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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

Attached: 1 image great time to replace vercel with a hosting provider whose CEO won’t applaud fascists

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.

Attached: 1 image Non-Americans watching the US struggle to decide between electing a professional career politician or a racist serial sex offender with 34 felony convictions and the IQ of a spoon

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

OH: The real body count is how many people's therapists know about you

Attached: 1 image Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1 of Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny":

LaTeX error messages be like: YOU FUCKED UP SOMEWHERE BY DOING SOMETHING WHATEVER FUCK YOU

"I just need to get through this week," I say, every week

Pay phones are disappearing to make it harder to escape the matrix

I’m a software developer with a bunch of industry experience. I’m also a comp sci professor, and whenever a CS alum working in industry comes to talk to the students, I always like to ask, “What do you wish you’d taken more of in college?” Almost without exception, they answer, “Writing.” One of them said, “I do more writing at Google now than I did when I was in college.” I am therefore begging, begging you to listen to @stephstephking@mstdn.social: https://mstdn.social/@stephstephking/113336270193370876

I should add: If your employer doesn't increase your pay by at least 4% per year, the value of your pay is regressing, not keeping up with the average rate of inflation. If your employer is aware and does this anyway, that's a pretty clear message that you should seek one that values you. #jobs #employment #pay

Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings. Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the low value task of halfassing note taking for you?

Attached: 1 image I should definitely have been doing something else. #ADHD #AuDHD #ExecutiveDysfunction

Attached: 1 image the problem is I build things in a way that I don't need to baby sit them - which means they get reliability as side effect. Slide from my "Cloud infrastructure for cloud infrastructure" talk

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me this is such an important topic. It’s 15 years since some colleagues let me know how much less than the men in my team I was being paid. The knowledge helped me to negotiate a bit, and I remain grateful for their consideration and openness.

The current chaos in Wordpress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon "community" websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one

Shared: Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg) https://bullenweg.com/. If you're having trouble keeping track of the current Wordpress/Matt Mullenweg drama (things are escalating so rapidly!), this website posts regular updates. #wordpress

wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck. I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, but... i really admire wordpress for how it democratizes access to self-hosting and allowed so many people and businesses to own their online presence. Sad to see it take such a hit, and hopefully it'll recover.

Attached: 1 image Don’t just tell everyone the open web is great, go on the open web and tell everyone *why* it is great @sil@mastodon.social at #OggCamp24

Open source is proof free markets are so efficient they can even find a use for communists.

Attached: 1 image Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource

Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists. Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code. You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide. This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.

Attached: 1 image Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!

People who attend a conference talk but who proceed to open their laptop and work: get the fuck out and do that elsewhere. You’re more annoying than herpes.

Attached: 1 image At "Into the multiverse: a parallel universe where neurotypicals are the weird ones" with Parul Singh, in Cotton Theatre. #OggCamp2024 #OggCamp24 #OggCamp

Attached: 3 images I’m at @oggcamp@mastodon.social today, immersing myself in my FOSS community! The unconference is shaping up nicely and the schedule is on joind.in! #oggcamp2024