_feldman)Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:08 GMT