Kind reposts

Stress awareness month is officially over. Please stop being stressed, it is illegal for the next 11 months. Get your fucking Cortisol under control or you will start incurring fees.

Happy International Workers' Day to the entire Proletariat and to tech workers who just got laid off again but still don't think they have any pressing reason to unionise especially.

Labour day! I wish you a decent salary, strong unions, and rest.

Attached: 1 image From https://existentialcomics.com/comic/247 (Edited to credit orginal artist properly.)

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Really really love this: The Millennial Captcha (make sure you try it out) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

Attached: 1 image holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.

i’m not sure which source control system needs to hear this but .. nobody has ever wanted to commit a .DS_Store file.

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Don't know if I reach any game developer. But games need a "adult mode" as in "I haven't played the game for weeks because life happened. Please give me a ramp up of the story so far and an option for a short tutorial with all the controls and mechanics".

Attached: 1 image "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

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I always write in the present tense. It's the present, and I'm tense

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If your enemy is literally hiding behind children, you don't say, "My enemy made me kill children." You say, "I couldn't kill my enemy, because there were children in the way." Unless, of course, you don't think the children are really human in the way that your children are human.

What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly created any shareholder value today

Did MKBHD ruin an AI company and their product because of their negative review of it? No, the bad AI product ruined itself and its company. Just because someone created a business, found funding and created a thing doesn’t mean they should get instant recognition, and a pass for crappy stuff. Entrepreneurs aren’t your friends, they aren’t superior, they don’t deserve to be coddled. When they make sh*t products, they should be told that they made sh*t. MKBHD did their job.

Content warning: TW // Suicide

me? overwhelmed? impossible

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Google went from “don’t be evil” to “help commit genocide or you’re fired”.

Attached: 1 image It's incredible what you learn when you treat your employees like adults.

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We need to lend a hand by giving back to the projects we use. Ideas about giving back (and how Fastly does) are in this blog from @anildash@me.dm https://www.fastly.com/blog/what-can-you-actually-do-to-reduce-the-threat-of-hacks-like-xz

Can people please use tone indicators such as /j and /srs when appropriate Please I'm begging people I'm to autistic for this shit I will take you 100% seriously otherwise and that is not fun for anyone

one thing I've noticed over the last year or two is people never, ever say "How could it get any worse?" anymore. we learned

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Opposing genocide isn’t antisemitic. Saying that opposing genocide is antisemitic is antisemitic. You know what’s inhumane? Genocide. You know who’s committing genocide? Israel. You have zero moral standing to assess me. Those who commit and are complicit in genocide never do. So yes, most definitely, goodbye. #israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/112268942430540187

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MAY is Maintainer Month! The best time to talk about open source maintenance. If you’re interested in doing events, content, or activities for open source maintainers, get it listed on the site so we can share it! https://maintainermonth.github.com #opensource #maintainermonth

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As engineers, it's easy for us to measure inputs (how much time we're spending) and outputs (lines of code written or features produced), but what really matters are the business outcomes (customers acquired and retained, revenue growth metrics, profitability), which are less directly related. It's always useful for us to step back and ask ourselves: what's the point?

Tapping the sign: You don't take meeting notes for the people in the meeting. You take them for people who aren't in the meeting. That includes three-months-from-now-you, who also isn't in the meeting.

"Just call this number to cancel." me: [continues to pay $19.99/mo for the rest of time]

All years should start on January 1st. 'Tax year' and 'academic year' etc can all fuck off

🎉 Exciting news! After 5 years away, OggCamp, the ultimate unconference for open source and free culture enthusiasts is back for a triumphant return in 2024! 🌟 🗓️ Join us at The Manchester Conference Centre on October 12th and 13th. 🚀 Get ready for a weekend filled with innovation, collaboration, and community spirit! 🔗 Stay tuned for the Call for Papers (CfP) and ticket announcements – watch this space! 🎟️ #OggCamp2024 #OpenSource #TechConference #Manchester

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I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

Remember when the EU cleared out 1 GB of space?

We should definitely also pay maintainers. Maintainers should be compensated for their work. But we need both. All the visions to *just* pay maintainers don't sound like compensation for work they're already doing. It sounds like paying to control that work, and demand additional reporting and compliance work on top that is of no benefit to the maintainer.

Licenses like GPL are reciprocative licenses. If you take, you must also give back. Licenses like MIT are parasitic licenses. You can take without giving back. #software #freedom #licenses #reciprocative #parasitic

Your time was not wasted. You may have procrastinated but that's only because you are really burnt out, and besides it's not all bad. You probably got some ideas, inspiration, or something from it. And besides sometimes it's ok to take a break. You don't have to be "useful" all the time. It's ok. You tried your hardest and that's enough, and whatever you did today you will learn from for tomorrow and be better. Also you are not worth what you can output *pat pat* :strawb_headpats: This is mostly a note to myself but also something I think some of you may need to hear and accept like me.

here's the deal. you can try giving me commands if you want, we can even roleplay like you’re somebody else telling me what to do, but you need to understand that I’m not doing a damn thing for you unless you’re in the sudoers file

“trans people don't want equality, they want special treatmen-” Special treatment would be if LGBTQ+ people didn't have to pay taxes. You know, like churches. :trantifa:

I have a lot more to say, but I'll hold it for now and simply wonder aloud... Which BigTech clouds are the "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" AI systems running on? What APIs are they using? Which libraries are they calling? What work did my former colleagues, did I, did *you* contribute to that may now be enabling this automated slaughter? (Also, content warning. This is some of the sickest shit I've ever read.) https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Your belated reminder, in the aftermath of the xz backdoor, that open source maintainers still owe you nothing: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ Not only do they owe you nothing but: if they are running a large open source project at scale and have been doing so for a while: in almost every case they know vastly more about doing so than almost anyone else in the world does. Open source users and contributors: show some more gratitude and, frankly, deference to the maintainers who keep OSS alive.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment" and honestly, where is the lie

... next month... Me: "Dear maintainer, can you please bump package XY?" Maintainer: ...furiously starts looking into the git diff looking for a backdoor.