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having serious #AllThingsOpen FOMO today now thinking I should have gone even if it meant using my own budget

So, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like: - protocols not platforms - coops and unions - technology should not actively hurt us - people not users - seven generations, seven continents - free markets require antitrust enforcement

sorry i just find it hilarious that either the nyt developed standards for their op-eds, or a fascist tech billionaire can’t buy their way into popular media

it’s funny that billionaires fascists are self publishing their own manifestos even the unabomber got in the nyt

Marc Andreessen's manifesto: https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

but seriously i think with marc andreessen going full-on jackbooted fascist with his fingers in all the cryptocurrency and machine learning artificial intelligence pies, we get a free pass at an "i told you so" when we say that all of this stuff is a stalking horse for the advancement of white supremacy

ROFL WTF https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ 🤣 I know what the 16 in a16z stands for now: this could have been written by a 16 year old libertarian.

Watching S7E1 of Rick and Morty. The new voices aren't quite right, but on the plus side, they're also not being voiced by an abusive sex pest.

What I love about Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that that they love being loud and wrong. If I had spent the last few years shilling crypto as the next big thing in tech only for a bunch of my portfolio companies to turn out to be Ponzi schemes & grifts, I’d never write publicly again. I definitely wouldn’t write Bond villain style speeches about how AI ethics and trust & safety teams at tech companies are the enemy preventing you from colonizing the stars. 😬 https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

It happened here on Mastodon for the first time: I got made angry by something other people were angry about, and which *I would never have heard of it wasn’t for other people being angry*. Social media induced rage has arrived in my happy place. :(

We disclosed this #hackerone report against #curl when someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability, and it hallucinated together something: https://hackerone.com/reports/2199174

Attached: 1 image scientific breakthrough: a thermometer that can tell the temperature with no sensors needed by measuring the proximity between my two cats, who do not normally like to snuggle with one another, you can tell that the heat in my house is broken #cats #catsofmastodon

Attached: 1 image #NoBillionaires

According to Google Search Console, this little web app of mine is performing very well! https://boroughs.dpope.uk All it does is tell you which London borough you’re in, which is apparently something that hundreds of people search for every month!

sorry but I won't let tech bros take the term "optimist" and turn it into their own thing

Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto.

Dear #OpenSource contributors: do not reformat the code. It takes a second to run the formatter, but it requires hours to review the massive patch to ensure there aren't any bad changes hiding among all the spaces and brackets moved around.

It's an "use this custom API that we built" instead of "follow this standard that worked since the 1990s" kind of day.

So many men’s first instinct is to be condescending, because they think it will immediately place them in a power position over me. But, like, you just told me this interaction matters to you – and you’re emotionally invested in winning it for some reason. With that knowledge alone I could crush you, baby boy

On October 11th, WireMock Inc together with the London Java Community organised a hack day in our new office in London. This event was held as a part of Hacktoberfest. We got 16 participants and worked together on a few projects like YAML configuration support in WireMock, OpenTelemetry integrations, improving documentation and Kotlin DSL, and more.

I'm way too old to realize that people can't read me (which, come on, should be no surprise, kids never got me either) - I have realized that a bunch of people in my life think I am unhappy with them. When the truth is: I am in absolute awe of them, and feel deeply deficient in comparison. It does not help that I never realized this. How does one convince people that you think they are wonderful? Asking for a me.

What’s funny about being non-binary is that, to me, I’m the normal one. I think our whole thing just kind of works, no? You’re all just being silly about colors and stuff. We’re the main characters of gender, just admit it.

My supervisor complains that everyone is sick on any given day half the office is empty and yet he has noticed that I am always at my desk so he asks what my secret is and so I reply that I must be lucky as I adjust the straps on my mask.