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In every tech organization, there are some people that seem to know every system, everybody, and every problem. They're super helpful, and save coworkers months of wasted efforts, by short-circuiting dead end paths, sharing efficient workflows, knowing which services already exist, and generally having great technical judgement. *None of those skills are quantifiable on performance reviews, other than peers saying thanks (if they're lucky). *Many underrepresented engineers fill these roles.

I've said it before, but if Randall Monroe could somehow successfully induce a donation of say ten bucks for each time someone uses That One xkcd Comic in a FOSS talk or blog describing the open source sustainability problem, said problem would be solved.

The corporation behind #Redis is now starting to chase #OpenSource client libraries claiming trademark violations https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419 and are attempting to have the projects transferred to them. If it wasn't obvious before, now is a good time to fuck the hell off from that software. Just use #Valkey or one of the other alternatives.

good morning everyone welcome back to another get your shit together sunday. you have until 3PM to get all of your shit together or you will fall so hopelessly far behind that you can never recover

Brey, I can't explain it any simpler than this: Planet is on fire, we know billions of ppl are going to die, we know it's capitalism and the fossil fuels it depends on that's doing this. And what are your leaders doing? What is your state spending money on? Solving this problem? Absolutely not. They're arming themselves to the teeth, militarizing security forces, criminalizing protest, hardening borders, increasing the size of their armies. You have to be a dipshit not to see what time it is.

I will never understand why people post generated pictures of aurora when real auroras are this beautiful

Ask more questions that you already know the answer to If you don’t know the answer, you’re going to spend all your energy learning the information But if you already know the answer you can listen to how they answer it, and what they’re really saying, which is often more useful than the answer

Content warning: when you see your trans plural friend after it gets an orchi,

i do not want supporters of a racist fascist rapist bigot anywhere near me tbh i do not think that is an unreasonable position tbh

Attached: 1 image State of Open Con 25 will be back on 4 and 5 February and our CFP is now open across 7 tracks until 8 December. Successful speakers will be notified by 20 December when the Schedule will go live. Our tracks will cover software and security, hardware, data, mobile, finance, future of open source and future of AI. We will again have an incredible Delegate Experience area. Submit to the Call for Proposals: https://sessionize.com/state-of-open-con-2025/ #soocon #stateofopen #cfp

Move steadily and improve things.

Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"

Have you ever wanted to buy the ebook of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" but you only want to pay 60% of the list price? Well let me tell you a secret: if you use promo code turkeysale2024 through December 2, you can do just that! https://pragprog.com/titles/bcosp/program-management-for-open-source-projects/

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I wish when I became an adult the other adults in my life would have explained that you don't actually feel like a grown up, you just sort of feel like a kid pretending to be an adult, and hoping everything works out.

My fellow human beings. Before joining Bluesky. You should read about Cory Doctorow's description of the Enshittification process. The first part of the process is vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, even if it results in a loss of money. The idea is to get market share. I fear that mankind is trapped in an endless cycle with social media.

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If there is a mind virus it’s not wokeness; it’s capitalism.

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The people who still mask in 2024 are some of the realest motherfuckers out there. 🫡

“You must give your money to people you find abhorrent or we will put you in prison” is a banger of a free speech policy. Fuck these people.

At 14, he helped create RSS. At 16, he contributed to Creative Commons. At 17, he co-created Markdown. At 18, he co-founded Reddit. The web would be different if he were alive. #AaronSwartzDay

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From now on I will block anyone crying about being cancelled for speech. Trump wants to shoot protestors, ban books, jail journalists, jail librarians, jail school teachers and defund media outlets that won’t play his game. That is what free speech was about, not that your gay neighbor has to put up with your bullshit or people not buying your books anymore.

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This talk by @anarodrigues@front-end.social the best intro to the IndieWeb I've seen so far <3 A beautiful, inclusive message: If you have your own personal website, you are already part of the IndieWeb. https://noti.st/anarodrigues/AwmjTY/slides

you, smart: democrats failed to speak to the material conditions that matter most to the electorate the guy who won: the transgender immigrants are eating your cats

Outlive the people who hate your existence

So predictable. Like clockwork. Fellow #Ruby friends, are you finally ready to take a public stand against this man? (updated with archive link because I don't even want to send traffic to DHH's blog) http://archive.today/2024.11.06-174442/https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-spells-are-spent-beaa675b

Today more than on most days remember: When people show you who they are, believe them. Those who lick fascist boot today will never support you.

No CEO _has to_ congratulate a new president. But Nadella knows where the profits are. https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/113437313727553429

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Oh come *on* USA, what the fuck.

My feed right now is mostly scared trans folks, but I do have a message to the business leaders I know follow me: you can make a lot of the anxiety better for your employees by establishing a contingency plan to protect them. I'm not saying to give up, just have a plan.

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Call for Participation! We're happy to announce the first "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" #devroom at #FOSDEM 2025. The goal of this devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies and to engage more #FOSS users like companies & governments in FOSS funding. Submission...

#npm is 14 years old - 8 years ago I wrote a first proof of concept of a supply chain attack, Microsoft have owned it for 4 years and have done absolutely nothing to secure it. (That supply chain attack - https://github.com/tanepiper/steal-ur-stuff)

Attached: 1 image The Indie Web Ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog, Calum Ryan https://calumryan.com will join us with our hosts Lorna Mitchell https://lornajane.net and Jamie Tanna https://jvt.me for the fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup on November 6. Register now https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/digitalmeetup4 #opensource #opensourcesoftware #digitalmeetup

Outside of the whole fascism thing, I have loved ones that are autistic and loved ones that are trans. I’m personally disgusted by MAGA talking points, and all the people pandering to them.

never underestimate what someone with decades of finely-honed adhd can accomplish in the seven minutes before a hard deadline

Good luck to those in the US. For those you can, please vote it matters. More importantly, can we please, please end these pointless wars and murder of so many people and refocus our collective energy, creativity, and intelligence on saving our only home?

Does sustainable open source means more professional maintainers or does it mean more paid time for maintenance? I think the true revolution comes when every developer is encouraged and empowered to collaborate with the wider world. We need the contribution of the masses, not the professionalisation of the few.

Hello USA citizens. If you are choosing not to vote this year, or are voting for Trump, please unfollow me and then go and have your asshole violently filled with wasps.

🆕 blog! “A Cheap and Lazy way to create Mastodon Bots using… BlueSky?!” With the sad news that BotsIn.Space is closing down, I needed to find a new way to host some of my automated accounts. I didn't want to spin up an entirely new instance, or self-host anything. So here's what I ended up doing. RSS → BlueSky → Bridgy → Mastodon RSS to BlueSky I set […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/a-cheap-and-lazy-way-to-create-mastodon-bots-using-bluesky/

Attached: 1 image The Indie Web @ana Rodrigues https://ohhelloana.blog, @Calum Ryan https://calumryan.com will join us with our hosts @Lorna Mitchell https://lornajane.net and @jamie Tanna https://jvt.me for fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup on November 6. Register now https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/digitalmeetup4

It’s not particularly surprising - I assume a lot of this is motivated by the fact that people building language models are training them on data they don’t have the rights to, but that doesn’t mean we should encourage it, or come close to defining it as open 🙃

"why does software require maintenance, it's not like it wears down" Because software is not generally useful for any inherent good; what matters is its relationship with the surrounding context, and that context is in perpetual change.

What's going on over at Bluesky? Oh they fundraised and got a whole bunch of money from a blockchain investor who has money in basically ever fucked up scam you have heard of. Great. https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a