IndieWeb post types

This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:

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Liked Sean Coates (@sean@scoat.es)
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Past-self just saved me 2+ hours by documenting how to do the thing that took ~3 hours to figure out and fix last time. Good job past-self. Also, good job current-self for remembering that past-self should have documented this and then going to find the doc.

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Liked ruhee (@ruhee@phire.place)
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I finally bought @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com's new book, You Deserve A Tech Union, because we do deserve one. And very amusingly, my learning & development budget covered it. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

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Reposted Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰 (@TheMartianLife@aus.social)
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> "Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot." Look, I respect the heck out of the technical implementation of LLMs, but let's be honest: statistically they produce average code at best and misunderstood/invalid code most often. They re-implement old bugs and obfuscate programmer intent and anyone who is leaning on them for more than a pair assist is making software harder for the rest of us. #AI #Git #GitHub #Copilot #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT 🔗 https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

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Is this in person only? 👀

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Liked Mike McQuaid (@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social)
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Gonna give a talk ("Open Source: Boundaries, Burnout and Business”) and chat with folks about open source software at the first OpenUK Scottish meet up in Edinburgh on 22nd November 2023 from 6-9PM.

Would be lovely to see some of you there!

https://www.meetup.com/openuk-glasgow-edinburgh/events/296929069/

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Reposted Nat (@njms@social.coop)
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As exhausting as it can be, I feel like many open source software maintainers could make a reasonable dent into the net hatred put into this world by choosing to quietly ignore the issues they think are stupid rather than trying to publicly humiliate the people who file them

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Liked kf (@kf@666.glitchwit.ch)
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thinking today about back when I was in code school in SF one of the cofounders was OBSESSED with my two-character twitter handle, and even though I went by my birth name at the time, he would call me kf so I called him by his handle, too a year later, one of the staff told me that every time I did this, he would go upstairs in the office, slam doors, and tell the staff that I was insulting him for having a four-character handle 😂 anyway that’s how I got my name 🤣 #fragilemasculinity

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Liked S. L. Crane (@slcrane@writing.exchange)
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An update that absolutely no one could've seen coming**: One of the companies using AI instead of qualified copywriters to draft their career guide blog posts is now realizing that these texts are highly generic, repetitive, and of little value for readers. They will have to be redone, and a lot of time and resources were wasted. Awww. 😏 (** Just kidding. This was, of course, utterly predictable.) #AI #Fail

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Liked lime with barcode (@scanlime@misc.name)
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some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or something but URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them. if people rely on a URL they're actually relying on a stream of labor. There is no "static" content, all data storage requires some portion of ongoing renewal: new materials and ongoing human care.

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Reposted Ben Ramsey (@ramsey@phpc.social)
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Most folks don’t seem to realize how gravely under-resourced and under-funded the #PHP project is. For a technology that powers 77% of the web and has very little corporate backing, it's a wonder the project makes any headway at all. At times, it almost feels like the industry is doing this on purpose to choke out the language.

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Liked Emelia 👸🏻 (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io)
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I have a new way that people can support my work, if they’d rather not use Ko-fi, it's direct via Stripe: https://support.thisismissem.social/ This means less fees, better invoices & receipts, and an overall simpler admin experience for myself. You can also manage your subscriptions and payments with ease too!

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Reposted Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)
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Until there is a definitive adjudication of the copyright status of LLM training data, it is *deeply irresponsible* to use Github Copilot for open source. I will refuse contributions created with it on any project I'm involved with, as well as permanently ban any user caught sneaking in Copilot-generated code in defiance of this rule. I would strongly encourage all maintainers to take this stand as well. License headaches are already bad enough without secret poison pills being injected.

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Reposted Itamar Turner-Trauring (@itamarst@hachyderm.io)
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The year I worked at Google was the Year Of Social, and everyone's OKRs involved integrating with Google+ somehow, and if you did that you got a large bonus. Anyway getting strong vibes like that when GitHub's new font family's landing page starts randomly talking about Copilot half-way. Update: The above has been described as a cheap dunk, and to be fair the CoPilot output having different font thing is fine. But. I guess I should expand with some context about my year at Google—

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Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space)
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THIS MESSAGE IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT I DO NOT AUTHORIZE JOHN MASTODON TO SHARE MY PHOTOS OR MESSAGES WITH UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTIES A VIOLATION OF MY PRIVACY IS PUNISHABLE BY LAW (UCC 1-669-420 AND THE LEET STATUTE) ALL MEMBERS MUST POST A NOTE LIKE THIS, OR BOOST THIS MESSAGE, IF YOU DO NOT THEN YOU ARE ALLOWING JOHN MASTODON TO REPOST YOUR PHOTOS AND NEVER-DOES-NUMBERS POSTS. THIS MESSAGE IS A LEGALLY BINDING CONTRACT