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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

Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.

Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? 🤯 For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.

The ".io" top level domain might be gone soon. https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! It’ll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it. Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because it’s in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that aren’t in London pls. #oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation

mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit

My to do list: Do everything! My desire for the day: Do nothing! Our compromise: Do something counter-productive!

Them: Someone ought to do something! Me: You're someone! What are you going to do? Them: ₙₒ. ₙₒₜ ₗᵢₖₑ ₜₕₐₜ. (Yes yes, structural inequality. Limited powers and knowledge. Access to tools. Etc.)

With OggCamp one week away, we thought we'd share some useful information you should know before next weekend! https://ogg.camp/news/know-before-you-go/ #OggCamp2024

Start submitting your pull/merge requests, Hacktoberfest is here! If you haven't already, make sure you've registered for Hacktoberfest so that your PR/MRs created + accepted throughout October can be tracked. Get started: https://hacktoberfest.com/participation

"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no," He declined. So, fuck him. And fuck his site. I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647

In light of the whole word press situation, I would like to reiterate that free software institutions should be giving the same kind of attention and support to project governance as they do to licenses. It's badly overdue. I think we can say it's dereliction not to.

If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

Attached: 1 image "just roll with it" genuinely the best advice

In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because I know if that if you're not trying to understand business outcomes, your judgment about the technical issues is going to be much worse. Many engineers fundamentally do not believe this to be true. And it's one of the things that sets them at odds with leadership.

Just realised Sam Altman is the Willy Wonka of AI.

The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy